Open Telco AI: Building Africa’s Human Net-Work

MWC Barcelona 2026 marks a historic milestone for digital sovereignty: the official showcase of the GSMA African LLM Project building towards MWC Kigali later in 2026. This session celebrates the transition from vision to reality with live PoC demonstrations of the Pan-African, Swahili, Zulu, and Xhosa/Bantu models. By releasing critical datasets for low-resource languages and debuting the African Reasoning and Challenge, Trust & Safety benchmarks, we are defining a new standard for inclusive AI. 

Join GSMA leadership, G6 country executives, and pioneering innovators - Amini, Awarri, DataSpires, and ToumAI—as they showcase real-world solutions that bridge the linguistic digital divide. Designed for strategy and policy leaders, this event prioritizes high-level networking and collaborative dialogue, providing a first look at the infrastructure that will power the next generation of African digital services. 

Key Activities: 

• The Big Reveal: Official launch of the Pan-African and Regional LLMs. 

• Live PoC Showcases: Hands-on demos of localized AI solutions by project partners. 

• Data & Benchmark Release: Unveiling of 4 low-resource language datasets and safety frameworks. 

• Executive Dialogue: High-level networking between G6 policy-makers and tech leaders. 

• Future Roadmap: Strategy briefing on scaling African AI across the continent.