Mark Smith

Mark Smith has spent more than 30 years in the Media, Entertainment & Telecommunications sectors globally, focused on industry-level technology evolution, innovation & collaboration programmes and international scale events. He was Marketing & Communications Director for the GSMA, the industry organisation for  global mobile network operators and owners of the Mobile World Congress trade show and global sister events, where he led communications through the evolution of mobile communications from 2G through to 5G. Over the last decade, he has focused on the intersection between the communications, technology and media & entertainment sectors, working with world leading media brands.  His deep technology marketing experience has helped him launch, develop and lead the acclaimed IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, which brings together pioneering media companies and leading-edge technology partners to collaborate on solutions that address real-world business and disruptive technology challenges to drive industry moving advances. Additionally, he had been a Non-Exec Director on Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for England and a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of the Henley Festival.