Mobile Monday
Mobile Monday

Mobile Monday

Manila

MoMo Manila – Feb 6th – Mobile Trends and Insights 2012

It’s the month of February! And with that we also begin our first meeting for 2012. So, what’s up us in the year of the dragon? That’s what we’ll be talking about. Our theme for this evening is Mobile Trends and Insights 2012. We will be discussing TOP-OF-THE-PYRAMID statistics on the current Mobile ecosystem and what trends might happen in 2012. Afterwhich Globe Telecom, the World Food Programme, and Ayala Foundation will be sharing their insights on using mobile technology at the BOTTOM-OF-THE-PYRAMID especially since Philippines is NOT a smartphone country. Leigh Reyes (President and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Philippines) …

Brussels

MoMo Brussels – Feb. 13th – Mobile Apps for Culture

What do you think about integrating digitized information on cultural heritage and events in your mobile app? These days, a large amount of sources can be integrated using easy API’s. Moreover, the open data movement is promoting further re-use of these public data sets. During this special Mobile Monday session in Ghent, you will: – be able to meet the data holders of this cultural information, look at demos and understand how these can be integrated in a mobile app; – discuss the best use of mobile development and public cultural data; – look into solutions for this emerging field …

Detroit

MoMo Detroit – Feb. 13th – Funding Your Mobile Business

If you’re a mobile technology company looking for funding this is a meeting you should definitely attend. We’ll explore various options for obtaining funding and how they work, including venture capital, angel funding, alternative funding strategies, bank financing and more. Featured speaker for the program will be Michael Liedtke, Founder and Managing Director of SME Consulting, LLC and Director at RSVP Capital who will review the types of business funding / financing available, requirements for getting it, and knowing when the time is right to pursue outside funding. Additionally, we will present a panel of business funding experts including: Paul Czarnik, Chief …

London

MoMo London – 13th Feb – Data Driven Mobile Apps

Using public and other data in mobile applications seems like a natural fit for lots of applications. And there’s more and more of it, especially since Tim Berners-Lee pushed for open data with his crowd rousing chant, “raw data now” at TED 2009 – making developers and data providers aware of demand. But what’s it all about? There’s open data, commercial data, raw data, linked data, data marketplaces, data apps and data journalism… to name a few! Join us for a session with some of the top data professionals in the world today for a discussion on what it’s all …

Bangkok

MoMo Bangkok January 23rd Review – Another Great Event!

Mobile Monday Bangkok celebrated the Chinese New Year by hosting their first event of 2012 on the 23rd of January. The rooftop of the Sheraton Four Points hotel in central Bangkok served as an ideal location to network with over 150 mobile professionals from throughout South East Asia. See the full post-event report with photos and presentation slides here. The event was sponsored by Nokia Thailand and featured prominent industry speakers Pawoot Pongvitayapanu of tarad.com, Mike MacDonald of Huawei, and Jirapat Janjerdsak of Nokia. Event attendees who participated in the lucky draw were given a chance to win a Nokia …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of January 30th – 2012

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 feeling totally charged for a fantastic 2012! We see 11 MoMo events running around the world tonight, more more action on the radar ahead, details after the jump.. 😎

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 …