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Today is the second day of the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference. Yesterday was the developer’s day, which I missed to attend HiT Barcelona. Again, it’s a small conference, but there seems to be more enthusiasm in the air than at HiT event. The reason may be that it’s taking place in a smaller venue at Esade Business School.
Anyway, I arrived in the midst of “Openness” panel where we’ve heard Matthaus Krzykowski from VentureBeat, Pat Phelan from Cubic Telecom, Andreas Constantinou from VisionMobile, Christian Sejersen from Mozilla, and Jacob Lehrbaum from Sun Microsystems discussing what the “concept of open” brings to the industry. Symbian Foundation’s David Wood supposed to be on the panel, too, but when I arrived, he wasn’t there. Unfortunately, I haven’t caught much of the action, but it looks like the audience was engaging.
Afterwards, Tom Raftery from RedMonk talked about Mobile Sustainability, pointing out how climate change is affecting all of us. He also mentioned examples what handset makers and mobile operators are doing to “go green.” Vodafone was praised as the bright example, while Telefonica failed miserably.
At the moment I write this, the “Context” panel is about to take off. Skyhook Wireless’ CEO Ted Morgan is having a keynote and afterwards we’ll hear the following people further exploring the subject:
- Raimo van der Klein, co-founder of SPRXmobile
- Xavier Carillo Costa, CEO and founder of Digital Legends Entertainment
- Tommy Ahlers, founder of Zyb and now Head of LBS at Vodafone and CEO of Wayfinder Systems
- Felix Petersen, founder of Plazes.com and now Head of Product Strategy Social Location at Nokia
- Greg Skibiski, CEO of Sense Networks
Later in the day, I hope to catch up with some of the companies which are at the show. Stay tuned…
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
