Presenters & Panel

Mobile Games, Wil Monte, Owner – Millipede

Millipede Demo: CityGT Promo

Mobile Social Media, George Tsigounis , Product Manager – Telstra – Tribe

George Tsougounis

Mobile Games, Daniel Visser Owner – Wicked Witch Software – Wicked Witch Software

Daniel Visser

Mobile Games, Simon Joslin – Game Designer-  Voxel Agents – Voxel Agents

Simon Joslin

Mobile Music, George Parthimos CEO – miRoamer

George Parthimos

Come and learn from those who have gone through the startup challenge and sink or swim stages and most of all, to ask the questions you have always wanted answers to.

Our purpose is to inspire and encourage mobile entrepreneurs to go out and give it a go.

Plus there will be a chance to win a double pass to one of AIMIA events.

MoMo Event Date, Time & Location:

Date: Monday 9th August 2010

Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm, Optional dinner out afterwards too!

Location: Horse Bazaar – 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (MAP)

Speakers:

• Wil Monte, Owner of Millipede,
• George Tsigounis, Product Manager at Telstra – Tribe,
• Daniel Visser, Owner of Wicked Witch Software,
• Simon Joslin, Game Designer at Voxel  Agents
• George Parthimos, CEO of miRoamer.

Cost: FREE although RSVP is required for this event!

Looking forward to seeing you!

Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew,

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann & Andrea Georgiou

Join us in July for all the insights on Mobile Ticketing from a couple of pioneers transforming events and travel ticketing using your mobile phone …

Presenters & Panel

Aaron Hornlimann, CEO of The Sissit Group will be on deck to share a bird’s eye view of the way JetStar are using mobile technology and scanning equipment to streamline your travel ticketing and processing.

Tony Lotzof, Director of Strictly Tickets will entertain us all with stories of mobile ticketing magic, giving us a virtual pass to access all areas and mosh with our mobile.

Welcome To Our New Platinum Sponsor – BlackBerry

Our Mobile  Monday Melbourne for July is going to be a special event with drinks, food and giveaways (including a chance to win a brand new smartphone!) to celebrate and welcome our new Platinum sponsors for the year, BlackBerry!

So, join us for a beverage, a bite to eat, an interesting topic on Mobile Ticketing and a chance to win a BlackBerry smartphone. You will also get the chance to meet some of the staff from the Australian BlackBerry team to celebrate this new chapter for Mobile Monday Melbourne.

MoMo Event Date, Time & Location:

Date: Monday 19th July

Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm, … Optional dinner out afterwards too!

Location: Horse Bazaar – 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (MAP)

Speakers: Aaron Hornlimann, CEO of The Sissit Group, Tony Lotzof, Director of Strictly Tickets and Niki Kennedy of Research In Motion Australia (BlackBerry).

Cost: FREE  although RSVP is required for this event!

Looking forward to seeing you!

Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew,

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann & Andrea Georgiou

If you thought the iPad was a hot ticket item in Mobile, you are not going to believe the developments going on in the fast approaching Mobile Payments revolution.

The latest Jupiter research projects that mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions using mobile phones will reach almost $630bn by 2014.

We are lucky to have some great local talent joining us on Monday including Michael Dimoudis, creator of ‘iCCPay’ Mobile Merchant App, and Simon Spencer who lead the ANZ team responsible for their Mobile Payment solutions!

So click on the RSVP link and please re-subscribe to our newsletter to update all your details, including your Mobile number for an SMS reminder (care of our friends at SMSglobal).

Make a note in your diary to keep Monday 21st from 6:00pm free for a MoMo on MoPayments – one not to be missed!

MoMo Event Date, Time & Location:

Date: Monday 21st June

Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm

Location: Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Speakers: Simon Spencer & Michael Dimoudis

Cost: Free

From Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew,

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann & Andrea Georgiou

Had any great mobile App ideas lately? … haven’t we all!!!

This month (MoMoMelb on May 10th) we will explore ALL the things you need to know to develop, publish and promote your iPhone or iPad App so you can start depositing some dosh in your hot little pocket.

Announcing our presenters and panel of Mobile App developer experts for this cracker event …

jTribe

Armin Kroll and Daniel Bradby from jTribe develop custom iPhone, iPad and Android apps for  brands like DELL and Zendesk and have been working with the iPhone SDK from day one. They are ready to share the ins and outs of getting your iPhone or iPad App off the ground and lift the lid on some of the secrets and dark arts of dealing with Apple.

WSP Digital

Ashley Herring from WSP Digital will share some blue chip insights from their iPhone App development experiences with blue chip global clients. Ashley has some great case studies to share showing that innovative enterprises, entrepreneurs as well as big brands and their customers are ready to embrace the world of iPhone and iPad Mobile Apps … with one or both hands.

MoMo May will help answer your most important iPhone and iPad App development questions, including …

• What does it take to develop an App for the iPhone, or iPad?
• How different is it to develop for iPad?
• What skills are required to develop an App and what are the options?
• How do I go about marketing and maximising the downloads of my App?
• Are there any pitfalls to avoid?
• What are some of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY)  options and tools to get my App idea to market fast?
• What about developing for other mobile platforms? (To be covered in more detail another night )

Speaking of iPad, we will also take a pre-release look at the iPad on the night and show you the sexiest new portable device around.

We will also answer some of your essential iPad questions, such as …

• “Does it have a Mic” and will it handle Skype calls?
• What is the battery life like compared to an iPhone?
• How did MoMoMelb get its hands on a pre-release iPad and how can I get one sooner than late May?

… as well as …

• Introductions to the newest members of the MoMo Melbourne crew
• Summary of AdTech in Sydney last month
• Summary of SXSW in Austin Texas
• PLUS the latest Mobile News & the best Networking in the Mobile industry!

Make sure you put May 10th in your diary and please RSVP now on the link at the top of our MoMoMelb blog!!!

MoMo Event Time, Location & Directions:

Date: Monday 10th May
Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm
Location: Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Cost: Free

We are excited to see you on Monday and ready to bring you all things mobile in 2010!

Cheerio from your new look MoMo Melbourne Team …

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann and Andrea Georgiou

Get your calendar primed for a binary bonaza as the MoMoMelbourne crew offer you special prices and even free tickets to a bunch of awesome upcoming digital events.

Since it’s our website, we bags first dibs, so …

March 15th

Hats off to local crew, Front Foot who were awarded (by me!) the AIMIA Award for Best Mobile Product or Service – for the second year in a row!!). Join us on March 15th as MMMM (MoMoMelbMarch) presents a wrap-up of all things mobile from the 16th Annual AIMIA Awards – come and meet finalists, winners (including Front Foot’s Anton Sher - who is also our special guest co-host for the night) and judges as we all get an insider look into the work behind the scenes of this oh-so-glamorous night. (See below for more details).

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March 16-17th

ad:tech 2010 – the huge event which is ad:tech has heaps of mobile-related stuff in the program, including “Integrating Mobile Apps into your Marketing Plan”, “The Mobile Future: What You Won’t Be Able to Live Without” and “The Key Drivers for Marketing on Mobile”. Quote ATMM when you register to get a special MoMoMelb 15% off the ticket price. Check out the full program here. (See below for more details).

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March 22nd-24th

Digital Media Foundation Training Course – for those of us who can always do with a decent injection of topical digital know-how (and let’s face it, who can’t), you could do far worse than to lock yourself into this upcoming 2.5 day course covers advertising, marketing and sales in the digital space. Find out more here, even better, to score a FREE ticket, get back to us at momomelb@gmail.com and tell us why why ‘continual learning in the digital space is a must have’.

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April 14-16th

creative3 International Forum – this upcoming Brisbane-based event is another big one to watch. The new international industry event will empower both individuals and organisations to harness the power of creativity, investment and enterprise by providing invaluable insights and practical learnings from some of the best in the business. This event will showcase some stellar keynote speakers and an investment prize valued at $100,000 will be awarded to a promising creative business (so don’t say you didn’t know).

A 10% discount on the early bird early bird registration is available to MoMo Melbourne members until 19 March. Just key in the promotion code ‘MoMoMelb’ for this offer.

For more information visit www.creative3.com.au

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April 15th

V21: Meet the New Generation Digital Business Models… another amzing event hosted by our mates at AIMIA Victoria, V21 2010 presents recent case studies of what worked and what didn’t and looks at the emerging opportunities in the travel, retail and entertainment industries. The event last year was a sell-out and had incredible attendee feedback. This year’s program looks even better! Check out: www.v21.com.au and below for more details.

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Our March event is the AIMIA Awards Mobile Wrap-Up!

For MMMM (MoMoMelbMarch) we figured it was only reasonable to take a look at all things mobile from the awards, get an insight into the journeys the successful apps have followed so far and discuss how the humble handset is increasingly intrinsic to communications and marketing in all industry sectors.

So, join us on the Ides of March (March 15th) to meet and speak with award finalists (including Alistair Ward from local crew Visual Jazz), Sally Davies from Sensis, judges who made the tough calls (including industry legend Gregan McMahon) and folk from AIMIA Vic as we get down to brass tacks about dealing with clients (or indeed being the client), production processes, budgets, timelines, leapfrogging technology developments and ever whatever else springs to mind.

To get the conservation going, we are delighted to welcome our guest and co-host for the night Mr. Anton Sher of FrontFoot, winner of this (ans last) year’s Best Mobile Product or Service category for their tidy 3 Mobile Content Portal and EA Games Mobile Site, respectively!

So, if you want some insight into what works for these awards events and maybe fancy claiming one for yourself one day, this event will be a good place to start!

Event Time, Location & Directions:

Date: Monday 15th March
Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.30pm
Location: Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Beer: Brown, frothy and cold – hmmmmmm

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ad:tech 2010

Don’t forget to get your tickets for ad:tech 2010! There’s a great range of topics and speakers on mobile, including:
“Integrating Mobile Apps into your Marketing Plan“, “The Mobile Future: What You Won’t Be Able to Live Without” and “The Key Drivers for Marketing on Mobile”.

Check out the full program here
ad:tech is the most thoroughly researched & targeted digital media event in Australia & NZ with a focus on how best to use mobile as part of your digital strategy and campaigns. The event includes the ad:tech EXHIBITION & ad:tech CONFERENCE so you can choose the level of participation that’s right for you.

Mobile Monday Members get at 15% discount off the full CONFERENCE – quote ATMM
Follow ad:tech on Twitter at #atsyd

ad:tech Sydney iPhone App

The ad:tech team are proud to announce their new iPhone App, built by MIA International, a first from an Australian event company. You can view the various conference streams, check out the sponsors & exhibitors, follow the twitter streams and choose your favourites to create your own unique agenda! Search ad:tech on the app store.

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V21: Meet the New Generation Digital Business Models…

Melbourne – Thursday 15 April 2010

The desire to realise our ideas and dreams is fundamental to human nature. The only limitation on turning those ideas and dreams into something concrete in the digital age in which we now live, is our imagination and creativity – provided that we’re prepared to leave some baggage behind.

The interactivity that technology now enables, its ability to deliver information “anywhere, anytime” on the target audiences’ “platform of choice”, our expectation as consumers to get “more for less” year on year and our need as business people to continue to make profits – challenges traditional business models and demands continual innovation.

We’re at a tipping point where business success belongs to the creative and agile who are prepared to re-invent and rejuvenate traditional business models in any industry, to identify and exploit niches, to live with the fact that “barriers to entry” will continue to be eroded, and to year on year find new ways to make themselves heard above the noise and move outside their comfort zones.

As we find new ways of understanding ourselves and our world and discover new forms of community we will build the new institutions and new businesses of the interactive age.

V21 2010 presents recent case studies of what worked and what didn’t and looks at the emerging opportunities in the travel, retail and entertainment industries.

With presentations from: ABC, Sitepoint, Red Bubble, Catalogue Central, Citrus, Perfumania, Onelove Music Group, Sound Alliance, FremantleMedia Enterprises and the AIIA .

www.v21.com.au

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Phew! Told you it was long. If you read this far and are at the next MoMoMelb event on March 15th – come and say “Eggplant” to Justin and I’ll buy you a beer for your staying power and obvious dedication to this crazy industry!

Cheers

The Mobile Monday Team

Justin and Ben and Ant and Em

The continued releasing of publicly-owned content such as these data sets is a big and innovative step by the Victorian Government. Of additional (and none-too-insignificant) interest is that the data is being released under a Creative Commons licence (which effectively means you’ll be able to use the data for your own means – as long as you adhere to the parameters laid-down). This is a move us MoMoers congratulate and we can all now watch the other Australian Governments play catch-up! More on that on the night…

So, *this* Monday arvo, the Mobile Monday Melbourne crew are pleased to welcome back Ian Stewart from the Office Premier of Victoria and introduce Luella Charles from DIIRD to discuss the ‘App My State’ initiative in more detail, explain how you could win your share of the $100,000 prizes and they’ll be seeking some advice from us about the best way for mobile apps to be registered into the comp. This initiative has yet to be formally launched, so it’s a bit of a MoMoMelb exclusive. We’re pleased to also host Founder and Editor of Anthill Online, the ever-debonair James Tuckerman to share some of his thoughts and help us ask clever questions.

Above and beyond that, come along and reacquaint with the MoMoMelb community. No doubt it’s going to be a huge year ahead.

Same bat time, same bat channel…

Monday Feb 15th
6.00pm for a 6.30pm (punctual) start
Horse Bazaar –  397 Lt.Lonsdale St, Melb

Lastly, and one for you to keep in mind, the crew of MoMoMelb welcome community-minded, digitally-aware and self-motivated individuals to join our inner-sanctum of nefarious activities and elephant hunting. In short, if you want to help us organise MoMoMelb and reckon you can add value, we want to hear from you. Interested? Contact Justin Brow at justin@60Sox.org.

Cheers,

The Mobile Monday Melbourne Team
Justin, Ben, Antony and (to a lesser, gestationally-dictated, extent) Emily

Knowing where you are and customising services and messages to your exact location is the dream of many marketers and application developers the world over. From being lost in New York at lunch time and finding that the best Falafel you’ve ever had is just down the road from you (Yelp) to knowing where your friends are at any given time just by pushing a butting (Google Latitude) LBS is pushing forward new boundaries and stretching the imagination. This month we invite big brand names and seasoned experts to our panel to discuss LBS or “Location Based Services”, some say the holy grail of mobile,

We will be asking our panel what is this the reality of LBS today? Where are we now and where will we be in 5 years time, how does LBS actually work and how can you integrate it into your services? We will explore the opportunities this incredible technology presents as well as the darker side of privacy concerns, covering who’s doing what, from iPhone apps to Smart Maps, and everything in between.

We welcome our LBS gurus for the evening:

Brent Stafford of Navteq

Brent is not stranger to LBS  and has worked worked in various technology and executive positions in the fields of car navigation, location based services, geographic information systems, hydrographic services, transport policy, business development, strategic planning, He has written and presented many papers to national and international audiences and parliamentary committees on these topics.

Navteq was acquired by Nokia in 2007 for $8.1 Billion Dollars to aid Nokia’s entry into navigation technologies on handsets. With Nokia being the largest manufacturer of GPS units in the world you cannot ignore the power of LBS in your hand. Navteq specialises in mapping the world around us, they don’t just focus on the maps but also on content for those maps providing highly detailed information on your surroundings.

Mark White of Locatrix

Mark is the founder & CEO of Locatrix Communications. A well-known mobile guy, he’s been a speaker at GSMA conferences in Barcelona and Macau, and has twenty years experience in the telecommunications and computer industries in a whole bunch of countries. Not a bad bloke to have a beer with

Locatrix uses mobile location to shape and create content experiences that engage subscribers and create higher ARPU for Telco’s. Locatrix is also a core contributor to the GSM Association’s OneAPI initiative, which is defining a standard way that network enablers (including location) can be opened to a much larger pool of web developers. The company was a finalist in the 2007 Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards.