Summer Reading
Tweet Today my summer order from Amazon arrived Here’s the list of books included I want to read this summer. Absolute MUST READ and/or recommendations by friends: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier One of the godfathers of “virtual reality”… I’ve worked with Jaron with Chromatophoria at the CyberTheatre in Brussels [...]
Continue Reading →The Bright South of Nokia
Tweet Following Nokia‘s last weeks’ thrilling N97 launch, I’d like to share some of my thoughts on other – less mediatised – announcements, and some other insights I learned about during the Nokia World event. Most attention went obviously to the Nokia N97 (read an overview of reactions at Nokia Conversations) and its positioning in [...]
Continue Reading →MobileMonday Madrid on Mobile Internet Platforms
Tweet For the opening of the 2008-2009 season, the next MobileMobile Madrid on September 29th, will address the topic of Mobile Internet Platforms with three major players: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft to know their plans for the mobile business. José Antonio Martínez Aguilar (Director of the Telecom and Media Division at Google), Alex Romero (Director [...]
Continue Reading →Mobile Web 2.0 Summit 2008
Tweet Next Wednesday and Thursday I’ll be at the Mobile Web 2.0 Summit 2008, organised by Osney Media in London. If you haven’t seen the program yet, it’s a real impressive line-up of speakers, topics and panel sessions includin participations from AdMob Inc, AMF Ventures, Arena Mobile, Bango, Bouygues Telecom, BuddyPing, Dopplr, Fjord, Flirtomatic, Futuretext, [...]
Continue Reading →Mobile and Wireless Trends for 2008
Tweet 2007 was a very prosperous and exciting year for mobile technology in general, still we’re just at the beginning of a new era of more magic to come in the mobile and web convergent area’s. So, traditionally I’m writing down 10 Mobile Trends for the coming year, always a good personal excercise how close [...]
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Rudy De Waele
Enabling Next Generation Mobile Products & Services
Rudy De Waele is CEO & co-founder of Nyota Media - the world's first growth agency for innovative African entrepreneurs, start-ups and international companies that use technology to improve the lives of Africans.
He is a Mobile Strategist, Business Angel and Appreneur with over 18 years of experience in Internet technology, specialising in mobile innovation and start ups since 1999.
He is a co-founder of dotopen, Mobile Premier Awards, AppCircus and MobileMonday in Barcelona Spain, and is a member of the Mobile 2.0 Advisory Committee in both San Francisco and Barcelona.
Rudy has curated ground-breaking presentations in Mobile Trends 2020 (2010), Mobile Trends 2020 Africa (2011), and most recently Mobile Opportunities in Africa - Engaging the next Billion (2012).
He has consulted for Telefonica, Vodafone, MTN, Orange, Telcel, Millicom, Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Admob (acquired by Google), Louis Vuitton, Philippe Starck, Young & Rubicam, Cheil Worldwide.
A graduate from Singularity University, he has lectured at Web 2.0 Expo, The Next Web, PICNIC, next, MIDEM, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Monday and MIPTV.
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