Dear Mobile Movers & Shakers,

Welcome back from the summer break! On September 6th we have a special topic dedicated to the VC market in the Mobile Sector. So if you are in the starting phase of your business you should pay special attention:-)

Venture capital funding took a nosedive in 2009 but is set to come back, especially in the Internet and Mobile sector, as entrepreneurs look for business opportunities in cloud computing, social networking and mobile technologies. The collapse of credit markets after the failure of banks like Lehman Brothers in 2008 forced business to stop making capital expenditures, and blocked exit strategies such as IPOs and mergers and acquisitions for venture capitalists. “Now that the economy has begun to show signs of improvement, we expect to see dollars flow more freely back into those sectors that offered the most promise before the recession began,” said Mark Heesen, president of the US based National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The U.S. market tends to drive similar trends in Europe. The first European countries to adopt new trends are usually Germany and France, analysts say. More money is expected to flow from venture capitalists as they see that exit strategies — such as IPOs, that essentially allow them to cash out and, potentially, reap profit — are starting to present themselves.

Under the slogan “VC-Dating: Get yours now!” we have a great line-up of experienced speakers and panellists:
- Thomas Look, Managing Partner, Laukaz Analytics & Investment
- Inmaculada Martinez, Investment Advisor, Stradbroke
- Stefan Tirtey, Principal, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures
- Sarik Weber, Managing Director, Hanse Ventures

So if you want to get real insights into the VC market for Mobile Start-Ups in Germany and beyond, and even more important, if you want to get answers on your burning questions regarding funding your company, join our VC-Dating!

Time: September 6, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf

See you in Dusseldorf at Grey’s “Platz der Ideen”.

Your MoMo DUS Team

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Imagine a situation where the world around us is intelligent.
There are sensors and actuators everywhere, which communicate with each other and with servers for proper management and operation of the machines. The stoplights regulate the flow of vehicles automatically, feed by traffic information received from sensors installed everywhere. The vending machines are automatically sending requests for replenishment when needed. The elderly people are under constant observation of doctors who are updated regularly with the condition status. The cars are be intelligent enough to prevent collisions with other cars and city infrastructure.
Welcome to the world of M2M. Welcome to our “Mobile Minority Report”.

Come and join us on May 31st and learn the latest developments in the fast growing M2M market.
Listen to:

- Enno Borchers, International M2M Sales Development, Deutsche Telekom AG

Other speakers still have to be confirmed.

Event Details
Time: May 31, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

It is high season for mobile applications:

The number of application stores are growing and so is the number of downloaded apps.
With the appearance of the iPhone Store and the Android Market not only the technology has changed the way mobile functionality is technically delivered to the end user – a complete new mobile ecosystem has been successfully established based on this approach.

Where does this leave the mobile web?
Are mobile enabled websites an endangered species?
Is the browser an outdated and/or less useful delivery platform?
Do you have to develop mobile apps, if you want to earn money?

MobileMonday Dusseldorf has invited speakers from both camps for a heated discussion about the pros and cons of both approaches. Get ready to join the discussion. We want your opinion too!”

Speakers:

- Jörg Ruwe, Sevenval
- Michael von Roeder, Icon Mobile
- Lars Hartkopf, netbiscuits
- Torsten Schollmayer, Sapient Nitro
- Markus Kucborski, Vodafone

Event Details
Time: April 12, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Event just before next day’s m2d2 on TUESDAY, meet mobilists during a cool topic on the eve before! PLEASE read details about m2d2 here

There has bee a lot of hype around Mobile Augmented Reality, lately. But MoMO is going to show you, why augmented or information enriched visuals of your vicinity will be the general user interface to mobile location based services: With dynamically improving services all around your present location and its vicinity, good ole’ maps will have to make place for a new kind of “information-layer” wrapping your real world vision with all kinds of information relevant to your present personal needs as well as your long term interests.

That’s at least the vision of providers, and the dream of mobile marketers. And those dreams may even come true, as long as they have something substantial to contribute to your mobile user-experience. Of course we might all get around without those extended information-layers even in the future, but we might as well develop a feeling of something missing when roaming around without those layers – just like watching a silent movie may be fun even when a substantial dimension of movies – sound – is missing.

Our round of speakers will include

* Marc Rene Gardeya, of AR-Browser pioneer Layar(presenting Layar’s features and capabilities)
* Markus Tripp of Mobilizy, presenting all the new AddOns of social AR-App “Wikitude” that you might have missed at Wikitude’s presentation at MWC in Barcelona.
* Joachim Bader of Clanmo, presenting the new IKEA Augmented Reality App.
* Dan Romescu of openproduction, proposes the vision of an “Augmented Citizen”.
* … more

Event Details
Time: February 22, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: 40476 Düsseldorf

So make sure to catch up with the latest AR developments at MobileMonday.

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Dear Friends of MobileMonday Dusseldorf,

Whether you believe it or not: It’s already 10 years, since the first WAP-pages arrived on a mobile device near you. 10 Million users, millions of mobile web-pages and some 10thousands of mobile apps later, it’s time to look back and reflect what has happened ever since. After an introduction to the subject by Ossi Urchs (“From WAP to App”) our panel of mobilists will discuss how they have experienced and used the mobile Internet and what the companies they represent have contributed to the development. Finally Monty Metzger of “mocom2020″ fame will not only show their video but also talk about what we all can expect from the mobile web in the next 10 years to come.

Again, this event will take place at the stylish “Ideenbotschaft”

Speakers confirmed so far

* Peggy Ann Salz, Publisher and Chief-Analyst, MSEARCHGROOVE.COM
* Tim Haysom, Chief Marketing Officer, OMTP
* Oliver Lauer, Head of Software of Architecture, HSBC Trinkaus
* Monty Metzger, mocom 2020
* Sven Morawe, Business Manager Media, Nokia
* Ossi Urchs, F.F.T. MedienAgentur, Offenbach

As always, after short presentations there will be plenty of time for in-depth conversation and networking

Ensure your seat by logging in (or register) and clicking WILL ATTEND. Please get your mobile or PDF ticket by clicking on the barcode icon next to the event details.

In case of any registration problems read first text above and below the data entry form and/or our FAQ section. If problems persist, as long as you are on the WILL ATTEND list on our website your attendance is guaranteed and we will handle missing tickets at the venue entrance.

Event Details
Time: November 23, 2009 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1
City/Town: 40476 Düsseldorf

All the best

Your MobileMonday Team Dusseldeorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Turn-It-On: Your Location

The relevance of a person’s geographical location to an application or website has been one of the long praised benefits for mobile users. This MobileMonday in Duesseldorf puts the spotlight on the spectrum of possibilities for applications and current trends on the location front.

Speakers confirmed so far

* Dr. Nick Allot, Open Mobile Terminal Platform
* Stephanie Renda, match2blue holding GmbH
* Wolfram Kriesing, uxebu Consulting Ltd.
* Torsten Schollmayer, Sapient

Event Details
Time: September 21, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1
City/Town: 40476 Düsseldorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Mobile Applications for the Business – Just toys for managers or serious value adding solutions?

Since the availability of iPhone and last but not least Android enabled phones, customers have an increased interest to download so called “Apps” (short for applications) to enhance their mobiles. Those apps largely include games, entertaining gimmicks and technology demonstrators. This MobileMonday focusses on Apps that claim to deliver real benefits for the business.

This time in a fantastic new location called ‘Ideenbotschaft’.
Please have a look at the pictures at the botton.

Speakers:

# Michael Hobeck, Freelancer / Sales Trainer
# Josmar Tuszik, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
# Michael Hoffmann, IBM Deutschland, Lotus
# Others to be confirmed

Event Details
Time: June 8, 2009 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: Rossstrasse 133 – 135
City/Town: 40476 Düsseldorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

10 years ago we saw the evolution of Mobile Marketing with first text messages sent around by advertisers on small black and white screens. Since then many forms of Mobile Marketing developed alongside the fast growing penetration of devices as well as their evolving technical capability. Under all categories of Mobile Marketing the youngest discipline Mobile Advertising is the one that grows exponentially. If the industry makes its homework (setting standards for media means, defining the currency for reach, lowering the data pricing) Mobile Advertising revenues will explode soon. And Mobile will be a planned line item during the budget process of all major advertisers. Listen to a fresh update on the latest in Mobile Advertising from:

# Markus Münkler, Industry Initiatives, Vodafone Group Research & Development
# Harald Neidhardt, SMAATO Inc.
# Claus Darnstädt, Marketing Director, conVISUAL AG

# Other speakers still need to be confirmed.

Event Details
Time: April 20, 2009 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: Spoerl Stadtmuseum, Berger Allee 2
City/Town: Dusseldorf

We thank our global sponsors HTC and Qualcomm and our event sponsor Materna.

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Mobile Social Software, Mobile Social Networks or in special clients for existing Social Networks, like Facebook, power more and more the Social Media Universum.

Today we have invited some fantastic speakers, who will offer us a deep insight in what is driving today the Mobile Social Software Business, how to earn money and who are the keyplayers.

Our speakers come from companies with different
approaches to this hot topic with new and very interesting developments. Get
registered for this evening and listen to

* Sarik Weber, cellity AG

* Christian R. Schulte, CEO der Blue Lion Mobile GmbH

* Tobias Kemper, Head of Communications, Nimbuzz B.V.
* Gerion Wolff, Mitglied der Geschaeftsleitung, Materna GmbH

Event Details
Time: February 2, 2009 at 6pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: Berger Allee 2
City/Town: 40213 Düsseldorf

We are looking forward to seeing you in Dusseldorf.

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf

Battle over the Idle Screen

The operators, the application developers and many others within the mobile community are leaving the browser and the standard application environments of the mobiles in order to make their applications available on the Idle Screen or the Home Screen of the handset. This time we have invited different speakers with different approaches to this general but brand new and very interesting trend.

Stay tuned – more news soon!

Speakers

* Lars-Christian Weisswange, Director D-A-CH Region, HTC
* Graham Thomas, Head of Handset Mobile Internet, T-Mobile International
* Bastian Lehmann, VP Marketing, AditOn
* Stacy Fassberg, VP Marketing, Celltick Technologies

Event Details
Time: November 3, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: Spoerl/Stadtmuseeum, Berger Allee 2
City/Town: 40213 Düsseldorf

Original Post via MoMo Dusseldorf