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The first Mobile 2.0 Europe belongs to the past now but the discussion seems to be very alive online. We are linking here to all the post and discussions about the event, and will add more content as they become available.
We had a great event with lots of interesting sessions and speakers from different area’s in the mobile ecosystem. Seventeen promising startups came from all corners in Europe to present their new ideas in mobile. We would like to thank everybody who participated to the Mobile 2.0 Europe event and helped make it a success.
Three companies were selected to present at Mobile 2.0 San Francisco on November 3:
Zipipop (Finland) – Intention Broadcasting
Rummble (UK) – Mobile Local Discovery
Nimbuzz (Netherlands) – Mobile IM and Text Message Service
Here’s what we tracked as conversation as of today:
IN ENGLISH
Some notes from the Mobile 2.0 conference (Nokia Conversations)
Europe’s Mobile startups come together (TechCrunch)
(The Next Web)
Mobile 2.0 Europe: exploring the future of mobile
Mobile 2.0 Europe: best-of-class startups
Mobile 2.0: Rummble, Zipiko and Dial2Do shine, but venture capitalists express caution (VentureBeat)
Mobile Europe 2.0: Recreational Mobile Search, Intention Broadcasting & Much More; The Future Is Here, But Will MVNOs Like Blyk Drive It? (mSearchGroove)
Mobile 2.0 Europa – It Takes Two To Tango (Inma Martinez – Shift6)
mobile 2.0 – VC panel summary (Tony Fish)
Mobile 2.0 – The Conversation in the Wireless Industry Becomes A Shouting Match (Max Niederhofer)
(Dan’s Blog)
Open Business Models at Mobile 2.0 Europe
Early Stage Startups at Mobile 2.0 Europe
Mobile 2.0 Europe Kicks Off
Rummble at Mobile 2.0 Barcelona (Rummble Blog)
Mobile 2.0 Europe is over.. (SPRX mobile)
Mobile 2.0: following up on the operator perspective (blog cpinto)
Zipipop wins at Mobile 2.0 Europe (Arctic Startup)
The Electric Knife Syndrome (Charlie Schick)
Shout’Em after Mobile 2.0 Europe (Five Minutes)
Recap: Mobile 2.0 Europe (Cultureslurp)
Rummble: A Unique Play On A Location-Based Mobile Search Engine (GPS Obsessed)
[tce] mobile 2.0 europe takedown (Vitor Domingos)
Live from Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona (Federic Dummeny)
There is no such thing as mobile internet – Mobile 2.0 Europe (Local Search)
Mobile 2.0 Europe -Wrap-up (Ric Ferraro)
IN SPANISH
Mobile 2.0, la evolución del acceso a la red y sus contenidos (BRM)
Mobile 2.0: las operadores se defienden (CanalPDA)
Mobile 2.0 Conference en Barcelona (digitalismo)
Final del Mobile 2.0 (Unkasoft)
Resumen del Mobile 2.0 (Carlos Mantero)
Resumen del Mobile 2.0 (Carlos Blanco)
(OJOmóviles)
Congreso Mobile 2.0 en ESADE Barcelona
Mobile Social Media
Sesión Statups
La perspectiva de los inversores de capital riesgo
Startups Pre Series A
La perspectiva de los operadores
Startups Post Series A
Modelos de negocio abiertos
IN CATALAN
Mobile 2.0 Europe (alCim)
IN DUTCH
Mobile 2.0 Europe – Een terugblik op de toekomst (onetomarket)
PICTURES
TechCrunch Euro Tour – Mobile 2.0 Europe (Mike Butcher’s set on Flickr)
Mobile 2.0 Europe (Rudy De Waele’s set on Flickr)
VIDEO
Mobile 2.0 Europe #m2eu (QIK videos by Mark a.m. Kramer)
Revolt at Mobile 2.0 Europe (Mike Butcher)
NOTE: don’t hesitate to send us a note if we missed your post & opinion somehow, this site is here for you. Stay tuned!
A couple of days before the event, we compiled a list of some 150 companies within the mobile ecosystem attending the MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE event, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. If you want to attend the event to connect to industry leadership and broaden your C-level relationships, you can still buy tickets here.
Here’s the list of the companies attending the conference in alphabetical order:
24 Access Solutions
7 Syntax
Acquamedia Technologies
AdMob
Ajuntament de Barcelona
aka-aki networks GmbH
Alcatel-Lucent
AlpinaSearch
Altaide Valley
Alumnus Software
AMF ventures
antrak capital
Atlas Venture
Atos Origin
Avui
AZ Interactive
Balderton Capital
Bango
Barcelona Digital
Barcelona Media
Beabloo
BeepMarketing
Between Brackets
bluenove
Blyk
Bullnet Gestion
CanalPDA
cellity AG
Centro Español de Servicios Telematicos
Channer Medianet
cirici new media
Clicmobile
CommonSensus
Comunicano
Coreobjects Ltd
DD&H
Debaeque Venture Capital
Dial2Do
dotopen
Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures
eBuddy
Economic Promotion – Barcelona City Council
Eden Ventures
El Paìs
Ericsson
Esade
European Commission – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
Facoria de Canales
Five minutes
Fjord
France Telecom
Futurlink
GeoMe Communications
Getjar
GoodmintonPartners
Google
GSM Association
Halmstad University
Hewlett-Packard
Hiwave GmbH
Ideal Interfaces
Interactive McCann
IT University of Copenhagen
Itinerarium
itsmy.com (Gofresh)
Jaeson Associates
Jupidi GmbH
Kalerion Computing
Kimia
kooaba AG
La Vanguardia
Longreach Mobile
Lorem Ipsum
M:Metrics
Materna GmbH
mikamai
Mobiclip SL
Mobifriends
Mobile Distillery
Mobile Economy GmbH
MobileContact Software
MobileMonday PL
MobileMonday Ltd.
MobiLuck
Motorola
Motricity
mSearchGroove
my247.mobi
MyFrame Inc.
MyVocal
Nauta Tech Invest II SCR
NextWell
Nimbuzz
Nokia
Nova Ventus Consulting
Onetomarket
Orange
Oxynade
Ozmota
Palringo
PBS MediaShift
Peperoni Software GmbH
Plugg
Qelp
Qualcomm
Quodis
Refresh Mobile
Route Forward Ltd
Rummble
Safiratec
Samtel Consultores
Service Innovation and Interaction Design
SFR
Simba Technologies
SMS Text News
Some Bazaar
Spinverse Ltd
SPRXmobile
Stanford HCI Group
Stradbroke Advisors
Sun Microsystems
Sydes nv / Arkafund nv
Ta with you
Taptu
TAT AB
TechCrunch
Telecom Italia
Telefonica I+D
Telefonica Moviles
Telgraph Hill Group
Tertius Advisory Services
T-Mobile International AG
Tooio Mobile
Treasuremytext
Trutap
Trutap Ltd
Uniteddogs and Cats OY
Universal McCann
University of Salzburg
University of VIC
Unkasoft
Valoris
ViaMobility
ViiF Mobile Video GmbH
Vodafone
Webwag
Worldwide Rights Management Ltd
Yahoo!
Yiibu
YouLynx
Zipipop
ZYB
We’re pleased to announce we’re organising an after event meetup in partnership with our media partner TechCrunch. On July 4, a bit before midnight, we’ll gather with all speakers, startups and organisers of the Mobile 2.0 Europe event at the Shôko Lounge Club near Vila Olimpica in front of the beach.
We managed to reserve the chillout terrace. Mike Butcher will do a post early next with more details on this TechCrunch meetup. If you’re interested in partnering in support of this meetup and mingle amongst the European hot minds in mobile, please get in touch. Meetup partners and sponsors will get promoted as such on TechCrunch.com and TechCrunch UK. Thanks!
Shôko Lounge Club at Passeig Marítim (La Barceloneta) 36, 08003 Barcelona (Google Map here)
MORNING
- 8:30 – 9:00 Registration & Breakfast
- 9:00 – 9:10 Introductions
- 9:10 – 9:30 Keynote
- Pekka Pohjakallio, Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software at Nokia
- 9:30 – 10:30 PANEL: 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
- 10:30 – 11:20 Seed Capital Start-up Sessions
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- aka-aki (Germany) – Proximity Networking
- Dial2Do (Ireland) – Voice to Text
- Shout’Em (Croatia) – Mobile Social Networking Platform
- Via Mobility (France) – Widget Platform
- youlinx (Spain) – Mobile Social Media
- Zipipop (Finland) – Intention Broadcasting
- 11:20 – 11:45 Coffee Break
- 11:45 – 12:30 PANEL: The VC Perspective
- Tony Fish, AMF Ventures (Moderator)
- Dr. Maximilian Niederhofer, Associate, Atlas Venture
- Inma Martinez, Investment and Innovation Executive, Stradbroke Advisors
- Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development – EMEA, Google Inc.
- Patrick Raibaut, Partner, Debaeque Venture Capital
- 12:45 – 13:30 Pre Series A Start-up Sessions
- kooaba (Switzerland) – Mobile Image Search
- Mobiluck (France) – Mobile Location-based IM, Chat and Social Networking
- Rummble (UK) – Mobile Local Discovery
- Secufone (Netherlands) – Mobility and Safety
- Unkasoft (Spain) – Mobile Advergaming
- ViiF (Germany) – Mobile Entertainment Community
- 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
AFTERNOON
- 14:30 – 14:45 Welcome back presentation
- 14:45 – 15:45 PANEL: The Operator Perspective
- Raimo van der Klein, SPRXmobile (Moderator)
- Martin Duval, CEO bluenove / Director of the Orange Start-Up Program
- Gian Paolo Balboni, Head of Innovation Trends Telecom Italia
- Unai Iturburu, Head of Vodafone Spain R&D
- Carlos Domingo, General Director of Telefonica R+D labs
- Anastassia Lauterbach, Executive Vice President for Strategy, T-Mobile International
- 15:45 – 16:30 Post Series A Start-up Sessions
- Futurlink (Spain) – Proximity Marketing
- Nimbuzz (Netherlands) – Mobile IM and Text Message Service
- Mippin (UK) – Mobilizing the Web
- Palringo (UK) – Vocal Instant Messaging
- Taptu (UK) – Mobile Social Search
- 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
- 17:00 – 18:00 PANEL: Open Business Models
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- Mike Butcher, TechCrunch UK & Ireland (Moderator)
- Chris Liu, Managing Director, Fjord
- Leif Fågelstedt, COO, Blyk
- Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO of GetJar
- Ray Anderson, CEO and founder, Bango
- Laurence Aderemi, Business Development Director (EMEA), AdMob
- 18:00 – 18:15 Closing Remarks
- 18:15 – 19:30 Networking Cocktail
The Mobile 2.0 Europe agenda is now finalised. We added a panel on Mobile Social Media, moderated by Peggy Anne Salz of MSearchGroove and introduced by Alistair Hill, of M:Metrics who will give us a market overview introduction on the current state of Mobile Social Media including lots of facts and figures.
On top of our impressive speaker list – yes, we’re proud of what we do here 
today we added Tommy Ahlers, CEO of ZYB and Doug Richards, CEO of Trutap and mixed them up with Charlie Schick of Nokia Conversations, Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO of Itsmy.com (GoFresh) and Alex Romero, Director Partnerships, of Yahoo! Connected Life Europe, we had already in our program.
You can check the full list of speakers and bio’s here
NOTE that Early-Bird tickets at € 99, Standard 1 tickets at € 149 and Standard 2 tickets at € 199 are now Sold out.
The last series of tickets (Standard 3) are available at € 299 (breakfast, lunch, coffee and networking cocktail included). All prices are VAT exclusive.
You can order your tickets online at Amiando Mobile 2.0 Europe
Don’t wait last minute to order your ticket, we’re heading for a full house.
The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee announced the selection of the presenting start-ups at Mobile 2.0 Europe on July 4 in Barcelona. Some 70 mobile start-up companies applied to present at Mobile 2.0 Europe conference. The committee was delightfully surprised with the quality of the ideas and technology of the start-ups coming from many different corners of Europe and the world.
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.
Here is the list of the selected start-up companies.
PRE SERIES A companies
kooaba (Switzerland) – Mobile Image Search
Mobiluck (France) – Mobile Location-based IM, Chat and Social Networking
Secufone (Netherlands) – Mobility and Safety
Unkasoft (Spain) – Mobile Advergaming
ViiF (Germany) – Mobile Entertainment Community
POST SERIES A companies
Futurlink (Spain) – “location to mobile” & “web to mobile” proximity marketing
Nimbuzz (Netherlands) – Mobile IM and Text Message Service
Mippin (UK) – Mobilizing the Web
Palringo (UK) – Vocal Instant Messaging
Taptu (UK) – Mobile Social Search
Early-Stage companies
The presenters in this category will be announced the day of the event as to maintain the suspense.
All Startups have 7 minutes to present in total and need to include a 1 minutes video-demo of the product on a mobile phone. During the event, all panel participants and organizers will vote their best Start-up in each category; the winner in each category receives an invitation to present at the Mobile 2.0 Event in San Francisco on November 3, 2008.
Pekka Pohjakallio, Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software at Nokia will introduce the conference with a keynote.
Participants will enjoy C-Level speaker and panelist participations from other mobile industry players, such as AdMob, AMF Ventures, Atlas Venture, Bango, Blyk, Debaeque Capital, Fjord, Getjar, Google, itsmy.com (Gofresh), Nokia, M:Metrics, Orange, Stradbroke Advisors, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Trutap, Vodafone, Yahoo!, and ZYB. The sessions will be moderated by some of Europe’s finest bloggers including Mike Butcher (TechCrunch UK), Peggy Anne Saltz (MSearchGroove) and Raimo van der Klein (SPRX Mobile).
Check the full speaker list and program agenda here.
There is a lot of interest from the industry to attend this event. Early-Bird tickets at €99 and Standard tickets at €149 are already sold out. Currently, there are some 20 tickets left at €199 (breakfast, lunch, coffee and networking cocktail included), after which tickets will be on sale at €299 (prices all excl. VAT). Attendants can purchase their ticket online at Amiando Mobile 2.0 Europe.
We are also organising a meetup with our media partner TechCrunch, the evening after the event; please contact Mike Butcher or info@dotopen.eu for more information on this event.
Our Partners
Our thanks to our partners Nokia, Palringo, Taptu, Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone, Yahoo!, Bango, eBuddy and Mippin for their invaluable support.
Last week we did some fun contest asking our twitter followers to send us a Mobile 2.0 definition in 140 characters, not an easy one for sure. We picked out the one from blogger C. Enrique Ortiz:
Mobile 2.0 = the next generation of mobility that maximizes the user’s experience, the capabilies of the device, and the services on web
On which Daniel Appelquist commented:
A correct view to me, but the contest was about the best Mobile 2.0 definition in 140 characters. Meanwhile Enrique updated his original definition tweet with the following definition:
Are we’re coming close finally of being able to define Mobile 2.0? Let us know about your definition in our comments, it will be interesting to integrate some of those during the event. We also created a Mobile 2.0 Room on FriendFeed, feel free to join here: lots of interesting links and opinion on the topic!
Below some more Mobile 2.0 definition attempts by other followers.
The Open Platforms and New Application Areas Panel is now confirmed and will be moderated by Peggy Anne Salz from MSearchGroove.
Panelists include:
- Ray Anderson, CEO and founder, Bango
- Javier Pérez Dolset,CEO, Zed
- Alex Romero, Director Partnerships, Yahoo! Connected Life Europe
- Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist at Vodafone Group
- Peter Vesterbacka, Founder Some Bazaar
Visit our profile list here to view detailed bio’s of the speakers.
We are happy to announce Charlie Schick, Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations will join us for Mobile 2.0 Europe. Charlie will have a chat on stage with Peggy Anne Saltz and talk about Social Media as the fusion of mobile and internet, exploring the ties into the Mobile Semantic Web. How do we find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to all our media and data streams? What’s next after Lifestreams, and how do we deal with Info Noise on the internet and how does this affect our mobile internet usage?
Charlie’s career at Nokia also includes kick-starting Ovi.com, launching Nokia Lifeblog and the Series 60 Platform, and providing Internet strategy consulting throughout the company. Prior to joining Nokia, he was an editorial consultant for various online and print publications. In addition to having written numerous articles for online and print telecom publications, he has written various research papers in leading journals and co-authored a book on advanced phone systems. One of his dark secrets is that he spent 12 years in basic Molecular and Cellular Biology research, reaching the level of Research Fellow and Instructor at Children’s Hospital Boston, part of the Harvard Medical School. He has a graduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His public personal site is at http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog.
