International Open RAN Symposia (IORS) - ITS ↑ Back to top The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site. The site is secure. The ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. ITS Home Research 5G IORS Etiquette Mailing Lists 2026.03 IORS 2024 RIC Forum 2023 5G Challenge Event 2022 5G Challenge Event Institute for Telecommunication Sciences Research 5G / IORS The International Open RAN Symposia (IORS) provides a forum, via email lists, virtual meetings, and face-to-face meetings, for Open RAN experts to exchange information, work together on common goals, and create a community of practice for consistent, repeatable, Open RAN testing. Working Methods Subscribe to IORS mailing lists Review IORS meeting etiquette Register 2 weeks before virtual meetings on this Google Sheet Your name will be kept on the registration list from one IORS virtual event to the next. Meeting recordings will be available to all registered attendees for several months after each event. Create a free account on the Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL, www.cdvl.org) and inform iors@ntia.gov . We will grant your CDVL account permission to download the video recordings from an IORS members only section of CDVL. Future Meetings IORS is organizing a series of virtual meetings and hybrid in-person/virtual meetings, culminating in a face-to-face IORS meeting in the fall of 2025. IORS is open to US Foreign assistance eligible countries. If you have questions, contact us directly at iors@ntia.gov Click on the meeting name for details. No admittance fees. Registration closes 2 weeks before each event. March 26, 2026: 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE Coordination Dan Henry (NTIA) Alex Jinsung Choi, Softbank, Chair of AI-RAN Alliance "Roadmap for Testing" Led by David Chiang (Verizon) "Financing Opportunities" Lauriston Hardin (NTIA/ITS) "How xApps/rApps can be utilized to close security gaps in Open RAN" Mr. Phil Porras, CEO of SE RAN Dr. Salvatore D’Oro, CTO of zTouch Networks "Lab collaboration Lessons Learned" Let us know what topics you would like to discuss or present by sending an email to iors@ntia.gov One goal of IORS is to organize specific lab testing projects. Of particular interest are open, collaborative efforts that leverage resources from multiple organizations to establish general solutions, and collaborative testing efforts between labs in established countries and emerging economies. Past Meetings Select past meeting links to access video recordings, agendas, and informative links. AI RAN for 6G " February 25, 2026, virtual meeting with presentations from IAN Wong (Viavi Solutions), Eng Wei Koo (Keysight Technologies), and Charles Turyagyenda (UK SONIC Labs) IORS 2025 " December 9-10, 2025, in-person meeting in Tokyo, Japan, with lab tours Improving test plans " August 20, 2025, virtual meeting led by Lincoln Lavoie (University of new Hampshire, UNH-IOL) Key performance indicators and quality of experience ", June 11, 2025, virtual meeting Led by the Chairs of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) 5G Key Performance Indicators project Experiences in lab peer review and procedure harmonization for inter-lab and tool-independent reproducibility in O-RAN testing ", May 19, 2025, virtual meeting led by Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom, i14y Lab), Carsten Rossenhövel (EANTC, i14y Lab), and Ian Wong (VIAVI Solutions, VALOR) "Lab-to-lab collaboration inventory" , December 3, 2024, virtual meeting led by Martin Skorupski (highstreet Technologies) "IORS 2024" , September 17-19, hosted by NTIA/OIA in Golden, Colorado, USA.