As every year, Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital) transforms its Mobile World Congress stand in Hall 6 of the Gran Via Fairgrounds into an immersive experience showcasing several disruptive projects. This year, the major hits They revolve around health and agriculture.

Tim Berners-Lee is one of the men who has changed the world. Born in London in 1955, he is a computer engineer and also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known worldwide as the creator of the World Wide Web (www), the revolution that allowed communication between a client and a server for the first time and, in doing so, changed the history of the internet. In a conference at the Talent Arena at the Montjuïc Fair, the space for digital talent promoted by MWCapital alongside Mobile World Congress, Berners-Lee criticized the massive use of addictive algorithms on social media and argued that some countries should ban social networks or phones in response.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) opened its twentieth edition this Monday at the Gran Via Fairgrounds, in a context marked by international tensions, after Israel and the United States attacked Iran early Saturday morning, killing its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. It was inevitable that the event, which expects to host more than 110,000 attendees over its four days, would be affected by these events, given its status as an international meeting point, as has already happened with other international conflicts it has coincided with, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine just four years ago.

The traditional pre-Mobile dinner, with King Felipe VI and the country's main political and business personalities, was held this Sunday evening at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) to kick off the most important technology and connectivity congress, the Mobile World Congress (MWC). This year, the congress celebrates its twentieth edition in Barcelona, from this Monday until Thursday, March 5th. Long gone are the meetings where the news was the (non-)greeting between the Catalan government and the monarchy; now the talk is of international geopolitics.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is coming of age in Barcelona. This year's edition, which begins tomorrow, Monday, March 2nd, and runs until midday on Thursday, will be the twentieth edition of the Mobile World Congress in the Catalan capital; two decades of a congress that began as the mecca of mobile phones and has ended up becoming the global showcase for advances in connectivity and new technologies. Under the theme "The IQ era," the event will revolve around the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology, the future of the space economy, and the horizon of 6G, among many other topics related to the so-called deep techDeep technologies.

A little more than usual, but the GSMA, the telecommunications trade association in charge of organizing the Mobile World Congress (MWC), has explained the first details of what the 2026 technology congress will be like, which will be held between March 2 and 5 at the Fira de Barcelona. The IQ EraAn event that will focus primarily on advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the ethics surrounding this technology, as well as robotics, connectivity, and the quantum industry.