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Nov 9, 2026
Joe HickeyHOST
I saw that at
Ian BundeyGUEST
Mobile World Congress a number of years ago.
Ian BundeyGUEST
It was one that folded on the outside, and it was...
Joe HickeyHOST
It was pretty terrible, but...
LuisGUEST
I'm coming actually from the terrestrial side, ex-Nokia.
LuisGUEST
And I recall 2023 during Mobile World Congress that I convinced the marketing guys to put a satellite mock-up hanging from the ceiling in the Nokia booth.
LuisGUEST
And that attracted so many people.
LuisGUEST
I would say that most of the companies that were present on Mobile World Congress came to see us.
LuisGUEST
At the end of the day, probably nobody believed me on that time.
LuisGUEST
But I'm glad to say that three years later, a lot of things have evolved.
Sam LuceroGUEST
And so that is in fundamental ways, very similar to other technologies markets like IOT that I spent, I'd say the majority of my time in 15 years in total.
Sam LuceroGUEST
So that is really interesting to observe and gives me a, a sort of gut feel almost um for the technology development you know what when i started one of the first iot research programs um in 2005 and quantum technology feels to me now, like the IoT did in 2007, you know, right before it was really starting to take off in 2008, 2009, you know, by 2009, it was, you know, big telecom companies at Mobile World Congress suddenly had it, you know, front and center on their main show floor booths, right? Whereas, you know, 2005, 2006, you know, at Mobile World Congress, it was a tiny little, you know, section to itself off in the corner of a hall somewhere in the distance and just little stand-up booths.
Sam LuceroGUEST
So it's interesting kind of seeing the parallels in how... and how things feel.
Sam LuceroGUEST
So I think that kind of ties back into this being a really good time to really start a solo practice, a new practice in quantum technology.
Sam PasupalakGUEST
And we set up a research lab in Montreal, which was very strategic back in the day.
Sam PasupalakGUEST
We worked with Professor Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton, as I said, before for for our research lab and we had so many demos coming out for example i mentioned to you the harry potter demo that came out in public and then we had some benchmarks where we were beating google and and and and facebook in the cnn cbt data set for example so there's a lot of momentum going on and then so yeah i got set we actually had a demo set up in Mobile World Congress is how this whole Microsoft acquisition started.
Sam PasupalakGUEST
So Mobile World Congress is this, I guess, conference happening in Barcelona every year.
Sam PasupalakGUEST
So if someone wants me to visit Barcelona, I say, no, I can't because I've been there every year from 2011 to 2017.
Sam PasupalakGUEST
I've been
Danny That GuyHOST
This is not the first time MTN has explored the idea of building AI tools in local languages.
Danny That GuyHOST
Back in March at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mupita again described that the language push was something that they were doing as a collective effort by African operators.
Danny That GuyHOST
Now, it is true that the foundation models built in the US and China have some understanding and access to African languages.
Danny That GuyHOST
But will we see any models that are fully trained in local languages? We'll have to wait and see, but it looks like MTN is pushing for it.
Ed McLaughlinGUEST
And then across them, you continue to see this evolution where payments go from something which was relatively discrete, a plastic card to access a line of credit, to just an integrated way we can help express our wealth, live our lives around that.
Ed McLaughlinGUEST
I was remembering when we first went to Mobile World Congress, when we were trying to figure out how to enable mobile payments.
Ed McLaughlinGUEST
And we had one of those vision videos you show, and it was, you called it the running woman, where someone out for a jog could just tap a wearable and get a bottle of water.
Ed McLaughlinGUEST
And that was this unbelievable frictionless future, which is now pretty much every day for people.
speaker_0HOST
The vendors recognize that IT and OT can no longer operate in silos.
speaker_1HOST
The sources highlight the collaboration unveiled at Mobile World Congress between Siemens and Palo Alto Networks.
speaker_1HOST
This is the collision of a massive industrial automation legacy with top tier IT cybersecurity.
speaker_1HOST
How are they actually integrating this?
Network ChuckHOST
I mean, people, there are APs out there already that support AX.
Network ChuckHOST
And at Mobile World Congress, we had a few devices announced that will now support AX.
Network ChuckHOST
the new Samsung phones, I think LG, they will have AX support.
Network ChuckHOST
So we're seeing some devices come to market with it.
Network ChuckHOST
Network engineering or IT, just enterprise IT people like us.
Network ChuckHOST
So What is new in the past week? Well, there was Mobile World Congress.
Network ChuckHOST
I always struggle saying that.
Network ChuckHOST
A big conference with some mobile news and tech coming out.
Jacques Le MancqGUEST
So I believe it's very important to attend these large events and also these smaller events.
Jacques Le MancqGUEST
I also believe that Mobile World Congress is growing.
Jacques Le MancqGUEST
It's like the CES of Europe or something like this.
Jacques Le MancqGUEST
It used to be like...
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