Artificial intelligence will once again be the main protagonist of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), held from 2 to 5 March in Barcelona, “as a tangible cross‑cutting technology across different productive sectors and with the rise of physical AI, directly connected to the physical world in industrial, urban and domestic settings, among others.”
This is the view of Joan Mas, Scientific Director of Eurecat’s Digital Area, who explains that this year “the global connectivity congress will position artificial intelligence as a key factor for competitiveness, increasingly integrated into decision‑making and orientated towards real impact on outcomes, from design through to day‑to‑day operations.”
In particular, it will highlight artificial intelligence applied to telecommunications networks, which the major operators will use to define reconfigurable network architectures thereby optimising the management and routing of communications traffic, with the aim of improving efficiency, quality of service and resilience. The congress will continue to reinforce the role of 5G and the horizon of 6G in advancing towards more global connectivity.
The potential of quantum technologies will also emerge at this year’s MWC, “with preparation for quantum computing applied to industry standing out as a strategic innovation vector,” adds the Scientific Director of Eurecat’s Digital Area.
At the same time, the hybridisation of quantum technology with artificial intelligence will begin to gain visibility, “technologies that reinforce each other to achieve greater efficiency in both fields,” highlights Lali Soler, Director of Eurecat’s Digital Area.
In terms of business adoption, the MWC will point to technologies such as predictive maintenance, digital twins and agentic AI, “which are moving towards systems capable of assisting and carrying out tasks with greater autonomy within workflows, with applications ranging from operational optimisation to assisting in decision‑making,” notes Joan Mas.
