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.

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.

The 2008 MobileMondy Peer Awards recognized 27 companies from 18 countries at its annual awards event held at Telefonica’s fashionable Espacio Movistar facility during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Buzzd from New York, a provider of local real-time search information for bars, clubs and restaurants on the mobile device, cleaned the table by winning jury, audience and community awards under the early stage category.

In the Emerging Community category, Taptu a search and sharing engine from London won the award with jury award Funambol, an open source email and messaging company, while local favorite Kimia, a rich media content provider, clinched the audience choice.

Three awards in each category: jury, audience, and community were judged by an expert jury including representatives from Telefónica, Mobile Marketing Association, Vodafone Group, Google, Nexit Ventures, eXtract, Acision, MobHappy, GoMoNews, the MobileMonday global chapter founders and audience SMS voting.

We have created two downloadable PDF documents including slides from all participating companies within each category. The Early-Stage and Emerging Start-Ups presentation slides are currently available for download here. If you are not registered yet, please enter the subscription section to access the documents.

(NOTE: some of the embedded animation’s or video’s have been lost or could not been transferred for PDF document creation).

This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will be invited to participate in the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

We created a MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona Flickr Group with event pictures (http://www.flickr.com/groups/peerawardsbarcelona/); anyone who has pictures of that evening, feel free to join and post your pictures in the group to share with us.

MobileMonday has announced its Peer Award nominees. 25 chapters from around the world have chosen companies that have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, products, services and concepts.

The event will be held at Espacio Movistar. Luis Jorge Romero, Director of Standards and Innovation in Telefónica España, will be a keynote speaker together with Pekka Ala-Pietilä, CEO and Co-Founder, Blyk. Mr. Romero will speak about the future of the mobile market and his experience driving innovation in Telefónica España, whose Open Innovation strategy encourages innovation and value creation by partnering with new start-ups.

This year’s nominees are:

Amsterdam – Movels
Bangalore – Mobisy
Barcelona – skuair
Berlin – ViiF
Boston – SnapMyLife
Brussels – Mobixx
Chennai – Mobile-worx
Dusseldorf – Cellity
Helsinki – Fromdistance
Istanbul – Mobinex
London – The 3G Dating Agency / Taptu
Madrid – Kimia
Milan – Waymedia
Mumbai – Ziva Technologies
Munich – hiClip
New York – BuzzD
Oslo – Adactus
Paris – WebWag
Rome – Nanology
Shanghai – DuoGuo
Silicon Valley – Funambol
Singapore – mBit.tv
St. Petersburg – 4Mobi.TV
Stockholm – Momail
Taipei – Toro

This year’s winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will also be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.

The event is also going to showcase for the first time the new barcelona.mobi mobile urban guide.

Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Nokia, dotMobi, Xtract, Acision, Nexit Ventures, Mippin, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Media for their invaluable support to this event organised by dotopen.

Additional information is available at http://www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/peerawards/