There will be the 6th edition of the 5G Forum in Spain in Seville

Just finished the edition of 5G Forum 2022 in FIBES-Evilla, Medina Media Events, organizer of the event, has announced that it is already working to bring the sixth edition of the main multidisciplinary, specific and exclusive meeting on 5G back to Seville on Monday after the 2023 Fair.

And this fifth edition, held in a “hybrid” format (in-person and virtual) for the first time at FIBES-Seville (the first two took place in Malaga and the next two were virtual due to Covid-19), has far surpassed the data from previous editions: 65 speakers (20% women), divided into 37 presentations, 8 panels and 23 live question and answer sessions, hundreds of B2B meetings and webinars.

In total, the Seville and 2022 edition of the 5G Forum has increased its participation compared to the 2021 edition: it has reached 837 professional participants, of more than 250 companies, represented by the highest levels of each with a reputation for “exclusive”, the majority profiles have been CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and directors of Innovation, Business, Product, Strategy, Marketing, as well as consultants and researchers.

The international relevance that the 5G Forum has achieved in its four previous editions has attracted sponsors from multinationals from the United States, China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain in this edition of Seville in 2022. All of them interested in the Spanish technology market.

"We have found an outstanding and courageous response to this 2022 edition and all the companies that have participated have told us of their interest in being at a higher level in the next edition of 2023. The 5G Forum has been, is, and will continue to be, one of the few opportunities to publicize the successes of each company, of each multinational, of each city and of each research project; in a reference event. It is a first-class showcase," he advances. Ricardo Medina, CEO of Medina Media Events, which since 2018 has organized the main national meeting specific to 5G, which is held two months after the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

In addition, 4,833 visitors have visited the Medina Media Events platform in the first week alone, from 50 countries. Visits from the United States accounted for 5%. From Spain, 72% of the visits have occurred, from all the Spanish autonomous communities, highlighting Andalusia, Community of Madrid and Catalonia.

“All conferences, panels, webinars, etc., including those from all our recent and previous technological events, are accessible and free to everyone (upon registration) on our “Netflix of New Technologies” 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so they can access it at a time that best fits their busy schedules,” he highlights. Maria Medina, General Manager de Medina Media Events.

The most international edition

La quinta edición del 5G Forum ha logrado atraer hasta un total de 37 patrocinadores (un 32% más que en 2021), entre ellos grandes compañías como Orange, Telefónica, American Tower, Viavi Solutions, Ericsson, Capgemini Engineering, Mavenir, Qualcomm, Cisco, Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight Technologies, Netmetrix, Huawei, ZTE, Cellenex, Advantech, Ateme, TOTEM, Dekra, Nokia, Televés, Hispasat, Gamma Solutions, Axión, OFG, Evolved 5G, Impulsa RTVE, JVC, Toshiba y el Observatorio Nacional 5G.

In addition, attendees and sponsors have been able to network with other companies and compare opinions with a very large group of experts, such as the European Commission, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, universities, businessmen and entrepreneurs on 5G technology.

In addition, they have been able to learn first-hand about the advances of large companies in reference to this technology: such as a robot dog, autonomous cars or the world of the Realverse. Also, you have been able to find out how 5G is being applied in different sectors such as audiovisual (through UHD Spain or RTVE), industry or automotive. Finally, you have been able to discover the best 5G projects that are being worked on in Europe, Andalusia, Extremadura and many other places.

Public institutions

If the fifth edition of the 5G Forum has been a success, it has also been thanks to the presence of cities that we can now call “5G Cities”. City councils that are leaders in this technology such as Seville, Málaga and Huelva have been very present this week: Seville, with its mayor Antonio Muñoz at the helm, Málaga, with all the projects launched from the Digital Content Hub, and Huelva, led by the CEO of Axion and Lineox. Araceli García Quartango.

On its opening day, Antonio Muñoz, mayor of Seville, assured that “this 5G forum can be maintained in Seville because it will be unequivocal proof of the commitment we are making to everything related to innovation.”

Muñoz also added that "we want to be the city of 5G, of Andalusia and of Spain. And we do not want to be the city of 5G during the week that this event lasts, we intend to have an anchor in this type of forums in companies, in the Public Administration, to be able to guarantee the challenge of being a benchmark city in digital transformation."

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, through Arturo Azcorra, General Director of Telecommunications and organization of Audiovisual Communication services, and Antonio Fernández Paniagua, Deputy Director General of Planning and Management of the Radioelectric Spectrum, has participated again in this fifth edition. And of course the European Commission through Peter Stuckmann, Deputy Director Future Networks.

In addition, universities such as the Polytechnic of Valencia, the Polytechnic of Catalonia and the University of Malaga have had the opportunity to present their projects at a national and international level.

All attendees have had at their disposal the papers issued and the presentations shared by the speakers as soon as each session ends, to which they will continue to have access until the next edition.

The 5G Virtual Forum platform, developed by Medina Media Events, will remain active permanently so that all participants can stay in touch and have access to new content in a professional and exclusive environment.