Telecom industry body GSMA today said Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg and Micromax chairman Sanjay Kapoor will keynote at GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona.
Sanjay Kapoor, who joined Micromax, an Indian smartphone vendor, as the chairman, had earlier worked with Bharti Airtel. This is for the first time that an Indian smartphone vendor is getting the coveted slot to speak to an international audience.
The current list does not have any participation from Indian telecom operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Docomo, etc.
The industry association also announced the latest line up of keynote speakers.
The 2015 GSMA Mobile World Congress will be taking place on 2-5 March 2015 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona.
New keynote speakers include:
Simon Segars, CEO, ARM
Hans Vestberg, president and CEO, Ericsson
Sanjay Kapoor, chairman, Micromax Informatics
Steve Mollenkopf, CEO, Qualcomm
Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP
The following is the list of keynote speakers announced earlier:
Gary Kovacs, CEO, AVG Technologies
Francisco Gonzalez, chairman and CEO, BBVA
Anne Bouverot, director general, GSMA
Raja Teh Maimunah, MD, CEO and COO, Digital and Transactional Banking, Hong Leong Islamic Bank
Ken Hu, deputy chairman and rotating CEO, Huawei
Jeanie Han, CEO, LINE Euro-Americas
Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation
Thiru Arunachalam, founder and CEO, Peel
Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO, Renault-Nissan Alliance
Alvaro del Castillo, founder and CEO, TAPTAP Networks
Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president and CEO, Telenor Group and chairman, GSMA
Davor Sutija, CEO, Thinfilm
Charles Scharf, CEO, Visa
Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
