• Newest standardization in 3GPP
• Driven force for E2E dynamic network slices (URLLC and eMBB slices)
• Wide application in 5G mission-critical services and hotspot areas

• Reviewing state of art in edge technologies
• Outlining real world challenges on the roadmap
• New architectures and applications that will shape edge future

• What are all the edge initiatives existing today?
• How to they work together?
• What’s the story with open edge initiatives?
• How can all these initiatives come together to support the adoption of edge computing?

• Overview business relevant edge applications
• Remaining technology challenges and solutions
• Key edge providers and business models
• The roadmap to global business success

• The diverse connectivity needs that enterprises face in connecting people and things
• The benefits and shortcomings of existing solutions
• The role of multi-access edge computing in creating hybrid private-public networks for enterprises

• Exploring collaboration options between all the different open source communities
• Managing the great number of people and groups involved in the open source projects
• How can we make the ecosystem more balanced?
• How can standardisation organisations and open source communities work more closely together? How can we leverage each other’s’ expertise?
• Akraino project and latest activities in detail – What are the next steps?

Flexibility and interoperability in the field of IoT software is a paramount objective.  The mix of platforms, “things”, applications, intelligence, etc. which are connected in an IoT deployment is extensive and ever growing.  How do you create a software platform that connects to a variety of old & new, greenfield and brownfield devices and sensors, allows the incorporation of various edge analytics, communicates to a diverse set of  cloud and enterprise platforms like Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT Core, AWS IoT, etc.?  The solution, as exhibited in EdgeX Foundry (an open source, vendor neutral IoT platform hosted by the Linux Foundation), is to use a microservice architecture.  In this session, Keith will discuss how EdgeX Foundry works, how micro services can help, challenges (and lessons learned) that a microservices IoT architecture introduces and what must be addressed to include dealing with orchestration/deployment, security and additional communication latency.

• How does edge computing tie in with the modernization and virtualization of the network?
• Where does this fit in terms of strategy? 

• Why edge devices, either gateways or IoT devices would be the ultimate destination for any hacker
• Security developments taking place at all levels, in devices, gateways, protocols and on the carrier networks
• Basic considerations moving towards a regulated space for IoT devices
• Fundamental considerations for edge deployments on cybersecurity