GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011:
Where the Mobile Industry was “Leading the Transformation”
The word 'more' aptly describes the biggest and best Mobile World Congress ever:
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More attendees than ever before
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More outstandingexhibitors than ever before
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More CEOs delivering keynotes than ever before
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More CEOs in attendance than ever before
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More Conference Attendees than ever before
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More App Developer Conferences than ever before
Once again, Barcelona played host to the GSMA's industry-transforming event, Mobile World Congress. This year, attendees from 200 countries were treated to a wealth of learning and networking opportunities; product showcases and announcements; inspiration and innovation, including:
Conference
An exciting lineup of inspiring speakers from mobile operators, consumer brands, organisations, and industries touched by the mobile market including advertising, health, entertainment and education presented at more than 40 conference sessions at MWC. Keynote speakers included:
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Daniel Hajj, CEO, America Movil and Telcel
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Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO and President, AT&T
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Wang Jianzhou, Chairman, China Mobile
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John Chambers, Chairman & CEO, Cisco
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Hans Vestberg, President & CEO, Ericsson
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Eric Schmidt, Chairman an&d CEO, Google
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Peter Chou, CEO, HTC
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Paul Otellini, President & CEO, Intel
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Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
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Stephen Elop, President & CEO, Nokia
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Ryuji Yamada, President & CEO, NTT DoCoMo
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Paul Jacobs, Chairman & CEO, Qualcomm
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Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion
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Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO, SoftBank
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Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square
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Cesar Alierta, Executive Chairman & CEO, Telefonica
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Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
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Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Vodafone
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Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive, WPP
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Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo!
Keynote speeches by Google's Eric Schmidt, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Twitter's Dick Costolo were broadcast live and archived for viewing on Mobile World Live, so visit that site today to hear their addresses!
View a video of MWC 2011 highlights, courtesy of Mobile World Live:
Exhibition
Nearly 1,400 companies showcased their organisations through exhibition stand and hospitality space across eight halls at Fira Barcelona. Visiting the exhibition halls provided sneak peeks at exciting new phones, tablets, technologies, applications, back-end solutions, accessories and more.
Between the GSMA Pavilion in Hall 8, the Embedded Mobile House in The Courtyard and several pavilions in Hall 7, the GSMA highlighted several important initiatives benefitting the industry, including Green Tech, the Mobile Cloud, Mobile Money and Mobile Health.
See our
2011 Exhibitor List.
App Planet
Hosting more than 10,000 app developers, App Planet was once again the Centre of the Apps Universe. App Planet was completely packed with an exciting app-focused exhibition, an App Lounge for networking, a Forum Series covering LTE and Cloud discussions, and App Developer Conferences hosted by:
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BlackBerry
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Developerprogram.com
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HP
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IMGA
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Macworld Mobile
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Microsoft
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Mobile {Dev}Sync
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Nokia
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Samsung
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WAC
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WIP
Highlighting the Best of the Industry
Mobile World Congress 2011 hosted the 16th annual Global Mobile Awards, which recognised outstanding offerings in a number of categories, covering topics from apps and entertainment to devices and innovation. For a full winner list, please
click here.
Outstanding Networking Opportunities
A key component of Mobile World Congress 2011 was networking with fellow attendees and mobile leaders, both before the show, via
My MWC and at Congress itself. We'd also like to extend our special thanks to Qtel for hosting the 2011 Congress Party featuring Duffy and Metric.
