MWC Doha 2025 Summits | 5G, AI, Fintech & Smart Industries…

Agentic AI Summit

The future of AI is predictive, proactive and autonomous. Agentic AI – intelligent systems that make decisions, learn interactively and act without direct human command – is fundamentally reshaping industries, pioneering new business models and revenue streams.

This summit dives into how agentic AI drives transformation, fuelled by a dynamic ecosystem in which technology innovators and telecommunications providers collaborate. We'll explore industry case studies to showcase autonomous AI in action, from network optimisation to fault finding and fixing, and from new intelligent customer service to new service opportunities accessible by more people.

We'll examine key advancements including telco-specific LLMs, multi-agent systems, and autonomous architectures enhancing productivity. Crucially, as AI gains independence, we’ll address safety, governance and ethics. Experts will discuss balancing automation with human oversight, ensuring alignment with our values.

Join us to navigate the agentic future, unlocking unprecedented agility, innovation, and customer value through new operational paradigms. Essential for leaders and technologists across the tech, telco and enterprise landscape, aiming to lead in the age of intelligent automation.

Read 'Policy to practice: how Qatar is writing the playbook for agentic AI'

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AI Powered Telco Summit

The AI Powered Telco Summit brings together telecom innovators, technologists, and strategists to explore how artificial intelligence is redefining the future of connectivity. As networks grow more complex and customer expectations rise, AI is becoming central to the transformation of telecom operations, services and business models.

Join us as we explore network intelligence, showcasing how AI is enabling predictive maintenance, traffic optimisation and fault prevention to ensure more resilient and cost-efficient networks. The summit will also highlight how AI is revolutionising customer experience – powering real-time personalisation, intelligent virtual agents and predictive service delivery.

In parallel, the rise of network slicing and AI-driven orchestration is opening new monetisation opportunities in 5G and 6G, allowing telcos to deliver tailored services with unprecedented flexibility.

Finally, the summit will tackle the ethical dimensions of deploying agentic AI systems, including transparency, accountability and bias mitigation. As telcos become stewards of increasingly autonomous technologies, responsible AI deployment will be critical to building trust and long-term value.

Read 'Qatar’s AI-powered telecoms: turning networks into knowledge superhighways'

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The AI Economy Summit

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global economy, becoming a catalyst for innovation across every sector, from finance and healthcare to manufacturing and creative industries. In this summit, delegates will explore how businesses are leveraging AI not just to automate, but to unlock new products, services, and economic models. We’ll also share global views of national AI strategies, offering insights into how countries are shaping their AI agendas and translating them into regional policies and investments.

Equally critical is the future of work in an AI-powered economy. Will AI lead to widespread job displacement, or will it create new opportunities that demand human creativity and adaptability? Through thought-provoking panels and expert-led sessions, the summit will address this duality – emphasising the urgent need for upskilling and workforce transformation to equip people with the tools needed to succeed in this new era.

The AI Economy Summit is where strategy meets action, helping governments, industries and individuals to navigate the challenges and opportunities of a future increasingly defined by intelligent systems.

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5G Futures Summit

The 5G Futures Summit will explore the transformative journey from 5G Standalone to 5G-Advanced and the early shaping of 6G, spotlighting how next-generation networks are enabling new levels of intelligence, performance, and industry-specific and consumer-specific innovation.

Through a series of high-impact discussions, real-world showcases and strategic collaborations, the summit will position the Gulf region as a key player in the global telecoms evolution. Attendees will gain actionable insight into the monetisation models, infrastructure readiness and ecosystem development needed to lead in the 5G-A era and prepare for the convergence-driven future of 6G.

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Intelligent Data Centres Summit

The Intelligent Data Centres Summit brings together thought leaders and innovators to explore how data centres are evolving to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world. As enterprises rely more on real-time data, automation and uptime, data centres must become more adaptive, efficient and intelligent. This summit dives into what truly defines an intelligent data centre, covering AI-driven monitoring, predictive maintenance, automation, machine learning and security.

A key focus here will be the intersection of intelligence and sustainability. Our summit will explore how AI optimises energy use, cooling and workload management to reduce environmental impact, and how green technologies are reshaping infrastructure to meet climate and regulatory goals.

Additionally, as infrastructure shifts toward software-defined operations, the introduction of Infrastructure-as-Code is enabling faster, more consistent deployment, calling for a new kind of workforce – a workforce skilled in cloud, automation and energy systems.

Join this summit as we explore how organisations can build a future of more agile, energy-efficient, intelligent data centres.

Read 'Anticipating the challenges: MENA's intelligent data centre solutions'

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Security Summit

Digital transformation and the security imperative

Security is foundational to digital transformation in the mobile industry, underscored by the need for trust. This session highlights how advanced security frameworks and innovative solutions safeguard networks, while establishing trust as the cornerstone of customer confidence and business success.

Attendees will gain insights into key industry initiatives and advancements designed to mitigate security risks and foster customer confidence. The session explores how leading organisations are implementing security-first approaches that enable rather than constrain innovation, ensuring networks remain resilient and transformative in a fast-evolving digital ecosystem.

Featuring perspectives from industry experts, this session provides actionable strategies to align security with innovation, delivering practical frameworks for building robust security architectures that support sustainable digital growth and competitive advantage.

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Fintech & Commerce Summit

Powering mobile first commerce:

Our summit will explore the current and future fintech landscape, especially across the MENA region. By 2027, Gartner predicts that over 50% of the global population will be daily active users of superapps, driven by the demand for seamless, mobile-first digital experience. Telecommunications groups have rapidly scaled robust solutions, achieving strong valuations – from digital wallets revolutionising commerce and payments that are now accounting for 50% of global e-commerce expenditure ($3.1 trillion) to managing the customer journey and experience with critical and complex customer engagement strategies. Key areas including device financing and payment journeys have driven conversion rates and helped to mitigate fraud risks. New revenue opportunities such as Insurtech present a $2.5 trillion embedded insurance opportunity, while subscription bundling opens new revenue streams.

The power of AI has unlocked the next wave of innovation with telcos and tech companies jumping to leverage its capabilities. Juniper Research forecasts that retail expenditure via conversational commerce will grow to $43 billion by 2028, up from $11.4 billion in 2023. AI-powered chatbots, live chat and RCS messaging, combined with next-best-action decisioning, will enhance user experiences, deepen personalisation, and increase conversion rates and Net Promoter Scores (NPS). The Creator Economy is projected to grow to $480 billion by 2027, driven by approximately 50 million individual creators.

We are witnessing significant advancements in financial services and commerce, propelled by mobile innovations and their expansive opportunities.

Smart Mobility Summit

AI and Connectivity: The Pulse of Autonomy

When you arrived at Doha’s Hamad International Airport, you might have spotted some innovations in action: autonomous staff buses and baggage tractors equipped with AI and smart sensors. The autonomous future isn’t far off; in fact, it’s happening right here.

The MEA region is projected to be the world’s fastest-growing market for autonomous driving systems, with a CAGR of 7.8% from 2023 to 2028. Meanwhile, the Advanced Air Mobility market, valued at USD 467.2 million in 2023, is set to reach around USD 2.1 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 25.5%. Combined with an impressive deployment of 5G, which is expected to reach 95% of the population across GCC states by 2030, the region is building a high-performance infrastructure that lays a foundation for innovative smart mobility solutions.

The Gulf region is rapidly advancing intelligent transport and autonomous vehicles, with Dubai targeting 25% autonomous trips by 2030 and Abu Dhabi by 2040. At the same time, the UAE is leading the low-altitude economy, set to launch its first BVLOS commercial drone operations in 2024 and mapping air corridors for air taxis expected by 2026. With robust infrastructure, bold investments and a strong openness for innovation, the region is accelerating the development and adoption of autonomous mobility. Strategic global partnerships with leaders like Baidu, Pony.ai, WeRide, Joby Aviation, Archer and Skyports are helping to make the Gulf a launchpad for next-gen mobility.

Don’t miss this debut session on the future of Smart Mobility in the EMEA and how it’s helping to realise the smart city vision – from autonomous cars to drones and eVTOLs. Discover the pivotal role mobile operators can play, and hear directly from industry experts as they share real-world cases, business models and insights shaping this fast-moving sector.

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IoT Summit

The Internet of Things (IoT) market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is experiencing significant growth, with projections indicating a substantial increase in connections and market value. By 2025, the region is expected to have over 500 million IoT connections. With new and evolving connectivity choices in the Internet of Things, this summit will help to demystify the choices that customers and CSPs face in making IoT Solutions as simple as possible so that IoT becomes mainstream in the customers’ products and operations. We will explore how RedCap in IoT is emerging in some markets and the benefits and features it will provide, and how NTN Operators are scaling up commercial operations and partnering with Mobile Network Operators to provide extensive coverage capabilities to meet customer needs. Governments in the MENA region are actively promoting IoT adoption to address challenges like water scarcity and improve infrastructure. We will look at case studies and solutions that other new technologies will bring e.g. Ambient IoT, making it easier for customers’ needs in security, geography and connectivity in IoT.

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Open Gateway Summit

Taking network API innovation to the next level

In Qatar this autumn, the GSMA will showcase the continuous innovation and collaboration in network API. Our global conference summit will welcome speakers from around the world, sharing their successes, use cases and insights. We will offer Open Gateway signatories the opportunity to showcase their latest innovations in the Open Gateway Zone innovation area. Our industry round tables are designed to provide actionable insights into key vertical industries and drive cross-industry collaborations. Finally

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Satellite & NTN Summit

Momentum in the telco-satellite convergence story is shifting. And, with that momentum, new opportunities are opening up for companies across the industry.

We've moved from pilots to commercial launches. Some of those launches have already happened. Most will come online in 2025 and in the next two to three years. This reflects growing ecosystem maturity and pragmatism among operators who recognise the value of satellite in bridging coverage gaps while targeting new (potentially higher) revenue streams.

Besides Starlink, AST, OneWeb/Eutelsat, Amazon’s Kuiper and the Apple/Globalstar constellation, a raft of existing and new satellite competitors promises an increasingly vibrant market dynamic, particularly for direct-to-device service offers. The promise of direct-to-device services, in turn, has driven the handset and chipset sectors to integrate NTN compatibility into their designs – presenting an order of magnitude increase in the addressable customer base for satellite-enabled services. Ultimately, this equates to a satellite-enabled market targeting 500-600m people who are out of coverage (7% of global population), a further 300m who are on the edge of coverage, and 2-3 billion IoT devices.

Telcos and their partners in the GCC and Middle East are no different, with the region home to ten D2D or other mobile satellite partnerships with operators, as of June 2025. The connectivity extension targets new subscribers, better coverage for existing ones, seamless roaming, and service availability for IoT devices owned by businesses operating in hard-to-reach areas or those that carry transient assets, such as logistics and precision agriculture using drones.

Join us in this new Satellite and NTN Summit as we explore:

The top strategic priorities and emerging potential of satellite networks to revolutionise global connectivity via integration with mobile networks (4G and 5G)
Revenue and go-to-market strategies across consumer and B2B/IoT segments
The impact of using satellite for emergency and disaster response situations
Technological advances at the satellite, chipset and device level, and the impact of 3GPP release 19
Changing competitive landscape among satellite providers and emerging influences over the next 3-5 years
Trade-offs between different spectrum and regulatory approaches

Blogs

Forging 5G links in the Arabian Gulf

Ooredoo Group has established itself as a global 5G leader since 2018. Its Qatar home base ranks among the world’s fastest connectivity markets and delivers average speeds above 400Mbps.
The evolution of 5G: the Gulf’s path to an ultra-connected future

The GCC is making a name for itself in the advanced connectivity futurescape, with more than 75 cities in Saudi Arabia served by 5G.