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© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Open Innovation and
co-innovating with Start-ups
Sandeep Raithatha – Head of External
Innovation
1
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Poll: What do you think is most important to be successful with corporate innovation?
A. Having a central innovation function or centre of excellence?
B. Having an innovation accelerator programme to engage with start-ups
C. Having the right culture for innovation in the organisation?
D. Having time for everyone in organisation to innovate?
E. Having a Chief Innovation Officer for Innovation?
F. Working closely with the customer to understand their problems?
2
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
1846
Electric Telegraph
Company
Many world first achievements
1926
Two-way transatlantic
telephone call by radio
1943
Programmable computer:
Colossus
1962
Telephone call
via satellite
1968
Digital telephone
exchange
1980
Purpose-designed optical
fibre submarine cable
1984
140Mbps single-mode
optical fibre link
1989
Satellite telephone
system: Skyphone
1999
GPRS live data call over a
mobile network
2013
World’s first
G.fast trial
2014
3Tbps optical fibre link in
the core network
2015
200Gbps data secured by
Quantum cryptography
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 20194
2017
BT & EE first to
demonstrate 5G
backhaul technology
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
The role of Innovation in BT
5
GLOBAL OPEN&
PUSH PULL&
CUSTOMER
DRIVEN
PROVOKE
ITERATE
DOWNSTREA
M
& LAUNCH
Delivering growth. Driving efficiency and simplicity.
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Global Scouting &
Infinity Lab
Open Innovation &
New Ideas
AppliedTechnology Centre Hothouses & Hackathons
Customer Centre &
Innovations Showcases
Innovation in BT – how it works
6
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Global Innovation Ecosystem
7
Partner ecosystem with customers, industry,
universities, government
Global Innovation Centres in China, India,
Israel, UAE, UK and US
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Global Scouting
8
Big Data, Cloud
Services & New IT
Mobile, IoT &
Wi-Fi
TV & Sport
Value Added
Services
Security & Cyber
Defence
On rotation
Locations: Silicon Valley, Boston, UK, India, Israel & Asia
Part time scouting roles
Full time scouting roles
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
BT Infinity Lab – Co Innovation at the heart of Tech City, London
9
Recent Launches
9
Consumer & Home Delighting Tomorrows
Customers
Connected Cities
Connected Society Business Growth Digital Innovation in
Public Sector
Digital First TV and Sport
IoT Business Operations
Our BT Infinity Lab Competition Winners
Future Mobile
Cyber Security
Friends & Family
Physical “Lab” in partnership with TechHub entrepreneur community in London
The Infinity Lab provides UK start-up engagement for our customer facing units
Since 2013 we have completed 15 themed based competitions, attracting over 1000 start-ups.
Winner - BT Sport
Powering “talk of the
Terrace” on Premier League
Tonight. Now expanding to
other programming.
Finalist - Digital First
competition launched with
PlusNet enabling service agents
to make interaction personal.
TV and Sport Augmented Intelligence Better World
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
BT Infinity Lab Sport Competition 2018
Broadcast graphics & VR
Enhanced on-pitch sounds
VR - watch TV with friendsRemote live production
Live commentary choices
TV for the visually impaired
Network traffic optimisationVisualisation content creation
Competition finalists
7
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 201911
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
• Seenit were chosen as the winners of the BT Infinity lab
competition sponsored by BT Sport.
• Entries were encouraged to focus on aiding a sportsTV
viewer's experience through technologies
• The Seenit app is currently used by the producers of
Premier LeagueTonight to incorporate user generated
fan content to add variety and depth of opinion to the
match report programme.
BT Infinity Lab Competition – BT Sport 2016
@sandeep_r
#SIWorldForum
© British Telecommunications plc 2019
Innovating every day with BT New Ideas
13
Idea ofYear 2018Winner at the IdeasUK Ideas Awards
Drone Fibre Deployment
The BT New Ideas scheme captures ideas from BT’s employees to create impact on BT’s
customers and its bottom line.
Mike Bowen – the most successful
submitter to the ideasBank
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#SIWorldForum
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Sandeep Raithaita

  • 1. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Open Innovation and co-innovating with Start-ups Sandeep Raithatha – Head of External Innovation 1
  • 2. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Poll: What do you think is most important to be successful with corporate innovation? A. Having a central innovation function or centre of excellence? B. Having an innovation accelerator programme to engage with start-ups C. Having the right culture for innovation in the organisation? D. Having time for everyone in organisation to innovate? E. Having a Chief Innovation Officer for Innovation? F. Working closely with the customer to understand their problems? 2 @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 3. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 1846 Electric Telegraph Company Many world first achievements 1926 Two-way transatlantic telephone call by radio 1943 Programmable computer: Colossus 1962 Telephone call via satellite 1968 Digital telephone exchange 1980 Purpose-designed optical fibre submarine cable 1984 140Mbps single-mode optical fibre link 1989 Satellite telephone system: Skyphone 1999 GPRS live data call over a mobile network 2013 World’s first G.fast trial 2014 3Tbps optical fibre link in the core network 2015 200Gbps data secured by Quantum cryptography @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 4. © British Telecommunications plc 20194 2017 BT & EE first to demonstrate 5G backhaul technology @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 5. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 The role of Innovation in BT 5 GLOBAL OPEN& PUSH PULL& CUSTOMER DRIVEN PROVOKE ITERATE DOWNSTREA M & LAUNCH Delivering growth. Driving efficiency and simplicity. @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 6. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Global Scouting & Infinity Lab Open Innovation & New Ideas AppliedTechnology Centre Hothouses & Hackathons Customer Centre & Innovations Showcases Innovation in BT – how it works 6
  • 7. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Global Innovation Ecosystem 7 Partner ecosystem with customers, industry, universities, government Global Innovation Centres in China, India, Israel, UAE, UK and US @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 8. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Global Scouting 8 Big Data, Cloud Services & New IT Mobile, IoT & Wi-Fi TV & Sport Value Added Services Security & Cyber Defence On rotation Locations: Silicon Valley, Boston, UK, India, Israel & Asia Part time scouting roles Full time scouting roles @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 9. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 BT Infinity Lab – Co Innovation at the heart of Tech City, London 9 Recent Launches 9 Consumer & Home Delighting Tomorrows Customers Connected Cities Connected Society Business Growth Digital Innovation in Public Sector Digital First TV and Sport IoT Business Operations Our BT Infinity Lab Competition Winners Future Mobile Cyber Security Friends & Family Physical “Lab” in partnership with TechHub entrepreneur community in London The Infinity Lab provides UK start-up engagement for our customer facing units Since 2013 we have completed 15 themed based competitions, attracting over 1000 start-ups. Winner - BT Sport Powering “talk of the Terrace” on Premier League Tonight. Now expanding to other programming. Finalist - Digital First competition launched with PlusNet enabling service agents to make interaction personal. TV and Sport Augmented Intelligence Better World @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 10. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 BT Infinity Lab Sport Competition 2018 Broadcast graphics & VR Enhanced on-pitch sounds VR - watch TV with friendsRemote live production Live commentary choices TV for the visually impaired Network traffic optimisationVisualisation content creation Competition finalists 7 @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 12. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 • Seenit were chosen as the winners of the BT Infinity lab competition sponsored by BT Sport. • Entries were encouraged to focus on aiding a sportsTV viewer's experience through technologies • The Seenit app is currently used by the producers of Premier LeagueTonight to incorporate user generated fan content to add variety and depth of opinion to the match report programme. BT Infinity Lab Competition – BT Sport 2016 @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum
  • 13. © British Telecommunications plc 2019 Innovating every day with BT New Ideas 13 Idea ofYear 2018Winner at the IdeasUK Ideas Awards Drone Fibre Deployment The BT New Ideas scheme captures ideas from BT’s employees to create impact on BT’s customers and its bottom line. Mike Bowen – the most successful submitter to the ideasBank @sandeep_r #SIWorldForum

Editor's Notes

  1. In 2015, BT working with Toshiba Research Labs and ADVA demonstrated Quantum keys sent simultaneously with encrypted on same fibre using Toshiba equipment. These were 2x100Gb/s encrypted data channels over fibre using ADVA equipment. This is demonstrating that in the future we should be able to secure our core transmission network in such a way that it will be impervious to hacking. In 2014, BT and Huawei achieved a super channel speed of 3 Terabits per second over a single fibre. An incredible feat made even more impressive by being set over an existing fibre link, using commercial grade hardware and software in a real-world operating environment. To put that speed into a real context, it’s the equivalent of transmitting around 100 Hi-def films in a single second. In 2013, BT ran the first G.fast trial in Rushmere St. Andrew, near Ipswich. The trial had three customers connected to one DP. The network was overlaid to avoid interference to existing services, but used existing duct infrastructure. This led to the January 2015 UK G.Fast deployment announcement by Gavin Patterson, BT CEO, where he stated that sSubject to successful pilots in 2015, widespread deployment of G.fast will start in 2016-17 – helping BT deliver ultrafast speeds of up to 500Mbps to most of the UK within a decade. In 1984, the world's 1st 140 Mb/s commercial single mode optical fibre link was deployed by BT Running between Luton and Milton Keynes, these revolutionary 140 Megabits per second optical fibre cables replaced traditional copper. Lighter and thinner, they carried more information over longer distances. Fibre cables are also easier to install and maintain, this link taking just 38 days to get up and running. This was after successful trials in 1982 between BT labs, Martlesham and Kesgrave. In 1980, the world's first purpose-designed optical fibre submarine cable, a five nautical mile test loop, was laid in Loch Fyne, Scotland in January. 1968. Empress Exchange, West Kensington, the World’s first digital exchange, which was designed by the General Post Office research labs. 1962. Telstar was the first active, direct relay communications satellite. Belonging to AT&T as part of a multi-national agreement between AT&T, Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National PTT (Post Office) to develop satellite communications, it was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, the first privately sponsored space launch 1943 - One of the Post Office Telecoms (the forebear of BT) research teams designed and constructed Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer, at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes. Tommy Flowers was the electrical engineer who designed Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, used to decipher enemy messages during World War II. From 1935, he explored the use of electronics for telephone exchanges –convinced that an all-electronic system was possible. Tasked by Alan Turing with automating one of Bletchley’s cryptanalysis procedures, Flowers proposed a huge electronic system, ‘Colossus’, using 10 times more valves than had previously been attempted. He countered scepticism by insisting that Britain’s telephone system used thousands of valves reliably because the electronics operated in a stable environment with the circuitry constantly on. Colossus proved five times faster, and more flexible, than previous devices; in all, 10 Colossus systems were used in Britain’s wartime decoding efforts. They showed in June 1944 that Hitler remained convinced Allied preparations for the Normandy Landings were just a diversion, and ultimately assisted the events that brought about the end of World War II. 1926 – The Post Office in the UK and Bell Labs in the US engineered the world’s first two way transatlantic telephone conversation (by radio). The commercial radio telephone service started in 1927. A regular public transatlantic telephone service from London to New York using long-wave radio transmission on a wavelength of 5,000 metres (60kHz) was begun on 7 January at 1.45 pm. The original tariff was £15 for three minutes, reduced to £9 the following year. The pic is rugby radio station (which was used for the service) 1846. And it was the formation of the Electric Telegraph Company in 1846, that not only led to the creation of BT but to the formation of the entire Telecommunications industry.
  2. BT & EE are more powerful TOGETHER – this is a great example! Earlier this year BT and EE demonstrated how it can use a balloon and drone air masts to connect remote parts of the UK and keep communities online in the wake of disasters such as major flooding. EE plans to use mini mobile sites attached to a helium balloon—which it calls a “Helikite”—to provide wide area 4G mobile coverage where permanent sites have been damaged or in areas where there is no 4G coverage. You can see the helikite at the BT stand – so go and check it out! In June, we used 26 GHz test spectrum as part of the demonstration during BT’s Adastral Park Innovation Week. The mobile backhaul solution included a Parallel Wireless small cell on the Helikite communicating with an Athonet virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC) on the ground using a Phazr link. The addition of pre-5G backhaul increases 4G speeds and lowers latency, which increases the number of people that the air mast could keep connected and gives them a faster internet connection. The demonstration was an example of the potential applications and customer benefits of BT and EE’s 5G research activities, which are progressing well ahead of the deployment of future 5G networks.