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Mobile Premier Awards – Calling All Mobile Startups

Published on December 10, 2009 in Announcements, Awards, Barcelona, Events, Innovation, Innovation in Mobile, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Monday, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Premier Awards, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, Peer Awards, Startups, Trends, Women in Mobile, dotopen and mobile 2.0. Closed

Mobile Premier AwardsFor this year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation.

The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and 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.

There have already been more than 200 submissions for the Mobile Premier Awards. Participation is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Visit how to sign up for the mobile premier awards and how to create a good company profile. The deadline for entry is December 31st 2009.

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 include the following awards:

* MPA in Innovation – The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers
in partnership with MobileMonday

More than 75 MobileMonday chapters worldwide will nominate their local most innovative startup to compete in the innovation award. From these nominees an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select 20 finalists to come and pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, press and influential bloggers.

* MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing
in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association which will grant the winner:

  • a free one year Regional (European) membership of the MMA valued at $2,500
  • a speaking slot at a Mobile Marketing Forum in Europe during 2010
  • some consulting free of charge from a global board member of the MMA (exact nature to be confirmed)
  • a feature on the MMA website (www.mmaglobal.com) where including the post of a case study of the winner’s work

* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum which will grant the winner a prize exceeding €3,000 in value, including:

  • a free one year Associate Membership to the MEF
  • a free pass to MeM 2010, MEF’s annual conference in Europe
  • a free submission to the 2010 Meffys awards
  • a featured post on the MEF blog

* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
in partnership with MEX.

* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
in partnership with MobileActive.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup
in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

About the Mobile Premier Awards

The Mobile Premier 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 including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

More Mobile Premier Awards online

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Announcing the Mobile Premier Awards

Published on November 6, 2009 in 3GSM, Announcements, Barcelona, Carnival Of The Mobilists, Conference, Conferences, Disruption, Entrepreneurship, Events, Innovation, Innovation in Mobile, Mobile 2.0 Europe, Mobile Events, Mobile Monday, Mobile Premier Awards, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, Peer Awards, Peer Awards 2009, Presentations, Startups, dotopen and mobile 2.0. Closed

Mobile Premier AwardsThe Mobile Premier Awards 2010 opens its competition today.

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.

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 will include the following awards:

* MPA in Innovation – The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers
in partnership with MobileMonday

The MobileMonday chapters will vote for their local most innovative startup. An international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select the 20 finalists from all the local chapter nominees to pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

* MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing

* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum

* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
in partnership with MEX.

* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
in partnership with MobileActive.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup
in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

Participation to these awards is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle.

Go to www.mobilepremierawards.com and take your chance to walk the red carpet in Barcelona!

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Unkasoft’s Pitch at Mobile Peer Awards

Published on February 26, 2009 in 3GSM, Awards, Barcelona, Entrepreneurship, Global Peer Awards, Innovation, Mobile Monday, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, Peer Awards, Peer Awards 2009, Spanish Startups, Startups, Trends and mobile 2.0. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Alive & kicking again and fully recovered after an intense Mobile World Congress week. With this post I wanted to thank all who participated and supported the Mobile Peer Awards. It was a great event!

Here are some goodies of the event:

You can still view the finalists and winners’ online video and slideshare pitches at the Mobile Peer Awards website. I created a Flickr Group with pictures from the event. Feel free to add yours too. It’s so much more fun to share :)

There are tons of reviews and coverage of the event on many different blogs in many languages, many new articles are still added every day, too much for me to follow. Here are some interesting posts creating great visibility for the participants:

Mobile Peer Award winners

Mobile Startups Whittled Down To The Last Five in Barcelona

Babajob sweeps Mobile Peer Awards

MoMo Global Peer Awards 2009

And last but not least, here’s the winner of the Emerging Startup Audience Award: ‘Tiger Jump’ Jaime is doing his pitch for Unkasoft. You get a good feeling of the warm and enthusiastic atmosphere at the event.

So, how did you liked the event? Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments.

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Mobile Peer Awards Program

Published on February 1, 2009 in 3GSM, Announcements, Barcelona, Carnival Of The Mobilists, Conference, Conferences, Entrepreneurship, Events, Forum Nokia, Future of Mobile, Gathering Of The Mobilists, Global Peer Awards, Innovation, Mobile Events, Mobile Monday, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Web, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, Nokia, Operators, Peer Awards, Peer Awards 2009, Presentations, Startups, Trends, iPhone, iPhone 3G and mobile 2.0. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , .

The Mobile Peer Awards registration is now open. The event will take place in the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 16, 2009 from 16H till 20H. Make sure you register to attend to guarantee your seat, registrations are coming in really fast!

Hereby the details of the program.

Agenda

3:30 pm Registration and pre-networking

4:00-4:10 Introductions

4:10-4:30 Keynote by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Markets at Nokia and Member of the Nokia Group Executive Board

4:30-5:30 Peer Awards presentations Early Stage Startups

Introduction Jury members by host MC Bena Roberts, GoMoNews

Members of the Early-Stage Startups Jury:

5:30-6:30 Peer Awards presentations Emerging Startups

Members of the Emerging Sartups Jury:

NOTE : Peer Awards presentations are: 3 slides/3 minutes pitch per speaker + jury Q&A

6:30-7:30 MobileMonday Networking Cocktail

7:30-7:45 Peer Awards Ceremony (jury, MobileMonday chapters and audience awards)

8:00 Closing doors

The Venue
The Mobile Peer Awards will take place in the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 16, 2009 from 16H till 20H. Map here.

Partners
Thanks to our partners Ajuntament de Barcelona, Nokia, Forum Nokia, 22@ Barcelona, betavine, amdocs, Access, Yahoo!, Amiando, Hewlett-Packard, O2 Litmus and Venturebeat for their invaluable support.

The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards are organized by MobileMonday Barcelona in collaboration with the entire MobileMonday Community.

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MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Finalists

Published on January 26, 2009 in 3GSM, Announcements, Awards, Barcelona, Conference, Conferences, Forum Nokia, Global Peer Awards, Innovation, Mobile Events, Mobile Monday, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile Web, Mobile World Congress, MobileMonday, Nokia, Peer Awards, Startups, iPhone and mobile 2.0. Closed Tags: .

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.

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