The Future of Mobile Music at MobileMonday Barcelona

As you might know, I’m organising and programming the Mobile Monday Barcelona events together with Cristina Meló, and Carles Fereiro from Barcelona Media. Martin Tantow, who initiated the event with me, left to Madrid for a new job so we’ll be missing him as of now.

After a summer break it’s time to announce the next Mobile Monday Barcelona event. The next topic is set to “The Future of Mobile Music“, the event will take place on Monday, October 2, 2006 at the Auditorium of the University of Pompeu Fabra in the Estació de França.

For this event, we invited some of the most experienced people in the Mobile Music area to bring together an interesting mix of experienced people with future visions on this topic.

Scott Cohen – co-founder and VicePresident, The Orchard (UK) leading distributor of independent music in the world, representing over 3.500 labels from 73 countries and more than 1 million songs in catalogue. Artist manager and a recognized expert in new media, Scott has done consulting for different governments, mobile phone operators, and record companies on such topics as developing new business models using the Internet and the creation of new platforms for delivering content.

Bill Houghton – MyStrands (Spain/USA), a leader and innovator in new consumer products and consumer-based business strategies for the Internet. MyStrands develops social recommendation and discovery technologies to help people discover and organize digital content, and share tastes with others, through Internet connected devices. MyStrands is providing the mobile industry with new ways to build mobile communities around music, and develops the technology to offer personalized mobile radios (and video content) to mobile users.

Nandi Gurprasad – VP Global Alliances, Bango Ltd. (UK) Bango operates in the mobile internet where internet connectivity converges with mobile phones. The mobile internet is opening up a huge potential market for content providers and using our open, global platform, you can take advantage of this opportunity immediately. A seasoned executive and entrepreneur in high-technology, Nandi has been in mobile Mobile and Internet industries from the early days. Prior to joining Bango, Nandi was Sales Director for PocketThis, a Silicon Valley provider of mobile contextualization technology, where he managed tier one operator and partner relationships across the EU.

Timing:

19h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
20h00 The Future of Mobile Music – speaker sessions
21h00 Cocktail and Networking Party
22h00 End

This event is sponsored by Bango Ltd. and Barcelona Media.

To attend the event “The Future of Mobile Music” on October 2, 2006, you need to register and confirm your presence here. The event is free of charge.

Note also that MobileMonday Ukraine is opening next week in Kiev, this chapter has been initiated by the remarkable Julia Palatovska together with Qarea. Kudos to friend Julia who has done a great job setting up an opening event with an interesting program from scratch. Nice!