After the succesfull MobileMonday Global Peer Awards the MoMo Barcelona team organised during 3GSM World Congress in Espacio Movistar, we’re heading back to normal with our monthly MobileMonday Barcelona event on interesting topics following trends and evolution in mobile technology and services.

MobileMonday Barcelona invites, for our next event on March 5, some of the most interesting players in the field of Mobile TV and IPTV going mobile, so if you want to learn more about this topic and hear it from the experts, please register ASAP, this topic promises to be a quick seat-filler.

Date: Monday, March 5, 2006

Topic: MyMobileTV

Speakers:

Ivan Communod, co-founder and COO of vpod.tv

Ivan started his career as a Telecommunications Engineer for France Telecom: starting in 1995, he spent three years as Internet Technical Director at Global One Holland (France Telecom Group now called Orange) where he participated in the creation of the first European Internet Exchange, the AMS-IX in Amsterdam. He later joined an Digital (now HP) at European headquarters in Switzerland as a Solution Architect in the Outsourcing practice, where he worked with the largest telecommunication and mobile operators of the world.

Presentation: vpod.tv is an innovative Video Publishing On Demand service, enabling consumers and corporations to very easily create their own private Internet and mobile TV channels.

Anil de Melo – CEO and producer of MobuzzTV

Anil founded MobuzzTV in December 2004, prior to that he was working in the mobile entertainment industry. He has been involved in the media industry for many years and his main passion lies now in all things IPTV !

Presentation: MobuzzTV wants to raise of the current type of vlog in two ways. Firstly, in terms of content: the aim to produce more highly structured, informative daily clips. Secondly in terms of format: while MobuzzTV is accessible online, it is specifically formatted for use on a mobile phone. With a daily magazine, celebrity interviews, cyber news, and a variety of other features, MobuzzTV strives to keep you informed and entertained, allowing you to watch what you want, when you want, where you want. MobuzzTV makes mobile Video On Demans a reality.

José Luis Jorge Marrasé – Barcelona Competence Center Manager for Multimedia applications in Alcatel-Lucent.

José Luis Jorge Marrasé has previously held a possition as a director of Mobile Solutions in Alcatel Spain until the merge between Alcatel and Lucent. After the merge the competence center of Barcelona has become one of the key Multimedia centers for Alcatel-Lucent. José Luis started in 1988 working as desing engineer for Intelligent Networks in Alcatel and his career has evolved with different management possitions in the applications area.

Presentation: From Video Streaming to a Convergent Mobile Interactive TV. Alcatel-Lucent will explain their view in today situation on WAP Video Streaming services and how they need to evolve to a true TV offer with interactive services and how this new technology will be linked to IPTV.

Xavier Kirchner – Director of Telefonica I+D, Barcelona

Presentation: the title of his talk will be “Telefónica Experiences with Digital Television” and he will be speaking on the experiences that Telefónica has had with its development and deployment of its IPTV service Imagenio (originally developed by Telefónica R+D and later transferred to Alcatel-Lucent for industrialization under the MyViewTV name), the current mobile TV streaming service and the recent pilot of DVB-H.

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 MyMobileTV speaker sessions
• 20h30 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.

About Mobile Monday
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.