Month: <span>January 2012</span>
Month: January 2012

Month: January 2012

Bucharest

Mobile Monday Romania at Mobile World Congress 2012

We are pleased to announce that 9 Romanian companies will represent Romania for the first time as national presence at Mobile World Congress to be held on 27 February – 1 March, 2012 in Barcelona. These companies are: Qualteh Romania, iQuest, Arobs Transilvania, Transilvania Software, Appscend, Pentalog, It Six Global Services, Thin Slices, ALLVIEW. The national stand is housed in Hall 2.1, Stand D34 : www.mobileworldcongress.com/pavilions. The participation of Romanian companies at MWC 2012 is a part of export promotion program developed by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment, Romanian Center for Trade and Investment and is coordinated by …

Kampala

MoMo Kampala – Feb. 6th – Research & Ideation to Design

Our next Mobile Kampala meeting, on the theme, “Mobile innovation in emerging markets: lessons learned for the innovation process – from research and ideation to design and development” is to be hosted by Victoria University Monday 6th February from 5:30 PM, and will opened by Uganda’s Minister for ICT, Hon Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, and chaired by Grameen Foundation Uganda’s Country Director, Sean Krepp. Orange Uganda are sponsoring the catering during the informal networking hour as well as the Internet Everywhere, distributed to delegates by WiFi. We are organizing the meeting with a focus on design & development, around the visit …

Dar-es-Salaam

MoMo Dar – Feb. 6th – Mobiles for Rural Development

Greetings, How can the mobile phone industry best contribute to the village, district and national development?  What are the roles of ICT community in rural development especially with regards to the exploitation of widespread mobile networks coverage? Mobile Monday Dar-es-Salaam in Conjunction with COSTECH presents the opportunity in discussing and debating on how mobile phones can speed up the rate of rural development. The next event will be on 6th February, 2012 at COSTECH innovation space. The Panel will include three speakers: Mr. Peter Ulanga Chief Executive Officer of UCAF, they are responsible for funding projects for building mobile networks in …

Athens

MoMo Athens Prize winners, presentations and pics from Jan 16th

Hi all, We’d like to thank all of you who attended our latest event, on January 16, but also those of you watched us online – we hope to see you all at the next event! Thanks to you, our even was a big success, with well over 200 people attending! First of all, we’d like to announce the winners for … Continue reading →

Singapore

MoMo Singapore – Feb. 20th – The M-Factor!

What does it take to sell to: Coca-Cola, Unilever, P&G, Ogilvy and Google?!! Go ahead, you have 5 minutes!! Witness the ultimate quick burn elevator pitch from industry innovators looking to shake up our mundane World of shopping with mobile services that might make traditional businesses burst into song! This MoMo will feature a fresh slant with a ‘power panel’ of judges (actually genuine buyers) calling the shots in real time as vendors give them the “vision thing” — and try to put some real “M” into Singapore’s everyday retail life… Your host/MC: Colin Miles ‘the master of elimination’ will …

Dublin

Join MoMo Ireland Feb. 28th at MWC 2012 Festa Catalana

Hola mobilistas! It’s time again for the pilgrims of the mobile industry to go back to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. There may be a public transport strike, so what? The weather is expected to be around 16C, we want to network and we want to party after-hours. Sounds like a MoMo manifesto! So you’re kindly invited to come along to our MobileMonday Ireland Festa Catalana, an after-show party organised by MoMo Dublin and Belfast chapters. We take care of the venue, a welcome drink, the food and the music, you just pay for your drinks on-site… fair and …

Nairobi

MoMo Nairobi – Jan. 30th – Dr. Zhen Liu of Nokia Research Center

Join us on the 30th of January at the iHub for our first MOMO meet up of 2012. We will be having a presentation by Dr. Zhen Liu, Head of Nokia Research Centre Growth Economies Lab, which has research teams in Beijing, Shenzhen, Bangalore and Nairobi. Please Register Here About Dr.Zhen Before joining Nokia, Zhen was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and served as the manager of System Analysis and Optimization group, and the senior manager of the Next Generation Distributed Systems department, and was a master inventor at IBM. Prior to this experience, Zhen worked in Orange Labs (formerly …

Lagos

MoMo Lagos – Jan. 30th – Start a Tech. Business in Nigeria

Have you always wanted to start a technology business and don’t know how to go about this, then you don’t want to miss the January 2012 MoMo event. The knowledge required to start and run a technology business is not written in any training school syllabus nor most textbooks. It is more of a culture and language that we have evolved with over the years. January 2012 MoMo meet-up is therefore setup to help you learn the basics of what you need to do on this journey. We will have business owners on ground to share their experiences on starting a technology …

Nairobi

Mobile Web East Africa 2012 is back!!

Continuing in the tradition of executing one of the best if not the best mobile tech events in East Africa, the AllAmber team led by Matthew Dawes are back with Mobile Web East Africa (MWEA) 2012 which will be held on February 22-23rd at the prestigious Southern Sun-May Fair hotel. I had the pleasure of attending and participating in a panel at the first MWEA event back in  2010, and this event is one you cannot afford to miss. This year MWEA takes at a notch higher with a speaker lineup that is worth it’s weight in Gold. The speaker …