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Rudy De Waele @ Plugg '09Welcome to mTrends! This is my personal blog where I write about mobile media lifestyle, trends, ideas and opinion on anything mobile.

My name is Rudy De Waele, I am Belgian, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Often invited as a speaker and contributing writer to a number of professional publications, my thoughts and ideas on Mobile 2.0 have gone around somehow :D You can view my last presentations on the subject here.

Recently, I curated Mobile Trends 2020, a collaborative outlook of my personal heroes in mobile on the trends in mobile for the next decade.

I co-founded dotopen, a social platform for decision makers to connect & collaborate. dotopen is open to any organization interested in developing its ecosystem in order to advance its business and innovation.

I have presented at various Mobile & Technology conferences including MIPTV, Plugg, now, next, Digital Leaders Forum, PICNIC, Future of Mobile, Club de Creativos, MobileMonday Amsterdam, …

I am the organizer of Mobile 2.0 Europe and part of the Organizing Committee of Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley (San Francisco & Mountain View) and the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and MobileMonday Madrid.

I am also the organizer of the Mobile Premier Awards and AppCircus, a unique global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web.

I am a regular jury member in various competitions on mobile applications and services, such as Under The Radar – Mobility, Mobile Entertainment Awards (Meffys), Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards, TechCrunch Europas Awards, Smaato Advertising Award and MEX: The Mobile User Experience Conference & Awards,

Advisor, Strategy & Market Development – Enabling Next Generation Mobile & Web Services Strategies

Professionally one could describe me as a creative, visionary, thoughtful and self-motivated strategist with excellent inter-personal and communication skills in several languages, and technology platform experience across the Internet, Mobile Internet and Wireless Media.

I have worked on projects as diverse as R&D, competitive intelligence analysis, digital concept, think-tank, content and event development, mobile and digital music distribution, communities and social network analysis and development, and content integration of wiki’s, blogs, moblogs and RSS feed technologies.

Well-connected among key players in the digital media distribution and global mobile value chain players, I’m passionate for the new and the innovative and not afraid of mixing the unmixable.

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Picture by Danillon at the 22@Update Breakfast on Mobile 2.0 topic.

Professional interests and specializations by keyword: open innovation, strategic planning, business development, market research, brand building, next generation mobile services, web 2.0, enabling mobile ecosystems, user-generated content, mobile 2.0, networking, mobile web, mobile marketing, ubicomp, wearable computing, augmented reality, image recognition, paradigm shift, disruptive technologies, usability, user-experience, events, startups, digital music distribution, location-based services (lbs), one device, social media, blog, blogs, moblogs, mososo, collaborative systems, mobile communities, wikinomics.

@ Plugg Conference, Brussels, March 19, 2008

Picture by Rodrigo Sepulveda at Plugg on Mobile 2.0 topic.

Here some of my most quoted posts I wrote for other blogs/websites:

About context and the mobile web (gotomobile.com)
Connecting Cultures through Music (Vodafone Receiver #16)
Understanding Mobile 2.0 (Read/WriteWeb)

Feel free to contact me at my regular email adress: rudy AT m-trends DOT org.

The header image has been kindly designed by Berliner fellow-ist Markus Angermeier. Thanks to Jose and Peter from Nacencia for the technical help.

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