5G’s extremely fast bandwidth and ultra-low latency makes mission-critical control possible. This is opening the door for new applications that demand absolute reliability, such as in health care, energy, automated factory processes or autonomous transportation. These capabilities are unattainable with today’s network. 5G will unlock them through multiple rollout phases, starting in 2019, where extensive enlargement and densification of fixed (fibre) and wireless networks are essential for the launch of commercial 5G services.

Part-time lecturer at St Angela's College, Sligo, lecturing in Diploma in Folklore and Heritage of the North West

I was the Committee Chair for this workshop and in collaboration with the H2020 SliceNet and 5G-VINNI projects, I organised a half day workshop on 11 June 2020, as part of the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2020. Due to the ongoing restrictions around Covid-19, this year’s conference was different, as all activities were conducted virtually, as either pre-recorded paper presentations or as live teleconferences.The workshop was on the subject of Intelligent Network Slicing. Seven papers were accepted from a total of 15 papers submitted at the end of 2019 for selection. There were two keynote addresses, one from Prof. Qi Wang of the University of West Scotland, who presented UWS research into network slicing carried out as part of the SliceNet project, and the second keynote was from Dr. Pål Grønsund of Telenor, who presented an update of the 5G slicing activities from the 5G-VINNI pan European testbeds.There were over 30 participants attending the workshop, which was recorded and is available to conference attendees to view offline until the end of June 2020. The workshop was a great success.SliceNet coordinator and workshop Co-chair, Dr Maria Barros from Eurescom in Germany, noted “Covid-19 presented the organisers with significant challenges but in the end we had a very successful workshop, which focused on an important and emerging topic, that of the role of network slicing over public communications infrastructure, to enable guaranteed network service quality for specialised verticals, such as the health and military sectors”.https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-16%C2%A0workshop-on%C2%A0intelligent-5g-network-slicing/program

MindMyths offers access to transformative and immersive VR meditation, straight to the comfort and privacy of one’s own home or office. Meditative mindscapes offer a holistic choice of tranquil 360° spaces to meditate on one’s own or with others. Clients and users have ‘stress-free’ and anonymous access to learn and practice effective wellbeing and stress management techniques. Organisations and companies can pro-actively promote the management of work-place stress through access to MindMyths virtual work-shops and training.http://www.mindmyths.euResearch Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Roddy

FP7 Project SOCIETIES (2012-14) – was leader for the work-package responsible for the User Trials and Evaluation.May 2014 awarded Post Graduate module in Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship by the National University of Ireland Galway.FI-PPP Project XIFI (2014-2015) – Work-package leader responsible for the “Training and Knowledge Transfer” to the project stakeholder community. This involved organising training workshops and transferring the presented material to the Moodle learning tool. Required close liaison between the technical teams and the business management teams.

General Manager EU ACTS Project Bourbon (1997-99) – Senior Project Engineer for the installation of the ADSL infrastructure (Nokia equipment). Project Trilogy (1999-2001) – Project Manager for roll-out of euro payphone infrastructure. This project had a 6M euro revenue for Lake. Project Sigma (2001-03) – Product Manager for next generation product called Sigma, which had a development budget of 8M euro. Sigma was an integrated PABX and broadband router for the high-end residential/SOHO market space. It integrated Lake’s PABX stack, which interfaced with an integrated 2/4 channel SIP VoIP, ADSL modem, 4 port 10/100 baseT router and 802.11 g WLAN.  EU FP6 Project Daidalos (2003-2008) – Daidalos (50M euro budget over five years).  Celtic Project GENESIS (2007-2009) – Project Co-ordinator (6M euro budget over two years), part of Eureka’s Celtic Initiative. The project objective was to develop an Integrated Telecommunication Test-bed capable of offering Next Generation Telco 2.0 services to rural communities over WiMAX access networks. There were seven partners involved in the project. Managed Lake’s engineering input to the project, which included the integration of a prototype of Lake’s NGN CPE with the sample services. Showcased the project results at the NEM Summit in Paris (2008). Presented the project results to the Celtic Event in Paris in 2009, and set-up a booth to showcase the project at the same event. EU FP7 Project PERSIST (2008-2010) – Ied the Integration and Evaluation work-package and also the task associated with the implementation of the trial demonstrators. The objective of the project was to develop a prototype for the novel concept of a Personal Smart Space. Direct responsibility managing the test and integration of the architectural subsystems that made up the platform.