MWC25 Barcelona, one of many world’s largest and most influential connectivity occasion, welcomed 109,000 attendees throughout per week of industry-shaping launches and impactful collaboration, shining a highlight on superior cell expertise and synthetic intelligence (AI).
In keynotes and throughout the phases and summits of MWC25, a few of immediately’s most influential minds debated expertise’s position in redefining society, enterprise and tradition, with its alternatives and challenges.
John Hoffman, the CEO of GSMA Ltd. mentioned; “MWC is the place industries meet, and this yr’s occasion confirmed simply how briskly expertise is reshaping the world round us. From AI-powered networks to the way forward for good mobility, the discussions this week in Barcelona will set the tone for the yr forward. What occurs at MWC doesn’t keep at MWC, it sparks actual change. I can’t wait to see the place this momentum takes us subsequent, significantly as we head to MWC25 Shanghai in June this yr.”
MWC25 Barcelona at a look:
- 109,000 attendees from 205 nations and territories.
- Greater than 2,900 exhibitors, sponsors and companions.
- Over 1,200 audio system and thought leaders, together with 41% feminine audio system.
- The GSMA Ministerial Programme convened 188 delegations from 148 nations and 40 intergovernmental organisations, 66 ministers and 111 heads of regulatory authorities.
- 4YFN welcomed over 1,000 startups exhibitors, almost 380 audio system and over 900 buyers with collective funds totaling €60 billion.
- 56% of attendees representing industries adjoining to the core cell ecosystem.
- 21% C-suite attendees; 50% director degree and above.
- 27% feminine attendees.
- Over 2,900 journalists and {industry} analysts from all over the world.
- Near half 1,000,000 distinctive views of the keynotes and stay classes on the MWC Barcelona web site, MWC app, Cell World Dwell and media companions platforms and media retailers.
Individually, Expertise Area organised by Cell World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital) and co-located with MWC25 at Fira Montjuïc, welcomed greater than 20,000 attendees with 53% senior professionals, and 47% college students and younger professionals.
Mats Granryd, the director common of GSMA mentioned, “I’ve attended each MWC because the early days and, with this being my final as Director Normal, I’m extremely happy with the way it has advanced. The {industry} is embarking on a brand new period, and I’m profoundly grateful to have performed a small position. Every MWC builds on the final, and this yr was really groundbreaking. As I hand the baton to Vivek Badrinath, I do know the GSMA is uniquely positioned on this more and more advanced world to convey collectively policymakers, startups and companies to gas private-public discourse on the subjects that matter. All in opposition to a backdrop of market-moving bulletins and impressed first tech – it’s really simple.”
MWC25 Barcelona kicks off the GSMA’s thrilling lineup of worldwide occasions for the yr. This week, they introduced the inaugural MWC25 Doha (25-26 November 2025), an occasion in Qatar that can unite {industry} leaders, policymakers and innovators to advance the subsequent technology of digital societies within the Center East and past.
Our MWC collection convey collectively industries, applied sciences and communities to unlock the longer term’s potential, with the subsequent version, MWC25 Shanghai going down 18-20 June 2025. They’re excited to share that 4FYN will return to MWC Shanghai, and new for 2025, we’re proud to current the co-location of IOTE on the present.
Vivek Badrinath will kick off this yr’s GSMA M360 Collection together with his inaugural speech as Director Normal at M360 Eurasia in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (21-22 Could 2025), partnering with Host Sponsor Beeline Uzbekistan, a subsidiary of VEON and the Republic of Uzbekistan, adopted by M360 LATAM in Mexico Metropolis (28-29 Could 2025).
All keynote classes might be obtainable on-demand on the MWC25 Barcelona web site, app and Cell World Dwell. Information, updates, B-roll and images can be found on the MWC25 Barcelona Press Zone.
MWC Barcelona will return subsequent yr, 2-5 March 2026 – see you at MWC26!
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