For the 8th consecutive year, UBIFRANCE will be organizing the French Pavilion at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s leading event in mobile Telecom equipments, services and content from February 24th to 27th, 2014. This year, India will be one of the few guest countries on the French Pavilion based on the strong interest of French technology companies to cooperate further with Indian Telecom players.
100 companies, 2 competitivity clusters and 5 regional agencies as well as the “Invest in France” agency will participate under the umbrella of the French Pavilion, the largest stall of the MWC tradeshow. The Regions represented will be Brittany, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées and Provence, which host several industry clusters. The competitivity clusters from the digital industry which will be present at the MWC 20104 through the French Pavilion also include “Systematic Paris Région” and “Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées”.
MWC 2014 will focus on the following domains: mobile Apps, Telecom infrastructure, mobile Marketing and advertisement, mobile games and accessories as well as engineering and financial services.
Come meet the French companies at Hall 5 (booths 5B41 / 5B61 /5B71) and, for the first time in 2014, at Hall 8.1 (booth 8.1D41) where the new dedicated area “App planet” will be showcased.
The “App planet” Pavilion will bring together 15 French innovative companies dedicated to new mobile apps such as Adxperience, Altheia, Appsfire, Aquafadas, Axway, Capptain, Profil Technology, Goodbarber, Madgic, Smartadserver, Summview, Twinlife, Xtraball and Rezopep.
Alongside MWC 2014, the French companies will have the opportunity to meet key international Telecom players (Telefonica, Vodafone Spain, Singtel, Samsung…), as well as Indian ones, through B2B meetings organized by UBIFRANCE and its French Trade Commissions.
A glance at the new French technologies to be showcased at the MWC 2014:
Appsfire: detecting new mobile Apps and providing a platform for the promotion and launching of iOS and Android thanks to innovative tools.
- G2J and its MyEasyVision® application: videoconferencing accessible to any employee in a company. A unique platform for real-time booking, supervision and reporting. Compatible with all manufacturers, web browsers and mobiles terminals #Android #iOS.
- Pixeliris showcasing CopSonic, the first patented application for worldwide mobile payments, compatible with any mobile in the market. Forget about NFC, RFID or Bluetooth… CopSonic is the future of secure “hands-free” payment systems. Using sound waves as a means to exchange secure consumer data, this system is able to turn any telephone into a payment device, whether it is an old Nokia 3310 or the latest iPhone.
- Twinlife, launching Twinsee: the first mobile App for free video call service based on WebRTC to call contacts, friends or family from a tablet, a smartphone, an Android TV or a Chrome browser (Firefox soon) on PC and Mac (without any plug-in). Twinsee works in peer-to-peer on Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G/LTE.
- Wysips: revolutionizing mobile charge with an integrated solar cell into the mobile’s screen to prevent running out of battery.
- Xooloo, developing Xooloo™: a parental control tool to allow children to safely surf the Net on any smartphone or tablet.