A Day Exploring the future of Mobile
Today I joined the first Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona, a conference bringing people together from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, mobile application developers and web technologists. All in all a very interesting event with some very good controversy like the panels on the ‚VC Perspective‘ and the ‚Operator Perspective‘ on the mobile market. You can find a summer of this event at the conference web site and some thoughts in an article ‚Mobile 2.0: Rummble, Zipiko and Dial2do shine, but venture captialists express caution‚ of Matthäus Krzykowski on venturebeat.com.
It was suspenseful to hear the nokia lecture about their plans for the future; ‚Software & Services is one of Nokias core strategy for the future‘, ‚It’s about things: People, Plazes, Media and Developers‘ and ‚Nokia wants to be a internet company (OVI – Nokias conusmer brand)‘. I also had a funny adventure during the aka-aki presentation. I tried their bluetooth applet and found some other aka-aki user in the audience. And I spot ’nanou‘ (Stefanie Hoffmann, founder of aka-aki networks GmbH) in the crowd; she didn’t see me, so it was fun and easy to tease her in the aka-aki chat, because I could see everything she was doing 🙂
Mobile 2.0 Europe Agenda:
Introducion by Rudy De Waele, dotopen/Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee
Introducion by Alfons Sauquet, Dean of ESADE Business School
Keynote by Pekka Pohjakallio, Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software at Nokia
PANEL: Mobile Social Media
- Peggy Anne Salz, MSearchGroove (Moderator)
- Market Overview introduction by Alistair Hill, Analyst, M:Metrics
- Tommy Ahlers, CEO ZYB
- Charlie Schick, Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations
- Doug Richards, CEO Trutap
- Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO Itsmy.com (GoFresh)
- Alex Romero, Director Partnerships, Yahoo! Connected Life Europe
Early Stage Start-up Sessions
- Viktor Maroknic, ?? (Moderator)
- aka-aki (Germany) – Proximity Networking
- Dial2Do (Ireland) – Voice to Text
- Shout’Em (Croatia) – Mobile Social Networking Platform
- Via Mobility (France) – Widget Platform
- YouLynx (Spain) – Mobile Social Media
- Zipipop (Finland) – Intention Broadcasting
PANEL: The VC Perspective
- Tony Fish, AMF Ventures (Moderator)
- Dr. Maximilian Niederhofer, Associate, Atlas Venture
- Inma Martinez, Investment and Innovation Executive, Stradbroke Advisors
- Claude Florin, Multimedia Marketing Manager, OpenCall Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard
- Patrick Raibaut, Partner, Debaeque Venture Capital
Pre Series A Start-up Sessions
- Jonathan Wareham, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Director of Research at ESADE Business School (Moderator)
- kooaba (Switzerland) – Mobile Image Search [Herbert Bay]
- Mobiluck (France) – Mobile Location-based IM, Chat and Social Networking [Olivier Chouraki]
- Rummble (United Kingdom) – Mobility Local Discovery [Andrew Scott]
- Secufone (Netherlands) – Mobility and Safety
- Unkasoft (Spain) – Mobile Advergaming [Jaime Lanchares]
- ViiF (Germany) – Mobile Entertainment Community
PANEL: The Operator Perspective
- Raimo van der Klein, SPRXmobile (Moderator)
- Martin Duval, CEO bluenove / Director of the Orange Start-Up Program
- Gian Paolo Balboni, Head of Innovation Trends Telecom Italia
- Unai Iturburu, Head of Vodafone Spain R&D
- Carlos Domingo, General Director of Telefonica R+D labs
- Anastassia Lauterbach, Executive Vice President for Strategy, T-Mobile International
Post Series A Start-up Sessions
- Daniel Appelquist, Vodafone (Moderator)
- Futurlink (Spain) – Proximity Marketing
- Mippin (UK) – Mobilizing the Web
- Nimbuzz (Netherlands) – Mobile IM and Text Message Service [King Yiu Chu]
- Palringo (UK) – Vocal Instant Messaging [Kerry Ritz]
- Taptu (UK) – Mobile Social Search [Stefan Butlin]
PANEL: Open Business Models
- Mike Butcher, TechCrunch UK & Ireland (Moderator)
- Chris Liu, Managing Director, Fjord
- Leif Fågelstedt, COO, Blyk
- Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO of GetJar
- Ray Anderson, CEO and founder, Bango
- Laurence Aderemi, Business Development Director (EMEA), AdMob
Introduction to Mobile 2.0 San Francisco – Gregory Gorman, Special Advisor, Strategy and Market Development at SoonR
Closing Remarks – Carles Ferreiro, dotopen