The four-day-long Mobile World Congress, the largest exhibition for the mobile industry, kicks off today in Barcelona with an emphasis on new innovation to telecom services with mobile entertainment.
GSM Association (GSMA) is organising the annual gala event, bringing together a host of industry-leading CEOs and ecosystem players from the music, entertainment and mobile industries.
Executives of mobile operators, device manufacturers, technology providers, vendors and content owners from across the globe will meet in the conference, which will continue until Thursday.
Hundreds of global experts and analysts, ministers and high officials from different countries have already gathered at the Spanish city to attend the event.
Visionary keynotes and panel discussions will be featured at the event, where some 1,700 exhibitors will participate with cutting-edge products and technologies.
A Bangladeshi delegation led by ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak is attending the conference, along with Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose and other senior officials of the ministry and the regulator.
“As we are undergoing a process of building a digital Bangladesh, it is an opportunity for adopting more digital services through this congress,” the state minister told the Dhaka Tribune ahead of the event.
A large number of senior executives from different mobile operators from Bangladesh will also attend the congress.
Grameenphone’s parent company Telenor’s CEO and President Jon Fedrik Baksaas, also the president of GSMA, will attend a session as a panelist.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, and the bosses of Google, IBM, Twitter and WhatsApp will be among the high-profile attendees.
Organisers said this year’s event will feature more than 85,000 attendees, including more than 4,500 CEOs, with around four thousand journalists representing 1,700 media outlets from 84 countries.