Executives from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Intel Corporation, Nokia, OpenTable, Orange Group and Refinery29 Join Keynote Program
August, 14, 2019, Atlanta: The GSMA provided further updates for the upcoming MWC19 Los Angeles, including recently confirmed high-profile keynote speakers, new programs and events, and additional exhibitors and partners. MWC19 will take place October 22-24 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Event registration is now open.
This year's MWC Los Angeles event is bringing together the greatest minds and companies to showcase the transformation the mobile industry is undergoing, said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. In the era of Intelligent Connectivity, 5G is powering Artificial Intelligence, IoT and data to reach new heights in never-before imagined ways. By 2025, there will be 5.8 billion unique mobile subscribers and over 25 billion IoT connections. MWC19 will examine the possibilities in this new frontier- you won't want to miss it.
Technology can serve as the great equalizer of opportunity for people everywhere a vehicle to enhance education, deepen ties of commerce and culture, and improve the quality of life for young people and families around the world, said Mayor Eric Garcetti. Los Angeles decided to become a smart city, lead the way in 5G adoption, and host MWC19 for a clear reason: we know the power of innovation to level the playing field for our workers and forge solutions to our most pressing social, political and economic challenges.
New Keynote Speakers Announced
The GSMA announced several new keynote speakers, with executives representing a wide range of organizations across the technology and telecommunications industries, including:
Ajit Pai, Chairman, United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Asha Keddy, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Next Generation and Standards, 5G, Intel Corporation
Ricky Corker, President of Customer Operations, Americas, Nokia
Joseph Essas, Chief Technology Officer, OpenTable
St phane Richard, Chairman and CEO, Orange Group and Chairman, GSMA
Amy Emmerich, President North America and Chief Content Officer, Refinery29
These executives join previously announced keynote speakers from leading companies including CTIA, Ericsson, GSMA, U.S. Cellular, Verizon and Viacom.
CTIA, GSMA's MWC19 Los Angeles event partner, will again offer the Everything Policy track, a two-day program of panel discussions with leading policymakers and industry experts focused on key wireless issues. Among the topics in the policy track are spectrum, privacy, cybersecurity, 5G, unmanned aerial services and more. Speakers recently added to the agenda include:
Brendan Carr, Commissioner, U.S. FCC
Michael O' Rielly, Commissioner, U.S. FCC
Geoffrey Starks, Commissioner, U.S. FCC
In addition to the keynotes, the conference program will offer the Connected Vehicle and the Latin America Intelligent Connectivity Summits, which will take place on Tuesday, October 22, and the 5G Security and the Women4Tech Summits, which will take place on Wednesday, October 23.
New Exhibitors and Sponsors Sign On for MWC19 Los Angeles
ServiceNow is the headline sponsor of the MWC19 Los Angeles Disruptive Innovation theme. Other conference theme sponsors include Cisco (5G) and Ericsson and KORE (IoT). For more information on MWC Los Angeles sponsors, visit www.mwclosangeles.com/about/sponsors-partners/.
The GSMA announced new exhibitors including CommScope, Fasetto, Indiegogo, Juniper Networks, Kaloom, LivePerson, NVIDIA and Vodafone. These organizations join previously announced exhibiting and participating companies including Amazon, AMD, ARM, Cisco, Corning Optical Communications, Ericsson, Gemalto, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, KORE Wireless, Mastercard, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon among others. For more information on the MWC19 Los Angeles exhibition, visit: www.mwclosangeles.com/exhibition.
4YFN Startup Program Details Unveiled
The 4YFN (Four Years from Now) startup program will attract more than 200 investors and 150 startups to MWC19 Los Angeles. Two pitching competitions will run on the 4YFN Discovery Stage in the LACC, organized by 4YFN sponsor Indiegogo and 4YFN partner TrepCamp.
SPROCKIT, a global startup community, has signed up as the first 4YFN theme sponsor and will curate media and entertainment content onstage illustrating the impact of mobile on the entertainment industry. For more information on 4YFN, visit: https://www.4yfn.com/los-angeles/.
DARPA Spectrum Competition Details Announced
On Wednesday, October 23, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will host the live championship finals event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) on the Keynote Stage. Organizing this first-of-its-kind competition required developing a custom-built virtual RF testbed - one capable of simulating, in real-time, over 65,000 channel interactions among 256 wireless devices. DARPA's answer was the massive Colosseum - the world's most powerful RF channel emulator at a scale never before realized at 20 times more total RF bandwidth than currently available in commercial systems. The Colosseum is capable of replicating the complex RF environments required to put the competitors' radio designs through their paces.
MWC19 Los Angeles attendees will have an opportunity to see the Colosseum up-close in the South Hall at DARPA's booth #1046. Throughout the show, the emulator will run the final competitive matches of the competition from the exhibit floor. For more information on SC2, visit: www.SpectrumCollaborationChallenge.com/.
GSMA Innovation City to Showcase Intelligent Connectivity
The GSMA Innovation City will return to MWC19 Los Angeles inviting visitors to experience how intelligent connectivity, the fusion of 5G,
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Executives from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Intel Corporation, Nokia, OpenTable, Orange Group and Refinery29 Join Keynote Program
