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CCW 2020 – the call for
conference content
www.criticalcomms.com November 2019
The call for conference content for
Critical Communications World
(CCW) 2020 is now open. is is
your opportunity to contribute to the leading
event in the critical communications sector,
which will take place on 17-19 June in
Madrid, Spain.
e theme for 2020 will focus on how
our industry can protect or enhance the
technologies that are working well today, as
well as look forward to innovations and future
technological developments which will help
our industry evolve and advance.
e conference content will focus on two
main themes:
• How can our sector protect and enhance
current systems and solutions?
• What are the future technological and
operational developments and how can
they be applied to complement or advance
existing systems and ways of working?
TCCA invites you to submit your content
suggestion by ursday, 16 January 2020
on the following topics, with example
sub-headings. You are of course at liberty to
propose your own content titles provided they
t within the overarching themes:
An age of uncertainty?
• Maintaining the status quo: the
bene ts of retaining and enhancing
narrowbandnetworks
• Sustainable transition: what are the
challenges in keeping TETRA and other
narrowband networks up and running when
moving towards mission-critical broadband
provided by commercial networks?
5G: will it be a complement or
areplacement?
When will commercial operators
responsibility?
• Contract strategies for mission-critical
broadband in commercial networks
• What regulatory or legislation changes
arenecessary?
• How can 4G or 5G become robust and
secure enough?
Protecting the quality
• How to ensure that broadband voice quality
is at least as good as TETRA
• Does engagement with mass-market MNOs
have to mean sacri cing mission-critical
quality levels?
• Who takes responsibility for end-to-end
network integrity?
The critical communications
ecosystem
• Apps and devices: who is doing what?
Where and when?
• Working together: how to ensure the best
use of resources to service a niche market
• Smart sustainable cities: moving from proof
of concept to reality.
User needs and expectations: a
non-technical reality check
• Is there a gap between how PPDR
organisations actually work and what
emerging technologies can o er? Are
users ready to make the use of the
new technology?
• New possibilities with mission-critical
broadband:
what services are
most important
Data
di erentiate the vital from the valueless?
Cyber security
• Networks/broadband: Are PPDR users
more demanding than users in
otherverticals?
• Security issues in high-volume IoT
• TETRA security is assured and proven, but
how do we protect critical broadband users?
• Quantum computing and secure
communications: do we need a completely
new approach?
Testing, certi cation
andstandards
• e importance of testing to ensure
seamlessinteroperability
• Certi cation: a trusted process or an
unnecessary complication?
• Maintaining the standards: What goes
on behind the scenes to ensure that ‘stu
justworks’?
AI and control rooms
• Robotics in public safety services: reality
or ction?
• Where is AI being used for critical
communications and what are the
successstories?
• Security, legal and regulatory concerns in a
future AI world.
You can submit content suggestions for
more than one topic. To submit your proposal,
please visit www.critical-communicationsworld.
com/madrid/content-submission
and provide a short summary of your content
suggestion (up to 450 words) along with the
proposed presenter’s biography by ursday,
16 January 2020.
Please contact lisa.freeman@
markallengroup.com if you have any
questions about the submission process.
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