Yorkshire Forward in association with CBN put on a 1-day conference in Harrogate to look at broadband future of the area, and the wider challenges.The presentaation given by Adrian Wooster focusses on whether fibre-based broadband is sensible in large region-wise deployments, or whether smaller localised projects make more sense.In fibre projects - is small beautiful?

GTC's Adrian Wooster gave a presentation at B2bEvent's Next Generation Services conference at the beginning of December entitled OpenSource Voip - Free as in Freedom and as in beer . The presentation focusses on how re-thinking telephony as a voice application server rather than a PBX creates novel opportunities, and that OpenSource software is the key driver in this world. With some clear warnings to today's voice market and to the nascent VoIP providers, we describe a world where all calls are unmetered, and where other differentiators will become the key to success. In this world, tools like Asterisk will be as important to service providers as Apache is today. The presentation includes some intriguing concepts and case studies.

Presentation given to Osney Media's Wireless Applications in the Public Sector conference in December 2005. This presentation focusses on what could happen when the Public Sector engages with communities to deliver exciting and new services. In particular, it focusses on leveraging community broadband schemes, many of which have been partly funded by local authorities but are rarely used to deliver eGovernment services.

GTC produced this concept for an Oxfordshire market town, allowing them to develop a museum using the whole town as the backdrop by leveraging existing technologies in novel ways.