Find out how 5G can support your business and gain insights from local 5G use cases.

Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Belfast City Hall – The Great Hall
Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm
Cost: Free

Register for the Belfast 5G Innovation Region Showcase event and find out how 5G can support your business.

5G connectivity is powering digital technologies such as IoT, automation, AI, robotics and immersive technologies which are driving innovation and economic growth across many industries including advanced manufacturing, transport and logistics, creative industries, and public services.

The Belfast 5G Innovation Region (5GIR) programme, led by Belfast City Council’s City Innovation Office, has been working with local businesses and organisations to deliver a range of innovative 5G projects in the Belfast region.

Event attendees will:

  • Gain insights and learnings from local 5G use cases in the transport and logistics, creative industries, tourism, construction and advanced manufacturing sectors – being delivered by Belfast Harbour, Queen’s University Belfast’s Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre, Ulster University and Studio Ulster, Translink, Stena Line, Manfreight, Retinize, BT and Belfast City Council.
  • Better understand the benefits and applications of 5G.
  • Get practical advice on how to adopt 5G in their business.
  • Get access to a new 5G Adoption Toolkit for businesses.
  • Find out about 5G funding opportunities, resources and support.
  • Connect with the 5G ecosystem including representatives from the telecoms industry, business support organisations, government and academia.

The full agenda will be published soon.

Registration

About the Belfast 5GIR programme

The £3.8 million Belfast 5GIR programme is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology as part of its UK 5G Innovation Regions programme which aims to drive economic growth and innovation by unlocking the opportunities presented by advanced wireless connectivity and digital technologies. 

The Belfast 5G Innovation Region includes six council partners: Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Mid and East Antrim, and Newry, Mourne and Down.

Find out more about the Belfast 5G Innovation Region programme at https://smartbelfast.city/belfast-5g-innovation-region/