Mobile 2.0 Europe – openIDEAS 2011 Conference 

Barcelona - June 16-17th, 2011

Yet a another great @m2eu  kicked off by a keynote from Carlos Domingo, Telefonica R+D CEO in Telefonica’s new spectacular “Diagonal 00″ – the new Telefonica R&D Catalunya Headquarters.  Carlos Domingo quoted Matt Galligan: “The future of mobile is the future of everything”. 

Key take away’s: The key is understanding the feature distribution models where the immense impact of the connected things means that over the next 10 years there will be 50 billion objects connected to Internet at the same time mobile data will grow 50 times.  Peter Vesterbacka the Mighty Eagle from Angry Birds kicked up the speed in his unique Finnish style.  Tom Hume, Managing Director, Future Platforms presented a unique perspective on how to structure application development in modular segments allowing for a much faster development process. The conference further had a quite a few great HTLM5 workshops extrapolating the many new possibilities. 

Yet a nother great m2eu thanks.   

 

Augmented Planet London 

1-2 June 2011 London Soho

At the AP2011 event I learned how to utilize technologies such as: AR browsers, facial recognition, visual search, natural feature tracking and much much more. This year Lester Madden and AP2011had assembled the great speakers from the AR industry.

Both Wikitude presenting their World Browser as well as Viz*It’s Museums case where quite impressive.  Junaio owned by Metaio showed their augmented reality technology and how they had developed a channel platform based on augmented reality platform using realtime 3D.  Great conference for developing network with people from the AR industry and learn how AR could be applied to our solutions. 

 

Øresund Mobile Meetup

19 May, 2011 Malmø C,  Sweden

I’m totally impressed about this event, one of the greatest I have attended. The organizers brought together some of the most interesting people within the mobile business, the innovators, the digital media and marketing people and the investors.

Both keynotes where sublime: Tomi T Ahonen, Author of six bestselling hardcover books on mobile, analyst and international speaker. Tomi made both a funny and insightful presentation on “The best opportunities in mobile in the next few years”.

Loo Cheng Chuan, Head of innovation Singtel (Singapore), shared some cutting edge thoughts on technology and innovative. Coming from the often criticized mobile operators did he share his unique view of what´s hot in the mobile space.

It is impressive how close great experiences often are, I made a ton of new connections in the network sessions.

Mobile Cloud Forum

17 February 2011 in BCN 

A one-day event, industry-led thought leadership conference focused on how cloud computing will revolutionize mobile applications and the mobile ecosystem. The day where split in four 1-1.5 hour "industry-view" sessions presented by HP, NEC, Huawei and Cisco.  I got a totally new view on the cloud above us…

 

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011

14-17 February, in Barcelona, Spain.

Spend a couple of days with 50,000 senior mobile leaders from around 200 countries – understanding how to enable, accelerate and direct this transformation, leading into the Mobile Future. GSMA Mobile World Congress, the must-attend annual gathering of the mobile industry.

This year's major focus included: A world-class thought leadership conference featuring visionary keynotes and action-provoking panel discussions and a exhibition with more than 1,300 companies displaying the cutting-edge products and technology that will define the mobile future    

Finally did we explore an even bigger than 2010 App Planet shoving how enormous the app movement really is…

 

Mobile Mobile Premier Awards

February 14, 2011

Once again did the Mobile Premier Awards prove to be worth the trip - Great presentations great pitches great networking.  

The Mobile Premier Awards are focus on the developers and early-stage innovation it’s a great place to start off the Mobile World Congress. This year 20 finalists from all the local AppCircuses held during 2010 came to showcase their app in a 3-minute pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

 

Mobile Sunday BCN

13. February 2011

Attended the sixth annual Mobile Sunday – an unofficial, informal gathering of mobile bloggers, developers and stakeholders. At the VINTAGE did I meet many of my mobile friends from around the world, Thanks for getting us together! 

 

BCN Design Week 2010 Core ideas to face the new challenges

October 18 - 22, 2010

Great week focusing on themes such as user experience, Co-creation & Co-design, Design Management , Social Innovation and Mobile Design. Especially Steve Rogers (Google) session stands out - where he gave key insights to how Google innovate: Data mining and user behavior analyze seemed to be the core of how they create lead innovations.

"Mobile Design Conference: Barcelona

Designing for the networked city" – October 21, 2010

Spend a day with some of the most forward-thinking leaders in Mobile, Co-Creation, and Urban Design who shared their view on the role of design in an increasingly complex ecosystem. The focus where on the challenges they see lying ahead: designing mobile services for a total mobile user city experience, respecting the needs of the user within her environment.

The biggest take away where Kevin Slavin the Co-Founder and Chairman of Area/Code Entertainment analysis of Wall Street, money, speed, data flow and algorithms.

 

Nordplus intensive week 2010

Mönchengladbach 22-26 November 2010

Taught a Negotiation course for students for the following universities,

·         Sweden: Gotland University

·         Latvia: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

·         Denmark: University of Southern Denmark

·         Finland: HAMK University of Applied Sciences

·         Germany: Niederhein University of Applied Sciences

The course peeked in a great multicultural week in Mönchengladbach, Germany, awesome to observe how real cultural clashes happen and gets solved.

 

MobileMonday’s 10 Year Anniversary Summit

September 27-29, 2010 – Helsinki and Tallinn.

Kicked off MobileMonday’s 10 Year Anniversary Summit with the official MoMo Peer Awards finale - Great to see so many continents coming together and inspiring each other. 

Seminars where held at Helsinki’s neighboring city of Espoo where Nokia HQ, F-Secure HQ and Rovio showed the coolest and the newest, whether it being new prerelease handset, strategic thoughts behind Angry birds or app threats – great thoughts.   

At Aalto Venture Garage among many presentations we had an insightful presentation byJeffrey Stern (USA), Innovation Expert, Amdocs: about innovation processes in large corporations. Christian Lindholm (UK), Partner and Director at Fjord delivered some insights to design, UI and SCRUM before we headed the Tallink ferry to Tallinn having a “WIPJam on water” many interesting viewpoints where discussed.

Great being a part of history – great summit guys 

Master class on social media and user interaction (KommITfyn)  

 

14. september 2010 Forskerparken 10, 5230 Odense

Steven Canvin, Lego shared insights’ on how to develop, sustain, involve and benefit from a community of followers and fans. The co-developer strategy and advanced stimulation of the community are driving the organization towards even more innovative development.  

Martin Falslev Andersen, Trendsales made a strong point about the ability to listen to, document user input and learns from your users – he gave many insights to the possibilities for global personal interaction design.

I look forward to the following master classes

 

Over The Air

London Imperial College September 10-11, 2010

A developer event and hack-a-thon that is non-aligned and seeks to inform, energize and empower mobile "builders" to work with each other to create great stuff. Over the Air is a place where developers, designers, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and academics can come together to celebrate, discuss, learn, chill and geek out for 24 hours of intense fun.

 

My learning objectives where dual: how to design adaptive converging multimedia platforms and how to improve my user interface design capabilities – all of which were achieved. 

After an insightful presentation on Open Data by Sir Tim Berners-Lee did I participate in a longer discussion with Sir Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web and design issues within socially aware cloud storage. Some of Tim’s reflections were a bit complex but I understood the potential and learned about ways to work with socially aware cloud storage – cool.  

On a totally different topic did Brian Fling and Aral Balkan share valuable insights about Mobile Experiences and the art of emotional design -Maslow’s pyramid of needs will never be the same.

Thanks to the organizers team, Daniel Appelquist Matthew Cashmore for a great event see you next year!

 

Seminar on Innovation - Nørgård Mikkelsen 

Englandsgade 24 5000 Odense C - Onsdag d. 23. june
Focus of the innovation seminar:

Erik Laumand, Adm. Direktør. Nørgård Mikkelsen:
Hvordan fastholder du den stærke relation til din målgrupppe?

Hanne Kristiansen, Flexiblebrains, London:
Marketing innovation som drivkraft til vækst

Penny Wyon, konsulentchef, Wilke Research:
Forbrugerdrevet innovationsproces – fra indsigt til koncept

 

Mobile Europe 2.0 conference Barcelona

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Hosted at the brand new premises of Universitat Pompeu Fabra at C/ Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain‎.

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is an opportunity to connect to industry leadership and fellow innovators and broaden your C-level relationships with senior technologists.

A One-Day Event on June 17, 2010 exploring the Future of Mobile Development and Innovation of an ever-changing Mobile Ecosystem, presented by dotopen

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference brings together thought leaders and experts from different aspects of the mobile ecosystem. Tailored specifically for mobile/web application developers and technologists this conference will at the same time help startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers to better understand the latest technologies that will define the mobile market of tomorrow

 

Facilitation, Coaching and Project Leadership course

May 2010 from GoAgile Consulting & Mentoring

One of the major challenges in any project is for both parties to communicate and understand what they want. The better the relationship and the communications between the project team and its customer (the development team and the users in software development, for example), the better chance there is for the project to succeed.

The benefit of the course is that it helps people create closer relationships that allow them to better understand one another and to help teams deliver the right project faster. 

• Agile Mentoring and Mentor Support
• Agile Project Support
• Facilitation Coaching
• Project Leadership Coaching

Agile Project Leadership is a people-centric, facilitative approach to achieving project success. It is an involving and engaging way to lead a team, and it results in happier teams and increased business value.

WIPJAM @ Mobile World Congress App Planet
WIP where an App Planet Partner!

Thursday, February 18, 2010
App Planet Auditorium, Hall 7, FIRA, Barcelona, Spain

The focus where to open up the mobile ecosystem and connect experienced and talented developers, with industry experts and decision makers.

Most importantly this event where driven by developers. It’s no secret that the industry needs the emerging companies to lead with innovation, to leverage resources and to help change the game. With the right beat, they are ready to listen! 

Jam Sessions where interactive and definitely not boring. WIP Jam sessions are a unique format for mobile and wireless developers, where they blended ‘unpanels’, with intimate discussion groups led by industry leaders and developers alike. 

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010: Where the Mobile Industry gathered together to see ‘Vision in Action'

15- 18 Feb 2010 Barcelona

Barcelona played host to the GSMA's industry-leading event, Mobile World Congress. This year, attendees were treated to a wealth of learning and networking opportunities; product offerings and announcements; inspiration and innovation.  

There where an exciting lineup of speakers from the mobile industries, as well as other industries and sectors touched by the mobile market, including entertainment and education. Keynote speakers included:

• Ben Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent
• Lu Yimin, China Unicom
• Hans Vestberg, Ericsson
• Guo Ping, Huawei
• Tadashi Onodera, KDDI Corporation
• Mike Lazaridis, RIM
• Vittorio Colao, Vodafone
• Her Majesty, Queen Rania Abdullah of Jordan

In addition did Google's Eric Schmidt speak about the future of mobile and archived for viewing on Mobile World Live , so visit the site today to listen in!

App Planet

An entire exhibition hall dedicated to applications and developers, featuring developer conferences hosted by Google, Motorola, RIM, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and Wireless Industry Partnership.

Mobile Premier Awards Barcelona 2010  

Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010

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 where the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry.

his year's winners of the Mobile Premier Awards are:

• TaxiPal - MPA in Innovation to the Best Early Stage Startup awarded by the MobileMonday Community
• PercentMobile - MPA in Innovation to the Best Early Stage Startup awarded by the Audience
• Bipper Communication - MPA in Innovation to the Best Early Stage Startup awarded by the Jury
• Waze - MPA in Innovation to the Best Emerging Startup awarded by the MobileMonday Community
• fonYou - MPA in Innovation to the Best Emerging Startup awarded by the Audience
• CloudMade - MPA in Innovation to the Best Emerging Startup awarded by the Jury
• Layar - Mobile Premier Award to the Best Startup in Mobile Marketing awarded by the Mobile Marketing Association
• Layar -Mobile Premier Award to the Best Startup in Mobile Entertainment awarded by the Mobile Entertainment Forum
• Souktel - Mobile Premier Award to the Best Startup in Female Entrepreneurship awarded by Women 2.0
• Adaffix - Mobile Premier Award to the Best Startup in Female Entrepreneurship awarded by WiMD
• Rede Jovem - Mobile Premier Award in Social Change awarded by the MobileActive.org
• Flook - Mobile Premier Award in User Experience awarded by the Mobile User Experience

 

Børsen executive club Karsten Ree
Torsdag den 4. februar 2010

Sted: Det Ny Teater – Teaterkælderen, Gammel Kongevej 29, København V

Karsten Ree præsenterede ”VISION – PASSION – FREMTID OG UAFHÆNGIGHED”

The Zombie Economy By Mark Thomas and Alan Middleton Børsen executive club
14. January 2010

PA Consulting Group, Tuborg Boulevard 5, 2900 Hellerup

Alan Middleton and  Mark Thomas says this is the case because although these sectors still exist they are currently unable to perform the functions we expect of them in supporting growth.

They predicts it will be a long time before economic life as we once knew it returns because of the bad debt still held on lenders’ books.

They say lenders are hiding the amount of bad debt they hold to avoid disclosing it as a loss which would lead to more questions about their liquidity. Until lenders are able to sell on this debt their true losses will not be known and they will not be able to return to normal lending.

All four zombie sectors will ultimately play their part in the prolonged recession Thomas says we are in for. Just as the banks are dead when it comes to lending, consumers are in limbo with regard to borrowing money and spending.

The greatest debate on Earth

Thursday, 17 December 2009

COP15 negotiations are going to be drawing to a close in Copenhagen. BBC World News and The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) have invited some of the world's leading voices and decision makers to debate one of the most important issues facing mankind.

The Greatest Debate on Earth will be broadcast to a worldwide audience.

The Greatest Debate on Earth is the Climate Summit's window to the world. The debate will be recorded at Koncerthuset, Copenhagen's new concert center, where BBC World's HARDtalk host Stephen Sackur, along with the participants, will seek to answer the question ‘How much has Copenhagen achieved in the battle against climate change?

Top decision makers from all continents will be in the panel discussion in The Greatest Debate on Earth. Information on names can be obtained in the run up to the debate on

 

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

9. dec. 2009 Oslo

Seminar with NRK and MiniTV executives abour mobile broadcast TV.

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norwegian: Norsk Rikskringkasting AS), which is usually known as the NRK, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television  public broadcasting company, and the largest media  organisation in Norway. focus on mobile tec. and strategy.

Network seminar with the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

5. november 2009 DGI-byens Konference Center, Tietgensgade 65, 1704 Kbh. V

Danish government has founded the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, whose general objective is to enhance growth and strengthen employment by supporting strategic and advanced technological priorities within the fields of research and innovation. Furthermore, the foundation shall make a special effort to promote research and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises.

SEE 2009 (Symbian Exchange and Exposition)

Earls Court 2, London, 27-28 October

With the Symbian Foundation now well established and with the whole ecosystem, like much of the rest of the mobile industry, definitely in something of a state of flux.

The 2009 show was attended by over 2,300  people during the two days, the focus where:

• to share 
• to create   
• to network
• to learn

Fjord - mobile and cross-platform design

London - 26 august 2009

Seminar focusing on mobile and cross-platform – I believe that no one understands design for mobile devices better than Fjord. It was a great experience to work with them since they have the deepest skills in cross-platform design.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

London - 27 august 2009

Meet with an executive management group and worked on understanding the strategic development and challenges of the ecosystem.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain.

Red Bee Media

London 27 august 2009

Worked on understanding the technological link between BBC and other broadcaster’s needs and the technological backend. Iplayer where a central topic for the discussion..

Red Bee Media is a world-leading media management company providing technology and creative solutions that helps channels, broadcasters, content rights holders and brand owners reach and engage with their audiences in traditional and new ways.
                                             
In the rapidly changing media landscape consumers are exerting greater control over the content they watch and how they choose to engage. Red Bee Media is finding innovative ways to enable companies to unlock new revenue streams and build audience share on multiple platforms including traditional TV channels and on demand services.

 

Mobile Europe 2.0

June 18-19, 2009 in Barcelona

A two-day event exploring the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.

Focus:

Developers’ Day on June 18 in Barcelona Activa, a day for developers in mobile & web convergent area’s exploring the mobile ecosystem.

 Mobile 2.0 Europe conference on June 19 at at the Espacio ESADE FORUM, a day to explore future visions on mobile and beyond.

At Mobile 2.0 Europe, we will explore the next big leaps of innovation in mobile for the coming years. Six main themes will be covered during this edition: Openness, Beyond Free, Play, Cloud, Context and Sense. Each section, eventually combined will have about an hour & half including a keynote or visionary talk on this topic, followed by a panel discussion by C-level industry experts from major European Operators, Venture Capital, Device Manufacturers, Startups,  and Application or Service Providers.

 

The Norwegian Mobile TV Corporation:  MiniTV

 Friday May 15. 2009 Oslo

 The official launch of mobile TV via DMB in Norway. The Norwegian Mobile TV Corporation (NMTV) announced the launch of 6 free to air TV channels under the name MiniTV on Friday May 15.

 

Future Tech

12. maj 2009 Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning

Nokia Danmark A/S 

Fokus var på at få ting forandrer verden så meget som ny teknologi. Ny teknologi kan skabe nye forretningsområder og udfordre gamle. Ny teknologi giver nye muligheder, men kan også give nye problemer og skabe etisk debat.

Læring: Teknologi kan være både spændende og skræmmende, men det er ikke altid at ny teknologi slår igennem. Nye muligheder er ikke interessante, hvis de ikke opfylder nogen behov.

 

MobileMonday Copenhagen
4. maj 2009

SOCIALE NETVÆRK OG BRUGERDREVEN INNOVATION PÅ MOBILEN

Præsenterede en beta-version af en personlig mobil widgetplatform til social networking. Udviklet i projektet ”Brugerdreven mobil community”   

 

MBA class (Information and Communication Technologies (mICT)

22/4 2009

Gæsteforelæsning på Aalborg universitet. Fokus brugerinvolvering, segmentering samt mobile trends.

 

Erhvervs og Byggestyrelsen Program for brugerdreven innovation

30/3 2009 

Præsenterede projektledererfaringer og metoder for nye projekter under EBST støttede projekter.  

 

R&D in Private-Public Partnership workshop

Copenhagen on 26 March 2009

Presentation on how to improve cross organizational projects.

Participants:

• Barcelona Media Innovation Center, Cataluniya
• Art and Design City Helsinki, Arabianranta, Finland
• Mediacity:UK, Salford, UK
• Moving Media City, Malmö, Sweeden
• Ørestad Nord, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

CAMMP: Next generations mobile – when the media converge

NOVI Auditoriet Aalborg 17/3 2009

The Social Networking World Forum Conference and Exhibition

9th and 10th March 2009 Olympia Conference Centre, London

Two day conference on mobile social networking featuring global lined up of leading brands, mobile operators, agencies, social networking publishers and social media pioneers.

Mobile Conference agenda:

• THE POTENTIAL OF MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING
• UNDERSTANDING THE MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING MARKET
• BUSINESS MODELS AND MONETIZING MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS
• LAUNCHING SOCIAL NETWORKS
• CONTROLLING CONTENT FOR MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS

Gave key insights on trends and development within mobile social networking.

 

Smartphone Show 2008 (London)

October 21-22nd. at Earls Court 2

FOCUS: Innovate, collaborate, accelerate and The future of smartphones. Exploring innovation from technology and business model perspectives, highlighting successful journeys from concept to cash.

It where the 10th year for the Smartphone Show, having over 120 different exhibitors showcasing their applications, accessories, and anything else related to smartphones.

MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING

Monday 22nd September 2008 (London)

DISCOVERING THE EMERGENCE OF MOBILE COMMUNITIES Creating a Viable and Long-Standing Business Model for Mobile Social Networks to Effectively Monetise Community Offerings

DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES: Understanding the Role of the Mobile Operator in Mobile Social Networking and the Differences between On-Deck and Off-Deck Communities

ADDING VALUE TO THE USER Defining the Role of User Generated Content within Mobile Social Networks. Uncovering the Killer Application for Mobile Social Networking to realize the Full Future Potential of the Market. And utilizing Location Based Tools and Presence to Add Value to Future Services for Mobile Community Users

Mobile 2.0 Europe

July 4 2008 in Barcelona 

This one-day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, brings together experts and thought leaders from all areas of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists.

Mobile Social Media  

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  • Peggy Anne Salz, MSearchGroove (Moderator)
  • Market Overview introduction by Alistair Hill, Analyst, M:Metrics
  • Tommy Ahlers, CEO ZYB
  • Charlie Schick, Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations
  • Doug Richards, CEO Trutap
  • Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO Itsmy.com (GoFresh)

Alex Romero - Director Partnerships, Yahoo! Connected Life Europe

 

 

 

 

 

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Master class on social media and user interaction (KommITfyn)  

14. september 2010 Forskerparken 10, 5230 Odense

Steven Canvin, Lego shared insights’ on how to develop, sustain, involve and benefit from a community of followers and fans. The co-developer strategy and advanced stimulation of the community are driving the organization towards even more innovative development.   

Martin Falslev Andersen, Trendsales made a strong point about the ability to listen to, document user input and learns from your users – he gave many insights to the possibilities for global personal interaction design.

I look forward to the following master classes

Over The Air

London Imperial College September 10-11, 2010

A developer event and hack-a-thon that is non-aligned and seeks to inform, energize and empower mobile "builders" to work with each other to create great stuff. Over the Air is a place where developers, designers, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and academics can come together to celebrate, discuss, learn, chill and geek out for 24 hours of intense fun.

 

My learning objectives where dual: how to design adaptive converging multimedia platforms and how to improve my user interface design capabilities – all of which were achieved.  

After an insightful presentation on Open Data by Sir Tim Berners-Lee did I participate in a longer discussion with Sir Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web and design issues within socially aware cloud storage. Some of Tim’s reflections were a bit complex but I understood the potential and learned about ways to work with socially aware cloud storage – cool.   

On a totally different topic did Brian Fling and Aral Balkan share valuable insights about Mobile Experiences and the art of emotional design -Maslow’s pyramid of needs will never be the same.

Thanks to the organizers team, Daniel Appelquist Matthew Cashmore for a great event see you next year!

 

Seminar on Innovation - Nørgård Mikkelsen