Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference

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
  
• • 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
• • 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
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• 17:00 – 18:00 PANEL: Open Business Models
• • 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.

Pekka Pohjakallio, Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software at Nokia will introduce Mobile 2.0 Europe with a keynote.

Pekka Pohjakallio has 15 years’ experience in mobile communications and mobile services – he currently serves as Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software for Nokia. Pohjakallio is responsible for managing the overall services portfolio and product management, suites product marketing and Forum Nokia, the Nokia developer community.

Pohjakallio joined Nokia in 1991, and held various positions including Vice President, Nokia Nseries Computers, Multimedia, Director of the Nokia Music Service, Multimedia, Director of Product Marketing for Nokia’s Entertainment Business Unit, and Director of Mobile Internet Solutions in Nokia Networks.

At Nokia, Pohjakallio was instrumental in developing the mobile value added services business throughout the 90’s, heading the SMS, MMS, and WAP businesses in Nokia Networks. In Multimedia has has been creating Nokia’s music strategy in both the devices and services area. as well as building the N7x series category of the Nokia Nseries multimedia computers.

He has spoken at industry conferences, including the 3GSM World Congress, WAP Forum, and Nokia Internet Conference.

Pohjakallio earned a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Management in Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He holds three international patents in the area of GSM packet radio.

Today we added Laurence Aderemi, Business Development Director (EMEA) at AdMob and responsible for expanding the company’s global publisher network. AdMob is the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace with more than 4,500 publishers. Laurence will participate to the Open Business Models panel, moderated by Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK. This panel includes also Chris Liu, Managing Director, Fjord; Leif Fågelstedt, COO, Blyk; Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO of GetJar and Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO of itsmy.com (GoFresh).

More speakers will be announced this week. Check our current panels and speakers list here.

Prior to his position at AdMob, Aderemi was at Yahoo! supporting the transformation of Yahoo! Publisher Network (post acquisition of Blue Lithium) to offer key European publishers both search and graphical display advertising. Previously, he was EU General Manager for domain/error monitisation and syndicated search at Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture), where he was responsible for negotiating, establishing and implementing new partnerships.