Mobile Monday Barcelona

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.

Nokia World is coming to Barcelona so we anticipated to invite some friends from Finland to join us for our next MobileMonday Barcelona on Mobile Social Media on December 1. The event will be held at the Forum of ESADE Business School (same venue as the Mobile 2.0 Europe event).

Mobile Social Media has known a tremendous growth in 2008. Über social media platform Facebook recently announced that their mobile site m.facebook.com, jumped from 5 million to 15 million this year. The most recent change made to the site, allowing comments to be posted on status messages from your phone, resulted in more than 1 million mobile posts in the first 24 hours.

For this unique event we invited three local Mobile Social Media startups and the following speakers:

Matt Mizenko, Head of Ovi.com, Product Management with Nokia.
Previously Matt was Senior Product Manager for the Ovi Technology Platform.  Prior to joining Nokia, Matt served as Chief Wireless Architect with Fry, Inc. in New York where he headed mobile, thin-client and embedded systems development for clients including NYMEX, Godiva and The Spiegel Group.  In his free time, Matt is an active photographer, cyclist and wine enthusiast.

Monday is a great day, but there’s also Friday, Mini Friday. The mobile version of Habbo Hotel has stayed rather under the radar till now. If you want to know more about the next exciting BIG THING in mobile, Sulake, the company behind Habbo Hotel, will make a special announcement at this MobileMonday Barcelona.

Peter Vesterbacka, Founder of ConnectedDay.
Peter will be talking about how to apply mobile technology for people working with the most important asset of all, our children. ConnectedDay is providing a set of services that enable a richer parent-child dialog and also assists in building a true partnership between daycare professionals and parents. Peter is also known as the founder of MobileMonday and a few other things.

Panu Mustonen, founder & CEO of Ramblas Digital
Beer and mobile phones are both great social lubricants, but what do you get when you combine the two? Panu Mustonen, founder & CEO of Ramblas Digital, will talk about what they have been doing around mobile services for events and venues and cool new combinations.

Mobile Blogger Relations
And last but not least, and with a big thank you to Nokia, we’ll have a panel with some of the top bloggers on mobile technology from across the globe to talk about what it means to be included in outreach from a major player in the mobile world. Don’t miss this chance to see and meet some of these bloggers IRL.

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 250 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Social Media sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

ESADE Forum
Av. Pedralbes 60-62
08034 Barcelona
Spain

HOW TO GET THERE

ESADE is just 15 minutes by car from El Prat-Barcelona International Airport. The area is easily accessible by car and public transport from the city centre and from outside the city.

Bus
There are various bus routes with stops near ESADE: 22, 64, 78, 63 and 75.

Underground
The nearest underground station is María Cristina (Line 3), some 500 m from ESADE.

Generalitat of Catalonia Railways
The nearest train station is Reina Elisenda, some 250 m from ESADE.

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, Yahoo!, Barcelona Activa and ESADE Alumni for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

For the opening of the Mobile Monday Barcelona 2008-2009 season, we’re exploring the impact of the financial crisis and the implications for startups in mobile technology with the topic: Mobile Startups & VC’s: Opportunities in Times of Crisis.

On October 13 at the Auditorium of Barcelona Activa we invited some of the most active and knowledgeable local VC’s in mobile with presentations from Nauta Capital, Debaeque and Caixa Capital Risc.

As part of our new initiatives for this season, we invited two local startups, theChanner and Beabloo, and a startup from the Netherlands, Liveskope who will be presenting their projects.

At MobileMonday we believe that the winning projects of tomorrow are being build today. We all know that we are in one of the most dynamic and influential industries of our time: the storm will pass, the future is mobile!

Speakers:

Óscar Farrés, Associate at Debaeque Venture Capital
Debaeque is an independent investment company headquartered in Barcelona. Since 2001 we have invested in South-European companies with global products and competing in businesses where we have an expertise or knowledge. The company’s mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and team work to grow early-stage companies into great businesses.

Sergio Pérez, Investment Manager at Caixa Capital Risc
Sergio Pérez is investment manager at Caixa Capital Risc since 2006, especializing in ICT. Sergio is focused in Mobile technology development and to date he has completed 12 investment in early stage. Between 2001 and 2006 he was part of the Southwing, a Barcelona start-up. Previously he worked as a member of the pre-sales team at Vodafone Spain.

Marcel Rafart, partner at Nauta Capital
Marcel’s experience includes more than 13 years in the TMT market, either as executive, consultant or board member. All these roles have allowed him to accumulate a very solid experience in a broad range of companies, ranging from big multinationals like Vodafone to some start ups. Ex member of the Executive Committe of Cluster Consulting, later DiamondCluster, since its foundation in 1993 where Marcel advised CEO’s and CMO’s of several wireless operators all over the world. Since 2003 Marcel is also a Board Member of Fractus, a telecomms company, backed among oghers by 3i and Apax. He is also Board Member of Southwing, CenterPost and The Node Company, all of them Nauta Tech Invest I portfolio companies. Marcel holds a degree and a MBA from ESADE.

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 Startups & VC’s sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa
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 Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Yahoo! and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

(*) Image by Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

The next Mobile Monday Barcelona on June 2, 2008 will be held at the Auditorium of Barcelona Activa and covers the topic Micromedia, exploring user-generated microblogging content and tools. The session will include Hector Milla from Balzac.TV, Tony Fish from AMF Ventures, Mireia Fontbernat from QIK and Alberto Tognazzi from the Movil Film Fest.

Speakers:

Héctor Milla, Founder Balzac.TV (Spain)
Héctor Milla is an entrepreneur of WebTV with Balzac.tv, a HD videoblog with multiplatform distribution and focused on the innovation segment. He was part of the team that launched “Cable i televisió de Catalunya” in 1996, the first cable operator in Catalunya. From 2000 to 2002 Héctor was responsible of R&D of Media Park enterprise and has been a consultant for complex projects in digital media, television and the internet. Since 2004, Héctor blogs and videoblogs about audiovisual innovation and television 2.0

Tony Fish, Founder AMF Ventures
Tony is an experienced, professionally qualified executive and an accomplished public speaker. Tony has worked on trends and global business issues with numerous organizations, and has particular expertise in the development of innovation through partnership. He has an excellent grasp of strategic and economic issues relating to growth businesses, and their patterns for survival. Tony features in the top 10 of ‘The Observer Guardian’ newspapers “The future 500 rising stars” Nov 2007. “Mobile Web 2.0” is Tony’s second book and provides a detailed strategic analysis of the changing relationships in mobile, media and retail as the markets move towards openness.

Mireia Fontbernat, Head of Marketing EMEA QIK
Mireia Fontbernat, first Qik employee in Europe, is responsible for marketing and growing Qik in EMEA. Previously, she was Marketing Director at Oblicore and, before that, spent over three years at Microsoft, as Head of Marketing for the Real-Time Collaboration group in EMEA, which included Live Meeting and Live (Office) Communications Server. Throughout her 15-year career, Mireia has also worked for PlaceWare (web conferencing), Regus and in the airline industry in various European countries. Mireia is originally from Barcelona. During her spare time she enjoys cinema, theatre, hiking and skiing.

Qik, the world’s leading live mobile video streaming platform, enables anyone to stream video live from their mobile phones to anywhere in the world. Its innovative, patent-pending technology enables anyone to share their moments live with their friends and family or the entire world. Notable events captured on Qik include Cannes Film Festival, the Olympic torch run in San Francisco, sessions from the World Economic Forum in Davos, and interviews with Michael Moore, Bono of U2, Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Jordin Sparks of American Idol.

Alberto Tognazzi, Founder Movil Film Fest
Alberto has been a director, editor & postproducer in advertising during 15 years. In 2006 start his first project Web based. One of his projects has been chosen and show by SONAR 2007 as a piece of net art. In 2007 creates the Movil Film Fest, the greatest Mobile Short film Award in Spain in collaboration with El País, Cuatro, Nokia, Fnac and the Spanish Film Academy.

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 Micromedia sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa
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 Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Barcelona Activa, Bango and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

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.