1st assessment of national participation in Barcelona MWC is positive
Awaiting the accounting data, according to the first estimates, the Greek participation, with a national stand, was one of the most successful in recent years with a very large number of visitors expressing their interest in the upgraded presence of our country.
The country's 11th consecutive participation in the top exhibition in Barcelona was also characterized by the high-ranking presence of government officials, local authorities, chambers of commerce and organizations. In particular, the opening of the Greek pavilion was attended by, among others, Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance, Konstantinos Kyranakis, Deputy Minister of Digital Governance, the Regional Governor of Attica, Nikos Hardalias, Georgios Pitsilis, AADE Governor, and the Secretary General of Telecommunications and Posts, Konstantinos Karantzalos. Also, Marina Efraimoglou, president of EBEA, Tassos Tzikas, president of TEF - HELEXPO SA and the president of SEKEE Manos Makromallis, Ms.
A common point of their interventions to the domestic and international audience was the progress that has been made in recent years in the digital transformation of the country with the central goal of serving citizens and businesses. As they emphasized, the effort will continue with greater intensity in cooperation with the innovative Greek business.
But at the center of Greek participation this year was the great progress our country has made in its digital transformation in the Public Sector. It is typical that in the framework of the MWC at the stand of the global telecommunications and technology giant Telekon, a discussion was organized on the example of digital transformation of the public sector in Greece with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Constantinos Kyranakis, Dominique Leroy, member of the Board of Directors of Telekom, responsible for Europe and Grigoris Christopoulos, Chief Commercial Officer Business Segment of OTE Group. Ms. Leroy spoke about the impressive progress of the country, which is an example in Europe and made a special reference to the services of gov.gr, but also to the digital assistant mAIgov, which is based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Deputy Minister made a special reference to the further strengthening of the country's image to the international community, noting that achievements in the field of digital transition, such as the initiatives of IDIKA in Health, were shown at the Telekom booth, which is visited by thousands of professionals and executives from all over the world . He also stated that another important step will be taken to further reduce the time it takes to register properties in the Land Registry, announcing the use of Artificial Intelligence for the legal control of contracts.
The national participation was co-organized by the Hellenic Investment and Foreign Trade Company (Enterprise Greece), in collaboration with the Association of Innovative Applications Enterprises of Greece (SEKEE) and the Ministry of Digital Governance. The national mission had the support and active participation of entities such as the Region of Attica and the Regional Development Fund, Eurobank and EGG, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center "ARCHIMEDES", the National Register of Young Businesses "Elevate Greece", the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA) and the Athens Business Incubator (THEA), HELEXPO BEYOND , NBG Seeds of the National Bank, EKEFE Dimokritos, the European Innovation Hub for Digital Governance GR digiGOV-innoHUB, as well as the investment fund Phaistos 5G Ventures.
The Greek companies that participated in the MWC had the opportunity to explore the possibilities of concluding agreements and partnerships, while the results were also in the field of networking. Intrakom Telekom, Adaptit and Pandas also participated in the MWC with a stand for the 17th year in a row.
Artificial Intelligence in focus
More generally, at this year's MCW exhibition, Artificial Intelligence was at the center of the presence of the total of almost 2,500 exhibitors from every sector of the economy, Health, Tourism, Telecommunications, Culture, Entertainment, etc. International technological giants and not only, such as among others, Huawei with the largest exhibition stand, equivalent to an entire exhibition space of an ordinary exhibition, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Xiaomi, Honor, Ericsson, Cisco, Lenovo, EY, presented all the technological solutions that create the new intelligent interconnected world that is born with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. At the center of the new interconnected smart world, smart phones were once again at the center of the new interconnected smart world, with mobile phone subscribers exceeding 5.5 billion. internationally. With the new technologies that are now integrated, smart mobile phones are evolving into the digital assistant of each user, who can use the device to handle an impressive amount of daily tasks and transactions.
