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