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.

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.