Tag: Barcelona

Conference: Mobile 2.0 Europe, Barcelona

On 04/06/2010

On 17 June, a wonderful conference opens its doors: organized by the formidable Rudy de Waele and his team, the beautiful city of Barcelona (but without the usual Mobile World Congress stress and with better weather than in February!) is host to Mobile 2.0 Europe.

You will find a great line-up of speakers from across the mobile ecosystem, which should allow for a wonderfully balanced overview of what’s going on. The organizers have lined up senior guys from the giants of the industry, such as:

Nokia
RIM
Vodafone
Opera
Telefonica
Orange
PayPal Mobile
Microsoft

But they then coupled them with the nimble and agile guys like us, so you will also find:

Distimo (analytics)
Scoreloop (yes, I will be speaking)
The Astonishing Tribe (UI experts)
W3C
Future Platforms
and more…

As if this wasn’t enough, the AppCircus will also stop at the event with an on-stage show of the best and brightest apps around.

Join us, it should be tremendous fun! The registration page is here.

Mobile Premier Awards / Barcelona 2010

By Volker

On 22/01/2010

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On 15 February, one of the most exciting showcases of mobile innovation of the year will be on display in Barcelona: the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation. The awards are the largest start-up competition in the mobile sector and they are a unique grass-roots discovery tool: each chapter of the global community of Mobile Monday chooses one candidate. 49 candidates have been chosen (have a look further down). An international jury (I am flattered and proud to be a member) selects 20 finalists who will pitch in Barcelona at the Palau de la Musica on the afternoon of the first day of the Mobile World Congress.

It is a wonderful display of the innovation and creative power the mobile industry has to offer and I invite you to have a good look at the candidates.

If you are in Barcelona that week (and who isn’t?), you should make sure to book your ticket for the event here.

I hope to see you in Barcelona to celebrate innovation in mobile!

To stay in touch with everything around the awards, follow them on Twitter (@mobilepremier), become a fan on Facbook,

And, once your in Barcelona, you should not miss Mobile Sunday Barcelona 2010, which has fast become an unofficial kick-off event to MWC for mobile bloggers. It is on on Sunday, 14 Feb, from 7pm CET onwards.

Here’s a list of the 49 candidates (with links here):

MobileMonday Austria – Mobilizy
MobileMonday Barcelona – fonYou
MobileMonday Belfast – SpeechStorm
MobileMonday Bergen – ComCom
MobileMonday Berlin – spendino
MobileMonday Bogota – RedSalvavidas
MobileMonday Brussels – Getyoo
MobileMonday Buenos Aires – Beepoint
MobileMonday Caracas – Consorcio Si-SMS
MobileMonday Chennai – mobiSiteGalore
MobileMonday Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility
MobileMonday Dallas – Wave Integrated Marketing Solutions
MobileMonday Dublin – Locle
MobileMonday Dusseldorf – Yoose
MobileMonday Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity
MobileMonday Estonia – TaxiPal
MobileMonday Frankfurt – match2blue
MobileMonday Hamburg – apprupt
MobileMonday Hungary – InfomatiX
MobileMonday Jakarta – dotus indonesia
MobileMonday Kuala Lumpur – CWorks Mobile
MobileMonday Lithuania – SendFlow
MobileMonday London – Audioboo
MobileMonday Madrid – Tooio
MobileMonday Malmö – Color Monkey
MobileMonday Medellin – Wanbee
MobileMonday Melbourne – Callernizer
MobileMonday Mexico – Binbit
MobileMonday Mid-Atlantic – Amphetamobile
MobileMonday Milan – Soundtrckr
MobileMonday Mumbai – Umundo
MobileMonday Munich – Aloqa
MobileMonday New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies
MobileMonday New York – PercentMobile
MobileMonday Oslo – Bipper Communication
MobileMonday Paris – Presselite
MobileMonday Rest of EMEA – Layar
MobileMonday Rio de Janeiro – iMusica
MobileMonday Rome – Mobnotes
MobileMonday Sao Paulo – Atope
MobileMonday Shanghai – mInfo
MobileMonday Silicon Valley – CloudMade
MobileMonday Singapore – Just Mobile
MobileMonday Slovenia – Visionect
MobileMonday Sofia – Bianor
MobileMonday Stockholm – MoSync
MobileMonday Tel Aviv – waze
MobileMonday Toronto – Fonolo
MobileMonday Vancouver – Sort Shots

Barcelona, here we come…

By Volker

On 16/02/2009

Judging by the many Twitter updates today, I seem to be the last one to arrive at Mobile World Congress tomorrow: everyone appears to being already in the midst of networking, hunting for new revelations and, well, parties and tapas.

I’ll be setting off tomorrow morning at the break of dawn, so if you would like to meet up, drop me a line. E-mail will be safest as the show is traditionally one of the most frantic ones. Try me at volker [dot] hirsch [at] gmail [dot] com.

If you’re into gaming and all things mobile entertainment, you might want to check into the Mobile Backstage event on Thursday. I will be contributing on a panel on next generation gaming. But there will also be proper celebrities around with will.i.am and Kevin Spacey headlining the music and film sections…

And then I’ll be back next weekend with hopefully interesting learnings to share! Adios!

Barcelona, here we come…

By Volker

On 05/02/2008

I, as pretty much everyone else involved in mobile telecommunications in the wider sense, will be trotting to Barcelona this coming weekend and mingle with the crowds there, looking for further enlightenment at the Mobile World Congress (formerly known as 3GSM).

My agenda is filling up pretty quickly but if you would like to get in touch, get me acquainted to the next big thing, or divulge other exciting progress, drop me a note at volker (dot) hirsch (at) gmail (dot) com…

I will be in town from Sunday afternoon (yes, also attending the Mobile Sunday event) all the way through Friday morning.