Telecom industry association GSMA announced the latest list of keynote speakers at Mobile World Congress 2018 being held on 26 February – 1 March 2018 in Barcelona.
New keynote speakers
Jeremy Fox, CEO, Atrium TV and chairman of DRG
Christopher Young, CEO of McAfee
Oren Jacobs, Founder and CEO of PullString
Rajeev Misra, CEO of SoftBank Vision Fund
Enrica Porcari, chief information officer and chair of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Program
Other keynote speakers
Sunil Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and chairman of GSMA
Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group
Borje Ekholm, president and CEO of Ericsson
Mats Granryd, director general of GSMA
Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, president and CEO of NTT DOCOMO
Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat
Sigve Brekke, president and CEO of Telenor Group
Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone Group
MWC 2018 will address topics such as artificial intelligence, the evolution to 5G and next-generation networks, the digital consumer, immersive content and entertainment, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, regulation and policy, privacy and security, and sustainable development, among many others.
GSMA in a statement said that Boston Consulting, China Mobile, Continental, Deloitte, Essential, Telit, Toyota, Accenture, Alibaba, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Facebook, Fujitsu, 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, Vivo, Vodafone, Xiaomi and ZTE, among others are some of the exhibitors at Mobile World Congress 2018.