Welcome to mTrends! This is my personal blog where I write about mobile media lifestyle, trends, ideas and opinion on anything mobile.

I am a Belgian citizen, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. A key networker, strategic advisor, speaker and entrepreneur, I am driven by one great passion: foster innovation with a focus on Next Generation Mobile Services. I have been working in Internet media since 1995 and in mobile since 1999. My current focus is on mobile Health and Education.

In 2007, I co-founded dotopen.com, a global social platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to connect & collaborate. In 2010 we launched AppCircus – a traveling showcase of innovative apps around the world. With dotopen, we also organize the yearly Mobile 2.0 Europe conference as well as the Mobile Premier Awards.

I am part of the Mobile 2.0 Advisory Board and co-founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and Madrid.

I have advised and worked on many projects with different companies and brands in the mobile ecosystem including Telefonica, Vodafone, MTN, Orange, Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry, Intel, Louis Vuitton, Philippe Starck,  Admob — now acquired by Google — and many early-stage mobile startups.

In early 2010, I curated Mobile Trends 2020, a collaborative outlook of my personal heroes on the trends in mobile for the next decade. In 2011 I curated another collaborative project called Mobile Trends 2020 Africa, together with Ken Banks and Erik Hersman.

A graduate from the Executive Program at the Singularity University, I continue to speak at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, The Next Web, PICNIC, next, MIDEM, MIPTV, Plugg, now, Digital Leaders Forum, Future of Mobile, Club de Creativos, MobileMonday Amsterdam and Mobile Web Africa.

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 work with start-ups and established brands focusing on next-generation mobile services where he assists them with brand building, positioning, identifying market opportunities and business models, creating strategic alliances, funding opportunities and competitive intelligence to help these companies commercialize their technologies in a global market, using open innovation.

Well-connected among key players in the digital media distribution and global mobile value chain players, I am passionate for the new and the innovative and not afraid of mixing the unmixable. I am fluent in Dutch, English, French and Spanish.

I’ve worked on projects as diverse as R&D, competitive intelligence analysis, digital concept, content and event development, mobile and digital music distribution, building communities, social network analysis and development, and content integration of Web and Mobile 2.0 technologies.

For the European Commission, I have worked on coordinating technology and partnerships for the European Cities of Culture project in 1999-2000. I also worked on a European research project on Music, Multilingualism and Mobility in 2004-05. With dotopen.com, I currently work on a new EU research project on open data and mobility, called Open Cities.

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

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