Telecom industry association GSMA has revealed the initial list of keynote speakers at the Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona.
MWC Barcelona will take place 24-27 February 2020, with events also staged at Fira Gran Via, Fira Montjuic and La Farga L’Hospitalet.
MWC Barcelona will outline the convergence of AI, Big Data, and IoT, all powered by 5G.
First confirmed keynote speakers for MWC 2020
Marc Fontaine, digital transformation officer at Airbus
Mats Granryd, director general of GSMA
John Chambers, CEO and founder at JC2 Ventures
Rajiv Suri, president and CEO of Nokia
Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis
Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, president and CEO of NTT Docomo
Stephane Richard, chairman and CEO of Orange
Sara Spangelo, co-founder and CEO of Swarm
CP Gurnani, CEO and managing director of Tech Mahindra
Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete Lopez, chairman and CEO of Telefonica
Robert Bakish, president and CEO of Viacom
GSMA said more than 2,400 companies will participate at MWC 2020, including Accenture, Alibaba Cloud, ARM, AT&T, BMW, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Facebook, Google, HTC, Huawei, Intel, Lenovo, LG, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NTT DOCOMO, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Ooredoo, Oracle, Orange, Qualcomm, SAP, SEAT, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Verizon, Vodafone, Xiaomi and ZTE.