GSMA @ India Mobile Congress 2025
Start: Wednesday 8 October 2025 09:00
End: Friday 10 October 2025 17:00
Venue: Yashobhoomi Convention Centre
Location: New Delhi
Our programme at IMC 2025 brings together telecom operators, cloud providers, startups, regulators, and global digital economy stakeholders. This year, IMC is hosted at the Yashobhoomi Convention Centre and the theme, “Innovate to Transform”, underscores the critical role of innovation in driving large-scale digital transformation across industries.
We have curated a set of sessions exploring how India’s mobile infrastructure can serve as both the backbone and catalyst for sustainable innovation and security.
Key themes:
- Operationalising privacy and trust in a hyperconnected ecosystem
- Scam resilience through multi-stakeholder collective action
The GSMA Pavilion, situated in Hall 1, Booth D, includes several technical demonstration pods from major tech companies including IPification and Skylo, a meeting room, and a coffee lounge.
- Skylo: Satellite SMS & SOS: Reliable messaging anywhere
Showcasing their D2D satellite and IoT solutions through satellite-powered SMS and SOS messaging, ensuring seamless communication even in areas with no cellular coverage.
- IPification: A network-based authentication solution for frictionless user experience on mobile and IoT devices.
Demonstrating cutting-edge security and telecom network asset solutions beyond SMS, Header Enrichment and USSD to deliver a seamless, adaptive digital identity protection solution.
The GSMA Asia Pacific Programme at IMC 2025 brings together government leaders, telecom operators, cloud providers, startups, regulators, and global digital economy stakeholders to co-develop the building blocks of a trusted and intelligent mobile ecosystem for India. Spanning network APIs, AI governance, edge intelligence, digital fraud prevention, and DPI enablement, this curated set of sessions explores how India’s mobile infrastructure can serve as both the backbone and catalyst for sustainable innovation and security.
Across the two thematic half-days we deep-dive into:
- Programmable networks and Open APIs as platforms for innovation
- Edge-AI convergence and India’s emerging AI infra stack
- Operationalising privacy and trust in a hyperconnected ecosystem
- Scam resilience through multi-stakeholder collective action
Apart from the GSMA APAC programme, GSMA Leaders will have the following speaking engagement at IMC:
GSMA Speakers at IMC
8 October, Day-1
- 1500-1700 – Industry Keynote
- Location: Nalanda
- Speaker: Vivek Badrinath, Director General, GSMA
- 1600-1700 – Is 5G Fueling the Enterprise Shift? (Part B)
- Location: Pushpagiri
- Speaker: Julian Gorman, Head of Asia Pacific, GSMA
9 October, Day-2
- 1000-1100 – Charting India’s Telecom Vision: A Leadership Dialogue ROUND TABLE with Hon’ble MoC and Industry CEOs
- Location: Vallabhi
- Speaker: Vivek Badrinath, Director General, GSMA
- 1000-1100 – Women in Tech – Diverse Minds, Disruptive Ideas (Part A)
- Location: Nagavi
- Speaker: Jeanette Whyte, Head of Public Policy, APAC, GSMA
- 1400-1500 – The API-Powered Economy – Scaling Innovation through Open and Interoperable Networks
- Location: Odantapuri
- Moderator: Debashish Chakraborty, Senior Director – Advocacy and Industry Engagement, GSMA
- 1615-1640 – Keynote(International Bharat6G Symposium)
- Location: Pushpagiri
- Speaker: Vivek Badrinath, Director General, GSMA
10 October, Day-3
- 1000-1100 – Spectrum Pricing and Financing Models: Navigating the Present, Shaping the Future
- Location: Session Hall (Near Brahmakamal)
- Speaker: Ross Bateson, Special Advisor, GSMA
- 1000-1100 – Combating Scams at Scale – Collective Action for Digital Trust
- Location: Vikramshila
- Speaker: Jeanette Whyte, Head of Public Policy, APAC, GSMA
- 1100-1300 – Connecting the Unconnected: Exploring the Complementarity of Satellite & Terrestrial Networks
- Location: Session Hall (Near Brahmakamal)
- Speaker: John Giusti, Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA and President of the GSMA Foundation, GSMA
- 1700-1800 – Analyst session
- Location: Odantapuri
- Speaker: Peter Jarich, Head of GSMA Intelligence
- Speaker: Radhika Gupta, Head of Data Acquisition, GSMA Intelligence
Open Gateway Hackathon
In collaboration with IMC, Nokia, Airtel, Jio, and Vodafone Idea, we are hosting the first Open Gateway Hackathon in India at IMC. This event aims to engage India’s vibrant developer community, encouraging collaboration with mobile network operators to leverage network APIs and solve real-world business problems.
The hackathon invites developers, startups, and innovators to build API-powered solutions that address challenges across India’s diverse landscape. With themes including Financial Inclusion, Healthcare Access, Agritech, Education, and Open Innovation, the competition will showcase the transformative potential of network intelligence. Over 1,500 participants have registered, and the top applicants will compete in an in-person hackathon in New Delhi on October 9-10, with a prize pool of INR 900,000.
There are five themes for the competition and these will help competitors channel their ideas into areas recognised as important for India:
- Financial Inclusion & Fraud Prevention
- Healthcare Access & Emergency Services
- Agritech & Rural Connectivity
- Education & Digital Inclusion
- Open Innovation
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