The GSMA announced the first confirmed speakers for the second Mobile World Congress Americas on September 12-14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Keynote speakers

Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and chairman of GSMA

Meredith Attwell Baker, president and CEO of CTIA

Mats Granryd, director general of GSMA

Richard Plepler, chairman and CEO of HBO

Rajeev Suri, president and CEO of Nokia

Tim Baxter, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics North America

Marcelo Claure, CEO of Sprint and chairman of CTIA

Other speakers

Edith Yeung, partner at 500 Startups

Andre Fuetsch, chief technology officer of AT&T

Sangeeta Chakraborty, chief customer officer of Ayasdi

Alex Manea, chief security officer of Blackberry

Derek Peterson, CTO of Boingo Wireless

Fred Santarpia, chief digital officer of Conde Nast

Gunjan Bhow, SVP and GM of Digital at Disney

Erik Ekudden, group CTO at Ericsson

Michelle Klein, senior marketing director at Facebook

Terry Hickey, global leader, Cognitive & Analytics at IBM

Jonathan Perelman, head of Digital Ventures at ICM Partners

Caroline Chan, VP, Network Platforms Group

George Mathew, CEO of Kespry

SC Moatti, founder of Mighty Capital

John Saw, CTO of Sprint

Neville Ray, CTO of T-Mobile

Molly Battin, corporate marketing officer of Turner

John Curbishley, SVP, Distribution Strategy and Operations at Viacom

Amy Karr, co-founder and CEO of Ventus Advisors