The next event is Monday, May 19 2008: Mobile in the Enterprise

Date: Monday May 19, 2008

Title: Mobile in the Enterprise:Best practices. What’s hot and what’s not. Predicting what’s next.

Location: Union League Club of Philadelphia

Time: 6PM-9PM

RSVP: The event is free, RSVP here. (the events fill-up)

Sponsor: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP & Wharton Club of Philadelphia

About: Corporations care about increasing productivity. Hear how leading companies integrate mobile into the enterprise by making it easy to adopt and afford.

Introduction: Stephen Goodman, Morgan Lewis Partner, Morgan Lewis’ Business & Finance Practice (the guru of private equity in Philadelphia!)

Moderator: Bob Pons, Senior Vice President, TMNG Global (vetern mobile/telcom executive with companies such as MCI, Sprint, and FreedomPay who leads the Capital Markets Practice for TMNG Global)

Panelists:

  • Charles Weg, Mobility Applications, AT&T (25 years in telecommunications and has worked for Converse, Sprint, GTE Telenet, Boeing and Datapoint)
  • Mark Paul, Regional Manager, Strategic Clients, Motorola (24 years in the Mobile Computing and Mobility industry and worked for MSI Data, Symbol Technologies, Telxon, and Motorola)
  • JP Finnell, CEO of Mobility Partners, LLC (wrote the book on business mobility, worked for Nokia, and is a recognized leader in his pure-play wireless mobility consultancy)
  • Sandeep Bhanote, CEO, Global Bay (over 200+ deployments in over 8 countries in 5 languages of its mobile platform across many verticals including Retail and Government)
  • Don Grust, VP Marketing and Business Development, Apacheta (15 years in wireless and mobile computing, worked for RAM Mobile Data (now Velocita Wireless) and AT&T Bell Labs, and founded Espria & Broadbeam)
  • Frederic Wilf, Technology Law, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (expert on legal implications of mobile technology in the enterprise)

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Mark Your Calendars: Next Mobile Monday Event…
* * * * MONDAY June 16 * * * *
Networking night at McFaddens 6:00-8:00

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Check out what’s hot on the local mobile scene. Don’t miss our exciting DEMO night on March 24.

Demo night showcases what Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic is all about. Up close and personal with exciting mobile companies.  Demo night is hosted by Traffic.com and will be held right off the Chesterbrook exit of Route 202 at the VALLEY FORGE SUITES HOTEL, 888 Chesterbrook Blvd, Wayne (Chesterbrook) PA  19087 on Monday March 24.  Networking and reception starts at 5:45 PM and the event begins at 6:30PM.  After the event there will  be tours of the Traffic.com studio. RSVP - this event will fill-up!

RSVP now!  Registration is free.

For our last event, we had to close registration the day of the event.  Maybe because we held our event on a holiday (MLK day) people wanted to keep the party going.  An overflow event should be the case on March 24th as well - as Mobile Monday is the day after Easter Sunday - so come out to extend the festivities with us!

Demo night is where you can watch and interact with mobile co’s in the region as they unviel their latest and greatest.  From publicly traded companies, to start-ups looking for seed capital, demo night captures the upbeat vibe of the mobile space.

Here’s a sample of the exciting line-up for DEMO night:

  • LeaderBoard has an exclusive deal with the PGA (Professional Golf Association) to provide a way for tournament spectators to follow a match from a sanctioned mobile device. Cell phones are not allowed near the course (can you imagine Tiger misses a put because he’s distracted by your ring-tone).
  • Traffic.com lets you get the latest traffic information from your cell phone to lessen the pain of your commute. 
  • GoMobo lets you order and pay ahead of your arrival at busy restaurants like Subway, DunkinDonuts and yes, WaWa.
  • PhindMe’s platform let’s consumers interact with your business from mobile phones.
  • Accuity Mobile let’s companies manage mobile advertising with their robust platform.
  • Human Network Labs uses on screen icons to represent physical places linked to information, personal profiles or websites.
  • Crave mobile was created by local University of Penn students and uses natural language recognition, machine learning-algorithms, text-messaging and a user’s pre-existing social network to become seamlessly integrated in a person’s life.

The next event is Monday March 24, 2008. It’s DEMO night!

Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic is now accepting applications for DEMO NIGHT to be held March 24. Want to be a featured company? Got the right stuff to present your product in front of friendly and enthusiastic peers? Of course you do! If you’ve been to past

Mobile Monday events you know this is great exposure for your company, ideas and products. If you are a Mid-Atlantic company that would like to present at demo night - please send us an email with the information requested at the bottom of this post. We’ll use this info to select the presenting companies and prepare hand-outs for the event.

When: March 24, 2008. Time: 6:45PM to 8:45PM.

RSVP Here: The event is FREE for attendees, but you must register.

Our events reach their maximum capacity as it gets close to the event.

Note: If you want to Demo your product, follow the instructions noted below.

Where: The offices of Traffic.com, a NAVTEQ company. Traffic.com is located just off the Chesterbrook exit of Route 202 then go north into the Chesterbrook office park. The address is 851 Duportail Road, Wayne, PA 19087.Traffic.com is the sponsor of the event.Format: Main Dish - Side Dish.Mid-Atlantic based mobile start-ups will briefly demo their mobile product in two different forums. First, there will be 2-3 center-stage presenters giving a seven minute overview and demo for the entire crowd (“main dishes”). In addition, there will be a number of tables set up at the periphery of the room for live informal demonstrations to smaller groups during the schmoozing sessions (“side dishes”). Each will help provide the community a glimpse of current local endeavors in the mobile space and offer the basis for further conversation.

Interested parties should contact us at info@momo-ma.com and provide the following information in the email. We will not be able to evaluate incomplete requests.

Firm Name:

Presenter/Title:

Website URL:

Address/Phone:Application Description (50 words or less):

Company Description (50 words or less):

Stage & Amount Raised (example: public, raising A round, looking for seed capital)

Product Status (beta, shipping, etc.)

Customers:# of Employees, key people:

The January Mobile Marketing Meeting Was A Big Hit

We had to stop people from registering when the RSVP’s clicked over 250 at this popular meeting - as the room was meant for under 200. Much thanks for a wonderful venue and cocktail reception both provided and sponsored by Blank Rome.

You can read some of the reviews - by folks who blogged the event -  some with photos, under the COMMENTS section to the right on this page.

The next event is January 21st. Mobile Marketing & Advertising. Co-hosted by Mobile Monday and PHIMA

Next Event

MOBILE ADVERTISING & MARKETING.Co-hosted by Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic and the Philadelphia Interactive Marketing Association (PHIMA). Sponsored by Blank Rome Law Firm.

RSVP: The event is free and seating in limited, RSVP here!

Moderator: Steve Smith. Steve writes Media Post’s MOBILE INSIDER, the inside line on mobile marketing and advertising. He is also the current editor of Digital Media Report for MinOnline.com and Mobile Media Report for TelecomWeb.com.

Panelists: Get the national perspective on what’s hot or not in mobile advertising from leaders in the field.

  • Webster Lewin, Director of Mobile Marketing, R/GA.
  • Adam Schneider, Sr. Director, Sales, AdMob.
  • Tom Limongello, Director of Sales, Crisp Wireless.
  • Tole Hart, Research Director-Consumer Services, Gartner.
  • Stephanie Bauer Marshall, Manager-Mobile Advertising, Verizon
  • Teddy Goldstein, Founder & CEO, Broadtexter


When: Monday, January 21, 2008

Time: 6:00 pm ET - 8:00 pm ET

Where: Blank Rome Law Firm, Marvin Comisky Conference Center
One Logan Square, 130 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA
(*The renovated space that was formerly Morton’s Steakhouse located behind the Four Seasons Hotel.)

LBS event well received.

So everyone was quite impressed with the LBS panel. The speakers were great and tops in the LBS field. One thing that struck me about the event is that we are loaded with CEO’s, VCs and large company folks at Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, who know how to network, but not enough start-ups. Both Mobile Monday events have been loaded with contacts with gold Rolodexes both speaking and attending — with great access to everything a mobile start-up could dream of. I know at Smarter Agent or Ulocate or Traffic.com, when we started out and wanted to get on the deck we would stalk the likes of carriers and top vendors - anyone that would help - and they are all at our events. These types of speakers and attendees at Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic should be taken advantage of - get out of your comfort zone, come out to an event, and go for it!

MONDAY November 19, 2007 “Mobile Location Aware Applications”

If you’ve been to mobile events, like CTIA, you’ll realize our panel on mobile LBS (Location Based Services) is one of the best ever assembled. And it’s all up front and personal at our Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic November 19, 2007 event.

Cost: FREE, RSVP here.

When: Monday, November 19, 5:45-7:45 PM

Format: Panel followed by Q&A and cocktails/networking sponsored by Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP.

Where: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP Conference Center. 1650 Arch Street, 22nd Floor. Philadelphia, PA 19103.

THE PANEL:

Lisa Peterson is President of Peterson Mobility Solutions, a company that provides strategic consulting on location-based services and mobile data applications. She is the former Senior Manager of Location Based Services at Sprint-Nextel.

Dale Beasley is the Associate Director of Location Based Services for Verizon Wireless. He is a 15-year veteran in the wireless location space, and has co-authored numerous US patents in wireless location.

Bernard Borghei is Vice President of Customer Operations for True Position. He is responsible for deployment of the company’s wireless location systems and services, customer support, and system engineering and integration worldwide.

Ron Braunfeld is Vice President of Business Development at uLocate, a LBS application developer with live on-deck carrier applications. Prior to uLocate, Ron was Director of Business Development at Mapquest.

John Parker is the President of Airclic. AirClic-enabled wireless devices with advanced GPS tracking allows companies to capture and accesses job-critical information, including time, location, people, assets, inventory, and activities directly from the field.

Nunzio Distefano of NAVTEQ has placed their ground breaking mapping and navigation software in most of the top LBS applications in the United States.

Moderator:

Brad Blumberg is the CEO of Smarter Agent, the leader and patented inventor of mobile LBS real estate applications. Smarter Agent is available on wireless carriers in the United States. Smarter Agent won CTIA’s Emerging Technology Award for LBS and also won the Navteq Global LBS Challenge for Commerce/Advertising.

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Also: During the networking and cocktail hour, the above companies (on the panel) and a few other Mid-Atlantic companies (not on the panel) will be providing live demos of their LBS applications. We have 2 spots left if you want to demo (it’s free). Send an email to:

info@momo-ma.com

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Don’t forget to RSVP for the November 19 event!

RSVP here

Mark the date: November 19, 2007

NEXT MOBILE MONDAY EVENT

Monday November 19, 2007

“Location-Aware Mobile Applications”

Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP Conference Center, 1650 Arch Street, 22nd Floor - Philadelphia, PA 19103

5:45 to 7:45 PM

Philadelphia gets chapter of global mobile networking tech group

from the Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Key

What does Philadelphia have in common with Dallas, Copenhagen and Taipei?

All have just launched or are about to launch chapters of Mobile Monday, a networking group for people involved with mobile technology.

The first chapter was started seven years ago in Helsinki, Finland, which is about 10 miles from Nokia Corp.’s headquarters.

Philadelphia’s chapter, which is called Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, held its first meeting at the Union League of Philadelphia on Sept. 24. with about 60 people in attendance.

September event was a hit. November event planned.

Next MOBILE MONDAY EVENT: Monday November 19, 2007

“Location-Aware Mobile Applications” - Wolf Block Conference Center, 1650 Arch Street, 22nd Floor - Philadelphia, PA 19103

The Inaugural Mobile Monday was held in September.

The next one will be November, noted above.

In September, 60+ were in attendance just on word of mouth!

A great mix of start-ups, large corporations and VC’s in attendance.

It had an exciting feel to it.

The excitement of being part of the mobile explosion - of being on the inside.

The speakers were good and to the point.

Everyone was accessible and the networking interesting.

People who have been to other Mobile Monday events told us it was the best launch yet of a Mobile Monday. Let’s keep it up.

Look forward to seeing everyone in November (we’re on an every other month schedule).