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Wireless is dead. Long live wireless! - Opening keynote: Dr David Cleevely

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  • Tuesday, 23 June 2015
  • 09:23 - 09:23
  • Duration: 11 mins
  • Publication date: 01 Jul 2015
  • Location: Dial Square Suite, The Emirates, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Cambridge Wireless

About the session

Opening keynote: Dr David Cleevely, CBE, FREng, FIET, Chairman, Cambridge Wireless

Day 1: 09:30 - 09:45 Opening keynote

We explore the hypothesis that the wireless industry is in the midst of a number of discontinuities which would mean that we cannot use the existing market growth models. Is the whole sector becoming subject to multiple simultaneous Schumpeterian disruptions? Is this the end of wireless, or just the beginning of an exciting, albeit more uncertain, new phase? What principles should be used to consider where and how to invest, and the business models which are more likely to be sustainable in the coming years?

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  • data
  • smartphone
  • usage
  • wireless

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  • Dr David Cleevely

    Dr David Cleevely

    Compass House, Chairman

    David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET was appointed the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge in 2009. He is the Chairman of CRFS, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). In 1998, he co-founded the web based antibody company Abcam (ABC.L) with Jonathan Milner and was Chairman until November 2009.He has invested in over 35 companies and is co-founder and Chairman of five of them, including the award winning restaurant “Bocca di Lupo”. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless, co-founder and Chairman of Cambridge Angels and is a member of the IET Communications Policy Panel. For 8 years until March 2009 he was a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Ministry of Defence Board overseeing information systems and services (DES-ISS, formerly the Defence Communications Services Agency).He is Chairman of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Cambridge Science Centre and is an Ambassador of the Cambridge Humanitarian Centre.After being sponsored to study Cybernetics at Reading by Post Office Telecommunications, he joined their Long Range Studies Division. A PhD at Cambridge was then followed by the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IET.
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