Our Spring Member Meeting saw our biggest attendance in more than 15 years, drawing 158 attendees to Mainz, Germany. We have enjoyed a very productive meeting, and continue to build on the success of 2023, with 16 new work area projects started and two new Open Broadband projects launched since our last meeting. In Mainz, the home to the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press and no stranger to ground-breaking tech innovation, we opened the meeting with discussions on the latest significant breakthrough in tech history. Bringing together technology innovators from across the industry, our Town Hall Innovation Series explored the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in broadband networks. The BASe Technical and USP Summits took place in tandem with our member meeting and was highly attended with a host of engaging plenary sessions, roundtables, and video demonstrations. The three events amassed a total of 243 registered attendees across five days. A word from our CEO, Robin Mersh: "I talked in the Q2 newsletter about the amount of work underway, and the expanding scope that the Broadband Forum is now covering across both the working groups and the special projects – including our burgeoning Open Broadband software projects and Open Standards. There is no question that momentum is growing fast, and while network operators are looking for the agility that “Open Source” offers, they also need Open Standards to create a solid framework and safeguard their current deployments while helping them navigate the exciting yet challenging waters that lie ahead. The Broadband Forum is perfectly positioned to deliver on this need – we have done it before, and we are doing it again.." Thank you to all of our work area directors, project stream leaders, editors, and contributors for their continuous dedication in building universally adopted open standards and open-source software. Talking with many of the attendees, there was real energy and enthusiasm surrounding the ongoing work and direction of the Broadband Forum... Read more. |