5G Week Awards

Juliet Media is pleased to host The 5G Week Awards that focus on the best of the best of 5G Adoption, Business Cases and Distribution across the entire ecosystem around the world.

Most potentially disruptive business model:
– Liverpool Create Project
– Milton Keynes Create Project
WINNER: Multi-Operator Neutral Host (MONeH) – led by Telet Research

Most Innovative Use of 5G Technology
WINNER: 5G Festival – led by Digital Catapult
– 5G Forest Ranger
– Northumbrian Water using 5G to enable AR mapping of underground pipes – led by O2

The Most Significant Vertical Sector Deployment by a Vendor
WINNER: Live and Wild – Led by aql and Candour Productions
– 5G Encode – led by Zeeta Networks
– AI-based traffic signal system – led by Vivacity Labs’

The Operator with the Best Industry Deployment

– Zeeta Networks – 5GEncode. O2 for 5pring, Encode and Festival
WINNER: BT for Edge/XR
– O2 for WM5G 5prinG accelerator, and 5G Encode and 5G Festival

Individual Contributor to 5G Industry Deployment
– Mark Stansfeld, Chair, West Midlands 5G, Worcester 5G Testbed and WM5G Leadership
WINNER: Robert Franks, Managing Director, WM5G
– Ian Smith, Programme Director – 5G Testbeds and Trials, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) – UK Government for 5GTT
– Ben Turner, Engagement Manager , WM5G
– Mike Short, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Trade (DIT)
– Katherine Ainley, CEO of Ericsson UK & Ireland

The winners were chosen by our independent panel of judges – Keith Willetts, Co – Founder of 5G Realised; Rosalind Singleton, Chair, UK5G; David Pringle, Writer and Analyst, Tony Sceales, Head of Programme Development, 5G Programme, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) – UK Government; Robert Driver, Head of UK5G – and announced during the 5G Week Gala dinner on 2nd of June at Tower Hotel in London!

The independent panel of judges included:
Keith Willetts, Board member of UK5G, Founder of TM Forum, Co-Founder of 5G Realised
David Pringle, TMT Writer, Analyst, Editor, former telecoms and technology correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
Rosalind Singleton, Chair UK5G
Tony Sceales, Head of Programme Development, 5G Programme, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) – UK Government

The winners will be announced at 5G Week Gala Dinner taking place on 2nd of June at Tower Hotel, London!