Highlights Mobile World Congress 2019

MWC19 it's a wrap! The theme this year was ''Intelligent Connectivity'' with a strong focus on 5G, AI, IoT and Virtual Reality.

Some highlights of MWC19 / Mobile World Congress 2019 are:

Meeting some amazing social entrepreneurs from Egypt (Raye7: enabling carpooling in Middle East by Samira Negm) to Africa (Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, Kenya, Zambia) who are using technology to make a positive social impact. Africa is not only rocking in Black Panther in Wakanda, but in real life it's rocking even more!!! Check these social entrepreneurs out via Africa Startup Initiative by Telecel: Oncopadi.com connecting cancer patients with cancer specialists and resources by Omolola Salako;C2I empowering farmers and boosting Africa agriculture sector by Venceslas Kanontin & Ange Klika; ZUMI empowering female entrepreneurs in Africa; S-tiMbi committing to sustainable development with least environmental impact.

The keynote by Mariéme Jamme, founder of iamtheCODE, was also an amazing session and honoured to have met her in person. She is a true champion, role model, inspiring woman, advocate in empowering girls/women in technology and an excellent speaker!! The Women4Tech Summit is definitely a highlight too, great speakers and this time there was more diversity in terms of cultures.

Another highlight was the GLOMO Awards, and the GSMA Women4Tech Equality Tour where I learned more about the diversity programs of tech multinationals and what they are actually doing to have more diversity and inclusion in terms of gender, background, cultures and ethnicities. My top 5 of these companies and very recommendable are: Google , HP, PwC, Red Hat and SAP. Happy to have interacted in person with these companies for future partnerships.