Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference

A couple of days before the event, and reps from more than 170 companies registered to attend Mobile 2.0 Europe event – that is more than last year! – including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, mobile application and service providers, bloggers, press and web technologists. If you want to attend the event to connect with industry leadership, mobile influencers and broaden your C-level relationships, you can still buy tickets here.

The Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Day is sold out, we just have a couple of duo-tickets left to attend both the Dev Day on Thursday, June 18 and the Event on Friday, June 19.

Here’s the list of the companies attending the MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference in alphabetical order:

Last week we announced six startups to present at Mobile 2.0 Europe Demo Launch Pad, including Distimo (Utrecht), Layar (Amsterdam, Pikkoo (Oulu), theChanner (Barcelona) and vulevu (Berlin). appswork (Santa Clara / London) informed us they  preferred to withdrew from the Mobile 2.0 Start-up Showcase as of now which left us with one more slot.

We had the plan to invite 1 or 2 more demo wildcards and set up a simple 24 hrs. voting contest on twitter. The startup that got most traction the following 24 hrs. would receive the wildcard.

beamME won easily the wildcard contest thanks to their huge fan-base. We liked Zensify most for their engagement with their community (and for a great app!), and last but not least we opted for NearYoo as the underdog with a lot less votes but focusing on pitching their idea in a 140 character tweet – try it yourself – we just go for this kind of simplicity & forward thinking spirits!

So, here they are: 3 more startups to pitch next week in Barcelona!

Based in New York City, rmbrME is best known for developing the breathtakingly simple beamME, beamME Pro, CV and Pitch for the iPhone/iPod Touch – the world’s most popular professional mobile contact exchange service.  beamME enables seamless business networking between any device without requiring special hardware, software or registration. Founders Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham’s philosophy is that Mobile Business Networking only works when it is device, carrier and social network independent and clearly focused on the needs of the professional user.

With Zensify you can view your social networks — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Delicious, Photobucket, and 12seconds  — in one time line, search across your entire social graph (not just single service), track topics across all services, unearth trends, and also update both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.

Zensify also approaches trends with a twist. Instead of simply displaying a list of trending topics on Twitter, Zensify offers up a tag cloud that is an aggregate real-time view of trending topics across all available social networks.

Nearyoo brings the “Real Time >Where” to the twittosphere. While most of the attention around the ’statusphere’ has gone to the “Real Time web” / informational aspect of it, Nearyoo allows twitter users to very easily locate themselves and multiply chances of meetups in the Real World (TM). No need for GPS, wifi triangulation or to install a new application: users just keep twittering, but use “location tags” like ‘>’ to notify where they are: “Going to the >Jamboree, Barcelona<”. You’re then located on the map, but only when you choose so !
Nearyoo also introduces its own breed of nifty tiny urls that are self-explanatory : e.g. http://near.st/in/NewYork brings up a map of located users in this given city. Follow @nearyoo, and start sharing your >location !

At the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference on June 19 in Barcelona, we’re setting up a bloggers corner to facilitate interviews with speakers and participants. Amongst the technology bloggers attending the conference are:

Dennis Howlett, editor ZDNet US.
Mike Butcher (London) and Robin Wauters (Brussels), Editors at TechCrunch.
Dusan Belic (Belgrado), Editor at IntoMobile.
Matthaus Krzykowski (Berlin-San Francisco), Mobile Correspondent at VentureBeat.
Bena Roberts (Munich), Founder and Editor of GoMoNews.
Peggy Anne Salz (Cologne), Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove.
Marek Pawlowski (London), Editorial Director at PMN – Mobile Industry Intelligence.
Andrew Grill (London), Mobile Advertising Evangelist at London Calling.
Albert Cuesta (Barcelona), Editor at CanalPDA/Avui/elEconomista/LaVanguardia.

You can contact us here if you’d like to attend Mobile 2.0 Europe as press / blogger to the conference.

Three weeks to go and Mobile 2.0 Europe is shaping up to become another great event! Here’s an update.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Day
The Developer Day is nearly fully shaped up now. Next to the previously announced sessions, we have more sessions confirmed by Skyhook Wireless on enabling location-based mobile apps, Uxebu (on dojo-based apps & widgets), and sessions on W3C standards and on building Android apps.

Mobile 2.0 Europe Startup Demo Launch Pad
More than 50 mobile startups are currently registered to be selected to present at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Demo Launch Pad. Last hours to fill-in the registration form. Startup registration to the Launch Pad closes on May 28, 2009 at midnight PST. The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee will evaluate and select the startups to present to be announced on June 1, 2009.

Start-ups who previously presented at Mobile 2.0 events include: aka-aki (Germany), Dial2Do (Ireland), Nimbuzz (Netherlands), Rummble (UK), Seesmic (USA), Zipipop (Finland), Mippin (UK), Heysan (USA), Skout (USA), Webwag (France), Palringo (UK), Taptu (UK) and Kyte (USA).

Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference
The speakers’ profiles have been added to our website and the agenda has been updated. This week we added:

Ted Morgan (Boston) – CEO & Founder at Skyhook Wireless.
Fee Beyer (Berlin) – Product & Innovation Team at T-Mobile International.
Jacob Lehrbaum (San Francisco) – Senior Product Manager at Sun Microsystems.
Michael Breidenbruecker – Founder Reality Jockey Ltd. / Co-Founder Last.fm Ltd.

More C-Level speakers are still confirmed every day now.

Tickets
There are a limited number of standard price tickets left for 99 euros for the Developer Day.  If you would like to attend both events, Developer Day and Mobile 2.0 Europe, there are combo-tickets available for 399 € euros. You can purchase your tickets here at Amiando http://www.amiando.com/mobile2europe2009.html. Act soon the tickets are nearly sold out!

TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party
Our partner TechCrunch announced it will be hosting the official TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 Party after the event on Friday and after the speaker’s dinner. Check here to book your attendance.

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp
Also in partnership with MobileActive.org we’ll be hosting a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcelona Camp at Barcelona Activa on Saturday, June 20, 2009 — registration coming up! Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place.

Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, collaborative scheming about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. Check here for updates and more info.

That’s it for this week, more news to come soon!

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.

Save the date!

The Mobile 2.0 Conference is spreading its wings to Europe and will land on July 4 in Barcelona, Spain. This one-day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, is brought to you by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee: Daniel Appelquist, Gregory Gorman, Mike Rowehl, Peter Vesterbacka and Rudy De Waele in partnership with ESADE.

The MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists.

The MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships.

The event will be held at the Espacio ESADE FORUM, Barcelona and will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm with a reception at the Espacio ESADE FORUM afterward.

So, what can you expect? Two industry keynotes, four panels and three series of innovative startups presenting live-demos.

Panel speakers as of today include:

• Tony Fish, AMF Ventures
• Dr. Maximilian Niederhofer, Associate, Atlas Venture
• Inma Martinez, Director and Principal Advisor, Stradbroke Advisor
• Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development – EMEA, Google Inc.
• Mike Butcher, editor TechCrunch UK & Ireland
• Chris Liu, Managing Director, Fjord
• Leif Fågelstedt, COO, Blyk
• Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO of GetJar
• Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO GoFresh
• Raimo van der Klein, Co-founder SPRXmobile
• Martin Duval, CEO bluenove / Director of the Orange Start-Up Program
• Carlos Domingo, General Director of Telefonica R+D labs
• Unai Iturburu, Head of Vodafone Spain R&D

Check the full speaker list here.

The Mobile 2.0 Europe presenting start-ups will be selected in 3 Categories (Seed Capital Stage, Pre Series A and Post Series A). Any start-up company with a mobile application can participate. To apply and present your company and your application, you need to fill in the online application form. Deadline for submission is June 6, 2008 at midnight CET.

Seed Capital Stage and Pre Series A Start-ups will be selected by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 organizing committee. Post Series A Start-ups will be selected in collaboration with the VC Panel. 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.

Early Bird registration for this event is only € 99,- till May 31, after that date, tickets will cost €199,-

Stay tuned! More goodies to be announced soon.