Mobile Monday Barcelona

The next Mobile Monday Barcelona on June 2, 2008 will be held at the Auditorium of Barcelona Activa and covers the topic Micromedia, exploring user-generated microblogging content and tools. The session will include Hector Milla from Balzac.TV, Tony Fish from AMF Ventures, Mireia Fontbernat from QIK and Alberto Tognazzi from the Movil Film Fest.

Speakers:

Héctor Milla, Founder Balzac.TV (Spain)
Héctor Milla is an entrepreneur of WebTV with Balzac.tv, a HD videoblog with multiplatform distribution and focused on the innovation segment. He was part of the team that launched “Cable i televisió de Catalunya” in 1996, the first cable operator in Catalunya. From 2000 to 2002 Héctor was responsible of R&D of Media Park enterprise and has been a consultant for complex projects in digital media, television and the internet. Since 2004, Héctor blogs and videoblogs about audiovisual innovation and television 2.0

Tony Fish, Founder AMF Ventures
Tony is an experienced, professionally qualified executive and an accomplished public speaker. Tony has worked on trends and global business issues with numerous organizations, and has particular expertise in the development of innovation through partnership. He has an excellent grasp of strategic and economic issues relating to growth businesses, and their patterns for survival. Tony features in the top 10 of ‘The Observer Guardian’ newspapers “The future 500 rising stars” Nov 2007. “Mobile Web 2.0” is Tony’s second book and provides a detailed strategic analysis of the changing relationships in mobile, media and retail as the markets move towards openness.

Mireia Fontbernat, Head of Marketing EMEA QIK
Mireia Fontbernat, first Qik employee in Europe, is responsible for marketing and growing Qik in EMEA. Previously, she was Marketing Director at Oblicore and, before that, spent over three years at Microsoft, as Head of Marketing for the Real-Time Collaboration group in EMEA, which included Live Meeting and Live (Office) Communications Server. Throughout her 15-year career, Mireia has also worked for PlaceWare (web conferencing), Regus and in the airline industry in various European countries. Mireia is originally from Barcelona. During her spare time she enjoys cinema, theatre, hiking and skiing.

Qik, the world’s leading live mobile video streaming platform, enables anyone to stream video live from their mobile phones to anywhere in the world. Its innovative, patent-pending technology enables anyone to share their moments live with their friends and family or the entire world. Notable events captured on Qik include Cannes Film Festival, the Olympic torch run in San Francisco, sessions from the World Economic Forum in Davos, and interviews with Michael Moore, Bono of U2, Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Jordin Sparks of American Idol.

Alberto Tognazzi, Founder Movil Film Fest
Alberto has been a director, editor & postproducer in advertising during 15 years. In 2006 start his first project Web based. One of his projects has been chosen and show by SONAR 2007 as a piece of net art. In 2007 creates the Movil Film Fest, the greatest Mobile Short film Award in Spain in collaboration with El País, Cuatro, Nokia, Fnac and the Spanish Film Academy.

Networking:
As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Micromedia sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa
Llacuna 162, 08018 Barcelona
T. 93 401 97 77
barcelonactiva@barcelonactiva.cat
Metro: L1 (Glòries)
Bus: 7, 56, 60, 92, B21

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Barcelona Activa, Bango and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

Our next Mobile Monday Barcelona on May 5, 2008 in collaboration with Forum Nokia covers Mobile Development and will explore the mobile developer’s ecosystem. The session will include speakers from Forum Nokia, the Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform, and will include presentations from the CEO’s of Device Anywhere (USA) and Mobile Distillery (France) and IDEAN from Finland. If you’re interested in the next tips & tricks in mobile development, don’t miss this one!

Nokia’s global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

Speakers:

Jarkko Tolvi, Business Development Manager, Forum Nokia EMEA (Finland)

Ricardo Varela, Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform (UK)

Vincent Berge, Co-Founder and General Manager, Mobile Distillery (France)

Mikko-Pekka Hanski, Director, Business Development, IDEAN (Finland)

NOTE: Faraz Syed from Device Anywhere had to cancel his participation this time, he’ll be back in one of our forthcoming events.

Networking:
As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Development sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue: Auditorium University of Pompeu Fabra - França Building (Edifici França), Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8 - Barcelona 08003

Location and Directions here at Google Maps.

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Forum Nokia, Bango and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

The next MobileMonday Barcelona event on March 10 covers Mobile Travel Services. On the local side we invited Montse Comaposada from the Barcelona City Council to demo the services included in barcelona.mobi (launched at the World Mobile Congress) and Diego Bartolomé, CEO of Ta With You, a multilingual mobile translation service. From abroad we invited Jefferson Wright Chandler to present Shozu’s related travel services and Andrea Trasatti, co-Founder of the WURFL project - the de-facto standard for device databases, and currently Director of Device Intiatives at dotMobi Andrea will explain the city.mobi project and other interesting stuff they’re currently working on.

Speakers:

Montse Comaposada, Technical Director Internet of Barcelona City Council.

Now Barcelona is always closer using your mobile. If you want to know what’s on at the theatre, where your favourite artist is playing, where the city centre vegetarian restaurants are or what children’s activities are on at the weekend, all you need is typing http://barcelona.mobi in your phone browser or send barcelona.mobi to 7010 (in Spain). Wherever you are, what ever the time, you will get your answer on your mobile.

Montse Comaposada, Computer Science Engineer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, started running European projects at the Barcelona City Council in 1995. This provided her experience in developing Internet information services for the public sector including the first mobile site for the Barcelona City Council. Nowadays she coordinates, among others, projects related with accessibility and multiplatform portability, such as barcelona.mobi.

Diego Bartolomé, PhD and CEO of Ta With You.

Ta with you is your personal machine translator: we break linguistic barriers among people no matter where they are, thanks to our text, image and speech machine translation solutions for mobile devices. The company’s main markets are tourists, immigrants, and international companies, which are addressed through mobile operators and device manufacturers. You can visit their portal, by sending an SMS with the text TAU TRAD to the Spanish number 7210.

Since June 2006, Diego is the CEO and co-founder (together with Montse Fornés) of Ta with you. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a MSc in Management and Business Administration, and has had several positions in R&D, business development, and general management in several national and international companies.

Jefferson Wright Chandler (USA), European Business Development Director at Shozu Ltd.

Jefferson will talk about the growing popularity of activity specific sites and ShoZu’s association with travel related sites like pikeo.com, geo-tagging services and how to build a revenue model on travel related communities.

Jefferson has 15 years experience at international business development at director level at media, software and consultancy firms, having worked for Sony Pictures, Analysis Consulting as well as his own start-up firm in 2001 and 2002. A US citizen and a graduate of Stanford University, Jefferson currently lives in Madrid with his wife and 3 children.

Shozu is the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset.

Andrea Trasatti (Italy), Director of Device Intiatives at dotMobi

Andreas will talk about the city.mobi programme, how travelling and location is important for mobile users. He is currently in charge at dotMobi of leading the design and development of the new open repository of mobile device profiles called DeviceAtlas that launched in Feb 2008.

Prior to this Andrea has been a system administrator and a software developer for more than 10 years and a consultant for more than 5 years. In Italy Andrea started developing the first WAP sites in late 1999 when the first WAP phone was about to be released. Since then he has been developing some of the most innovative services for mobile devices.
From 2002 until very recently, Andrea has been maintainer and co-owner of the WURFL project, the de-facto standard for device databases. Andrea is also an active member of the W3C and author of one of the documents that will be published by the Device Descriptions Working Group during its second charter.

Networking
As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Travel Services speaker sessions & discussion
• 21h00 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 22h00 End

Venue: Auditorium University of Pompeu Fabra - França Building (Edifici França), Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8 - Barcelona 08003

Location and Directions here at Google Maps.

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by Rudy De Waele, Carles Ferreiro and Barcelona Media.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

The 2008 MobileMondy Peer Awards recognized 27 companies from 18 countries at its annual awards event held at Telefonica’s fashionable Espacio Movistar facility during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Buzzd from New York, a provider of local real-time search information for bars, clubs and restaurants on the mobile device, cleaned the table by winning jury, audience and community awards under the early stage category.

In the Emerging Community category, Taptu a search and sharing engine from London won the award with jury award Funambol, an open source email and messaging company, while local favorite Kimia, a rich media content provider, clinched the audience choice.

Three awards in each category: jury, audience, and community were judged by an expert jury including representatives from Telefónica, Mobile Marketing Association, Vodafone Group, Google, Nexit Ventures, eXtract, Acision, MobHappy, GoMoNews, the MobileMonday global chapter founders and audience SMS voting.

We have created two downloadable PDF documents including slides from all participating companies within each category. The Early-Stage and Emerging Start-Ups presentation slides are currently available for download here. If you are not registered yet, please enter the subscription section to access the documents.

(NOTE: some of the embedded animation’s or video’s have been lost or could not been transferred for PDF document creation).

This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will be invited to participate in the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

We created a MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona Flickr Group with event pictures (http://www.flickr.com/groups/peerawardsbarcelona/); anyone who has pictures of that evening, feel free to join and post your pictures in the group to share with us.

MobileMonday has announced its Peer Award nominees. 25 chapters from around the world have chosen companies that have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, products, services and concepts.

The event will be held at Espacio Movistar. Luis Jorge Romero, Director of Standards and Innovation in Telefónica España, will be a keynote speaker together with Pekka Ala-Pietilä, CEO and Co-Founder, Blyk. Mr. Romero will speak about the future of the mobile market and his experience driving innovation in Telefónica España, whose Open Innovation strategy encourages innovation and value creation by partnering with new start-ups.

This year’s nominees are:

Amsterdam - Movels
Bangalore - Mobisy
Barcelona - skuair
Berlin - ViiF
Boston - SnapMyLife
Brussels - Mobixx
Chennai - Mobile-worx
Dusseldorf - Cellity
Helsinki - Fromdistance
Istanbul - Mobinex
London - The 3G Dating Agency / Taptu
Madrid - Kimia
Milan - Waymedia
Mumbai - Ziva Technologies
Munich - hiClip
New York - BuzzD
Oslo - Adactus
Paris - WebWag
Rome - Nanology
Shanghai - DuoGuo
Silicon Valley - Funambol
Singapore - mBit.tv
St. Petersburg - 4Mobi.TV
Stockholm - Momail
Taipei - Toro

This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will also be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

The event is also going to showcase for the first time the new barcelona.mobi mobile urban guide.

Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Nokia, dotMobi, Xtract, Acision, Nexit Ventures, Mippin, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Media for their invaluable support to this event organised by dotopen.

Additional information is available at http://www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/peerawards/