MoMo London 7 March 2011 Keep taking the tablets

MoMo London 7 March 2011 Keep taking the tablets

You have to have been living under a rock if you haven’t noticed the
proliferation of announcements about everyone and her husband launching a tablet
device of some description. Whether it’s the BlackBerry Playbook, the Motorola
Xoom, the iPad or one of the new Samsung devices, there’s no getting away from
it, the new category of tablet devices is taking off.

But what does this mean to the mobile world? It does feel like tablet devices
are coming under the remit of the mobile teams – largely based on operating
system knowledge and partly because of the whole apps thing that mobile teams
are already familiar with. Media owners in particular appear to have embraced
tablet devices with the FT being one of the first to launch their iPad app last
May with other media owners in print and now TV, not that far behind launching.
Hey, even EA games has produced a specific version of Need for Speed Undercover
for the BlackBerry Playbook. The big guns are taking this seriously.

In this panel session, supported by BSkyB,
we’re going to explore the business models around tablet devices, what the
opportunities and threats are specific to the device. Will we go beyond content
consumption and move into content creation or enterprise apps. Will the new
tablets make the mobile web stronger with HTML5 support or shift us deeper into
the application ecosystem?

The panel will be led by Leila Makki of TelecomTV fame and she will be joined
by David Gibbs, Director of Mobile Applications and Services, BSkyB
and Mark Payton, Editorial Director, Haymarket Consumer Media. Further
panellists to be confirmed.

We are also pleased to let you know that we will indeed have tablet devices
available for you to have a look at and play with in both BlackBerry and
Gingerbread flavours from our friends at RIM and Google. I daresay there may be
a few iPads floating around too.

Photo credit: LoopZilla.
Used under Creative Commons licence.

Agenda:

Doors open at 6pm for a prompt 6.30pm start.

Panel session 6.30pm until 7.45pm followed by networking and drinks.

Venue: CBI at Centrepoint – nearest tube is Tottenham
Court Road. Centrepoint is directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Please use the entrance at street level.

Please register and RSVP at http://momolo.org
if you’d like to come.

Sponsors:

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