Barcelona 2009 Summer events recap

Here’s the recap from the three events I attended during the last two weeks, in case you missed something:

HiT Barcelona – World Innovation Summit

• Pre-event announcement
• Intro
• DeviceAnywhere offers mobile application and content certification
• AcCells enables NFC-like payments with any mobile phone!
• popIn allows “searching on the spot”
• Scalado offers imaging solutions for mobiles
• LLeida.net offers certified SMS service
• GreenFire has technology that will charge your phone in 30 seconds!
• Apisphere enables location-based services
• GSMA receives top honors at 2009 Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards
• Global Innovation Atlas unveiled
• Companies I missed covering
• Winners of Mobile Innovation Grand Prix EMEA Tournament
• Global Entrepreneurship Competition and the wrap-up
• HiT Barcelona in photos
• Outro

Mobile 2.0 Europe

• Pre-event announcement
• Intro
• Panel: Context
• Panel: Beyond free
• Startup #1: theChanner – TV on the move
• Startup #2: pikkoo – YouTube of mobile personalization
• Startup #3: Vulevu – mobile dating service
• Startup #4: Layar – Browse the world
• Startup #5: rmbrme – maker of the beamME iPhone app
• Startup #6: Distimo – mobile analytics tools for developers
• Startup #7: zensify – managing of multiple social networks on the iPhone
• Startup #8: NearYoo – location-based services for just about any phone
• Outro

Mobile Money Summit

• Pre-event announcement
• Intro
• Meeting with Fraaz Ahmed from Lebara
• Global Innovations in Mobile Money – An MNO viewpoint – Orange/FT Group
• Panel: The Reality of Deploying the Latest Mobile Money Innovations
• Financially Connecting the Unbanked through Mobile – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Interview with Obopay’s CEO – Carol L. Realini
• The rest of the second day
• Panel: Current and Future Requirements for Mobile Money Regulation
• Levaraging Celcom Malaysias Mobile Money services for a groupwide rollout – presentation of Celcom AirCash service
• Retail Applications and Mobility – PayPal presentation
• GSMA launches Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) award
• GSMA unveils Mobile Money Exchange initiative with Visa and Globe Telecom as first founding partners
• Zain, Western Union team-up on mobile payments
• Customer Usage Patterns and Adoption Curves for Bank-Led Deployments – Mobile and Transact Solutions’ presentation
• Catalyzing Mobile Payments Worldwide – Obopay’s presentation
• Roamware, Grameen team-up to develop global mobile financial ecosystem for the unbanked
• Mobile Money Summit in photos
• Outro