National Summit and KUDOS Award 2009
Posted on: December 4, 2009 – Filed under: Munich
Munich, December 4th, 2009
The best thing overall is, that not too much has to be written as almost everything is well documented on videos, photos and stored PDFs*** from all keynote speakers.
So this is more a blog post to describe the atmosphere of the event.
As every year the MobileMonday organizers put most attention to this year-end event. For the 2nd consecutive year the event took place in Munich (Note: In 2010 it will be Berlin – November 29!).
In contrary to former national events the organizers tried not to have a countless amount of speakers and speeches, but concentrated on one topic mainly “Our Mobile Future”.
At 2pm the Telekom Ten Towers cafeteria still looked a bit aseptic, but two hours later it was transformed in an inspiring conference atmosphere. The lack of WiFi seems always to be a big problem still in Germany at each and every convent.
198 attendees had registered, but subtracting some minor “no shows” and adding some pre-unregistered guests MobileMonday Germany assumes to had an audience around 200.
In the opening speech some mobile devices sponsored by HTC could be won:
The national summit started with a keynote from Lars C Weisswange (HTC) who gave an introduction into the “Outernet”. Well, this can really become a buzzword soon:
Nick Sohnemann from TrendOne, Hamburg really dived into the year 2021. Despite his motivating keynote and the many, possible transformations he could imagine, I’m not so keen to really get “all” of this:
Gerd Leonhard, a media futurist gave a deep insight into Social Media and its not that difficult challenges to manage in order to re-establish a worthwile ecosystem:
The following panel suffered a bit of attention after so many new insights. If you attended, but got already a bit exhausted, here it is:
After a refreshing break in the nice atmosphere of Telekom Ten Towers, the KUDOS Award ceremony started. And by intention, the ceremony was kept short and to the point.
The audience award, voted in the last weeks on HORIZONT.net went to Softgames for their mobile site Crime City.
The jury award was given to Deutsche Post, which was realized by YOC:
More about the KUDOS Award, which is in contrary to the all-English MobileMonday spirit a German award can be read here at INTERNETWORLD BUSINESS or at MobileMonday’s partner HORIZONT here.
At around 8pm the networking part with a great buffet started:
More photo impressions can be found here.
After the great food the ‘party people’ continued in Telekom Ten Towers 14th floor Sky Lounge above Munich:
A great event finished around midnight, when the first wet snow flakes started to fall from heaven.
Merry Christmas – mobilists!
*** PDFs can be found here
Original Post via MoMo Munich