Location, Location, Location
"Location, Location, Location" Is this going to be the theme for wireless apps to come in the US?
With the proliferation of GPS embedded phones, more and more applications are inevitable from personal friend tracking and social networking to enterprise/government security, health and law enforcement and just mapping.
Our region's experts on this topic are generously going to join us for a very compelling discussion. "BE THERE!"
Speakers:
Tom Stroup, CEO, SquareLoop
Gregg Smith, CEO, Acuity Mobile
Dale Beasley, Product Manager, LBS Platform, Verizon Wireless
Lisa Peterson, CEO, Peterson Mobility
Location: TeqCorner, 1616 Anderson Rd., McLean, VA
Time: 6pm -8pm
Cost: FREE (some food and beverages will be provided)
Please RSVP Here: http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/washingtondc/
Leprechauns? Demystifying The Mobile Content Value Chain
Please RSVP HERE: http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/washingtondc/
MoMo-DC needs some sponsors. We're sitting on a gold mine, don't you think? Events are free. Membership is free. Food, libations and space ain't! If you or your company can pony up $200 for a quarterly sponsorship, we will give attribution in e-mails, on the website and at events. Contact your Mark "Leadless Fearer" Chernisky
> Southeast Venture Conference - February 27-28, 2008 Tysons Corner, Virginia
Join the 2008 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) in hosting some of the most dynamic emerging companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, February 27-28, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Join the SEVC 2008, one of the premier venture conferences in the country. Hear from industry leaders such as craigslist founder: Craig Newmark, Former Apple & Pepsi CEO: John Sculley, NEA's founder: Frank Bonsal, Salesforce.com's President and dozens of other top speakers and panelists. Opportunity and collaboration will take center stage at the 2008 Southeast Venture Conference with exclusive networking opportunities, featured speakers, investor/executive panels and 40 of the region's most innovative private technology firms presenting to a national audience of venture capitalists, investment bankers and private equity investors. The 2007 event was sold out with over $58 billion in investment capital represented, so sign up today to reserve your spot. http://www.seventure.org
15 of the 36 Companies Presenting (thus far announced) are in the "mobile" space - not too shabby from Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, DC and even Alabama and Maryland (Kajeet).
Save The Date - April 21 - location TBD (probably TeqCorner, Tysons) Topic: Location, Location, Location with speakers from Verizon Wireless, Acuity Mobile and others on a panel. How could you be anywhere else, really?
Thanks for spreading the word - MoMo-DC's Yahoo Group Subscription List keeps growing, thanks to you! Keep it up!
MoMo-DC LinkedIn Group - Thank you to Hans from Verizon Wireless who has initiated a MobileMonday-DC Group on LinkedIn. Your profile on LinkedIn is incomplete without the coolest logo in the history of all MoMo Chapters worldwide, I'm tellin' ya! Meet Hans at the next event!
Other future dates to save... May 19th and June 16th We're goin' places, baby... We're MobileMonday-DC
MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona Nominees
MobileMonday has announced its Peer Award nominees. 25 chapters from around the world have chosen companies that have demonstrated exceptionally innovative mobile technologies, products, services and concepts.
The event will be held at Espacio Movistar. Luis Jorge Romero, Director of Standards and Innovation in Telefonica Espana, will be a keynote speaker together with Pekka Ala-Pietila, CEO and Co-Founder, Blyk. Mr. Romero will speak about the future of the mobile market and his experience driving innovation in Telefonica Espana, whose Open Innovation strategy encourages innovation and value creation by partnering with new start-ups.
This year's nominees are:
Amsterdam - Movels
Bangalore - Mobisy
Barcelona - skuair
Berlin - ViiF
Boston - SnapMyLife
Brussels - Mobixx
Chennai - Mobile-worx
Dusseldorf - Cellity
Helsinki - Fromdistance
Istanbul - Mobinex
London - The 3G Dating Agency / Taptu
Madrid - Kimia
Milan - Waymedia
Mumbai - Ziva Technologies
Munich - hiClip
New York - BuzzD
Oslo - Adactus
Paris - WebWag
Rome - Nanology
Shanghai - DuoGuo
Silicon Valley - Funambol
Singapore - mBit.tv
St. Petersburg - 4Mobi.TV
Stockholm - Momail
Taipei - Toro
This year's winners at the MobileMonday Peer Awards Barcelona will also be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in conjunction with the World Congress on IT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 18-22, 2008.
The event is also going to showcase for the first time the new barcelona.mobi mobile urban guide.
Our thanks to our partners Telefonica Movistar, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Nokia, dotMobi, Xtract, Acision, Nexit Ventures, Mippin, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Media for their invaluable support to this event organised by dotopen.
Additional information is available at http://www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/peerawards/
MoMoDC Event December 10, 2007
WiMAX 101
WiMAX, the IEEE 802.16 standard often referred to as "WiFi on steroids", has the capability to serve subscribers over a greater range and at a higher rate than WiFi currently does at local cafes and airports. Marius Popa, Sr. Software Engineer at OPNET, and Rich Leung, Sr. Communication Engineer at MITRE, will provide a general overview of this technology and go into some details on what makes WiMAx unique, how WiMAX could impact the wireless ecosystem and the current happenings in the WiMAX industry.
EVENT: "WiMAX 101," an expert look at WiFi on steroids.WHEN: Monday, December 10, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Teqcorner
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102
(703) 714-6171COST: The event is free to the public. Members of the media are welcome to attend the event.
SPEAKERS: Marius Popa, Sr. Software Engineer at OPNET, Rich Leung, Sr. Communication Engineer at MITRE, and Beverly Murdock, Director of Staff Operations at Sprint.
RSVP: So we can have an idea on headcount, please RSVP: http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/washingtondc/
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About Marius Popa:
Marius graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Physics, then went on to receive his ME in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. Currently, he serves as a lead modeling engineer with OPNET Technologies and for the past six years, he has worked on developing simulation models that are used by major industry players for deployment and R&D studies.
About Rich Leung:
Graduated from Virginia Tech with both a bachelor and a master in electrical engineering, Rich Leung began his career working for various of engineering contracting companies in the DC metro area before settling at MITRE as a Sr. Communication Engineer. Currently, he is working in the CAASD group performing variety of studies, analysis, and R&D effort for the FAA and other related aeronautical mobile communication projects.
About Beverly Murdock:
Beverly Murdock was one of the first graduate students at the Center for Wireless Telecommunications at Virginia Tech, where she received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. She has more than fifteen years of experience in the wireless and satellite industry. Beverly began her career with a small satellite command and control company and then moved onto Iridium, where she took on new challenges such as global follow-me paging and satellite-cellular roaming products, as well as the then-emerging use of the Internet for international commerce, personalized marketing, and partner information exchange. Ms. Murdock has also held product development and management responsibilities at a number of start-up software companies, building mobile applications, carrier infrastructure products and mobile content. Those products are in use today at Fortune 1000 companies and major US wireless carriers. Since joining Nextel in 2004, she has applied her unique entrepreneurial experiences to investigating the business potential of emerging technologies including cable telephony, seamless voice and data mobility, software-defined radios, and innovative location monitoring applications. For the last two years, she has been focused on the development of Sprint’s next generation mobile broadband business and currently serves as the Director of Staff Operations for Barry West, Sprint CTO and Xohm President.
Cheers,
Kathie
