Mobile Monday Barcelona

Two weeks to go and Mobile 2.0 Europe is shaping up to become yet another great event! Check what’s on at this year’s edition:

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Day
The Developer Day has various simultaneous sessions in 3 different rooms. Sessions have been confirmed by Sun Microsystems, Forum Nokia, Vodafone Betavine, O2 UK, Telecom Italia, Bango, Getjar, PhoneGap, Opera Software, Mozilla, mTLD dotMobi, Future Platforms, and we left some slots open for more developer sessions. Get your ticket here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html. Act soon as there are only a couple of tickets left to attend the Developer Day!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Demo Launch Pad
More than 50 mobile startups registered to be selected to present at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Demo Launch Pad. The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee evaluated lots of great submissions, and choose for the more unknown and early-stage promising startups to come and present at the event in Barcelona. Here below the selected start-ups:

appswork (Santa Clara / London) - an application based on twitter that allows users to send files, online status, message backup, person to person (voice) chatting all unified to get your contacts closer and in one place.

Distimo (Utrecht) - Distimo makes mobile app distribution and monitoring easy. Every phone brand or operator is launching its own mobile app store this year, enabling mobile developers and brands to reach a large audience. To truly compete a developer needs to distribute its app in multiple app stores making monitoring performance difficult and time consuming.

layar (Amsterdam) - World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar shows you what is around you by displaying realtime digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone. Flip through the directory of ‘layers’ and fin ATM’s, bars, houses for sale, hotels and other cool stuff around you.

Pikkoo [pick-koo] (Oulu) - is the world’s first community for you to create, download and share interactive mobile screensavers and wallpapers for free. Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009.

theChanner (Barcelona) - a mobile TV Tuner that allows to watch the best Internet TV, 24/7, on your mobile phone. theChanner aims to help everyone to discover channels close to their culture, expressed in their own language, push forward their popularity, and encourage new channels to start mobile broadcasting. Social Mobile TV is here!

vulevu (Berlin) - Twitter for dating!

The revolutionary mobile dating platform, taking the powerful phenomenon of addictive twitter interaction into the world of love and romance. Meet people instantly! Date only if you want to date!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference
Check the latest speakers’ profiles and the agenda for latest speaker additions and profiles. If you hadn’t noticed, the line-up is really impressive. We are happy that, once again, we’re able to bring together some of the most important entrepreneurs and innovators from the mobile ecosystem in Europe and beyond.

Tickets
Tickets are really going fast now. Act soon before being left out! You can purchase your tickets here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html.

Bloggers Corner
At the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference on June 19 in Barcelona, we’re setting up a bloggers corner to facilitate interviews with speakers and participants. Amongst the technology bloggers attending the conference are:

Mike Butcher (London) and Robin Wauters (Brussels), Editors at TechCrunch.
Dusan Belic (Belgrado), Editor at IntoMobile.
Matthaus Krzykowski (Berlin-San Francisco), Mobile Correspondent at VentureBeat.
Bena Roberts (Munich), Founder and Editor of GoMoNews.
Peggy Anne Salz (Cologne), Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove.
Marek Pawlowski (London), Editorial Director at PMN - Mobile Industry Intelligence.

TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party
Our partner TechCrunch also announced it will be hosting the official TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party after the event on Friday and after the speaker’s dinner. Check here to book your attendance.

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp
And more in partnership with MobileActive.org we’ll be hosting a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp at Barcelona Activa on Saturday, June 20, 2009 — registration coming up! Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place.

Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, collaborative scheming about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. Check here for updates and more info.

Hope to see you there!

At the next Mobile Monday Barcelona we’re going to explore the magic about Mobile Widgets. The event will be held on April 20 in the Sony Room of Barcelona Activa.

Mobile widgets are mini applications that sit on a handset and can be personalised to retrieve relevant information from the web. They provide ‘always on’ services based on the information users want to receive, and are a new touch point for how consumers use the mobile internet. Widgets are based on web code rather than on specialist programming language, which makes it possible for both professional and amateur developers to tap into their potential.

We invited some of the most active and knowledgeable experts working in the Mobile Widgets area including Paco Marín Garcia, Vodafone; Jure Sustersic, Forum Nokia; Marc Rougier, Goojet and Ricardo Varela, Yahoo! Mobile.

During this event, we want to offer YOU, the widget developers, the opportunity to demo your widgets in partnership with the Betavine Mobile Widget Competition. In order to present your widget at the event, just show up between 18H30 and 19H the day of the event and we’ll get you on stage.

As you may know Betavine, a Vodafone Group R&D lab, is offering mobile developers a chance to win £20,000 in a new mobile widget competition. The Betavine Widget Competition is designed to encourage developers to unleash their creativity and experiment with the technology, competing with their peers for a first prize of £20,000 - check the website for competition details and how to participate. All developers submitting widgets will also have an opportunity to make their entries available through the Vodafone Widget Manager Beta application, which is currently being rolled out across a range of 10 popular S60 handsets in Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the UK.

Speakers:

Paco Marín Garcia - Senior Manager Vodafone Widgets
Paco Marin is a Telecommunication Engineer - Polithecnic University of Valencia-. He started his profesional carrer in 1997 as a consultant. He joined Airtel (currently Vodafone Spain) in 1999 and he worked on Telecommunication Network Services; firstly, in the operational area of design and deployment of Intelligent Network Services, and then researching in Next Generation Intelligent Networks. He formally joined the R&D branch of Vodafone in 2004. He has led teams that have researched on topics related to Identity Management, Advertising, Widgets Applications, and Social Networks. This year, he is seconded at the Vodafone Spain Consumer Marketing Business Unit, and leads the business and technical deployment of the Vodafone Widgets strategy in Spain.

Jure Sustersic - Business Development Manager at Forum Nokia
Operating from Espoo, Finland, Jure manages business development activities in the Nokia developer ecosystem and specializes in Location Based Services, Utilities and Near Field Communication. His history with Nokia and developers began as a developer product manager for the S60 platform. Before settling at Nokia he was involved in several internet technology related projects and startups. He holds and MBA in High Technology management at Helsinki School of Economics.

Marc Rougier - President and co-founder of Goojet
Marc’s background in the telecommunication and IT industries spans over 20 years. Prior to founding Goojet, Marc has worked with IBM, Meiosys (a start-up he co-founded) and Thales, involved in international business development and innovative product development in all continents. Goojet is a mobile social media. It offers a personal, rich and interactive web experience to mobile users. Goojet manages web content in the form of widgets, offering two values to the user: easy access to content through a personal space of selected widgets; and discovery of relevant content shared by the community and by the system. Goojet enables social search, peer recommendation and viral distribution of web content across mobile users. You can join Goojet freely at www.goojet.com and m.goojet.com.

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 Widgets presentations and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa - Sony Room
Llacuna 162, 08018 Barcelona
T. 93 401 97 77
barcelonactiva@barcelonactiva.cat
Metro: L1 (Glòries)
Bus: 7, 56, 60, 92, B21

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 Vodafone, Yahoo!, Barcelona Activa and Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

The 20 finalists to compete for the Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona on February 16 have been selected by an international jury of industry experts, thanks to all of them for taking the time to review and make the final selection out of many great candidates. So here are the finalists, divided in two categories:

EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS

Addict Digital Media - Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
aka-aki networks GmbH - MobileMonday Berlin
Babajob.com - MobileMonday Bangalore
Big in Japan Inc. - MobileMonday Dallas
bioLocate - MobileMonday Jakarta
Dial2Do - MobileMonday Dublin
Fortumo - MobileMonday Estonia
Mob4Hire - MobileMonday Vancouver
Orbster GmbH - MobileMonday Munich
Oxynade - MobileMonday Brussels
Tellmewhere - MobileMonday Paris
Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney

EMERGING STARTUPS

Aradiom - MobileMonday Istanbul
fring - MobileMonday Tel Aviv
Getjar Networks - MobileMonday Lithuania
Keynetik - MobileMonday Washington DC
Mobintech A/S - MobileMonday Copenhagen
PopCatcher AB - MobileMonday Sweden
Soonr - MobileMonday Silicon Valley
Unkasoft Advergaming - MobileMonday Madrid

The registration to attend is now also open.

163 startups participated and 42 nominees were selected by their respective MobileMonday chapters. This week, an international Jury will select the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona. The finalists will be announced on January 26.

The startups nominated by the MobileMonday chapters to compete for the Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona are:

• 7syntax - MobileMonday Portugal
• Addict Digital Media - Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
• aka-aki networks GmbH - MobileMonday Berlin
• Anaeko - MobileMonday Belfast
• Aradiom - MobileMonday Istanbul
• Babajob.com - MobileMonday Bangalore
• Beabloo - MobileMonday Barcelona
• Big in Japan Inc. - MobileMonday Dallas
• bioLocate - MobileMonday Jakarta
• CIDWAY - MobileMonday Geneva
• Cirius Technologies, Inc. - MobileMonday Los Angeles
• Crave Mobile - MobileMonday Philadelphia
• Creador Estudio Interactivo C.A. - MobileMonday Caracas
• Dial2Do - MobileMonday Dublin
• Dialy - Mobile Monday Maroc
• DPGroup >> Product: SINDYK - MobileMonday Bogota
• Fortumo - MobileMonday Estonia
• fring - MobileMonday Tel Aviv
• Getjar Networks - MobileMonday Lithuania
• iKen Solutions - MobileMonday Mumbai
• Keynetik - MobileMonday Washington DC
• Liquid Air Lab GmbH / adplace.com - MobileMonday Frankfurt
• Mob4Hire - MobileMonday Vancouver
• Mobintech A/S - MobileMonday Copenhagen
• mobiSiteGalore - MobileMonday Chennai
• MocoSpace - Mobile Monday Boston
• Nimbuzz B.V. - Mobile Monday Amsterdam
• Orbster GmbH - MobileMonday Munich
• Oxynade - MobileMonday Brussels
• Palringo - MobileMonday London
• rmbrME - MobileMonday New York
• Secusmart GmbH - MobileMonday Dusseldorf
• Smaato Inc. - MobileMonday Hamburg
• Soonr - MobileMonday Silicon Valley
• Tellmewhere - MobileMonday Paris
• Unkasoft Advergaming - MobileMonday Madrid
• Wapalta - MobileMonday St. Petersburg
• Wapja.net - MobileMonday Sao Paulo
• WorldMate, Inc. - MobileMonday Atlanta
• Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney

* NOTE Helsinki and Stockholm nominations pending.

MobileMonday the global mobile networking community is opening its Mobile Peer Awards competition for 2009. Participation is free of charge and open to any startup willing to pay their way to the event. Innovative startups active in mobile technology or startups with a mobile product are invited to register at mobilepeerawards.com before the December 31 deadline.

MobileMonday Chapter organizers will look look at three criteria when making their decision:

• originality, creativity and innovativeness
• technical and operational feasibility
• economic and financial viability

Each of the 68 MobileMonday Chapters (cities) will select their local startup nominee which will be announced on January 19, 2009. An international jury of renowned industry experts, investors and entrepreneurs (to be announced soon) will select the 20 finalists that will present on stage in Barcelona on February 16, 2009. Last year’s jury included representatives from Telefónica, Vodafone, Google, Yahoo!, AdMob, MobHappy, GoMoNews, Nexit Ventures, and Xtract.

Check the “how to participate” page for further details on the participation and registration process.

Currently there are startups signed up from Buenos Aires, Boston, Berlin, Sweden, Belfast, Dublin, Jakarta, New York, Chennai. Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona and other chapters are preparing their preselections now. Once again, the event will gather the best in Mobile Innovation to come.

Previous MobileMonday Peer Awards winners include Realeyes 3D, Mobile Complete (now Device Anywhere) and Plazes in 2007; Buzzd, Funambol, Taptu and Kimia in 2008 (Winners’ Circle page here).

Anyone can sign up to the Mobile Peer Awards website to view startups and follow the competition.

About
The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress. The MobileMonday Peer Awards are organized by MobileMonday Barcelona in collaboration with the entire MobileMonday Community.

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.

The previous editions of the Peer Awards have received wide support from the entire mobile ecosystem players, including Telefonica, Nokia, dotMobi, Xtract, Nexit Ventures, Acision, 22@Barcelona, Barcelona City Council, Mippin, Reitek, CIDEM - Generalitat de Catalunya, MSC Malaysia / WCIT2008, Barcelona Media.

If you’re interested to become a partner or a sponsor to the Mobile Peer Awards during Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, please contact info AT mobilemondaybarcelona DOT com.