Another great night with just over 60 people in attendance.

Our co-host Tim couldn’t make it on the night as his wife Karen has just recently had a new baby girl! Congratulations to both of you mate!

Thanks to our speakers for the evening!
Antoine Quint of Joost
Adam Dunne of Aura Interactive
Oliver Weidlich of Ideal Interfaces

We also had the lovely Nandini Ramani (nandini.ramani at sun.com) of Sun Microsystems came along with Antoine Quint and demonstrated some of the great work Sun is doing around SVG. Nandini is the co-chair of the SVG work group in the US too. Thank for dropping in Nandini!

Some photos of the night….

Mobile SVG, MoMo Global Peer Awards and Sundance on Mobile

:: Monday 5th March 2007)
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

The Night’s Programme:

• First up, from Paris, France, we’re very happy to welcome Special Guest Keynote presenter Antoine Quint, who will be demonstrating live services based on the rich-vector-media standard, Mobile SVG – a talk he’s given both in Paris and last month in MoMoNY. Antoine is an expert in SVG, with experience consulting for companies such as Adobe, Vodafone, and Ikivo, and a job working as a senior software architect for Skype’s VoD/IPTV baby Joost since early 2006.

• Following Antoine, Oliver Weidlich from Mobile Monday Sydney and The Australian Mobile Lifestyle Index will be presenting the winning 2007 Global Mobile Peer Awards Entries from the Mobile Monday event at 3GSM world in Barcelona (see our summary posting below).

• Finally, Tim Parsons from Mobile Monday Sydney will be offering visitors the chance to download films from Hollywoord producers via the Sundance Global Short Film project, via using a Bluetooth BlueZone kindly supplied by Adam Dunne of Aura Interactive.

A fun-packed evening especially for film-makers and interactive content specialists, bring your business cards !

Mobile Monday Sydney
:: Tonight ! (Monday 5th February 2007)
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff!
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

Come along and join us for the first Mobile Monday Sydney for 007!

Brought to you by our sponsor tonight,

Optus!

Tonight we have 2 great mobile applications being demonstrated,

Mobile & online business paymentz

AND

SpeedAlert

Look forward to seeing you there!

No presentations, no powerpoints, no agendas.

Come and hang out with the Mobile Glitterati of Sydney in a Mobile Monday special Christmas event - tonight. Time to slow down.

Mobile Monday Sydney - Hang Out Night
:: Tonight ! (Monday December 4th 2006)
:: 6.00pm kickoff (no presentations)
:: Bungalow 8 @ 8, The Promenade, King Street Wharf.

As usual, the Mobile Monday crew will be on hand to provide introductions and break the ice. Monday’s been crazy hasn’t it ? Down tools and join us at Bungalow 8.

Look forwards to seeing you there !

Big thank you to Jennifer Wilson of HWW & Roy Hill of Mapshed for their great live demos. It was another intriguing evening at the Shellbourne Hotel with huge interest in what it takes to get a mobile product or service across the line into the haloed walled gardens of telcos.

The event ended well into the evening again with some of the group heading out for a bite to eat afterwards.

Some photos from the night and thanks to Debra Symons of Alcatel for taking the shots.

Next Event
:: Monday November 6th 2006
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

This month, we’re showcasing working, profitable and growing mobile content businesses.

We’re delighted to be welcoming two of Australia’s pioneers in mobile content and services, companies led by visionary people who are making a profit and creating powerful end-user value on 2.5 and 3G mobile networks:

presented by Jennifer Wilson, Managing Director at HWW Pty Ltd (welcome back Jennifer!)

presented by Roy Hill, Principal Mapshed Spatial webservices.

Learn from the pioneers. What’s the secret of their ongoing success ? How did they get started ? What are their plans for the future? [Can Mobile Monday help them take on the World ?!]

Reserve your place, click here to RSVP.

We had another great Mobile Monday Sydney at The Shelbourne Hotel last night. Great to see so many new faces and a huge thanks to those of you that passed around the invitation to others, we really appreciate your support.

Cyrus Allen of Telstra & Will Sheriden & co of Who’s In The House (www.wiith.com.au) did a great job of doing live demos and we thank them for taking time out to join us.

Some photos from the night.

Mobile Monday Sydney - Demo Night
:: Monday October 9th 2006
:: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(corner of Market & Sussex streets)

The event will feature two exciting live demonstrations of new mobile services soon to be launched by:-

presented by Cyrus Allen, GM Customer Experience at Telstra

and

presented by Will Sheridan, Business & Products, Palantir Global

RSVP here!

Promises to be fascinating, new, mobile and audience-interactive. We look forwards to seeing you there.

Thanks to all who came to our launch event, and especially our guests - Terry, Mei Lin, Oliver and Jennifer.

Photos taken by Debra Symons of Alcatel from the event (thanks Deb, nice work!). You can also find these on our flickr slideshow at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilemondaysydney, (thanks Oliver!).

It was a fantastic night with almost 100 participants. Key insights on barriers to innovation and market entry:-

• Australia is a small market; if you’re going to innovate, try to add an international dimension. (Terry)
• If at first you don’t succeed, change everything and try again (Mei Lin)
• Research shows the industry isn’t educating consumers enough - so we really need an education campaign (Oliver)
• Investors are still wary of Mobile, even for companies with a long established track-records like HWW (Jennifer).

Thanks guys !

Mobile Monday Sydney launch!
:: Monday September 4th 2006
:: 7pm
:: The Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St
(cnr Market & Sussex streets)

We have a great line up for Monday night to introduce Mobile Monday to Sydney.

Our panel of guests for Monday night are a great mob of mobile industry heavy weights with decisive insight into what is happening in the Australian mobile & wireless market.

On our panel for Monday night will be,

Our topics for the evening are “Barriers to Entry - Starting up a mobile content + services business is tough. Raising capital, getting access to Telco content decks, putting together delivery systems, earning revenue. What are the barriers to entry ? What if any are the recipes for success? What structural problems exist that the industry needs to overcome? With over 1.3 million 3G handsets in Australia, we should have a plethora of services and content offerings competing for our attention. We don’t. What can potential mobile innovators do to get started ?”

We look forward to seeing you on Monday night and don’t forget to bring your mobile and business cards!