MOBILE & CONNECTED WORLD CONFERENCE 2018 «Mobility: From Smart to Intelligent – Accelerate, Facilitate and Invest!»
The 8th Mobile Connected World Conference, held on Wednesday 30 May 2018 at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, was a great success, with the general title “Mobility: from Smart to Intelligent”.
The Mobile Connected World Conference was again attended by executives from the Telecom and IT market, manufacturers of mobile devices, technological equipment and wireless infrastructure, business software development companies, financial institutions, technology investors, web and app developers, members of the academic community and representatives of start-up entrepreneurship.
The conference was opened by Vasiliki Gogou from the office of the President of EETT and Kostas Haniotis, President of SEKEE.
The conference analysed the following four sections:
Session 1: Transforming the User Experience
Session 2: Mobility makes business go ’round
Session 3: Next-Gen Mobile Ecosystem
Session 4: Smart Cities, Intelligent Societies!
Moreover, in the context of the conference, the In*vent ICT programme was presented in a parallel session, which is an initiative of the innovation and entrepreneurship node EPI.noo of EPISY/NTUA and the organization Industry Disruptors Game Changers, designed and implemented with the assistance of the Association of Mobile Telephony Companies, designed to develop start-up entrepreneurship and a new generation of technological development, with the creation of new and sustainable businesses. The presentation was given by the Project Manager of InventICT, Evangelos Siokas, and the parallel session was moderated by Mr. Yannis Kalogirou, Professor of NTUA, and member of the InventICT Scientific Board. Teams graduating from the first cycle of the programme also spoke, and there was a discussion on the role of cooperation between universities and research centres and businesses in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector.
At the same time, a series of thematic workshops presented by specialized speakers and professionals in the field covered specialized aspects of App Development, Mobile Marketing, etc., offering a useful experience to the participants.
As every year, this year’s event was the Mobile & Connected Awards, organized with the help of MyPhone.gr, the largest Greek forum for mobile devices in Greece, and aim to reward the best mobile devices of the year, as well as the best applications, mobile business and IoT implementations.