Hello, everyone.
Derek Johnson with tatango.com.
If you're like me, you are excited for Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona.
It's a little more than a week away.
So, I wanna to do a quick video to tell you whether you're at home or coming to the conference,
where the Tatango team will be and what we will be doing at Mobile World Congress so
maybe you can find us or you can at least follow us online, or on YouTube, LinkedIn,
Facebook, Twitter, all the majors.
So, let's talk about our schedule.
So, we arrive, the Tatango team, on Saturday.
This will be February 23rd.
Sunday, February 24th, outside of the event space, so the event actually starts on Monday,
officially.
Sunday, there's going to be a GSNA RCS business messaging awareness lab.
This is sponsored by Mavenir.
It's at a hotel, and this is a long day.
This is gonna be from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
And they're gonna have brands like Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Google, even AccuWeather,
and Virgin Trains talking about RCS, giving updates to the industry players about where
RCS stands, deployments, pretty much all the information that we need to know.
So, we're gonna be doing our best to kind of distribute that information out on social
media so that you can kind of get an understanding of where RCS currently sits.
RCS is gonna be a big, big topic for the people in mobile messaging at Mobile World Congress.
Now, we're also gonna cover all the cool phones, hopefully I see a folding phone, the car technology
wearables, but majority of our coverage is always on messaging.
So, that is Sunday, February 24th.
Then we jump into Monday.
And let me say something.
We actually, this year, have a sponsor for all of our video content, and that is Interop.
So, great sponsor.
They're gonna be sponsoring all the video content that you see, so definitely thank
them on the social, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter for sponsoring this great content.
So, Monday, we will be on the floor of the trade show.
Now, there are a ton of halls and the halls are kinda stacked, essentially.
And there's about eight different halls.
So, this is a massive trade show.
I don't even know if I'd call it a trade show.
It's an event.
So, we will be, most of the time, hanging out in two different places.
The first place is Hall 8.
Hall 8, is actually two halls.
It's like one floor and then another.
So, we'll be hanging out on the top floor.
This is where most of the messaging companies are located, their exhibits and their trade
show booths.
So, we'll be up there doing a bunch of interviews with the executives.
We'll also be looking at demos.
So, that's where most of the time you can find us.
We'll also be in the hall, that is Hall 4, because that is the GSMA innovation city.
So, that's like a big monster kind of display and there's gonna be a ton of people there,
can't disclose exactly who it is yet, but we're gonna be filming demos from some of
the hottest brands and how they're using RCS messaging.
If you've seen any of our YouTube videos, you'll get an idea of kind of what is going
to be in that innovation city as we filmed before in the innovation city.
That's also where some of the carriers are too.
So, we'll be hanging out in Hall 4 by the innovation city, and then in 8.1, Hall 8.1,
which 0.1 is actually the second floor.
The first floor is just Hall 8.
So, that gives you an idea of kind of where we'll be.
Now, we're gonna be walking the trade show.
Hopefully, we'll do some live YouTube streaming for you so you can kind of see what's going
on.
We're doing a ton of interviews, ton of demos.
If, for some reason, we haven't reached out to you and you are presenting anything RCS
messaging, or if you just wanna talk about mobile messaging and the state of mobile messaging
and you'll be in Barcelona, let us know.
Reach out to us, LinkedIn, YouTube, you know, all the different channels.
So, that is Monday.
Now, Monday at 3:00 to 5:00, there's actually another presentation.
This one is actually in the exhibit kind of space, unlike Sundays, which was often in
an hotel location.
This one is actually in the exhibit space.
This one is sponsored, again, by Interop.
They're sponsoring our videos and they're sponsoring this kind of seminar.
Now, this one's gonna be really interesting because it's gonna get non-industry people,
not like specifically messaging people, but like all the people, you know, that are going
to this, you know, huge event can go to this event and learn about RCS messaging.
Really interesting because the CEO of Tenor is gonna be there, and they're gonna be presenting
on gifs and visual expression in mobile communication.
So, you know, that means like, you know, the emojis and the gifs and which you can't really
do with SMS, but RCS is going to allow a lot of that stuff.
So, brands are gonna be really interested in how that translates to new modes of communication.
Then there's gonna be a panel, which should be super interesting.
I saw that Virgin Trains is gonna be on that panel.
They always have really cool information.
So, that's really interesting.
I know Interop is also talking up there.
So we can't film there, but we'll try to do our best to catch some of the people maybe
after to recap what happened and I'll be recapping on social media as well.
So, that's Monday.
Most likely, we'll need a really big sleep on Monday night because Sunday, Monday is
jam-packed.
Then Tuesday and Wednesday, we are gonna be on the floor 8.1 hall and 4 hall, that's where
we'll primarily be hanging out.
We already have a ton of video interviews scheduled, ton of demos scheduled.
If, again, you know, we haven't contacted you, please reach out to us and let us know.
We'd love to book you and schedule you in.
But that's kind of what we're gonna be up to, and then Wednesday, again, on the trade
show and then Thursday we fly out.
So, it's gonna be a really quick time, but we're gonna have a solid three days on the
floor filming content.
So, hopefully, you guys at home or if you just wanna stay in your hotel in Barcelona,
you don't wanna go down to the trade show, you can get an idea of what's going on, and
the state of mobile messaging, and where RCS is going.
So, again, my name is Derek with tatango.com.
I will be in Barcelona starting February 23rd to the Thursday, and then we're out.
And hopefully, you guys love the videos.
Again, thank Interop Technologies.
They're sponsoring all the videos, and the GSMA, obviously, for putting on this awesome
event.
Again, see you everyone in Mobile Congress 2019 in Barcelona.