A brief about MWC-2014 held at Barcelona, Spain.

2. AGENDA
● Introduction
● Conference’s Agenda
● Venue
● About the Event
● Key Note Programme
● Special Guest
● Who Attended
● Speakers
● New Releases & Announcements
● Featured Releases
● Popular Awards
● Snapshots

3. INTRODUCTION
● The world’s largest trade show devoted to the wireless industry. A place
for mobile leaders to gather, collaborate and conduct business.
● 75,000 delegates from 200 countries and 1800 companies from the
mobile telecommunication sector showed their presence.
● Inaugurated by Prince Felipe de Borbon, and the opening speech given
by Mark Zuckerberg.

4. CONFERENCE’S AGENDA
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● Industry Perspective: Mobile Operator Strategies
● Mobile, Disrupted: Challenging the State of Play
● The Connected Lifestyle: Transforming Industries
● Moving Money: Re-thinking Transactions
● Up Close & Personal: The Power of Big Data
● Innovation Unleashed
● The Battle for the Multi-Screen Home

5. VENUE
● Once again The Mobile World Congress 2014
is taking place in Fira Gran Via in Barcelona,
Spain.
● One of the largest and most modern venues in
Europe for seeking industry opportunities,
making deals, and Networking.
● Deployed 1,200 WiFi access points across the
site, making this one of the world’s largest
WiFi networks ever installed in an exhibition
centre.

6. ABOUT THE EVENT
● Provide insight and developments on key GSMA and industry initiatives:
○ Personal Data
○ Connected Living
○ Digital Commerce
○ Network 2020
○ Network APIs
○ Spectrum
○ Other Public Policy Matters and
○ Mobile for Development
● Global Mobile Awards programme
● mPowered Industries, a new conference and exhibition programme on Health,
Advertising, Broadcast and Travel industries.
● WIP and GSMA jointly to bring the best and biggest DEVCON and HACKATHON

7. KEYNOTE PROGRAMME
● Business Transformation
● Connected Living
● Data Analytics
● Developing Markets
● Devices
● Future of communications
● Intelligent networks
● Mobile Commerce and Payments
● Mobile Identity and Privacy
● Network Economics and Network Optimisation and Others

8. SPECIAL GUESTS
Genevieve Bell Intel Fellow, Intel Labs Director User
Experience Research. Her famous research paper -“Forget What You Think You Know”
Tommy Palm
A game designer and entrepreneur,
he earned the title 'Games Guru' at
leading casual social games
company, King
Mark Murphy
CommonsWare Founder
“The Fuuuuuuuuuuuture! The Next Billion Users”
Contd...

9. WHO ATTENDED
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More than 72,000 attendees
More than 41,000 C-Level leaders
More than 4,300 CEOs in attendance
Nearly 1,700 exhibitors utilising 94,000 net square
metres of exhibition and business meeting space.
● 3,400+ press members representing 1,500 media
outlets from 79 countries.

10. SPEAKERS
Contd..

11. SPEAKERS

12. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nokia X,Nokia X+ and Nokia XL
2,L40,L70 and L90
Google: 'Project Tango' smartphone
smartwatch & Gear
sensing the world
Moto X
HTC Desire 816
Sony Xperia Z2 and Xperia Z2 Tablet
LG G Pro
Galaxy X5,Gear 2
Fitness band

13. FEATURED
RELEASES
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● Lenovo comes out with upgraded Yoga Tablet 10HD+
● SanDisk has built the world's smallest 128GB MicroSDXC
card
● Boeing unveils smart phone that will self destruct
● Image-recognition and augmented reality app Blippar will be
the first of its kind on Google Glass, the company
announced.
● Sony is showing off its own Smart Eyeglass concept

14. POPULAR AWARDS
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Best Overall Mobile App: CityMapper
Most Innovative Mobile App: PointGrab for CamMe
Best Smartphone: HTC One
Best Low Cost Smartphone: Nokia Lumia 520
Best Featured Phone: Nokia 105
Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year: LG
Best Mobile Tablet: Apple iPad Air

15. SNAPSHOTS

16. GUEST COMMENTS
Mark Zukerberg-- "WhatsApp is a great company and it's a great fit for
us.Already
almost half a billion people love using WhatsApp for messaging.It's
the most engaging app that we've ever seen that exists on mobile by far”.
WhatsApp founder and CEO Jan Koum has promised “its mission won’t
change and that it will remain independently run following its $19bn
acquisition by Facebook.”
JD Howard, Lenovo’s vice president says Motorola will play a huge role in the
run phase of its “crawl, walk, run strategy,” wherein it will re-infiltrate
markets that Samsung and Apple currently dominate.
Cisco CEO, John Chambers believes the Internet of everything, also known
as the Internet
of things, will create $19 trillion in economic benefit and value over the next

17. REFERENCES
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http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
http://www.bloomberg.com/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thedrum.com/
http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.variety.com/
http://www.androidpolice.com/
http://tech.firstpost.com/
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/
http://www.forbes.com/technology/

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