Mobile Monday Barcelona

Talent, creativity and innovation know no boundaries and MobileMonday selected 24 of the best mobile start-ups from the four corners of the world to present their most innovative product/service at the Global Peer Awards 2007, to be held on February 12th at the Espacio Movistar in Barcelona.

Top-level companies have been through a selection process organized at the local MobileMonday chapter level. Finally, finalists have been chosen from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, the Ukraine, and the US.

You can download the complete list of presenting finalists, program, jury bio’s and location details here.

The 3-minute ‘elevator pitch’-style presentations will be moderated by Caroline Lewko, from the Wireless Industry Partnership. The live event will award three prizes: Jury Favorite, Audience Favorite and MoMo Community Favorite. The Jury consists of some of the most recognized mobile industry experts and thinkers.

Another award will be given for the Carnival of Mobilists’ “Host of the Year”. The Mobilists, as they like to call themselves, is a group of top-notch bloggers writing on mobility, who have an enormous impact on the blogging community and have done a lot to bridge, reveal and support the latest in mobile innovations.This half-day event is open to all who register at http://peerawards.mobilemonday.net/ and will be followed by a networking cocktail. Over 600 mobile professionals, press, analysts, and investors have already registered to attend.

Program2:00 pm – Registration and pre-networking3:00 pm - MobileMonday & Sponsors Welcoming messageMoMo Barcelona Welcoming message
Welcome from MOMO GLOBAL
Welcome from our sponsors
Introduction Jury members by host MC Caroline Lewko

3:20 pm – Start of the presentations

(3 slides/3 minutes elevator pitch per speaker + jury intervention)

5:30 pm - Networking Cocktail

7:00 pm – Awards

MobileMonday Chapters Award
Carnival of the Mobilists Host of the Year Award
Jury Award introduced by Reitek
Audience Award

7:30 pm - Closing doors

Our thanks to Telefónica Movistar for hosting the event and to 22@Barcelona and Reitek for their fantastic support as a Premium Sponsor and Nexit Ventures as Silver sponsor. Barcelona Media, Ajuntament de Barcelona and CIDEM — Generalitat de Catalunya, provide invaluable additional support.

Telefónica Móviles, the mobile arm of Telefónica Group, opened its Espacio Movistar in Barcelona in September 2006. This innovative, multidisciplinary, next-generation venue has been conceived to bring people closer to the latest creative trends in technology, music, art, cinema and entertainment - especially the young.

This space is a step further to consolidate Movistar as a reference brand associated to innovation, creativity, entertainment, communication and fun.

The Global Peer Awards 2007 are hosted at Espacio Movistar thanks to Telefónica Móviles.

Here’s some practical info on how to get to the event:

Espacio Movistar is a large white tent located left of the “blue triangle” building at the Forum. Use this new Barcelona landmark as reference when trying to reach the event.

By taxi:
From anywhere in the city ask for the “Espacio Movistar en el Forum”. That should get you there in 10-15 minutes.
From the 3GSM World Congress by Public Transport:

If you come from the show the fastest way is to catch the metro (25 minutes from Pl. Espanya). Take the red line (L1) towards Fondo. Then you have two choices:

Get off at “Urquinaona” and –without exiting- change to the yellow line (L4) towards “La Pau”. Then get out at “El Maresme – Fòrum”. Coming out of the metro, look for the “blue triangle” building.

Exit at “Glòries” and look for a Tram stop, the railtracks will help you find one . Take T4 direction “Estacio de Sant Adrià” and get off at “Forum”. This ride down the “Diagonal” gives you a great tour of the 22@ district of Barcelona and you may find it a nice break from the crowded metro.

Download the PDF map including directions.

For Google Map fans, we created this map here, for directions from 3GSM (Plaça Espanya) click here.

We anounced the first 11 finalists for the Global Peer Awards 2007 event earlier this week, now MobileMonday anounced all 20 finalists that will compete for the awards in Barcelona on February 12.

Here are the 2007 MobileMonday Global Peer Awards finalists — congratulations to all, and good luck during the competition!

(latest update 23 entries: MoMo Bangkok, Istanbul and Munich added!)

• Bangalore — mChek
• Bangkok — CryptoGraf
• Barcelona — MyStrands
• Beijing — Silk Road Telecommunication
• Boston — Skyhook Wireless
• Brussels — Ontrack Navigation
• Delhi — Wirkle
• Geneva — Plazes
• Helsinki — UpCode
• Istanbul — Done
• Italy — Barefoot Software
• London — Reporo
• Melbourne — Locatrix
• Munich — GoFresh
• Paris — Realeyes3D
• Silicon Valley — Mobile Complete
• Singapore — Tagit
• Shanghai — mInfo
• St Petersburg — Jamango
• Tokyo — Naviblog
• Ukraine — Nival Online
• Vancouver — RX Networks
• Washington, DC — Rave Wireless

Stay tuned, more news to come soon here!

Thank you everyone for participating in selecting our finalist to the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards 2007. The MobileMonday Barcelona community has participated in the hundreds to select the local winner. The vote has been close…that is what happens when you have such a strong group of nominees.

Now that all the votes have been counted, we all need to congratulate our winner: MyStrands! We look forward to seeing you in the Global Peer Awards on Feb.12 and good luck. You have home field advantage!

For those curious here is a little note about our winner:

MyStrands develops behavior-based recommendation technologies that help people organize and discover digital media, through Internet connected devices (computers, mobile devices, etc).

partyStrands is an interactive service for party organizers, bars, clubs and DJs, that lets partygoers choose and influence the night’s music by sending an SMS or interacting through m.MyStrands.com. partygoers can also interact with each other by sending messages and pictures to pre-installed screens for everyone to see; and organize votes on songs, drinks, most popular guy/girl and more. Partygoers then choose the winner all from their cell phones.

Those looking for some fun can go to m.MyStrands.com and check out in real time what parties are taking place or what bars are open now, who is at the party, what music is playing and what people are saying. The day after, partyStrands helps you remember what happened last night; it automatically creates a web site (and mobile website) for each new venue, where users can go and see the text messages, photos, partygoers, and the playlist, from last night’s party.

As the host of the Global Peer Awards 2007, to be held on February 12th in Espacio Movistar in Barcelona, we are proud to announce the first series of finalists for this years MobileMonday Global Peer Awards.

The Global Peer Awards finalists are best-in-breed companies who have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, services and concepts. Most finalists have reached this point by prevailing in a local selection process organized at the local MoMo chapter level. Some finalists may receive a special invitation by the organizing committee if there is not a local chapter in their area.

MobileMonday is honored to welcome representatives from these winners to Barcelona to compete in the Global Peer Awards competition 2007. We invite you to take the time to get to know finalists as we are certain these are the companies that are making important waves within the mobile industry over the few years.

Here are the 1st series of winners, congratulations to all!

(in alphabetical chapter order)

• Barcelona - MyStrands
• Beijing - Silk Road Telecommunication
• Brussels - Ontrack Navigation
• Geneva - Plazes
• Helsinki - UpCode
• London - Reporo
• Delhi - Wirkle
• Paris - Realeyes3D
• Singapore - Tagit
• Tokyo - Naviblog
• Ukraine - Nival Online

All finalists will be informed soon on details about the event and presentation details.

NOTE: The list of finalists is not complete. Additional finalists will be announced over the next few days at MoMo HQers in Helsinki, so check back regularly to discover the smaller, lesser-known, unestablished companies that are leading the world in mobile innovation.

We have currently some 100 seats left so please hurry and register for the event to avoid being left out!

Stay updated at MobileMonday Barcelona website for more news on the event!

The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is being organized collaboratively by the MobileMonday community. Hosted by MoMo Barcelona, MoMo Italy, MoMo Helsinki, MoMo London and MoMo New York have also taken active roles.

Invaluable additional support is provided by Barcelona Media, Ajuntament de Barcelona and CIDEM — Generalitat de Catalunya.

Our thanks to Telefónica Movistar for hosting the event and to 22@Barcelona and Reitek for the fantastic support as a Premium Sponsor and Nexit Ventures as a Silver sponsor.