Mobile Monday Barcelona

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 next MobileMonday Barcelona event on November 5 covers Mobile Web Applications. The last 2 months the action and debate on web & mobile convergence has been intenser than ever. Rudy De Waele from mTrends will do an introduction on this topic. We’ll have a closer look on popular mobile web applications such as WidSets and the recentlly launched Mippin. Raquel Navarro from Barcelona Media - Innovation Centre will talk about the challenges of innovative interfaces for mobile applications.

Speakers:

Tuomo Sihvola - Head of Communities and Inventor, WidSets - Nokia Emerging Business Unit

Tuomo Sihvola is one of the inventors of WidSets, and currently leading WidSets’ user and developer community activies. Tuomo joined Nokia in 1992 and since then, he has been working in various positions in Research and Development, Sales & Marketing and Corporate innovations globally. WidSets - mobile widgets that enable anyone to create, publish and share internet content to be accessed on their mobile phones. www.widsets.com and for developers www.developer.widsets.com

Prashant Agarwal - VP of Product Management at Refresh Mobile.

Prashant will introduce their new service called Mippin. Mippin is the exciting new way to get your favourite internet content on your mobile phone from Refresh Mobile. Mippin delivers the latest news, blogs, and other web content in the perfect format for your phone - giving you the control to discover and share what you want. Prior to joining Refresh Mobile, Prashant held a number of senior positions with Yahoo! including European Product Manager for Mail and Messenger. He also launched Yahoo!’s first official Series 60 IM application and its official FIFA World Cup 2006 mobile application.

Rudy De Waele - mTrends / co-founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and MobileMonday Madrid
Besides organizing MobileMondays in Barcelona and Madrid, Rudy consults start-ups and established brands on next generation mobile services strategies with dotopen. Rudy has been very active in researching and reporting on web & mobile convergence on his blog mTrends. His Understanding Mobile 2.0 article he wrote for Read/WriteWeb is a reference in capturing the essence of this convergence. mTrends was selected in 2006 among the TOP 20 Fierce Wireless Industry blogs and won the Host of the Year 2006 Award from the Carnival of the Mobilists community. He is also part of the Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

Raquel Navarro - Director of the User Centered Interaction Lab at Barcelona Media - Innovation Centre.
Raquel has over 12 years of experience in user studies for ICT design, especially for multi-platform multimedia applications. She has participated in numerous research and knowledge transfer projects at an international scale as an expert in usability and experience optimization methodologies. In the past, Raquel has worked at Apple, HP and Motorola Labs. She has a PhD. in Experimental Psychology. The mission of the Fundació Barcelona Media UPF is to contribute to the improvement in competitiveness on the communication companies, including both technology and content. To this end, Barcelona Media performs research, innovation and training for the industry.

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 Web Applications 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, Alcatel-Lucent, MyStrands and Agora 22@ for their invaluable support.

(on 2D-Barcodes and Image Recognition)

After a long summer break, the MobileMonday Global Summit and the Mercè festivities, MobileMonday Barcelona is back for a new and exciting season of 1st Monday of the month regulars on mobile innovation. Starting next Monday, October 1st on “Next Generation Mobile Marketing” (2D-Barcodes / Image Recognition).

For our first event of the new 2007-2008 season, we brought together an explosive cocktail of some of the hottest start-ups in Europe on the Next Generation Mobile Marketing topic, including Dennis Hettema from Shotcode (Sweden), Roger Fisher from Kaywa (Switzerland) and our own Ignacio Mondine from Daem Interactive (Spain). The topic will be introduced and moderated by Raimo van der Klein coming over from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Raimo will share with us his view on the way information (content) is provisioned to the mobile phone and the change from Push Marketing to Pull Marketing (Marketing as a service). A perfect start for a new season it looks to us. If you feel the same, please subscribe and confirm your event participation, seats are limited as always, don’t wait last minute to confirm!

Speakers:

Raimo van der Klein, Mobminds (Netherlands)
After working in Sales & Marketing for more than 6 years at Nokia(networks and mobile phones) and working the last year as Principal Innovation Manager at the leading Dutch (mobile) operator KPN, Raimo(1973) started June 2007 his own consultancy agency in the field of Strategic Innovation and Online Media(Internet & Mobile). His newly started agency Mobminds (www.mobminds.com) offers “consumer oriented” companies services in the field of Consulting, Workshops and Concept Development. Next to this Raimo is founder of Mobile Monday Ámsterdam (www.mobilemonday.nl) and writes for the leading marketingblog in The Netherlands called Marketingfacts (www.marketingfacts.nl).

Ignacio Mondine, Daem Interactive (Spain)
Ignacio Mondine studied mechanical engineering specializing in CAD design and robotics. After working for Procter&Gamble R+D in Germany he met Miguel Sola Camps at an Interaction Design Masters degree in Barcelona. Together they start DAEM Interactive in 2002.

Daem Interactive develops image recognition technologies for mobile-marketing and dynamic-advertising. Extensive know-how gained over years of research and development is focused on one concept: one-click to mobile web. Pioneering in the launch of advertisement and logo recognition campaigns, DAEM has helped mayor brands like Vodafone, Grupo Damm and BBVA to be the focus of many camera phones.

Dennis Hettema, Founder and Creative Director, Shotcode (Sweden)
Dennis is the founder and Creative Director of OP3, the company behind ShotCode, and has been active on the internet since 1995. In ‘99 he launched a Dutch high-tech incubator that developed tagging based AI products. In ‘01 he founded Holland’s largest entrepreneurial community which now boasts over 17.000 members. In his spare time Dennis helps entrepreneurs realize their dreams, he’s a hard core endurance athlete and plays with as many gadgets as he can get his hands on.

ShotCode is the market leader within the mobile barcode scanning space in Europe, Africa and the Americas. A highly innovative and rapidly emerging market that bridges the gap between offline products and online interaction. ShotCode’s customers include: Heineken, Xbox, Jameson Whiskey, Monsterboard, Sony Ericsson, Saatchi & Saatchi, Nokia, Coca Cola and many others. Its technology is supported on over 240 handsets and over 50 million of its codes have been printed.

Roger Fischer, Founder and CEO, Kaywa (Switzerland)
Roger is the founder and CEO of Kaywa. After his studies in cinema and audiovisual media in Paris, he worked as film critic, curator and director. With the advent of XML, he seriously started working in the web space. In 2000 he founded his first company Bitflux and in 2003 he started Kaywa with it’s focus on moblogging, weblogging and mobile sites. Currently Kaywa is the major swiss (mobile) blog provider and it’s customers include all major print and television media companies. From the start in 2003, services for the mobile phone were targeted, but the web was never disregarded.

Highly japanophile, Kaywa added in 2006 the Kaywa Reader, QR Codes and advanced SMS services to it’s portfolio. The success of QR Codes and the Kaywa Reader came even as surprise to Kaywa itself. Kaywa is working now on a mobile and web ecosystem called KIS - Kaywa-Ichiba-Shin (Conversation-Market-Trust) which is heavily based on QR Codes. Some parts of the iceberg can be glimpsed already.

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 Next Generation Mobile Marketing 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, Alcatel-Lucent, MyStrands, 22@Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, CIDEM (Centre d’Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial of the Generalitat de Catalunya) and Agora 22@ for their invaluable support.

NOTE: picture by Leonard Low under Creative Common license.

June is here and the flocks of tourists announce the coming of summer, the perfect time to present our own local entrepreneurial talent. Next MobileMonday on June 11 is about Barcelona Mobile Startups!

In the last months we have had previous presentations by local startups such as MyStrands, Lemonquest, Mobile Dreams Factory, Mobuzz, Futurlink and Daem Interactive. This time we have a dedicated event: it’s time to present our next wave of talented, young and ambitious companies active in the different fields in Mobile.

Speakers:

* Vadim Tarasov, Founder & CEO of bmat - http://bmat.com

BMAT enables computers and devices to understand music like humans do to provide musical search services, enhances the experience by selecting music that suits the user’s mood, can remove the vocal track from your favorite tune so that you sing along, even change your own voice so you can sound like your favorite artist. BMAT’s solutions convert a mobile phone from just a communication device into a full-blown multimedia entertainment center.

* Lluís Carreras, General Manager of Mobifriends - http://mobifriends.com

Founded in October 2005, Mobifirends aims to develop a new concept in dating and social networking. Being mobile focused, without forgetting the web, Mobifriends users can look for people to share hobbies, interests, make friends, flirt, or find a new love. They can contact each other through an integrated anonymous communication system (SMS, Chat and videochat). Still in testing the Alpha version, this is a unique chance to get to know Mobifriends before their launch later this year.

* Ghatim Kabbara, CEO of Safira Solutions - http://www.safirasolutions.com

Safira Solutions is a key player in the development of the Mobile Internet and is a leading provider of Mobile Commerce solutions worldwide. Founded in 2003 and with headquarters in Barcelona (Spain), Safira Solutions has helped individuals, organizations and brands in over 15 countries to effectively position themselves on the Mobile Internet and to monetize their presence. Safira Solutions lowers the barriers of entry and facilitates the process of getting on the Mobile Internet by providing turnkey technology solutions to help build mobile sites, generate mobile user traffic and bill consumers directly on their mobile device.

* Eve Goldman, Business Development Manager of Acquamedia Technologies - http://www.acquamedia.com

Founded in 2003 in Barcelona, Acquamedia is a world-leading retailer of digital content with traffic to conversion rates 3 times higher than its closest competitor anywhere in the world. The company specializes in the management of WAP portals and selling music and entertainment focused content through mobile platforms. Acquamedia has recently expanded and signed deals in over 10 countries in Europe and Latin America. The upcoming entrance into the US market will position the company to become the world’s largest mobile digital content provider.

Please join us to find out more about this homegrown initiatives. However, in Barcelona at this time of year we all want some entertainment:

Alberto Tognazzi will present the winning “mobile movie clips” of the MovilFilmFest, also “Made in Barcelona” - http://www.movilfilmfest.es/

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 Barcelona Mobile Startups speaker sessions & discussion
• 20h30 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.

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

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, 22@Barcelona, Alcatel-Lucent, Ajuntament de Barcelona, CIDEM (Centre d’Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial of the Generalitat de Catalunya) and Agora 22@ for their invaluable support.