Mobile Monday Madrid

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

The first Mobile Monday Madrid of 2008 on January 21, 2008 covers Mobile Advertising. That topic was on everybody’s lips in 2007 and was put forward by many mobile start-ups as THE revenue model of the future. Fast forward 2008 where we’ll focus on a reality check on the status of Mobile Advertising concretely today.

Speakers:

Philip Gontier, Sales Director EMEA, JumpTap Europe
Jefferson Wright Chandler, European Business Development Director at ShoZu Ltd
Juan Antonio Muñoz, Founder of Unkasoft
Iñaki Cabrera, Director of the Mobile Marketing Business Unit of Vodafone Spain
David Purón, Research and Development Engineer, Telefonica R+D. Open Mobile Alliance Requirements Development Working Group Chairman.

Bio Speakers:

Philip Gontier, Sales Director EMEA, JumpTap Europe
As Sales Director for JumpTap, Philip and is responsible for leading sales with mobile operators across Europe. He has over 10 years of experience in the telecoms & technology industry across EMEA.
JumpTap is the leader in mobile search & advertising solutions with multiple deployments in N America and Europe. In 2007 JumpTap was selected by IDC as one of the 10 emerging mobile players to watch and for an Entrepreneurial Award for Mobility by Frost & Sullivan.

Jefferson Wright Chandler, European Business Development Director at ShoZu Ltd
Jefferson has 15 years experience at international business development at director level at media, software and consultancy firms, having worked for Sony Pictures, Analysis Consulting as well as his own start-up firm in 2001 and 2002. A US citizen and a graduate of Stanford University, Jefferson currently lives in Madrid with his wife and 3 children.

Shozu is the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset.

Juan Antonio Muñoz, Founder of Unkasoft
After several years in telecommunications and Internet companies, Juan co-founded Unkasoft and deals with the sales direction. University degree in Computer science, UCLM University. He won the NETI award in 2005, thanks to the business plan for a mobile games company.

Unkasoft, Spanish company, with offices in Madrid and Salamanca, is from the year 2004, perhaps the company for mobile advergaming which has invested the most in R&D. In-games advertising is based on the use of videogame productions to create non-intrusive advertising, which is, more efficient. Unkasoft promotes this new and exciting way of creating publicity. In 2007 won the FICOD Innovation Award.

Iñaki Cabrera, Director of the Mobile Marketing Business Unit of Vodafone Spain
Iñaki got 20 years of experience, of which the last 11 have been devoted to mobile communications, in Vodafone Spain. He has always be in roles of Business Development and Commercial Strategy and he was responsibile of the first WAP portal of Vodafone (Airtel Conecta).

Iñaki will present the Discovery Program, the first commercial offer of Vodafone Spain to brands and agencies in mobile marketing. This is a 4 month long programme, targetted to the big brands, including a rich inventory, massive impressions and all the Vodafone support: from concept to analytics. It also includes all the technicalities (microsites, content adaptation etc) to make the experience as easy as possible. The claim of the program was “10 Brands, 10 Successes” and it’s being quite succesfull.

David Purón, Research and Development Engineer, Telefonica R+D. Open Mobile Alliance Requirements Development Working Group Chairman.

Member of the Telefonica’s Research and Development Team, David takes part in different projects related with Mobile Advertising. He has broad experience in the field of standardization, and he was elected as Chairman of the Open Mobile Alliance’s Requirements Development Working Group (organization participated by more than 400 technological companies). Within this organization, David leads the development of the Mobile Advertising 1.0 standards, that is creating a lot of expectancy in the industry.”

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 90 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!

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

Location / Venue:
MobileMonday Madrid will be held this time exceptionally at the Sala Serrano, entrance around the corner of the main Instituto de Empresa entrance at Calle Serrano, 105. 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, Aecomo 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

After december’s MobileMonday Barcelona event on Location-Based Services, we’re announcing the next MobileMonday Madrid event on December 17, topic Mobile Social Media.

Social Media has gone mainstream this year with popular sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr to only name the most popular. Social Media is the catalyst to the democratization of content publishing, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. Many of this social neworking & tools and sites can already be accessed from the mobile phone but the real challenges are lying into making all this user-generated content easily accesible on the phone in the right context while staying connected with your social network of friends wherever you are.

Speakers:

Jonathan Wood - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations - SoonR (USA)
David Whitewood - (Co-Founder) Global VP Business Development - trutap (UK)
Christian Wiklund - Founder Wichro, Inc. (Sweden / USA)
Andy Abramson, author of VoIPWatch (USA)
Jaime González Rodríguez, Emergent Services on Internet and Multimedia Division Manager - Telefonica I+D
Julia Palatovska - independent consultant in the CIS mobile market, co-Founder of MoMo Ukraine and Moscow Chapters.

For this session, we invited people and companies straight from Silicon Valley and the United Kingdom to share their experiences and predictions with us in this next trend in mobile: Jonathan Wood from SoonR will explain how they deliver access to computer files and applications across converged networks by linking mobile devices to remote computers; David Whitewood from trutap, who recently showcased at Under The Radar - Mobility event will present their easy-to-use and free mobile service that combines all the elements of a young person’s social life into one application;

Christian Wiklund from Wichro will be presenting the 1st Wichro product, called ZKOUT. ZKOUT will be beta launched during Le Web 3 conference in Paris and launched to the public in Q1 2008. The service creates a bridge that connects your online and real world social networks; Andy Abramson, author of VoIPWatch will talk about Mobile VoIP and Social Communications, as the blend between Social Networks and Social Media; and Jaime González Rodríguez from Telefonica I+D will talk on Mobile Data and crossplatform (Mobile / Web / TV) services and the impact for Telco’s on their own service portfolio in order to harness the true potential of Mobile Social Media.

We are also happy to welcome Julia Palatovska who’s visiting Madrid. Julia is an independent consultant in the CIS mobile market, one of the co-Founders of MoMo Ukraine and Moscow Chapters.

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, this event is going to be a blast!

Bio Speakers:

Jonathan Wood - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations - SoonR (USA)

SoonR delivers access to computer files and applications across converged networks by linking mobile devices to remote computers. SoonR’s Active Storage technology is a secure and extensible open standards based platform where data is cached and optimized for mobile access while providing a secure back up. SoonR’s partner based business model rapidly delivers a branded premium service with a compelling revenue model. No software is required on the handset and only a small client is required for the Windows or Mac host computer. The service works across worldwide carrier networks and major handset operating systems.

Jonathan Wood has over 17 years experience working in the Telecommunications Industry, creating value, building successful sales and business development operations and driving new customer acquisition. He held senior management positions with GEC Siemens, Philips Electronics, AT&T, Lucent, Openwave, Palmsource, and a General Manager and VP Business Development for Access Systems, of Japan.

David Whitewood - (Co-Founder) Global VP Business Development - trutap (UK)
trutap is an easy-to-use free mobile service that for the first time, combines all the elements of a young person’s social life into one application. With trutap users can easily connect and converse with friends and family, wherever they are, whenever they want. trutap currently operates in over 210 countries across the world and will operate in more shortly.

Hotxt was was David’s brainchild, which was where the roots for trutap came from. David continues to heavily input into product vision and partnerships. He has over 20 years of business development experience with high-tech companies in the UK, Europe, US and Asia.

Christian Wiklund - Founder Wichro, Inc. (Sweden / USA)

Christian will be presenting the 1st Wichro product, called ZKOUT. ZKOUT will be beta launched during Le Web 3 conference in Paris and launched to the public in Q1 2008. ZKOUT creates a bridge that connects your online and real world social networks. ZKOUT’s main ingredients — location-awareness and inherent mobility — promote real world interaction between friends, family, neighborhoods, businesses, even strangers with common interests. ZKOUT lets you share as many types of media as possible, including photos, video feeds and text messages, and allows for commenting on other members’ posts.

Christian Wiklund is a Swedish entrepreneur that founded Wichro, Inc., which is a San Francisco based company that employs 10 people. He holds a BSc. in CSE and a MSc. in Engineering Mathematics from Chalmers University of Technology, and a BSc in Business from Gothenburg School of Economics and Law. Christian has held engineering and management positions at companies such as VMware, Inc. in Silicon Valley.

Andy Abramson, author of VoIPWatch (USA)

VoIPWatch, one of the most read blogs on the subject of IP based telephony and mobile communications, will be on hand in Madrid to talk about Mobile VoIP and Social Communications, as the blend between Social Networks and Social Media. He plans to cover current and proposed Mobile VoIP services and solutions that both consumer and enterprise customers can use today on readily available handsets which work just like their mobile phone and a few other services that augment their existing mobile phone service.

Jaime González Rodríguez, Emergent Services on Internet and Multimedia Division Manager - Telefonica I+D

Jaime manages the division of Emergent Services on the Internet and Multimedia Direction devoted to define the technological strategy in these area’s for Telefonica R&D. He will talk on Mobile Data and crossplatform (Mobile / Web / TV) services and the impact for Telco’s on their own service portfolio in order to harness the true potential of Mobile Social Media.

The advantage of mobility related to the Web and the Social Media has been used as for now for providing user-generated content (through the use of camera-phones). New and promising projects are showing a way to leverage the consumption part and also other important advantages, like communication and context-awareness, are making the “convergence” concept a reality.

Julia Palatovska - independent consultant in the CIS mobile market, co-Founder of MoMo Ukraine and Moscow Chapters.

Julia is one of the most active mobile market leaders in Ukraine where during the last year she managed to organize the Mobile Monday community involving all key market players. In October 2007 Julia was also managing the team which established the launch of MoMo in Moscow. Julia’s activities are aimed at introducing foreign companies to the CIS market as well as providing global promotion to the companies based in Ukraine and Russia, and, as MoMo slogan says: “Bringing the Industry Together”. Julia will speak about the CIS mobile market opportunities and introduce the examples of mobile social media in her region.

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 Social Media 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, Bango, Aecomo 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

After the succesful opening event of MobileMonday Madrid and the Mobile Web Applications topic covered in Barcelona, the next MobileMonday Madrid event on November 12 covers experiences from the UK Mobile Market. The UK has one of the most active emerging markets in next generation mobile data services, together with France, Germany, Italy and Spain. We want to learn about the experiences from some of the best positioned people in the UK Mobile industry and explore new market opportunities.

For this event we brought together Mike Short, VP Research and Development at O2 - Telefonica, Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango and Christopher Moisan of Taptu to share with us about their experiences and new business opportunities. The panel will be moderated by Ricardo Pérez from IE Business School.

Bio Speakers:

Mike Short, VP Research and Development at O2 - Telefonica (UK)
Mike’s career spans 33 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 20 years in Mobile Communications. He was appointed Contracts Director of Cellnet in 1989 dealing with major infra-structure investments and UK interconnect agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to launching Cellnet’s GSM service and establishing Roaming Agreements.

He was elected Chairman of the GSM Association for 1995/96 and served on their Executive Board for 5 years. He has also served as a member of the UK Home Office Internet Task Force and UK OSAB (Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board) until 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Mike has chaired the MDA since 1998, leading the Association as Chairman/spokesperson and on Public Policy. He was appointed VP Technology for O2 GROUP in 2000 and is now focusing on Third Generation cellular, Mobile TV and steering O2’s Group Research and Development in mobile.

Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango (UK)
Ray is Chief Executive of Bango, the business that uniquely enables content providers to market, deliver and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks world-wide.

Ray co-founded Bango in 1999 after realizing that the convergence of the internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. Ray positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004, and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer friendly browse and buy Internet model.

Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year” in February 2006 and in September 2006 at the ME Awards was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry. A member of “The Cambridge Angels”, Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses.

Christopher Moisan, VP of product & market development at Taptu
Chris has worked in telecommunications and digital media for over 15 years and has worked for some of world’s most innovative digital companies including Napster and The Guardian, a founding member of OgilvyInteractive (London) and also founded his own B2B networking service back in 1999.

Taptu is a new ’social assisted’ mobile search service which finds the most useful mobile content in the fewest possible clicks. Taptu unveiled the beta version of it’s service on Oct 15 at Mobile2.0 in San Francisco and Chris will share with us the story behind Taptu and social assisted search and give us some insights in to Taptu’s plans for the future

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 UK Mobile Market 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, Bango, Aecomo 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 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

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</