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Join the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference

Published on May 21, 2010 in Android, Announcements, App Economy, AppCircus, Application Stores, Applications, Augmented Reality, Barcelona, Conference, Developers, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Fun, Innovation, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference, Mobile 2.0 Event, Mobile Monday, MobileMonday, Moble 2.0 Europe, Nokia, Spanish Startups, Startups, Trends, app stores, apps, development, dotopen and mobile 2.0. Closed Tags: 2.0, AppCircus, Barcelona, blackberry, bluenove, Conference, Developers, dotopen, entrepreneurs, europe, event, microsoft, mobile, mobile 2.0, Mobile 2.0 Europe, mobile2, Nokia, O2 Litmus, orange, ovi, paypal, paypal x, phone 7, skyhook wireleless, Startups, vodafone, windows.

I am pleased to announce the Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010 Developer Conference on June 17 in Barcelona, and there’s going to be, once again, a lot of mobile developer activity in my beloved Mediterranean city.

On June 15-16 and co-located with Mobile 2.0 Europe, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding an Industry Workshop on Augmented Reality and the Web (co-chaired by Mobile 2.0 founder and organizing-committee member Daniel Appelquist). The workshop is free to participants but in order to participate you must submit a position paper. Check their website for more information and instructions on how to submit a paper.

On June 18, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum. Developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at the forum the following day, read below for further information.

And here, the details on the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference, the one-day event in Barcelona on June 17, 2010 exploring the future of mobile development and innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee. This year, with the support of Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Nokia, PayPal X, BlackBerry, bluenove, Telefonica Developer Communities, Orange, Vodafone, Microsoft and Skyhook Wireless.

The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack).

We’ll kick-off the day with a couple of panels that will set the tone: “Web vs. Native Apps” and “How to Make Money as a Developer”.

This year’s Developer Track will have 16 different workshop sessions and take place in four fully equipped rooms. Participants will get hands on insights into the latest in mobile development directly from the platform leaders and experts: Nokia, Vodafone, Blackberry, Mozilla, Opera, Paypal and more. Some DevTrack sessions will be:

- HTML5 and the new generation of Tablets [with Julian Moreno Beltran]
- Mobile Mountains [with Tom Hume]
- OneSocialWeb Tutorial [with Laurent Eschenauer]
- Using Geolocation and Maps in Android [with Israel Ferrer]
- HTML5 Apps, The mobile web taking over? [with Wolfram Kriesing]
- Opera Mobile emulator [with Andreas Bovens]
- CouchDB [with Martin Higham]
- Mobile Web Evolution: HTML5, Video, Widgets and APIs [with François Daoust]

The Business Track will be all about the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders such as Volker Hirsch who will talk about ”How Social helps to Deliver Effective Freemium Mobile Games & Apps”, Christine Perey focusing on ”Generating Revenues with Mobile Augmented Reality” and Vincent Hoogsteder from Distimo will talk about the “Mobile Application Stores State of Play”. Check the speakers’ page for more information and bio’s. More talks will be added the coming days.

To celebrate the great community of mobile developers Mobile 2.0 Europe will close the day with a spectacular AppCircus showcasing 10 of the the most innovative apps live on stage! Apply here if you would like to present your app in front of your peers and industry experts!

The event will be held at the brand new Communication Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is the most open & complete mobile developer conference supported by the major industry players and providing an intense hands-on and engaging experience.

You can get a ticket to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.

Mobile Apps Investment Forum Barcelona, June 18^th 2010 Barcelona

22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum in the city of Barcelona on 18th June. The developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at this forum the following day. Click here fore more information.

I hope to see you in Barcelona next month!

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley 2009

Published on September 9, 2009 in Announcements, Developers, Disruption, Disruptive Thinking, Events, Future of Mobile, Innovation, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, MobileMonday, Moble 2.0 Europe, San Francisco, Startups, development, dotopen and mobile 2.0. Closed

dotopen partners with Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley

The one and only original MOBILE 2.0 conference is back this year as a two-day event on October 15th and 16th, 2009 focusing on new Mobile Applications and Services, the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation presented by the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee (of which I’m part of).

The Mobile 2.0 Business Day will take place on October 15 in the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco, California and the Mobile 2.0 Developer Day on October 16 in the Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center in Mountain View, CA.

The MOBILE 2.0 Silicon Valley brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships.

Startups in mobile: join the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Launch Pad!
Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley provides a platform for pre-A round and A round start-ups focusing on mobile applications and services looking for funding, trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. Click here to apply for Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Start-up Launch Pad in San Francisco on October 15th, 2009 – any start-up with a mobile service or application can apply for jury selection.

Deadline for submission is October 5th, 2009 at midnight PST.

Special rate on tickets for dotopen members

We created a partnership between dotopen and Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley in order to offer a $50 disount on the standard ticket price for dotopen members only. dotopen offers 100 discounted tickets to its members for the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Business Day event in San Francisco ($249 instead of $299). Log in or register and go to dotopen.com/mobile-20 to find your discount code in your dotopen toolbox.

I hope to see you there!

Mobile 2.0 Europe – 4 Days To Go!

Published on June 14, 2009 in Barcelona, Conference, Developers, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Innovation, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, Moble 2.0 Europe, Startups, Trends and mobile 2.0. Closed Tags: 2.0, Barcelona, europe, mlove, mobile, mobile 2.0, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile-Tech-for-Social-Change, women 2.0.

Just a couple of days to go now before Mobile 2.0 Europe takes off. If you haven’t heard about the event by now, then I haven’t done my job well enough but here’s a reminder and latest update in case you haven’t decided yet if you want to join us for the event. There’s also a couple of interesting side events that makes it really worthwhile to make the trip to sunny Barcelona.

Check the Mobile 2.0 Europe final program and the speaker profiles with the latest additions. If you hadn’t noticed, the line-up is quite impressive!

C-level representatives from more than 170 companies registered to attend the Mobile 2.0 Europe event – that is more than last year!

During the Developer Day at Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference on June 18, Forum Nokia will challenge mobile Flash and Web developers to submit their best Web Runtime (WRT) widgets, Flash applications or mobilized websites for an on-the-spot competition. Check this announcement for all details.

Unfortunately for those who haven’t been able to book in time, the Developer Day is sold out! There are only a couple of duo-tickets left to attend both the DevDay and the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference on Friday, June 19. You can still purchase tickets for the Friday event here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html.

The startups that will present on Friday include Distimo (Utrecht), Layar (Amsterdam, Pikkoo (Oulu), theChanner (Barcelona) and vulevu (Berlin). Last week we added three more startups: beamME (New York), NearYoo (Brussels) and Zensify (London).

Technology media attending the conference include ZDNet, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, GoMoNews, MSearchGroove, PMN – Mobile Industry Intelligence, London Calling and many others including local media.

Many thanks to our partners ESADE, Barcelona Activa, Sun Microsystems, Vodafone Betavine, Forum Nokia, Yahoo!, Smaato, Getjar, The Finnish Mobile Association, Shozu, O2 Litmus and Amiando for their invaluable support.

On Saturday, in partnership with MobileActive.org, we’ll be hosting a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Open Air MEET-UP, an informal gathering for those passionate about mobile tech for social change to have a drink and watch the sunset! Register here for this gathering in a unique setting, it’s FREE!

There’s also a Woman 2.0 meetup on Thursday evening and a mLove gathering the same evening. Follow @mlovesociety to catch the action.

Looking forward to catch up with you all this week in Barcelona!

You can follow me on Twitter @mtrends and @mobile20 to stay updated on latest news and side events.

Sons of Wireless

Published on June 13, 2009 in Barcelona, Entrepreneurship, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, Mobile Culture, Mobile Events, Moble 2.0 Europe and mobile 2.0. 1 Comment Tags: Barcelona, Future of Mobile, mobile 2.0, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile Events, sons of wireless.

Sons of Wireless

Inspired by the Sons of Wireless (how good a name can get?) I’m giving away 2 duo tickets to attend the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference and the Developer Day.

Check their story: started by announcing they’d like to attend the conference without anyone noticing their message, then did a 2nd post, titled Mobile 2.0 Barcelona. Primer Asalto – in which, apparently, they didn’t get heard again, and decided to hit the streets with an increasingly devastating message (see picture below).

Sons of Wireless

Foto: Rafael Goicoechea.

Here’s the game: I will give away the tickets to the local people in Spain who can come up with the most creative, funny and entertaining campaign how to create buzz around Mobile 2.0 Europe towards the Spanish and Catalan speaking local communities. Use your imagination to spread your message virally across the local communities and who knows, you might make it to the stage next Friday at Mobile 2.0 Europe!

I will decide by Wednesday 14 hrs local time, not much time but a bit of online guerilla should make sure I can pick up the noise by then

Why not start by translating this post into Spanish and throw it inside the networks!

New generation coming to wireless?

Mobile 2.0 Europe – Here We Come!

Published on June 3, 2009 in Barcelona, Conference, Conferences, Developers, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Forum Nokia, Future of Mobile, Innovation, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile 2.0 Event, Mobile Apps, Mobile Content, Mobile Culture, Mobile Development, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Events, Mobile Internet Platforms, Mobile Monday, Mobile Music, Mobile Search, Mobile Social Media, Mobile TV, Mobile Video, Mobile Web, MobileMonday, Moble 2.0 Europe, Startups, dotopen and mobile 2.0. 1 Comment Tags: 2.0, appswork, Barcelona, Developers, distimo, ecosystem, entrepreneurs, europe, layar, mobile, mobile2, pikkoo, Startups, techcrunch, thechanner, vulevu.

A bit more than two weeks to go and Mobile 2.0 Europe is shaping up to become yet another great event! Check what’s on at this year’s edition:

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Day
The Developer Day has various simultaneous sessions in 3 different rooms. Sessions have been confirmed by Sun Microsystems, Forum Nokia, Vodafone Betavine, O2 UK, Telecom Italia, Bango, Getjar, PhoneGap, Opera Software, Mozilla, mTLD dotMobi, Future Platforms, and we left some slots open for more developer sessions. Get your ticket here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html. Act soon as there are only some 10 tickets left to attend the Developer Day!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Demo Launch Pad
More than 50 mobile startups registered to be selected to present at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Demo Launch Pad. The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee evaluated lots of great submissions, and choose for the more unknown and early-stage promising startups to come and present at the event in Barcelona. Here below the selected start-ups:

appswork (Santa Clara / London) – an application based on twitter that allows users to send files, online status, message backup, person to person (voice) chatting all unified to get your contacts closer and in one place.

Distimo (Utrecht) – Distimo makes mobile app distribution and monitoring easy. Every phone brand or operator is launching its own mobile app store this year, enabling mobile developers and brands to reach a large audience. To truly compete a developer needs to distribute its app in multiple app stores making monitoring performance difficult and time consuming.

layar (Amsterdam) – World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar shows you what is around you by displaying realtime digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone. Flip through the directory of ‘layers’ and fin ATM’s, bars, houses for sale, hotels and other cool stuff around you.

Pikkoo [pick-koo] (Oulu) – is the world’s first community for you to create, download and share interactive mobile screensavers and wallpapers for free. Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009.

theChanner (Barcelona) – a mobile TV Tuner that allows to watch the best Internet TV, 24/7, on your mobile phone. theChanner aims to help everyone to discover channels close to their culture, expressed in their own language, push forward their popularity, and encourage new channels to start mobile broadcasting. Social Mobile TV is here!

vulevu (Berlin) – Twitter for dating!

The revolutionary mobile dating platform, taking the powerful phenomenon of addictive twitter interaction into the world of love and romance. Meet people instantly! Date only if you want to date!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference
Check the latest speakers’ profiles and the agenda for latest speaker additions and profiles. If you hadn’t noticed, the line-up is really impressive. I am glad that, once again, we’re able to bring together some of the most important entrepreneurs and innovators from the mobile ecosystem in Europe and beyond.

Tickets
Tickets are really going fast now. Act soon before being left out! You can purchase your tickets here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html.

Bloggers Corner
At the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference on June 19 in Barcelona, we’re setting up a bloggers corner to facilitate interviews with speakers and participants. Amongst the technology bloggers attending the conference are:

Mike Butcher (London) and Robin Wauters (Brussels), Editors at TechCrunch.
Dusan Belic (Belgrado), Editor at IntoMobile.
Matthaus Krzykowski (Berlin-San Francisco), Mobile Correspondent at VentureBeat.
Bena Roberts (Munich), Founder and Editor of GoMoNews.
Peggy Anne Salz (Cologne), Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove.
Marek Pawlowski (London), Editorial Director at PMN – Mobile Industry Intelligence.

TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party
Our partner TechCrunch also announced it will be hosting the official TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party after the event on Friday and after the speaker’s dinner. Check here to book your attendance.

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp
And more in partnership with MobileActive.org we’ll be hosting a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp at Barcelona Activa on Saturday, June 20, 2009 — registration coming up! Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place.

Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, collaborative scheming about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. Check here for updates and more info.

That’s it for this week, more news to come soon!