Latam Regional Update

GSMA Leadership Forum

London, 6th December 2016

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Innovation City & Exhibitions

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Innovation City: immersive demonstrations

A series of live demonstrations from multiple vertical markets

including trackers, smart parking, smart waste management,

environmental monitoring and several developer kits designed to

accelerate the development of new Mobile IoT solutions

Cconnected car: Automakers highlighted the value of connectivity

As smart cities are developed in parallel to autonomous vehicles,

communication with infrastructure is an important element in achieving the

safety goals that autonomous driving aims to provide.

IoT: focus shifts to industrial

NB-IoT tagged seal, which is currently

prototyping the technology in Scotland as

parts of efforts to conserve wildlife.

Smart Cities

Security

5G dominated MWC this year: Industrial Robotics

5G dominated MWC this year. Some 25 mobile

operators confirmed 5G lab testing, of which 12

have progressed to field testing and four have

announced major 5G trials.

Artificial intelligence (AI) were both strongly represented

The primary focus areas for AI and machine learning were

improving user engagement, humanising interactions with

machines, gaining efficiencies through self-optimisation and

enhancing human productivity through cognitive computing.

Robot Dummer

Virtual Realty

With no major headset

announcements, vendors

attention focused on the use of

peripheries to enhance the VR

experience. Samsung introduced a

controller for its Gear VR headset. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUg04iMqbug

Industrial augmented

reality

Key notes and Panels

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Connected vehicles: autonomous driving progress a clear highlight

Roborace unveiled its Robocar at MWCs

Connected Vehicles keynote, with CEO Denis

Sverdlov stating the initiative will push the industry

to improve driverless and autonomous vehicles.

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/roborace-to-give-connected-vehicles-a-boost/

The car is the second largest mobile

device out there says Anthony

Lavendowski, founder of OTTO

Netflix

Netflix CEO Shows Friendly Face to Telcos. "You can

enjoy it and not be worried about data caps. That's

where I think it is going now."

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/mwc17-videos/keynote-4-reed-hastings-ceo-and-founder-netflix/

Global Awards. First Brazilian nominee shortlisted: MUV

Global Mobile Awards. 40 game-changing products, services,

devices, apps and technologies were awarded Glomos

https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/press-releases/gsma-congratulates-winners-2017-global-mobile-awards/

Best Use of Mobile

for Advertising or

Marketing

Shortlist:

MUV for Netshoes

Women for Tech

The programme featured four days of in-depth analysis of the

topics shaping gender diversity in the mobile industry as part

of the Women4Tech Summit

Female attendees was still

relatively small, 23%, but

attendance did see

significant growth. up 14%

on last year conference

Connecting Start Ups

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4FYN 4 Years From Now

https://www.4yfn.com/event/mobile-world-congress-barcelona/

Obrigado!

Valter Wolf

vwolf@gsma.com

+55 11 984019697

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mailto:vwolf@gsma.com

MWC Americashttps://www.mwcamericas.com/

MWC Warp Up (PDF)https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=b3b570e28bbd10d2d128

069bd1ce1a79&download

Links

MWC Highlightshttps://www.mobileworldcongress.com/start-here/2017-event-highlights/

https://www.mwcamericas.com/https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=b3b570e28bbd10d2d128069bd1ce1a79&downloadhttps://www.mobileworldcongress.com/start-here/2017-event-highlights/

MWC17 Reviewhttps://www.mobileworldlive.com/videos/feature-mwc17-review

MWC17 in 360/VRhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJI994sWlyo

Videos

4YFN Highlightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXWngYvJhQM&

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/videos/feature-mwc17-reviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJI994sWlyohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXWngYvJhQM&