Mobile Monday Geneva

2008 wrap-up

Alex Kummerman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:34:00 +0000

Over 200 attendees met at our Swiss MoMo events this year. Sign-up here or make suggestion on 2009 program here. We wish you all nice holidays an will see you in 2009.

The year in summary :

MobileMonday #3 : Mobile application platforms
October 6th, 2008
Swisscom, Bern

MobileMonday #2 : Mobile payments and banking
October 6th, 2008
EPFL Lausanne

MobileMonday #1 : Mobile Marketing
August 27th, 2008
EMEX Zurich

Mobile Payments and Banking, Lausanne October 6th 2008

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:14:49 +0000

Join us October 6th in Lausanne for an exciting event !

When: October 6th, 2008 17:30-19:00 CET

Where: EPFL Campus, 1015 Lausanne. Register here.

Speakers: the program with 5 excellent speakers is now confirmed. Program details in our upcoming events.

Listen, Learn and Talk with experts

Mobile payment and banking is already a mass-market phenomenon in Japan and Korea. When will mobile operators deploy mobile payment and banking to other markets?

How do you manage mobile money? You need a value chain of merchants and payers. You need secure transactions. You need universal usability. Many in the industry are still skeptical of mobile money’s promise. They want scale, simplicity and ways to measure success — all of which are underdeveloped right now in mobile platforms. What are the main approaches to success? NFC application to transportation, micro-payment and money transfers, full mobile banking ?

MobileMonday (MoMo) Malaysia 2008 Peer Awards Competition

Alex Kummerman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:33:36 +0000

MobileMonday (MoMo) Malaysia 2008 Peer Awards Competition

Entries are open to public!

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 March 2008 – The Malaysia chapter announced today, the MoMo Malaysia 2008 Peer Awards Competition. Entries are welcome from eligible Malaysians aged 18 and above. The top 3 finalists will be called to take the stage to make a three minute ‘elevator-style’ pitch to a panel of expert judges.

Candidate companies must fall into one of three categories namely, Start-ups, Emerging and Academia. The contest is open to content, service or application developers, targeted at B2B or B2C customers and/or running on Java, Brew, Symbian or Flash. There is no restriction on the business model, platform or market segment; however with respect to going global, all presentations must be made in English.

The local winner of each category will proceed to the Asia regional finals against the best-of-the-best coming from other MobileMonday in the Asia Pacific region city chapters. The top three from each category will then be invited to compete, all expenses paid, with winners from regional finals in the Americas and Europe at the Global Peer Award Finals at the MobileMonday Global Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 19 May 2008.

“This is a fantastic opportunity for individuals and companies alike who have a good product to showcase their innovative ideas to their peers and ultimately a global audience” said MobileMonday Malaysia Co-Founder Dr Arun. MobileMonday is a platform that is available to the local and new comers in the mobile arena to show their talent and vision in front of decision makers from the international community,” he continued.

Visit : http://globalsummit.mobilemonday.com.my/

MobileMonday Global Summit 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Alex Kummerman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:43:53 +0000

MobileMonday Global Summit 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a interactive conference experience promises to explore future developments and provide valuable insights into the hottest topics surrounding mobile games, music, multimedia, messaging, TV, advertising and marketing. The conference will cover the latest business models and strategies from content owners, content aggregators, operators, agencies and technology companies focused on consumer content.

This is the place where learning is shared through dialogue, relationships are forged, partnerships are formed and most importantly, business is made! It will be 2008’s most important meeting for industry players eyeing the rich potential in the Asian mobile content space. Networking events including conference refreshments and lunches, cocktail reception and the conference wrap-up party provide the ideal opportunity for sponsors, speakers and delegates to meet and network informally.

Through innovation, new products, services and applications are created, which in turn, results in the creation and growth of businesses and enterprises. Recognizing its undisputable importance as a catalyst for the global economy, innovation has been identified as one of the global impact issues at WCIT 2008 and at the MobileMonday Global Summit 2008.

Did you know that that Malaysia was named the world’s best tourism destination (Global Traveler, 2006)?
Visit www.tourism.gov.my to find out more.

MobileMonday Global Summit 2008 to be held in Kuala Lumpur

Alex Kummerman — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:23:24 +0000

December 13, 2007 — Helsinki, Finland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia –
MobileMonday (MoMo), the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry
visionaries and developers, today announced it will invite the worlds most
exciting and innovative mobile companies to attend the 4th annual Global
Summit in Kuala Lumpur from May 18 - 22, 2008. MobileMonday’s unique
cross-border platform has proven to generate real business opportunities
via cooperative relationships with the Open Mobile Alliance and GSMA,
which represents 700 mobile operators and 200-technology partners
worldwide. The upcoming event, the first ever to be held in Asia, will be
co-located with the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2008)
conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur next year.

Kuala Lumpur is set to be the point of convergence for the largest-ever
gathering of global leaders and decision makers on information and
communications technology. Held once every two years, WCIT is the premier
global forum that brings together leaders in business, government and
academia to impact economic and social development through the exchange of
policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is expected to be the point of
convergence for more than 2,500 participants from over 80 countries
worldwide. Keynote speakers are expected to include some of the most
respected and admired names in the industry. WCIT 2008 is jointly
organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the
Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM),
with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Malaysia.

MobileMonday Malaysian chapter founder RamG and Chairman Dr Arun Kumar
have been working closely with MdeC CEO Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali and
MobileMonday CEO Jari Tammisto to make this event a truly global and
rewarding experience for Malaysia as this gathering will bring
International Experts together in an dynamic setting with Local ICT and
Mobile Players.

MobileMonday recognizes that majority of future innovations in the mobile
development happens in small companies. Typically these start-ups don’t
attend conferences and seminars as they are expensive and offer few
opportunities for new comers. However, one of the central features of the
MobileMonday Global Summit is that it also invites selected leaders and
prestigious influencers from industry giants to join the discussions and
networking. This ensures the discussions are valuable, interesting, and
always inspirational.

MobileMonday has the following global objectives:

- To encourage innovation within the mobile sector.
- To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between
local and foreign organizations.
- To help local companies effectively participate in international
initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts,
technologies, know-how and best practices.
- To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the
mobile marketplace.
- To facilitate and create partnerships.
- To contribute to the education of the broader public through its
publications, online presence, and media partnerships.

The MobileMonday community is a grassroots living laboratory of ideas,
demos, pilots, benchmarking, and business development. The goal is to
enable the membership to meet with their peers in order to encourage smart
ideas to develop into commercially successful products and services.

About MobileMonday:
MobileMonday (http://www.mobilemonday.net) is a global community of mobile
industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering
cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live
networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global
markets. MobileMonday has over 50 chapter cities around the world, and
continues to launch new locations monthly. MobileMonday is organized by a
group of some 200+ dedicated volunteers from around the world. Originating
in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, MobileMonday has grown into the
world’s leading mobile community.

About WCIT:
Held once every two years, the World Congress on Information Technology is
a premier global ICT forum that brings together global leaders in
business, government and academia. Often billed as the Olympics of ICT, it
impacts global economic and social development through the exchange of
policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is jointly organized by the
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Association of the
Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM), with the support of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia. For more
information visit http://www.wcit2008.org

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Mobile Monday Global Summit

Alex Kummerman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:02:01 +0000

Mobile monday geneva will be attendig the Mobile Mondauy Global Summit in helsinki.

For a video of the event click here

For more information on the event click here

Press Release : CLICMOBILE Wins Motorola ChinICT Top innovator Award in Beijing China.

Alex Kummerman — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:27:35 +0000

PRESS RELEASE

CLICMOBILE Wins Motorola ChinICT Top innovator Award in Beijing China.

Motorola Recognizes Clicmobile giving The Motorola Top Innovator award during ChinICT event in Beijing.

– Beijing China / Geneva Switzerland / Paris France, May 26, 2007 –
Clicmobile, the leader in connected communities, today announced that it has been named the official 2007 Motorola ChinICT Top Innovator award Winner at the acclaimed ChinICT event.
This has been the second international award received in a year by Clicmobile.
Guidewire group Top 10 European Innovator, Clicmobile won an Innovation award at Innovate! in Zaragoza, Spain. While these awards acknowledge the young mobile and internet company’s innovative potential they also demonstrate that Clicmobile successfully aims for international recognition. So far, tens of thousand community members are already using the Clicmobile social networking platform from both the web and the mobile to link up with friends and co-workers and share digital content.After evaluating private entrepreneurs throughout the EMEA and APAC region (Europe, Middle East and Africa / and Asia Pacific ) the ChinICT editorial board short-listed 60 finalists considered to lead the next wave of innovations. From this list the Ultimate Innovators 2007 winners were selected.“We are very proud to have been chosen from such a strong field of innovative companies“, says Alex Kummerman, co-founder and CEO of Clicmobile Holding SA. “As an international community platform builder, global relevance has been a priority for us from the very beginning, when we started bridging digital identities with the real world of actual locations on mobile phones. Therefore, winning these international awards has proved we are on the right track.”

The ChinICT annual awards recognize tomorrow’s industry leaders by selecting promising technology firms who set new innovative standards in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

About ChinICT
ChinICT is a major event focused on the most innovative and fastest-growing ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) from China and Europe. ChinICT takes place in Beijing on May 24th and 25th 2007, and leverages on the success of the 2006 edition.

About CLICMOBILE Holding SA
Clicmobile Holding SA is the developer of a software platform to build connnected communities ( web and mobile ). Members of the community are able to publish and share their current location, content and friend list with other users. They can further store favorite medias in their user profile thereby creating a user generated -based context and real-life value when communicating with friends, family and business partners. The platform can be used with mobile text messaging, smartphones, or web-based interfaces.
Clicmobile Holding SA is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with a development office in Paris, Germany and Beijing China. For additional information, please visit www.clicmobile.com

Peer Award went to Plazes

Alex Kummerman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:57:35 +0000

We are really glad, Mobile Monday Geneva selectedThe Audience Award winner that went to a Swiss LBS application called Plazes. The Plazes service adds physical presence to the web. The Plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby.

More infos : http://www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/2007/02/18/global-peer-awards-go-to-switzerland-france-and-us/

P R E S S R E L E A S E

Alex Kummerman — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:07:27 +0000

Plazes Wins Global Peer Award 2007

The geo-community platform Plazes convinces both jury and public at the MobileMonday in Barcelona / Major industry award emphasizes the company’s innovative potential

Munich/Zurich/Berlin, 13th February, 2007 — Plazes, the geo-community platform and worldwide leading web service for mobile social navigation, has won the MobileMonday Global Peer Award 2007 in Barcelona. Founded by Felix Petersen and Stefan Kellner, the company was able to convince the international jury of experts and the public with the service which is available on a web-based and mobile basis.

MobileMonday is a worldwide initiative which originated in Helsinki in the year 2000. The aim of MobileMonday is to discuss mobile trends and developments and to encourage co-operation and exchange between the market’s players. The MobileMonday Global Peer Awards go to branch players and their innovations in three categories. Plazes AG based in Zurich was Switzerland’s entry and managed to win the category “Audience Favourite”.

“We were delighted about our nomination for the Global Peer Award 2007,” says a happy Plazes founder Felix Petersen. “Actually winning the award is fantastic and goes to show just how much potential there is in our development.” Plazes creates a bridge between people’s digital identities and the real places where they spend their time. This makes the link between the user’s digital and real-life activities. Tens of thousands of people are already using the beta version of Plazes to co-ordinate with friends and colleagues.

The prize was awarded to Plazes on 12th February at this year’s 3GSM World Congress which, taking place from 12th – 15th February, is the year’s most important forum for innovators in the mobile industry.

About Plazes AG
Plazes AG the developer of www.plazes.com, a web service for geo-social navigation. Members of this community can communicate their current location to others and can store their favourite and day-to-day locations in a geo-database. Members of the Plazes community can actively locate one another, so inter-linking their digital and real identities. This creates a locational context and real help in co-coordinating with friends, family and business contacts. Plazes AG is based in Zurich with a development studio in Berlin.

Plazes press contact:
Zucker.Kommunikation
Team Plazes
plazes@zucker-kommunikation.de
Tel: +49-(0)30/247 587-0
Fax: +49-(0)30/247 587-77

Plazes is MobileMonday Geneva Peer Awards Nomenee

Alex Kummerman — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:02:29 +0000

The Global Peer Awards finalists are best-in-breed companies who have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, products, services and concepts.

The 20 finalists have reached this point by prevailing in a local selection process organized at the local MoMo chapter level.
PLAZES has been choosen to be the Mobile Monday Geneva candidate in this final.

MobileMonday, in cooperation with Telefonica Movistar, is honored to welcome representatives from these winners to Barcelona to compete in the Global Peer Awards competition 2007.

You should take the time to get to know our finalists as we are certain these are the companies that will be making important waves within the mobile industry over the next few years.

Here are the 2007 MobileMonday Global Peer Awards finalsits — congratulations to all, and good luck during the competition!

Bangalore — mChek
Bangkok — CryptoGraf
Barcelona — MyStrands
Beijing — Silk Road Telecommunication
Boston — Skyhook Wireless
Brussels — Ontrack Navigation
Delhi — Wirkle
Geneva — Plazes
Germany — GoFresh
Helsinki — UpCode
Istanbul — Done
Italy — Barefoot Software
London — Reporo
Melbourne — Locatrix
Paris — Realeyes3D
Silicon Valley — Mobile Complete
Singapore — Tagit
Shanghai — mInfo
St Petersburg — Jamango
Tokyo — Naviblog
Ukraine — Nival Online
Vancouver — RX Networks
Washington, DC — Rave Wireless

Jury

The jury consists of some of the most recognized mobile industry experts and thinkers:

Oliver Star, MobileCrunch
Carlo Longino, TechDirt Wireless, Mobhappy
Kelly Goto, Gotomedia
Russell Buckley, Mobhappy
Peter Versterbacka, Some Bazaar
Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone Group
Michel Wendell, General Partner, Nexit Ventures
Carlos Domingo, General Director, Telefonica R&D
Master of Ceremony: Caroline Lewko, WIP Connector