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

The MobileMonday opening event in Madrid of next Monday is now fully booked. 200 people registered for 150 seats. For those subscribed but cannot be present please drop us a line to leave your seat for somebody else at info AT mobilemondaymadrid DOT com. We’ll apply a first come, first served basis for the seats.

As a little extra, we added another guest speaker to the opening event program:

Ivan Communod, co-founder and CTO of vpod.tv, an innovative Media Publishing service, enabling corporations and their customers to create their personal TV channels worldwide. The company has received numerous awards for innovation around the world, including the recent Redherring100 Europe.

vpod.tv is an online multimedia platform aiming both global brands and large-community sites, enabling personal TV-channels on any screen such as the web, IPTV, mobile devices and portable media players. Combining a powerful customizable back-office (media management, moderation, statistics, billing…) and rich APIs, clients can reach a new audience, and monetize their content through transactions and advertisement. vpod.tv is located in Paris and Madrid, and raised $5.1m in a series A from Innovacom, and several investors like Martin Varsavsky and Loic Lemeur. Recent customers include strong brands such as Fanta, L’Oreal, Danone, French Ministery,BNP Paribas, Banco sabadell, NRJ Radio, …”

See you on Monday!

We are proud to announce the official MobileMonday Madrid opening event on Monday, October 29 in Instituto de Empresa. Thanks to our partners Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent, we can kick-off in style with a very interesting speakers program.

For our opening event in Madrid, we invited an interesting cocktail of local and international speakers to share views, experiences and ideas with us on the Mobile Content 2.0 topic.

Our guests this month are Hakan Ericsson from Mobile Complete (the MobileMonday “Community Favourite” Global Peer Awards winner), Guillermo Esteve of Vodafone Group R&D, and Karel de Beule from the promising local Spanish Start-up Kimia.

The event is free of charge; you just need to subscribe and reserve your seat. Don’t wait last minute to subscribe; we only have 150 seats available for this event.

Date: Monday, October 29, 2007

Location: Aula Magna, Instituto de Empresa

Topic: Mobile Content 2.0

Speakers Program:

Introductions:
Ricardo Pérez – Professor of Information Systems at Instituto de Empresa
Carles Ferreiro / Rudy De Waele – MobileMonday Barcelona & Madrid

Companies:
Hakan Ericsson, VP Sales Mobile Complete (USA)
Guillermo Esteve, Vodafone Group R&D (Spain)
Karel de Beule, CEO & Founder Kimia (Spain)

Bio Speakers:

Håkan Ericsson – European Sales Director, Mobile Complete (USA)
Based out of Gothenburg, Sweden, Håkan brings 15 years of experience of complex solution selling and marketing within the telecom industry. Håkan’s positions include Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications (EHPT), Ericsson and running his own business consultancy. Mobile Complete offers solutions for managing mobile handset proliferation. Its unique Direct-to-Device™ technology provides access to and interaction with real mobile devices connected to live global networks.

Guillermo Esteve – Researcher at Vodafone Group R&D (Spain)
Vodafone Group hold two R&D centres in Spain, one in Huesca and another in Madrid, specialized in Enablers and Web and Media. Our speaker has been working in Public Mobile Cellular Networks since 1994, when he started in a Motorola’s joint-venture. In his nine years in Vodafone he has occupied several positions in key departments as Strategy or Product Development, joining Group R&D three years ago. Since 2004 he also works at the University of Alcala de Henares as part-time Teacher in Telecommunication Engineering.

Karel De Beule – Founder and CEO of Kimia Solutions (Spain)
Kimia Solutions has developed a revolutionary technology that allows mobile Operators to channel rich multimedia content from the World Wide Web into their existing service catalogue. This content may include news & information, audio, video, images, blogs, and e-mail. Founded in 2006 with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Kimia is a mobile services company that specialises in channelling rich media content from the WWW to mobile phones. Its disruptive technology taps into thousands of data sources, and allows users to FIND, GET, STORE and SHARE Internet content.

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 Content 2.0 Speaker 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, Alcatel-Lucent 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 is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media.

Our Host Instituto de Empresa – 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