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PICNIC 09 Amsterdam is here!

Published on September 21, 2009 in Announcements, Conference, Conferences, Conversations, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Innovation, Startups, dotopen and mobile 2.0. Closed

One of my favourite European ‘crossmedia’ Festivals PICNIC ‘09 is only 2-days away now. The conference and festival takes place in Amsterdam from 23 to 25 September 2009 in a unique location, the Westergasfabriek, a former gasworks fabric.

PICNIC is Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas & knowledge of the world’s best creators & innovators.

This year PICNIC has programmed a lot more mobile related stuff

On Thursday September 24 at 13H I will introduce a short but sweet PICNIC Mobile Bites. Five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile will be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each. The companies – selected through dotopen.com – include:

aka-aki networks GmbH (Germany)

Ball-IT (Finland)

Orbster (Germany)

RjDj (UK)

Soundwalk (USA/France)

Come and check it out and let us know you’re coming – hit the Count me in button.

On Friday, I’m chairing the jury for the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards, a real challenge this year since the quality of the startups is very good this year!

Besides the great conference program and speakers, I’m also looking forward to the The City as an Interaction Platform session with Atau Tanaka, Adam Greenfield and Greg Skibiski. Also interesting is the session about Mobile Engagement with Katrin Verclas from Mobile Active. And our friends at Layar are participating to the one-day Augmented City Lab. Not to be missed!

I’m definately looking forward to meet old and make some new friends, this is going to be fun! Feel free to ping me on twitter if you’d like to get in touch.

TechCrunch Talk on Mobile 2.0

Published on January 29, 2009 in 3GSM, Announcements, Barcelona, Convergence, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Events, Future of Mobile, Global Peer Awards, Innovation, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, Mobile Events, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Sunday Barcelona, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, MobileSunday, Operators, Startups, Trends and mobile 2.0. Closed Tags: techcrunch mobile 2.0 mobile2 mtrends mikebutcher rudydewaele barcelona mwc gsma mobileworldcongress.

This year during the Mobile World Congress, there are some really interesting side events taking place exploring further the technical and business opportunities that the convergence of the mobile phone with other areas is bringing. While the mobile and web convergence is already going mainstream, there are still a lot of unexplored opportunities to discover. Think connecting the device to your home media, the practical use in eHealth, connected cars and the many possibilities to explore in the fast growing emerging markets.

My buddy, Mike Butcher with TechCrunch UK and Ireland will be hosting a TechCrunch Talk event in Barcelona on Thursday 19^th of February, 3pm-6.30pm on the Mobile 2.0 topic followed by drinks and networking. Venue in Barcelona will be announced somewhere next week.

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:

What will be the trends over the coming year?
What are VC’s looking for?
Can the power of the operators really be disrupted?
What value can be created in the mobile world in difficult times?

Tickets to the event are a nominal €25 per person – but only available to start-ups, VC’s and media. Tickets are available on www.amiando.com/tcmobile. Don’t wait last minute too sign up, there’s limited seats available.

Editorial enquiries about being on the speaker panels can be directed to Mike Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch contactable at http://uk.techcrunch.com/about.

I’m definitely going to participate – not having to organise it myself for once and start exploring new ideas in our preparals for the next Mobile 2.0 Europe event scheduled before summer.

It Was A Very Good Year

Published on December 31, 2008 in 3G, Android, Applications, Barcelona, Blyk, Carnival Of The Mobilists, Conference, Conferences, Convergence, Conversations, Developers, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Future of Mobile, Global Summit, Innovation, Location-Based, MEX, MEX Conference, Madrid, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, Mobile Apps, Mobile Content, Mobile Culture, Mobile Digital Storytelling, Mobile Events, Mobile Jam Session, Mobile Lifestyle, Mobile Monday, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Search, Mobile Social Media, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, MobileMonday Amsterdam, MobileSunday, Moble 2.0 Europe, Nokia World, Operators, Over The Air, Paris, Peer Awards 2008, Personal, Presentations, San Francisco, Social Media, Startups, Twitter, Under The Radar, iPhone, iPhone 3G and mobile 2.0. 3 Comments Tags: dotopen, Events, Innovation, mobile, mobile 2.0, mobile2, mtrends, Startups.

With only a couple of hours to go in 2008, I’m writing this post to close a very good year and write down some stats for future personal reference. Most of the year I did only those things that I do well and/or am passionate about and do them with people I love & respect, can’t ask for a lot more these days

Here’s a brief overview:

In 2008, with dotopen, I reviewed some 500 startups in mobile for event participation selections, as a jury member and for clients. We advised numerous startups helping them with strategic positioning within the global mobile ecosystem.

“Mobile 2.0″ passed a million entries in Google now and that means a lot to me.

Together with Deisi & Carles at dotopen, we organised 13 MobileMondays in Barcelona, Sevilla and Madrid. We also organised some bigger events such as the MobileMonday Peer Awards, Mobile Sunday Barcelona and the Mobile Jam Session (with Caroline Lewko) in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We contributed as well to the Mobile Jam Sessions in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

Some of the other highlights of the year were definately Mobile 2.0 Europe in June in Barcelona and in November in San Francisco. Furthermore in Silicon Valley I attended Seedcamp in the Valley and Mobile Tech for Social Change barcamp organised by Daniel Appelquist and Katrin Verclas at Google.org offices. Also attended – and still one of the best startup events around – Under The Radar – Mobility event in Mountain View I attended for a 3rd year in a row. Another highlight was definately the Vodafone Mobile Clicks for which I also participated as a jury member. It was very interesting evaluating the Dutch startups and it was great fun in Amsterdam with the other jury members and at PICNIC.

I presented at some really GREAT events, such as:

Plugg, Brussels – view my Mobile 2.0 presentation

Over The Air, London – view my Mobile 2.0 for developers presentation

MobileMonday Amsterdam (most probably the BEST MobileMonday around these days!) – view my 15 Tips to Create Value for Mobile presentation

Digital Leaders Forum in Seoul, Korea – view my Mobile Digital Storytelling presentation

PICNIC (Vodafone Mobile Clicks), Amsterdam – view my Mobile Startup Case Studies presentation

Future of Mobile, London – view my Future of Mobile presentation

Together these presentatons got + 55.000 views this year on Slideshare, you can view all my presentations here.

In 2008, I took 33 trips to 14 cities in 2008. You can view my 2008 trips here on Dopplr.

I created some 37 Flickr Sets of my travels around in 2008, I created one specially for you titled “Wonderful People in 2008” with most of all the nice people I met during 2008.

So that’s about it in a nutshell. What to expect for 2009? It’s going to be another interesting year for mobile for sure, shaky for some but determinent for others. I’ll write up my predictions for 2009 next week after a short break.

I wish a very happy new year to all my friends, collegues, twitter followers and blog readers. Looking forward to catch up with you all again in 2009!

Please mark already your calendar for new editions of our events (currently confirmed in 2009):

February 15 – Mobile Sunday Barcelona (venue to be confirmed soon)

February 16 – Mobile Peer Awards 09

June 17-18-19 – Mobile 2.0 Europe (a day for developers, a day for startups and a day for business)