Come along to Mobile Monday Melbourne in September to see the amazing marketplace for Applications and hear about the growing stream of tools and tricks to excite you and mesmerise you right from your handset!

You will be amazed to hear about the Online Application Stores such as the Android Market (Android), App World (Blackberry RIM) and OVI Store (Nokia) and more!

Presenters & Panel

Joining us for an interesting panel discussion about the Mobile Apps Marketplace are leaders in the field of Mobile Application development:

• Oliver Palmer, Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at TigerSpike

Oliver has over 10 years experience in the digital arena and combines his experience in technology with his passion for R&D, guiding and ensuring TigerSpike’s industry leadership in the digital space. Creating cutting edge technical solutions and delivering truly interactive and immersive web and mobile digital experiences for users will provide us all with an interesting perspective on the Mobile Applications Development market and the various Online Application Stores!

• Daniel Bradby, Director of jTribe

With a long list of references from Australia and around the world under his belt, Daniel has worked across industries and government organisations while also co-founding popular OpenSource projects such as Hibernate and Subclipse. Daniel carries a wealth of software development experience and will share fascinating insights on the open and fast paced world of Android development and the Android Market.

• We are finalising the remaining speakers and will update their details here shortly!

MoMo Event Date, Time & Location:

Date: Monday 20th September, 2010

Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm, Optional dinner out afterwards too!

Location: Horse Bazaar – 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (MAP)

Cost: FREE although RSVP is required for this event! RSVP Now …

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Looking forward to seeing you!

Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew,

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann & Andrea Georgiou

Knowing where you are and customising services and messages to your exact location is the dream of many marketers and application developers the world over. From being lost in New York at lunch time and finding that the best Falafel you’ve ever had is just down the road from you (Yelp) to knowing where your friends are at any given time just by pushing a butting (Google Latitude) LBS is pushing forward new boundaries and stretching the imagination. This month we invite big brand names and seasoned experts to our panel to discuss LBS or “Location Based Services”, some say the holy grail of mobile,

We will be asking our panel what is this the reality of LBS today? Where are we now and where will we be in 5 years time, how does LBS actually work and how can you integrate it into your services? We will explore the opportunities this incredible technology presents as well as the darker side of privacy concerns, covering who’s doing what, from iPhone apps to Smart Maps, and everything in between.

We welcome our LBS gurus for the evening:

Brent Stafford of Navteq

Brent is not stranger to LBS  and has worked worked in various technology and executive positions in the fields of car navigation, location based services, geographic information systems, hydrographic services, transport policy, business development, strategic planning, He has written and presented many papers to national and international audiences and parliamentary committees on these topics.

Navteq was acquired by Nokia in 2007 for $8.1 Billion Dollars to aid Nokia’s entry into navigation technologies on handsets. With Nokia being the largest manufacturer of GPS units in the world you cannot ignore the power of LBS in your hand. Navteq specialises in mapping the world around us, they don’t just focus on the maps but also on content for those maps providing highly detailed information on your surroundings.

Mark White of Locatrix

Mark is the founder & CEO of Locatrix Communications. A well-known mobile guy, he’s been a speaker at GSMA conferences in Barcelona and Macau, and has twenty years experience in the telecommunications and computer industries in a whole bunch of countries. Not a bad bloke to have a beer with

Locatrix uses mobile location to shape and create content experiences that engage subscribers and create higher ARPU for Telco’s. Locatrix is also a core contributor to the GSM Association’s OneAPI initiative, which is defining a standard way that network enablers (including location) can be opened to a much larger pool of web developers. The company was a finalist in the 2007 Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards.