Hi everyone,

We’re happy to announce that we are media sponsors for the upcoming InfoCom Apps convention (February 21 @ Divani Caravel Hotel).

This is the 2nd InfoCom Apps Conference, themed around smartphones, tablets and applications. The conference aims to become, once again, the meeting point of all market players: operators, manufacturers, developers, platforms, investors, marketing agencies, smartphone and accessories makers, media, marketing- sales executives, consultants and more.

Here’s a brief list of the conference’s session:

Session 1: Smart it All!
Mobile operators, will be asked to present their strategy on applications, smartphones and tablets, as well as the level of their implication in the new environment.

Session 2: Apps for Business
During the 2nd session, large companies and institution will be asked to present their experience on implementing mobile applications in their field of work.

Session 3: It’s an AppWorld!
The main core of 2nd InfoCom Apps Conference, could be nothing other, than developers and their applications.

Session 4: Apps as a Business
The last session of the Conference will host an open discussion between market executives, institutions, investors and business consultants.

We hope to see you there – come and meet us!

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Hi all,

We’d like to thank all of you who attended our latest event, on January 16, but also those of you watched us online - we hope to see you all at the next event! Thanks to you, our even was a big success, with well over 200 people attending!

First of all, we’d like to announce the winners for the Nokia App Competition, hosted at our last Mobile Monday Athens event.

Nokia Mobile App Competition

Big prize winner (1,500 Euro check + Nokia Lumia 800)

Feelzer – an innovative app that introduces a new way of searching through facets based on the emotional stimulation of the user.

Runner ‘apps’ (Nokia Lumia 800 phone each)

2nd place: Eclipsis - a Facebook Client for the Visually Impaired. It acts as a fully specialized Screen Reader for Facebook, offering ease of navigation and use through Voice Recognition and Text to Speech technologies
3rd place (shared): Eventora - from an all-around solution for events to a social commerce platform, built around events. Available for your desktop or smartphone
3rd place (shared): Life Avatar - a game that keeps track of your eating habits and provides motivations for a healthier lifestyle

We’d like to thank our final contestants (Eclipsis Project, Eventora, Feelzer, KWINBO, Life Avatar, SBOING, So-Nav) for joining us – as well as all of you who submitted an app!

Check out the full profiles of the seven finalists.

Presentations

As promised, here are the presentations from the January 16 2012 event, held at the Classical Imperial Athens hotel.

1. “10 non-textbook lessons for entrepreneurs copy”, by Maria Dramalioti-Taylor (x.Million Capital Ventures)

2. “From impressions to engagement”, by Nikos Moraitakis (Upstream)

3. “Making money with mobile data as a digital utility provider”, by Antonios Drossos (Rewheel)

4. “Making money with open source”, by Constantinos Bairaktaris (Transifex)

Pics

Here are some pics from the event – see our photo album on Facebook for more. We also have some videos for the event – just click here.

We are proud to be hosting Nokia’s Mobile App Competition in our upcoming Mobile Monday Athens event (January 16 2012 @ The Classical Imperial Athens Hotel).

The final stage of the competition will be played out during the event, where the 7 finalists will present their apps to the panel of judges. The winner gets a Lumia 800 phone plus 1,500 Euros, while the two runner ups receive a Lumia 800 phone each.

Here are the seven finalists:

Eclipsis, by Project Eclipsis

Eclipsis is a Facebook Client for the Visually Impaired. It acts as a fully specialized Screen Reader for Facebook, offering ease of navigation and use through Voice Recognition and Text to Speech technologies.

Eventora

Eventora: from an all-around solution for events to a social commerce platform, built around events. Available for your desktop or smartphone

Feelzer

Feelzer is an innovative app that introduces a new way of searching through facets based on the emotional stimulation of the user.

Life Avatar

Life Avatar is a game that keeps track of your eating habits and provides motivations for a healthier lifestyle

sbNavi, by SBOING

Sboing is an application for global, offline GPS-navigation, based on OpenStreetMap maps

So-Nav

So-Nav is an application that helps people navigate unfamiliar urban environments, in an innovative way

Transito, by KWINBO

Transito is an app that will help you find your way around the complex and often erratic Athens public transportation system

We know you’ve already missed us and were looking forward to our next Mobile Monday Athens event. Well, here it is!

The next event is taking place on Monday, January 16 at the Classical Imperial Hotel. We have four great speakers lined up, ready to talk about “Making Money in Mobile”, which is the theme of the event.

But it’s not all theoretical… Nokia, our sponsor for the event, is running a mobile app competition, with lots of nice prizes (winner gets a 1,500 Euro check to fund her app and a Lumia 800 phone, two runner ups get a Lumia 800 phone). Click here for more.

Here’s the essential info for the meeting:

When?

Monday 16th January 2012, 6pm.

Where?

Classical Imperial Hotel, Plateia Karaiskaki

What’s the theme?

Making money in Mobile

Who’s speaking?

- Maria Dramalioti-Taylor

AngelLab UK

- Nikos Moraitakis

Upstream Dubai

- Antonios Drossos

Rewheel Finland

- Konstantinos Bairaktaris

Transifex Greece

Who’s paying for all this?

Nokia

What else is going on at the event?

Nokia mobile app awards (read more here)

Sign me up already! (just follow the link below)

http://momoath.doorkeeper.jp/events/520-mobile-monday-athens-jan16-2012

The first Mobile Monday Athens event is at an end. More than 120 people showed up and had the chance to network and attend some great presentations (which are now available here).

We’d like to extend a big thank you to everyone who turned up, to all of you watched us online via live streaming and especially to our speakers: Tor Bjorn Minde, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Hendrik Koekkoek and Vaggelis Rekkas.

We’ve got lots of feedback from everyone and will strive to make the next event even better. So, stay tuned for the next Mobile Monday Athens event – see you all there!

Live stream from Mobile Monday Athens Launch event
Monday 3rd of October 2011, 7:00 pm (GMT +2)

Launching Mobile Monday Athens

Broadcasting live from Athens, this is Mobile Monday Athens opening up shop. We’re proud to join the Mobile Monday family and hope you’ll all join our first ever Mobile Monday in Athens, on October 3.

Mobile Monday What?

MobileMonday™ (MoMo) is an open community platform, a tool to help the worldwide mobile industry achieve benefits for everyone by spreading knowledge and encouraging people with good ideas to take action. MoMo is a crossroad where visionaries, ideas and mobile innovation meet.

Launch Event

The first ever Mobile Monday Meeting is taking place on October 3 at 18:00, at the Hub (Alkminis 5, Petralona).

This first event, sponsored by Vodafone, will give us a chance to meet and talk about mobility in Greece. There will be several mobile industry insiders attending, so you’re welcome to join the discussion and engage in some light networking.

Speakers

We also have four speakers lined up for the event:

- Tor Bjorn Minde
Research Manager New Industry Solutions, Head of Ericsson Labs, Sweden
“What’s cooking at Ericsson Research in the Services & Software research domain?”

- Hendrik Koekkoek
Analyst at Distimo, Holland
“Analyzing the Application Stores – Users, Apps, Growth, and more”

- Konstantinos Papamiltiadis
VP Product & Engineering at Taptu, UK
“Taptu: Content Curation, Discovery and Consumption. Does relevancy and context matter?”

- Vaggelis Rekkas
Co-founder & Marketing Director at iMellon, Greece
“Historious App provides travelers and tourists a modern and interactive means of experiencing history through their mobile device”

Can I come too?

Just visit www.momoath.com/join and sign up for the event. It’s as simple as that!

About Mobile Monday Athens

An open community platform for mobile industry aficionados in the heart of Athens. Join us and exchange your views and experiences with your fellow mobilists.

If you want to get in touch, send us an email at hello@momoath.com or just drop us a line on Twitter (@MoMoAth).

Our Sponsor for the event

Matos
matos@visionmobile.com
Marketing Guy at MoMoAthens

We’re here! Mobile Monday now lives in Athens! We’re proud to present the Athens chapter of Mobile Monday, the open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals. Mobile Monday Athens is an open community for mobile aficionados. Join us and exchange your views and experiences with your fellow mobilists.

See more about Mobile Monday Athens or see who’s running this community.