Category: Tokyo Events

Update: A Super Nite – No Rain! We posted a few pix and will advise asap regarding our next event, targeting Sept. 13th, Our Birthday with some special guests in-town.. 😎

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We hope you all enjoyed Marine Day, gotta love that Happy Monday System! If not, no worries, we’re planning to get the gang together for a Mobile Matsuri themed summer event. Just a simple gathering – come as you are and pay as you go – No presentations. All are Welcome for Belgium Beers out on the Patio, so bring a few friends and have a fun evening mixer with us under the Pink Elephant neon glow.. see full details below.

We also wanted to mention that our all new Mobile Monday Global website is live, be sure to register your profile bio. there and start connecting with the members from other MoMo chapters. Note: We are gearing up for the MM Summit in Helsinki late September to celebrate our 10th Anniversary, that will be a total scene, suggest you register soon!

Meanwhile, you can Follow Us on Twitter or Linkedin and keep tabs via The Mob Rulz flash e’Zine as well. Clearly with all the action around the MoMo world, not too mention everyones day job, it’s been hectic times. We bet you have a solid plan to escape for a well-deserved break sometime this summer, looking forward to see you again soon.. 😎

Date: Monday, 2 August 2010 : 18:30 – 22:00
Venue: Little Delirium Cafe – Shinjuku :: MAP

モバイルマンデー東京 – 8月2日 – モバイル夏祭り！

海の日はいかが過ごされましたか？ハッピーマンデーの3連休以上に楽しい、ハッピーモバイル夏祭りマンデーがやってきます！今回は入場料やプレゼンテーションなど一切なし。好きなときに来て、好きなとだけ飲んで楽しむイベントです。ピンクのおゾウさんが光るお洒落なデリリウムカフェで友達をつれて、みんなでHOTな夏を楽しみましょう！

モバイルマンデーのグローバルサイトを更新したので、今ではサイトでプロフィールを登録することができます。FacebookやLinkedInの様に自分のプロフィールを使って、他国のモバイルマンデーコミュニティーとネットワークする事ができます。注：今年は9月にヘルシンキで行われるモバイルマンデーサミットでモバイルマンデーの10周年記念を祝うため、お早めにプロフィールを登録される事をお勧め致します。

また、Twitterや、LinkedInで私達をフォローしてください。夏休みの前に皆さんにお会いできる事を楽しみにしております。

日時：2010年8月2日（月）18:30 – 22:00
場所：リトル　デリリウム　カフェ – 新宿 :: MAP

Update: A Really Great evening – Many Thanks to All who attended! We have some photos posted and will advise at soonest regarding our next event, targeting late June or perhaps with the good folks at Wireless Japan again this year coming in mid-July.. 😎

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As everyone gets sorted and settled for the upcoming business year, taking a few precious moments to enjoy the Sakura, of course, it’s time once again to bring the family together. On 26 April MoMo Tokyo will go for a good dig into what it takes to bring next-generation mobile content and service offerings to market. Your humble organizers have nailed a Super Venue and look forward to welcoming two seasoned players, see bio. details below, to address our community.

Please note, attendance will limited to about 100 pre-registered guests.
Advance Reservation – Online Here – Required

Takahito Iguchi – Founder & CEO – Tonchidot
Founded Tonchidot Corp. in August 2008 to develop Sekai Camera service. A creator and evangelist of several innovative multimedia platforms and web services at various companies including JUST Systems, Scitron & Art, and start-up Digitao, for which he was founder/CEO. He has over 20 years experience in providing art, music, game, anime, publishing and other consumer oriented software and services using cutting-edge technology. BA Philosophy Ritsumeikan Univ, Kyoto, Japan.

Osuke Honda – Principal – DCM
As a Principal, Osuke Honda brings a powerful combination of strategic and venture investments, business planning and development, as well as operational experience to his role in identifying new investment opportunities and helping build global companies. Prior to joining DCM, Osuke was a Principal and management committee member at Globis Capital Partners, formerly Apax Globis Partners, a pre-eminent venture capital firm in Japan. He led investments in consumer internet, digital media and IT services sectors. Previously, Osuke held multiple positions at Mitsubishi Corporation, the largest trading house in the world. Here he led various initiatives which involved operations management in the automotive sector as well as business planning and new business development for the CEO Office, Machinery Group. He established strategic alliances and joint ventures with partners across the globe and executed both strategic and venture investments.

Admission: 2,000 JPY :: Includes Beverages
Date: Monday, 26 April 2010 :: 18:30 – 22:00
Language: Presentations in English and Japanese
Venue: KDDI Web Communications — Kojimachi — 6th floor

Advance registration closed — Cya there soon.. 😎

４月に入り、新年度を迎え、新たな決意を胸にスタートを切った方も多いと思います。Mobile Monday Tokyoも新たなイベントを開催することとなりました。入場料：事前登録された方は2000円、４月２６日に新しいロケーションでモバイルの未来を切り開く先駆者を二名お迎えします。先着１００名様までのご招待となりますので、ご興味のある方は早めに日程を抑えてください。

井口尊仁 頓智・CEO 立命館大学文学部哲学科卒。
ソーシャルネットの未来に魅了されて株式会社デジタオを1999年に創業。さらに現実空間のソーシャル化を志向して頓智・株式会社を2008年に立ち上げる。同年2009月に「セカイカメラ」のコンセプトをTechCrunch50にて発表、その一年後に日本にてリリースし、2009年12月には世界77カ国に向けてセカイカメラをローンチ。未来ビジョンを現実化するための頓智に総てを賭ける毎日。

本多央輔 DCM プリンシパル兼日本共同代表
三菱商事にて自動車の海外営業、事業投資等を経た後、e-businessの企画・推進、投資関連業務、新規事業・新機能開発等の業務に従事。その後、エイパックス・グロービス・パートナーズ（現、グロービス・キャピタル・パートナーズ）に参画、プリンシパル兼経営執行委員会メンバーとして投資業務、投資先企業の経営・事業開発支援、ファンドレージング等を経て、DCMに参画。DCMでは主にインターネット、モバイル、デジタルメディア、ITサービス分野等の投資を担当。一橋大学法学部卒、同大学経営法修士。米国ペンシルバニア大学ウォートン経営大学院留学を経て慶応義塾大学経営学修士。

事前登録は終了いたしました！

We hope you all had a Super Holiday and come back now rested & ready to for another hectic year. By all accounts the Tech-Tribes Bonenkai was a smashing success, with over 400 in the house and we raised 120,000jpy for the inaugural Beers for Bytes cause, many thanks to everyone who made that possible. Based on all the feedback, it does seem we should consider running more of these combined gatherings, maybe a Hanami hook-up this spring would be an idea?!?

Meanwhile, please do mark February 8th on your fancy new calendar and plan to join us at SuperDeluxe for the 1st ever Tokyo 2.0 x MoMo Tokyo joint event. We have a really great list of speakers for the keynote presentations and lightning talks – see below – with our full evening agenda, on Fixed Mobile Convergence, all locked down. As you might imagine it will be a rockin scene!

awesome Tokyo 2.0 image by Jim Grisanzio via Flickr

Keynote Presentations:

Marco Koeder – Cybermedia Japan
“Keep it vibrating” Lessons learned from Mobile Japan

Kei Shimada – Infinita
Mobile Web Convergence Overview

Hironao Kunimitsu – Gumi
Social Apps across Mobile and PC

Riku Inoue & Brad Ellis – Google Japan
Search Trends across platforms

Lightning Talks:

Daniel Davis – Opera Software
Passwords and Internet Security

DongYol Lee – Waaotn & Company, Ltd.
Accessibilty Issues and Mobile Web

Kenzo Kono – One developer’s story
Making WordPress Cross-Platform

Joseph Yan – MotherApp
BlogEngine – App-ify your Web Blog

Ruskyle Howser – R. L. Howser Communications
Effective Speaking at Tokyo 2.0 and MoMo Tokyo

Also, a quick heads-up for everyone on the annual i*deal Competition organized by Mitsui Ventures – Please note the application deadline has been extended to Jan. 29th!

Otherwise, 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Mobile Monday and we have ambitious plans for the MoMo Global Summit and Peer Awards. There are several interesting projects in the pipeline, see The Mob Rulz for our global community news.. Yoroshiku!

— MoMo Tokyo Team

MoMo Tokyo x Tokyo 2.0 – Joint Event!
Date: Monday, 8 February 2010 :: 19:00 – 22:00
Venue: SuperDeluxe :: GMap
Admission: ¥2,000 at the door includes Two Drink tickets :: Registration Not Required

Many thanks to all who made it out for our Le Jazz at Tableaux event in Daikanyama, it was a fantastic evening at a super venue with an awesome buffet and 200 great people in the house to mix & mingle at the show & tell tables. Looking back on 2009 MoMo Tokyo experienced somewhat of a renaissance, starting with our call-to-action in January which resulted in an impressive group of ‘Ambassadors’ who stepped forward to examine the true meaning of MoMo and deliver on that vision. Together we proceeded to plan our events, with a much sharper focus, balancing business merit and – of course – Fun!

Looking forward, we are thrilled to join the Tokyo Tech Tribes for a Monster year-end Bonenkai on December 17th – See Full Details Below – and enjoy a little hard-earned R&R before heading into 2010. We have some ambitious plans for next year, including the MM Summit and 10th Anniversary event, along with some targeted chapter exchange missions and a new Biz-Match platform. After 5-years it remains our great pleasure to be involved with this effort to “Bring the Mobile Community Together.”

MoMo Tokyo Team — Yoroshiku!

Tokyo Tech Tribes Party — Bonenkai 2009
When: December 17th, 2009 :: 7-10pm
Where: Fifty Seven — Map
Cost: Free Entry — Cash bar, light food
RSVP via email by Sunday, Dec. 13th, 2009
rsvp.tokyos.biggest.techparty@gmail.com

Participating Groups:
Asiajin, Digital Eve Japan, Intl Computer Assoc, Mobile Monday Tokyo, Ninjava, Tokyo 2.0, Tokyo Hacker Space, Tokyo Linux Users Group, Tokyo PC Users Group

Charity Benefit: This will be the first ever ‘Beers for Bytes’, an offshoot of the acclaimed Beers for Books event. The money will be donated to Room to Read’s wireless computer lab projects in Nepal and Vietnam.

Play it again Sam..

日本語版

Ok – whew – we are finally getting back in the swing here with a brand spanking new website and plan for gathering the MoMo Tokyo community together on November 30th. We’ve had tons of great feedback from you after the 5th Anniversary party and will be taking those comments forward on our upcoming events. For starters.. Food! Indeed, as most of us head straight to MoMo from work, hunger is a factor. So, we’ve arranged with the nice folks at Tableaux Lounge for a yummy buffet – that means no greasy fries – at only 1,000jpy per head. Get all the niggly details and be sure to RSVP Here.

Along with a cool jazz scene, a quasi outdoor patio and huge leather couches, there are also several Show & Tell table spots for some hands-on fun. We have confirmed five super interesting companies will be setup there for face 2 face interaction with you!

Digital Garage, Yes those demi-gods responsible for Twitter Japan, will be in the house with their latest products to #stream along with the MoMo community. TwiNavi is the gateway that guides users through the twitter world of official accounts by famous celebs and companies. TwitVideo is the new media portal where people can share their fun and memorable photos and videos. Our hearty congrats to the DG Mobile crew, as their Japanese client for Twitter launched here in October, check-out the site and take the product for a test-drive.. if you haven’t already?!? Meanwhile, be sure to follow @dg_mobile, and @momo_tokyo of course, for all the action!

We’re thrilled to welcome representatives from 34 SME European ICT companies who are visiting Tokyo the week of Nov 30 – Dec 4 as part of the EU Gateway programme. They will be bringing a broad range of technologies – several in the wireless related space – and clearly MoMo is a unique opportunity for them to meet with people from leading mobile companies in Japan. Note, these folks will also be running a trade fair at the Hilton hotel in Shinjuku on December 2nd and 3rd, Full Details Here.

It’s an honor to have Hitoshi Miyata from Dream Ranch coming to show his Memory Tree iPhone application. Created to help users track and trace memories, it uses basic hand gestures to enable easy operations to archive events on the fly, at any given location, in order to be saved as a keepsake. Record your memories onto invisible maps with time line layers using three amazingly simple motion-sensor actions: Shoot. Fly. Catch. This AR styled tool, compatible in both English and Japanese, will enable folks to visualize their experiences and help link memories by sharing key information such as when, where and what in order to connect with other members who have been there before or will visit the same place in the future!

Based in San Francisco with operations in Japan, doubleTwist offers simple and seamless syncing of music, videos and photos between the PC or Mac and over 200 Japanese phones, the Sony PSP, Nintendo DSi and other devices. The software also includes a store for digital content that can integrate any online store, and currently integrates the Amazon MP3 store in the US. doubleTwist is seeking OEM and e-commerce partners in Japan who want to enhance their digital media offerings and benefit from a smoother user experience in online shopping of digital goods. The Japanese website and free software is available for download at www.doubletwist.com.

Finally, you’ll wanna see MoobizSync2.0 – a Salesforce.com certified application for users to access their Salesforce.com or Force.com account information from a mobile phone. It allows users to view, create or erase data in standard and custom Salesforce.com tabs, everything from customer info and opportunities to upcoming tasks and calendar events. It also enables offline and online search functions as well as data caching and network level secure data encryption. The product is capable of running on standard Docomo and Softbank handsets. Offered by TDC Software, the product details are available for review online [JPN] or see this PDF in English.

Meanwhile – Yes Virginia there is a Bonenkai – better mark December 17th on your busy season calendars for a massive gathering of all the Tokyo networking tribes who will be coming together, for a good cause of course, under one roof to have drinks with Santa!

Event: Mobile Monday Tokyo — Le Jazz at Tableaux
Date: Monday – November 30th, 2009 :: 18:30 – 23:00
Location: Tableaux Lounge — Map
Fee: ¥1,000 with Advance Registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
*Your unique QR code ticket will be sent in advance of the event

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That’s Right Folks – It’s coming up on the Big 5.0 for us since launch in 2004 and we’re ready for a major celebration! Be sure to block-off your calendar for September 7 and Book Reservations for our Event of the Season.. you know it will be a Total Blast..!!

We’ve secured a fantastic venue – Legato in Shibuya – who have generously offered to provide an awesome buffet along with an open bar for two-hours! We look forward to welcome the MoMo Tokyo Alumni and expecting several special V-VIP guests will be in the house for this milestone occasion. If you would like to add a door-prize for the meishi draw, ping us here to arrange.

Looking back over the years we have held 44 events, in at least a dozen different venues, with presentations coming from over 100 speakers. Our database shows delegates attending from right across the spectrum of the smallest to largest players, based both in Japan and overseas, with an even mix of folks with domestic and international backgrounds. Yoroshiku!

It has been an honour and pleasure to be involved with this project and we extend our deepest gratitude, on behalf of the entire mobile community, to every single one of you for making this adventure possible. Kanpai..!!

BTW: If you missed the Wireless Japan event in July – for shame! – we have all the presentations uploaded Here. Also, we are thrilled to announce our NetTokyo charity fundraiser in mid-July resulted in nice donation of $1,500 on behalf of MoMo Tokyo to the kind folks at Sala Network.. Good Job.

Date: Monday, 7 September 2009 :: 19:00 – 23:00
Venue: Legato Shibuya — GMAP
Admission: ¥3,000 with Advance Registration – Or – ¥4,000 at the door
Includes Full Buffet & Nomi-Hodai from 7-9pm (a bargain at twice the price!)

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Update: What a Great Freakin Time.. 😎

We ran 5×5 for the Birthday Bash last nite; an Awesome Venue serving Fantastic Food and Open Bar with a Solid Mass of Really Great People!

It was an honor to have Jari Tammisto, CEO of Mobile Monday OY, here to pass along his best wishes, and the Golden Lion Pin award, along with an energetic delegation visiting from Helsinki and several high-level local reps from the Finnish embassy. A special hat-tip to Legato with Dinner for two going to Ken Pechter who was the first to correctly answer – by mobile of course – the exact date of our 1st event. The nice folks from Opera had a bag full of goodies and the Poken give-away started a mini-stampede!

Our eternal thanks and praise to everyone who made it an evening to remember. While we all recover from what turned-out to be a very late night, work is already well underway for our next event in November. Meanwhile, stay tuned for several other related updates along the way!

Heads-Up, our next MoMo Tokyo event is July 24 – Yep, it’s a Friday – out at Tokyo Big Sight during the Wireless Japan conference and trade show. We have lined-up some interesting and energetic speakers, see company logos below, to present on topics ranging from 3D Worlds and SNS platforms to video and next-generation UI’s with a couple of extra surprises in store. We know most folks will be heading out there anyway so Register Now and join us for an afternoon deep inside the belly of the space beast!

All 5 presentations are now available in the Archive Section

In typical MoMo style we’ll have a Happy Hour mixer after the presentations, with special thanks to the good folks at Ikon-EuroPubs who will be there to make sure everyone gets some Tigers in their tank for the weekend. Also note, EJK still has a special offer for booth space rental this year, their Word .doc in Japanese is Here.

Meanwhile, we’re pumped to see you Saturday July 11 at NetTokyo

It’s always a really fantastic event with super people and supporting a number of worthy charity efforts. Bring your friends and be sure to grab some extra raffles tickets for some great prizes.. you gotta be there..!!!

Otherwise, the Ad:Tech Tokyo debut in September is coming together, be sure to check that out. Finally, we wish safe travel – and good times! – for those of you hitting the holiday highways this summer season.. Yoroshiku!

Date: Friday, 24 July 2009 :: 14:30 – 18:00
Venue: Tokyo Big Site — GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with Advance Registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Complimentary drinks for pre-registered guests!
14:00 – Doors Open
14:30 – Presentations
15:30 – Networking
17:00 – Close — Nijikai.. 😎

Post-Event Update:
What a great evening we had on Monday night! The weather was 10×10 for a roof top patio gathering and we had a great line-up of presentations with some really super people out for a Zesty Margarita Mobile Monday.. 😎

If you missed-out (for Shame!), we have the presentations posted Here, sadly there is no video of the groovy air guitar set by Team Taito. At any rate there was a whole lotta Poken going on and, for those truly savvy at mingling, we were honored to welcome key players from AdMob who were in the house – Scoop – with their latest hire.. Congrats!

Looking forward to our next event – in late July – lets just say it’s gonna be “Big” and we’ll be sure to shoot all the details your way soon.

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Ok folks, our upcoming event on May 18th will be an exciting Demo Night styled evening – featuring lightning round of show and tell presentations with plenty of interaction afterwards – under the stars on the roof top patio at Zest in Ebisu, so be sure to mark the calendar and tell your colleagues!

We have confirmed speakers coming from Taito to air guitar with their Wii-like Chokkan Games, Find!Tokyo will show-off it’s recently released mega iPhone app. while the good folks from Poken will be High 5’ing around with their groovy Pandas and both MoCoTea and Pikkle will demo their mobile sns services. So, we’ll have something for everybody!

Sponsored by: Jonckers Translation & Engineering and Robert Leonard Consulting

Date: Monday, 18 May 2009 :: 18:30 – 23:00
Venue: Ebisu Zest Cantina — GMAP
Admission: ¥1,000 with Advance Registration – OR – ¥2,000 at the door
Complimentary drink ticket for the first 100 pre-registered guests!

18:30 – Doors Open
19:30 – Presentations
20:30 – Networking
22:30 – Last Call
23:00 – Close

Our next event is set for March 16th at the Designing Studio with a couple of great presentations and mega mixer afterwards at the Wired Cafe. Considering the ‘current economic situation’, see this fantastic keynote by Anssi Vanjoki for MoMo Peer Awards at MWC in Barcelona, we are inspired and agreed – these are the times when winners are made.. 😎

A few notes of interest: We are thrilled to announce our co-op on related industry upcoming events with the Inter-Embassy Mobile Forum and the good folks at AdTech. We have added links here for our FaceBook and Linkedin groups while the new MoMo Ambassador team is hard at work planning our next event targeted for May 18th. See you all again soon!

Special Guest Speakers

Kazuhiko Ishii – General Manager APAC – scanR Inc. .PDF
Kazuhiko Ishii is General Manager of scanR Inc. Asia Pacific Operation. Ishii is responsible for all operation in Asia Ishii has extensive telecommunications sales and business experience within the Japanese and Asia Pacific regions. He previously served as General Manager of Openwave Systems KK. Prior to Openwave Systems, he was President of Premier Global Service, North Asia, SEVEN Networks Inc.’s Regional Vice President of Asia Pacific, and General Manager of Japan operation. Ishii has additionally held various senior executive manager positions at Phone.com Inc., Nihon Cisco Systems K.K., Hewlett-Packard, and StrataCom Inc. Ishii holds a B.S. from Science University of Tokyo 1985, Applied Mathematics.

Shuusuke Isoda, Media Service Planning Div., KDDI Corp. .PPT
The ‘au Box’ service was launched by KDDI late last year allowing subscribers to easily connect their keitai with the fixed-line internet to buy, transfer and enjoy music and video contents. With around 1.3 million songs and 5,000 videos on LISMO now available for download and playback on the device, or their TV set, users can also pull content recorded on CDs and forward to compatible au mobile phones as well. Customers with the ‘Hikari-one TV service’ also have access to various forms of video content such as multi-channel broadcasts. Isoda-san will walk us through the product and service on this perfect example of fixed-mobile convergence in action!

Sponsored by:
Robert Leonard Consulting and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 16 March 2009 :: 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 firstst 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
22:00 – Last Call
22:30 – Close

Filed under the Good Plan – Better Plan news category, we have decided to move our 16 Feb. event back 30-days to March 16th. Please do remember to mark the new date on your calendar and note the full announcement, with agenda and registration details, will be coming your way asap.

Meanwhile, in January we called for Ambassador Agents, Chief Enthusiasts and Ministers of Mo-Mobile to step forward and help drive this effort to the next level.. Wow! A solid dozen talented and energetic folks have come together for the cause and we are now in the process of building an exciting ’09 road map from a top secret underground Izakaya location. Stay Tuned!

Finally, congrats to our winner of the LG Prada handset at the Shinnenkai last month – Mr. Shibuya would be right at home with us wandering along Las Ramblas at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — Hola!

Have a Super Sweet Valentines Day — it’s even on a Saturday 😎