Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of January 30th – 2012
Posted on: January 30, 2012 – Filed under: The Mob Rulz
Gung Hay Fat Choy – Behold – We’ve Entered a Year of the Dragon
We are fresh back from our top secret visit to Hong Kong, yes the fireworks and many (many – many) dragons were most impressive. This mythical creature of the Chinese calendar holds ultimate power and we’re totally charged for a fantastic 2012, no matter what the Mayan Prophecy of lore might have said, Bring It On! Wishing you all Good Fortune and Prosperity for the year ahead.
On with our Mobile Monday events world tour for Jan. 30th; Ahmedabad gathers tonight digging into what will be Hot for 2012, JoBurg has 300+ registered for their Apps & Devs show with Vodacom and Lagos explores Starting a Tech Business in Nigeria. Ljubljana runs Mobile Games for their 01.30 gig, as does London, while the Montreal crew bounces back with Mobile Analytics and Munich joins the Wearable Tech. show. MoMo Nairobi is thrilled to welcome Dr. Zhen Liu from Nokia R&D labs and our Seattle group features the Best of CES. We should also post reminder here that M-Days is scheduled in Frankfurt this week with local MoMo team producing Innovation Night on Feb. 1st and Brussels has an open call to join the Belgian Mobile Payment Initiative meeting planned for Thurs Feb. 2nd.
Looking forward to events announced for Feb. 6th; MoMo Ann Arbor does Video Streaming to Mobile Platforms, Dallas will host Nokia on Tour with the new Lumia 900 and Dusseldorf runs a Mobile Social Networking theme. Kampala kicks-off 2012 in style with an all-star lineup dedicated to Research and Design and Las Vegas is back to wow the crowds with 6 guest presentations on-deck! Miami does Open Mike, sing for yer dinner (just kidding.. or not) evening of 02.06, and MoMo Silicon Valley gets struck by cupid for Mobile Dating. It seems Sydney is gearing up for next Monday night, Agenda TBA, while Toronto does Meet the Analysts – suitably – with free water and chips included. Warm welcome aboard to the latest addition to our family for the folks in Trivandrum who will debut next week and rounding out the pack, from what we see so far, Washington has Touchscreens & Touchdowns with a great looking panel set to take the stage at Georgetown University.
As noted on our last update, wheels are in motion for the upcoming MWC event. While it’s into the final month count-down, with plenty af scramble prep. happening out there, this much we can share here now. The Belgium booth will be hosting MoMo Brussels crew, Croatia is also offering their best of the best and Ireland does Festa Catalana dinner on the 28th. London sends their delegation via ICT Knowledge Transfer Network, Paris did local competition to nominate 4 companies to be featured at the French Pavilion, special drinks and networking apparently there again this year, while Romania has nine companies set to participate and Tel Aviv will host a mega-mixer supported by the Israeli Export Institute. Should also note that Vienna is running a survey with two congress passes up for grabs!
Otherwise, at first blush, we see the Fringe platform coming together as obvious grand-central for all the action, get your details listed there – Follow & FB for updates. The Japan Summit is hosted at City Hall on Monday night, GoMo News Blender annual gig is slated for evening of 28th and MLove is back at Incognito Bar on March 1st. Members only soiree for MEF at the Picasso Museum set for the 27th as-is the Mobile Marketing Mixer by Smaato and WipJam will Rock All Day Thurs at App Planet, with their party planned for Weds. nite. We will pull together everything possible over the next week to put a dedicated page online asap.
Judging by the volume of chatter, across all channels, there will be MoMo’istas from around the world at Congress – in full force – trust we’ll be cookin up a little sumthin extra-special fer ya. Meanwhile.. Smile.. It’s Monday.. 😎