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.

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!

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.

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