Silicon Valley: Watch July Outdoor Event
Hi All - Thanks to John Lin we have July’s event on Ustream.
Silicon Valley: Night in the Park – Mobile Life and Demos
So you meet a friend with a smart phone and what’s the first questions you ask?
This month we’ll be asking Bloggers and Journalists that cover the Mobile Industry, what apps do they use and find useful or cool. Plus we’ll see some cool Apps as well.
Date: Monday, July 19th. 7:15 PM PST
Agenda:
7:15: Arrival Registration
7:45-8:15 What’s on my phone
8:15-9:00 Demos
Cost: FREE - but registration is MANDATORY!
Featuring:
* Will Park - Editor in Chief - Into Mobile
* Noah Kravitz - Editor in Chief - Phonedog
* Jessica Dolcourt - Sr Associate Editor - CNET
* Alex McCallum - Director, Consumer Alliances- RIM
Demos:
* D2sgames - http://d2sgames.com/
* Steeltrap - http://www.chestersantos.net/steeltrap.html
* Nimbuzz - http://www.nimbuzz.com/
* Micello - http://www.micello.com/
* Footfeed - http://footfeed.com/
* iSpy - http://iSpyApp.com
* WhereRYu - http://www.volcari.com/
Venue:
Yerba Buena Gardens - Off Mission Street
781 Mission St. San Francisco CA
Sponsors:
Why BlackBerry?
Reach an Audience of Over 41 Million Subscribers
BlackBerry® was the number one selling smartphone brand in the United States at the end of calendar 2009. Imagine having this kind of reach and developing apps that can push immediate updates to your users. These are just some of the benefits of creating applications for BlackBerry® smartphones.
Silicon Valley: Outdoor Event Poll
Hi All,
We are planning an outdoor demo night at Yerba Buena Park, next to the Metreon Theater.
It won’t be dark enough until 8pm to start the demos and wanted to know if you’d be interested in the later start.
Silicon Valley: Watch June 21st Event – Mobile Product Essentials
Moderator:
Jonathan Ebinger - Partner at BlueRun Ventures
Presenters
Monetize – Jim Greenwall – CEO of Danal
Location aware – Joel Grossman - SVP Marketing and Products of Location-Labs
Track and analyze – John Forese – CEO of Motally
CRM – Scott Kveton – CEO Urban Airship
Silicon Valley: Bells, Whistles, and Essentials – App tools and functionality
You have focused on the product. You have designed it with care. Come learn about 4 critical add-ons that can enhance your core product’s functionality and adoption.
This event is sponsored by BlueRun Ventures.
Presenters
Monetize – Jim Greenwall – CEO of Danal
Location aware – Tasso Roumeliotis – CEO of Wavemarket
Track and analyze – John Forese – CEO of Motally
CRM – Scott Kveton – CEO Urban Airship
Logistics
Location: W San Francisco
Date: June 21, 2010
Time: 6:30pm Registration Opens | 7:10pm Panel Begins
Cost: Free, but registration is required to attend.
Drinks: Provided
Transportation: Nearest BART is Powell St.
Parking: Valet is $38-$48 per day
Mobile Monday Platform Sponsor: Research in Motion
BlackBerry® was the number one selling smartphone brand in the United States at the end of calendar 2009. Imagine having this kind of reach and developing apps that can push immediate updates to your users. These are just some of the benefits of creating applications for BlackBerry® smartphones.
Silicon Valley: Developing for the Enterprise
We hear about great Consumer Apps most of the time. This month we will look into Enterprise Apps and the other side of our lucrative industry.
Date: Monday, May 10th. Doors open at 6:30 PM PST, event starts at 7:00 PM PST
Agenda:
6:00-7:00: Arrival Registration
7:00-7:30 Demos
7:30-8:15 Panel Discussion
8:15-9:00 Open floor for Announcements/Mixing
Cost: FREE - but registration is MANDATORY!
Moderator: Anthony Ha | editor | VentureBeat
Panelists:
- Paxton Cooper | Senior Director, Blackberry Platform Product Management | RIM
- Joe Huang | Senior Principal Product Manager | ORACLE
- Ahmed Datoo | VP of Products and Marketing | Zenprise
- Dom Sagolla | CEO | Dollar App
- Ken Singer | CEO | Ondeego
- Eric Grafstrom | SVP | Xobni
- Kenji Kato | iConcession Stand - Demo only
Venue:
Mighty SF
119 Utah St,
San Francisco, CA 94103
Sponsors:
Why BlackBerry?
Reach an Audience of Over 41 Million Subscribers
BlackBerry® was the number one selling smartphone brand in the United States at the end of calendar 2009. Imagine having this kind of reach and developing apps that can push immediate updates to your users. These are just some of the benefits of creating applications for BlackBerry® smartphones.
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.”