Opening Session Report Document No: GSC-19_020 Source: ITU Contact: Chaesub Lee, Colin Langtry Agenda Item: 6.1 Opening Session Report Chaesub Lee, Director ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, Colin Langtry, Chief, ITU-R Study Group Department

GSC- 19 Programme, 15-16 July 2015 GSC Membership presentations Three strategic topics: Strategic Topic #1: Critical Communications and public safety​ (12 presentations) Strategic Topic #2: IoT (includes M2M, smart cities, smart cars) New discussion format tried: “World Café” (small discussion groups, town-hall discussion, no presentations) Strategic Topic #3: IMT-2020/5G (covers spectrum topics and network architecture, also Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)) (11 presentations) Social Event: guided tour of the UN + reception in UN Photos: see ITU website

Attendance: 92 Guests: 18 Members: 74 (in parentheses: GSC-18) 3GPP: 1 ARIB : 6 (6) ATIS : 8 (6) CCSA : 6 (6) ETSI : 10 (16 incl GSC Secr.) IEEE-SA : 5 (7) ITU : 10 (4) TIA : 10 (5) TSDSI: 3 TTA : 9 (10) TTC : 7 (5) Guests: 18 3GPP: 1 4G Americas: 1 5G Forum: 1 5G PPP: 1 5GMF: 1 BBF: 1 EC: 2 IEC, ISO, ISO/IEC JTC1: 6 MEF: 1 NGMN: 1 OMA: 1 TCCA: 1

Presentations in Opening Plenary The ITU Deputy Director General welcomed the GSC-19 participants; The Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and the Chief of the ITU-R Study Group Department, on behalf of the BR Director, presented opening remarks The GSC-18 Chairman (ETSI) gave a summary of the previous GSC; GSC members presented the priorities for their organizations; ISO and IEC presented their GSC membership application