Enabling Choice: Openness and Interoperability in Digital Ecosystems

As the mobile economy evolves, enabling consumer choice remains at the heart of a competitive and innovative ecosystem. This panel will explore how greater choice, transparency, and interoperability can reshape mobile ecosystems to better serve users. Speakers include:

- Erik Kay, Vice President of Engineering, Google

- Nicholas Porter, Vice President of MX Product Strategy and Commercial Europe, Samsung

- Ian Brown, Independent researcher and visiting Professor, FGV Rio de Janeiro

Discussions will address key issues such as device interoperability, lock-in practices, and the critical role of regulatory and industry initiatives in fostering openness. Additionally, the panel will highlight how openness drives innovation, leveraging new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) to redefine the user experience. Attendees will gain insights into how interoperable ecosystems are shaping the next generation of connected devices.

Together, these elements will paint a vision of a future where global competition, openness, and user empowerment intersect to define the mobile economy.