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Time and Sync: Catalysts for Modern Innovation The 2025 Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems

Time and Sync: Catalysts for Modern Innovation The 2025 Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems

Attend North America’s premier timing and sync event.    

ATIS today announced that the Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) takes place May 12–15, at The DeSoto in Savannah, GA. Registration is now open. Access the agenda.

THE EVENT: The WSTS 2025 theme is “Time and Sync: Catalysts for Modern Innovation”, and attendees will get the latest information on how timing and synchronization innovation is driving change in a host of industries. WSTS has a 30+ year track record for bringing together top subject matter experts in the field of timing and synchronization to discuss its critical impact on a wide range of sectors that are critical to the economy.

Marc Weiss, Ph.D., Time & Frequency Expert Consultant and Chair of the WSTS Steering Group notes, “The need for precision timing in industry has evolved from primarily the telecom industry to now being a fundamental requirement to compete well in almost every industry.  Electric Power, Financial Services, Data Centers, Broadcasting, Automotive, Defense, and many others all have critical needs for applications that depend on precision timing.  Position, Navigation and Timing services as provided by GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become critical to most industries, and these are all based on receiving nanosecond accurate timing from satellites.  These GNSS are often the invisible enablers behind many familiar services such as Lyft and Uber transportation, our Just-in-time trucking systems that enable inexpensive delivery of all goods, even the ability to receive cash dependably from our ATM systems.  WSTS 2025, the largest precision timing conference in the Western Hemisphere, will present the latest developments for all these critical industries from the world’s leading experts.”

 SESSION TRACKS:  WSTS covers all major aspects of sync and timing:

  • Alt-PNT and Aerospace Defense
  • Broadcast
  • Data Center: Finance, Broadcast and Media, and Multi-Cloud Systems
  • Emerging Applications
  • Power Grid
  • Sources & Sync
  • Telecom

WSTS TUTORIAL

The WSTS Tutorial provides:

  • A refresher course in the principles of synchronization and timing
  • A basic introduction to the material covered in the main workshop
  • Critical information on the wide variety of industry verticals in which knowledge of synchronization and timing is increasingly important

VIEW FULL 2025 AGENDA.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS BY: Amazon Web Services; EC Joint Research Center; Iridium; Meinberg; OCP; the University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the University of California Santa Cruz, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

A SAMPLING OF TOPICS COVERED:  Democratizing and Scaling Accurate Time for Distributed Applications; Past, Present, and Future of Space Clocks; Putting the SAFE Back in Public Safety Radio Network Synchronization; The Critical Role of Timing in Open System Architectures for Defense Applications; PNT and APNT Solutions Supporting Aerospace Defense UAV Applications; Mitigating Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in IEEE Precision Time Protocol (PTPv2) Using NTS; How to Monitor Sync in Datacenters; Telecom Standards for Resilient Timing, and more.

WSTS 2025 IS MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS:

Accord, Calnex, Epson, Furuno, Keysight Technologies, Iridium, Meinberg, Microchip, Oscilloquartz, Pendulum, SAFRAN, Seiko Solutions, Inc.

REGISTER TODAY. Once registered, book your hotel room by April 20 to receive the WSTS room rate.

VISIT WSTS.ATIS.ORG/

Marcella Wolfe, Manager – Public Relations and Marketing Communications, ATIS

About ATIS

As a leading technology and solutions development organization, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) brings together the top global ICT companies to advance the industry's business priorities. Our Next G Alliance is building the foundation for North American leadership in 6G and beyond. ATIS' 165 member companies are also currently working to address 5G, illegal robocall mitigation, quantum computing, artificial intelligence-enabled networks, identity and privacy, distributed ledger/blockchain technology, cybersecurity, IoT, emergency services, quality of service, billing support, operations and much more. These priorities follow a fast-track development lifecycle from design and innovation through standards, specifications, requirements, business use cases, software toolkits, open-source solutions and interoperability testing.

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Media Contact:

Marcella Wolfe
Manager, Public Relations & Marketing Communications
202-434-8851
mwolfe@atis.org