Join us at MWC 2023

MWC is all about connection and bringing together the people and businesses who shape our world. McKinsey is proud to be part of this event, and will be hosting numerous roundtables, discussions, and opportunities for networking throughout the week.

The opportunities for growth in the technology and telecom sector are full of promise but success will not be easily won. The winners will be those who take bold steps now to ensure resilience in an unpredictable market.

Find us in Hall 4 at stand 4D30

Schedule of Events

Monday, February 27

11:00-11:45 CET and 11:55-12:40 CET

Workshop: Value creation in the metaverse

Co-hosted by McKinsey Partners Ferry Grijpink and Shivam Srivastava, and Omar Téllez, vice president of partnerships at Niantic

13:00-14:00 CET

Roundtable: Securing Europe’s competitiveness, MGI

Co-hosted by McKinsey Senior Partner Kim Baroudy and McKinsey Partner Jan Mischke

14:15-15:00 CET

Roundtable: Delayering—a powerful concept to unleash operator growth

Cohosted by McKinsey Senior Partner Tarek Elmasry, McKinsey Associate Partner Mandisa Mazibuko, and Jens Schulte-Bockum, COO at MTN Group

16:00-17:30 CET

Roundtable: Resilient Growth

Co-hosted by McKinsey Partners Bhargs Srivathsan and Javier Gil Gomez

19:00-21:00 CET

Networking reception

Co-hosted by McKinsey & Company and Russell Reynolds Associates

Tuesday, February 28

10:00-11:00 CET

Women’s networking brunch

Cohosted by McKinsey Partner Marion Soula and Serpil Timuray, CEO of the Europe cluster at Vodafone

11:30-12:30 CET

Workshop: Building smarter networks, faster and cheaper

Hosted by McKinsey Partner Alexandre Mercier-Dalphond

13:00-14:00 CET

Workshop: Ecosystems economy

Hosted by McKinsey Senior Partner Venkat Atluri

15:00-16:30 CET

Roundtable: Accelerating the edge market: What’s needed in 2023

Hosted by McKinsey Partners Bhargs Srivathsan and Ferry Grijpink, and McKinsey Expert Associate Partner Tiago Silveira

16:00-18:00 CET

Accelerating Telco Growth Reception: Thinking like a “ServCo”: How telcos can drive growth

Cohosted by McKinsey Partners Benedict Vanderspar, Joao Leonardo, Jacopo Ghidoni, Associate Partner Thomas Joseph, and Jim Ryan, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Liberty Global

Wednesday, March 1

10:00-11:30 CET

Roundtable: Cracking the code on tech talent in telco

Cohosted by McKinsey Partner Andrea Pedroni, Associate Partner Steph Madner, and Nicola “Nicki” Palmer, chief technology ambassador at Verizon

12:00-13:00 CET

Workshop: Global flows: Are we heading toward a deglobalized world?

Hosted by McKinsey Global Institute Partner Jeongmin Seong

13:30-15:00 CET

Workshop: Personalization at scale

Cohosted by McKinsey Senior Partner Davide Schiavotto, McKinsey Partner Emir Zildzovic, McKinsey Expert Associate Partner Stanislav Kucherenko, McKinsey Associate Partner Dominika Kampa, and Asaf Somekh, founder and CEO at Iguazio

15:30-16:30 CET