IEEE Future Networks UK and Ireland Local Group was founded in November 2020 to promote IEEE Future Networks activities in UK and Ireland. The group carries out various activities including workshops, technical seminars, standardisation, networking and social events, community development and outreach, public engagement and industrial liaison, and special projects for the IEEE UK and Ireland Section. The focus of the local group is to reflect the IEEE’s contribution to current and future generations of communication networks.

Our goals are mainly:

• to publicise and support the IEEE UK and Ireland section community activities and efforts towards 5G/B5G/6G networks

• to build and to connect local active industrial and academic technical communities in Future Networks research and development.

Launch Event - Invited Speakers:

• Professor Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, "What Next in 5G and 6G"
• Professor Lajos Hanzo, Univesity of Southampton, "Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networking for the Internet Above the Clouds: Just Utopia or a Next-Generation Challenge?"