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Silicon Valley: Check-In Apps/Social Location – Social Impacts and Monetization Opportunities

This month we’ll be taking a look at trending Check-in Apps, their social impacts and monetization opportunities.

Date: Monday, March 8th. Doors open at 6:00 PM PST, event starts at 7:00 PM PST

Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend.

Agenda:

6:00-7:00: Arrival Registration

7:00-8:00 Panel Discussion

8:00-8:15 Open floor for Announcements

8:15-9:00 Mixing

Cost: Free - but registration is MANDATORY! Nokia is a secure building and requires a guest list and photo ID.

Moderator:

* Doug Garland - Formerly Google and Yahoo! http://twitter.com/douggarland

Panelists:

* Cyriac Roeding - Shopkick, Inc, Co-founder and CEO  http://www.linkedin.com/in/cyriacroeding

* Reno Marioni - Nokia Strategic Internet Partnerships  http://www.linkedin.com/in/renomarioni

* Tristan Walker - Foursquare, Head of Business Development http://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanwalker

* Christian Wiklund - Skout, CEO and Founder http://www.linkedin.com/in/cwiklund

* Blair Swedeen - 1020 Placecast, VP, Market Development http://www.linkedin.com/in/blairswedeen

Venue:: Nokia Mountain View MAP
Nokia
323 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
Building One – Nokia Café
Enter through the main door for registration and security clearance

Sponsor:

Nokia - www.nokia.com
Nokia is a consumer led company. There is a progressive and continuous increase in consumer involvement with technology and communications globally. People are broadening their modes of communication to include the web and, social networks are becoming central to how people communicate.

People want to be truly connected, independent of time and place, in a way that is very personal to them. And, Nokia’s promise is to connect people in new and better ways.

Nokia’s strategy is to build trusted consumer relationships by offering compelling and valued consumer solutions that combine beautiful devices with context enriched services.

Silicon Valley: Slides from Feb 8th Event

Thanks to Flurry, Admob, Flixster, Tripit and Booyah for approving the publishing of their slides.

enjoy

–mario

Silicon Valley: 2/8 Event: Developer Secrets – Increasing App Store Sales

The App Store has changed mobile. It’s simply the most accessible and lucrative market place for developers to sell their apps. However, with over 140,000 apps there are real challenges of discovery and customer acquisition.

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is here to help by rounding up a series of companies who are addressing the challenges of discovery so they can share their lessons with you. Topics will range from Advertising, Cross-selling, Social Media Marketing, Free Trial, and more.

Come and learn best practices from developers and other commerce enablers who have tested and identified what drives effective discovery in the App Store. Learn, mingle and enjoy a hosted bar!

The format will be a series of rapid fire presentations from developers including Flixster, Booyah and TripIt.

The event is being hosted by our awesome sponsors, Flurry and Admob.

Logistics
Location: Parc 55, 55 Cyril Magnin St., San Francisco
Date: Monday, February 8th at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Cost: Free. But registration is required to attend.
Drinks: Also, free.

Silicon Valley: 1/11 Event: Virtual Goods and Micropayments on Mobile and Beyond

The next Mobile Monday Silicon Valley event on January 11 (register now before we sell out) will feature a panel discussion on the booming, $1 billion market for virtual goods. Our panelists, including executives from mobile payment platforms, game publishers and application developers, will discuss how they have successfully generated revenue with virtual goods, challenges presented by this new model for monetization, and their views on how the market will evolve in 2010.

This event is possible thanks to generous sponsorship from Hi-media. Details on the company are below.

Panel
Lex Bayer - General Manager Payments Business, Playspan
Doug Bewsher - CMO, Mig33
Mark Curtis - CEO, Flirtomatic
Steven Lurie - General Manager Mobile, Zynga
Pooj Preena - CEO, Hi-media USA
Justin Smith - Founder, Inside Network (moderator)
Roger Wood - CEO, Orca

Logistics
Location: W Hotel San Francisco (kinda awesome.)
Date: January 11th at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend. (costs you nothing!)
Cocktails: provided (and you get free drinks!)

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

About Hi-media

Hi-media is an on-line media group, content publisher and provider of services designed to grow, retain and monetize Internet audiences. Our unique business model covers the entire media value chain and generates two revenue streams: sales of Internet advertising via our internal and external network, revenues from providing micropayment solutions to on-line publishers. Now, with an enhanced range of mobile services, Hi-media is pursuing its strategy of becoming a major player in all digital media and services.
Due to the overwhelming growth of virtual goods and the increasing need for online monetization, Hi-media is extending its business to the United States where it has set up operations for Hi-media USA in San Francisco, led by tech industry veteran Pooj Preena.

The group which operates in 9 European countries, USA and Brazil employs more than 500 people and posted in 2008 135 million euros in sales (excluding AdLink). Independent since its creation in 1996, the company is listed since 2000 on the Euronext Eurolist Paris (Eurolist C) and is included in the SBF 250, CAC IT and CAC Small 90. ISIN code: FR0000075988. Hi-media qualifies for FCPI as it received the OSEO label of “innovating company.”

Silicon Valley: Monetization Perspectives – Ads | Premium | Stores | Analytics & 2010 Predictions

Silicon Valley: 11/9 Event: Brands Gone Mobile

Our next event on 11/9 is about web brands going mobile. A panel of execs from major web brands will discuss how they are approaching the mobile channel. How do brands that got their start on the web adapt to mobile? They will discuss how mobile fits into their strategy going forward, if they view mobile as a direct extension of their online content or if they are adapting their content to fit into mobile apps / browsers, and more.

This event is possible thanks to a generous sponsorship from Nokia.

Panel Lineup:
Moderator- Matt Marshall- Editor in Chief, Venture Beat
Cameron Clayton- VP Mobile and International, The Weather Channel
Eric Duprat- General Manager, Paypal Mobile
Rick Witham- Head of Channels and VC Relations, Nokia
Rob Cross- Director of Distribution, Trulia
Yaron Oren- Director, Mobile Strategy and Operations, Hachette Filipacchi Media US (publishers of ELLE, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Woman’s Day, etc.)

Logistics:
Location: Intercontinental San Francisco
Date: November 9th at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Cost: Free - but registration is required to attend.
Cocktails: provided
Transportation: Valet at the hotel: $53 plus tax
nearby 5th and Mission Garage is $10.50-$14
Closest BART is Powell

Silicon Valley: 9/14 Event – Mobile Platforms – Featuring Symbian and Android

Silicon Valley: MoMo Discount Codes for Mobilize 09

Surj from GigaOm pinged me to pass along some discount codes for the upcoming Mobilize conference on Sept. 10th. The normal cost for the event $545. If you get a ticket before midnight on Sunday here’s a link you can use to register for just $399:

http://mobilize09.eventbrite.com/?discount=MOMOSF399

that code will stop working at midnight on Sunday however, in just a few days. After Sunday you can register with this link to get in for $445:

http://mobilize09.eventbrite.com/?discount=MOMOSF100

Here’s their info about the conference:

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You are in the middle of the mobile data boom. Now make it work for you!

In 2007, mobile data sales in the U.S were $23 billion. In 2009, they’re on target to reach $45 billion. Keep in mind that growth has occurred in just two years — and in the midst of a tough economy. Now imagine if we turn up connection speeds to 100Mbps, then 1Gbps. We believe increased speeds will further expand existing markets.

The much-lauded success of the iPhone, with its 1 billion downloaded apps, is just the tip of an immense iceberg. We believe netbooks and new consumer demand for a wireless web will kindle growth in services, technologies and devices for the communications industry.

Keynotes from Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha and also T-Mobile CTO, Cole Brodman

At Mobilize 09, you will learn about:

• New insights into a future marketplace with gigabit wireless
• Innovating mobile products for your customers
• Strategies for monetization of apps
• Making the most of mobile analytics for mining new profits
• The netbook boom and market needs
• Understanding the future of app delivery stores and distribution
• How social media like Facebook and Twitter are becoming a core service for mobile consumers
• The ideas investors are funding and what they are avoiding

See full speaker lineup and topics on our website at: http://mobilizeconf.com/

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The folks at GigaOm put together fantastic events, I’ve been to quite a few of them. When it comes to mobile stuff in particular they have a fantastic set of knowledge between all the folks there. Check out the schedule:

http://events.gigaom.com/mobilize/09/schedule/

Should be a fantastic event, definitely worth checking out!

- Mike

Silicon Valley: MoMo Discount Codes for Mobilize 09

Surj from GigaOm pinged me to pass along some discount codes for the upcoming Mobilize conference on Sept. 10th. The normal cost for the event $545. If you get a ticket before midnight on Sunday here’s a link you can use to register for just $399:

http://mobilize09.eventbrite.com/?discount=MOMOSF399

that code will stop working at midnight on Sunday however, in just a few days. After Sunday you can register with this link to get in for $445:

http://mobilize09.eventbrite.com/?discount=MOMOSF100

Here’s their info about the conference:

——–

You are in the middle of the mobile data boom. Now make it work for you!

In 2007, mobile data sales in the U.S were $23 billion. In 2009, they’re on target to reach $45 billion. Keep in mind that growth has occurred in just two years — and in the midst of a tough economy. Now imagine if we turn up connection speeds to 100Mbps, then 1Gbps. We believe increased speeds will further expand existing markets.

The much-lauded success of the iPhone, with its 1 billion downloaded apps, is just the tip of an immense iceberg. We believe netbooks and new consumer demand for a wireless web will kindle growth in services, technologies and devices for the communications industry.

Keynotes from Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha and also T-Mobile CTO, Cole Brodman

At Mobilize 09, you will learn about:

• New insights into a future marketplace with gigabit wireless
• Innovating mobile products for your customers
• Strategies for monetization of apps
• Making the most of mobile analytics for mining new profits
• The netbook boom and market needs
• Understanding the future of app delivery stores and distribution
• How social media like Facebook and Twitter are becoming a core service for mobile consumers
• The ideas investors are funding and what they are avoiding

See full speaker lineup and topics on our website at: http://mobilizeconf.com/

——–

The folks at GigaOm put together fantastic events, I’ve been to quite a few of them. When it comes to mobile stuff in particular they have a fantastic set of knowledge between all the folks there. Check out the schedule:

http://events.gigaom.com/mobilize/09/schedule/

Should be a fantastic event, definitely worth checking out!

- Mike

Silicon Valley: Investment in the Silicon Valley Mobile Industry 1999 – Present

Today Mobile Monday Silicon Valley published a report on the local mobile industry, Investment in the Silicon Valley Mobile Industry 1999 - Present. We found that mobile has become a billion-dollar a year investment sector in Silicon Valley. Check out the report for our findings, like the dramatic increase in mobile acquisitions in 2008 and that 90 mobile companies were funded in the Bay Area alone in 2008. We also found strong growth in mobile companies that sell hardware, ads and platforms, but slower growth than we expected in software development and apps. More fun facts in the report.

We’ll discuss the report at tonight’s MMSV event on Mobile Monetization. Register fast since we only have a few spaces left.