During the last decade we have seen an increased flow of innovation around the mobile phone, which is becoming an indispensable gadget in nearly everyone’s life. Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide and they are already the most popular access platform to the Internet. The convergence of mobile phone and web services is just the beginning of what may be regarded as true “ubiquitous computing”. The paradigm of anytime, anywhere, anyhow has become a reality in everyday life in a very short time.

But what’s next? Besides the current rat-race of getting the best contextual mobile services on the market, in the labs, smart people are already working on the next big things in mobile… Mobile Mixed Reality, Sensing Technologies, Nanoscience coming to the mobile device, the next 10 years might be even more innovative then we have know so far. For this session, we asked some these people how they innovate with their company in this very competitive landscape. What are the processes? Which criteria they use to make the difference?

In an open and relaxed atmosphere, Mobile Monday Barcelona in partnership with Forum Nokia and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) is inviting you to join us and share insights and different views on how companies continue to innovate in mobile.

Speakers:

Alan Seideman (USA), Founder Brightkite

Alan will talk about how they brought Brightkite to a wide market and created a success story in less then three years time.

Alan Seideman is an entrepreneur who’s worked with various startups in mobile, search, and social networking. He was a founder of Brightkite, a mobile location-based social networking tool that has received wide accolade. Before Brightkite, Alan managed multi-million dollar SEM campaigns and all analytics for a large network of sites at Local Matters, Inc. Alan’s mobile experience dates back to 1999 when he was brand manager for Indiqu.com, a San Diego based startup which helped pioneer entertainment content made for mobile internet. Alan is now in Barcelona exploring interesting new projects and getting to know Europe. He views the next years as a great opportunity for web and interconnected devices to help face global environmental and poverty challenges. Alan has an MBA from the University of Denver and a B.S. from Haverford College. He’s also an avid photographer.

Nora Airas, Business Development Manager at Forum Nokia EMEA

Nora will show a nanotechnology concept project from the Nokia Research Center and talks about Forum Nokia Developer Community.

David Caabeiro (Spain), Co-Founder at Sequence Point Software

David will talk about ARound, a component-based framework which enables easy development of Augmented Reality applications on Symbian devices.

David works at Sequence Point Software, a company based in Barcelona, which specializes in Symbian development. He started developing for Symbian in 2002, after working mainly on POSIX systems during his university years. As a Symbian developer, he’s been working as an independent consultant for companies in Europe and the US, working with different technologies including telephony, voice over IP, location based services and multimedia.

David is an active member in the Symbian developer community -mainly participating in Forum Nokia and Symbian Foundation discussion boards- and a Forum Nokia Champion since 2006.

Juan Manuel Cambeiro Cuns (Spain), Technological Innovation Analyst at Telefónica España

Juan will talk about Technological Innovation in Telefónica.

Telecommunications Engineer by the University of Vigo ( Spain ), he specialized in computing engineering and have been working in the Telecom industry ever since. After working in companies like Alcatel, and Ericsson, he has been working in several companies within the Telefónica Holding since the year 2001, defining a common framework for Services Delivery in the whole group and representing Telefónica’s interests in this matter in different international initiatives. In the last few years, he has been working as Innovation Analyst in Telefónica in Spain, assessing new opportunities and start-ups, the business potential of new technologies, and establishing collaboration agreements with the industry and universities in an open innovation model.

Alex Kummerman (France), CEO of Soundwalk-Clicmobile (USA/France)

Alex will explain how they went from idea to building a product and going to market.

With over 16 years of mobile telecommunication expertise, strong leadership, entrepreneurship and successful management, Alex is now leading Soundwalk – Clicmobile joint venture and acts as President and co-founder of Clicmobile, a leading mobile interactive agency.

With Clicmobile and Soundwalk teams, Alex focus is today to successfully develop, promote and distribute the Soundwalk unique catalogue on smartphones as well as to expand this prestigious Soundwalk catalogue to cover the 40 most touristic cities of the world. His challenge is to deliver first quality mobile software in partnership with brands and advertisers to the get the best user experience possible on the new touch screen devices.

Soundwalk has produced more than 40 tours around the world and collaborated with Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Adidas, Fauchon, Orange… and was mentioned recently as an “Aural Augmented Reality” experience on Smart Mobs.

Alex is an entrepreneur of digital companies. In 1994  Alex co-founded and managed Absolut Media, the award-winning French Web Agency. His guidance helped ensure the successful purchase of Absolut Media by Euro RSCG in early 2000. Remember that in 2000 the MP3 format just started to be exchanged over the internet. Alex then co-founded the New York-based company Soundwalk and explored the very early days of the interactive and location based audio city tours. In 2003 Alex co-founded the Paris and Geneva based company Clicmobile to explore the interactive opportunities of mobile phones.

Networking:
As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Innovation in Mobile presentations and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa
Llacuna 162, 08018 Barcelona
T. 93 401 97 77
barcelonactiva@barcelonactiva.cat
Metro: L1 (Glòries)
Bus: 7, 56, 60, 92, B21

Our Partners

Our thanks to our partners Forum Nokia, Telefónica, and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by: dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) and supported by:

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

*** Image by Mac Funamizu licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Thursday October 29, 2009 in the Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA)

During the last decade we have seen an increased flow of innovation around the mobile phone, which is becoming an indispensable gadget in nearly everyone’s life. Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide and they are already the most popular access platform to the Internet. The convergence of mobile phone and web services is just the beginning of what may be regarded as true “ubiquitous computing”. The paradigm of anytime, anywhere, anyhow has become a reality in everyday life in a very short time.

Understanding the user context (who? what? where? when? how?) has become the major challenge for designers of all industries, also in order to create mobile services that are relevant in people’s everyday life.

With improved capabilities of devices including sensoring technology, we’re moving towards networked and context-aware environments, embedding computational power into the objects and environments that surround us (also known as “urban computing” and “locative media”). Visual browsing is possible today with augmented reality solutions changing the way we interact with what’s around. This increasing influence and permeation of the digital layer is launching a new wave of service ideas in industries such as media, consumer goods, retail, automotive, healthcare, etc.

Understanding how the mobile ecosystems work and in particular the correlation between design and mobile and between innovation and technology becomes increasingly important for any designer working in any industry.

For this first Mobile Design Session, we’re inviting some of the most forward-thinking leaders in Mobile who will share the challenges they see for the coming years: designing mobile services for a total mobile user experience, understanding the needs of the user within her environment.

Speakers:

Adam Greenfield, Head of Design Direction for Service and User Interface Design at Nokia.
Willem Boijens, Vodafone Senior User Experience Manager.
Timo Arnall, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Brian Fling, Founder and President of pinch/zoom.
Germán León, Vodafone User Experience Manager.

Agenda

09:00-09:15 – Welcome

09:15-11:15 – Speaker Presentations:

09:15-09:45 – Adam Greenfield
09:45-10:15 – Willem Boijens and German Leon
10:15-10:45 – Brian Fling
10:45-11:15 – Timo Arnall

11:15-11:45 – Coffee Break

11:45-13:15  – Interactive Panel Discussion, Design Challenge Presentations and Q&A

13:15-14:00 – Networking with Cava

Adam Greenfield

Adam GREENFIELD is co-founder of Do projects, an undisciplinary design collective, and author of Everyware (2006) and The City Is Here For You To Use (forthcoming). He has spent the last ten years exploring the intersection between technology, design and culture, with a special emphasis in the ubiquitous computation. Currently is Head of design direction for service and user interface design at Nokia. Adam lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Brian Fling

Brian Fling is an authority in the field of mobile user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real people.

Author of O’Reilly Media’s “Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps” Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices.

Brian is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is also the founder and president of pinch/zoom (pinchzoom.com), a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences helping clients like Best Buy, Lonely Planet and others dive into the world of mobile.

About

The Mobile Design Session is organised by: dotopen and BCD (Barcelona Design Center) and supported by:

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Day
The Developer Day has various simultaneous sessions in 3 different rooms. Sessions have been confirmed by Sun Microsystems, Forum Nokia, Vodafone Betavine, O2 UK, Telecom Italia, Bango, Getjar, PhoneGap, Opera Software, Mozilla, mTLD dotMobi, Future Platforms, and we left some slots open for more developer sessions. Get your ticket here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html. Act soon as there are only a couple of tickets left to attend the Developer Day!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Demo Launch Pad
More than 50 mobile startups registered to be selected to present at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Demo Launch Pad. The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee evaluated lots of great submissions, and choose for the more unknown and early-stage promising startups to come and present at the event in Barcelona. Here below the selected start-ups:

appswork (Santa Clara / London) – an application based on twitter that allows users to send files, online status, message backup, person to person (voice) chatting all unified to get your contacts closer and in one place.

Distimo (Utrecht) – Distimo makes mobile app distribution and monitoring easy. Every phone brand or operator is launching its own mobile app store this year, enabling mobile developers and brands to reach a large audience. To truly compete a developer needs to distribute its app in multiple app stores making monitoring performance difficult and time consuming.

layar (Amsterdam) – World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar shows you what is around you by displaying realtime digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone. Flip through the directory of ‘layers’ and fin ATM’s, bars, houses for sale, hotels and other cool stuff around you.

Pikkoo [pick-koo] (Oulu) – is the world’s first community for you to create, download and share interactive mobile screensavers and wallpapers for free. Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009.

theChanner (Barcelona) – a mobile TV Tuner that allows to watch the best Internet TV, 24/7, on your mobile phone. theChanner aims to help everyone to discover channels close to their culture, expressed in their own language, push forward their popularity, and encourage new channels to start mobile broadcasting. Social Mobile TV is here!

vulevu (Berlin) – Twitter for dating!

The revolutionary mobile dating platform, taking the powerful phenomenon of addictive twitter interaction into the world of love and romance. Meet people instantly! Date only if you want to date!

Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference
Check the latest speakers’ profiles and the agenda for latest speaker additions and profiles. If you hadn’t noticed, the line-up is really impressive. We are happy that, once again, we’re able to bring together some of the most important entrepreneurs and innovators from the mobile ecosystem in Europe and beyond.

Tickets
Tickets are really going fast now. Act soon before being left out! You can purchase your tickets here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html.

Bloggers Corner
At the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference on June 19 in Barcelona, we’re setting up a bloggers corner to facilitate interviews with speakers and participants. Amongst the technology bloggers attending the conference are:

Mike Butcher (London) and Robin Wauters (Brussels), Editors at TechCrunch.
Dusan Belic (Belgrado), Editor at IntoMobile.
Matthaus Krzykowski (Berlin-San Francisco), Mobile Correspondent at VentureBeat.
Bena Roberts (Munich), Founder and Editor of GoMoNews.
Peggy Anne Salz (Cologne), Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove.
Marek Pawlowski (London), Editorial Director at PMN – Mobile Industry Intelligence.

TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party
Our partner TechCrunch also announced it will be hosting the official TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party after the event on Friday and after the speaker’s dinner. Check here to book your attendance.

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp
And more in partnership with MobileActive.org we’ll be hosting a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp at Barcelona Activa on Saturday, June 20, 2009 — registration coming up! Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place.

Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, collaborative scheming about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. Check here for updates and more info.

Hope to see you there!

Mobile widgets are mini applications that sit on a handset and can be personalised to retrieve relevant information from the web. They provide ‘always on’ services based on the information users want to receive, and are a new touch point for how consumers use the mobile internet. Widgets are based on web code rather than on specialist programming language, which makes it possible for both professional and amateur developers to tap into their potential.

We invited some of the most active and knowledgeable experts working in the Mobile Widgets area including Paco Marín Garcia, Vodafone; Jure Sustersic, Forum Nokia; Marc Rougier, Goojet and Ricardo Varela, Yahoo! Mobile.

During this event, we want to offer YOU, the widget developers, the opportunity to demo your widgets in partnership with the Betavine Mobile Widget Competition. In order to present your widget at the event, just show up between 18H30 and 19H the day of the event and we’ll get you on stage.

As you may know Betavine, a Vodafone Group R&D lab, is offering mobile developers a chance to win £20,000 in a new mobile widget competition. The Betavine Widget Competition is designed to encourage developers to unleash their creativity and experiment with the technology, competing with their peers for a first prize of £20,000 – check the website for competition details and how to participate. All developers submitting widgets will also have an opportunity to make their entries available through the Vodafone Widget Manager Beta application, which is currently being rolled out across a range of 10 popular S60 handsets in Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the UK.

Speakers:

Paco Marín Garcia – Senior Manager Vodafone Widgets
Paco Marin is a Telecommunication Engineer – Polithecnic University of Valencia-. He started his profesional carrer in 1997 as a consultant. He joined Airtel (currently Vodafone Spain) in 1999 and he worked on Telecommunication Network Services; firstly, in the operational area of design and deployment of Intelligent Network Services, and then researching in Next Generation Intelligent Networks. He formally joined the R&D branch of Vodafone in 2004. He has led teams that have researched on topics related to Identity Management, Advertising, Widgets Applications, and Social Networks. This year, he is seconded at the Vodafone Spain Consumer Marketing Business Unit, and leads the business and technical deployment of the Vodafone Widgets strategy in Spain.

Jure Sustersic – Business Development Manager at Forum Nokia
Operating from Espoo, Finland, Jure manages business development activities in the Nokia developer ecosystem and specializes in Location Based Services, Utilities and Near Field Communication. His history with Nokia and developers began as a developer product manager for the S60 platform. Before settling at Nokia he was involved in several internet technology related projects and startups. He holds and MBA in High Technology management at Helsinki School of Economics.

Marc Rougier – President and co-founder of Goojet
Marc’s background in the telecommunication and IT industries spans over 20 years. Prior to founding Goojet, Marc has worked with IBM, Meiosys (a start-up he co-founded) and Thales, involved in international business development and innovative product development in all continents. Goojet is a mobile social media. It offers a personal, rich and interactive web experience to mobile users. Goojet manages web content in the form of widgets, offering two values to the user: easy access to content through a personal space of selected widgets; and discovery of relevant content shared by the community and by the system. Goojet enables social search, peer recommendation and viral distribution of web content across mobile users. You can join Goojet freely at www.goojet.com and m.goojet.com.

Networking:
As usual, a networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Widgets presentations and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Venue:

Barcelona Activa – Sony Room
Llacuna 162, 08018 Barcelona
T. 93 401 97 77
barcelonactiva@barcelonactiva.cat
Metro: L1 (Glòries)
Bus: 7, 56, 60, 92, B21

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

Our Partners

Our thanks to our partners Vodafone, Yahoo!, Barcelona Activa and Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona for their invaluable support.

MobileMonday Barcelona is organised by dotopen and Barcelona Media.

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.