Industry Forum Track

5G for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR)

 

This track will take place on October 20th, all day.

 

Description

Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) has come into increased attention due to recent disasters (fires, floods, heat waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions), as well major events (World Cup, Olympic Games, World Youth Day). The need to provide increased situation awareness and decision making, supporting C&C and then empowering first responders, requires improved, flexible, integrated connectivity to the field. 5G was recognized, already in the 2016 5G Action Plan as a means to extend existing capabilities, enabling broadband connectivity to security forces and first responders.This Industry Forum will provide an opportunity to highlight recent contributions of 5G to PPDR, and discuss how best to integrate such capabilities with existing (PMR, TETRA/Tetrapol) solutions.

 

Agenda

 

	Title	Speaker
9:00-9:20	Opening
Keynote	5G for PPDR	Jorge Pereira, DG CONNECT, European Commission
9:20-11:00	PPDR 1	Chair: Jorge Pereira, EC
LiveCITY	Lessons learned in early usage of IoT and mobile communications in PPDR scenarios	Luís Cordeiro, ONESOURCE
MATILDA	Emergency Infrastructure and Services Orchestration	Janez Sterle, INTERNET INSTITUTE
FUDGE-5G	Non-public 5G network for first responders and protection forces	João Fernandes, OneSource
5G-EPICENTRE	5G's Potential to provide enhanced critical services: lessons learned	Alain Dubois, Airbus
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-13:00	PPDR 2	Chair: Jorge Pereira, EC
5G-COMPLETE	TBD	Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, NTUA, EL
5G-VICTORI	Surveillance and Protection of Critical infrastructures	Vasileios Theodorou, Intracom Telecom, EL
5G-IANA	Situational Awareness	Rudolf Sušnik, INTERNET INSTITUTE
5G-Xcast + ENGAGE	Improving public warning communication through research	Menno Bot, One2Many/EverBridge, NL
5GASP	Empowering PPDR Applications and Services	Rudolf Sušnik, INTERNET INSTITUTE
13:00-14:00	Lunch  Break
14:00-16:00	Plenary Session
Keynote	TBD	TBD
Keynote	The (communication) challenges of PPDR - including major events	Brigadeiro-General Paulo Nunes, President, SIRESP
Keynote	TBD	TBD
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:30	Drones	Chair: Jorge Pereira, EC
INT5GENT	Reliable drone-based video streaming	Janez Sterle, INTERNET INSTITUTE
LOCUS	TBD	Stefania Bartoletti, University of Rome Tor Vergata and CNIT, IT
5G!DRONES	UAS trials on public safety and saving lives	Jussi-Pekka Haapola, Univ Oulu, FI
Keynote	BroadEU.net: working towards a EU Critical Communication System	David Lund, PSCE
17:30-18:00	Panel Discussion	Moderator: Jorge Pereira, EC
	Enhancing PPDR through 5G

 

Organizer

Dr. Jorge Pereira: Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission, DG CONNECT - Brussels, Belgium

Jorge Pereira obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1993. He has been with the European Commission since September 1996, becoming Principal Scientific Officer in 2005. He has been covering a broad variety of areas, with a focus on networking, devices, applications and services, experimentation, testing and validation, as well as deployment. He works, since 2016, in the area of Future Connectivity Systems, focusing on 5G and beyond, being responsible for the areas of Advanced Spectrum Management; optical-wireless convergence; Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM); and Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR).