Mobile Monday Barcelona

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.

MobileMonday created a Global Peer Award miniwebsite where you can find all the related info to participate to the Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona on February 12. Information on the program, the awards, how to subscribe, how to mominate a company, how to become a sponsor, venue, etc. This is your chance to witness some of the world’s best mobile innovations. Selected by industry peers, peer award finalists will compete live before the community and a world class jury.

The offical nomination registration is now open for companies to become a nominee and make it to the final. Each MobileMonday chapter will choose their favourite mobile startup company on January 31st to come and present his project to the jury of experts at the event in Barcelona.

Note that some chapters have chosen a different process to select their winner: some chapters just choose their runner for the final, others organised (or organise) a pre-selection, some have worked through a shortlist of nominees and voting through their local community members. Please check with your local MoMo website for more details.

Here are some interesting MobileMonday events happening still this month:

MobileMonday Ukraine is holding it’s pre-selection on January 22 to announce the company-finalist of the Ukrainian selection for the Global Peer Awards 2007.

MoMo London has published a short-list that comprises UK based start-ups that have demoed to London MoMo since the last MoMo Global Peer Awards in May 06 in Helsinki. Voting on the short list will take place after the event on Monday 15th Jan and will remain open till Friday 19th Jan.

Check also the MobileMonday New York on Monday January 29th at the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. In collaboration with Antoine Quint of SVG.org, Dan Appelquist of Vodafone and MobileMonday-London, and Scott Weiss of Usable Products cordially invite you to join for this month’s event titled “Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG”. This half-day event will run from 3:00pm to 8:00pm followed by a networking reception.

Do not hesitate to register your attendance for the Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona, we are heading rapidly for a +500 event so seats might become limited after next week.

Stay tuned here for more news on the event, starting from next week, we’ll start releasing some participating finalist companies!

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.