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