Mobile Monday Madrid

10 startups have been selected to pitch at the Madrid Nominations of the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 on November 30 at Instituto de Empresa.

Here are the presenting startups:

CampusMóvil.net
Lleida.net
LynxSolutions
Movilok
Movisol
Rigel
Solaiemes
Tooio
Tourist Eye
Yulilop

Book now to avoid being left out. Only a few seats left!

Register and/or confirm your presence at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Registration closes on Monday, November 30 at 12h.

Agenda

• 18h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19H00 Introductions
• 19h15 Mobile Premier Awards Madrid Nominations – Startup Pitches
• 10 startups / 3-slides / 3-minute pitch each + Q&A with jury
• 20h30 Networking / Jury deliberation
• 21h00 Announcement of the winner
• 21h30 End

Jury Members

Ana Maria Vega, Technical Innovation at Telefónica.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.
Unai Labirua, Head of R&D Centre at Vodafone.
Hernán Rodríguez Martínez, Director General, Asociación Española de Comunicaciones Móviles.
Ricardo Pérez, Professor of Information Systems at Instituto de Empresa.

Location / Venue
The event will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

MobileMonday Barcelona is holding its local nomination on December 14 at Barcelona Activa (registration deadline for startups on Wednesday, December 9 at midnight CET).

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica, and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media.

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

Since many people could not register on time, the startup registration for the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 – Madrid Nominations has been extended until Friday, November 27 at 14H CET.

If you’re an innovative startup in mobile, you can still signup at the mobilepremierawards.com website. Here’s an explanatory blogpost for startups on how to sign up for the MPA’s. Currently there 8 startups accepted at MobileMonday Madrid to pitch next Monday, you can view their profiles here.

To attend the Mobile Premier Awards – Madrid Nominations pitching event

MobileMonday Madrid is holding its local nomination of the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 on November 30 at Instituto de Empresa.

Register and/or confirm your presence at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

Agenda

• 18h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19H00 Introductions
• 19h15 Mobile Premier Awards Madrid Nominations – Startup Pitches
• 10 startups / 3-slides / 3-minute pitch each + Q&A with jury
• 20h30 Networking / Jury deliberation
• 21h00 Announcement of the winner
• 21h30 End

Jury Members

Ana Maria Vega, Technical Innovation at Telefónica.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.
Unai Labirua, Head of R&D Centre at Vodafone.
Hernán Rodríguez Martínez, Director General, Asociación Española de Comunicaciones Móviles.
Ricardo Pérez, Professor of Information Systems at Instituto de Empresa.

The juries will choose the local nominees that go in the pool for international selection. An international jury will select the 20 finalists to pitch at the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 event on February 15 in Barcelona.

Location / Venue
The event will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

MobileMonday Barcelona is holding its local nomination on December 14 at Barcelona Activa (registration deadline for startups on Wednesday, December 9 at midnight CET).

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica, and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media.

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

The startup registration for the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 – Madrid Nominations is about to close. To those wanting to participate the deadline is Wednesday, November 25 at midnight CET.

If you’re an innovative startup in mobile, all you need to do is signup at the mobilepremierawards.com website. Don’t miss this opportunity to pitch in front of an industry expert jury and take your chance to walk the red carpet at the finals during the Mobile World Congress.

To attend the Mobile Premier Awards – Madrid Nominations event
MobileMonday Madrid is holding its local nomination of the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 on November 30 at Instituto de Empresa.

Register and/or confirm your presence at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

Agenda

• 18h30 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19H00 Introductions
• 19h15 Mobile Premier Awards Madrid Nominations – Startup Pitches
• 10 startups / 3-slides / 3-minute pitch each + Q&A with jury
• 20h30 Networking / Jury deliberation
• 21h00 Announcement of the winner
• 21h30 End

Jury Members

Ana Maria Vega, Technical Innovation at Telefónica.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.
Unai Labirua, Head of R&D Centre at Vodafone.
Hernán Rodríguez Martínez, Director General, Asociación Española de Comunicaciones Móviles.
Ricardo Pérez, Professor of Information Systems at Instituto de Empresa.

The juries will choose the local nominees that go in the pool for international selection. An international jury will select the 20 finalists to pitch at the Mobile Premier Awards 2010 event on February 15 in Barcelona.

Location / Venue
The event will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

About the Mobile Premier Awards
The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

MobileMonday Barcelona is holding its local nomination on December 14 at Barcelona Activa (registration deadline for startups on Wednesday, December 9 at midnight CET).

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica, and Barcelona Activa for their invaluable support.

This event is organised by dotopen in partnership with Barcelona Media.

MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday and MVNO’s started in Spain around the same time in 2006, so we thought it’s about time that we got together! So for the first time, on November  3, MobileMonday Madrid will have a session dedicated to the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) perspective with speakers from not one, but three MVNO’s: MásMóvil, Bankinter Móvil and Simyo, and the analysis from a pricing expert from Simon – Kucher & Partners. As usual, we will also have two presentations from Spanish startups to be announced at the event itself. Don’t miss this great event!

Speakers:

Philip Daus, Senior Consultant at Simon – Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants in the Madrid office.

Philip has spent more than four years working for Simon-Kucher and, as a consultant and project manager, has done projects for leading companies both nationally and internationally. Specializes in fixing and optimizing pricing, processes and systems of pricing discounts. Philip has an MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, Previously, he graduated in economics at WHU Vallendar, Germany. Philip is the author of several articles on price management and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.

Maini Spenger, Co-Founder & CEO, MásMóvil

Law Degree – Graz / Austria and Trieste / Italy, Maini has an MBA at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) and the Italian business school SDA Bocconi (Milan). With a wide international experience in Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain, worked for five years as a consultant at McKinsey, where he served as Engagement Manager and was a member of the European Committee of Experts on Telephony.

Sergio Martínez-Cava Camacho, Innovation CTO and Head of Strategy & Marketing at Bankinter Móvil

Born in Spain, Industrial Engineer from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and holds a MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. He began his career with Telefonica Moviles, as the technical officer of the interconnection and roaming agreements at the international level and delegate of Telefonica in the GSM Association. In 2005 he joined the department of mobile banking – in business development and marketing with the aim of boosting the financial business through this channel. In 2006 became part of Bankinter, as director of innovation projects. Since December 2007 is responsible for strategy and marketing of Bankinter and CTO Mobile Area Innovation Bank.

Jochen Doppelhammer, CEO of KPN (Simyo) in Spain

Jochen is responsible for the business of the Dutch operator in the Spanish market. Bachelor’s degree in business administration and computer science from the University of Passau, Germany, has over twelve years of experience in management and development in in mobile, Internet and Media. Doppelhammer specializes in business development, marketing, strategy and product management. Previously he was at ‘T-Mobile International’ as head of European strategy and business segment marketing; ‘Institut Futur’ (now ‘The Node Company’); and ‘DiamondCluster International’ (now integrated into ‘Oliver Wyman’).

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Virtual Network Operators: sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, and Yahoo! for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in over 60 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu

Our online forum for the Spanish-speaking community is now open at Yahoo! Groups: MobileMonday en Español. Subscribe and participate with other mobile professionals and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Header Image © by Friendi Mobile

Welcome to the new Mobile Monday season!

News update! MobileMonday Madrid will open with a special presentation by Enrique Dans.

For the opening of the 2008-2009 season, the next MobileMobile Madrid in IE Business School, on September 29th, will address the topic of Mobile Internet Platforms with three major players: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft to know their plans for the mobile business.

José Antonio Martínez Aguilar (Director of the Telecom and Media Division at Google), Alex Romero (Director for Strategic Partnerships for Portugal, Spain and France at Yahoo Europe) and Iván Lozano (Mobile Manager at Microsoft Spain) will share with us their view about the industry.

In addition, we´ll also have three Spanish start-ups that will present their elevator-pitch and will get feedback in return from the GYM.

Enrique Dans, Professor of Information Systems and Techologies at IE Business School

He holds a Ph.D. in Management from UCLA, an MBA from Instituto de Empresa, a B.Sc. from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and post-doctoral studies at Harvard Business School. His research interests include the effects of technology at three different levels of analysis: people, organizations, and industries. Professor Dans keeps a permanent presence in Spanish and international media, and is also an extremely prolific blogger: his blog, enriquedans.com, started in February 2003, is considered a very influential reference in today’s Spanish technology panorama.
Alex Romero, Director for Strategic Partnerships for Portugal, Spain and France at Yahoo Europe

Alejandro has over 12 years of experience in the telecoms industry. Alejandro joined early this year Yahoo! Europe as Director for Strategic Partnerships for Portugal, Spain and France. Alejandro joins Yahoo! from Vodafone where he held several positions in Vodafone Spain; most recently as Head of Mobile Internet. He has also worked for Vodafone Group in the UK and Germany as part of the Vodafone Global organisation where he played a major role in driving Vodafone’s global mobile Internet strategy across Europe and Asia. Prior to this, Alejandro worked as a senior consultant for Alcatel Telecom Software & Services in Spain & South America. Alejandro Romero has an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the UMA, Spain, a MBA, with an Economics major from Henley Management College (UK), and different management courses by IMD, and INSEAD.

Iván Lozano, Mobile Manager at Microsoft Spain

With 9 years of experience in the mobile market area, Ivan has always been involved in mobile internet and services. His experience, allows him to have a global vision from the operator side and the service provider’s. Ivan has worked for different worldwide leading companies in the mobile industry, including Alcatel, Fujitsu and Telefónica, holding Product and Project Manager positions. Currently, Ivan Lozano is Mobile Manager for the On-Line division of Microsoft Ibérica ,and his main objective is to mobilize the company´s Internet services such as Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, MSN Mobile Portal, etc.

Jose Antonio Martinez Aguilar, Director of the Telecom and Media Division at Google

Since 2006, José Antonio leads the growth of Google in those industries in Spain. He started his professional career at Soluziona and after this joined the newly born Airtel in 1995 in several positions of responsibility. He was later appointed as Director of the Internet Business Unit at Airtel, before he founded mCentric in 2000 where worked as VP for Sales and Marketing leading the international expansion in Europe, LatAm and Africa. José Antonio holds a MSc in Telecom Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School.

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Internet Platforms: sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, and Yahoo! for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in over 60 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu

The next Mobile Monday Madrid on June 16, 2008 in collaboration with Bango will dive into statistical data and analyse mobile usage, under the topic Mobile Analytics with some experienced players from the industry, including Patrick Dost, Director General, Nedstat España; Sixto Arias, managing director of Mobext (Havas Digital Mobile Marketing Division), Sarah Keefe, VP Marketing, of Bango and Andres Lozano Sanudo, Head of Spain, Portugal and LATAM of Nokia Interactive Advertising.

Speaker profiles:

Sarah Keefe, VP Marketing, Bango
A seasoned Marketing executive with over 20 years experience in the hi-tech sector, Sarah oversees all aspects of Bango’s marketing, with particular emphasis on media and customer relations.

Sarah has worked in public relations, in market research and then as Marketing Manager at IXI Limited where she oversaw marketing from the start-up stage, to its position as a world leader in its sector and through to sale of the business to SCO Inc. While at SCO, her expertise was focused on product marketing and extended into web marketing in the early years of the Internet . While at Creature Labs, Sarah developed web marketing for the community of 1 million plus games users world-wide. Prior to joining Bango, Sarah was Marketing Manager at Amino Communications.

Patrick Dost, Director General, Nedstat España
Patrick was appointed to this position on November 5, 2007. Before joining Nedstat, he was in Jet Multimedia España (formerly known as Mediafusión) since 2002, where he was the Premium Sales Director. Prior to Jet Multimedia, Patrick worked as Telemarketing and Database Director for Cafe Bar Holland B.V. in the Netherlands. Patrick has a degree in Business Administration from the Higher European Studies of The Hague.

Sixto Arias, managing director of Mobext (Havas Digital Mobile Marketing Division)
Mobext (www.mobext.mobi) was launched a year and a half ago and currently is the larger mobile marketing agency in the world with presence in eight countries. Founder of Mobile Marketing Association Spanish Chapter (www.mmaglobal.com) and cofounder of Movilisto. Besides this, Sixto teaches mobile marketing at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is one of the lecturers at Thinking Heads agency.

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Analytics: sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Bango, Forum Nokia and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu

The next Mobile Monday Madrid on May 26, 2008 will discuss the topic of Mobile Entertainment with some experienced players from the industry, including Pablo González, B2B Manager of Zed Iberia; Ricardo Mena Muñoz, Marketing Director at Digital Jokers y Mayhem Studio; Jaime Lanchares, CEO of Unkasoft and Luis Esteban, Managing Director at Arvato Mobile, who will share with us their vision of the future on Mobile Entertainment.

Speakers:

Pablo González, B2B Manager of Zed Iberia

Jaime Lanchares, CEO of Unkasoft.
Jaime has 10 years of experience in the Industry leading different projects in EU, USA, ASIA and AFRICA.
Jaime holds multiple degrees: Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Economy from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Executive Education from Instituto de Eempresa, EU FP7 Independent Expert. He won the NETI award in 2005, thanks to the business plan for a mobile games company.

Luis Esteban is Managing Director at Arvato Mobile where he is in charge of Spain and Portugal activities. Luis is working in the Internet industry since 1994 and founded companies like BrandMedia (an interactive agency), DoubleClick (a joint venture with Telefonica) and Digital Mood (an incubator company). In the Mobile industry, Luis worked at Netsize and _Hands on Mobile to finally join Bertelsmann for leading Arvato Mobile in 2006. Luis holds a Masters degree in Marketing from IEDE Business School.

Ricardo Mena Muñoz (September, 1974) is Marketing Director at Digital Jokers and Mayhem Studio.
In the past, Ricardo worked as Content Manager in Lycos working from its foundation, as Project Manager in Design Factory and he has been in charge of non-conventional media and community and social networks management in www.soytu.es. Ricardo has authored several articles for Spanish and international newspapers and entertainment magazines.

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Entertainment: sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Bango, Forum Nokia and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu

Our next Mobile Monday Madrid on April 21, 2008 will dive into the wonders of Mobile Messaging 2.0. We invited Jan-Joost Kraal, VP of Mobile of eBuddy (12 million unique users! see recent TechCrunch coverage), Tim von Toerne, founder and VP Product of Hamburg-based Cellity and last but not least Enrico Noseda, Skype’s Director of Business Development Telecoms.

“The mobile messaging market, like many others, is in a perpetual state of change, with phenomenal growth that has taken directions few could have predicted. What started a few years ago as the emergence of groundbreaking market shifts is now coalescing into a new vision for using and enabling mobile messaging technology –– Mobile Messaging 2.0. (…) It also incorporates an emerging set of principles that will guide operators in the development of next generation mobile messaging networks. At its heart, it is a fundamental shift away from ‘network defined messaging’ to ‘user defined messaging’ that has the potential to benefit everyone.” (from the Mobile Messaging 2.0 White Paper from Airwide Solutions)

About:

eBuddy is a free web based messenger that enables you to chat with your MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, MySpace and AIM buddies. When you’re on the road, outdoors or traveling you can use the mobile version of eBuddy to chat with your buddies. Every mobile device that supports xHTML or WAP can be used; this includes Cell Phones, PDA’s, Sony PSP and Nintendo DS! Check out the Mobile page for more info.

In order to enable mobile phone users to connect to the world, Cellity introduces its new mobile email feature. At Mobile Monday Madrid, Cellity will showcase the latest addition to cellity Communicator, a mobile application for powerful mobile communication. The feature-rich Java software bundles very useful functions like free text messaging with up to 2048 characters, traditional SMS for just 9 ct., international calls at up to a 90% savings, easy conference calls and a free backup service over the air. The software is completely free of charge.

Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.

Skype is available in 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding. Skype, based in Luxembourg, has relationships with a growing network of hardware and software providers and is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY).

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Messaging 2.0 sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Bango, Forum Nokia and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu

Our next Mobile Monday Madrid on March 31, 2008 in collaboration with Forum Nokia covers Mobile Development and will explore the mobile developer’s ecosystem. The session will include speakers from Vodafone Betavine, an open community and mobile development resource hub, and the Open movilforum, an initiative started in Spain which aims to provide independant developers with open APIs (to be used with several mobile features like SMS, MMS, Location…).

Nokia’s global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

Speakers:

Jure Sustersic, Business Development Manager, Forum Nokia EMEA
Based in Espoo, Finland, Jure manages business development activities in the Nokia developer ecosystem and specializes in Location Based Services, Utilities and Near Field Communication. Prior to the current role he held position as developer product manager for the S60 platform and has extensive business and technology management experience in the IT industry. He holds an MBA in High Technology management from Helsinki School of Economics.

Agustin, Nuñez, Director of Innovation Services and Terminals, Telefónica.

Oscar Puyal, Responsable for Open Source Strategy, Vodafone R&D.

Networking:

One of the key aspects of the MobileMonday concept is the networking. A networking party will follow the conference where participants will enjoy a glass of cava while sharing experiences about life and work. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

• 19h00 Registration and Pre-Networking
• 19h30 Mobile Development sessions and discussion
• 20h45 Cocktail and Networking Party
• 21h30 End

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held at the in the Aula Magna at the Instituto de Empresa in María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid. You can check directions how to get there at IE website or download a map.

Location and Directions at Google Maps.

Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Bango, Forum Nokia and MyStrands for their invaluable support.

About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals organised around local networking events in almost 40 cities around the world. This open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

MobileMonday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host IE – International Business School
IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. Recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from 73 countries on its master, PhD and executive education programs. IE students use innovative online and presential learning formats, including the IE Communities platform where they exchange knowledge and experiences with 35,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in some 100 countries.

Address:
IE Business School
María de Molina, 11
28006 Madrid – SPAIN
Phone number: +34 915 689 600 / +34 915 689 612
E-mail: info@ie.edu