2018 Edition

by Alicia Asín, CEO of Libelium The potential for innovation and growth that IoT brings to any sector and, in particular, to smart cities is undeniable. We are experiencing the transition into a new era connecting the physical world to the digital world. our vision of an intelligent world, with sensor-…

by Ingrid Silver, Partner Reed Smith and GTWN Regional President, Europe Having worked closely with the telecoms sector for over two decades, I have witnessed the steady, yet quite remarkable, transformation which the industry has undergone. From an industry which primarily supplied fixed telephony voice services has emerged a fantastically diverse…

by Dr Gabriele Suder, Professor and International Trade Consultant European companies often nd the thought of doing business in Asia at once both stimulating and challenging, given its multi-faceted nature. With the increasing emphasis on regionalisation of trade and international investment, and the increasing number of bilateral free trade agreements in…

by Alison Kay, Global Vice Chair of Industry, EY In ve years’ time, we might travel to the office in driverless cars, let our fridges order groceries for us and have robots in the classroom. Yet, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report 2017, it will take another…

Gema Esteban Garrido, Digital Strategy and Analyst relations Director, Telefonica Human beings tend always to look back to the past when we want to see what’s coming in the future. As we get older, we may also become more set in our ways, less flexible and resistant to change. We…

by Carla Cico, Member of the Board, Allegion “Digitalization is changing the way we do things”, or alternatively, “IoT is changing our daily life”: these are the most common statements that we read and/or hear on a daily basis. At the World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos, Alibaba founder and Executive…

        by Finnoula Taylor, MSc Graduate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex and Janice Hughes, Founder and CEO of Redshift Strategy According to one hedge fund manager the machines will have taken over within a hundred years. The human race as we know it today will…

by Maria Pia Rossignaud, Director Media Duemila, Italy So, what are the main challenges of today? I believe they can be summarised as:   Global and regional conflicts, such as terrorism and the threat of nuclear war Environmental and economic impacts of human habitation such as global warming and marine pollution…

Elisabeth Slapio, Director Innovation and Environment Section of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Germany After studying to become a full-time lawyer and working at the University of Cologne, Elisabeth worked as a lawyer in various law firms. In the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, she is currently…

by Vicki MacLeod, Secretary-General, GTWN Facial recognition technology is being deployed in an ever- expanding number of applications around the world – from passport screening at airports, to surveillance of employees in workplaces, to the police and court system, and even in behavioural research. But should we embrace this technology as…

by Keri Gilder, EMEA VP&GM, Ciena When I attend a conference, or read an article about digital transformation, the conversations are dominated by topics such as intelligent network automation, autonomous networks, big data analytics, software defined networking, virtualisation, faster service time to market, self- service portals, on-demand capabilities, and the…

Welcome to the 2018 Edition of The Mobile Century In this edition, published to coincide with our annual Welcome Reception during Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, we seek and explore many “solutions for a complex world”. Each essay examines a different aspect of the challenges that face mankind –…

The Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN) marked its 25th Anniversary at a special gala dinner on Monday 27 February (View the celebration photos here). Present at the gala event were many of the senior executive members of the GTWN Board who have contributed so much over the past decades to…