Mobile Monday Brussels22/6/2009

Event number 4Mobile Localisation Technology

Program Mobile Monday

• Thanks to MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center) for location sponsor

• Thanks for co-organiser Digital Innovation Valley/Technocité

• Welcome• Intro by Joyce Proot- Responsible Trainings

TechnocITé/IT Convergence Academy and David Hernie - MIC Microsoft innovation Center

• Cell ID + Mobile Value chain David Hodder – Artilium• Location over Twitter Eric Charles – Nearyoo• Mobile location based games Kristof Van den Branden -

LaMosca.be• M-worker Emmanuel Ottevaere - Bizzdev

REMINDER objectives

Why now?• The uptake of mobile content services in Belgium has

been lagging behind other countries; It is only now that a second wave of mobile content services based are emerging (companies like Siruna, Pumbby,…) and that launch of iconic phones like iphone change the paradigm.

Objective:• Right (human) connections for the second wave of

mobile ecostyem are needed: an open mobile internet, with real broadband that opens up a lot of possibilities. These connections are linking up academic research-established industry players - mobile enthusiasts- start-ups- other

Background and spirit

• Mobile Monday started in Finland in September 2000 with a meeting on a Monday with some professionals of the mobile telephone world; this format has widely outgrown Helsinki, and at present world-wide city chapters have sprung up in a loose grassroots way around the globe. This loose network has been recognized as a catalyst for mobile innovation. Mobile Monday defines itself as “the community of professionals of mobility”.

• The Mobile Monday spirit is one of open innovation and is seen as a catalyst for mobile innovations. It is done by enthusiasts where grassroots is the key.

Principle

• The principle is a meeting on a Monday of the month, in a convenient place. These free meetings, on invitation, bring together 75-150 professionals. They are mostly organized around 2-3 number of thematic presentations (local companies, investors, researchers, ‘visionaries,) and are the place of informal exchange between participants.

World-wide chapters

Mobile Monday Brussels – TEAM

• Support by, AWT (Agence Wallonne de Télécom), IBBT (Flemish Broadband institute), Mobileweb, Emakina, Siruna, Between Brackets, Cleverwood,…

• Structural partner: the Creative stores• We need you! (coordination meeting 2/7)

Mobilemonday Brussels –objectives 2009

• A Mobile Monday event every two months • Mobilemonday Brussels format of the event, simultaneous these

three elements present :– networking lounge– a line-up of one topic speaker and 2/max 3 companies (one of

Mobilemonday network one local) on relevant topics• Support of the Belgian mobile community with forum and

calendar of associated mobile events

• Calendar:– June 22nd (Mons) – Localisation technology – MIC– September: Mobile Music– October: Mobile apps: the OS fight– November- joint event with Mobileweb– December: topic to be decided

About: Digital Innovators

• "Digital Innovators" is the community and awareness program of the "Digital Innovation Valley", a gathering of innovative companies in the Mons area (Belgium) around the local installations of Google and Microsoft Innovation Center.

• Run by TechnocITé (competence center in ICT and Digital Media), itis an initiative which is both: - a series of conferences covering a variety subjects on what the digitization of society brings about in terms of changes, innovations, and opportunities. Topics range fromPolitics 2.0, eHealth, Enterprise 2.0, eSecurity, Digital Archiving, eLearning, etc. - a community of company managers and decisionmakers in french-speaking Belgium, interested in mastering thosetopics, to benefit from digital innovation.

Contact

• info@mobilemonday.be• Tanguy De Lestré