Fifteen minutes after opening time. No sign of speakers, but plenty of people looking for seats. The hall is about - about 500 people.
Plus nine security personnel - of the seven keynote Chinese speakers this morning, five are government officials, including the vice mayer of Pudong.
There's no shortage of sponsors, either. I count 32, topped by China Mobile. Only half a dozen are Chinese, a few Koreans and Japanese and the rest refugees from Europe and North America.
Here comes GSMA Chairman Franco Bernabe.