Public administrations, pending 5G

Spanish public administrations, which will have a fundamental role in the deployment and multiple applications of 5G, will attend the 5GForum in Malaga on April 25 and 26.

Public administrations, which will have to play a fundamental role in the deployment and multiple applications of 5G, will be represented at all levels at the 5GForum of Malaga, which will be held at the Digital Content Pole in the capital of the Costa del Sol on Wednesday, April 25 and Thursday, April 26.

The 5GForum in Malaga is the first multidisciplinary event on 5G that is organized in Spain, to highlight what is being done in relation to this new technology.

For two days, top-level experts will share with attendees their experiences in fields such as Tourism, Connected Mobility, Gaming, Entertainment, Health, Emergencies, Artificial Intelligence or the Internet of Things (IoT), among others.

The Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda will be doubly represented at the 5GForum in Malaga.

The general director of Red.es, José Manuel Leceta, will participate in the inaugural session on Wednesday, April 25 in the Auditorium of the Digital Content Pole. Furthermore, Pedro Alonso, advisor to the Ministry, will explain in detail the situation regarding the plans for the deployment of 5G in Spain, very few weeks before the Government of Spain has to present its final plan to the European Commission on June 30.

The Junta de Andalucía will also have double institutional and operational representation at the 5GForum, an event that is sponsored by large technology companies such as Samsung, Nokia, Axión, Cellnex, Hispasat, RTVE and others.

The Minister of Employment, Business and Commerce of the Junta de Andalucía, Javier Carnero, will also be at the inaugural session of the 5GForum along with state, provincial and local authorities. In addition, the general director of Telecommunications and Digital Agenda of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Manuel Ortigosa, will participate in a round table on “smart cities”, which will give way to the presentation by Javier Gutiérrez Álvaro, the top 5G expert at Telefónica.

On the part of the local administration, the Malaga City Council will be represented at its highest level, with Mayor Francisco de la Torre, a fervent defender of the advantages that new technologies have for citizens. For his part, the Deputy Mayor and Councilor for New Technologies of Malaga, Mario Cortés, will also participate in the round table on “smart cities”.

Mario Cortés is the current dean of the Official College of Telecommunications Graduates and Technical Engineers of Spain and several members of his team will also be present at the 5GForum, which will also be attended by speakers from Telefónica, Vodafone, Ericsson, SEAT, RTVE, OnMobile...

The town councils of Seville and Marbella will also participate in the 5GForum. Seville will explain its recent experience in the application of New Technologies to the mass tourism movement that took place during last Holy Week. For its part, Marbella will share its projects as one of the most touristic “smart cities” in Spain.

In addition, Fernando de Pablo, the president of the State Society for the Management of Innovation and New Tourism Technologies (SEGITTUR), an agency dependent on the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, will also participate in the 5GForum.

The public company for the management of Tourism and Sports in Andalusia, dependent on the Government of Andalusia, will also share with those attending the 5GForum its projects to apply Big Data to a territory that receives 52.4 million overnight stays each year.

To complete the presence of public administrations at the 5GForum, the Malaga Provincial Council will also be present. Representing the 103 municipalities of the province of Malaga, the provincial deputy responsible for the gastronomic brand “Sabor a Málaga”, Jacobo Florido, will invite the 250 attendees at the 5GForum to an exclusive tasting of Malaga products.

The block of presentations and round tables on tourism at the 5GForum is sponsored by the Swiss institution Les Roches, chaired by Carlos Díez de la Lastra, which manages one of the 3 best private universities in the world in the field of hotel management.

In addition, conferences from entities such as 5GAmericas (from Rio de Janeiro) and universities such as the Polytechnic of Madrid, the Polytechnic of Valencia and the Polytechnic of Malaga (UMA) are announced on the 5GForum agenda.

The CEO of the Andalusian Agency for Foreign Promotion (Extenda), Vanessa Bernad, will participate in the 5GForum by videoconference from Miami, where she will participate in eMerge Americas 2018, one of the main technological events in the United States.