Get updated on Microsoft’s new Platform Strategies and new relationship with Nokia? Microsoft is changing the GAME and providing new opportunities for partners and developers!

Meet Ryan Storgaard, Director of Technical Evangelism, Microsoft Canada. His business acumen, drive and enticing optimism earned him the prestigious Microsoft Chairman’s Award, presented by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He also earned the highly regarded Microsoft Circle of Excellence Award.

Ryan Storgaard will talk about Microsoft’s strategy and approach to Windows Phone and the opportunity it offers to app and game developers. Windows Phone 7.5 is Microsoft’s latest release and it continues to gamer rave reviews from customers and critics as it edges its way into a crowded and complicated mobile marketplace. With over 30, 000 appls in the marketplace, a significant global partnership with Nokia, integration with Xbox Live and Microsoft Office, and a truly innovative approach to weaving appls, tasks and experiences together into Live Tiles and Hubs, Windows Phone is truly a fresh and innovative platform for consumers and developers. In fact, by 2015, IDC and Gartner expect Windows Phone to be the number two operating system worldwide behind android. Ryan is available for Q&A and discussions afterward on other hot topics such as Microsoft’s cloud strategy, HTML5, and Windows.

About Ryan Storgaard

As Director of Technical Evangelism at Microsoft Canada, Ryan leads an amazing team focused on driving engagement, adoption and satisfaction of Microsoft platforms and technologies. From start-ups, developers and IT generalists to professional IT pros and managers, he entices his team to promote engagement in the digital media spectrum. Storgaard communicates to millions of Canadian’s through social media, online communications, events, conferences, promotional entities, and broad audiences. His previous roles at Microsoft Canada include Director of Cloud Services Strategy and Director of Platform Strategy leading a team across multiple platforms such as Windows Phone, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Azure.

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Our special thanks to Wavefront for hosting and assistance in organizing this edition of MoMoVan.

Smile it’s Monday!

From a record 149 entries for the New Ventures 2011 competition, MoMoVan brings you the wireless companies from the top 10 finalists to share their success stories and experiences. With $335,000 in awards and a chance to be the number one start-up company as motivation, see what their wireless companies did differently to make it to the finals. Register for your chance to see Rewardloop who placed second, as well as two other finalists.

For those of you who don’t know, each year the New Ventures BC Society provides the opportunity for people to turn their ideas into a profitable company. As indicated by NVBCS, “A “New Venture” is a business that is economically viable, but has not yet secured significant financing from “outside investors” (not family or friends). It must be an innovative product or service involving a new technology.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Due to Thanksgiving Holiday on Monday, Oct. 10, this edition of MoMoVan moves to Wednesday.

Please Register in Advance – Deadline: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 @ 5:00pm

Our special thanks to Wavefront hosting this edition of MoMoVan.
Oceanic Plaza
1035 West Pender
Vancouver, Canada

If your company is interested in sponsoring one of these events, please contact Howard Donaldson

DigiBC promotes, supports and accelerates the growth, competitiveness, and sustainability of BC’s digital media and wireless industry in the world through world-class leadership, promotional and trade and investment initiatives, networking and events, education and training, and public policy. We represent more than 1,000 companies and 16,500 employees in video games, animation and visual effects, web 2.0, interactive marketing and social media, e-learning, and mobile and wireless generating revenues of more than $3 billion a year.

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Meet CEO Kosta ChatziSpiros from LinguaComm and hear how they secured $693,225 from the Canada Media Fund’s Experimental Stream to fund the smartphone language app Supiki

Inspired by the belief that the personal computer was a “game changer”, Kosta’s career in technology marketing began at college in 1987. Since then, he has consistently taken on challenges involving successfully brining innovative products or services to market. He is recognized for executing winning business strategies, rapidly building multi-disciplinary teams and achieving breakthrough results. Kosta received an MBA from Royal Roads University in Victoria and was awarded the MBA Leadership Award.

LinguaComm is a classic start-up company having developed the 1st app that lets you have a real English conversation on your smartphone. The app actually listens to what you say and responds accordingly. The company has been bootstrapped from the start without VC funding. Kosta and Julie Zilber (Linguacomm President and Imagineer-in-Chief) combined their respective marketing, business and new media expertise to obtain CMF Experimental Stream and IRAP funding to help fund development. Learn how Linguacomm successfully navigated the process for obtaining funding with favourable terms and the valuable lessons learned from the process.

Please Register in Advance – Deadline: Friday, September , 2011 @ 5:00pm

Special thanks to Discovery Parks for hosting and help in organizing this edition of MoMoVan.

Discovery Parks
187 – 887 Great Northern Way
Vancouver, Canada

If your company is interested in sponsoring one of these events, please contact Howard Donaldson

DigiBC promotes, supports and accelerates the growth, competitiveness, and sustainability of BC’s digital media and wireless industry in the world through world-class leadership, promotional and trade and investment initiatives, networking and events, education and training, and public policy. We represent more than 1,000 companies and 16,500 employees in video games, animation and visual effects, web 2.0, interactive marketing and social media, e-learning, and mobile and wireless generating revenues of more than $3 billion a year.

Meet Scott Michaels from Atimi and hear his view on industry trends, publishing, Apple store and best practices

Scott Michaels is Vice President, Client Services at Atimi Software, Inc., one of the largest independent Macintosh development houses. Atimi focuses their technology insight on the quickly changing Apple market. Scott has worked with many Fortune 500 companies to bring their products to the mobile space and has assisted in restructuring their marketing plan to include mobile.

He is a vital force behind the Atimi team that has developed more than 35 applications currently on the market for some of the leading brands in North America including the New York Times, HBO, and the Vancouver Canucks. Having worked on the front lines of software development and project management for over a decade, Scott champions the need for a cohesive strategy for companies bringing products to the mobile space.

We will start with three to four quick entrepreneurial pitches to start the event also welcome. If you are interested please email howard@digibc.org in advance.

Our special thanks to Centre for Digital Media for hosting and assistance in organizing this edition of MoMoVan. For parking and transportation information, please visit: http://mdm.gnwc.ca/contact

	Date:	Monday, July 11, 2011
	Time:	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
	Location:	Centre for Digital Media – 577 Great Northern Way, VancouverMap
	Tickets:	FREE to DigiBC Members
		FREE to DigiBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$28 (HST included) to Non-members of DigiBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 70 people
		Registration deadline: Friday, July 8 @ 5:00pm. First beer is free. Pizza is free. Be sure to register today.

Meet Kenshi from A Thinking Ape and hear their Story of Developing Top Rated Mobile Games at the Apple Store Kenshi has dreams of creating the next great mobile social experience.  Prior to co-founding A Thinking Ape, he was helping to engineer great things at Amazon and has also done fun things at Twitter, Linked In and Quora.  Kenshi and Wilkins went through the YCombinator program in 2008 and they’ve now joined forces with Eric Diep to create a new company and new worlds.  When he’s not mapping the destiny of the future mobile world, he likes to flail his arms around and yell ‘wild boar!’.  For the most part, it’s received kindly. Three to four quick entrepreneurial pitches to start the event also welcome. If you are interested please email howard@digibc.org in advance. Our special thanks to Discovery Parks for hosting and sponsoring this edition of MoMoVan. If your company is interested in sponsoring one of these events, please contact Howard Donaldson at howard@digibc.org.

	Date:	Monday, June 6, 2011
	Time:	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
	Location:	Discovery Parks 187-887 Great Northern Way, Vancouver - Map
	Tickets:	FREE to DigiBC Members
		FREE to DigiBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$25 to Non-members of DigiBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 70 people
		Registration deadline: Monday, June 6 @ 12:00pm. First beer is free. Pizza is free. Be sure to register today.

Meet the new President of DigiBC, Howard Donaldson and hear his views for the future of DigiBC. Let’s collaborate together. Share your opinions, expert knowledge, and ideas for new opportunities for British Columbia. Together, we will discuss and vote on topics, speakers and format for the remainder of 2011. These topics can include: access to capital, mobile advertising, social games, new wireless platforms, machine to machine, privacy and security, etc. If your company is interested in sponsoring one of these events, please contact Howard Donaldson at howard@digibc.org

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	Date:	Monday, May 9, 2011
	Time:	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
	Location:	Fasken Martineau 2900 – 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver - Map
	Tickets:	FREE to DigiBC Members
		FREE to DigiBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$25 to Non-members of DigiBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 70 people
		Registration deadline: Friday, May 6 @ 5:00pm. First beer is free. Pizza is free. Be sure to register today

Please note: You must pre-register. There will be no walk-in registration on-site. Please bring a photo ID as security will be checking this against the attendee list.

Smile it’s Monday! Mark your calendar for the next MoMoVan on April 4. The topic, another one requested by the wireless community, is “M2M (Machine-to-Machine)”.  Machine-to-Machine (M2M) refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability.

At the recent CTIA 2011 in Florida, according to Wayne Ward, vice president of Sprint’s Emerging Solutions group, “M2M is the fastest-growing sector of the entire telecom industry right now.”  Wireless operators are racking up partners to embed machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity in a range of devices.

Wireless M2M communications is a rapidly growing market, as an increasing number of applications are using integrated wireless communications capabilities. These include smart meters that monitor and communicate power usage to utilities and consumers; connected cars that offer emergency calling and internet connections for safety, convenience, and entertainment; industrial equipment with remote monitoring capabilities; wireless handheld payment processing machines; and innovative connected consumer devices like e-book readers, wireless health monitoring devices and personal navigation devices. According to estimated from ABI Research (News -Alert), worldwide cellular M2M connections will continue to grow at a rate of 26 percent per year through 2015, to a total of more than 297 million connected devices.  (Source:  Sierra Wireless press release Dec. 10, 2010)

We will accept up to five elevator pitches (concepts, start-ups, emerging and growing companies) relevant to this topic, provided we receive them by Friday, April 1. We also have room for one Panel Sponsor and one Event Sponsor.  Great value for the money.

Speakers and panelist information coming soon.

If interested in sponsoring send your request at sponsorship@digibc.org today!

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	Date:	Monday, April 4, 2011
	Time:	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
	Location:	Granville Island Brewery 1441 Cartwright Street, Vancouver - Map
	Tickets:	FREE to DigiBC Members
		FREE to DigiBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$25 to Non-members of DigiBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 100 people
		Registration deadline: Monday, April 4 @ 12:00pm. First beer is free. Pizza is free. Be sure to register today.

Mark your calendar for the first Mobile Monday Vancouver of the year. The topic, as requested by the wireless community, is “Security and Privacy” and, as predicted by Chetan Sharma Consulting’s 2011 Mobile Predictions Survey, this topic will be one of the top five stories in the new year.

We will accept up to five elevator pitches (concepts, start-ups, emerging and growing companies) relevant to this topic, provided we receive them by Monday, January 31. We also have room for one Panel Sponsor and one Event Sponsor.  Great value for the money. Ask NOKIA Forum, Canpages, Wavefront and other sponsors.

Registration will be open soon.  Stay tuned.

If interested in sponsoring send your request at sponsorship@digibc.org today!

Smile it’s Monday!  You asked…we deliver Forum NOKIA, VCs, angels, investors! This content-packed MoMoVan promises to be one of the best ever. NOKIA Forum from its California offices is scouting for BC innovators and offer FREE training and some awesome prizes. That presentation will be followed by an exciting panel discussion on “Access to Capital for Start-Ups” and lots of networking.

	Date:	Monday, November 1, 2010
	Time:	6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
	Location:	Granville Island Brewery 1441 Cartwright Street, Vancouver – Map
	Tickets:	FREE to DigiBC Members
		FREE to DigiBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$25 to Non-members of DigiBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 100 people
		Registration deadline: Saturday, October 30, 2010. First beer is free. Pizza is free. Be sure to register today.

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Rooting Android for fun and profit

To start the evening Joseph Luk from ika mobile and one of MoMoVan’s volunteers will show us in less than 15 minutes how with a few clicks, a moderately tech-savvy user can customize their Android phone to disable ads from the major ad networks, across all apps. What does rooting and re-flashing mean today for users, developers, and the Android platform? He’ll demonstrate some of the possibilities on a Samsung Galaxy S.

Event Sponsor Forum NOKIA – Calling All Innovators!

Martin Barclay from Forum Nokia (Mt. View, CA office) will represent Nokia.

• He’ll be covering the “Calling All Innovators/10M” contest that Nokia recently announced for developers in the US and Canada. (www.callingallinnovators.com/10M)
• He will also promote the FREE 2 day Qt training that Nokia will be offering in Vancouver in November 18-19. (http://events.forum.nokia.com/invitation/qtvancouver)
• And, to top it off, he’ll have a couple Nokia N8 devices to giveaway to some lucky developers!

Martin Barclay is Sr. Manager, Marketing with Forum Nokia, Nokia’s worldwide developer outreach & support program. Martin works with small to medium sized developers as well as big brands and Internet properties to create and execute co-marketing campaigns in both open markets/retail as well as operator channels. Martin has been in telecom and Internet communications since 1992, and has held senior product management and marketing roles at IBM, 3Com, Avaya, and several Silicon Valley startups including Telera and Ubiquity Software.

Access to capital – Where is the money?

Simon Backer, a veteran of the wireless industry and CEO of Wireless Image will ask some of the most qualified people in the BC investor community about where you can find the capital you need to get your start-up off the ground or to nurture your growing company. Divesh Sisodraker is a partner with Vanedge Capital, one of Canada’s largest digital media venture capital firms. Divesh was EVP and CFO at San Francisco based Taleo Corporation, where he led them to the second largest software initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ in 2005. Prior to that, he was CEO of Pivotal Corporation, a leader in mid-market CRM software. Divesh currently sits on the board of Bridgewater Systems, one of Canada’s largest mobile infrastructure software companies. David Raffa is COO and a founding Partner of Lions Capital Corp. Lions is a boutique investment bank providing investment banking services to small to mid-cap companies in multiple verticals. David is President of Lions investment banking division. David was a practicing corporate finance lawyer for 20 years and has served as a Board member or Advisory Board member of over 20 private and public companies, and is currently on the Board of Contigo Systems, Mobidia Technologies, Redlen Technologies, NxtGen Emission Controls, Rewardstream, and an Advisor to Wolf Medical. Glen Sampson is an ITA (A.K.A. “Business Advisor”) at National Research Council (IRAP Program). Fore more than five years he conducted due diligence on early stage information technology clients (Web 2.0, mobile, software, gaming etc.). Worked with portfolio companies on business model refinement and financing strategy. Provided advice and connections. His focus is on helping Canadian IT companies get connected to investors, partners and customers in Canada and in the Bay Area. Formerly a Trade Commissioner at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Product Manager with Solution Inc. and Consultant with PwC. Register today

Smile it’s Monday! You asked…we deliver!

At our first MoMoVan of the season, we asked you to tell us what you wanted to see or hear more about. The top five requests (by vote) were:

• Mobile advertising
• Access to capital
• Privacy and security
• Machine-to-machine
• Mobile health & serious games

So get ready for a lively MoMoVan gathering with mobile advertising as the main topic of discussion.

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We’ll have a panel discussion: “The secrets of successful mobile and online marketing”.

Mobile Advertising Panel:

• Igor Faletski, Co-founder & CEO – Mobify, Vancouver – Igor co-founded Mobify, a Vancouver-based mobile web technology company. Mobify powers numerous popular mobile websites around the world, many of which rely on mobile advertising for generating revenue.
• Amielle Lake, CEO – Tagga Media, Vancouver Amielle founder of Tagga, an agency platform that provides a complete opt-in direct marketing platform focused on the agency world and integrates mobile across multiple channels.
• Michael “Luni” Libes, Founder & CTO – Ground Truth, Seattle Luni is a serial entrepreneur and mobile industry visionary that has participated in five start-ups. Ground Truth provides precise measures of Mobile Internet usage through census-based methodology.
• Sandy Fleischer, Vice President, General Manager – Fjord Interactive Cossette Communications As VP and GM, Sandy has been leading the vision and growth of Fjord since 2003 establishing Fjord as one of Western Canada’s leading digital marketing agencies.

We’ll also hear pitches from:

• Kris Peterson of KP Advanced Technologies
• Anoop Aulakh from Quikpiq
• Michael Luni Libes from Seattle’s Ground Truth Analytics

We still have room for a couple more pitches – contact Michael Bidu at michael@digibc.org right away to book your three minutes of fame!

Register today