On April 23rd, Mobile Monday Boston is going to have a special event:  The Mobile Pitch Challenge.

In this event, early stage start-ups will pitch for 90 seconds to a panel of mobile investors about why they have the most awesome mobile product in Boston. The short pitches will be followed by Q&A and an audience choice award. Should be fun!

Do you have an early stage start-up that you would like to present?  Then go to our registration page at bit.ly/ww8C8F

We are looking for few volunteers to help us with this event. Please send an email to itay@momoboston.com if you are interested in helping out.

We will open our registration to the general public in a few weeks.

Thanks to Nokia for sponsoring this event and making it possible.

Announcing our first Mobile Monday Labs on March 5th.  This will be a technical event about Android development.  The event will be hosted by Vivox at their new space in Downtown Crossing.

The format will be brief presentations and Q&A, followed by open networking.

Speakers:

Android and data - Masumi Nakamura, co-author O’Reilly Android book and Android developer at WHERE

Managing Android fragmentation — Carter Jernigan, founder of two forty four a.m. LLC and the developer of Locale, Google’s Android Developer Challenge $300,000 grand prize winner

Android battery life - Jarrod McLean, lead mobile developer, Vivox

Android app economics and the value of your app - Jonathan Kay, Founder, Apptopia

Please Register in Advance Here

Doors open at 6pm.  Event begins at 6.30pm and runs until 9pm.  Light food will be served.

Space is limited for this event to allow for interaction and discussion, we’ll do our best to record and broadcast it for those who can’t attend.

Vivox Office in Downtown Crossing
109 Kingston Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA (map)

Public transportation: 5 minute walk from South Station (Red Line and commuter rail), Chinatown (Orange Line), and Boylston (Green Line).

Parking garages are available in the neighborhood, if we find any good deals we’ll post them.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this event possible.

Recap of Mobile Monday in 2011

We took a little breather over the holidays (okay, it’s well past the holidays). It was a really busy 2011, perhaps the busiest year since we started this thing in the pre-iPhone days.

Thanks to all the volunteer organizers who made this past year of Mobile Monday Boston possible! A special shoutout to Itay Sharfi and Maggie Taylor for keeping the wheels on the bus and to Rhonda Billings for organizing our first 5-city tour, Sheena Chandok for our first 7-city tour, Keith Erskine for Mobile Camp, Kevin Wiant for NFC Boston, Sarit for her accounting savvy, Elana for her organization skills, and many many others.

We’re also grateful for the generous sponsors who have allowed us to keep Mobile Monday events free.

We’ll be mixing things up a bit in 2012, not least because I’m adding a new member to my family and will be pretty busy. Here’s to another great year for mobile!

Matt Gross
Founder/Organizer, Mobile Monday Boston

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November 7th, 2011: Boston NFC and Mobile Retail Event
Aditya Khurkejar – Director Business Development, Verizon
Patrick Gauthier – Head of Retail Services Product Marketing and Business Operations, Paypal
Jeff Miles – VP business Development, NXP
Russell Harty – Senior Vice President Sales, Retail Division; Ingenico
Sponsors WHERE, NXP, Avnet

October 17th: Building Successful Mobile Web and Native Apps in the Enterprise
Gene Signorini of Yankee Group, Joe Ferra of Fidelity Investments, Matt Foell of PNC Bank, David Nguyen of Putnam Investments, Faraz Syed of DeviceAnywhere
Sponsor DeviceAnywhere

September 12th: Mobile Games Demos
Speakers: Boston Globe, Gigantic Mechanic, Mocospace, New World, Colony, Games4Language, MediaMob, Hitchery, TheTapLab, Gradient Studios
Sponsor Nokia

May 9th: MIT Museum Mobile Startup Showcase
Exhibiting companies: Airtime-Manager, the arugula, BlueTrain Mobile, Brass Monkey, BrewGene, CaptureCode, ChatTrack, Coloci, Dolnk Animation & Drawing, EverTrue, EveryFit, iJukebox, Jnctns, KangoGift, MobiFlex, Modo Labs, Parkme, Plug, Rocketmind, Socrative, Speedbump, Spot, Tap ‘n Tap, Tapatalk, TapWalk, The Tap Lab, TourSphere, TweetsByPhone.com, Unbound Commerce, VoKnow
Sponsors: MoMIT, Winter Wyman, ICS, Endeca, Pyxis Mobile

April 11th: Mobile Enterprise
Speakers: Thomson Reuters, Pyxis Mobile, Nuance
Sponsor Cisco

March 28th: Mobile Networking with MassMobile and DrinksOnTap
Speakers: Everyone
Sponsor Vlingo

February 19th: Mobile Camp
Samuel Chow, Co-Founder of MobyFab / Fred Spencer, Professional Services Manager at Appcelerator / Jesse Liberty, Senior Program Manager in Microsoft Developer Guidance / Ram Iyengar, Telecom Systems Management Program, Northeastern University / Steven Kursh, Executive Professor of Finance and Insurance at Northeastern University, Elio Maggini, Principal Software Engineer at Cengage Learning, Stephen Bourdeau, Tech Lead for Mobile Engineering at TripAdvisor, Matt Gross, Founder of Mobile Monday Boston / Imram Malek, Games at Mocospace / Al MacDonald, Co-Founder of Bocoup /Pascal Rettig, Owner of Cykod, Greg Raiz, Founder of Raizlabs, Thomas Classen, North America Business Development Manager at Wyless, Ramesh Kumar, Managing Partner, ZakiPoint, Muthu Arumugam & Siva Subramanian, MTIKS, Harsha Jattani, Astute BioSolutions
Sponsors Nokia, MoMIT

January 31st: Mobile Demo Night
Speakers: Fivespark, Goby, PapaProducts, Parallel Cities, ComicStrip, Appswell and Hashable
Sponsor Charles River Ventures

After many years of anticipation, NFC mobile technology is finally reaching the US retail market. Companies like Google, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and WHERE are leading the charge for making purchases with mobile phones at retail stores. Consumers will be able to just tap their phone to pay with cash or credit card, redeem coupons, or add points to loyalty programs.

Come hear how Boston companies are taking a leading role in this important technological shift. We’ll also be announcing the new NFC Cluster Boston.

See the future of mobile e-commerce at the NFC Cluster Boston kickoff event co-hosted with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge. Our moderator will be Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics.

Our speakers include:
Aditya Khurkejar – Director Business Development, Verizon
Patrick Gauthier - Head of Retail Services Product Marketing and Business Operations, Paypal
Jeff Miles - VP business Development, NXP
Russell Harty - Senior Vice President Sales, Retail Division; Ingenico

This free event will start at 6:30pm and runs until 8:30pm.  Complimentary drinks and appetizers will be served.  Advance Registration is Required.

Park Plaza Hotel
50 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 (map)

Public transportation: The Park Plaza Hotel is close to both Red Line (Park St.) and Green Line (Arlington St) stops.

Parking is available at the Motor Mart across the street from the hotel or the Under the Common Garage. Street meter parking is also available.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this event possible.

Co-hosted with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge.

On October 17th, we’ll have some of the top minds in enterprise mobility talking about how companies can maintain high quality and efficiency across the mobile channel. The discussion will cover:

• Best Development Approaches: HTML5 Web Apps vs. Native apps
• Minimizing barriers of device diversity and platform variations
• In-house and outsourced mobile development

Our moderator will be Gene Signorini who runs Enterprise Mobility at the Yankee Group. We’ll have a great lineup of speakers including Vijay Ruhela of Fidelity Investments, Matt Foell of PNC Bank, Faraz Syed of DeviceAnywhere, and more.

Monday, October 17, 2011
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Omni Parker Hotel (map)
60 School Street, Boston, MA 02108
MBTA:  Near Park Street Station (Red and Green Lines)
Parking: Nearby garages include http://www.pialleygarage.com

This event is made possible by the generous sponsorship of DeviceAnywhere.

Cost: Free

Join our first Mobile Monday event focused on mobile gaming.  We are featuring a lineup of innovative mobile independent game developers and companies to talk about their experiences.  Join The Tap Lab, New World Colony, independent game developer Greg Trefry and others for an overview of the Boston mobile gaming scene.  The format will be short presentations followed by Q&A and networking.

We’ll also feature a guest appearance from The Boston Globe who will be launching their new mobile website and talking about how they put it together.

This event is part of FutureM week which has a great set of technology-related events including the MITX opening party and the NFC Mobile Developer Conference.

Logistics

Location: Westin Boston Copley

Date: September 12, 2011

Time: Doors open at 6:30 pm, presentations begin at 7

Cost:  Free - Register Here

Drinks: Provided

Parking

Valet- $24

Garage- LAZ Copley Place, 110 Huntington Ave, $18

Public Transportation:  The hotel is adjacent to Copley Square and the Prudential Mall.  You can take the Orange line to Back Bay, or Green line to Copley.

This event is sponsored by Nokia.

Thank you to the almost 600 people who came out to Monday night’s 2^nd Annual Mobile Startup Showcase at the MIT Museum. The energy was fantastic – we are thrilled that we could provide the community with a glimpse into the most exciting mobile advances in the Boston area.

Congratulations to the winners of the Audience Choice for Best Mobile Startup: BlueTrain Mobile and CaptureCode.

Did you miss the event or need help remembering which companies you met at the event? Below is a list of all the exhibitors and links to their websites.

Airtime-Manager

the arugula

BlueTrain Mobile

Brass Monkey

BrewGene

CaptureCode

ChatTrack

Coloci

Dolnk Animation & Drawing

EverTrue

EveryFit

iJukebox

Jnctns

KangoGift

MobiFlex

Modo Labs

Parkme

Plug

Rocketmind

Socrative

Speedbump

Spot

Tap ‘n Tap

Tapatalk

TapWalk

The Tap Lab

TourSphere

TweetsByPhone.com

Unbound Commerce

VoKnow

Thank you to our sponsors for their generous support of this event:

Mobile Monday Boston is coming back to the MIT Museum for a night of mobile exhibitions, drinks, snacks, and networking on May 9th.  We’ll have dozens of mobile demo booths and multiple cash bars within the museum exhibit halls.  Come see the coolest mobile companies and meet new people at the hottest industry.

If you are an early stage mobile company and want to exhibit at this event, you can request a free booth here.

Not an early stage mobile company but want to get a booth? Consider sponsoring this event! We are looking for sponsors at a number of different levels. Please contact us to learn more:learn@momoboston.com

Date:  May 9th, 2011 — 6.30pm to 9:00pm

Location:MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA (Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge).

Transportation: Red Line Kendall Square.  Parking info.

Cost: FREE! Register Here

Questions? Email us: learn@momoboston.com

This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Mobile Club:

Our long-overdue Mobile Monday event on the enterprise has arrived. This event will showcase how companies are building mobile enterprise apps and the tools available to the developers who are building them.

This Boston event is part of a five-city US tour with Cisco, the first national tour in the history of Mobile Monday America. The tour kicks off in Austin, TX on April 4th, followed by San Francisco, CA & Boston, MA on April 11th, Seattle, WA on April 18th and New York City, NY on April 25th.

Speakers:
Cisco
Thomson Reuters
Pyxis Mobile
Nuance
and more

Date: April 11 at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30.

Cost: Free – but Registration Here is required to attend.

Drinks: Provided

Location: Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St. Boston, MA 02114

MBTA: Take the red line to the Charles/MGH Station.

Car: Parking Garage at 215 Charles St. for $16. Valet parking available for $42 per day.

This event is made possible due to a generous sponsorship from Cisco.

Join Mobile Monday, MassMobile, and DrinksOnTap for a mobile developer’s meetup.

We’ll meet at The Greatest Bar near North Station.  We won't have demo stations, but if you have a mobile app you’d like to show off, bring it along.

Last spring, Wade Roush at Xconomy put together a project called Mass Mobile Month in an effort to highlight all of the season’s mobile-related events and activities in Massachusetts and New England. This year, we’re helping to continue the tradition.

This is a true community effort since Mass Mobile Month has no owner.  Anyone is welcome to organize an event.

View the Mobile Month event calendar on Greenhorn Connect:

To add your own event to the Mass Mobile Month calendar, just use the keyword ‘mobile’.  Here’s an ‘Adding an Event’ tutorial.

For information about Mass Mobile Month and the list of organizations who participated last year and this year, you can visit the MassMobileMonth website.