Mobile World Congress 2013

WA State’s 2nd year at MWC

• 17 companies in our Directory

• Advance promotion by WA state trade office by phone and online

• Business matchmaking leads prior to and at MWC

• Press releases and blogs posted online

• 4 days, 9 am – 7 pm

• 72,000+ attendees

• 200 countries

• 1700+ exhibitors

INRIX Glympse UIEvolution co-invested in a stand with WA State

WA State is a “Country Pavilion” Co-exhibitors receive full service from trade office team:

• Individual company listing in MWC Directory online and in print

• Contracting and interface with GSMA

• Stand design and service management

• Set up and tear down

• Full time staffing throughout the show

• Exhibit Hall passes for all staff (value $925 per)

WA State trade office staff worked on B2B matchmaking before and at the show…

…helping companies meet each other.

WA state group gets recognition Companies introduced by trade office B2B outreach:

• Deutsche Telekom AG • France Telecom LIBON • Telefonica Digital • PSA Peugeot Citroen • Fiat • Audi AG • Volkswagen • General Motors • Panasonic • British Petroleum

US Embassy & FCC officials stop by the first day:

A waiting line for lunch -great audience for our slideshow & Directory!

Meetings often started with one company then moved to the next

Networking receptions: 11 Partner Program members hosted daily Happy Hours

Happy Hours kept traffic around our stand lively …

right up to the end of each day!

Networking among our companies produced more introductions

• Tom Huseby – introductions a year ago to get us started

• Glympse and Buddy.com - back with us bigger than ever

• INRIX - supported the stand build and planning process

• Gowri Shankar - helped recruit more players for 2013

• Ruchit Garg - our Social Media blogger & photographer

• Mark Calhoon - leading the Trade team and SBA budget

• Lucy Atkinson – tireless in our UK office on B2B phone calls

• Pascale Meunier - French secret agent and networking dervish

• Paul Sinclair - overseeing our European team

• Trade Development Alliance – accounting & wire transfers!

Special thanks to:

MWC WA-team - Let’s do it bigger & better in 2014! ~Wistar

Testimonials

“…thank you for the excellent work the Washington State Commerce team did at Mobile World Congress for us and all the other companies. The services and facilities were great and we had great value from them.

…. several people remarked to me that the WA State exhibit was one of the best-executed government stands they’d ever seen, both in terms of the layout and the way you and the team ran things.”

David O’Neill, CEO & Founder, Viafo Seattle, WA

Cloud software provider for mobile and web services integration

Testimonials

"Under the STEP program, Commerce did a fabulous job of bringing together small but growing companies under one roof at subsidized prices and a curated list of contacts via services like business matchmaking to explore business.

Out of 50 states in the USA, Commerce was the only one out there supporting small companies."

Ruchit Garg, CEO, 9Slides Redmond, WA

Cloud-based presentation platform