Telecom industry body GSMA today said CEO of Airtel Africa, Telenor and Facebook will keynote at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015) in Barcelona in March.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will participate in a keynote on Monday, 2 March.
United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler will take the stage on 3 March.
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Christian De Faria, CEO of Airtel Africa, Mario Zanotti, senior vice president of Operations at Millicom and Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president and CEO of Telenor will discuss efforts to extend connectivity to more people around the world.
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler and GSMA director general Anne Bouverot will discuss the impact of recent telecommunications regulation in the United States.
Sundar Pichai, senior vice president, Android, Chrome & Apps at Google, will also be one of the speakers.
Some of the other speakers at MWC 2015 include:
# John Donovan, senior EVP, AT&T Architecture, Technology, Operations, AT&T
# Kevin Petersen, president, AT&T Digital Life, AT&T
# Joerg Tewes, CEO, Avegant
# Olaf Swantee, CEO, EE
# Francois Rancy, director, Radiocommunications Bureau, ITU
# Eric Migicovsky, CEO and founder, Pebble
# Evan Sharp, co-founder and head of Creative, Pinterest
# David Hose, CEO, Rhapsody
# Karim Khoja, CEO, Roshan
# Karim Michel Sabbagh, president and CEO, SES
# Rich Riley, CEO, Shazam
# Mats Granryd, president and CEO, Tele2 Group
# Bob Bakish, president and CEO, Viacom International Media
# Philipp Humm, CEO Europe, Vodafone
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