1. 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

2. 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

3. Attendance: 92 Guests: 18 Members: 74 (in parentheses: GSC-18) 3GPP: 1
ARIB : 6 (6)
ATIS : (6)
CCSA : 6 (6)
ETSI : 10 (16 incl GSC Secr.)
IEEE-SA : 5 (7)
ITU : 10 (4)
TIA : 10 (5)
TSDSI: 3
TTA : (10)
TTC : (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

4. 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