KT President Park Yoon-young will deliver a keynote at MWC 2027, the world's largest mobile exhibition, to be held from Mar. 1 to 4 next year at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, according to the industry on the 4th. Park was included on the first list of keynote speakers released by the GSM Association (GSMA), which organizes MWC, and is the only telecommunications CEO in the first lineup. The organizer introduced Park as an "information and communications technology (ICT) expert leading KT's transition to AI-native infrastructure and nationwide digital innovation," and Park is expected to use the stage to promote KT's AX (AI transformation) strategy worldwide. Park joined a five-person lineup that includes ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski, Future Today Institute CEO Amy Webb, Accelerated Understanding co-founder and Caltech Bren Professor Anima Anandkumar, and GetReal Security co-founder and CSO Hany Farid. If Park takes the stage, it will mark the second straight year that a domestic telecom CEO appears as an MWC keynote speaker, following Hong Bum-Shik of LG Uplus this year. Park did not attend MWC 2026 in Mar. this year when he was the CEO-designate; he joined Korea Telecom (now KT) in 1992 and was appointed CEO at the regular shareholders meeting on Mar. 31 this year, since which he has set the goal of becoming "Korea