Earlier this month a variety of Russian companies and more than 1,300 Russian visitors attended Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress. Among the exhibitors were A1 Systems, Jet Infosystems, Peter Services, Protei, Start, Svyazcom, Yandex and Skolkovo.
On Day 1, the Vedomosti publishing house organised a Russian breakfast, “Telecom 2015 – investments in new technologies,” which hosted Ms Svetlana Shamzon, Vice-President of TKK, and Ksenia Yolkina, International Business Director at Yandex Start.
The event reported 93,000 visitors in total from 200 countries, setting another new record for the mobile industry’s premier event. The 2015 Mobile World Congress featured more than 2,000 exhibiting companies showcasing cutting-edge products and services across 100,000 net square metres of exhibition and hospitality space.
More than 3,800 international media and industry analysts attended the event to report on the many significant industry announcements made at the Congress. Preliminary independent economic analysis indicates that the 2015 Mobile World Congress will have contributed more than €436 million and nearly 12,675 part-time jobs to the local economy.
“As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we are gratified by the record-breaking success we’ve seen this year,” said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. “It’s been a tremendously exciting show, with many major device launches, discussion and debate on the future of our industry and demonstrations of the cutting-edge products and services that customers are enjoying now and will experience in the future. The industry has advanced significantly over the past decade and we look forward to the many new developments that the next ten years will surely hold.”
The four-day conference and exhibition attracted executives from the world’s largest and most influential mobile operators, software companies, equipment providers, internet companies and companies from industry sectors such as automotive, finance and healthcare, as well as government delegations from across the globe.
Leading CEOs take the stage
The Mobile World Congress conference programme featured two Mobile World Live keynotes. On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was joined onstage by 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 Group to discuss efforts to extend connectivity to more people around the world. The Tuesday evening Mobile World Live keynote featured Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in a discussion on the impact of recent telecommunications regulation in the United States.
CEOs and senior executives from companies including ARM, AT&T, Avegant, AVG Technologies, BBVA, BSH Home Appliances, Deutsche Telekom, Dialog Axiata, e-Estonia, Ericsson, Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad, Huawei, Intel, Klarna, KT Corporation, LINE, MasterCard, Micromax Informatics, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Orange, Peel, Qualcomm, Renault-Nissan Alliance, SAP, TAPTAP Networks, Telefónica, Telenor, Thinfilm, Visa, VMWare, Vodafone, Wicab and Wikipedia also participated in the keynote programme.
Upcoming events
- Mobile World Congress 2016: The 2016 Mobile World Congress will be held 22-25 February 2016 at Fira Gran Via.
- Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015: For the first time, Mobile World Congress will also be held July 15-17 July 2015 in Shanghai!
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