1) What field do you think is the most inspiring with regard to the field you’re in?
I am very cautiously watching computer vision for cues on how it will affect music analysis and synthesis in the near future.

2) When was fortune on your hand?
Time has been kind to us; we’ve come of age during the “cloud computing” revolution– very little of what we do could have been possible without the Amazon EC2 service, where we remain one of their oldest and likely most annoying customers. The vagaries of the music industry also has worked in our favor; dozens of music technology companies have come and gone since we’ve started and we’ve been resilient and forward thinking throughout.

3) How did you end up as the co-founder of The Echo Nest? What were the critical / turning points in this path?
I was a grad student at MIT and facing job prospects (professor, research scientist, etc) that would not have let me have the potential to change things in the world. The second I knew starting a company was even remotely possible I was certain that’s what I would do.

4) How will mobile music develop over the next 3-5 years?
We will see hundreds if not thousands of ways to listen to music. Just as some people only listen to a fringe style, some people will use a fringe player or experience on their device.

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
“Why have the technical barriers to music experiences come down so long before the legal and business barriers?”

The Music in Mobile

Duncan Stutterheim has made fame and fortune as the co-founder ID&T. What started out as a dance party in the Netherlands has grown to a global phenomenon in 21 countries. Duncan will share his vision on the role of music at the upcoming event.

To get a better sense of who he is we asked him these 5 questions:

1 )Who/what is your source of inspiration?
The nightlife and young people

2) What is the biggest mistake you’ve made?
Running a business without passion

3) What would like to accomplish? What is your higher goal?
Raise the awareness of people and help to make the world more positive

4) What development do you expect to have the biggest impact on the music scene
Must must become free

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
Everybody happy :))

Erwin Blom (@erwblo) is the co-founder of the Crowds and a very know face in the Dutch twitter scene.

We wanted to learn more about Erwin so we asked him these 5 questions:

1) If you could go to study again, what study would you chose? Why?
I am an old man, i’m from before the internet. If i could study again, i’d want to become a developer. Because i like to make things myself and most of the things i want i can make, but software i can’t.

2) What was you most remarkable public presentation (about what) and how did it go?
I like the presentation where i did a Bob Dylan. I wasn’t allowed to use Powerpoint or Keynote so i used paper ‘slides’. It was about the proces of making my book Handboek Communities. Like Dylan did in one of his clips. You can still find it on YouTube.

3) How will “mobile & music” develop over the next 3-5 years
Touchscreens and touchpads will develop into major music making devices. The people who call an iPad a consumption device are so wrong. Of course it is a consumption device, but so much more!

4) What do you believe to be the biggest hype at this moment? Why?
I like hypes! That’s why like music!

5) What do you expect from the event?
I expect it to rock!

Julian Treasure (@juliantreasure) is the chairman at the Sound Agency and a two time TEDster (TED Talk 1 and TED Talk 2)! We invite Julian to share a bit more about himself and his upcoming talk with the #momoams audience.

1) If you could go to study again, what study would you chose? Why?
Music composition because in my head I am a genius film score composer.

2) What do you consider your biggest achievement?
My children, no contest. If you disallow that answer, then changing the way more than half a million people relate to sound through my TED talk.

3) What development do you expect to have the biggest impact on the mobile industry?
Intelligent voice input and output

4) What field do you think is the most inspiring with regard to the subject you’re going to talk about?
Sensory marketing, and in particular crossmodal effects

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
Are you ready for the audio internet?

Steven Kruyswijk (@kruithoph) is (among a lot of things) a Fender Rhodes piano technician and musical computer scientist. Steven is a regular face at our events and we are very happy to have him on stage this time. We asked him to share a bit more about himself with the #momoams audience.

1) Who/what is your source of inspiration?
My higher mind. Also: the science of consciousness, as explained by Alan Watts, David Wilcock, Bashar and others. All of these make it wonderfully apparent that we’re indeed living in historical transition-times, and that mobile ICT can play a beautiful role in this.

2) What is the biggest mistake you’ve made?
When on holiday in New York with my then-girlfriend, leaving the line at the Colbert Report studio for the line at the Daily Show studio, thereby failing to get into either taping. Everything went downhill from there :-(

3) What would like to accomplish? What is your higher goal?
World Peace. After that interplanetary social networking. All of which comes down to experiencing life as the ultimate roleplaying game.

4) What do you believe to be the biggest hype at this moment? Why?
Profit maximisation. In the end it’s a very boring and meaningless situation to simply have more monetary power than others, over others.

5) What do you expect from the event?
The best church service ever!

If you can’t make it to the Duif today, but still want to check the event, you can watch it live on your computer at

http://live.mobilemonday.nl

If you own an iDevice (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), you can watch the event live in our MoMoAms App

Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) is running a very exciting mobile startups called Grey Area that has just released the game Shadow Cities. Next to being a CEO he’s also the chairman and co-founder of Arctic Startup which is said to be “the Scandinavian TechCrunch”. We want to learn more about Ville so we asked him these 5 questions:

1) What field do you think is the most inspiring with regard to the field you’re in?
I think location is really exciting with all the untapped potential. I’ve seen a lot of awesome stuff that’s not yet released that some friends are working on and we at Grey Area have only scratched the surface on what we want to do. Much of the exciting stuff around location is at the intersection of location and social and that’s also what I’m most bullish on.

2) When was fortune on your hand?
Being able to work with all the brilliant people is my lucky moment. They inspire me everyday by their example.

3) How did you end up as the CEO of Grey Area? What were the critical / turning points in this path?
I’ve known the other founders for years and last summer we sat down to talk about what Grey Area could be and we just all got really excited where we could take the company and the product. The product was already quite far at this point and one could imagine how it would change the way we will experience cities. I have always been really interested in rediscovering cities equally for those who live in the cities as well as for those who visit. Already in 2006 I co-founded a new type of city guide concept to explore cities and Grey Area is all about understanding the city in a novel way as a context for entertainment. But the critical piece for me is and always has been the people. I love to work with great people and I couldn’t imagine better and more talented people to work with than Andreas, Teemu and Mikko.

4) How will mobile gaming develop over the next 3-5 years?
I believe it will be much more social and context aware than anything we are currently experiencing in the mobile or even in the browser. Once we start to collect, use and understand the data that mobile phones can offer I also believe the experience will be personal and unique for each gamer much like in the web at the moment.

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
I’d like to ask where and when they mostly play mobile games and if they are seeing their behavior changing.