Mobile Monday Barcelona

Coming to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress? Don’t miss the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona 2008! Sticking with MobileMonday’s recipe for success, the event will cook up a bunch of fresh innovations mixed with honest feedback and a dash of fun. Served with plenty of juicy networking at the NEW Espacio Movistar in Barcelona on Monday February 11 starting at 2:30PM.

The MobileMonday Peer Awards are recognised by the industry as one of THE interesting events in the mobile industry. Last year’s Barcelona Peer Awards event attracted 23 competitors, the MoMo community award went to Mobile Complete, the audience award to Plazes, and the expert jury award to Realeyes 3D. Check the Peer Awards 2007 Flickr Group pictures and winners’ announcement here.

Mr. Pekka Ala-Pietila, former president at Nokia Corporation and currently chief executive officer of Blyk Corporation, a virtual mobile operator in the UK, will be the keynote speaker.

The event concept is pretty similar as last year: every MobileMonday chapter is invited to nominate one startup to the Peer Awards Barcelona 2008. This year, we’ll divide the start-up finalist presentations in two categories: early-stage start-ups (founded in 2007, early-stage financing) and emerging start-ups (founded in 2005 and after, inbetween Series A & B funding). The organizing committee and jury selects the finalists to present at the awards event. Entrance into the running is free! Check the Peer Awards website for details.

There will be three awards in each category: jury, audience, and community (MoMo chapters). This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will also be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

Master of Ceremony is once again Mrs. Caroline Lewko, from the Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP).

The jury consists of some of the most recognized mobile industry experts and thinkers, currently confirmed:

• Carlos Domingo, General Director, Telefonica R&D;
• Ann Mei Chang, Mobile Engineering Director Google;
• Bena Roberts, Founder and Chief Analyst at BKI Media / GoMo News;
• Russell Buckley, Managing Director, AdMob Europe / Vice-Chairman of MMA’s EMEA;
• Carlo Longino, Mobhappy;
• Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone Group;
• Madamohan Rao, Editor, The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook;
• Jed Rice,VP, Market Development, Skyhook Wireless;
• Peter Vesterbacka, Founder, Some Bazaar;
• Jouko Ahvenainen, Chief Operating Officer, Xtract;
• Michael Wendell, General partner, Nexit Ventures;
• Sirous Kavehercy, Strategist and Consultant, Market Development Director at Acision;

The MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona 2008 are being organized collaboratively by the MobileMonday community and hosted by MobileMonday Barcelona. The event is free but you must register in advance since the 800 places will go quickly.

The next MobileMonday Barcelona event, on July 2, we are celebrating our first MoMoBCN anniversary at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). For this occasion we chose one of our favorite topics at the moment: Mobile Web 2.0 and invited some of the most interesting players in this field.

We will host Ajit Jaokar, co-author of the Mobile Web 2.0 book; together with Lucia Garate from Vodafone Group Research and Development - to talk about the recently launched Betavine platform; Patrick Lord from Mobiluck, and Carlos Domingo, General Director of Telefonica I+D to present and discuss their ideas on this topic. Rudy De Waele from m-trends.org and co-Founder of MobileMonday Barcelona will moderate the panel.

The session will be held in the CCCB Auditorium and we invite you to join us for a celebration drink at the wonderful “Pati de les Dones” inside the CCCB complex.

TOPIC: Mobile Web 2.0

Date: July 2

Speakers:

Ajit Jaokar (London) is the author of the book ‘Mobile web 2.0′ and is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup. Currently, he plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia. He also works with the government and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea and Ireland. He is a regular speaker at technology events including Real-World AJAX (June 2006 - New York) and AJAXWorld Conference & Expo (Oct 2006 Santa Clara). He spoke recently at the Stanford University’s Digital Vision program. He also featured recently on CNN money. Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel. He is the founder and CEO of a publishing company - Futuretext.

Lucia Garate (Madrid), works as Researcher in Vodafone Group Research and Development team in Madrid, where she moved in 2005 after working since 2002 in Vodafone Germany. Vodafone Betavine is the demonstration of Vodafone’s commitment with Web 2.0 and with its principles of collaboration, openess and collective intelligence. In fact the site is implemented using an Open Source portal framework. This is the only operator sponsored open community mainly aimed to encourage mobile applications development. For further information, please visit www.vodafonebetavine.net.

Patrick Lord (Paris), Marketing and Communications, Mobiluck.
MobiLuck puts a radar in your phone and luck in your pocket, so you can keep in touch with friends, meet new people and find places nearby - or on the other side of the world. MobiLuck’s vision is to facilitate social interaction where it really matters: in real life, when meeting friends and new people and going out places, not when you’re sitting in front of your computer. Created in 2003, MobiLuck is a software company specialising in location-based mobile services. It has over 500 000 registered users and is best known for its proximity Bluetooth messaging application that works on over 180 models of mobile phone in over 200 countries around the world.

Carlos Domingo (Barcelona) is the general director of Telefonica R+D labs in Barcelona where he manages a team of more than 200 professionals that do research and development for the Telefónica group on the areas of Multimedia, Internet and speech technologies. Carlos holds a master in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a PhD in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and postgraduate studies in business administration from Stanford University. Originally from Barcelona, Carlos has developed his career in Japan and the US, first as a researcher and engineering manager and then as the CEO of several software start-ups, LizardTech, Extensis and Celartem Tecnnologies, before returning recently to his hometown to join Telefónica.

Networking
A special networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a celebration drink. 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 180 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 20h00 Mobile Web 2.0 speaker sessions & discussion
• 21h15 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 22h30 End

Venue: The auditorium of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona - Tel. 93 306 41 00

CCCB General Information:

Metro: lines 1, 2 and 3 (Catalunya and Universitat) FGC and RENFE
Bus routes: 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 24, 38, 41, 50, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 66, 67, 68, 91, 120, 141, L94, L95, Tombús, Aerobús
Car parks: Plaça Castella, Carrer dels Àngels, Plaça Catalunya

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.