Mobile Monday Barcelona

We created a speaker presentation download section for our participants and readers. You can currently download the speaker presentations from the Mobile Monday July 3 opening event in Barcelona, on Mobile Marketing and Advertising and from the recent Future of Mobile Music event of October 2. Current presentations available from:

• Ian Musselwhite, Bango
• Scott Cohen, The Orchard
• Bill Houghton, MyStrands
• Russell Buckley, AdMob
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
• José Luis Jorge Marrasé, Alcatel

All presentations are in english, if you are already subscribed, you just need to login here to acces our new documents section. Subscribers can now easily manage their event attendance and profile. If you are not subscribed yet, please enter the subscription section to acces the documents.

A great and interesting evening yesterday in Barcelona. Engaging speakers, an attentive audience and a lot of networking during the cocktail with partyStrands demo in the background. Check back in a couple of days for presentations of the speakers and next week for next months’ program. Some pictures here below, check here to view the complete Flick set from yesterdays’ event. Thanks to the many participants, the speakers and our sponsors this time Bango and Barcelona Media.

Scott Cohen, The Orchard

Bill Houghton, MyStrands Mobile demo

Ian Musselwhite, Bango

A great audience

And partyStrands demo during the networking cocktail.

After a summer break it’s time to announce the next Mobile Monday Barcelona event. We have received some great encouragements and interest from the mobile industry. The next topic is set to “The Future of Mobile Music” and will take place on Monday, October 2, 2006 at the Auditorium of the University of Pompeu Fabra in the Estació de França.

The event is free of charge; you only need to subscribe to reserve your seat. People who previously registered have received an invitation to confirm their presence for this event. Every person who would like to attend should register. We have 150 seats available, our opening event booked out 2 weeks beforehand. So don’t hesitate a moment, you can subscribe/confirm here.

We invited some of the most experienced people in the Mobile Music area to bring you an interesting mix of experience and future visions on this topic.

Scott Cohen - co-founder and VicePresident, The Orchard (UK) leading distributor of independent music in the world, representing over 3.500 labels from 73 countries and more than 1 million songs in catalogue. Artist manager and a recognized expert in new media, Scott has done consulting for different governments, mobile phone operators, and record companies on such topics as developing new business models using the Internet and the creation of new platforms for delivering content.

Bill Houghton - MyStrands (Spain/USA), a leader and innovator in new consumer products and consumer-based business strategies for the Internet. MyStrands develops social recommendation and discovery technologies to help people discover and organize digital content, and share tastes with others, through Internet connected devices. MyStrands is providing the mobile industry with new ways to build mobile communities around music, and develops the technology to offer personalized mobile radios (and video content) to mobile users.

Nandi Gurprasad - VP Global Alliances, Bango Ltd. (UK) Bango operates in the mobile internet where internet connectivity converges with mobile phones. The mobile internet is opening up a huge potential market for content providers and using our open, global platform, you can take advantage of this opportunity immediately. A seasoned executive and entrepreneur in high-technology, Nandi has been in mobile Mobile and Internet industries from the early days. Prior to joining Bango, Nandi was Sales Director for PocketThis, a Silicon Valley provider of mobile contextualization technology, where he managed tier one operator and partner relationships across the EU.

Timing:

19h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
20h00 The Future of Mobile Music - speaker sessions
21h10 Cocktail and Networking Party
22h00 End

A detailed location map can be found here at Guia Urbana de Barcelona. (or just click the map below)

This event has been kindly sponsored by Bango Ltd. and Barcelona Media.

To attend the event “The Future of Mobile Music” on October 2, 2006, you need to register and confirm your presence here.

The MoMoBarcelona Team.

Cristina, Carles, Rudy.

Presentations of Mobile Monday Barcelona Opening Event of July 3 available below. We’ll be back after summer. If you’re not registered yet, please register here to make sure you don’t miss the next event. Registered persons will be the first to be informed by mail on the next event.

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  Director of Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
  Web 2.0 and Mobile Search
  Download PDF (3.45 Mb)

• José Luis Jorge Marrasé
  Director of Alcatel’s Mobile Solutions Division in Spain
  Mobile Interactive TV and Advertising
  Download PDF (4.44 Mb)

• Russell Buckley
  Director European Operations, AdMob
  A Brief History of Mobile Marketing
  Download PDF (1.22 Mb)
• Ana Caralt
  CEO of McCann Interactive Spain
  Integrating the Mobile Channel in the Media Marketing Mix
  Download PDF (currently not available)

Here some pictures of the opening event, needles to say it was a great evening. An interesting topic, good quality speakers and presentations, mixed crowd of mobile value chain players, startups and advertising agencies and the gava was refreshing at the cocktail.

Thanks to everybody who participated, the speakers, the partners, the team and the participants. Stay tuned for more after summer!

We’ll add the presentations of the speakers here soon, meanwhile you can view some pictures of the event.

MobileMonday Barcelona Speakers Panel (from left to right): Ricardo Baeza-Yates of Yahoo! Research, Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday Ltd., José Luis Jorge Marrasé of Alcatel, Vicente López, CEO of Barcelona Media, Russell Buckley, from MobHappy and AdMob, Ana Caralt, CEO of McCann Interactive Spain.

You can view the whole pictures set here at Flickr.