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AI meets infrastructure: what the UK’s future telecoms networks need now
Expert researchers and leaders from cutting-edge businesses join a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities that are driving innovation in AI and telecoms
The convergence of AI and telecommunications is a pressing reality shaping the UK’s digital future. In January 2025, the UK government unveiled the AI Opportunities Action Plan, aiming to embed AI across critical sectors to boost productivity, reduce costs, and enhance public services. The Future of Compute programme’s independent AI review, commissioned by HM Treasury and DSIT, explores how the UK can scale AI adoption responsibly while maximising its economic potential, estimated at up to £400bn by 2030.
Yet significant challenges remain. The Public Accounts Committee recently flagged the UK’s outdated infrastructure and fragmented data as major barriers to AI deployment. At the same time, there’s a growing gap between world-leading research and large-scale adoption, particularly among SMEs and public services. The report urges the UK to move faster, and to connect its strengths in R&D, regulation, and private sector innovation to avoid being left behind.
Foresight Live: the convergence of critical technologies in AI and telecoms is an expert panel discussion designed to explore exactly how these dots can be joined.
Join Robert Curran, consulting analyst at Appledore Research, Dr Shadi Moazzeni from the Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol, Doug Pulley, CTO and co-founder of RANsemi, and Dan Warren, director of communications research at Samsung Electronics at The Engine Shed in Bristol on Thursday, 12 June 2025 for an expert panel discussion and networking.
Marc Ambasna-Jones / Editor-in-chief
Working as a technology journalist and writer since 1989, Marc has written for a wide range of titles on technology, business, education, politics and sustainability, with work appearing in The Guardian, The Register, New Statesman, Computer Weekly and many more.
