We’re pleased to announce there were 21 startups registered to pitch at the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 – Barcelona Nominations on December 14 at the Forum of ESADE Business School. You can view all registered startups here on dotopen.com.

We filtered out 12 startups to pitch at our event based on the following criteria:

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

The following 12 startups will be presenting (in alphabetical order):

CampusMóvil.net
Counterpoint
fastDove
fonYou
mobbeel
MobileContact
OurExplorer
Qustodian
SOMA Barcelona
taxi2
Umanify
Woices

Book now to attend this event, only a few seats left!

Agenda

• 18h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19H00 Introductions
• 19h15 Mobile Premier Awards Barcelona Nominations – Startup Pitches
• 10 startups / 3-slides / 3-minute pitch each + Q&A with jury
• 20h30 Networking / Jury deliberation
• 21h00 Announcement of the winner
• 21h30 End

Jury Members Barcelona

Albert Cuesta, IT and mobility analyst, writer, translator and professor.
Nuria Oliver, Scientific Director for Multimedia at Telefonica I+D.
Ricard Söderberg, Active Venture Partners.
Oscar Farres, Debaeque Venture Capital.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.
Jan Brinckmann,  ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute.

The juries will choose the local nominee that goes in the pool for international selection. An international jury will select the 20 finalists to pitch at the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 event on February 15 in Barcelona.

Location / 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.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica, ESADE Alumni and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media.

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 holding its Mobile Premier Awards 2010 – Barcelona Nominations on December 14 at the Forum of ESADE Business School.

The startup registration is open till Wednesday, December 9 at midnight CET.

If you’re an innovative startup in mobile, you can signup at the mobilepremierawards.com website. Here’s how to sign up. There are already 10 startups registered ready to compete at our pitching event, you can view their profiles here.

To attend the Mobile Premier Awards – Barcelona Nominations event

Register to attend and reserve one of the 180 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

Agenda

• 18h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19H00 Introductions
• 19h15 Mobile Premier Awards Barcelona Nominations – Startup Pitches
• 10 startups / 3-slides / 3-minute pitch each + Q&A with jury
• 20h30 Networking / Jury deliberation
• 21h00 Announcement of the winner
• 21h30 End

Jury Members Barcelona

Albert Cuesta, IT and mobility analyst, writer, translator and professor.
Nuria Oliver, Scientific Director for Multimedia at Telefonica I+D.
Ricard Söderberg, Active Venture Partners.
Oscar Farres, Debaeque Venture Capital.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.
Jan Brinckmann,  ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute.

The juries will choose the local nominees that go in the pool for international selection. An international jury will select the 20 finalists to pitch at the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 event on February 15 in Barcelona.

Location / 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.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica, ESADE Alumni and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media.

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.

During the Innovation Festival Barcelona, Mobile Monday Barcelona is organizing its next event on November 2 in Barcelona Activa on the topic “Innovation in  Mobile“.

During the last decade we have seen an increased flow of innovation around the mobile phone, which is becoming an indispensable gadget in nearly everyone’s life. Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide and they are already the most popular access platform to the Internet. The convergence of mobile phone and web services is just the beginning of what may be regarded as true “ubiquitous computing”. The paradigm of anytime, anywhere, anyhow has become a reality in everyday life in a very short time.

But what’s next? Besides the current rat-race of getting the best contextual mobile services on the market, in the labs, smart people are already working on the next big things in mobile… Mobile Mixed Reality, Sensing Technologies, Nanoscience coming to the mobile device, the next 10 years might be even more innovative then we have know so far. For this session, we asked some these people how they innovate with their company in this very competitive landscape. What are the processes? Which criteria they use to make the difference?

In an open and relaxed atmosphere, Mobile Monday Barcelona in partnership with Forum Nokia and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) is inviting you to join us and share insights and different views on how companies continue to innovate in mobile.

Speakers:

Alan Seideman (USA), Founder Brightkite

Alan will talk about how they brought Brightkite to a wide market and created a success story in less then three years time.

Alan Seideman is an entrepreneur who’s worked with various startups in mobile, search, and social networking. He was a founder of Brightkite, a mobile location-based social networking tool that has received wide accolade. Before Brightkite, Alan managed multi-million dollar SEM campaigns and all analytics for a large network of sites at Local Matters, Inc. Alan’s mobile experience dates back to 1999 when he was brand manager for Indiqu.com, a San Diego based startup which helped pioneer entertainment content made for mobile internet. Alan is now in Barcelona exploring interesting new projects and getting to know Europe. He views the next years as a great opportunity for web and interconnected devices to help face global environmental and poverty challenges. Alan has an MBA from the University of Denver and a B.S. from Haverford College. He’s also an avid photographer.

Nora Airas, Business Development Manager at Forum Nokia EMEA

Nora will show a nanotechnology concept project from the Nokia Research Center and talks about Forum Nokia Developer Community.

David Caabeiro (Spain), Co-Founder at Sequence Point Software

David will talk about ARound, a component-based framework which enables easy development of Augmented Reality applications on Symbian devices.

David works at Sequence Point Software, a company based in Barcelona, which specializes in Symbian development. He started developing for Symbian in 2002, after working mainly on POSIX systems during his university years. As a Symbian developer, he’s been working as an independent consultant for companies in Europe and the US, working with different technologies including telephony, voice over IP, location based services and multimedia.

David is an active member in the Symbian developer community -mainly participating in Forum Nokia and Symbian Foundation discussion boards- and a Forum Nokia Champion since 2006.

Juan Manuel Cambeiro Cuns (Spain), Technological Innovation Analyst at Telefónica España

Juan will talk about Technological Innovation in Telefónica.

Telecommunications Engineer by the University of Vigo ( Spain ), he specialized in computing engineering and have been working in the Telecom industry ever since. After working in companies like Alcatel, and Ericsson, he has been working in several companies within the Telefónica Holding since the year 2001, defining a common framework for Services Delivery in the whole group and representing Telefónica’s interests in this matter in different international initiatives. In the last few years, he has been working as Innovation Analyst in Telefónica in Spain, assessing new opportunities and start-ups, the business potential of new technologies, and establishing collaboration agreements with the industry and universities in an open innovation model.

Alex Kummerman (France), CEO of Soundwalk-Clicmobile (USA/France)

Alex will explain how they went from idea to building a product and going to market.

With over 16 years of mobile telecommunication expertise, strong leadership, entrepreneurship and successful management, Alex is now leading Soundwalk – Clicmobile joint venture and acts as President and co-founder of Clicmobile, a leading mobile interactive agency.

With Clicmobile and Soundwalk teams, Alex focus is today to successfully develop, promote and distribute the Soundwalk unique catalogue on smartphones as well as to expand this prestigious Soundwalk catalogue to cover the 40 most touristic cities of the world. His challenge is to deliver first quality mobile software in partnership with brands and advertisers to the get the best user experience possible on the new touch screen devices.

Soundwalk has produced more than 40 tours around the world and collaborated with Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Adidas, Fauchon, Orange… and was mentioned recently as an “Aural Augmented Reality” experience on Smart Mobs.

Alex is an entrepreneur of digital companies. In 1994  Alex co-founded and managed Absolut Media, the award-winning French Web Agency. His guidance helped ensure the successful purchase of Absolut Media by Euro RSCG in early 2000. Remember that in 2000 the MP3 format just started to be exchanged over the internet. Alex then co-founded the New York-based company Soundwalk and explored the very early days of the interactive and location based audio city tours. In 2003 Alex co-founded the Paris and Geneva based company Clicmobile to explore the interactive opportunities of mobile phones.

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 Innovation in Mobile presentations 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

Our Partners

Our thanks to our partners Forum Nokia, Telefónica, and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by: dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) and supported by:

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.

*** Image by Mac Funamizu licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Designing Mobile Experiences

Thursday October 29, 2009 in the Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA)

During the last decade we have seen an increased flow of innovation around the mobile phone, which is becoming an indispensable gadget in nearly everyone’s life. Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide and they are already the most popular access platform to the Internet. The convergence of mobile phone and web services is just the beginning of what may be regarded as true “ubiquitous computing”. The paradigm of anytime, anywhere, anyhow has become a reality in everyday life in a very short time.

Understanding the user context (who? what? where? when? how?) has become the major challenge for designers of all industries, also in order to create mobile services that are relevant in people’s everyday life.

With improved capabilities of devices including sensoring technology, we’re moving towards networked and context-aware environments, embedding computational power into the objects and environments that surround us (also known as “urban computing” and “locative media”). Visual browsing is possible today with augmented reality solutions changing the way we interact with what’s around. This increasing influence and permeation of the digital layer is launching a new wave of service ideas in industries such as media, consumer goods, retail, automotive, healthcare, etc.

Understanding how the mobile ecosystems work and in particular the correlation between design and mobile and between innovation and technology becomes increasingly important for any designer working in any industry.

For this first Mobile Design Session, we’re inviting some of the most forward-thinking leaders in Mobile who will share the challenges they see for the coming years: designing mobile services for a total mobile user experience, understanding the needs of the user within her environment.

Speakers:

Adam Greenfield, Head of Design Direction for Service and User Interface Design at Nokia.
Willem Boijens, Vodafone Senior User Experience Manager.
Timo Arnall, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Brian Fling, Founder and President of pinch/zoom.
Germán León, Vodafone User Experience Manager.

Agenda

09:00-09:15 – Welcome

09:15-11:15 – Speaker Presentations:

09:15-09:45 – Adam Greenfield
09:45-10:15 – Willem Boijens and German Leon
10:15-10:45 – Brian Fling
10:45-11:15 – Timo Arnall

11:15-11:45 – Coffee Break

11:45-13:15  – Interactive Panel Discussion, Design Challenge Presentations and Q&A

13:15-14:00 – Networking with Cava

Adam Greenfield

Adam GREENFIELD is co-founder of Do projects, an undisciplinary design collective, and author of Everyware (2006) and The City Is Here For You To Use (forthcoming). He has spent the last ten years exploring the intersection between technology, design and culture, with a special emphasis in the ubiquitous computation. Currently is Head of design direction for service and user interface design at Nokia. Adam lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Brian Fling

Brian Fling is an authority in the field of mobile user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real people.

Author of O’Reilly Media’s “Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps” Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices.

Brian is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is also the founder and president of pinch/zoom (pinchzoom.com), a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences helping clients like Best Buy, Lonely Planet and others dive into the world of mobile.

About

The Mobile Design Session is organised by: dotopen and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) and supported by: