The India Mobile Congress 2019 (the 3-day event—Oct 14, 15, 16, 2019), the largest digital technology forum in South Asia, jointly organized by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India and COAI concludes with over 75000 visitors from 40 plus countries attending the third edition of South Asia’s biggest telecom, Internet, and technology event.
The inauguration ceremony on first day was attended by more than 3000 people was graced by the presence of Hon’ble Telecom Minister, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, along with Shri Anshu Prakash, Chairman, DCC and Secretary (T) and other national and international delegates including Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General, ITU; Mr. Jim Whitehurst, Global President and CEO, Red Hat, Mr. Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Managing Director and Co-Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises Ltd, Mr. Jay Chen, CEO, Huawei India. Other delegates who attended the three days event includes Mr. Ajit Mohan, CEO, Facebook India, Mr. Rajen Vagadia, VP & President, Qualcomm, Prof. Adrian Park, Professor and Chairman, Depart of Surgery, John Hopkins University; Dr Ganesh Kathiresan, VP, Digital Healthcare, Reliance JIO, Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Health, Mr. Ankit Tripathi, Additional Director, Centre of Health Informatics, Ministry of Health and family Welfare, Mr. Varin Jhaveri, OSD and Lead Innovation Strategy, National Health Authority.
The prestigious event saw 250+ speakers and 300+ exhibitors showcasing cutting edge products and services across 60,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. That apart, 5,000 CXO-level delegates, 150 national and international buyers as well as sellers, made IMC 2019 a vibrant opportunity for business transactions. Make in India and Startup India was also well received by the visitors where 250 statups participated.
Third edition of India Mobile Congress witnessed various live demonstrations of 5G use cases. The exhibition stalls covered a variety of interesting possibilities hinged around 5G, Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Smart City Solutions, Fintech, mhealth, and Cyber Security, amongst others.
To encourage the young talent and innovation, the event also saw the IMC Digital Communications Awards. Nine of the IMC awards were sponsored by ZTE and three IMC & Aegis Graham Bell Awards. Along with that IMC organised Grand Innovation Challenge Awards where winners were felicitated by Shri Anshu Prakash, Telecom Secretary.
At IMC Hon’ble Telecom Minister, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, reiterated the Government’s commitment to create a favourable atmosphere for telecom companies to operate and is well aware of the problems and challenges faced by the industry. The Government has already come out with enabling policies in areas like electronic manufacturing, communications, open source technology and also reforms in domains such as spectrum trading, sharing and harmonisation, assuring the industry of the requisite support.