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The congress expects to gather up to 60,000 visitors and generate an economic impact of 240 million euros
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The fair returns to the Catalan capital from February 28 to March 3 in an edition focused on connectivity
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) go back to Barcelona with the intention of returning to normality. After the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic forced the 2020 edition to be canceled and the 2021 edition to be limited, the technology fair hopes to bring together up to 60,000 visitors from all over the world in the Catalan capital and in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat on 28 from February to March 3.
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The fifteenth edition of the congress, one of the most important in the world, will focus on the connection 5Gthe development of what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, entrepreneurship and virtual reality. As usual, its headquarters will be the Fira de Barcelona-Gran Via site.
Last year, the impact of the health crisis forced in-person losses of giants in the sector. This year will be different. The organizer of the event, GSMA, explained that the congress will bring together 1,000 speakers and that 95% of them will participate in person. Thus, large technology companies from 150 countries such as Google, Meta, Verizon, Microsoft, IBM, Telefónica, Nokia, ZTE, HP, Huawei or Amazon Web Services will also attend.