Technology has captivated industries for years, dictating how we connect, live, and move. The 19th edition of the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit will spotlight new ideas, interesting breakthroughs, and the infinite potential of the telecom and ICT sector, guided by our new slogan: Tech Intelligence Beyond Mobility.
With our new slogan, ‘Tech Intelligence Beyond Mobility,’ we’re acknowledging a new chapter in telecom and ICT. It reflects that we’re ready for intelligent, adaptive networks that connect so much more than mobile phones and transportation. As usual, we’ll gather the industry’s most influential C-suite leaders to explore this in more detail. – Toni Eid, Founder, Telecom Review Group.
For 18 years, leaders from across the ICT sector have convened to share their thought leadership. Throughout its tenure, the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit has taken a ‘Global. Regional. Digital’ approach to analyzing transformation in the telecom arena, recognizing that, in today’s capricious landscape, ‘It’s All About SMART Networking.’ This year, while we will continue to cater to global and regional digital transformation and cultivate connections from cables to conversations, we’re zeroing in on a new paradigm, one that extends beyond traditional physical intelligence and mobility to include the ambient movement of people, data, and systems.
Where Technology and Vision Collide
In 2025, 5.6 billion people will be online, 5G will power 2.5 billion connections, and immersive technology will see the greatest innovation.
Having witnessed patterns that predict, systems that scale, and solutions that cater to the future, Telecom Review is a firm believer that technology isn’t just built; it evolves.
Unpacking the Intelligence Behind Tomorrow’s Networks
Across every industry, technology is sensing, learning, and adapting, so much so that intelligence is no longer solely human as industries are leveraging artificial, data, network, edge, quantum, agentic, and generative intelligence to accelerate. For Telecom Review, intelligence is on the brink of becoming “organically adaptive”. It will be able to learn faster, deeper, and more intuitively than ever before.
Artificial intelligence (AI) spending is projected to grow at a 29% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2028 and 27% of jobs in advanced economies are expected to be enhanced by AI as focus sharpens on emerging domains such as agentic AI, hybrid intelligence, explainable AI, quantum intelligence, and multi-modal AI.
Mobility and Beyond
Over the years, Telecom Review has watched the mobility industry transition from simply getting us from ‘A’ to ‘B’ to becoming a connected vessel for the intelligent flow of ideas, systems, and automation. For example, we now wake to AI-curated alarms with our health stats already synced, we scroll through the morning news digitally, and our gym workouts are recorded on neat wearable devices. Even our cars, coffee, and calls now operate autonomously, navigating our lives in real time.
Mobile technologies and services now contribute 5.8% to the global gross domestic product (GDP), while the rise of connected vehicles (set to comprise 95% of new vehicle sales by 2030) and a projected USD 500-billion mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) market (by 2030) signal a ripe digital mobility economy.
Intelligence is extending far beyond mobility, shaping a broader digital ecosystem powered by AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and next-gen connectivity.
