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!

Welcome to the Mobile Monday Sydney blog. Our first event is on Monday the 4th September, at the Shelbourne Hotel in Sussex Street, Sydney, from 7pm - 9pm.

Please explore the site for more information, and stay tuned as we’ll be updating it on a regular basis. For specific information, please contact Tim Parsons (firstname AT mobilemondaysydney.com), on +61 417 463 972.