Analysis: How the Mobile World Congress hopes to reboot conferences post COVID Reuters | May 24, 2021 08:28 PM EDT A worker collects a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swab sample from a woman before a news conference of GSMA's CEO (Photo : REUTERS/Nacho Doce) Next month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is shaping up as an early test of how quickly the global business events industry will bounce back from the pandemic, with a range of hi-tech solutions being rolled out to try to keep visitors safe. The normally annual event - which was cancelled last year - is one of the world's biggest industry conferences, typically attracting around 100,000 attendees as telecoms companies show off their latest products and executives meet to do deals.