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Introduction
The International Telecommunication Union at the kind invitation of the ZTE Corporation, was organizing a workshop "Towards a New Era - AI in 5G"  on 6 March 2019  at St. Helen Hotel, N0 2002 East Qiancheng Road, Nanshan Science and Technology Park, Shenzhen, China. The workshop was preceded and followed by the Fifth meeting of the Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G (FG-ML5G) taking place on 5, 7-8 March at the same venue. The workshop was hosted by ZTE and the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) with co-host China Unicom, and organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) in collaboration with ITU. 

The FG meeting opened at 0930 hours on 5 March 2019. The workshop opened at 0930 hours on 6 March 2019. The meeting and workshop was held in English only.
 
Target Audience   
Participation was open to ITU Member States, Sector Members, Associates and Academic Institutions and to any individual from a country that was a member of ITU who wished to contribute to the work. This included individuals who were also members of international, regional and national organizations. Participation at the workshop was free of charge but no fellowships were granted.