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A week before the craze will hit Barcelona again, here’s my list of *places to be*: the events and networking cocktails, next to the classic big industry players mega parties, and the places where the early adopters and bloggers on mobile hang out… The places to discover more about the early-stage innovations happening in the mobile industry; where the entrepreneurs and startups mix with angel investors and VC’s, operators, device manufactures and applications and services providers. Up to you to be there wherever there’s a story to be told!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The fourth annual MobileSunday – an unofficial, informal and generally cool and funky gathering of mobile bloggers and their chums. THE place to be where you can meet some of the most influent people in the mobile industry and its convergent area’s. This is also a unique chance to meet most of the MobileMonday global chapter founders in one spot during the conference.

EVENT: Mobile Sunday Barcelona RSVP
TIME: 19:00 -
LOCATION: Club Mix, Comerç 21
HASHTAG: #msb

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Monday, February 16, 2009

The MobileMondayMobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress. 163 startups participated and 42 nominees were selected by their respective chapters. An international Jury selected the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona.

Keynote by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Markets at Nokia and Member of the Nokia Group Executive Board. Host MC Bena Roberts from GoMoNews.

EVENT: Mobile Monday Peer Awards RSVP
TIME: 16:00 – 20:00
LOCATION: Petit Palau, Palau de la Música Catalana, calle Palau de la Música, 4-6
HASHTAG: #mpa

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

EVENT: Mobile Media Tweet-up and Smaato Advertising Awards withMOCOM 2020, SIMYO Invite Only
TIME: 19:00 -
LOCATION: Broadbar Club Barcelona, Carrer d’Aribau 191

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EVENT: Accel Partners Invite Only
TIME: 19:30 – 22:30
LOCATION: Casa Batllò, The Julol Rooms, 2nd floor, 43 Passeig de Gracia

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

GoMo News blenders are informal and fun. You get free drinks and Pizza’. This year Smaato and a couple of others are even providing a shot of something hot and Spanish to anyone that attends! A crowd of CEO’s, VP, Founders and investors and its a great chance to pitch to GoMo and there will be lots of live video etc. Some companies such as Rapid Mobile will also be doing some demos at the event.. This is the place to be for good conversation, great networking and a fun and open environment.

EVENT: Gomonews Blender RSVP
TIME: 18:00 – 22:00
LOCATION: Bel Chica, Carrer de Villarroel, 60

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Swedish Beers

One of the classic hangarounds during MWC is Swedish Beers to catch up with a lots of mobile industry people from the UK and Europe and hosted by Helen Keegan. Check Swedish Beers for details.

EVENT: Swedish Beers No RSVP
TIME: 18:30 – …
LOCATION: Dostrece

I can confirm that Swedish Beers will be on Wednesday 18/2 from 6.30pm onwards at Dostrece  Blogpost coming…

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EVENT: WIP’s Mobile Jameoke (Bel Chica)
TIME: 21:30 – immediately following the GOMo Blender
LOCATION: Bel Chica, Carrer de Villarroel, 60

A live band made up of wireless and mobile industry insiders (I wanna see that one!)

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

EVENT: WIP Jam Session
TIME: 10:15 – 16:30
LOCATION: FIRA (Hall 2, Room D)

Developers session I initiated last year with Caroline Lewko in Barcelona. The best mobile developers meet key leaders of the mobile ecosystem in interactive sessions.  Just a few spots left.

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Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK and Ireland will be hosting a TechCrunch Talk event in Barcelona on Thursday 19^th of February, 3pm-6.30pm followed by drinks and networking. The Barcelona TechCrunch Talk is aimed at bringing together the mobile 2.0 startup and VC community to debate the next phase of the mobile startup world. It will feature two quick-fire panel discussions with the hottest entrepreneurs and investors selected for their leading views on the market, and with topics focused around the following themes:

EVENT: TechCrunchTalk Mobile 2.0 RSVP
TIME: 15:00 – 21:00
LOCATION: TBD

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Check Eric Chan’s and Martin Sauter’s lists for updates on Mobile World Congress events.

You can follow me on Twitter to see what I’m upto and if you’d like to share stuff during the congress, don’t forget to use #mwc and/or #mwc09 hashtags to be able to trigger updates – and for sharing with our online pals of course.

And don’t hesitate to ping me if you think there’s an interesting event I’m missing…