MWC 2026

Highlights from Barcelona

Experience what happened inside the Ericsson pavilion, with inspirational discussions and topics that allow you to enter new horizons.

This year, we created a captivating experience in a living, breathing city district, featuring real-world scenarios and inspiring conference programs, exploring how mobile, AI, and cloud technologies reshape connectivity for the benefit of customers, businesses, and society.

Now you can relive the highlights of MWC 2026 by watching our selection of sessions and learning about the key takeaways from Ericsson leaders and experts.

The city district: inside the Ericsson pavilion

Take a trip down memory lane in our city district-inspired pavilion with Cecilia Atterwall, Ericsson’s Head of Marketing. Using real-life scenarios across entertainment venues and traffic management, as well as hospitality, retail, and logistics , we presented a range of monetization opportunities, showcasing how connectivity, AI, network autonomy, next-generation mission-critical solutions, network APIs, and 6G translate into real outcomes that benefit businesses and society.

From megabits to meaningful outcomes

Cecilia Atterwall, Head of Marketing, reflects on MWC 2026 and the clear shift toward monetization through delivering predictable customer outcomes. She explores how AI is reshaping what networks must deliver and why differentiated connectivity and performance‑based offers are gaining ground. Her blog also highlights what communications service providers can do now to turn this shift into sustainable growth.

Read the blog

Every year, we unite top industry voices to share ideas and explore how ecosystem collaboration drives progress and long-term success. Watch our selection of session recordings as Ericsson experts and leading telecom players explore how mobile, cloud, and AI enable businesses and society to move beyond the status quo and pursue new pathways to growth.

How to make 6G a winning proposition

Marie Hogan, Ericsson’s Head of 6G Portfolio Strategy, and representatives from AT&T, Qualcomm, and T-Mobile, explore what 6G may become, the hurdles to overcome, and how the US is positioned to lead its development and adoption by examining how the new technology could redefine industries and society, and outlining key technology advances, infrastructure needs, and near‑term opportunities.

Networks, innovation, and AI: how networks and industry collaboration will support new devices and AI applications

In this session, representatives from Ericsson, BT, Meta, Reliance Jio, and SoftBank discuss how next‑generation AI-enhanced networks strengthen uplink performance, leverage edge computing, and improve real‑time responsiveness. They also touch upon how these capabilities can help monetize AI while future‑proofing infrastructure and delivering seamless AI‑enabled experiences for consumers and industries.

Securing mobile networks: from threats to trust in the digital transformation era

Watch this panel discussion between industry experts from Ericsson, Bharti Airtel, Swisscom, and Telstra as they talk about how AI, cloud, and mobile are reshaping the threat landscape; why critical infrastructure demands robust security and resilience; and what the best practical approaches are to build trust and safeguard mobile networks, outlining lessons and priorities for the road ahead.

How mobile and cloud act as key value enablers to AI-led enterprise transformation

Watch Åsa Tamsons, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions, and our partners from General Robotics, NTT Data, Inc., and United Airlines talk about how AI, 5G, and cloud converge to help enterprises lay the digital foundations for successful AI scaling. Discover the value digital enablers bring and unlock AI’s full potential.

How hybrid connectivity solutions can deliver ubiquitous mission-critical broadband services

Ericsson and major industry players explore how hybrid network architectures enable ubiquitous, real‑time communications for mission‑critical broadband services; outline the operational, financial, and strategic shifts required to adapt; and share lessons learned from building 3GPP-based mission-critical networks that helped them tackle transition challenges.

From telco to techco: expanding into digital financial services

Join industry experts and Pavan Ramkishan Bachwal, Head of Mobile Financial Services at Ericsson, as they examine how communications service providers (CSPs) can evolve their services by enabling the seamless integration of wallets, payments, and embedded finance into telecom apps through network APIs and digital identity. They also reveal how such an upgrade drives differentiation, deepens customer engagement, and unlocks new sources of growth.

Realizing autonomous networks: from talk to accelerating implementations

Join Jenny Lindqvist, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Cloud Software and Services and industry experts on a discussion about the autonomous network landscape; the ways to unlock the full value of network autonomy through AI and intent-led scaling; and how collaboration, industry harmonization, and a fundamental shift in mindset, processes, and ways of working help adopt the new technology.

Mobile broadband reloaded: the transformation to performance-based service offerings

In this session, Cecilia Atterwall, Ericsson’s Head of Marketing, interviews leading CSPs to reveal how they define, scale, and deliver differentiated connectivity to evolve their mobile broadband offerings; the hurdles they face; and how they address these challenges from a customer-value proposition perspective.