Digital Connectivity: Smart Towns & Regions
Date and time
Location
Mostyn Theatre, Deeside Sixth
Golftyn Lane Connah's Quay CH5 4BH United KingdomDescription
Digital Connectivity: Smart Towns & Regions is Deeside Business Forum's latest business networking conference.
This event is open to all individuals within the local business community of North Wales, North West England & beyond. Please note that you do not have to be a member of the forum to attend our quarterly events.
We are expecting a high level of interest in the event and have limited space so register your attendance as soon possible.
Agenda
13.30 | Registration, Networking & Refreshments
14.00 | Welcome - Chair of Deeside Business Forum: Mr Askar Sheibani
14.10 | Deeside Business Forum President: The Rt Hon. Lord Barry Jones PC
14.20 | The Digital Infrastructure Cooperative
Introduced by Tim Rainey, Assistant Director - Digital Tameside (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council)
14.40 | North Wales Digital Connectivity Strategy - North Wales Economic Ambition Board
Introduced by James Saunby, Consulting Director - GreySky Consulting Ltd
15.00 | Reuse and Reduce: Collaborative Working to Accelerate Fibre Networks
Introduced by Dave Hudson, Business Development Director - ITS Technology Group
15.20 | Connecting North Wales
Introduced by Dale Weedman, Business Development Manager - FibreSpeed Ltd
15.40 | Digital Connectivity - The Heart of a Smart Place
Introduced by Mark Lowe, Business Development Director - Pinacl Solutions Ltd
16.00 | Community Fibre
Introduced by Angela Hornby, Senior Community Liaison Manager & Chris Priestley, Customer Field Manager - Openreach
16.20 | Elastic Network Capacity
David Stokes, Senior Portfolio Manager - ECI Telecom Ltd
16.40 | Networking with Complimentary Wine
17.30 | Close
Sponsors
Registration Refreshments Sponsor: Enbarr Enterprises: Training & Recruitment
http://www.enbarrenterprises.co.uk/
Pinacl Solutions Ltd
Pinacl offers a range of solutions to enable Digital Transformation and shape Smart Places (including Internet of Things) for customers, empowering them in their businesses. With a range of Managed Services to build and support their data, voice, server and cloud infrastructures. Pinacl’s technical solutions team has extensive experience and expertise designing, implementing and managing ICT infrastructure solutions utilising leading technologies from the World’s best vendors.
For over 35 years Pinacl have continued to provide innovative services and solutions to a wide range of customers. We work tirelessly to exceed our customers’ expectations and believe that this has direct business benefit to those we work with.
We specialise in delivering managed ICT infrastructure solutions encompassing the Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Dark Fibre connectivity, Wireless, WAN, LAN, Data Centre and Cloud technologies.
FibreSpeed Ltd
FibreSpeed operates a high-performance fibre network connecting North Wales to the global digital economy. Operated on a wholesale, open access basis, offering capacity to ISP's, Telco’s and other organisations. FibreSpeed enables Partners to build their own digital networks and deliver services and applications to business and residential users throughout the region.
FibreSpeed provides high bandwidth infrastructure and colocation solutions over a 350 km optical network breaking out along the route to multiple business parks, with a unique back-haul fibre route to Ireland.
Our Dark fibre pairs span across the FibreSpeed core network, allowing partners to build ultra-high capacity systems as a future-proof platform from which to serve the high bandwidth end of the North Wales market. Ethernet circuits deliver traffic locally, regionally or up to Manchester, FibreSpeed’s point-to-point offering provides the ideal connectivity solution. Wireless deliveries extend the Fibrespeed network, utilising the PoP’s with masts and buildings which are relayed to area’s with poor connectivity.
ITS Technology Group (ITS)
http://www.itstechnologygroup.com/
ITS Technology Group (ITS) designs, builds and operates full fibre and fixed wireless access networks in rural and urban locations, supplying high speed broadband services, managed IT and hosted telephony services.
ITS is an industry front runner of innovative commercial agreements with local authorities designed to capitalise on their existing under-utilised infrastructure. These networks are used to deliver high capacity networks, offering ultrafast broadband to businesses while also creating social, economic and commercial benefit for the authority.
ITS also operates a wholesale model offering access to other providers across its high capacity fibre networks throughout the UK.
North Wales Economic Ambition Board
The membership of the NWEAB comprises the six North Wales Councils, Bangor and Wrexham – Glyndwr Universities, Grwp Llandrillo Menai, Coleg Cambria, the North Wales Business Council, the Mersey Dee Alliance and the Snowdonia, Anglesey and Deeside Enterprise Zone Chairs. Ambition Board meetings are attended by Welsh Government Officials and a representative of the North Wales Voluntary County Associations.
The Ambition Board is the Learning and Skills Partnership for North Wales.
ECI Telecom Ltd
ECI is a global provider of ELASTIC network solutions to service providers worldwide. Along with its long-standing, industry-proven packet and optical transport solutions, ECI offers a variety of software solutions which enable intent driven lifecycle management of dynamic and deterministic services.
Information on our previous connectivity themed business conference can be found here: Full Fibre Digital Connectivity for North Wales
This event coincides with DBF's North Wales Business Exhibition 2018, taking place from 08.00-14.00 on November 7th. For information on exhibition opportunities or to register to attend please visit: North Wales Business Exhibition 2018
A round-up of our June business conference, focusing on business finance and Brexit, can be found here: Business Finance: Brexit and Beyond
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Deeside Business Forum (DBF) is an association of organisations and individuals committed to working together in order to improve the trading environment for businesses.
DBF is becoming the most influential business forum in North Wales by operating a business support network for an extensive business community, providing a voice for all to campaign and promote the area regionally, nationally and internationally to policymakers. DBF is commited to ensuring that strategic knowledge and insight will promote business growth by connecting businesses to other networks and business partners, facilitating successful outcomes, prosperity and sustainability for all.