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The 2011/2012 UCL Enterprise Annual Review
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"It’s been an excellent start to the five-year plan for Enterprise and you can read more in this review. But such is the strength, depth and diversity of our activities that it can only reflect a small proportion of the outstanding work of the UCL community. Every member of UCL is to be congratulated for a tremendously successful year and with the promise of much, much more to come."
Prof Stephen Caddick
Vice-Provost (Enterprise)
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Telefonica O2 R&D Lecture
16 May 2009
Dr Mike Short, Vice-President of Research and Development
at Telefónica O2, outlined the latest challenges in digital communications in a lecture at UCL on 16 March 2009.
Developing UCL Relationship with O2 Telefonica
Prof. Bernard Buxton, UCL Dean of Engineering Sciences and Prof. Alwyn Seeds, Head of UCL Electronic and
Electrical Engineering, hosted an important Business Partnership
lecture on Monday 16th March 2009. This was given by Dr Mike Short,
VP of Group Research and Development at Telefonica O2, recent Chairman
and current Honorary President of the Mobile Data Association and
current Chairman of the UKTI ICT Sector Advisory Board, and Vice
President of IET.
Attended by UCL staff, students and alumni, as well as IET
members, the lecture is another positive development in the relationship
with Telefonica O2, initiated by Dr Anna Clark, UCL Director of Corporate Partnerships.
Mike Short’s lecture focused on Third Generation Mobile, Mobile Data
Applications, and New Trends in Bridging Digital Divides, including
greater connectivity in transport, assisted healthcare, machine to
machine (M2M) and consumer-oriented connected appliances.
Mike Short considered that the global mobile communications industry was one of the most robust sectors in the world economy, with rapid growth in India, Latin America and China. With more than 4 billion handsets worldwide (predicted to be 5 billion by 2011), and with massive growth in data usage (texting), it will be one of the ‘catalysts for recovery’ in the current market downturn.
With one of the largest European research and development budgets and with one of the market’s most rapid growth rates, Telefonica O2 is continuing to place emphasis on innovation and partnerships. It is not anticipating a reduction in graduate internships.
