{"id":351124,"date":"2025-02-08T14:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=351124"},"modified":"2025-02-08T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:31:03","slug":"gsma-reveals-event-highlights-ahead-of-mwc25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/gsma-reveals-event-highlights-ahead-of-mwc25\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA reveals event highlights ahead of MWC25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MWC25 Barcelona returns under the theme Converge. Connect. Create<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The GSMA shared highlights and its vision for MWC25 Barcelona, during a press conference today. With its unique combination of exhibition, thought leaders, startups and policymakers, MWC25 Barcelona will bring together everybody from industry CEOs and visionary founders to presidents, for the world\u2019s largest and most influential connectivity event between 3-6 March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The GSMA\u2019s Director General, Mats Granryd, said: \u201c<em>There\u2019s real excitement in the air for MWC25 Barcelona; that same disruptive energy we saw with the growth of mobile is here again in the AI era. From AI to 5G Advance to the rich potential for digital services unleashed by GSMA Open Gateway, only at MWC will we first see the products and ideas that embody this spirit of innovation set to reshape our digital future.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussions about technology\u2019s role in our societies are in the spotlight like never before. MWC will host some of the world\u2019s most influential minds who will share their insights on\u00a0topics\u00a0including how AI will reshape our lives, the challenges of balancing innovation and regulation, and the evolution of mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote and conference\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwcbarcelona.com\/agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agenda<\/a>\u00a0will centre around the key trends shaping connectivity, from 5G inside to AI+. As well as an inspiring line up of around 1,200 speakers across MWC25 Barcelona\u2019s 19 stages, recently confirmed keynote speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI Visionary<\/strong>, Ray Kurzweil<\/li>\n<li><strong>Databricks<\/strong>\u2019 Chief AI Officer, Naveen Rao<\/li>\n<li><strong>European Commission<\/strong>\u2019s Executive Vice President, Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Teresa Ribera<\/li>\n<li><strong>e&amp;<\/strong>\u2019s Group CEO, Hatem Dowidar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maven<\/strong>\u2019s Founder &amp; CEO, Kate Ryder Maven<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mistral AI<\/strong>\u2018s CEO and Co-founder, Arthur Mensch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiverse<\/strong>\u2018s CEO and Founder, Euan Blair<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perplexity<\/strong>\u2019s CEO, Aravind Srinivas<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pivot<\/strong>\u00a0podcast\u2019s co-host and\u00a0<strong>NYU<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of Marketing, Scott Galloway<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shutterstock<\/strong>\u2018s Senior Director of AI and Data Science, Dr. Alessandra Sala<\/li>\n<li><strong>US Federal Communication Commission<\/strong>\u2019s Chairman, Brendan Carr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The GSMA\u2019s Chief Marketing Officer, Lara Dewar, said: \u201c<em>MWC25 Barcelona is shaping up to be one of the most thought-provoking and insightful editions yet, staying true to our long history of showcasing the most influential leaders of our time. Discussions at MWC resonate far beyond its walls; the keynote stage will welcome the industry\u2019s most iconic thinkers to spark debate, share insights and inspire us about technology\u2019s role in redefining our societies and world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New speakers are being announced continuously on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwcbarcelona.com\/agenda\/speakers?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MWC25 Barcelona website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First-time\u00a0exhibitors\u00a0attending the show include Alibaba Cloud, China Unicom, Databricks, Indra, KDDI Spherience, KYOCERA, Liberty Global, Siemens, SquareTrade, Tencent Cloud, TransUnion and Ubiquiti. These companies join returning exhibitors and sponsors such as Accenture, AWS, China Mobile, Dell, e&amp;, Ericsson, Google, HPE, Huawei, Lenovo, Meta, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, SK Telecom, Vodafone, Xiaomi and ZTE, among others.<\/p>\n<p>4YFN, the home of big ideas, will bring together startups, investors and corporates to power the next generation of unicorns in Halls 8.0 and 8.1. The Banco Sabadell stage at 4YFN will host some of the\u00a0biggest names\u00a0from the global startup and investor community as well as the father of modern AI, computer scientist Juergen Schmidhuber. Day 3 will reveal one of the\u00a04YFN Awards\u00a0finalists \u2013 Bankuish, Horus ML, Qflow, Ramon.Space, Rockfish Data \u2013 as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>On the GSMA Pavilion in Hall 4, the European Space Agency (ESA) will demonstrate the results of its\u00a0partnership with the GSMA\u00a0which aims to foster new terrestrial and satellite communications services for society. Also on the Pavilion, the GSMA will show a new Kazakh large language model (LLM) for AI to support under-resourced languages around the world. The LLM was created through our partnership with VEON, Beeline Kazakhstan and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of Europe\u2019s seven AI factories.<\/p>\n<p>And in the\u00a0GSMA Open Gateway\u00a0showcase next to the Pavilion, we will spotlight how network APIs are helping developers in vertical sectors deploy new services. There will be six demo pods hosting 17 organisations, including Nokia and Elmo Cars who will show how to remotely drive a car in Finland using APIs.<\/p>\n<p>The GSMA Ministerial Programme will convene industry leaders, government ministers and regulatory authorities for the world\u2019s largest gathering of policymakers who enable the digital economy. Topics on its agenda will include AI governance, energy efficiency of networks, future spectrum for mobile and network investment.<\/p>\n<p>MWC25 Barcelona co-locates with FC Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0Sports Tomorrow Congress\u00a0run by the Barca Innovation Hub in Hall 6 and, in a first for this year, it will take exhibition space at 4YFN. And, after a successful pilot last year, Mobile World Capital\u2019s\u00a0Talent Arena\u00a0will co-locate at Fira Montju\u00efc. Over 200 speakers will attend Talent Arena this year, including Apple\u2019s Co-founder Steve Wozniak.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0GSMA Open Gateway DevCon\u00a0will take place at Talent Arena, along with the Open Gateway hackathon. Developers will test their projects under realistic conditions on live networks, with access to the latest network APIs. Mobile World Capital is also bringing 180 developers\u00a0from Paris on a charter flight with Vueling, and 70 developers on a\u00a0dedicated high-speed train from Madrid with Iryo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWC25 Barcelona returns under the theme Converge. Connect. Create The GSMA shared highlights and its vision for MWC25 Barcelona, during a press conference today. With its unique combination of exhibition, thought leaders, startups and policymakers, MWC25 Barcelona will bring together everybody from industry CEOs and visionary founders to presidents, for the world\u2019s largest and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14090],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events","7":"category-latest-mobile-news-and-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}