Most wireless connectivity is used indoors - in homes, offices, factories, hospitals, transport hubs, venues and public buildings - yet indoor and on-premise connectivity remains one of the least-coordinated parts of the wider connectivity, cloud and AI infrastructure landscape. As AI, robotics, AR/VR and smart-building IoT take hold, and as FTTH, 5G/6G and satellite direct-to-device all come to rely on indoor complements, getting this right matters more than ever.
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This small-group, interactive workshop - the second in the Disruptive Analysis Indoor Wireless series - convenes the full value chain to examine where indoor and campus connectivity is heading and what needs to happen to get there. Spanning public cellular, Wi-Fi, private 4G/5G, neutral host, DAS, IoT, edge and emerging 6G-era technologies, it focuses on the practical questions: what needs to happen, who needs to act, who pays, and how the sector can make indoor connectivity more visible to policymakers and investors.
This is a participative workshop rather than a lean-back seminar, capped at 35 participants and run under the Chatham House Rule. It will not be streamed or recorded, and a published summary of outcomes will not attribute names or companies unless agreed.
Themes include:
- Awareness, alignment and coordination across the fragmented indoor ecosystem — new business and funding models, the "who pays?" question, the case for treating indoor wireless as critical infrastructure, and how to raise its profile with UK and European policymakers and regulators
- AI and indoor wireless — network planning, optimisation, automation of operations and spectrum management
- New use-cases and capabilities — physical AI, robotics, computer vision, sensing, positioning, edge AI, digital twins, healthcare and accessibility
- Fit with 5G and future 6G — network slicing, AI-RAN, Open RAN, ISAC, and architectural shifts in DAS, small cells and neutral host models
- The expanding role of Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 8/9, OpenRoaming and offload), satellite/indoor convergence, and spectrum issues including 6GHz, 3–5GHz and the road to WRC-27
The workshop is aimed at executives working on indoor wireless strategy, policy and regulation, product development, partnerships and network planning — across MNOs and MVNOs, fixed operators and ISPs, towercos and neutral hosts, MSPs and systems integrators, enterprises, property and venue owners, technology vendors, investors, government and regulators.
It will be led by analyst Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, who has covered indoor wireless for over 20 years, with interactive sessions facilitated by Andrew Collinson of Connective Insight.
techUK's Sophie Greaves, Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure, will be attending.
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Meet the team
Tales Gaspar
Programme Manager, UK SPF and Satellite, techUK
Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.
In the UK and Europe, he offered consultancy on intellectual property rights of cellular and IoT technologies and on the regulatory procedures at the ITU as a Global Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).
Tales has an LL.M in Law and Business by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics, with a specialization in Government and Law.
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- +44 (0) 0207 331 2000
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- www.techUK.org
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Sophie Greaves
Associate Director, Digital Infrastructure, techUK
Sophie Greaves is Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure at techUK, overseeing the Telecoms Programme, the Data Centres Programme, and the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Sophie leads our work across telecoms networks, security and resilience, supply chain diversification, advanced communications technologies, spectrum policy, and data centres - bringing these areas together into a dedicated Digital Infrastructure unit. She was previously Head of Telecoms and Spectrum Policy.
Prior to joining techUK, Sophie completed a masters in Film Studies at University College London; her dissertation examined US telecoms policy relating to net neutrality and content distribution.
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- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 0207 331 2038
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/,https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/
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Josh Turpin
Programme Manager, Telecoms and Net Zero, techUK
Josh joined techUK as a Programme Manager for Telecoms and Net Zero in August 2024.
In this role, working jointly across the techUK Telecoms and Climate Programmes, Josh is responsible for leading on telecoms infrastructure deployment and uptake and supporting innovation opportunities, as well as looking at how the tech sector can be further utilised in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts.
Prior to joining techUK, Josh’s background was in public affairs and communications, working for organisations across a diverse portfolio of sectors including defence, telecoms and infrastructure; aiding clients through stakeholder engagement, crisis communications, media outreach as well as secretariat duties.
Outside of work, Josh has a keen interest in music, painting and sailing.
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- [email protected]
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- 020 7331 2038
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-turpin/
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