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Moderator:  TBD

Panelists:
RIM – Ian McDonald - Manager, Developer Programs
Getjar – Chris Dury – VP Products
Nokia OVI – Michael Bergen – Senior Manager, Developer Relations & Partnerships

Date: August 9th, 2010
Time: 6:30pm Registration Opens | 7:10pm Panel Begins Cost: Free, but is required to attend.
Drinks: Provided
Location: Hyatt Regency SF California St & Drumm St (5 Embarcadero Center) San Francisco CA 94111

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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

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Mobile Monday and BostInnovation have teamed up with Downtown Crossing for an open outdoor networking event.

It’s a hot and steamy summer out there in the city, cool off with some live music, enticing performances, cold drinks and mobile technologies at our summer block party!

July 22nd starting at 5pm, we’ll be on the pedestrian Summer Street by Downtown Crossing beside Macy’s for an evening of open networking.

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This one isn’t just another tech event, but a party featuring live music from In Like Lions and the Cirque de Soleil performers!

Cash bar, appetizers, and entertainment provided thanks to the Boston Phoenix.  Common down for a crazy party with amazing performances and mobile networking!

Where: (outside) Summer Street by Macys
15 Summer Street, Boston, MA

When: Thursday July 22 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Tickets: FREE!

For more information and to RSVP, please visit the EventBrite site: http://mobilevisionary2-lie.eventbrite.com

Rebel Bar & Grill (Wrigleyville)
3462 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60657
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Please RSVP so that we can plan refreshments and to get your name into our host’s security system. (Ticketing stops at noon the day of the event!)

http://momojuly2010.eventbrite.com

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Marketers: should your brand build an iPad App? Entrepreneurs: which types of brands should you target to share your awesome iPad app idea to? Designers: what’s different about designing for the mobile platform?

With amazing, new mobile technologies coming out each day, it can be challenging for marketers and partners to stay focused on what’s most important about our field: the consumer. Molly Garris from Arc Worldwide and Leo Burnett will bring the agency perspective to building mobile marketing strategies, covering:

• The current state of mobile marketing and opportunities within the landscape
• The role of mobile in the marketing ecosystem
• Examples of challenges and wins from marketers engaged in mobile
• Current mobile marketing trends and how to leverage them to reach your audience

Bring your smartphones to demo out some of our favorite mobile marketing campaigns!

MEETING DETAILS
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Date: Monday, July 19, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Topic: Building a Compelling Mobile Marketing Strategy
Presenter: Molly Garris, Digital Strategy Manager at Arc Worldwide/Leo Burnett
Location: Arc Worldwide/Leo Burnett, 35 W. Wacker Dr., Burnett Room, Chicago
Location Notes: Participants must register to get on the official attendance list! At the venue, please sign-in at the security desk. Picture ID required.
Directions: Located near the intersection of Wacker and LaSalle in the Loop, the building is well served by the El and buses. The Clark/Lake and State/Lake Street El stops (all lines) are just a few blocks away.
Parking: There is parking in neighboring buildings.

MEETING AGENDA
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6:00 pm – Sign-In / Light refreshments
6:30: Featured Presentation: “Building a Compelling Mobile Marketing Strategy”
7:30 pm > Refreshments / Networking

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Molly Garris is a Digital Strategy Manager at Arc Worldwide / Leo Burnett, serving as the agency’s in-house mobile marketing subject matter expert. She leads internal and external mobile education, strategically guides accounts across the agency with mobile solutions and assists with managing large, complex mobile campaigns. Agency clients include Purina, P & G, Whirlpool, Allstate, McDonald’s, Walgreens, Altria, Comcast, Norton, Hallmark, Nintendo, United Airlines and Kellogg.

Molly has worked in the mobile space for over 6 years, driving new product development, integrating the mobile channel into marketing strategies, optimizing mobile campaigns to yield stronger results and overseeing various mobile marketing campaigns for clients such as Land Rover, Toshiba, L.E.I. and Moneygram. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing from Michigan State University and actively participates in Mobile Mondays, the Heartland Mobile Council and the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM).

IMPORTANT NOTES
Please remember to RSVP by noon on the day of the presentation in order to get on the official registration list for our host’s security system.

Special thanks to our generous host and sponsor, Arc Worldwide / Leo Burnett!

With HP’s recent $1.2B acquisition of Palm Inc., the WebOS platform will continue to evolve within the Smartphone and connected mobile devices markets. Palm’s Director of Developer Relations, Dion Almaer, will discuss Palm/HP, WebOS, and the future of Mobile and the Web. Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, has been fortunate enough to speak around the world, and has published many articles, a book, and his Blog at almaer.com/blog. Dion is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. Prior to Palm, Dion was the Director of Developer Tools at Mozilla and the Open Web Advocate at Google. Dion is also a TechStars mentor.

Meeting Topic: WebOS and the future of Mobile and the Web
Date: July 19, 2010
Time: Networking at 6pm, Presentation begins at 6:25
Location: Atlas Institute, CU Boulder campus (Bldg 223), Boulder CO

Register Now.