The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 competition is open.

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.

Any innovative startup in mobile can signup at the mobilepremierawards.com website.

MobileMonday Barcelona and MobileMonday Madrid are announcing its nomination events to select the most innovative mobile startups in Spain.

- MobileMonday Madrid is holding its local nomination on November 30 at Instituto de Empresa (registration deadline November 25 at midnight CET).

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

Qualifying startups will have an opportunity to deliver a 3-minute pitch in front of a jury of industry experts.

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.

Confirmed jury members for the Spanish startup nominations are:

MobileMonday Madrid

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.

MobileMonday Barcelona

Albert Cuesta, IT and mobility analyst, writer, translator and professor.
Nuria Oliver, Scientific Director for Multimedia at Telefonica I+D.
Ricard Söderberg, Active Venture Partners.
Oscar Farres, Debaeque Venture Capital.
Sergio Pérez Merino, Caixa Capital Risc.

And this year there is even more. Startups can also sign up for the Mobile Premier Awards in new categories:

* MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing

* MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment
in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum

* MPA in User Experience – The best startup in Mobile User Experience
in partnership with MEX.

* MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change
in partnership with MobileActive.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship – The best woman-lead mobile startup
in partnership with Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

Participation to these awards is also free and open to any startup with a mobile angle.

Go to www.mobilepremierawards.com for more details and take your chance to walk the red carpet in Barcelona!

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.