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After a hard-earned summer break, your MoMo Tokyo team are back in the Dohyo and ready to push around any big guys who get in the way! Many thanks to all who attended our Massive Mobile Mix at Wireless Japan in July and to those who took a moment to submit feedback via our Call-to-Action form in September. We had a great time at the Global Summit in Finland and Russia last month – see the full trip report here – and are pumped-up and ready to roll into our fourth year of running MobileMonday Tokyo.

We are thrilled to announce the next gathering, 22 October, at the fabulous Designing Studio, will feature presentations from Dr. Hitomi Murakami, former executive director and principal research engineer at KDDI’s R&D labs, and Tomi Ahonen, best-selling author and strategy consultant for digital convergence and advanced mobile telecoms. Both gentlemen are long-time industry insiders and the evening promises to be extremely informative and very well-attended. We look forward to meeting you there!

Fee: ¥1,000 with advance registration — OR — ¥2,000 at the door

Hitomi Murakami Ph.D – Professor – Seikei University .PPT
Dr. Murakami graduated from Hokkaido University with a Ph.D in Engineering and started his career as a research engineer with overseas telecommunication operator KDD in 1974. As Principal Research Engineer at KDDI R&D Laboratories, his area of expertise includes video compression technology, television transmission and satellite communications. Murakami-sensei served as Executive Director for the Corporate Technology Sector at KDDI, where he was responsible for development of new technologies for future services. In April 2007, he retired from KDDI and joined Seikei University as professor and is now working with the next generation of engineers.

Tomi T. Ahonen, MBA – Author and Strategy Consultant .PPT
Mr. Ahonen is the author of five bestsellers and an advisor to the telecoms, IT and media industries. He lectures at Oxford University’s courses on 3G telecoms, digital convergence and social networking, has been quoted in over 200 press stories and has presented papers to over 180 conferences. His client list includes Ericsson, Orange, Motorola, Nokia, DoCoMo, Siemens, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Mr. Ahonen consults for telecoms, industry analysts, the venture capital community and other parties involved in understanding the profit potential of wireless. A new services evangelist, Tomi has discussed over 1000 existing mobile concepts in his presentations and his books detail over 500 examples.

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 22 October 2007 :: 18:30 – 22:30
Venue: KDDI Designing Studio — GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with Advance Registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Complimentary drink ticket for the 1st 200 pre-registered guests!

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:15 – First presentation
19:45 – Second presentation
20:15 – Q & A
20:30 – Networking in the Wired Cafe
22:00 – Last Call
22:30 – Close

As our birthday approaches yet again, your MoMo Tokyo organisers have been looking back over the years to note with satisfaction that we’ve held 24 events at ten different locations with 50 speakers – and there are just over 3,000 members in our database! It’s been a helluva ride – Yoroshiku!

It seems like a good time to look to the future, and we would like to ask the MoMo community in Tokyo to help us plot where we go from here.

What do you like about MobileMonday? And what can we do to improve the overall programme and scope of activities? Finally, how can we tweak our efforts to build a community that meets your networking and professional development needs – and helps you get a leg up in the mobile industry?

Please enter your comments via the contact form Here.

Since we will be heading to northern Finland for the 3rd (time lucky!) annual MobileMonday Global Summit on 10 September, suggestions and opinions about the onging evolution of the Tokyo chapter will reach an even wider audience when we share with our global partners what you report to us.

Japan-based companies who wish us to carry their promotional message and materials to Helsinki – for distribution to over 1,500 globally connected mobile thought leaders – should get in touch with us ASAP for full details.

We are planning our next event for October and will post the details once everything is set. Meanwhile, we would like to take this moment and thank everyone who has helped build this dynamic community. In true kaizen spirit we look forward to continue improving on our platform in the future!

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The Massive Mobile Mix event will bring together some of the brightest and most influential players from the wireless industry for an evening of casual drinks, gourmet eats and one-on-one networking. Hosted at the ultra-trendy ‘Tokyo Fashion Town’ event space, directly across the street from Tokyo Big Sight after the opening day of Wireless Japan, this is as a great chance for the mobile industry from overseas to mix and mingle with deal-makers and market movers from Japan’s mobile community.

During the afternoon of July 18th we will run a “Global Networking Boosts Mobile Connections” seminar at Tokyo Big Sight to showcase both local and international Mobile Monday chapters providing an in-depth introduction to their cities, their markets and where the profit opportunities are to be found. Seating is limited, more details and registration form Here.

A final reminder that the 3rd annual Net Tokyo super summer fund raiser is coming up on 21 July. This ‘gathering of the tribes’ has become one of the best networking opportunities around with all proceeds going to charity. Also note that Red Herring has an all-star lineup for it’s first ever conference in Japan the following week, 22 – 24 July, in Kyoto. It’s gonna be hot-hot-hot!

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 :: 17:30 – 21:00
Venue: Tokyo Fashion Town — GMAP
Admission: ¥2,000 with Pre-Registration – OR – ¥3,000 at the door
Buffet by Corporate Gourmet — Drinks by EuroPubs

17:30 – Doors Open
20:30 – Last Call
21:00 – Close

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We’ve decided to throw a Yorishiku party for all the great folks who make MoMo Tokyo events possible. Our sponsors, volunteers and “friends of” have all generously pitched-in to make this exciting project work, on behalf of the community as a whole we thought a proper Arigato casual mixer is in order. Get the full details for location, date and (new) registration procedure below.

Meanwhile, we also have several upcoming event tips for everyone:

Mobikyo has announced our activities related to this years Wireless Japan tradeshow, 18 – 20 July at Tokyo Big Sight, including; a dedicated Mobile Intelligence guided mission, an About Mobile Monday seminar and our first ever Massive Mobile Mix event at Tokyo Fashion Town.

We are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Net Tokyo super summer fund raiser is coming up on 21 July. This ‘gathering of the tribes’ is one of the best networking opportunities around with all proceeds going to charity. Also note that Red Herring has an all-star lineup for it’s first ever conference in Japan the following week, 22 – 24 July, in Kyoto.

Finally, we’ll be at the annual Mobile Monday Global Summit in Helsinki Sept. 10 – 12 plus a side trip to attend MoMo in St. Petersburg introducing the Russian mobile market. [update: our Post Trip Report Here]

Mobile Monday Tokyo :: Thank-You!

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 18 June 2007 :: 18:30 – 23:00
Venue: Bane Bagus — GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with pre-registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Complimentary snacks and refreshments for registered guests

18:30 – Doors Open
20:00 – Kanpai!
22:30 – Last Call
23:00 – Close

Registration is now closed. See you Monday night.. 😎

We are pleased to invite interested delegates to our “About Mobile Monday” seminar on the afternoon of Weds. July 18th at Tokyo Big Sight during the Wireless Japan 2007 tradeshow. We will have speakers on-hand from local and international chapter cities to provide an overview of the community and their respective markets.

MobileMonday is a global community of industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from the world’s wireless markets. More details about us Here.

The “Global Networking” seminar will showcase local and international MoMo chapters providing an in-depth introduction to their cities, their markets and where the profit opportunities are to be found – from Beijing to Helsinki.

15:45 Doors open for pre-registered guests :: East 1 Hall Entrance

16:00 — Introduction of MoMo Tokyo by Ryo Umezawa, Business Dev. Manager at Mobikyo, providing an overview of the local Mobile Monday community activities to date.

16:10 — Introduction of the Japanese mobile market by Christopher Billich, VP Intl. Business Dev. at Infinita, providing an overview of current content and service offerings.

16:40 — Introduction of Mobile Monday Bejing by Benjamin Joffe, CEO of Plus8Star, providing an overview of MoMo activities to date in China. Benjamin will also offer a current snapshot of the Chinese mobile market.

17:00 Delegates mingle and meet :: casual Q & A

17:30 Move to Tokyo Fashion Town for our Massive Mobile Mix event.

Seminar seating is limited therefore advanced registration is required.

Advanced registration is now closed – See you at Wireless Japan!

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As part of the (digital) spring cleaning craze that’s sweeping the web these days (see WWJ), we finally managed to roll our new site design for Mobile Monday Tokyo. We are looking forward to providing a few extra offerings here for everyone in the near future as well, so stay tuned!

We’re pleased to announce the next MoMo event, on 23 April at KDDI’s Designing Studio, will feature a mobile mash-up of micro presentations in the super-cool “Demo Night” format — which has been popular in other chapter cities. For Demo Night, a line-up of interesting mobile companies will be allowed a 5- to 7-minute show & tell session for their mobile content or service offering — displayed on an actual handset and projected on the big screen for all to see.

Confirmed Presentations – now updated with event video below!

Tracey Northcott, VP at Enfour Group will demonstrate Camera Jiten [.PDF]. A native Brew dictionary application for use on KDDI handsets for instant scanning of English words giving their Japanese translations. This product is linked to their full dictionary service “Sougoeigojiten” for a drill down into the full definitions and pronunciation text to speech.

Mandali Khalesi, CEO of award-winning mobile marketing firm Naviblog, will present how to find Guinness with your mobile phone [.PDF]. The Guinness service is already available in selected Irish pubs and across the 23 wards of Tokyo, and is compatible with over 160 Japanese handsets from NTT Docomo, au by KDDI and Yahoo! Keitai.

David Collier, founder and CEO of Pikkle, will demonstrate technology which enables a new type of full-screen mobile flash service. Building on top of this core technology they provide a mobile flash social network engine (SNX) that allows the creation of niche social entertainment sites. Full flash gives impact, making this a demo you’ll want to take home.. and you can!

Nobuyoshi Noda, Mobile Division Deputy GM of Adways Co., Ltd, will present their Mobile Affiliate Advertisement Smart-C product. Capable of running mobile ad campaigns on all three carrier platforms, this opt-in management service – designed specifically for mobile content publishers – is based on a reward-per-transaction revenue model.

Tim Smith, Director of Freeverse Consulting, will “debut” Malibu IVP. A middleware approach to creating useful and viable 3G videocall applications it allows the developer and service provider to effectively approach this huge market opportunity. Malibu contains patented, exclusive technology directly associated with managing advertising on the 3G video network.

Special Guest Presentation

Hiroshi Oda — VP Corporate Communications — CIAJ
An Outline of the Digital Contents Pavilion @ CEATEC JAPAN 2007

In 2007, CEATEC JAPAN will launch a new special exhibit area under the theme of Digital Contents. This area is designed to support exhibitors’ efforts to win contents work, market contents and recruit high-quality contents personnel. As co-organizers of the annual CEATEC event, Oda-san’s presentation will center on an outline of the new Digital Contents exhibit area.

Our first Demo Night should be rather popular and will fill up fast! Online registration will remain open until Friday, 20 April — or until we hit maximum venue capacity. Finally, Welcome Aboard MoMo Taipei 😎

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 23 April 2007 :: 18:30 – 22:30
Venue: KDDI Designing Studio — GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with pre-registration (below) – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Complimentary snacks and refreshments for pre-registered guests!

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:10 – Presentations
19:50 – Q & A
20:00 – Networking
22:00 – Last Call
22:30 – Close

Registration is now closed. See you Monday night!

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MoMoers had a super time during the last two mixer events, and it was truly great to see so many attendees and meet with such a wide range of mobile-savvy folks. Now it’s time to get back down to business! While we certainly plan to hold those ‘open-to-all’ evenings several more times throughout 2007, our next event is reserved for people working in the mobile community only in an effort to focus on our core audience.

We have arranged for two Tokyo-based VCs to present an overview of their operations and discuss what they are looking for when they are approached by start-ups for funding. This “get the money to meet the talent”-theme evening should certainly result in some interesting conversations and new connections for everyone concerned. So mark your calendar for 19 March at KDDI’s fabulous Designing Studio, Harajuku, and please RSVP so we can prepare enough food for the post-presentation networking session in the 5th floor Wired Cafe.

Michael Korver – Co-founding Partner – Global Venture Capital
Global Venture CapitalMichael was born and raised in Tokyo and first developed his insider’s perspective on Asian business from his experience as an analyst at the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo from 1983 until 1986 – where he first met Hirokazu-san, GVC’s other managing partner – and as an international transactions lawyer with Richards & O’Neil in New York and Tokyo from 1987 until 1993. Since 1993, Michael has worked as an international business consultant, corporate lawyer, venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Tokyo. GVC’s partners have been active in entrepreneurship, venture capital and private equity globally for over 20 years.

Masaaki Suga – Vice President – CYBIRD Investment Partners
CYBIRD Investment PartnersMasaaki Suga joined CIP in January 2007. Earlier, he resided in Vancouver, Canada, and managed a number of projects in which he helped companies and products in North America to enter into the Japan and Asia market. Previously he worked for Macromedia (Adobe Systems) to run product and marketing division of server side products in Japan. Masaaki received an MBA from McGill University, Montreal Canada. CYBIRD Investment Partners Inc. (CIP) is a capital investment management company and 100% owned by CYBIRD Holdings Co., Ltd. CIP manages CYBIRD Plus Mobile Fund, the first mobile focused fund in Japan.

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 19 March 2007
Venue: KDDI Designing Studio GMAP
18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:15 – First presentation
19:30 – Second presentation
19:45 – Q & A
20:00 – Networking
22:00 – Last Call

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It’s a new year – all hail the Golden Pig – and we’re looking forward to the Mobile Monday kick-off, on 5 February, with a relaxed evening of p2p networking with plenty of the best gourmet pizza in Tokyo.

In 2007, Mobile Monday Tokyo enters its fourth year, and the size – over 350 at our last event – and sophistication of the MoMo community continues to expand. MoMo is now regularly attended by CEOs and professionals from Japan’s best-known mobile players, as well as a large number of entrepreneurs, developers and other tremendously knowledgeable people.

Moreover, as many MoMo participants tend to arrive on Monday evening direct from work, it’s clear that providing a reliable networking venue – complete with food and drink – are prerequisites for fostering a growing, ever-more dynamic community.

Therefore, starting in February, your humble organizers have decided to adopt the MoMo Beijing model and charge a modest entry fee (¥1,000 with preregistration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door). The revenue will ensure that we can book suitable locations and offer a decent light buffet, which we think will be appreciated by those ‘running on empty’ at 19:00 ish..

Regardless, corporate sponsorship will remain important support for MoMo Tokyo. Our sincere thanks to Jonckers and Robert Leonard for their fantastic on-going support! We remain keen to sign up additional forward-thinking companies interested in sponsoring the most switched-on mobile community in Japan.

Finally, we are delighted to announce that Tokyo’s very own NaviBlog was selected as the Japan nominee for the upcoming Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards, to be held at 3GSM in Barcelona, 12 February. NaviBlog presented to us here last May and also received Red Herring Asia’s Top 100 award in August. Good luck to Mandali and his team, we hope you bring home some hardware like Opera Japan did at the Global Summit in Helsinki last year.

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 5 February 2007 :: 18:30 – 23:00
Venue: Pizza Express in Harajuku – GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Includes: 1 drink ticket and Tokyo’s best pizza buffet

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Networking – Buffet
22:30 – Last Call
23:00 – Close – Nijikai

A quick tip for the pre-registration form — Save the trees!
Use your keitai email address to have the confirmation email sent to your handset and just show that for easy check in at the door!