5G Forum reaches record number of participating entities in its eighth edition

• Around 60 entities from the national and international scene, including telephone operators, technology multinationals, institutions, organisations, universities and leading companies in the telecommunications sector make up a top-level agenda.
• The eighth edition of the ‘5G Forum’ is organised by Medina Media Events and has the support of Orange, Telefónica, DIGI, Netmetrix, Huawei, ZTE, GMV, NTT Data, Vicomtech, Gradiant, i2cat, Open Nebula, Ayscom, Keysight, Teltronic, Datatronics, Oracle, University of Málaga, Axiom, Wavecontrol, Nokia, Rohde & Schwarz, Hispasat, Circet, Secmotic, Iplus F, Dihbu, Gsertel, Kenmei, AI Funded, Opossum and AEVAC, among others. Schwarz, Hispasat, Circet, Secmotic, Iplus F, Dihbu, Gsertel, Kenmei, AI Funded, Opossum and AEVAC, among others.
• The Cartuja Auditorium – managed by Yventu – will host the three face-to-face sessions on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 May. Subsequently, in online format, two virtual sessions will be held on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May.

Telephone operators, technology multinationals, institutions, local, regional and national administrations, organisations, universities and leading companies in the telecommunications sector, totalling around 60 entities from the national and international scene, make up a top-level agenda at the eighth edition of the ‘5G Forum’.

Record numbers of participating entities will gather from 12 to 16 May in Seville to turn the Andalusian capital into the epicentre of 5G and 6G technology. The Cartuja Auditorium -managed by Yventu-, located in the Cartuja Science and Technology Park, will host the three face-to-face sessions (Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14), while on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 the two virtual sessions will be held in online format.

The high-level agenda of this independent event will include the main telephone operators present in Spain: Orange, Telefónica, DIGI and Vodafone. Meinrad Spenger, CEO of MásOrange, will be ‘Speaker of Honour’ at the eighth edition of the 5G Forum and will share during the opening day all the 5G technology innovations of this telecommunications company, which was established in 2024 as an alliance between Orange Spain and the MásMóvil Group.

The Spanish company Telefónica will also have an important representation in the eighth edition of the 5G Forum with the presence of speakers in almost all the days of this event already consolidated as a reference for 5G and 6G in Spain and Europe. DIGI and Vodafone will also be present at the 5G Forum 2025.

Significant support from administrations

The eighth edition of the ‘5G Forum’ will have an important institutional representation, highlighting the Deputy Mayor of Seville, Álvaro Pimentel, who will make the welcome greeting to all attendees of this independent event.

The Andalusian Regional Government’s Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, will also take part in the opening session, as well as various representatives from the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, including Matías González, Secretary General for Telecommunications and Organisation of Audiovisual Communication Services.

Julia Criado, deputy director general of Radio Spectrum Planning and Management, will present the ‘5G map of Spain in 2025’ on the opening day, while Andrés Ruiz, deputy director general of Digital Security of the State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure (SETELECO), will participate in the third day of the ‘Cyber Day’ and will present the SOC5G, the protective shield for the new era of 5G communications.

The ‘Cyber Day’, a day dedicated entirely to cybersecurity, joins the list of on-site days of the 5G Forum, which in 2025 will have three in total. Manuel Ortigosa, Dean of the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers, will moderate one of the round tables of this day, which will focus on one of the most booming sectors in our country and, of course, worldwide. In recent years, new future prospects have emerged for further progress, such as AI and Machine Learning, 5G and IoT. These technologies are expected to play a key role in detecting and responding to cyber threats.

María del Pino González-Junco, Director of Cybersecurity Alliances at Siemens and CEO of Charter of Trust, will moderate the Panel ‘The state of cybersecurity in Spain from the private sector’, organised by ‘El Observatorio’, with the participation of Arancha Jiménez, Head of Cybersecurity and Products at Atos; Beatriz Martínez, Director of Customer Security at Ericsson; and Roger Sanz, Director of Cybersecurity Governance at Babel.

José Capote, Head of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Huawei Spain and Portugal, and Joel Zaragoza, CTIO at Netmetrix Solutions, will also participate.

More than half a hundred participating organisations

Technology multinationals, leading telecommunications companies, companies specialising in technological and intelligent solutions for networks and security, network equipment suppliers, technology centres specialising in Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, innovation giants, cloud computing platforms, infrastructure and satellite operators, and leading companies in 5G and 6G technology will come together at this forum, already consolidated as one of the most important in Spain and Europe on 5G technology.

Cristina Peñas, commercial director of Axión, will moderate the round table ‘5G and the different uses’ during the opening day, in which Aitor Fernández, president and co-founder of AEVAC, will talk about 5G and autonomous mobility. José Luis Alcolea, head of 5G Strategy at Hispasat, will talk about 5G NTN, a revolution for the satellite sector not only as a waveform change, but also as an engine to open up new markets and a paradigm shift for the traditional day-to-day operations of a satellite operator.

Belén Lanuza, general manager at DIHBU 4.0, will talk about Polea Lab, a pioneering Industrial 5G Lab in Spain, while Jaime Ruiz, director of Innovation at Nokia, will address the concept of ‘Network as Code’, which the Finnish multinational understands as the extreme simplification of network capabilities to allow applications to dynamically change the network to optimise performance and user experience. Mª Eugenia Taillefer, director of AI Funded, will share use cases of different ChatBots on an inaugural day in which Fernando de la Cruz, chief architect of wireless solutions at Huawei, and Raúl Maldonado, corporate director and people at Circet Spain, will also participate.

Universities will also play an important role in the eighth edition of the 5G Forum. Pedro Merino, head of Red Victoria and director of the Institute of Technology and Software Engineering (ITIS-UMA) at the University of Malaga, will present plans and real experiences with functions of the future 6G network such as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to improve coverage, the integration of ‘sensing and communication’ (JCAS) or the integration of satellites with terrestrial 5G networks. Juan Mas, CTO of Datatronics, and Sergio Ibáñez, Oracle’s European 5G Presales Director for Europe, will offer insights on how automation of 5G SA networks, in conjunction with continuous monitoring and learning, can help monetise the deployment investment and its evolution.

Sergio Cabrero, leader of the Interactive Media Technologies line at Vicomtech, will present the results and developments of the 6GDIFFERENT project, a research initiative that arose from the alliance between the technology centres Vicomtech, Gradiant and i2CAT, which will come to an end in 2025. For her part, Zaloa Fernández, Senior Researcher at Vicomtech, will show how more intelligent and autonomous mobile networks are being built, capable of adapting themselves to changes in real time. José Joaquín Escudero, head of Advanced Mobile Communications at Gradiant, will talk about advanced communications in 5G/6G from an industry-oriented perspective; while Arnau Singla Manau, research engineer in space communications at i2cat, will share advances and challenges of satellite networks in 5G and 6G.

Pablo Álvarez, CEO of Netmetrix Solutions, will address how the integration of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites with 5G networks is revolutionising the global telecommunications landscape by overcoming traditional limitations of coverage, speed and accessibility. Rubén Gutiérrez de la Torre, Solutions Engineer at Keysight, will discuss the challenges and solutions of setting up, validating and operating a private 5G network. Alfonso Carrillo, Chief Edge Solutions Architect at OpenNebula Systems, will discuss ONEedge5G, an industrial research project aimed at investigating Artificial Intelligence techniques and Zero-Touch resource management methods for the efficient deployment and operation of distributed edge environments.

Carlos Alonso, manager of Wavecontrol’s applications department, will talk about MonitEM-IoT, a new solution for the integral evaluation of human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in a conference in which Cecilia Jordán, director of Business Development and Industry 4.0 of Teltronic; Daniel San Miguel, head of 5G Security Solutions of GMV, and representatives of companies such as NTT Data, iPlus F and Gamma will also participate.

The eighth edition of the 5G Forum will feature two virtual sessions in online format with the participation of, among others, Víctor Pascual, CTO Spain and Portugal at ZTE; Germán Martín, Application Engineer at Rohde & Schwarz; and Manuel Ángel Álvarez, Technical Sales Director for LATAM and EUROPE at Gsertel.

The sessions will close on Friday 16th with a full day dedicated to women, with the participation of Araceli Gª Cuartango, CEO of Axión and Lineox; Leonor Ostos, manager of Innovation and Strategic Projects at Telefónica; Maura Outerial, director of business development at Gsertel and  Inés Sanz, head of space capacity engineering at Hispasat. Also present will be Carmen Pérez Cernuda, head of technology projects at the RTVE Archive; Elena Puigrefagut, senior engineer at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU); Fini Irles, engineering director for Spain at Vodafone; Myriam Leal, head of Key Accounts Southern Territory at Orange; Ana Díaz, general manager of Vantage Towers Spain; Noelia López, Sustainability and AI Marketing Driver at Ericsson; Virginia Teixeira, Principal Systems Architect EMEAR at CISCO; Susana Carrillo, Innovation Project Manager at Endesa Distribución Eléctrica; and María José Escalona, Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Seville.

All the conferences will be available for on-demand viewing through ‘El Observatorio’, the digital platform of Medina Media Events, where each conference will be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, free of charge.