Colleagues and Friends gathered from around the world to welcome Vivek Badinrath at his first Mobile World Congress since becoming the GSMA CEO as he was introduced by GTWN President Asia Pacific, Myla Villanueva, and to hear his Keynote Speech at the GTWN Welcome Reception about the state of the Mobile Communications Industry, the landscape of which has never been so vibrant and varied, be it AI, D2D, Satellite, and Quantum. GTWN International Board Members with GSMA CEO Vivek Badinrath Vivek Badinrath, GSMA CEO While much of his speech focused on the positive, Badinrath also noted the increase of the Mobile Gender Gap with one notable exception - Pakistan where our GTWN International Board Member, Sarah Faisal has been doing exceptional work as highlighted in our Mobile Century magazine. As has been so often the case in our 34 year history the GTWN has identified and many times shaped future trends way ahead of their happening, we were very proud to have a presentation by Natalie Antoshchuk from Trackimo on “Leel“, a sim connectivity and a software service to protect children online, one of the hottest topics of our times. Natalie Antoshchuk, CMO, Leel Next up, GTWN President America, Michele Merrell introduced Mario Aguirre, EVP of our Gold Sponsor, TM Cell.  From his speech, it was clear that TM Cell lives their motto “Telecommunications for People” every day and it was truly heart-warming in this day and age of Bots and AI to hear [...]

Join us to celebrate Candace Johnson, Entrepreneur, Founder and Investor: SES, LoralTeleport Europe, Europe Online, ILS, GTWN, VATM, OWNSAT-Kacific, and Iridium founding team. Currently Chair Seraphim Space Advisory Board and Partner, Board Member Vusion Group, NorthStar Earth & Space, Singapore Space Think Tank Council Member, Saudi Space Agency Advisory Council Member, and Vice-Chair Institut EuropIA. Previous recipients of the Arthur C. Clarke Innovator Award include among others Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Julie Packard and Esther Dyson. Candace will be celebrated on this special evening along with Lifetime Achievement 2025 awardee, Dr. Emmanuel Charpentier, winner of the Nobel prize for herdevelopment of CRISPR, and the 2025 awardee for Imagination in Service to Society, Charlie Jane Anders, science fiction and fantasy writer for adults and youth and winner of two Hugo’s, a Nebula, and a Lambda award. To experience the interactive, Unleash Imagination event including: 5:00 Cocktail Reception | 6:00 Dinner | 7:15 Awards Program | Dessert, Autographs/Photos, please contact: HollyARussell11@gmail.com and visit www.clarkefoundation.org for more information or to check out the 2024 event.

It was a special pleasure to welcome Mats Granryd, GSMA CEO and GSMA Board Member on 03 March 2025 when the GTWN bestowed our  Lifetime Achievement Award for only the third time in our 33-year  history on him. Colleagues from around the world joined us in celebrating Mats achievements at his 10th Mobile World Congress and on the eve of his departure as GSMA CEO and Board Member in a festive and joyous ambiance at the MOCO Museum, one of the iconic Barcelona city center buildings.     Be it Open Gateway; be it as the first global professional organization to commit to the UN SDG's; be it cultivating a Culture of People across the entire ecosystem; Mats Granryd has led our industry into a new era with integrity and credibility.  Indeed, during the 9 years under his leadership, the GSMA was transformed into a caring, open, platform to bring about the human aspect of our great industry. We were delighted to welcome Sunil Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises; Anna Borg, President and CEO of Vattenfall, and Maria Eugenia Gay, deputy mayor of Barcelona replacing Mayor Calboni pulled away at the last moment,  to give the laudations for Mats, highlighting various aspects of his long and glorious career.  We were also particularly pleased to have Mats family with us. The GTWN International Board was in full force to present Mats with the Lifetime Achievement Award trophy.  We were also pleased to present our new members [...]

Tuesday 21 January 2025:  The Global Telecom Women's Network is pleased to announce a new era of communications with the launch of its podcast series, GTWN Now, on Tuesday, 21 January 2025. The first series of the GTWN Now will be on "Digital Humanism", a multidisciplinary field that examines the impact of technology on society and humans, and how to design technology to support human rights and democracy. It's based on the idea that humans are responsible for their actions and thinking, and that technology can be shaped to support human values." Each episode explores the latest technologies connecting humanity– and we invite founders, philosophers, scientists and ecosystem players to share the impact their visions have here on earth and far, far beyond. All interviews are conducted by the GTWN International Board Members who have for the last 33 years brought thought leadership and positive change to the world, https://www.gtwn.org/. GTWN will premiere a new episode every Tuesday beginning today 21 January on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Youtube. Join the conversation! Spotify Apple Youtube Youtube Music GTWN Now is Sponsored by CMS.

It is with special joy that the GTWN will bestow the GTWN Lifetime Achievement Award to Mats Granryd, CEO and Board Member GSMA on Monday 03 March 2025 at our traditional Welcome Cocktail, taking place at the iconic MOCO Museum, Barcelona. Be it Open Gateway; be it as the first global professional organization to commit to the UN SDG's; be it cultivating a Culture of People across the entire ecosystem; Mats Granryd has led our industry into a new era with integrity and credibility. We are delighted to welcome Vusion Group – a world leader in sustainable, human-centered commerce technology, and TMCell – powering mobile telecommunications in Latin America and the Caribbean, as our gold sponsors for this year. The GTWN will continue its tradition of holding its Welcome Cocktail in an iconic Barcelona building, this year none other than the Moco Museum in  El Born, Barcelona.  It is in the historic Palau Cervelló-Giudice, formerly the private residence of the noble Cervelló family until the 18th century. The building incorporates parts of a previous construction from the 15th century, evidenced by the interior courtyard, arched staircase with columns, capitals, and Renaissance-type mouldings. Furthermore, Palau Cervelló displays an impressive Gothic facade entryway. **As always, we will be publishing GTWN's flagship publication, The Mobile Century at the event.  This year's theme is "Digital Humanism" and will include a commemorative section dedicated to Mats Granryd. Invitation Only Event.  For more information, please contact Marge.Salem@gtwn.org

On 22nd September, GTWN President Europe and EIC Scaling Club Council member, Victoria Hernandez, along with GTWN Global President Candace Johnson, hosted an evening gathering in Athens to celebrate the EIC Scaling Club. This flagship, EC-funded program plays a vital role in supporting Europe’s most promising innovators in scaling their businesses, helping them to address major global challenges. We also took the opportunity to announce the Global Telecom Women Network (GTWN) theme for the upcoming year: Digital Humanism. This theme is a paramount subject aligned with Europe’s vision for a democratic society founded on human values and is closely tied to the EU’s Digital Decade initiative (https://lnkd.in/d74XV43k). Victoria was joined by EISMEA executives, EIC Scaling Club mentors Letitia Latino, Laureen Cook, Candace Johnson, and Carla Cico (not pictured), together with EIC Council members and other mentors. The event was graciously hosted by Maria Hala, Greek Angel Investor and entrepreneur, at her beautiful home in Athens. About EISMEA: The European Innovation Council and Executive Agency for SMEs (EISMEA) manages the European Innovation Council (EIC) and other EU programs supporting SMEs, innovation ecosystems, the single market, and consumer policy. With a €10.1 billion budget under Horizon Europe, the EIC supports breakthrough innovations from research to scaling up start-ups and SMEs.. About The EIC Scaling Club: The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth. #GTWN [...]

GTWN Co-Founders Ambassador Diana Dougan, (also the initiator of our GTWN “Bring a Mentee” program to our events), Laureen Cook, and Candace Johnson joined with other GTWN International Board Members, Sallye Clark and Dora Petranyi to welcome Her Excellency Ambassador Nicole Bintner from Luxembourg, home to SES, the world’s largest satellite system and Women Space  Executives and mentees attending the Satellite 2024 conference in Washington D.C. at the world-famous Cosmos Club, an intellectual social club boasting 36 Nobel Prize Winners. The group, which gathered around a wonderful dinner to take stock of the latest geopolitical and technology trends affecting the Space and TMT industry, all the while sharing their many times ground-breaking initiatives in bringing positive generative AI to schools, Frequency Regulation, New Space satellite manufacturing, Space Situational Awareness, Call identity to stop unwanted phone calls, satellite frequency management, included: Ambassador Diana Dougan:  **  Diana Lady Dougan has served in senior policy and management positions for more than three decades, including appointments to Senate-confirmed positions by both Republican and Democratic presidents. Profile:  https://www.csis.org/people/diana-lady-dougan H.E. Ambassador Nicole Bintner Currently Ambassador of Luxembourg to the United States and previously Ambassador to Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, Special Envoy for the Sahel, United Arab Emirates, DCM to Bangkok and China. LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-bintner/ Candace Johnson:  ** LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/candace-johnson-2966054a/?originalSubdomain=fr Dora Petranyi:  ** Dóra is a partner and CEE Managing Director at CMS and Co-Head of the Technology, Media and Communications Group (TMC). She also heads the TMC, Data Protection and Intellectual property (IP) practices, and [...]

26 February 2024, Golden Hall, Casa Llotja, Barcelona:  The GTWN celebrated our 2024 theme Digital Generation and our ongoing commitment to Digital Inclusion for All at a stellar reception during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The event brought together veteran TMT executives together with mentees and up and coming leaders from around the world.

27 February 2023: At its traditional Welcome Cocktail on the opening evening of Mobile Congress, the GTWN honored three industry pioneers and issued a Call to Action for Digital Inclusion for All in the iconic and elegant Golden Hall of the medieval Casa Llotja in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. GTWN International Board (L-R) Dora Petranyi, Bridget Cosgrave, Keri Gilder, Janice Hughes, Michele Merrell, Victoria Hernandez, Candace Johnson, Viviane Reding, Lucy Lombardi, Jessie McLeman, Myla Villanueva, Isabelle Paradis, Sallye Clark, Leticia Latino, Ana Tavares- Lattibeaudiere and Laureen Cook   GTWN Welcome Cocktail 2023 guests   GTWN President Keri Gilder paid tribute to the father of the cellular phone, Martin Cooper, (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Cooper) for not only for having developed the cellular phone and made the first call from a cell phone 50 years ago, but also to him and his wife, Arlene Harris for having continued to enable the acceptance of the cell phone by adding services and features to make it be one of the biggest factors in bringing about social and economic wellbeing to citizens around the world. Martin Cooper It was particularly fitting and poignant for the GTWN to launch its Call to Action for Digital Inclusion for All, (https://www.gtwn.org/gtwn-call-to-action-to-ensure-digital-inclusion-for-all/ ) together with the GSMA in the presence of its CEO and Board Member, Mats Granryd and Claire Sibthorpe, who is Head of Digital Inclusion in the Mobile for Development (M4D) team at GSMA. Mats Granryd Claire Sibthorpe   The GTWN then called Dr. Mike Short[1]to the podium to be honored [...]

GTWN has launched a Call to Action to all stakeholders to work to close the digital gap and ensure meaningful digital connectivity for all, especially women. After years of progress towards women’s equal digital inclusion, we are now seeing a slowdown and, in some countries, a reversal.  Women are now 16% less likely than men to use mobile Internet across low and middle income countries, which equates to 264 million fewer women than men using mobile Internet. Significant and coordinated efforts are urgently needed to reduce the gender gap and ensure that women can participate fully in a more digitised society. Download a copy