When we started talking about “Cloud-Services” people thought of Corporate IT. But wait, think again: The more we got used to storing all our contacts and dates, pictures and files in the cloud to make all that accessible from where ever we might be the more we all started using cloud-services – from Google to iCloud, from Dropbox to Instagram to name but a few.
But cloud-services are more than just a cheap and reliable way to to store away all your personal data. They can give you anything from enterprise-software to personal music, from time-management to social games. But will all those services really be as reliable and safe as your usual desktop-software?
Reason enough to dig deeper into the subject at our next MoMo DUS!
Speakers so far are:
- Rudolf Schmidt – CGI
- Peter Decker – Symphony Teleca Corporation
- Tiemo Winterkamp – Arcplan
- Malte Lantin von Microsoft und Christian Klasen von Vela Entertainment
Time: May 14, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: RIVERLOFT, Konkordiastrasse 20 Dusseldorf
MobileMonday Germany
Dusseldorf
As e-commerce has come of age (it’ll be a 20 something this year) it’s little sibling m-commerce is still struggling to reach the critical mass needed for exponential growth.
But wait: There’s commerce literally everywhere: You could be out in the streets and check Qype for a restaurant near you. Or you could be sitting on a train organizing your next holiday trip with recommendations of your social network contacts. And you might even enjoy the coziness of your living room shopping around for the best deals on spring fashion from your iPad.
Digital commerce happens everywhere, from all your (mobile) devices. And we will discuss opportunities and threats imposed by that development onto retailers as well as e-commerce providers and other players in the field.
Time: March 26, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: RIVERLOFT, Konkordiastrasse 20
City/Town: Dusseldorf Register Details Here.
Of course with the help of our esteemed panelists, as there will be:
- Ercan Killic of GS1 presenting the latest trends of Mobile in Retail
- Stefan Janssen, Head of Mobile Commerce Solutions at Metro Systems
- Jens Kohnen, Manager Payment Solutions at PwC
Come and join us at our next Mobile Monday in Düsseldorf’s new hotspot Riverside for new insights, cool drinks and lots of networking.
PLEASE CONSIDER OUR NEW LOCATION – RIVERLOFT
Time: February 6, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: RIVERLOFT, Konkordiastrasse 20
Social networking has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Not a single day passes without an invitation to enter somebody
else’s circles, “friends” or other networks:
‘Social’ has become a currency in the global fight for eye balls and advertising dollars.
And now social has gone mobile: From Online giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter to Mobile-only Players like Foursquare and Qype, to name but a few.
Where is ‘mobile social’ going? Who has run successful campaigns in combining social, location and mobile? Time for MobileMonday to take a closer look at
“SoMoLo” in our next event in Duesseldorf on the 6th of February!
Speakers on the schedule will be
- Ossi Urchs (Internet Guru and MoMo Co-Founder)
- Holger Mannweiler (Match2Blue)
- Patrick Bosteels (TCS Digital World)
- Felix Schul (Coupies)
- More to be announced!
MobileMonday Germany e.V.
Chapter Dusseldorf
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Dear Mobile Enthusiasts & MoMo Followers!
Come and get together with us to celebrate the 5th anniversary of MobileMonday in Germany! It is already 5 years since we started with MobileMonday in Duesseldorf and over time spread our activity to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt. In all of these cities we have run almost 100 events including successful formats like our annual National Summit, the Kudos Award and the unique m2d2 – MobileMonday Developer Day. We have over 4.400 followers and created the largest Mobile Force in Germany. So it is time to celebrate:
The 2011 MobileMonday National Summit will take place on the 14th November in Duesseldorf’s Rudas Studios in the famous and trendy Medienhafen.
We’ll already start at 13:00 and have an open end – so you better be prepared to have a good party time with great food, DJ and VJ.
If you would like to stay overnight in Dusseldorf, you’ll find our hotel recommendations here.
The agenda is live now.
Supported by our fabulous partner Ganzfeld.
We know that mobile payments are redefining commerce, but will our phones soon replace our wallets?
PayPal seems to think so. The payments giant boldly predicts that the wallet will be dead by 2015.
PayPal isn’t the only one getting into the game though. Google recently launched Google Wallet, the search giant’s mobile payment system, and Visa recently made a strategic investment in Square, the mobile payments platform now worth more than $1.4 billion.
We decided to look deeper into mobile payment trends and created this event that tracks what experts and analysts believe will happen to mobile commerce in the next four years, including what will happen with near field communication (NFC).
Speakers confirmed by now:
- HSBC
- inMobi
- Metro Group
- PayPal
- Vodafone
More speakers to be announced soon – stay tuned.
Time: September 19, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf
Sponsored by:
MobileMonday Germany
Mobile Internet usage has finally broken into the mainstream mass-market. And that is also and especially true for mobile social media, networks and platforms: 200 Million out of 600 Million Facebook-members use their social network on the go. And more than 50% of the German mobile Internet audience use one or more social apps on their handsets.
Increasing numbers of social apps on the Web make more sense when you use them on the road. What is true for Foursquare and Qype is also true for the better part of Twitter: You have more to talk about on the road than from your desktop.
And in that process location is becoming something like the general “killer-parameter” for all for all mobile social activities: Out in the wild it’s your friends nearby that count and the place to meet them is what makes all the difference.
Time: July 4, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf
Speakers:
Wolf Kunert is responsible for building HTC’s new Business Solutions for Enterprises use of smartphones.
Markus Bokowsky is founder and CEO of Bokowsky & Laymann GmbH in Munich
Dr Lutz Kohl is „Chief-Nerd“ with a special expertise in server-side implementations of business logics at Match2Blue, a leading developer of mobile B2B solution.
What more trends, technologies and interfaces (think: “Augmented Reality”) will shape the way we all will use the mobile Internet will be up for presentation and debate on 4th of July (got that?) at Düsseldorf’s next MoMo.
Dear MoMo Followers,
as announced: Our next MobileMonday will be on WEDNESDAY April 6th on the fascinating topic of the convergence of print, web and mobile. Or to say it with TechNewsWorld: What is the converged media road to success?
With the introduction of advanced smartphones, e-readers and tablets, it’s hardly surprising that consumption of online content has grown exponentially. This has caused turmoil within the media industry.
Traditional advertising revenues are declining as new marketing options are emerging. Print media and newspaper subscriber bases and readership are eroding, while the competition for online viewership is increasing.
The need for adoption of social media and delivery to multiple mobile devices is increasingly becoming essential for retaining and attracting new customers. In this rapidly changing environment, media organizations are being forced to reevaluate their strategies for media convergence.
On the occasion of the first congress & exhibition showcasing this convergence of print, web and mobile, the Digi:Media from April 7th to 9th in Düsseldorf , we at MobileMonday will start this discussion on the eve before of this show. With IDG doing also an “making apps” conference on the same day as us as kick-off of the Digi:Media there are enough reasons to join us in Düsseldorf that week!
Time: April 6, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
Listen to our contributors:
- Ralph Scholz, Project Manager Digi:Media, Messe Düsseldorf
- Thorsten May, Managing Director Professional Services, YOC
- Sascha Neubacher, Associate Publisher and Head of Advertising, IDG Magazine Media
See you @momogermany on Wednesday 6th of April, 18:00 at the wonderful facilities of Grey.
Your MoMo DUS Team
There has been a recent buzz on NFC
All major smartphone manufacturers are demonstrating their interst to ship their NFC enabled devices to the market. However, what is the value that this brings to the mobile customers?
What are the applications that will take benefit of NFC? Is there any business in NFC and which of the players will attract it?
These are but a few questions that people might have.
For certain, the forthcoming MobileMonday in DUSSELDORF will have interesting presentations and discussions on this matter. As usual, we will convene in the natural home of MobileMonday DUSSELDORF, which is at Grey, Platz der Ideen.
For sure MobileMonday DUS will have the answers ready for you to discuss.
- Klaus Jansen-Knor, CellPoint Mobile Inc., SVP Business Development
- Torsten Wichura, Business Manager Social Location, Service Sales & Marketing Nokia GmbH
- Martin Scattergood, Managing Director SES RFID Solutions GmbH
If you want to prepare yourself a bit before have a look Here.
Time: February 28, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: 40476 Düsseldorf
I've gathered some ideas I'd like to share with you about what we'll see this year and at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona coming up in February.
We are reaching the sweet spot as VCs say when the penetration of a new technologies reaches 20%. Consumers start to really want and enjoy mobile data! With a great selection of user friendly smart phone, affordable data plans (no more bill shocks, at least within the EU) and service, in particular apps that people really want badly, mobile data is about to explode. And it is still getting better ;-)
1. Devices. Devices. And more Devices. The consumer will be the winner during the smart phone race. She and he will be offered a thrilling number of new and better devices. The only downside: too much choice. It's going to hard to find her or his perfect device... What OS? Which brand?
2. More sensors. Sensors are cool, like if you point the device in a certain direction and the map turns. Devices will have more and more sensors like gyroscope, rotation vector, linear acceleration, gravity, barometer, humidity. New apps will take advantage of those... possibly there will be nothing really great coming out in 2011 for human users, maybe this will prove more exciting for analytical and observational devices feeding to other systems.
3. What about tablets and e-books? I usually like to think of mobile devices as devices that can be operated single handed and even while walking. I do not consider tablets and e-books real "mobile" devices rather they are more like laptops to me (event though they my be instant on). Still they will juice up mobile devices indirectly: Since applications running on the new tablets and e-books will be more often than not made available on smart phones as well.
3a. Tablets are the new kids on the block. It looks like many manufacturer were caught by surprise (remember the astonishment when Asus launched the Eee PC 2007/08?). High-end tech addicts will have one (probably with mobile data inside) and occasional users will start buying one to replace their PC or laptop as main device at home. I am skeptical about applications on tablets outside the iPad - let's see how Android 3.0 will be received by the consumer and what Microsoft will do about it.
3b. And then there are e-books. As such - not so interesting. However, connected e-books (and some tablets) enable social reading - that is user interacting about what they read, sharing emotions or notes, discussing amongst each other or engaging with the author: just a hype today and a real revolution tomorrow. Many e-books apps are available for smart phones thus reaching a huge potential user base.
4. Apps. Apps. And more Apps. Browsing apps, downloading, possibly paying and owning them seems to be a great paradigm for mobile. The HTML5 and more capable browsers many apps merely required an app icon as a browser bookmark. Still, based on the users' behavior I believe apps will further dominate the mobile services in general. Plus:
5. With smart phones as new platform 2010 has been the year of Mobile Gaming with games like Angry Birds achieving over 50 Mio. downloads. We'll see more shooting stars in 2011. Lovely.
6. Mobile Advertising is growing with the apps market with in app advertisement being one of the main drivers.
7. Eventually, NFC (Near Field Communication) will be integrated into some mainstream devices. What has been the norm in Japan for years with Felica is coming to the Western consumer. Combining NFC with other technologies allows for many proximity-based services: information, advertisement, identification and access, loyalty schemes, payment. Many new services to users, organizations, merchants, and advertisers will be developed, however, due to multitude of existing channels adaptation might be slow. In Japan public transportation in Tokyo was one of the main drivers. What will be the killer app in the Western world?
8. LTE (quasi 4th generation: based on the definition only LTE-advanced expected in 2012 will meet the criteria of 4G) will have a slow start in niche areas like rural areas or business users. User may not want to pay more than for earlier generations of mobile data (HSDPA).
9. Mobile Data will have another big year, obviously even bigger than 2010. More and more people will want to be always online. And still many are waiting to be convinced. Mobile data will also be offered by existing DSL /cable companies complementing their offering. Thus the mobile operator is partially competing against its own white label solutions. Operators in 2011 might further reduce prices while testing new price differentiation models. For what services are consumers willing to pay extra? Roaming options, VoIP, P2P, ultra fast reaction time (e.g. for gamers), premium / preferred service when network is clogged? What is technically feasible?
10. What are your thoughts? What is missing? Leave a comment...
Dear MobileMonday friends & followers,
The year ends and we will have our final MoMo in Düsseldorf for 2010 on November 15th: Wireless Health – Keep the doctor away!
Opportunities in the global mobile healthcare market are estimated to be worth around € 40 bn in 2010 (McKinsey & Company), prompting operators and other giants out of the wireless industry to step up their initiatives in this emerging sector. A large proportion of the over four billion people using mobile phones today struggle to gain access to good quality and affordable healthcare, both in emerging markets and more developed societies. Mobile healthcare is clearly an opportunity to improve healthcare, manage costs and at the same time drive growth. It is something that mobile operators, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, technology players, health insurance companies and governments too should all be looking at closely – as well as MoMo in Germany! Timing couldn’t be better: On November 17th, Medica – the world biggest medical fair & exhibition – opens the doors in Düsseldorf, and there will be a complete pavilion just on the topic of wireless health.
Our speakers are:
Clint McClellan, Sr. Director, Business Development Wireless Health, Qualcomm
Eyal Lewin, Managing Director SHL Telemedizin Germany,
Ulrich Schulze Althoff, Mobile healthcare – from measurement to management”
Time: November 15, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Dusseldorf
Street: PLATZ DER IDEEN 1 (at Grey GmbH)
City/Town: Dusseldorf
More speakers will be announced soon, so stay tuned and make sure you’ll be there on 15th of November.
Your MoMo DUS team!
P.S. And don’t forget our partner event in the same location – the first Mobile Unconference in Germany – please have a look at http://www.mobileunconference.com/
