Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event. Telenor IoT has been a regular participant for many years, scouting the latest trends and innovations in the world of IoT.
This year, we’re bringing our key learnings and insights directly to you! Whether you missed MWC 2025 or want to recap the week’s most important developments, join our webinar for a deep dive into the top IoT takeaways.
Bengt Nordström is a senior telecommunications executive, providing business and technology leadership across business strategy development, technology and product assessment, and large transformational programs. Based in Stockholm, Bengt is Senior Advisor to Analysys Mason and CEO of Northspring AB.
Bengt co-founded Northstream in 1998, and held the position of CEO for 21 years – in August 2019, Northstream was acquired by Accenture. Bengt has also previously held the position of CTO and Executive Director of Smartone in Hong Kong, as well as other management positions with Ericsson, Comviq and Netcom Consultants. Bengt has also held a position in the Executive Committee of the GSM Association, in addition to chairing the GSM Association Asia Pacific Interest Group.
As Chief Technology Officer, Martin Whitlock leads Telenor Connexion’s global technology team, driving major technology-enabled initiatives as part of the company’s expanding business strategy. Martin has extensive experience from the telecom industry.
Prior to taking on this role, he held the position as Director at Northstream, where he was responsible for strategy assessments, sourcing projects and change management engagements with a broad range of clients.
Martin holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with major in Radio Communications Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
As Chief Legal Officer Luciana Widengren is responsible for legal services to the global organization engaging in negotiations and closing major agreements and partnerships. She also advises on legal and compliance issues consistent with international laws, regulations, and Telenor policies.
Luciana is engaged both in the GSMA global and the European working groups on policy and regulation for IoT. Her dedicated work within these working groups has helped form and drive GSMA’s global position on policy and regulation for IoT.
Anders is a business-oriented technology evangelist and Data Scientist, thriving in IoT digitalisation, cloud, analytics and machine learning. With a PhD in Machine Learning and a background as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry, Anders is heading the Data Science and Analytics team at Telenor Connexion.
Over the years he has designed and architected numerous data-driven insights solutions, such as Telenor Connexion’s Big Data Analytics Cloud platform.
Marie Högberg is Director, Senior Commercial Lead Automotive at Telenor Connexion. Marie has spent her whole career within the automotive and telecommunications industries, focusing on connected car strategy and deployments.
In addition to several leading positions within Telenor Connexion, Marie has been responsible for connectivity strategy at Volvo Cars recently, bringing unique insights into both automotive OEM´s and mobile network operators´ challenges and needs. In her current position, Marie lead´s Telenor Connexion´s Automotive business globally.