On behalf of Morgan Lewis-TMI, thank you for your interest in our Mobile Industry Panel, held 30 January 2006 at the offices of TMI Associates. This invitation-only event featured a sneak preview of a new mobile product designed specifically for the Japanese market by Microvision, Inc., a leading display technology company, recently nominated by Red Herring as one of the Nine Mobile TV Firms to Watch. Continue reading Mobile Industry Panel – 30 January 2006
We are launching 2006 with a stealth-mode (Nothing to do with i-mode – Ed.) event at the ultratrendy Ruby Cafe on 30 January.
Considering the incredible popularity of our November Bonenkai evening – which saw CEOs, CTOs, VCs and a multitude of mobile professionals in the same room – we thought a casual meeting of the MoMo community would be in order to kick off 2006 and another great year of monthly Mobile Monday presentation evenings.
MobileMonday Tokyo’sYear of the Dog Shinnenkai @ Ruby Cafe
The year is sure to be a greyhound as new 3G licensees, new networks, IP telephones and convergence all take off down the track and force massive change in Japan’s mobile market. MoMo will be right here bringing you together with the coolest companies, the most interesting people and the most significant technologies.
Note Next Month: We’ll continue on Monday, 27 February with our regular programme at the upscale MTV Cafe in Harajuku including a full line-up of presentations and more great networking opportunities (full details asap).
Date: Monday, 30 January 2006 :: 19:00-23:00
Venue: Ruby Cafe Azabu-Juban – GMap
Admission: FREE with registration below – OR – JPY 1,000 at the door
Complimentary drink for first 200 guests, a la carte menu available
19:00 – Doors Open
20:00 – Networking
21:00 – More Networking
22:00 – Warm up for Last Call
23:00 – Last call
Advanced Registration is now closed.. See you on the 30th!
Mobile Monday Vancouver – First Event
Monday, January 9, 2006 (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)
Take 5 Cafe, 429 Granville Street
We haven’t planned any formal presentations for this event, opting instead to keep it casual for now until we get a better idea of who is involved and what everyone would like to get out of it. Be sure to bring your business cards, gadgets, impromtu demos, brilliant ideas and best elevator pitch. We’ve started collecting names and urls of companies and organizations working in the mobile space in and around the Vancouver area – if you know of (or work with) other Vancouver mobile related companies be sure to get in touch.
Great to see the Canadians coming onboard… 😎
Joining the global Mobile Monday community; Austin, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Rome, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo, Fing and Silicon Sentier invite one and all to attend their very first Mobile Monday France at the eSpace Zen Factory on 19 December. Four companies – Digitick, Bouygues Telecom, Celsa and Nokia – with “unique visions of the present and the future of mobility” will make presentations to an expected crowd of over 200 attendees.
Welcome aboard Paris!
Turku is joining the MobileMonday family on November 28. The meeting will take place at Brewery Restaurant School. Turku ICT CEO Jaakko Kuosmanen will open the evening. Speakers will be Abo Akademi’s Christer Carlsson and Nokia’s Ari Ikonen. Turku to run Momos bi-monthly.
Ari Ikonen, Sr. Technology Manager at Nokia Ventures, will be introducing the first commercial technology version DVB-H mobile-tv. Nokia announced earlier this month in Barcelona next generation mobile-tv-device, the N92 and version 3.0 of Mobile Broadcast Solution, a service and management systems for mobile tv-broadcasters. Ikonen thinks that this is the first time the commercial version has been displayed outside laboratories, not counting Nokia Mobility Conference in Barcelona. Early versions of the service system are still in use several test networks, including Helsinki.
Mobile Monday Tokyo’s “Super-Deluxe Bonenkai” hosted over 300 people at a swank, underground Roppongi niteclub on 14 November. For this year-end party event, we had no presentations, opting instead for a casual evening of business-card swapping and mobile networking. It was great to see such a wide mix of people from all corners of Tokyo’s wireless community attending for a super evening of cool jazz and, er… ‘fine’ wine.
It was also great to see high-profile attendees from the wireless carriers, ad agencies, several embassies and the hardware, application and content provider ecosystem in the house — plus at least a few VCs.
We had hoped to provide a free i-Pod shuffle to everyone, but the price-tag proved to be a bit steep… and with Santa being too busy to visit all the good mobile boys & girls, we settled for doing a business card draw instead. Congrats to the winners from Ante Music, Dai Job and Ubit…!!!
The next MoMo is in planning for mid-January 2006; we’ll send a notice to all registered MoMo members as well as post details here as soon as we have them. Meanwhile, have a super holidaze season.. =@_@=
The first Mobile Monday was held in London on 7 November packed the house at Vodafone’s Strand offices with presentations from organizer Dan Appelquist of Vodafone, Richard Jelbert from mTrack, Dennis Hettema from OP3/Shotcode and Chris Yanda from the BBC.
Excerpt from Keif.com
London’s mobile industry now has a monthly get together thanks to Mobile Monday London, aka momo london. I went to the first meeting Monday evening, which I enjoyed.
There was a good bit of general discussion between speakers and audience. A common concern of the group that emerged was the difficulties of getting customers “into” a mobile product, in terms of the platform incompatibilities, awkwardness of user experience, and legal and other obstacles that make barriers for users to register with and start using a mobile product and service. Since this is something that affects and requires all three of the types of mobile animals that came to this event to work together to solve, Mobile Monday has the potential to be quite interesting.
Congrats and Welcome Aboard.. 😎
Join us 14 Nov. for MoMo Tokyo’s season finale Mobile Networking Bonenkai at Super Deluxe!
The past year has really been a blast with fantastic presentations from insiders at bitWallet, i-CF, ColorZip, Mobaho!, Warner Music, MPulse, GMap, Opera, FreeVerse, G-Mode and Macromedia. Tokyo’s hottest mobile networking community is strong and growing, with typically over 200 participants attending, and we look forward to another great MoMo year in 2006.
With the year-end party season just around the corner, we’ve decided to make the November MoMo event a 100% relaxed and fun Super Mobile Networking Bonenkai.* And for good little boys & girls, Santa will be there with some door-prize goodies!
Note*: Bring plenty of meishi!
Date: Monday, 14 November 2005 :: 19:00-23:00
Venue: Super Deluxe Roppongi – GMap
Admission: FREE with registration below – OR – JPY 1,000 at the door
Complimentary drink for first 200 guests, a la carte menu available
19:00 – Doors Open
20:00 – Networking
21:00 – Singing
22:00 – Dancing
23:00 – Last call
The inaugural MobileMonday Singapore event was a success!
Well over one hundred people crowded into Harry’s Bar, according to Mobile Monday Oy CEO Jari Tammisto. Participants included folks from NTT DoCoMo, regional managers from Nokia and mobile operators Starhub, SingTel Mobile and Mobile One, Yahoo Asia Pacific, Starcut, Open Mobile, Mobile365, Gartner, Philips, Finpro, Logica, Seven, Reuters, BBC, Mobile World, Nemo Technologies and Meridea, among others. Jari Tammisto also signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation in the presence of the Finnish and Singaporean ministers of trade and industry. Update: See their Flash Web Video Here!
Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley October Mobile Monday was a “Barn Buster,” according to organizer Russell Beattie, with over 300 people packed into Google’s auditorium to hear the panel and see the demos. The meeting was broadcast over Userplan’s Flash-based group chat. “About 20 people used the chat and listened to the audio, video was bit choppy, but it worked pretty well,” according to Beattie.
It was yet another stellar MoMo turn out for our OktoberZest event with almost 250 folks heading down for a few margaritas to take in the evening’s feature presentations from Hiro Higashiyama from G-Mode and Akio Tanaka and Dwight Rodgers from Macromedia. We got fantastic overviews on how Java games have started to gain traction in global markets while FlashLite and the new FlashCast service (branded i-Channel on DoCoMo) are pushing mobile data to the next level here in Japan.
We will be making the announcement for our next event here sometime soon – mark 14 November on your schedule – and meanwhile we’ll get the most recent presentations online for everyone ASAP.
