MWCapital at MWC Barcelona 2022

Session language: Spanish

Presentation of 5G Gaming Arena project aimed to demonstrate 5G capacities when applied to e-sports and e-games sector. Two demonstrations will be performed, first one, the 5G Wild Rift Cup, focused on multiplayer online gaming, and the second one, Dirt5 Time Trials Challenge, focused on cloud gaming to show the possibilities of this technology.
Project partners: Mediapro, Telefónica y Mobile World Capital Barcelona.
In collaboration with: Riot Games, Microsoft, SIRT, Samsung, INDESCAT, Cambra de Comerç i Ajuntament de Lleida Speakers:
Eduard Martin, director of Intelligent Connectivity at Mobile World Capital

Session language: Spanish Digital Future Society organizes a debate to talk about the evolution of fake news in the digital era with the European Comission and the main organizations that work to detect and stop misinformation: Newtral, Efe verifica and Verificat. During the session the two pilot projects of Tech Against Disinformation will be announced.
Speakers:
Cristina Colom, Digital Future Society Director
Manuel Szapiro, Delegation Representative, European Comission
Desiree Garcia, Director at Efe verifica
Lorenzo Marini, Codirector at Verificat
Ruben Minguez, CTO at Newtral
Alejandro Martin, Assistant Professor at the Computing Systems Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Nikos Sarris, Researcher, CERTH

Session language: Catalan
This session will be focused on "Àrees 5G" project communication strategy. 5G Areas deployment is an initiative driven by Generalitat de Catalunya, included in Catalonian 5G Strategy with the support of i2CAT Foundation and Mobile World Capital Barcelona. 5G Areas strategy aims to create territorial spaces in which different initiatives arround 5G technology will be added. Besides, four companies that are participating in the project will share their experience: Biel Glasses, Aigües de Catalunya, Pira Technologies and Ebredron.
Speakers:
Dani Marco, General Director of Innovation and Digital Economy at Generalitat de Catalunya
Xavier Flores, Catalonian 5G Strategy - Digital Policies Secretary at Generalitat de Catalunya
Rosa Paradell, Innovation Business Development Director at i2Cat
Sergi Sarri, Head of Digital Connectivity at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Jaume Puig, Co-founder and CEO at Biel Glasses
Raul Rojas, CEO at PIRA Technology
Hadar Ayxandri, Business Development at Ebredrone
Victor Gonzalez, Meter responsible and remote reading at Aigües de Catalunya

Session language: English

The session will focus on undertanding Quantum Communications, Quantum Computing and Quatum Internet. What are the principles of the Quantum Technology and its evolution. We will talk about the European position and the main assets we have. How the commercial services will be? And the demand agents?
Speakers:

Josep M. Martorell, Associate Director at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Lluís Torner, General Manager at ICFO
Valerio Pruneri, European Quantum Technologies Flagship CIVIQ Project Leader at ICFO
Vanesa Diaz, Business Development Director at LuxQuanta Quantum Crytography

Moderator
Oscar Pallarols, Global Commercial Director at Cellnex Telecom

Session language: English
Video and slides presentation of iryo with a conversation between the speakers and iryo collaborators about the future of connectivity in reilway industry.
Speakers:
Oscar Santamaria, marketing director at iryo
John Torsten, SPV EMEA at Icomera
Antonio Ghelardini, telecomunications manager at Trenitalia
Alessandro Valentino, Signalling systems and Comunications at Trenitalia

Session language: Spanish
Conectados 5G offers a global vision of the main topics approached at MWC22 with first-level experts on technology and 5G connectivity.
The session will approach the situation after COVID-19 pandemic with a debate space about 5G deployment in Spain, Europe and other countries like USA or China, the private and industrial 5G, the role of 5G in aviation, the 26GHz or new ways of access. Besides, a conversational space will be open to talk about current issues like consumer 5G, metaverse, the future of technology and 6G. Other topics like supply chain, industrial policies, OpenRAN or the current situation about chips will be adressed by the speakers.
Speakers:
Eduard Martin, Intelligent Connectivity at Mobile World Capital
Federico Ruiz, Observatorio Nacional del 5G Manager
Moderator:
Pilar Bernat, journalist and moderador of Conectados 5G

Session language: Spanish
Do you know what is Low-Code? It is a technological concept established more than a decade ago but now it has gained protagonism due to digitalization acceleration. In this session we will show the main indicators of our latest report "Análisis del Low-Code: nuevo paradigma en el desarrollo de software" driven by Mobile World Capital and NTT Data in Barcelona Digital Talent initiative framework. We will know the actual impact and the future of this tecnology and how it can solve the lack of digital talent. Besides, we will count with Agbar, Wolters Kluwer and CaixaBank participation, which will explain how they are implementating this technology in their organizations.
Speakers:
Jordi Arrufí, Director of the Digital Talent Programme at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Silvia Sousa, Digital transformation and technology partner at NTT Data
Ion Arbelaiz, Intelligent Automatization COE Manager at Agbar
David Almendros, Artificial Intelligence Director at CaixaBank
Moderator:
Jordi Arrufí, Director of the Digital Talent Programme at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Session language: English

Future multi-stakeholder communication networks place unprecedented demands on wireless connectivity’s most valuable and scarce resource, the radio spectrum. It also introduces further complexity in the connectivity value chain with the role of intermediaries who, along with traditional network operators, repackage and customise connectivity to the needs of particular economic and industrial sectors or verticals.
In the pursuit of an optimal balancing act between spectrum efficiency and effective use, collaboration in research and development projects which explore innovative and dynamic spectrum solutions, including those enabled by artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies is necessary.
This Tech Talk will briefly explore developments where the use of innovative technologies facilitate access to spectrum, and in some cases, such as in the 5GZORRO project, enable a marketplace where 5G-related resources, including spectrum, can be traded securely amongst diverse stakeholders, based on market-driven business models to meet dynamic supply and demand.
Speakers: Andrea Michelozzi, President at Comunicare Digitale Association
Antoine Sciberras, Chief Officer for Spectrum Management and Technology at Malta Communications Authority
Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Research Area Director at i2CAT (5GZORRO Project Coordinator)
Esther Garrido, Business Development in 5G/B5G/6G EU projects at ATOS
Raymond Forbes, Vice-chair at ETSI PDL
Josè Antonio Aranda, Product Strategy and Innovation Director at Cellnex
Shahar Steiff, Global Business Owner at Horizon-3 -PCCW

Session language: English

Cellnex, with a presence in 12 countries and a portfolio of more than 130,000 sites, presents its potential as an integral infrastructure operator through the model it has called Augmented TowerCo with the aim of accompanying its clients in the development, deployment, operation and maintenance of all those infrastructures and assets adjacent to the towers -including active equipment- that can be mutualized based on a neutral host model. Among these adjacent assets, the distributed antenna systems (DAS) and the Small Cells stand out, key to the densification of the network; fiber to the tower (FTTT) to expand data transmission capacity or edge data centers and edge computing (computing at the edge of the network), key to ensuring low latencies (response time) necessary for applications and critical processes. Apart from expanding the management of the passive infrastructure, in the case of the towers, with the active equipment for voice and data transmission - radio equipment and antennas.
Speakers:
Antoni Liria, Global Marketing &Sales Director at Cellnex
Mirko Masi, Global Technology & Customer Solutions Principal at Cellnex

Session language: English
In this session our speakers will talk about success stories in different areas such as: Identification of knee instabilities in injured patients through mobile technologies, bio-recicling of metals in electronic circuits and a platform for the visualization and characterization of vascular cerebral patterns.
Speakers: Gil Serrancolí, professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Toni Dorado, professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Andrea Barroso, student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Session language: Spanish
Our speakers will talk about the new technologies aimed to offer better services to customers and more information to tourism managers. In this session we will talk about Tourism 4.0 and the role of artificial intelligence on it, big data, aumented reality, geolocation tools and systems linked to the Internet of Things.
Speakers:
Enrique Martínez Marín, President at Segitur
Pere Fuset i Tortosa, Digital Agenda and Electronic Administration Counselor at Valencia City Hall
Francisco Huidobro, Digital Services Director at Orange Spain
Daniel Rocafort, CEO at Visyon-Mediapro
Moderator:
Eduard Martín, CIO and Intelligent Connectivity Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Session language: Catalan/Spanish

Press conference to present the agreement between this parts to develop pilot projects in Vall d'Aran.
Speakers
Carlos Grau, CEO at Mobile World Capital
Jordi Hereu, president at Hispasat
Maria Vergés, Syndic at Conselh Generau d'Aran
Eisharc Jaquet, CEO at Arantec
David Ferrer, Digital Policies Secretary at Generalitat de Catalunya
TBC, City Hall TBC, Secretary of State

Session language: Spanish

This session will address one of the lines of work of HAZ, Allianza por la Educación: digitization, exploring the possibilities of high connectivity and, specifically, 5G in the classroom with the vision of experts in digital services and the also the educational community. Haz, Alianza por la Educación, emerged at the end of 2020 with the aim of transforming education by contributing to highlighting the importance of developing a cutting-edge educational model in Spain.
Speakers:
Carlos Grau, CEO at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Tomeu Sabater, Head of Digital Services at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Jordi Arrufí, Director de Barcelona Digital Talent at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Pilar Bahamonde, Principal at CEIP Gumersindo Azcárate
José María González, Teacher at CEIP Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Moderator:
Elisabeth López Sánchez, journalist

Session language: English
This panel hosted by the Mobile World Capital and EDT Partners will introduce novel research around the future of higher education. We will reveal the layered taxonomy of the university of the future. RMIT, Salesforce and Launch My Career will introduce their perspectives of both existing traditional institutions and non-traditional HED stakeholders from employability, technology, and career-focused organizations.
Speakers:
Jordi Arrufi, Digital Talent Program Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Pablo Langa, Founder & CEO at EDT Partners
Chris Jeffries, CEO & Founder at Launch My Career
Julio Villalobos, EMEA CXO Strategic Industry Advisor for Education at Salesforce
Caroline Mol, Director Strategic Partnerships Europe, LATAM and Asia at EdX
Marta Fernández, Executive Director at RMIT Europe
Sandra Rodríguez, Education Project Officer at UNESCO

Session Language: English
Everybody talks about the exponential growth of technology. However, how much of that is applicable to bring value to our lives now? How much is just in the early stages hoping to add value in the future? During the session, we will discuss this with companies embracing these new technologies and involved in cutting-edge research like Bayer, i2cat Foundation, or Cloudblue. Furthermore, we will explore how their professionals are bringing projects to reality.
Speakers:
Jordi Arrufí, Digital Talent Program Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Pierre Francis, Global Head Source2Pay Center of Expertise at Bayer Service Center Barcelona
Eunice Ribeiro, Director European Comission Research & Innovation Strategies at i2Cat Foundation
Marc Serrat, Director Development Engineering at CloudBlue
Marie Masselot, Group Product Manager at Ocado Technology Barcelona
Modera: Jordi Arrufí, Digital Talent Program Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Session language: Spanish
It is said that data is so important that is considered the "new oil" of the digital sector. But, how are being used? Are they contributing their real value to companies and clients? In this session we will talk with Experis (Manpower Group), DKV and Pepsico representatives about the projects that they are leading from Data Science and Analytics areas of their companies and also, we will know about the importance of digital talent related to data ecosystem for the companies now and in the future,
Speakers:
Jordi Arrufí, Director of the Digital Talent Programme at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Alfonso Bris, Talent Management Manager at Experis
Aurelio García, Lead Data Science at DKV
Guillermo Nebot, Principal Data Scientist at Pepsico
Moderator
Jordi Arrufí, Director of the Digital Talent Programme at Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Idioma de la sesión: Español

The speakers will explain and talk about international news about quantum computing.
Ponentes:
Alfonso Rubio-Manzanares, President at barcelonaqbit-bqb
Vicente Martín Ayuso, Quantum information research group Director at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM
Ulises Arranz, Quantum technologies consultant
Pilar Belinchon, Technical Executive at IBM Spain

Session language: Spanish

We identify situations of vulnerability due to the digital gap. The drastic reduction of face to face attention offices and city services digitalization (social, health, banking, water, energy, gas...) isolate those citizens affected by the digital gap. This affects specially old people who live alone and have an extreme difficulty to learn about how to use new technologies. This tool objective is to identify and dimension the areas with digital gap in order to design actions andr proposals to solve this situation.
Speakers:
Raúl Broto, Deputy Mayor at Mollet del Vallès City Hall
Oriol Bossa, First Deputy Mayor at Sant Feliu del Llobregat City Hall
David Gutiérrez, First Deputy Mayor at Premià de Mar City Hall
Pilar Rodriguez, Management Deputy at Associació Benestar i Desenvolupament
Moderator:
Albert Isern, Founder and CEO at Momentum Analytics

Session language: Catalan/Spanish

Press conference to present the winning project of the "Hack The Planet" hackathon.
Speakers:
Carlos Grau, CEO at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Josep Santacreu, CEO at Grupo DKV

Session language: Catalan/Spanish

Press conference to present a project in Idiada circuit
Speakers:
Abel Carbonell, Head of Electronics at Applus+IDIADA
Eduard Martín, CIO and Intelligent Connectivity at Mobile World Capital
Sergi Figuerola, CTIO at i2CAT
Victor Vera, Territorial Companies Director in Catalonia at Orange
Iván Rejon, Head of Marketing, Communications and GIR at ERICSSON

Session language: Catalan/Spanish

Speakers:
Francina Alsina, President of Taula del Tercer Sector
Carlos Grau, CEO at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Sonia Fuertes, Social Action Commissioner at Barcelona City Hall
Josep Vidal, General Director of Social Economy, Third Sector and Cooperatives at Generalitat de Catalunya
Alfonso Lara, Executive Director at European Social Network
Jordi Arrufí, Digital Talent Program Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Anandamaya Arnó, Full-stack developer at Free Now
Ana María Martínez, Mayor of Rubí, Rubí City Hall
Barbara Mitats, Recovery and formation programs manager at Salut Mental Catalunya
Vicenç Mateo, Coresearcher and member of the executive board at Salut Mental de Catalunya
Lluís Torrens, Planification and Innovation Director of Social Rights Area at Barcelona City Hall
Josep Rodríguez i Montserrat, Director of the Educativa Terrassa Foundation at Educativa Terrassa
Frank del Águila Espejo, Founder at Delaguila

Session language: Spanish

Presentation of the "Invulnerables Digital" project, which aims to promote inclusion in the digital sector promoted by Mobile World Capital Barcelona, ​​​​Fundación del Convento de Santa Clara, La Caixa Foundation, Huawei and Migracode.
Speakers:
Jordi Arrufí, Digital Talent Program Director at Mobile World Capital Barcelona
Sor Lucia Caram, Convento de Santa Clara