Publications & Upcoming Events

This is an "administrative" post, covering my recent and upcoming publications & events. Please get in touch if you'd like any more details about booking me for speaking/workshops, or for considering published output - information AT disruptive-analysis DOT com.


Events
I speak at, or attend, about 30 public events per year, plus a number of private workshops, executive off-sites and online webinars. Recent notable events have included:

• Keynote on Futurism at Ofcom's spectrum workshop day (link)
• Presenting at TMForum's Action Week (on blockchain - link)
• Keynote on new wireless & spectrum models at WiFi Now in Washington DC (link)
• Chairing Total Telecom's Connected Britain event
• My own workshops, run jointly with Caroline Gabriel, on Enterprise/Private Cellular Networks, and AI + Blockchain for the Telecoms Industry (link)

The next few months are looking pretty hectic for events I'm speaking at, attending or moderating. My schedule always a bit of a work-in-progress, and some things may change a bit, so please get in touch with me if you want to arrange meetings/briefings, or need a speaker for other events. 

• 3 Sep, London, London Futurists: Agenda for the Future (link)
• Presentation: "Anti-Forecasting"
• 4-7 Sep, Shanghai, Huawei Connect (link)
• Attending as an analyst
• 18-19 Sep, Bangkok: PTC Spectrum Futures (link)
• Presentation: "A Futuristic View of Spectrum: Where Are We Going?"
• CBRS Workshop
• 25-27 Sep, Busan, S Korea: ITU Telecom World (link)
• Panel Moderator: Reinventing Telcos
• 3-5 Oct  Orlando, US: Astricon (link)
• Keynote on "What the Future Holds for Asterisk - And What's Overhyped"
• 5 Oct (TBA), Webinar: IBwave (link to follow)
• Presenting on Convergence & Evolution in Indoor Wireless
• 11-12 Oct, Brussels: IICom Annual Conference (link)
• Presenting on "Innovation in connectivity technologies - embracing heterogeneity"
• 23-24 Oct, Phoenix, US: Broadsoft Connections (link)
•  Attending as an analyst
• 25-26 Oct, San Francisco: GE Minds & Machines (link)
• Attending as an analyst
• 31 Oct - 1 Nov, London: Total Telecom Congress (link)
• Speaking "Optimising Spectrum Regulation in the 5G era"
• Chairing Day 2
• 02 Nov, The Hague, Netherlands: WiFi Now Europe (link)
• Keynote + Panel
• 14-15 Nov, Lisbon: TADSummit (link)
• Presenting on Enterprise & Industrial IoT mobile networks
• 28-29 Nov, Bangkok: WiFi Now APAC (link)
• Keynote + Panel
• 30 Nov, London: Great Telco Debate (link)
•  Speaker, topic TBA
• 01 Dec, London DB + CG Private Cellular Workshop #2 (link to follow)
• 1-day workshop on Enterprise / Private mobile networks
• Contact: information AT disruptive-analysis DOT com for details

Publications

For my written output, I work through three main channels:

• This blog and cross-posts on my LinkedIn & Medium. Recent topics have included:
• Blockchain/ICOs (link and link)
• Mobile connection bonding & SD-WAN (link)
• Net Neutrality (link)
• Sensors (link)
• Amazon / Edge-Computing (link)
• Data-over-Sound (link)
• UCaaS (link)
• Spectrum Sharing / Enterprise Cellular (link)
• STL's Future of The Network research stream, which I run as associate director. My own recently-contributed reports include: 
• Facebook's Telecom Infra Project (link)
• Edge Computing (link)
• VoLTE (link)
• 5G Spectrum (link)
• eSIM (link)
• Other reports in the stream written by others have covered 4G in Asia, NFV and other topics. 
• My next reports will look at LPWAN, cRAN/vRAN, and WiFi's strategic implications for Telcos.
• Disruptive Analysis branded reports & papers, which include both open-market reports such as last year's eSIM study (link), and client-commissioned papers - some of which are internal and kept under NDA. Recent public documents include
• Blockchain for Telcos, written for Juniper Networks (link)
• Integrating IoT & Video Comms, written for Dialogic (link)
• Data-over-Sound, written for Chirp (link)
• IoT + Voice/Messaging Comms, written for Metaswitch (link) 
• Upcoming paper on consumer communications privacy