:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 6th September 2010
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street.

It’s The Spring Edition of Mobile Monday Sydney!

Spring has sprung and you can feel it in the air as well as see it in the plethora of new mobile devices that are sprouting up getting ready for the highly competitive Christmas sale season. Smartphones are beginning to dominate & it’s time to debate what are our favorite platforms are that make these colourful additions to our geeky lives.

To celebrate Spring, BlackBerry will be sponsoring drinks again on the evening so come on time & don’t miss out on the evening’s edutainment whilst partaking of a comforting beverage of your choice. BlackBerry is also giving everyone that comes along to the event a special Spring gift!

Agenda:

• mHITS -  Harold Dimple will give us an overview of a new exciting mobile service mHITS is deploying in New Guinea  with business partner DataNets Limited, specifically aimed at providing a total payment solution for the unbanked. Called mPowa the service works by linking a mobile wallet account to the users mobile phone number.
• The Great Smartphone Debate -  We are going to create teams from the audience that will debate the wonders of their chosen mobile platform. What is it about your mobile you love so much? Fire up some Spring Fever and you may be selected to join your favorite mobile platform team.
  Who will be voted the ultimate platform? Nokia, Android, Apple, RIM or ZTE? Ok maybe not ZTE… But you will decide on the night!
• BlackBerry Update - BlackBerry will be updating us on,
  • the new features in their new mobile operating system version 6.0 as well as,
  • an update on their new and improved mobile application store App World 2.0 and,
  • details of some upcoming local developer training

 

 < REGISTER HERE http://momosyd092010.eventbrite.com >

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Mobile Monday Sydney is a free Monthly networking event organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and  Gia Villondo as part of the global Mobile Monday community. E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

Mobile Monday Sydney is Sponsored by RIM Australia

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd Aug 2010
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street.

We’re kicking off 2010- 2011 with some very innovative mobile developments!

Agenda:

• Mobile Publishing - Are you confused about Mobile Publishing? Apps vs Web? iPhone vs Android? Where should you focus your marketing/promotions budgets? Allan Robertson of MobileActive and Venessa Hunt of Mobile Embrace will be presenting Kilrush, a powerful mobile publishing tool that will allow you to build iPhone, Android and Blackberry applications all from just one interface.
  
• VoiceOver & Accessible Apps- Accessibility consultant Tim Noonan from Vocal Branding Australia will briefly explain and demonstrate the VoiceOver accessible features built into the iPhone and iPad. PLUS, reasons why you should ensure your apps are VoiceOver compatible as well as the benefits of including voice and audio media in your apps to extend their general appeal and engagement. Tim also works as a Voice User Interface (VUI) designer in the telephony space.

RSVP by getting your ticket here

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Mobile Monday Sydney is a free Monthly networking event organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and  Gia Villondo as part of the global Mobile Monday community. E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

Mobile Monday Sydney is Sponsored by RIM Australia

Our Mobile Monday Sydney for June is going to be a special event as we welcome our new Platinum sponsors for the year, BlackBerry!

Blackberry

So, join us for a bite to eat, a bubbly beverage and come and meet some of the staff from the Australian BlackBerry team to celebrate this new chapter for Mobile Monday Sydney.

Agenda:

• Opening remarks & Introduction to BlackBerry
• BlackBerry Australia & New Zealand’s Managing Director
  Adele Beachley
• Super Apps Developer Challenge
• BlackBerry Bold 9700 giveaway

Event Details:

Date: Monday 7th June
Time: 6:30pm for 7pm start
Venue: The City Hotel (http://cityhotel.com.au/)

We’re back with another big line-up for April!

Where

City Hotel (Upstairs) - Corner of Kent & King Streets, Sydney

When

12th April - from 6:30, presentations start at 7pm

(and feel free to meet up with people in the bar downstairs beforehand!)

Presentation 1 - Mobile Coupons

Claudia Sagripanti (Venture One)

Claudia Sagripanti was most recently Director of Mobile Communications for media agency investment network GroupM responsible for developing mobile solutions for brands. She is now focusing on the mobile retail/payments sector as as principal of digital consulting and training business, VentureOne. She will discuss the opportunities for mobile coupons in Australia.

Presentation 2 - PayPal Embedded Mobile Payment Solutions

PayPal will present on recent developments in m-commerce, highlighting current consumer applications and providing case studies for embedded mobile payment solutions.

Tasha Miels (Head of Product & Innovation) will deliver the presentation.  Tasha has more than 10 years of financial services experience.  She joined PayPal Australia in 2006 and is the company’s Head of Product & New Business.  Tasha is responsible for managing PayPal Australia’s product portfolio, including bringing new products to the market and driving customer satisfaction.  Tasha also manages the strategy development for PayPal Australia’s key product initiatives including mobile payments, peer-to-peer payments and various financial products (such as PayPal credit).

Prior to joining PayPal Australia, Tasha worked as a project consultant at HSBC in the Personal Finance division.  Tasha has also held positions at LloydsTSB (London) and St.George Bank in the Internet and Cards areas.

Presentation 3 - iPad

Keith Ahern (CEO MoGeneration) will show off his iPad (we’ve ordered extra security) and talk about how MoGeneration got their iPad application out into market

Hope you can make it!!

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 1st February 2010
:: Note: New Venue is Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)

:: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street.

We’ve survived the GFC!
It’s 2010!  We survived the noughties and more importantly the GFC.  Though we may bear the battle scars of 2009, it’s onwards and upwards for the mobile industry. We’ve got Apple launching iPad, the iPhone apps saving lives, Google launching their new phone and Mobile phones replacing stand alone sat-navs. And hopefully researchers do get to prove that mobile phone usage does decrease and reverse Alzheimer’s disease!

Here at Mobile Mondays, we’ve moved to higher ground and found ourselves a new home for 2010!  We’re now at the newly refurbished Kent Street Living Room - 1st floor of the City Hotel, corner of King and Kent Street, still very much in the heart of the city!

To open 2010, we’ve got:

Mobile Service Design

Smartphones, iPhones, iPads … more connected than ever before, mobile technology is increasingly intertwined with our personal, professional and social needs. Our mobile experiences are becoming blurred and blended into our sense of daily life. We no longer purchase a mobile device, we invest in a lifestyle. For businesses, this connectedness represents considerable opportunities, and challenges. Today, providing remarkable mobile user experiences requires us to recognise and design for key user and business drivers across multiple touch points and customer journeys, identifying the critical moments of engagement that influence customer motivations for service uptake. This presentation briefly discusses the role of Service Design in designing remarkable mobile experiences.

Sharing his thoughts on Mobile Service Design is Dr. Rod Farmer, who currently leads Online Experience Strategy for Vodafone Hutchison Australia. Rod promotes a systemic-view of design, bringing together Business, Design and Technology teams to view delivering valuable experiences as so much more than just the UI.

Innovation Patents
So, you’ve got this great new concept for a mobile app.  You’ve done your business case, you’ve got a project team with kick-off in sight, you even have a keen client waiting in the wings for you to deploy.  But wait, how do you protect and claim ownership to this IP?  Can you do so even if a similar (but not the same!) concept exists?

Bernard Adcock of ImpactIP joins us on Monday to explain Innovation Patents and how they’re even easier to obtain than the usual patent!  Bernard used to work for a number of start-up businesses including CommSoft, Edgematrix, B33hive, MIA and most recently for Soundbuzz.

Mobile ScreenFest
The first ever mobile phone film festival of its kind is coming to Australia!  Ground-breaking mobile film festivals such as this where participants use mobile phones to shoot a film and/or mobile phone photogoraphs have drawn large crowds around the world.  The highlight of the festival is the Festival Screening Day in late August where the mobile films and photographs are viewed on the big screen at a live event.

Presenting Mobile Screenfest is Dr. Avi Ratnanesan from Araya Pictures.  Avi is an award-winning filmmaker, entrepreneur and a member of the Screen Producers Association of Australia.  Araya Pictures is an innovative company in the film and digital entertainment industry that explores new ways of engaging audiences.

RSVP here to secure your place!

Don’t forget to get your tickets for ad:tech 2010! There’s a great range of topics and speakers on mobile, including:

- Integrating Mobile Apps into your Marketing Plan

- The Mobile Future: What You Won’t Be Able to Live Without

- The Key Drivers for Marketing on Mobile

Check out the full program here

ad:tech is the most thoroughly researched & targeted digital media event in Australia & NZ with a focus on how best to use mobile as part of your digital strategy and campaigns. The event includes the ad:tech EXHIBITION & ad:tech CONFERENCE so you can choose the level of participation that’s right for you.
Mobile Monday Members get at 15% discount off the full CONFERENCE - quote ATMM
Follow ad:tech on Twitter at #atsyd

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Mobile Monday Sydney is a free Monthly networking event organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and  Gia Villondo part of the global Mobile Monday family. E-mail <firstname> @ mobilemondaysydney.com to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

Yes! it’s that time of year again; holidays and Christmas etc.  This year has been a great one for the mobile industry and for Mobile Monday.

Our end of year event is always a relaxed one and this year at Bungalow 8 down at King Street Wharf (from 6.30pm) there’ll be no presentations, just catching up with friends, drinking, and a little networking so you can line up all those deals for 2010.  We’ve got a couple of great sponsors who are going to put some money over the bar for a drink or two.

The first sponsor is Oliver Palmer and the gang at Tigerspike who are regular attendees and speakers at our events.  Check out some of their very impressive mobile case studies.

Then there’s also David McWhirter and the team at Touchpoint who have their own interesting case studies of interactive digital marketing solutions.

More sponsors are also welcome, so if you want to support the local mobile industry getting together for a chat and a drink, then feel free to contact us.

Unfortunately we have to move from our home at The Blackett Hotel, due to renovations, but we’ll be back in February 2010 to start the new year for Mobile Monday Sydney in a new venue.

So it’s going to be a huge Mobile Monday Sydney on November 2nd:

1. Opening with Michael Harries talking about the future of mobile

2. Danny & Nick from Insqribe talking about their QR Code/AR marketing solution

3. Last, but not least: Rob from MOB talking about:

Imagine looking around and seeing rich images, videos and
information overlaid upon each of the items you see.

This is no longer a sci-fi promise - it is available on your iPhone and
other modern mobile phones right now.  This presentation looks at where
this technology is today, the tools MOB have used and developed…and
where it’s headed in the near future.

We will look at the implications for developers, business, Government
and the Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) industry.
We will explore how this changes the concept of Public and not so Public
Spaces and how you relate to your customers/users.

Bio:
Rob Manson is Managing Director of MOB, an Innovation Lab based in
Sydney.  He has been working with cutting-edge technologies since the
early 90s and is focused upon creating tangible experiences that change
the way you see technology, business and the world around you.

MOB create innovative iPhone, Mobile and Internet based Applications and
have created Augmented Reality (AR) applications and ARt installations
for public display and consumer markets.

MOB’s customers include the Sydney Opera House, Sculpture by the Sea,
The Royal Eastershow, IAG, Warner Music and St George to name a few.
Recently MOB have created a Mobile Augmented Reality experience using
historic images of Sydney that the Powerhouse Museum released to the
Flickr Commons, a Mobile AR experience for Sculpture by the Sea and MOB
regularly contribute to the Open Government/Open Data movement in
Australia including mentoring on Mobile & AR development at
http://govhack.org and http://hackfest.openaustralia.org

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd November 2009
:: Level 3 @ The Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on King Street via the Blacket Hotel. (Here’s a map)

We’ll be having a couple of talks about Augmented Reality at our next Mobile Monday, the first will be by the guys at Insqribe (Danny Housseas - Co-founder and Chief Product Officer & Nick Gonios - Business focus and growth dude

Acratus Pty Ltd has launched a real-time marketing platform called Insqribe. The Insqribe platform uniquely enables brands, marketing agencies and mobile developers to present, track and measure mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and QR codes on mobile consumer services in real time.

The Acratus team will present successful QR code case studies & insights and also demonstrate the Insqribe mobile AR platform.

Insqribe

:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 2nd November 2009
:: Level 3 @ The Blacket Hotel
:: Entry on King Street via the Blacket Hotel. (Here’s a map)

We’ve got another huge Mobile Monday lined up for you next week.  The theme is iPhone applications and we’re getting presentations from a couple of different perspectives:

1. From the client side: The infamous Chris Winter is coming to talk about why the ABC decided to build an iPhone application and how it fits into their mobile strategy.

2. From the smaller mobile developers (& the amazing TigerSpike): We’re going to have quick 2 minute interviews with some local iPhone developers who have native apps on the App Store.  These include: iceTV, Check My Tubes, Optus Mobile Usage Meter, VFest, Xiao CiDian and Pocket Weather AU (Download them all from iTunes App Store before the night

3. From the iPhone/Mobile 2.0 specific developers: Keith Ahern from MoGeneration (see post below for more details)

Look forward to seeing you Monday night!

> RSVP NOW!