Ericsson News Podcast

In this special mini series, Erik Ekudden, Group CTO for Ericsson, meets with thought leaders from across the industry to talk about the biggest innovation platform ever known. In this first installment, Erik talks to Bikash Koley, VP of Global Networking at Google Cloud, about the potential of 5G and edge computing.

In the wake of the pandemic, Ericsson has been thinking a lot about what work is going to look like in the coming years. In this episode, we are speaking with Peter Laurin, Head of Managed Services at Ericsson and Executive Sponsor of the Workplace of the Future initiative, which looks at the physical, virtual, and cultural environment of our future workplaces.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has an ambitious plan to implement a broad range of next-generation technologies by 2030. 5G was launched already in 2019 making Saudi Arabia one of the first countries in world the roll out this technology commercially.

In this episode, we are joined by colleagues from Ericsson's Middle East and Africa market area to talk about how Saudi Arabia’s latest spectrum release is offering a wide range of new opportunities.

While 4G gave us new companies and business models like Netflix, Uber and AirBnB, 5G, along with edge cloud is opening up a whole new world of opportunity. In this episode, we are speaking with Ericsson’s Chief Technology Officer, Erik Ekudden, about how 5G and cloud platforms are creating a new innovation ecosystem.

From microbreweries to vehicle assembly lines, the manufacturing industry is undergoing a fundamental change as the forces of digitalization and automation converge. In this episode, we are speaking with Ericsson’s smart manufacturing expert, Sebastian Elmgren, about the latest developments in Industry 4.0 and the role that cellular connectivity is playing in the transformation of the manufacturing sector.

Ericsson was recently named a Leader by Gartner in their 2021 Magic Quadrant for 5G Network Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers. In this episode, we're joined by Paul Cowling, Analyst Relations Expert and Host of Ericsson’s Voice of 5G Podcast, to talk more about Ericsson’s position as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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The continued rollout of 5G is delivering huge benefits to the entire world – but there are also emerging human rights risks that need to be addressed early in this development. In this episode, we are speaking with Théo Jaekel, Corporate Responsibility Expert at Ericsson, and David Vermijs, a Senior Advisor at Shift, about a proactive approach that Ericsson is taking to human rights issues across its value chain in relation to 5G.

Over the course of this year, we have talked to many of Ericsson’s experts and leaders about connectivity and the impact that global pandemic is having on business, technology and society. For this final episode of 2020, we are revisiting some of those conversations - about how our industry and the world has changed.

A lot can happen in 50 years. In this episode of the Ericsson News Podcast, we are speaking with Anders Fagerholt, an Ericsson engineer who has worked for the company since 1973 and has seen, firsthand, nearly every generation of communications technology of the past five decades.

The massive growth of 5G is creating a range of new enterprise and consumer applications but is also demanding new levels of flexibility in mobile networks. In this episode of the Ericsson News Podcast, we're speaking with Per Narvinger, Head of Product Area Networks, about Ericsson’s new Cloud RAN offering which is enabling an agile approach to designing, scaling and deploying mobile networks.