Event: MWC Doha 2027
Dates: November 15–17, 2027
Location: Doha, Qatar (venue to be confirmed; the 2026 edition was held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center)
Host: GSMA, with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
About the event
MWC Doha is the GSMA’s Middle East and North Africa edition of Mobile World Congress. It started in 2025 and covers mobile networks, connectivity policy, AI, cloud and the digital economy, with a ministerial track that pulls in telecom ministers and regulators from across the region and beyond.
GSMA confirmed the 2027 dates as MWC26 Doha closed on November 10, 2026.
How 2026 went
MWC26 Doha ran November 8 to 10, 2026, under the theme “The IQ Era”. It reported more than 10,000 participants from 100 countries and territories, 195 speakers and about 100 exhibitors, sponsors and partners. Its timing was the story. The show overlapped with the opening days of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, the UN telecom agency’s top policy meeting held every four years, which ran in the same venue from November 9.
That put 36 ministers and 34 heads of national regulators in the same building as operators and vendors. GSMA counted 86 ministerial delegations from 74 countries and 12 intergovernmental bodies, and 42 partnerships and announcements signed on site. Director General Vivek Badrinath and ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin held a joint fireside session.
One number worth watching for 2027: the first edition in 2025 claimed more than 250 exhibitors and sponsors, against about 100 this year. Attendance grew from roughly 9,000 to over 10,000 while the floor got smaller. The 2027 show won’t have a Plenipotentiary next door to fill the halls, so exhibitor count is the figure to check.
Related dates
MWC Barcelona 2027 runs March 1–4, 2027, and registration is open.