MobileBeat 2008
July 24, 9AM (Early Registration) – 6:30PM | Plug & Play Tech Center | 440 N. Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale
Welcome to MobileBeat 2008! Come join leading venture capitalists, industry players and entrepreneurs to discuss mobile. This half-day conference will explore the new opportunities that are emerging and ask the larger questions of the industry leaders within mobile, shedding some light on where the industry is headed and how entrepreneurs and developers can take advantage. It's aimed at entrepreneurs and investors. Also targeted are carriers, advertisers and media companies.
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Sponsors:Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. For more information, visit: www.forum.nokia.com Blackberry Partners Fund
The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services including mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms. The Fund will consider all stages of development and is to be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. Sun Microsystems
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground rapidly, and at lower cost. With the Sun Startup Essentials program, your business can get the industry-leading systems it needs at significantly discounted prices. Furthermore, discounted partner hosting services, free software and free technical advice via email are all included. So the Sun Startup Essentials program could play a key role in your business strategy. Ready to become a program member? Join now. Norwest Venture Partners
For more than 45 years, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build large businesses. The firm manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital and has funded over 400 companies since inception. Our size and heritage enable us to offer our portfolio companies high-level, long-term assistance. Our experience makes us realistic about how businesses unfold, and we can advise our portfolio companies at all phases of growth, from start-up through IPO or acquisition. Our success allows us to share success with others. zanox
zanox is the market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce and provides a global platform for efficiently marketing products and services on the Internet. zanoxonline marketing services include affiliate marketing and search engine management as well as email marketing and customer loyalty programs. zanox was founded in 2000 by CEOs Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald and employs more than 350 people. Apart from its headquarter in Berlin zanox operates offices in USA, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Scandinavia and China. More than 2,000 prestigious international companies across the business sectors TIMES, Travel, Retail & Shopping as well as Financial Services utilise the zanox network. Since 2007 zanox has been part of the Axel Springer and PubliGroupe. Axel Springer is Germanys biggest newspaper publishing house and third-largest magazine publisher. PubliGroupe AG is an independent, internationally leading marketing, sales and service group for media and advertisers, supporting these in implementing their communication and media strategies with marketing and technology services. Augmentum
Augmentum provides outsourcing leadership for innovation. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools, technologies and proven processes to develop, design, and deploy commercial-quality software and solutions. The company has grown to 1,400 employees in China out of 1,450 worldwide in four years since its founding. Augmentum was awarded Founding Member of the Community of Global Growth Companies, World Economic Forum 2007, Global Services 100 in 2007, Risk Management winner at the China Outsourcing Summit in 2006, and is a Red Herring 100 company. Augmentum is headquartered in Foster City, California and in Shanghai, China. www.augmentum.com Venture Sponsors:My247.mobi
My247.mobi is a niche social network platform focused around entertainment. The free service is available on your PC, as a Facebook app and in your Mobile browser. The privately owned Australian based company has been servicing Australians for years and works closely with operators Telstra Mobile and 3 Mobile. The guys have recently expanded their service into the UK, US and Canada connecting people who want to go out with over 800,000 restaurants bars and nightspots. Chris Kettle, co-founder and CEO of my247.mobi has recently been recognised as one of Australia's top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 and will be in attendance at MobileBeat looking to meet potential partners and having a my247.mobilicious cocktail with you at the post! Mozes
Mozes is the service that connects people to what they from their mobile phones. Mobile campaigns that include voice, text and the web are built on an easy-to-use marketing platform that lets anyone make their promotions or events more powerful and interactive. Used by over 4,000 major label and independent artists, Mozes is expanding on its success in the music industry and deploying the service in other markets including sports, entertainment and retail. Mozes is permission-based, spam-free and cost-free to consumers. Event Sponsors:amiando
amiando is a leading tool for online event organization, with the latest advanced features and functionality. Thousands of event hosts already use amiando to handle everything from invitation management, online promotion, attendee registration to integrated billing and entry management - all easy-to-use and on-demand. Visit http://www.amiando.com for more information on how you can manage your event online. Register for free and save $150 on the first event you host with amiando - use the promotion code "vb0708". mippin
Mippin is a free mobile media service using Web 2.0 tools, which makes interacting with content on mobile phones painless. Quicker than going to traditional URLs and easier to use than mobile widgets, Mippin is laser focused on delivering a compelling user experience to any mobile phone via the mobile browser. Mippin also brings direct benefit to online publishers and advertisers. It allows them to effortlessly distribute their web content and targeted branding messages to mobile audiences. mTouche
mTouche is a Telecom and Media player based in Asia with operations in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, India and China. mTouche focus on the provision of mobile value-added services to more than 40 Mobile Network Operators reaching out to more than 800 million subscribers. In addition, mTouche establish strong and strategic partnerships with leading Music labels, Movie Owners and engage in the production of cutting-edge Interactive Media TV formats. mTouche runs Mymyad, one of China's largest mobile advertising network as well as mBit, the world's first award-winning mobile P2P client for search and file sharing. For more information, visit www.mtouche.com. Hosted by:VentureBeat, PlugandPlayTechCenter.com For questions, please contact Bonnie or Jacob at info@mobilebeat2008.com or 650.216.2300 |
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