
Communities & Forums
Uniting adjacent industries
The GSMA hosts a number of industry focused forums that serve to bring GSMA members and key industry stakeholders together around common sector-specific goals and challenges. The aim of these forums is to create an environment that facilitates discussion, collaboration and ultimately action that drives technological or commercial advancement in these areas.

FinTech Community
The fintech and mobile ecosystem is powering new initiatives, collaboration, enhancing user experience and driving new revenue growth in key areas such as social engineering mitigation, fraud solutions, payments, digital assets, credit risk scoring and new technologies including digital currencies.

Drones Interest Group
The GSMA Drone Interest Group (DIG) consists of GSMA members, working with UAS and UTM suppliers and other ecosystem players to encourage the use of cellular communications for drones. The aim of the DIG is to explore opportunities for mobile connectivity to be deployed in commercial drones, share industry knowledge and position mobile operators as key enablers for the autonomous BVLOS growth.

Digital Industries Community
GSMA Digital Industries Community unites key stakeholders to promote the benefits of 5G technologies within the industrial sector. As the industrial revolution continues, billions of real-time data points are collected by intelligent connected devices and sensors within the industrial setting. AI and machine learning utilises this data to enable predictability, drive efficiencies, increase reliability and enhance sustainability.

5G IN Start-up Community
The GSMA 5G IN (5G Innovation and Investment Group) meets throughout the year across the China region. These meetings allow leaders in mobile and adjacent industries to engage the 5G start-up community, encouraging even more business opportunities and knowledge share in everything from AI to autonomous vehicles, open RAN to fintech.

Smart Mobility Community
GSMA is working with adjacent smart mobility industries, their associations and regulatory bodies to provide frameworks and develop use cases that open up new opportunities for the benefit of consumers and enterprises around the globe.