1) Who/what is your source of inspiration?
The web allows us to consume far more impulses than ever before. On a daily basis, I try to find the widest variety of impulses. From architecture to apps, from graffiti to fashion. In addition to that I try to meet as many inspired people as possible. The great thing about inspiration is that it rarely comes from a source you’d expect it, so I try to keep my mind as ‘open’ as possible.

2) What is the biggest mistake you’ve made?
I stayed in school way too long.

3) What would like to accomplish? What is your higher goal?
Services like Facebook & Twitter are great for finding stuff and checking out what your ex-girlfriend is up to nowadays, but we believe the system is fundamentally based on quantity. Our higher goal is to create services that thrive on quality.

4) What do you believe to be the biggest hype at this moment? Why?
Apps are getting astonishing adoption rates. If you look games like Angry Birds or Cityville, it proves that there are a couple of platforms that leverage a very interesting userbase. Next to that, people are paying loads of money for virtual goods nowadays. Whether it are new sheep for your farm or extra levels in a game, I think people are accepting the fact that not all content is free anymore. I think that’s a good and very healthy shift in the way people see digital stuff.

5) What do you expect from the event?
Getting great feedback on our concept, meeting fun people and seeing some very interesting stuff.

Ben Scott-Robinson (@bscr) is the creative director at We Love Mobile. We asked him to share a bit more about himself with the #momoams audience.

1) If you could go to study again, what study would you chose? Why?
I would study interaction design and psychology. It didn’t exist in my day, and I would love to spend the time doing deep research in that area.

2) What do you consider your biggest achievement?
Getting MEX Innovator of the Year in 2008. It was such an honour. Next was starting 4 award winning companies, and have three of them still going!

3) What development do you expect to have the biggest impact on the mobile industry?
That hasn’t already happened? I would say from a technical perspective a lot of the cornerstone advances have already happened for a while.

However, we still haven’t really explored the possibilities of narrative, storytelling and marketing. The first thing I thought when I saw the first Android device, with it’s seamless connection and integration, location capabilities and excellent web browser was “it is going to be a long while before we bottom out the possibilities of this.” We haven’t even scratched the surface of how creatives can use all these glorious interactions to engage and delight.

4) What field do you think is the most inspiring with regard to the subject you’re going to talk about?
For me it’s the wave of immersive theatre that is coming out of London and New York. People are willing to put their trust into the hands of directors and producers, and be taken to unexpected places, and take part in interactions that evoke genuine emotions, including surprise, fear and excitement. I even know of a theatre company that is running a ‘holiday’ experience, where you pay for a two week adventure, and all you get in return is a key. The rest is up to you to discover. In this time where nothing is a surprise, people will a premium

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
What excites you most about mobile? Why are you here? As mobile is so new, just about everybody has their own story of how they got into it. Fascinating!

Next to being a speaker at MoMoAms #19, according to himself, Sander Veenhof (sndrv.nl, twitter) is a new media artist. To learn more about who he is we asked him 5 questions:

1) Who/what is your source of inspiration regarding the things you do?
My source of inspiration is the void of what’s not there yet. I try to explore new applications, new dimensions or new user dynamics. Augmented reality currently offers me a great context for innovation. But last year I’ve been also been developing multi-touch interfaces for plants. I get energy by seeing other people invent simple things that have a surprisingly powerful or even paradigm shifting effect.

2) What is the biggest mistake you’ve made?
Bringing a highly complex interactive installation (for mobile phones) to the World Expo in Shanghai one month before the opening. Not being on site anymore to solve an issue with the START button which got stuck while the machine was being installed at the expo space. Instead of fixing it, the organization fully disasembled the machine, sending me photos of the parts with the question: “How to fix it and how to reassemble it?”.

3) What do you consider your biggest achievement?
Last year I had my first exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, occupying all 6 floors and I even added a 7th floor on top of the building. Even though I wasn’t invited to do so and the artworks were put there virtually in guerrilla style through Layar augmented reality, it still was a great experience to be exhibiting in such an iconic art institute, considering I just graduated from the Rietveld Art Academy one year earlier.

4) What do you believe to be the biggest hype at this moment? Why?
The current hype is definitely Facebook, but not a hype in the sense that it risks to become overhyped and go away. The change they are causing in the way the world is using the internet is subtle but very fundamental. The social graph being built up by them might finally bring the long awaited semantic web3.0 closer and closer. Still, it’s a bit weird to have a commercial company be leading this people powered massive new universe, which is the new web.

5) What do you expect from the event?
I’m looking forward to be hearing about new and remarkable advancements in mobile phone technology and appliances. My contribution to the evening will hopefully be to show that in contrast to advanced technological solutions, something utterly low-tech can in creative ways be applied in useful sophisticated ways too.

Ben van der Burg (twitter / LinkedIn) is one of the speakers at MoMoAms #19. To get a better sense of who he is we asked him these 5 questions:

1) Who/what is your source of inspiration?
Ludivico Einaudi, Michel Houellebecq, Paul de Blot, The Economist and my garden.

2) Which advice would you give people that want to get active in the mobile industry?
Customer demand, economics, technical possibilities, value proposition are important factors but originality and passion are key.

3) What was you most remarkable public presentation?
A presentation about innovation in Washington. We had a deadline. Friends where putting the presentation together. I hadn’t time to prepare. I was surprised which slides appeared. They put some slides twice in the presentation. It was my best presentation ever with the criteria: surprise, passion, fun, authenticity and interactivity.

4) What development do you expect to have the biggest impact on the mobile industry?
Privacy will have the biggest impact, but also mHealth, mPayment and mCommerce.

5) What question would you like to ask our audience after your talk?
Do you think the product will be a success? If not why? If yes why?