Open Gateway DevCon 2025

Are you an experience creator? Looking to offer state-of-the-art digital services? Then you can't miss Open Gateway DevCon 2025. It was a session created by and for developers, which took place on March 4th at Talent Arena (Fira Montjuic, Barcelona), within the framework of Mobile World Congress. The agenda focused on explaining the basis of the global initiative that is transforming Telco networks, which already has more than 72 mobile operator groups, representing 284 networks and 78.5% of mobile connections worldwide.  
  
If you are not familiar with the project, you should know that, since its inception, telecommunications companies have managed large amounts of data from devices and network operations. This information can be very interesting when it comes to streamlining or making digital services more efficient, but until a few years ago it was only in the hands of the Telcos. With the aim of going one step further in the digital landscape, Open Gateway was born in 2023, an initiative that opens up networks so that developers and businesses can leverage their capabilities to create more powerful applications in areas such as security, connectivity and identity verification.  
  
Thus, with this initiative led by the GSMA, an industry-wide framework has been created that provides universal access to its capabilities through standardised APIs that work for all Telcos within the project. By creating a connection between telecommunications companies and developers, the process of deploying innovative services is accelerated, even on a global scale. In other words, it is a game changer, providing a unified approach to leveraging the infrastructure of the major mobile operators. Would you like to find out more? We tell you all about the conference and what we are presenting from Telefónica!

Open Gateway DevCon is much more than a conference. It is an opportunity for all tech lovers who want to learn about the latest advances in the world of development. This edition featured a wide repertoire of varied sessions, so that all attendees could learn about the most cutting-edge innovations, try out the most advanced technology and enjoy the vision of the industry's leading experts:

• Talks about Open Gateway and how it provides a single point of access to the world's largest connectivity platform, simplifying development processes and speeding time to market.
• Practical knowledge to improve the speed and efficiency of service deployment in a variety of carrier networks.
• Dynamic sessions to test creativity and challenge conventional thinking with network APIs.  

You can check out the full agenda here.  

The Telefónica Open Gateway team wants to promote this type of initiative to make it easier for developers to access our capabilities as a Telco and to make it more intuitive for them to use our Network APIs. That is why we will be one of the main sponsors of Open Gateway Open DevCon 2025, together with other major technology companies in the sector.  
  
In addition, we had the keynote "Code session: Onboarding to Cabify with Number Verification", by Laura Lacarra, our Head Developer Relations, and Pablo Villot, Principal Software Engineer Cabify. We showed use cases with Open Gateway in collaboration with our partner and explained how experience creators can make use of our tool to optimise applications in a simple way. We were also present at the panel "How can operators super-charge the network API Community", with Irene Bernal, together with GSMA, Vodafone and MasOrange. 
 
We were also part of the Talent Arena Hackathon, together with Nokia's Network as Code. Participants were challenged to test the potential of Open Gateway APIs in a real environment, using Movistar SIM cards. They were able to create solutions with better security, better connectivity and more agile user experiences, competing for the prize for the best proposal.   
  
And finally, we put the icing on the cake at Open Gateway DevCon 2025 with a CAMARA Community Reception meetup sponsored by RedHat in collaboration with Telefónica. It was a great opportunity to participate in this day, giving us an excuse to get together all the Telcos and partners, meet each other and celebrate the latest developments.  

As you can see, Open Gateway DevCon 2025 is much more than an event, it is a true movement for developers, aiming to shape the future of connectivity. See you next year!