Mobile World Congress is the biggest event of the year for smartphone fanatics, and while the next Barcelona shindig isn’t scheduled until February of next year, the organisers have given word of the keynote speakers already – and they include two of Twitter‘s founders, and under different banners. What are they going to say?
The big name speakers at the Mobile World Congress 2011 conference have been announced, and while some of them come as no surprise (Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who spoke at this year’s expo as well, the CEO of US network AT&T and Qualcomm boss Paul Jacobs), we’re surprised to see two Twitter co-founders on the list, and for separate keynotes.
Evan Williams, current CEO of Twitter, will be giving a speech at Mobile World Congress, and so will Jack Dorsey, a Twitter founder and ex-CEO, but the latter will be flying the flag of his new start up Square, which allows for credit card payments on an iPhone.
Twitter has made a big push of late in the mobile space, serving up its own first party apps for Android and iPhone, so it’ll be interesting to see what Williams has to say come February. Will Square have more platforms to announce too?
This year’s Mobile World Congress saw the launch of HTC’s flagship Desire and Legend phones, the Samsung Wave, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 Mini family, BBC’s iPhone apps and much more, so you can expect plenty of juicy phone headlines emerging at next year’s event – you can bet we’ll be bringing you all the news from it once more.
