August a MoMoBNE Record!

August a MoMoBNE Record!

A new record – over 50 attendees – was established at last night’s MoMo Brisbane event at the Exchange Hotel.

Guests were treated to three engaging speakers, from mobile developers who took the “Just Do It” theme to heart by talking about real-world, deployed mobile projects.

First speaker was Stephen Kelly, from SJK Consulting, who spoke about their Jobs to Crews (J2C) product, which has been deployed by a major water management authority to help manage the Queensland water grid. Stephen spoke about the benefits of using the mobile handset to locate, diagnose, and help fix issues with the grid in real-time, across a distributed labour force.

Next was Sherwin Huang, Interaction Designer from Locatrix. Sherwin spoke about the recent Sushi Plane campaign from Telstra, and how they used the Inspired location-content engine and Layar to create an Augmented Reality game. There were also amusing stories about the Japanese-style challenges the contestants endured in Tokyo last week. Keep an eye out for footage on Telstra’s Sushi Plane website shortly.

Finally, Ben Novakovic from We Are Hunted spoke about a personal project, Tweete.net. A lightweight Twitter client, Ben spoke about the challenges (and solutions) to building and supporting a site that provides over 3 million page views per day, primarily from South Asia.

The MoMoBNE team ran a mobile survey the morning after the event, and we will post the results from than shortly, but thanks are due to our speakers as well as The Exchange Hotel, which again proved what a difference a terrific venue makes.

Next month’s event details were also announced: see you on September 20th (RSVP Details coming soon!)