Artificial intelligence and 5G are the main characters at Mobile World Congress 2024
He Mobile World Congress (MWC) is back. This Monday at the Gran Via site in Barcelona Fair opens its doors to host one of the most important technology events in the world. From today until Thursday, the Catalan capital will once again be the epicenter of a digital industry that continues to expand at a breakneck pace.
According to the consulting company Accenture, this publication will once again be marked by growth artificial intelligence (AI), a fashionable field in this sector since its inception ChatGPT. So MVK it will involve the heads of large companies who seek to benefit from this. technologiesHow Microsoft, Google DeepMind, Target, Nvidia, Qualcomm or hand.
However there is life beyond AI. 2,400 companies that will meet in the halls of the exhibition center located in Hospitalet de Llobregat They will also present, as could not be otherwise, the latest developments in the field mobile phoneconnectivity 5G And 6G, robotics, microchips, a virtual reality And augmented realitycloud computing and the future telecommunications.
This week MWC is also celebrating its coming of age in Barcelona. The congress took place in Barcelona in 2006 and was dedicated to the mobile industry. Now up to 53% of fair visitors come from other fields such as finance, healthcare, sports or the automotive industry, and this change shows how digital transformation It has conquered all types of manufacturing sectors.
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GSMA, the mobile industry association responsible for the fair, is optimistic. Its CEO Mats Granrid, assured a few weeks ago that the publication, which launches this Monday, aims to attract 96,000 visitors. While 2019’s record 109,000 visitors is still a long way off, the organization’s forecast is expected to be the best figure since the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19which led to the cancellation of the competition.
Part of this optimism is due to the comeback of major Chinese phone companies such as Xiaomi, Honor, OPPO or Huawei, which will again occupy most of the exhibition space. China Telecom Corporation will take part in MWC for the first time. “China is an absolutely important place to look for international alliances,” he says. Francesc FajulaExecutive Director Mobile capital of the world Barcelonaa public-private foundation that develops the business ecosystem in the city.
Recognizing these growth projections, Barcelona-El Prat Airport Josep Tarradellas has significantly increased its activity. Since last Friday, the number of scheduled commercial flights reaches 8,470, up almost 11% on last year and even 3% more than in 2019, MWC’s best year since it landed in Barcelona.
Boost for startups
Among the new products this year is the weight acquired 4YFN (After 4 years), pavilion dedicatedstartups‘and entrepreneurs. The event, which began in conjunction with MWC but in a different location and has been held in its surrounding area since the pandemic, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. And it does this by doubling the surface area it had last year. There will be two floors instead of one and 900 exhibiting companies, about 150 more than in 2019, when the record number was reached so far.
Event organizers estimate there will be more than 9,000. entrepreneurs and almost 5500 investors These are funds with 50 billion euros that can be invested in startups. “Not only will it be special, it will be better and bigger than ever: we hope to host more startups than ever, and we will be in two pavilions, so we are expanding our presence at MWC,” said the 4YFN director , Pere Duran, in a presentation of sorts held a few weeks ago to warm up the engines. “We will look at what happened in these 10 years of startups (we saw incredible growth, the explosion of unicorns…), we will talk about our lessons and look to the future, at the opportunities we see in the future of technology and “startups,” he concluded.
The main idea of this meeting is to show what the world will be like in four years through the products and services that these types of companies design and develop. A quick glance at what participating organizations are publishing promises a plethora of AI charging solutions for electric car and to promote clean energy, a wide range of tools for companies to optimize almost any type of process, platforms for more visual management of large amounts of data, and many, many, many proposals for bringing technology into medicine.