Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference

Less than a week away from the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference next Thursday, June 17 in Barcelona, and the event promises, once again, to become another great event!

What do you get?
16 different workshop sessions to take place in four fully equipped rooms, and 14 sessions on the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders. Check our complete conference program and speakers.

AppCircus @ Mobile 2.0 Europe
Today we also announced the 10 finalists to pitch their app for fame at the AppCircus during the event.

Tickets
You can still get tickets to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. Buy  your ticket here. Tickets include breakfast, lunch, coffee and a cocktail! If you’re not on dotopen yet, you can register for FREE here!

Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. You can buy standard tickets  here.

As of now, there are only 50 tickets left, so book now to avoid being left out!

About Mobile 2.0 Europe
Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is a One-Day Event on June 17, 2010 in Barcelona, exploring the Future of Mobile Development and Innovation of an ever-changing Mobile Ecosystem, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is the most open & complete mobile developer conference providing an intense hands-on and engaging experience and supported by the major industry players: Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Nokia, PayPal X, BlackBerry, bluenove, Ericsson, Telefonica Developer Communities, Orange, Vodafone, Microsoft, Skyhook Wireless, InMobi and apprupt.

Yesterday we announced the first 5 finalists for the AppCircus to be held at Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference next Thursday, June 17th in Barcelona.

An international jury selected the best apps to showcase on stage at the event. The Mobile 2.0 Europe conference audience will nominate one app for the prestigious Mobile Premier Awards 2011 during the Mobile World Congress.

The 10 finalists also get a chance to pitch their app at the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum on 18th June.

The 10 AppCircus @ Mobile 2.0 Europe finalists include:

Cardmobili – Porto, Portugal

deej – Barcelona, Spain

gvSIG Mini- Valencia, Spain

iMediaShare – Sofia, Bulgaria

NuGames – Copenhagen, Denmark

openBicing – Barcelona, Spain

SPB TV – Carson City, USA

taxi2 – Barcelona, Spain

Tourist Eye – Madrid, Spain

Yasmo Live – London, UK

Check the complete Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference program and speakers.

You can still get tickets to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.

Book now to avoid being left out!

Mobile 2.0 Europe is delighted to announce the first 5 finalists for the AppCircus to be held at Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference next Thursday (June 17th) in Barcelona.

An international jury selected the best apps to showcase on stage at the event. The Mobile 2.0 Europe conference audience will nominate one app for the prestigious Mobile Premier Awards 2011 during the Mobile World Congress.

The 10 finalists also get a chance to pitch their app at the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum on 18th June.

And the first 5 AppCircus @ Mobile 2.0 Europe finalists are:

deej – Barcelona, Spain

iMediaShare – Sofia, Bulgaria

NuGames – Copenhagen, Denmark

taxi2 – Barcelona, Spain

Yasmo Live – London, UK

The other 5 finalist will be announced tomorrow.

Check the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference program and speakers.

You can get a ticket to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.

Book now to avoid being left out!

Mobile 2.0 Europe is proud to host the AppCircus – a unique global traveling showcase of innovative apps!

Participation is FREE and open to start ups and individual developers, so apply now to the AppCircus@Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona on June 17th 2010 and walk the high-wire!

Apply here!

Deadline for submission is June 7th, midnight local time CET.

Here’s the list of jury members to select the 10 apps to be showcased at Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010:

Albert Cuesta, Founder CanalPDA, @albertcuesta
Alberto Benbunan, Founder and Managing Director Mobile Dreams, @betobetico
Andy Abramson, CEO, Comunicano, and blog author, @andyabramson
C. Enrique Ortiz, Mobile Technologist, @eortiz
Chetan Sharma, Consultant, Author, Evangelist, @chetansharma
David Harper, Founder MobileMonday New York, @davidharper
David Wood, Principal at Delta Wisdom, @dw2
Dennis Bournique, Founder Wap Review, @yeswap
Ferhan Cook, co-founder, Any Screen Productions, @mobiadnews
Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile, Facebook, @moissinac
Ilicco Elia, Head of Consumer Mobile, Reuters Media, Thomson Reuters, @ilicco
Inma Martinez, entrepreneur, investor, strategist, @inma_martinez
Isabel Sabadí, CEO and Co-founder of Iris Experience, @isabelsabadi
James Cameron, Founder, Camerjam, @jamescameron
Jonathan MacDonald, Founder jme.net, @jmacdonald
Kevin C. Tofel, Editor, jkOnTheRun, A GigaOM network site covering mobile technology, @KevinCTofel
Manu Contreras, Director at Hipertextual.com, @mcontreras
Manuel Ángel-Méndez, analyst and journalist, contributor to EL PAÍS @m_angelmendez
Mariano Amartino, Founder of Celularis and Managing Director at Hipertextual, @amartino
Martin Duval, CEO Bluenove, @bluenove
Om Malik, Founder and editor GigaOM, @om
Peggy Anne Salz, Founder of MSearchGroove, @peggyanne
Raimo van der Klein, Founder and CEO Layar, @rhymo
Rosa Jiménez Cano, Technology writer at EL PAÍS, @petezin
Russell Buckley, Vice President Global Alliances at AdMob and Chairman Emeritus of Mobile Marketing Association, @RusselBuckley
Rodrigo Sepulveda, Entrepreneur and Business Angel, @Rodrigo
Tom Hume, Managing Director of Future Platforms, @twhume
Tomi Ahonen, Author and consultant in mobile and media, @tomiahonen
Tommy Ahlers, Serial Entrepreneur, Working at Vodafone on Location Services, @aahlers
Toni Mascaró, Owner and Managing Director at eMascaró, @tonimascaro
Varun Krishnan, Founder and Chief Editor, Fonearena, @varunbk
Yuri van Geest, Co-Founder Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Co-Organizer TEDx Amsterdam, @vangeest

Our Partners:

Sanyu Kiruluta, Team Lead, Developer Relations EMEA, Research In Motion.
Sanjeet Matharu, Principal Manager, Developer Marketing at Vodafone.
Anand Iyer, Senior Product Manager in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team.
Srikanth Raju, Director, Head of Marketing, Forum Nokia.
Fabio Sisinni, Director of Product Management at PayPal Mobile.
Jim Small, Head of Country Deployment and Operations for the Orange App Shop.
Ruben Mellado, Head of Technology, Global Developers Community initiative in Telefonica Group.
Andreas Bovens, Group Leader Developer Relations, Opera Software.

And the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee:

Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist with Vodafone Group Research & Development, @torgo
Gregory Gorman, Principal, Tertius Advisory Services.
Mike Rowehl, founder MobileMonday Silicon Valley, @miker
Peter Vesterbacka, founder at Some Bazaar, @pvesterbacka
Rudy De Waele, co-founder dotopen.com, blogger at mTrends, @mtrends

We received this geek graph from Casey Goodhew who visualized the process for developers what they get if you apply to AppCircus @ Mobile 2.0 Europe:

(click the image to view original image size)

In other words =;-)

-          The chance to get your app reviewed by an international jury of mobile industry experts
-          Pitch your app at AppCircus @ Mobile 2.0 Europe in front of industry experts on June 17th in Barcelona (10 apps will be selected), and win a nomination for the prestigious Mobile Premier Awards 2011, during the Mobile World Congress
-          Present your app at Mobile Apps Investment Forum on June 18th in Barcelona, and the opportunity to get funding for your app business.

Some of our sponsors promised us they will come over with some goodies for you too!

Not convinced yet? Try it yourself here!

Follow AppCircus:

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is a one-day event in Barcelona on June 17, 2010 exploring the future of mobile development and innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee, with the support of Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Nokia, PayPal X, BlackBerry, bluenove, Telefonica Developer Communities, Orange, Vodafone, Microsoft and Skyhook Wireless.

The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack).

We’ll kick-off the day with a couple of panels that will set the tone:  “Web vs. Native Apps” and “How to Make Money as a Developer”.

This year’s Developer Track will have 16 different workshop sessions and take place in four fully equipped rooms. Participants will get hands on insights into the latest in mobile development directly from the platform leaders and experts: Nokia, Vodafone, Blackberry, Mozilla, Opera, Paypal and more. Some DevTrack sessions will be:

- HTML5 and the new generation of Tablets [with Julian Moreno Beltran]
- Mobile Mountains [with Tom Hume]
- OneSocialWeb Tutorial [with Laurent Eschenauer]
- Using Geolocation and Maps in Android [with Israel Ferrer]
- HTML5 Apps, The mobile web taking over? [with Wolfram Kriesing]
- Opera Mobile emulator [with Andreas Bovens]
- CouchDB [with Martin Higham]
- Mobile Web Evolution: HTML5, Video, Widgets and APIs [with François Daoust]

The Business Track will be all about the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders such as Volker Hirsch who will talk about  ”How Social helps to Deliver Effective Freemium Mobile Games & Apps”,  Christine Perey focusing on ”Generating Revenues with Mobile Augmented Reality” and  Vincent Hoogsteder from Distimo will talk about the “Mobile Application Stores State of Play”. Check the speakers’ page for more information and bio’s. More talks will be added the coming days.

To celebrate the great community of mobile developers Mobile 2.0 Europe will close the day with a spectacular AppCircus showcasing 10 of the the most innovative apps live on stage! Apply here if you would like to present your app in front of your peers and industry experts!

The event will be held at the brand new Communication Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is the most open & complete mobile developer conference supported by the major industry players and providing an intense hands-on and engaging experience.

You can get a ticket to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.

Mobile Apps Investment Forum Barcelona, June 18^th 2010 Barcelona

22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum in the city of Barcelona on 18th June. The developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at this forum the following day. Click here fore more information.

We hope to see you in Barcelona next month!