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Ever wanted to ditch your day job and create your own mobile business, based on this great idea you've had for ages? Yet you don't know where to get the money from? Our speakers from Invest NI, Silicon Valley, MatchMedia and e-Synergy presented on the real financing possibilities.

Date: Monday 19th October 2009

Venue:
The Black Box,
18-22 Hill St
Belfast
BT1 2LA

Venue location on Google Maps  

Presentations
The presentations are now available for download from the presentations section of MobileMonday website. Click here to download the presentations. 

Event Summary
Summary reproduced with permission from NI Tech Blog

There was an excellent turn out to Mobile Monday Belfast with the Black Box Cafe packed to capacity.

First up Martin Robinson from Invest NI's Global Starts Team gave an overview of the opportunities on offer within INI and also some hints and tips to help in the application process.

Next up, Philip Wilson, CEO & Founder of Match Media spoke of his own personal road to funding...with lots of entertaining do's and don'ts & antedotes along the way.  Most memorable being  when an investor asks "is your idea like a raspberry?" politely reply "yes" but read the warning signs they may not be your ideal mobile investor

Then Mike Bowman gave an overview on the Euopean Investment Market and the E-Synergy opportunities available locally.  Additionally Mike gave an insight that due to some very attractive tax benefits angel investing in France is very popular at the moment so it is well worth exploring all options when seeking investment.

And last but not least, David Kirk, a Private Investor originally from Northern Ireland, but now resident in Silicon Valley gave his views on the investment ecosystem & opportunities here.

Our new season kicks off by taking a look at the business models behind paid-for mobile content.Our speakers share their experiences of how payment models have changed and share their vision of the future of mobile content delivery. By the end of the session, delegates should have a clear understanding of how the mobile content industry has evolved and how to make money from mobile content.

Date: Monday 14th September 2009

Venue:
The Black Box,
18-22 Hill St
Belfast
BT1 2LA

Venue location on Google Maps  

Parking:
Some on street parking is available in nearby street 

Presentations

The presentations will b available for download after the event.

Summer is finally here and thanks to our new sponsors, we will be closing off the Spring 2009 season in style with a networking Barbecue.

Click on the image below for more information

Our event on Mobile Marketing & Advertising took an agency perspective, looking at current trends in mobile marketing and advertising.

Our final line up of presenters is detailed below. We had another excellent turnout and the usual high standard of content and audience participation.

Date: Monday 18th May 2009

Venue:

Golden Thread Gallery
84 - 94 Great Patrick Street
Belfast
BT1 2LU

Venue location on Google Maps  

Parking:

Some parking is available outside or in the car park of the nearby Ramada Encore Belfast hotel on Talbot Street. 

Presentations

The presentations are now available for download. Click here to download the presentations.

The hottest topic at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was surely Apps!

Demo Evening Rules:

1. No product pitches
2. No PowerPoint
3. Live demonstrations only

New Venue!!

This month, we will be meeting at Queen's Univeristy at the Peter Froggatt Centre in Room 212 
(the building shown below, found at the back of the inner courtyard, you'll see the crowd downstairs for tea/coffee)

Agenda:

Will 2008 be remembered as the year when location-based services (LBS) finally started to take off?

Find out with our selected speakers who will share their insider knowledge with you. Don’t miss this event, which remain free of charge thanks to Invest NI sponsorship.

On Monday 24 November 2008, MobileMonday Belfast will be hosting the topic of Mobile Payments & Ticketing.

We have secured a lineup of expert speakers, so delegates should expect the usual high standard of content and audience participation.

Let's not allow the recession to push us to a depression, even if the lack of sponsor this time means that there will be NO CATERING (no drinks, no food, sorry). Let's make use of the opportunity and show what the power of open community can accomplish even in tough times.

Venue:

This month, we will be meeting at Blick Shared Studios in the university area:
51 Malone Road
Belfast
BT9 6RY

Click here for directions on Google Maps

Agenda:

Presentations

The presentations are now available for download. Click here to download the presentations.

For the fifth MobileMonday Belfast event, we will be discussing Mobile Broadcast TV.

Our final line up of presenters is detailed below. Delegates should expect the usual high standard of content and audience participation.

For the first time, Mobile Monday Belfast provides you the opportunity to watch a live feed. Click here to access the live feed from 18:15.

Venue:

Following excellent feedback from last months event, we will be returning to the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast's Contemporary Art Gallery,www.ormeaubaths.co.uk/ located at 18a Ormeau Avenue (almost across from Katy Dalys bar).

Agenda:

Presentations

The presentations are now available for download. Click here to download the presentations.

For this fourth MobileMonday Belfast event, we were pleased to bring you three expert speakers with experience with the Mobile Internet from the software and service sides.

Our presenters were from mobile web developer Nubiq, the TLD promoter for mobile sites dotMobi and mobile Internet applications innovator Openwave.

Our new venue was the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast's Contemporary Art Gallery,www.ormeaubaths.co.uk/ located at 18a Ormeau Avenue (almost across from Katy Dalys bar). Everybody loved the inspiring space to bits.

Agenda:

Photos

Have a look here at selected shots from the crowd and the presenters! According to one attendees, "the MobileMonday Belfast events are the best in Northern Ireland to connect to like-minded professionals interested in all stuff 'mobile', exchange business cards and push the buck for our business!" Another one said "Really great for the networking & the learning, I will definitely come back for more!"

Presentations

Four speakers presentations can be downloaded for free from registered members of MobileMonday Belfast.

For this third and last MobileMonday Belfast event before the Summer break (we'll be back on 1 September), we are pleased to bring you three expert speakers with differing experiences in developing and marketing mobile applications to the 'Enterprise' (large and small) segment.

Our selection of presenters cover perspectives from both application developers - Dublin-based Advanced Field Solutions and Belfast-based Consilium Technologies / TotalMobile - and mobile operator with Vodafone.

Agenda:

Photos

Have a look here at selected shots from the crowd, the presenters and the buffet! Don't you think that the MobileMonday Belfast events are really worth attending, for the networking, the learning and the catering?

Presentations

Three of our speakers presentations can be downloaded for free from registered members of MobileMonday Belfast. Peter Brown of Vodafone NI took up the challenge to tell his company's MEA story without notes or slides!

Summary

The second MobileMonday Belfast event, on the topic of Mobile Web Services - leveraging web services technology in the mobile environment, drew a good crowd of professionals who had opportunities to ask burning questions to three expert professionals from Iona, Microsoft and Aepona. The experts shared their experiences on exposing, orchestrating and consuming mobile web services. Delegates networked over refreshments before the presentations and some retired to the bar afterwards for further discussions.

Photos from the night can be found in our photo gallery.
Click here to view photos from our Mobile Web Services event 

Presentations

All of our speaker presentations can be downloaded by registered MobileMonday Belfast members.
Click here to download presentation from our Mobile Web Services event

MobileMonday Discussion Forums

Have you any interesting thoughts or experiences from using Mobile Web Services?

Perhaps you would like to like to share your thoughts on our Community discussion forum?

Click here to view the Mobile Web Services forum.
NB: You must be a registered member to post comments.

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MobileMonday Belfast launched activities with a networking event on Monday 21st April on the topic of Mobile Advertising at the Radisson hotel, Belfast.

The event was an overwhelming success with over 60 professionals attending.

Click here to view other photos from the night

Presentations: