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MWC 2024: Hype vs. Reality

by David Krebs,

March 2024

While you wouldn’t have guessed it making your way through the packed aisles among 100K+ attendees, there was a sobering undercurrent at MWC 2024 with monetization challenges of recent mega themes a common refrain. One that VDC has been paying close attention to has been private wireless networks which have yet to fulfill early hype. Among the issues that continue to hold back adoption and investment is the continued lag in the device ecosystem – especially for industrial applications.

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Mitch Solomon

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Mitch has spent years supporting senior leaders of operational and industrial technology companies as well as private equity investors that participate in the space.  He is an active member of the Technology and Innovation Council at Graham Partners, a leading industrial technology focused private equity firm, and serves on the advisory boards of OptConnect (a top IoT connectivity provider) and DecisionPoint (a rapidly growing operational technology systems integrator).  Mitch has worked closely with a wide range of industrial technology clients on a diverse array of growth opportunities and challenges including applications of AI, c-suite recruiting, strategic planning, new market identification and entry, product strategy, competitive positioning, revenue retention, value proposition identification and messaging, sales strategy and execution, and board presentations. Mitch holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.