Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Registration is now open!

Mobile 2.0 Europe is a platform for innovative start-ups focusing on mobile applications & services seeking exposure to investors, industry leaders and potential partners, the trade press, tech bloggers and early-adopters.

This year’s Mobile 2.0 Europe Launch Pad will have 6 startups presenting, one for each of the 6 themes of the event: Beyond Free, Openness, Play, Sense, Cloud and Context.

If you are interested in presenting in the Launch Pad please fill-in the registration form and choose the theme which best fits your value proposition. Startup registration to the Launch Pad closes on May 28, 2009 at midnight PST.

The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee will evaluate and the selected startups to present at Mobile 2.0 Europe event will be announced on June 1, 2009.

Entering the start-up competition is free and the winners will get a free ticket to the conference. However, remember that presenters need to be able to travel to Barcelona at their own cost.

Enter the Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Registration at http://startups.mobile20.eu/

Good luck!

Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe : a two-day event on June 18-19, 2009 in Barcelona exploring the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.

After 3 events in San Francisco and a successful Mobile 2.0 Europe event in Barcelona last year we decided to make this 5th official Mobile 2.0 conference a 2-day event:

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

Currently confirmed speakers:

Marko Ahtisaari – CEO of Dopplr.
Tommy Ahlers, Founder of Zyb, now Head of LBS at Vodafone / CEO at Wayfinder Systems.
Andrew Berglund – Global Interactive Creative Director at Cheil Communications.
Xavier Carrillo Costa – CEO / Founder Digital Legends Entertainment.
Andreas Constantinou, Ph.D. – Research Director at VisionMobile.
Regine Debatty – we-make-money-not-art.com.
Dr. Lai Kok Fung – Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder BuzzCity.
Tom Hume – Managing Director of Future Platforms.
Matthaus Krzykowski - Mobile Correspondent, VentureBeat.
Brian LeRoux – PhoneGap and Nitobi.
Inma Martinez - Digital Media Strategist and Investment Advisor at Stradbroke.
Charles McCathieNevile – Chief Standards Officer at Opera Software.
Harald Neidhardt – CMO & Co-Founder, Smaato Inc.
Dr. Maximilian Niederhofer, Associate, Atlas Venture.
James Parton – Head of O2 Litmus at O2 UK.
Felix Petersen, Founder at Plazes.com, now Head of Product Strategy Social Location at Nokia.
Pat Phelan – founder and President of Cubic Telecom (MAXroam).
Priya Prakash – Designer of Tools, Conversations & Experiences.
Tom Raftery is lead analyst of GreenMonk, the Energy and Sustainability practice of industry analyst firm RedMonk.
Peggy Anne Salz, Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove
Gustav Soderstrom, Director of Portable Solutions, Spotify.
Prof. Atau Tanaka – Chair of Digital Media, Acting Director of Culture Lab.
Andrea Trasatti – Director, Technology strategy at mTLD dotMobi.
Katrin Verclas – Co-Founder and Editor at MobileActive.org

More C-level speakers from the European mobile ecosystem (operators, handset manufacturers, VC’s, startups, applications and service providers) will be confirmed soon.

We’ll also have some startup demo presentations of some new and innovative startups active in the themes we’ll be covering. You can register your startup here, it’s FREE!

Early bird tickets can now be ordered at http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html

If you’d like to sponsor, speak or if you have a speaker suggestion, please get in touch with us.