The organizational team of the first MLOVE Confestival 2010 expresses a sincerely deep gratitude for the speakers, participants, sponsors, supporting partners and media partners that made this experience possible.

While the whole production team is taking more days to clean up, collect feedback and take a toll of what just happened – one thing is certain:

There is overwhelmingly positive feedback and thankfulness that is expressed by all who have been participating. We are sure that with a new format like the MLOVE Confestival we can add value to shaping the mobile industry, creating positive change and build a tribe of passionate innovators that are eager to make the world a better place.

All of these words might mean nothing or just boilerplate to readers that have not been fortunate to be on location. For all that shared the past days in the MLOVE castle we are convinced that these words might be just a mere understatement.

from the Twitter feeds at #MLOVE10:

If you did not make it to #MLOVE10, then you really missed one of the best events of the year
by Alan Moore, SMLXL

On way to London via Vienna whilst the #mlove10 party carries on upon the castle roof.. a truly amazing experience …until next time
by Jonathan MacDonald, this fluid world

Hard to convey what just went down at #mlove , you had to be there…awesome speakers, guests, conversation & parties, in a castle! #mlove10
by Greg Copeland, Mobile Correspondent, Contagious Magazine

#MLOVE. Harald & Peter, you have created a truly inspiring event and a new family that i am honored to have been apart of.
by Amish Patel, Microsoft

#MLOVE mission accomplished: Harald & Peter, you created an inspiring event, truly unique, made with love + passion! Grateful to be here
by Michael Schade, Fishlabs!

whow what a amazing get-together in the castle. i call it the inspiration booster! #mlove10
by Philipp von Roeder, TBAvR

and the tweets go on … Here is a brief first summary:

These Days it is hard to impress anybody

One hundred and fifty people stand with their mobile phones pointing skywards, experiencing a mobile world first at MLOVE Confestival 2010.

One of the highlights of the MLOVE Confestival, an attempt at evolving the mobile and tech conference, is a 1,500 square meter (13,500 sq ft) digital projection along the length of the 19th castle in Germany, which is the venue for MLOVE. Moreover this enormous display was interacted with via mobile phones by the conferences international delegates, just by holding their handsets up to the projection; one of the biggest building projections ever produced.

These days it’s pretty hard to inspire or amaze anyone. Photo-realistic computer graphics pervade everyone’s daily lives, five year old children wave their parents iPhone as they race a sports car and augmented reality apps splatter icons across a city through the lens of their Android handset. So the MLOVE team are happy that at this inaugural Confestival these experienced technologists and business leaders could still be wowed, in this case not just by very well received agenda, but a world first combining the real world, mobile handsets and some brilliant creative thinking.

As the entire castle appeared to move and re-arrange itself during the evening events at MLOVE, “woops” and wolf whistles filled the air. Apparently people can still be impressed and inspired.

“To really be engage and amaze people they need to interact. The giant projection is part of that process of inspiration, hopefully reminding people why they mobile to start with and the power which is enables.” Roman Beranek, Director of Projektil, whose company specialises in giant interactive building animations. “This is one of the biggest ever staged and the mobile interaction is a world first” he said.

With an diverse range of speakers spanning a bevy of inspirational subjects, MLOVE is much more than a conference about the mobile industry. “The goals of the MLOVE Confestival were evolved collectively by the MLOVE founding team over the last 18 months and by those who attended MLOVE camps” says Harald Neidhardt who founded MLOVE in 2008.

Follow some of the participants feedbacks on twitter with hashtag #mlove10 or #mlove.

René Bellack, 35, joined Out There Media as VP Sales in May 2010 and is responsible for Mobile Advertising Sales within the global footprint of Out There Media.  Before he has been at Vodafone MediaSolutions! as Head of MediaService & AdManagement since 2007 while he worked for Vodafone from 2004 until January 2010. He started out as Marketing Manager for business areas MobileTV, Mobile Gaming and Sport, News & Entertainment at Vodafone live!. Mr. Bellack started to gain experience in Internet, Mobile Services and ITV at Razorfish in 2000 and studied Business Economics in Bielefeld, Alicante and Cologne. Furthermore he acted as Head of Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising Circle (MAC) within the section mobile of the BVDW Germany and is an active Board Member of MLOVE.

He is an executive director of Mass Niche Media, a board director of the social marketing intelligence company Xtract, he also sits on a number of advisory boards including; IPR and patent company CVON, and Mobile Monday. Alan has also lectured on the benefits of Engagement and the Mobile Society at MIT and the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.

VP Developer Platform, Alcatel-Lucent

The use of APIs as an internal and external business growth tool is rapidly moving from a novel concept to a business imperative. Laura Merling is a thought leader in this fast-changing environment. She has worked in the trenches with executives and developers in markets ranging from telecom and media to travel and retail, helping them develop tailor strategies that maximize the benefits of API publishing.

Laura currently leads strategy and execution for Alcatel-Lucent’s companywide push to transform the network into a powerful platform for service providers, enterprises and developers to deliver applications. She was most recently VP of Sales and Marketing at Mashery, one of the earliest entrants in the API management infrastructure industry. Over a more than 20 year career in high tech marketing and business development, Laura also served as Executive Director at SDForum, where she managed the largest non-profit developer community in the U.S. and established key relationships with organizations such as eBay that built successful, global businesses by opening up their APIs to third-party partners and developers. At Krugle, Laura drove deals with some of the world’s largest and most active developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, Amazon Web Services, and SourceForge.net, establishing Krugle as the leader in code search for open source and the enterprise.

Director, MLOVE Confestival

Peter is passionate about creating environments and formats that help participants get the most out of an event. Part of that is choosing the right venue. Peter has staged events in the Natural Historical Society and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, the Villa di Medici in Rome, the Townhall in Stockholm and, most recently, the Emirates football stadium in London (M-Football), to name a few.

Peter is interested in the convergence of art, science and technology, particularly the impact of technology and mobile on society. He also believes in the importance of  bringing together leading thinkers from different disciplines to develop new ideas, businesses and methodologies, in a stimulating but informal atmosphere.

Peter was involved in producing YPO events at a young age. He went on to produce independent films (including a student-Oscar winning short), before developing and co-producing the Rising Tide Summit series with Silicon Alley Reporter (likened to “a TED of the East Coast” by the New York Times), the DisinfoCon2000 as well as LOHAS 8 sustainability conference, the Caboom design festival and Invisible College (prompting the LA Times to call him a “pop culture solutions provider) in Los Angeles. He also spent 4 years as Head of Business Development at mobile commerce start-up, mshopper. Peter has a B.A. from Yale.

Diana consults cultural institutions on how to strategically improve the visitor experience. She developed several groundbreaking cultural projects and joined the Visitor Experience Strategy team at the British Museum in London (6 million visitors a year) where she successfully helped to implement an overall strategy plan through to 2020. Because of her Visitor Experience expertise and insights into the art scene, she is leading the Future Cubes for the MLOVE ConFestival. She is involved in the MLOVE camps as well as the Head of Organisation for the MLOVE ConFestival. She travelled parts of the world for the MS Starship Millenium Project for the German Stern magazine and has great sociological knowledge of diverse cultures. She is into art, technologies, future scenarios, numbers, communication and deadlines. Diana is holding a Diploma in socioeconomic studies, a MIBA and currently working on her phd in cultural studies.

Sehnaz does PR for a Berlin-based fashion label aiming to combine art-performances, critical global thinking and cultural zeitgeist. During her studies in politics and economics she started organizing Open Space conferences with up to 600 people, such as the Advertising Congress, 2005. As an MLOVE coordinator at the ConFestival, she is responsible for the Open Space Section, fashion issues and overall for the well-being of the participants, including transportation, catering and accommodation. She get´s excited about new and unconvential ways of thinking and doing, socioeconomic topics, words, ideas and intelligent taste.

Public Relations

Philipp is a political scientist (FU Berlin) and worked several years as a journalist (ZDF). In 2000 he changed sides to become a PR-Professional (Scholz & Friends). In 2007 he started his own agency (tba: vR communication consultants) where he focusses on the mobileindustry.
Personally and professionally, Philipp is a aficionado for mobile: technique and services with many implications – that’s starting to change the world.
As an MLOVE Allumni he joined the organization team to take charge of the media and press activities at the MLOVE ConFestival.

Roman Beranek and Projektil

Roman Beranek is the projection designer and founder of Projektil – Visual Art Experiences, was born in 1979 in Zurich, Switzerland. During a stay in Vienna in 2007 he started experimenting with large scale projections and has since been part of productions in Austria, USA, Mexico and Japan. Developing his very own style Roman has illuminated buildings in Vienna, Gouda, Eindhoven and Doha. A visual art show at the Swiss National Museum and the videomapping stage design for “Eusi Chlii Stadt” at “Theater am Hechtplatz” were major projects in 2009. Roman enjoys to create new visions and embraces challenges. His focus lies on concept design and networking.

PROJEKTIL – visual art experience is name and program of an artistic collective that first gathered in 2003. Nowadays the Zurich based company designs large-scale video mapping projections for literally any surface. Their mixture of graphics, video and 3D animation is both emotional and interactive. Visitors are incited to partake in the show for instance by using mobile devices to draw onto the projection.

In his role as EVP Marketing & User Experience at Sagem Wireless, Nadel is responsible for bringing innovative user-centric mobile devices and services to market.

Beginning his career at the IBM Human Factors Lab and then in Unisys’Corporate Human Factors Group, Nadel became Worldwide VP Marketing for a multi-national technology start-up, where he supported an acquisition by another international technology leader, Gemplus, ultimately serving as VP Marketing there.

At Gemplus, his key mandate, and success, was driving technology partnerships and promoting usability of mobile data services. Coming back to his passion, Nadel joined Human Factors International as CXO, where he helped transform the firm’s core usability services into businessoriented user experience strategy and design.

Allison Mooney is Vice President of Emerging Trends for MobileBehavior, an Omnicom company focused on understanding mobile consumers. She leads the agency’s Intelligence and Marketing efforts observing emerging trends in culture and technology to provide strategic direction for companies pursuing innovation. Her creativity and insights have informed the marketing and advertising of Fortune 100 companies, the investment strategies of leading private equity and VC firms, and the product features and positioning for early-stage start-ups.

Allison has a diverse background in trend reporting, digital advertising, youth marketing, and observative research.

She has presented on global trends and innovations to audiences all over the world, from C-level executives in the U.S. to youth marketers in Hong Kong, and was recently named to Mobile Marketer’s “Mobile Women to Watch” list. She is a founder of SoundCtrl, a music and technology event series, and sits on the Advisory Board for YPulse, a youth media and insights company.

Allison regularly writes about mobile trends for Advertising Age and serves as a Contributing Editor at PSFK.com.

Berlin, 05-06-2010 – MLOVE (www.mlove.com) is proud to announce the participation of Mr. Kazi Islam the CEO of Grameenphone IT Ltd. as keynote speaker for the MLOVE ConFestival. Grameenphone IT provides managed services to the largest mobile operator Grameenphone in Bangladesh. Grameenphone was founded by Mohammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the micro credit concept of the Grameen Bank. Now, the Village Phone project of Grameenphone has brought cell-phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in over 50,000 villages since the beginning of the project in March 1997.

This is one of the inspiring examples of how mobile will change our future – the main theme for the MLOVE Confestival that will take place June 23-25 in a castle south of Berlin.

Just recently two of the San Francisco based speakers at MLOVE have been voted “most influential women in technology” by FastCompany Magazine: Shaherose Charania the CEO of Women 2.0, an organization for women-led start-ups in Silicon Valley. Shaherose has led its growth to include tens of thousands of participants, hosting monthly educational and networking workshops engaging entrepreneurs and investors from top Venture Capital firms and Angel circles.

Leila Chirayath Janah is the CEO of Samasource and a TEDx Silicon Valley speaker. Her company enables marginalized people to receive life-changing work opportunities via the Internet. The core of this concept is microwork – little bits of labor that can be performed anytime and anywhere that add up to a real livelihood for them.

International speakers from many different companies and institutions will make the two and a half day event a remarkable experience. They include: Beverly W. Jackson, Senior Marketing Manager of the GRAMMY Awards; Nick E. Heller, in charge of Business Development for Google’s European future incubation labs and Richard D. Titus, CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (part of the Daily Mail) – UK’s leading digital publisher of premium- content consumer websites. Altogether, MLOVE invited 30+ global mobile thought leaders from the likes of BMW, Burda, Flirtomatic, 1Goal, this fluid world and AutoDesk.

Amish Patel is an engineering program manager for the Windows Touch team within the Human Interfaces group at Microsoft working on touch optimized user experiences.

Amish is currently working on a set of thoughts he calls “the touch principles”, which are a set of design guidelines that modern  developers and designers should be considering as we move from conventional mouse and keyboard GUI  toward touch first user interfaces. In addition to this research, he is driving his team toward a vision of every Windows computer in the world to be mobile, connected and touchable!

Amish held a great talk at the 2010 SXSW festival about touch interface and Windows 7 design ideas.

Two speakers for MLOVE ConFestival just got awarded the honor to be named ”Most influential Women in Technology 2010″ by FastCompany in the U.S.

Shaherose Charania is the CEO of Women 2.0, an organization for women-led startups in Silicon Valley. She has led its growth to include tens of thousands of participants, hosting monthly educational and networking workshops engaging entrepreneurs and investors from top Venture Capital firms and Angel circles.

Leila Chirayath Janah is the CEO of samasource and a TEDx Silicon Valley speaker. TechCrunch said: “Samasource is a non-profit service that allows you to outsource microwork tasks like data, testing, transcription and research to poor, but educated, workers abroad.”

Kazi Islam, the CEO of Grameenphone IT will join MLOVE ConFestival 2010 to keynote and share the insights of the largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh. Grameenphone was founded by Mohammad Yunus, who was awarded the Noble Peace Price in 2006 for the micro credit concept of the Grameen Bank. Now, the Village Phone (Polli Phone) project of Grameen Phone has brought cell-phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in over 50,000 villages since the beginning of the project in March 1997 – an outstanding example of mobile social entrepreneurship.

We are honored, that Mr. Islam will be traveling exclusivly to MLOVE ConFestival 2010.

Founder and principal of Buchler Rothschild Investments, Oliver Rothschild has held several key positions including Chairman of UNICEF (Appeals). He is currently the Ambassador of the Monte Carlo Film Festival (IETFF), Patron of Tiny Tickers and closely associated with several charitable bodies and boards. Oliver is the Patron of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, a Director of Twilight Films Ltd and Non-Exec Chairman of the Tripleplay Group, and Chairman of the Carbon Advice Group and Pod3.tv as well as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Fusion Universal (E-Learning).
His track record of successful business development includes Property Investment, ICT and Entertainment, Public Relations, Fine Arts & Antiques. Oliver’s board level experience is equally extensive. He has served as Chairman for a travel plc, senior vice president of American General Investments and as director of an auction House. Principle shareholder in a Fine Arts and Antiques business, currently Oliver is serving as Chairman of AB Entertainments and holds directorships with a number of IT, PR and Investment companies.
Fluent in French, German, Spanish and Italian, Oliver Rothschild is actively developing business opportunities throughout the US and Europe including the former Eastern European Block countries, where he is both investing and advising on property and business acquisitions.

Amish Patel is an engineering program manager for the Windows Touch team within the Human Interfaces group at Microsoft working on touch optimized user experiences.  Amish is currently working on a set of thoughts he calls “the touch principles”, which are a set of design guidelines that modern  developers and designers should be considering as we move from conventional mouse and keyboard GUI  toward touch first user interfaces. In addition to this research, he is driving his team toward a vision of every Windows computer in the world to be mobile, connected and touchable!

Background:  Amish is a proud Canadian, born and raised in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto’s computer science and economics departments. Amish started his time at Microsoft analyzing usage patterns and designing interactions for pen based computing on the Tablet PC platform.  Amish later joined the Windows Touch team to deliver the first multi-touch Windows OS in Windows7.

Amish is excited about the rise of touch based computing within an ‘always connected’ world, which in his eyes marks the shift toward more natural and intuitive ways in which humans can better learn, play, share!

Hegge has been an active part of the German and European Internet scene as an entrepreneur as well as a manager in the publishing industry since the early 90’s. After finishing his law studies Hegge was responsible for starting up the first German newspaper on the Web, the “Schweriner Volkszeitung” and at Gruner+Jahr “stern.de”, the website of the Stern magazine. In 1997 he became a member of the management board of G+J’s Electronic Media Services GmbH, being responsible for the content management of all G+J websites. As a co-founder of wunderloop and after several successful years as its CEO he became part of the publishing world again in June 2009 as Managing Director of Hubert Burda Media’s Media Innovation Lab. As such he oversees the digital efforts of the existing media brands as well as pursuing new opportunities for revenue and content-driven services.

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Jump into the next digital revolution! Nils Mueller is famous for his stirring future journeys and for his inspiring journeys to worldwide Innovation-Hotspots & Trends. He started his career at the IBM Innovation Centre. Duringhis Master programme in Berlin, New York and Milan 2002, he founded PRODICTION, a company that is specialised in Micro-Trends and weak
signals and developed the trend research brand TrendONE. TrendONE is market leader in identifying key trends in fast moving branches of business. Nils Mueller lives with his wife and two children in Hamburg-Blankenese.

TrendONE is the market leader in the identification of Micro-Trends. We are currently working for media companies, ad agencies and online ad sales companies in USA, Mexico, Scandinavia, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in order to enhance their creative and innovative processes. In addition to our products (Trendreport & Trendexplorer)
we compose future-studies, arrange workshops and give keynote speeches. Today TrendONE identifies more than 300 worldwide Micro- Trends each month with offices in Hambug, Berlin and an international scouting network of more than 80 freelance scouts in 22 languages.

Richard is the CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (www.and.co.uk) the digital consumer division of A&N Media (a subsidiary of LSE: DMGT). He overseesa 100m+ international portfolio of businesses including UK sector leaders; Jobsite, Findaproperty, Globrix, Motors.co.uk, dating site aggregator Allegran and the online travel, mobile and television businesses of Teletext. His portfolio extends into six countries with 38.4m global unique users.  Richard is charged with the operation of the businesses and growth of the diverse AND portfolio and the larger consumer digital strategy.

Previously, Richard led one of three BBC future media divisions as Controller Future Media, A&M and Mobile. In this role he is responsible for the strategic, editorial and technical delivery of its mobile products and services (including the GMSA award winning mobile iPlayer) as well as a portfolio of pan-BBC product groups and support of its Audio and Music content on digital platforms including more than 50 regional and national radio stations. He assumed this role after leading an overhaul and redesign of the BBC’s Internet, mobile and IPTV services – with a combined audience greater than 50 million unique users a week. Managing 180+ people across several divisions he provided thought leadership, strategy and delivery of the BBC’s Future Media & Technology division’s audience facing products and services.

Richard has founded or co-founded seven firms in his diverse entrepreneurial career including Razorfish LA and Schematic, an Adweek top 10 interactive agency where he served as President and Vice Chairman before its 2007 acquisition by WPP. Richard is a frequent public speaker on the impact of innovation and digital products and services in the technology, media & entertainment sectors. Outside technology, with his filmmaker wife, he has produced feature film and television projects including two Sundance Film Festival selections; 2002’s On_line and 2006 environmental documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? and is the proud owner of the UK’s first Tesla Motors Roadster – all electric automobile.

Nick Heller (Google), Beverly Jackson (Grammy Awards), Richard Titus (AND) and Jonathan MacDonald (this fluid world) join 30 speakers for the MLOVE ConFestival –

Berlin, 04-06-2010 – MLOVE (www.mlove.com) has a new date for the ConFestival and is proud to announce new Keynote speakers: Beverly W. Jackson, Senior Marketing Manager of the GRAMMY Awards and Nick E. Heller, in charge of Business Development for Google’s European future incubation labs. They will be joined by Richard D. Titus, CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND, part of the Daily Mail) – UK’s leading digital publisher of premium-content consumer websites. Media Futurist Jonathan MacDonald of this fluid world will lead an “Open Space” innovation format. Altogether, MLOVE invited 30+ global mobile thought leaders from the likes of BMW, Flirtomatic, 1Goal and AutoDesk.

From the evening of June 23rd to June 25th, 2010, the global mobile community will join together to experience a new event format called the MLOVE ConFestival.

Set in an ancient castle south of Berlin, about 200 decision makers and futurists with a mobile background will create their vision of the future of mobile. Participants and speakers from within and from outside the mobile industry will come from as far as Japan and Silicon Valley, reflecting the recognition that mobile has become ubiquitous around the world. It is time for the mobile industry to interact with thought leaders from all disciplines and interests to learn from eachother about how best to utilize mobile to enhance our lives and businesses.

“The MLOVE ConFestival is designed to encourage networking and provides the participants with the opportunity to really get to know eachother in an informal atmosphere. Our goal is to strengthen relationships between the mobile elite and thought leaders from other industries and disciplines,” stated ConFestival Director Peter Giblin.

“This event is mandatory for anybody who wants to keep up with the rapid development of the mobile industry” said Stefanie Hoffman, CEO of mobile social company Aka-Aki, Berlin.

“It’s unbelievable what has happened since we started the MLOVE movement just over a year ago. This event will foster ideas and inspiration to work on a shared vision of the future of mobile. Explicitly not from a technical but from a social and human point of view,” added MLOVE founder Harald Neidhardt.

For the past five years, Christopher has been living inside the giant pinball machine also known as Tokyo, working with companies across the globe on mobile strategy.

He grew up in Germany’s Rhineland, where he happily spent the first three decades of his life — at least when he wasn’t away hiking in the Himalayas or driving a beat-up VW through remote parts of Brazil. He has been working at the intersection of Internet, Telecoms, Media and Advertising for more than a decade since graduating with a degree in Psychology from University of Cologne somewhere in the dark past. His assignments prior to coming to Asia include Vodafone D2 Germany, BenQ Mobile and Deutsche Telekom.

He is a regular speaker at top-tier conferences and mobile industry events worldwide, and has authored a string of publications on the Japanese mobile industry.

As a combined result of both personal passion and professional necessity, he has visited 34 countries and used more dodgy airlines than he cares to remember. He speaks four languages more or less fluently, is a distinguished practitioner of the culinary arts, and holds an unofficial black belt in taming Chihuahuas.

Christopher is currently in the process of relocating to Europe, spending 3 months traveling through Japan, India and Nepal as part of a brief hiatus, while most of his belongings make their journey across the Seven Seas on a boat that will hopefully not be held up off the Horn of Africa.

Mark Curtis talks about mobile from Peter Lund on Vimeo.

MARK CURTIS, CEO HANDMADE MOBILE (FLIRTOMATIC)

We welcome Mark as a featured speaker at the MLOVE ConFestival. He is the Founder & CEO of Handmade Mobile – the provider of www.flirtomatic.com – a very successful mobile flirting service out of London.Previously he was Co-Founder of digital agency FJORD and before that part of the leadership team of Razorfish.

In this video Mark talks about his curiosity about the future of mobile and a more balanced approach that includes awareness of taking positive as well as negative impacts of the mobile future into account.

Aape began his career as a trainer and has recently returned to this same topic with mobile elementary education services that will help us in changing the world – for better.

He has worked as a salesperson, channel developer, team leader, inventor, innovator, venture capitalist, and polarizer in international companies and projects and his achievements include a few world firsts – commercial wireless communication system with PowerBooks, NMT-telephones and HP9000s, a professional-level Desktop Video editing workstation built from standard components, the mobile magazine concept, and an environmentally responsible racetrack.

Regardless of his long tenure in the ICT industry Aape despises technology because it is never ready and too difficult to use. Aape’s focus and passion has been, is, and will be on making technology work for us not the other way around. Aape loves his family, friends, nature, sports, food, and good times – and life.

Nick Heller is responsible for New Business Development across EMEA at Google. He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and is focused on new product incubation and exploratory efforts in technology, meta-data licensing, strategic partnerships, special projects, and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives. He was formally leading the Media & Publishing team at Google in the European Strategic Partnerships group.

Nick has a rich history of working within the media industry, primarily across mobile, television and online. Prior to joining Google, he worked for MTV Networks UK & Ireland, where he created the digital strategy and led new cross platform social networking initiatives. In 2006, he published a paper on the growth of mobile advertising, and continues to be a passionate advocate of the mobile medium. In 2002, he founded Degrees Of Separation, a tech consultancy and eBusiness network, linking blue chip organizations throughout North America with specialized software development firms. Prior to 2002, he worked in fixed income trading for RBC Capital Markets, located in Toronto, Canada. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Beverly Jackson is a senior marketing professional at The Recording Academy, the producers of the GRAMMY Awards. She is a founding member of the Digital Strategy Team, playing a key role in the recent record breaking viewership increases which incorporated social media into the iconic television broadcast.

Beverly specializes in sorting through digital clutter to identify the most relevant and useful tools for community engagement and utilization to increase market share and generate revenue. At the Academy she uses her diverse business experience, love of music and passion for social media to help reshape the marketing strategy and brand message.

While serving in leadership roles at Tribune Interactive and J. Walter Thompson (a WPP Company) she was actively involved in creating new online businesses, focusing largely on digital media platforms related to content development and social networking.

As a National Urban Fellow she deepened her passion for cause- related issues such as education and training, climate change and civil rights.  Combining technology and a natural curiosity, Beverly pushes through existing boundaries and finds unconventional ways to rethink and approach complex business and societal issues.  She has worked on projects for the X Prize Foundation, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and other non-profit organizations.

Beverly earned her Bachelor of Science from Howard University in Washington, DC and Masters Degree from Baruch College in New York City.

Jonathan MacDonald is a co-founder of this fluid world, a business and marketing consultancy that helps global organisations achieve their full potential in the context of an ever-changing communications and business world:

“We do this by identifying and exploiting new areas of opportunity, by enabling companies to be flexible and agile, and by facilitating continuous learning, understanding and stretching of the mind. Organisations choose us because of our objectivity, broad general knowledge, wide experience and our contagious enthusiasm. With 30 years combined experience, the founders have worked with, and inside, many of the largest brands and agencies in the world, positively affecting strategy, innovation, change and new business.”

Jonathan’s experience, contribution to the industry, entrepreneurial spirit and passion means that he is widely considered as one of the primary strategists and thought leaders in the digital space. He has been a Senior Consultant at Ogilvy (who still regularly use his services), Sales Director of Blyk, Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of a Sky TV channel, advisor to British Government on education, the owner of one of the first online music stores, and a Chairman of the Music Industries Association.

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jmacdonald
He blogs at: www.jonathanmacdonald.com

Peter Giblin: Director of MLOVE Confestival from MLOVE on Vimeo.

A CALL FOR CHANGE FROM PETER GIBLIN, DIRECTOR

“We see things differently. We do things differently. We have a vision of how we can share, learn, work and play more effectively. But we can’t do it without you.

This is an invitation to join us at the beginning of what promises to be a powerful and joyous journey. We look forward to your participation.”

• Meet the influencers from the world of mobile
• Develop new business relationships
• Collaborate with thought leaders from a range of other disciplines and industries

MLOVE ConFestival Opens with 50% Early Bird Price for Registration on Valentine’s Day during Mobile World Congress

A new event in a Castle of Inspiration for things that matter most

Barcelona, Spain February 14, 2010 / www.mlove.com – MLOVE announced today a new event exploring inspiration and how mobile will change our future. Registration is now open with a 50% off Early Bird price on the newly designed website at www.mlove.com.

“This is shaping up to be a TED for Mobile” said Harald Neidhardt, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the MLOVE ConFestival and Founder of the MLOVE movement.

MLOVE speakers announced
MLOVE is proud to announce a stellar line up of disruptors, visionaries and Entrepreneurs:

• Ondi Timoner, Director, two-time Winner, Sundance Film Festival
• Marc Milau, Brand Management, BMW
• Kei Shimada, CEO, Infinita, Japan
• Dawn Danby, TED Global Speaker, Product Lead at AutoDesk
• Rupert Daniels, 1Goal, Education Initiative supported Queen Rania of Jordan, President Clinton, Bono & FIFA

30+ Speakers are gathering for the ConFestival from Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA.

“The enthusiasm we have been received from invitees and speakers has been unequivocal. You simply have to be there!” stated Peter Giblin, the Director of the first MLOVE ConFestival.

The first partners of the MLOVE ConFestival include Contagious Magazine – a leading print & online community about digital design, Women 2.0 -the leading Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur group for women, and ribot – a boutique digital and mobile design agency.

Context

It is time for the mobile industry to get out and meet with the real world. As Mobile can provide ideas and solutions for the people in all aspects of their lives, MLOVE calls on the leaders of the Mobile world to broaden their horizons.
The MLOVE ConFestival provides a unique setting for Mobile leaders to collaborate with artists, musicians, scientists, architects, and the like, to explore how mobile can drive positive change in the world.

The ConFestival is set for June 23-25, 2010, in a castle south of Berlin, Germany

The first MLOVE ConFestival will combine a new way of sharing inspiring stories, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurial success from around the globe. The invite-only event takes place in a 100-room castle, built in 1898, south of Berlin. Built by powerful Freemasons, ex-home to the Governor of Saxony-Anhalt, the castle will act as a catalyst for disruptive thinking, big ideas, innovation and inspiration in the context of mobile.

The MLOVE ConFestival is a two and a half day event designed to take you outside of every day thinking; an inspirational experience in a trusted environment. The backdrop is mobile, but the goal is to stimulate new ideas and thinking which you can apply to your life, your business and to inspire others.

How will mobile change your future?

About MLOVE:

The MLOVE tribe started grass roots by an international group of “mobile passionistas” in 2008. Through MLOVE “camps” in Barcelona, San Francisco, Munich, London, New York and Singapore the agenda for MLOVE evolved into more than mobile.

“We are bringing together CXO’s, innovators and entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share, learn and cross-pollinate ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other thought leaders,” said Peter Giblin, Director of the MLOVE ConFestival. “The event exposes the mobile industry to the best minds outside of mobile to maximize the opportunity of creating life-changing services and applications that can impact our businesses, and ourselves, for the better.”

The advisory board to the MLOVE ConFestival 2010 includes: Andrew J. Scott (Rummble), Fee Beyer (T-Mobile), Jonathan MacDonald (JMA), Harald Neidhardt (Smaato & Founder MLOVE), (Vodafone Media Solutions!) and Stefanie Hoffmann (aka-aki). The ConFestival is co-produced for MLOVE by Peter Giblin of Learn.Share.Play and in association with James Cameron of Camerjam (www.camerjam.com).

For Information and your request for an invite write to 2010@mlove.com or go to www.mlove.com — Follow MLOVE on Twitter: @mlovesociety and hashtag #mlove10

Become a MLOVE fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/MLOVE/202832245694

Rupert has been seconded to become Head of Content for the 1 Goal charity campaign – the Education Legacy campaign for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He co-founded Y6 Media in 2009 to deliver rich multi-media content that unlocks value for rights holders, sponsors and platform owners alike.

Rupert has a wealth of experience working at the highest levels in Global Sports and Entertainment. He spent 7 years working at FIFA and was a director of the broadcast and media rights team that brought TV rights sales in house and generated over $2.5 Billion USD for FIFA.

Rupert  ran the FIFA TV and Films archive for 5 years, and also produced various well known TV and DVD series’ such FIFA Futbol Mundial, The Beautiful Century, and the multi-million selling DVD, FIFA Fever.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup Rupert was responsible for global TV and multi-media graphics, Sponsor and Charity broadcast integration, Giant Screens, the Official Film and the Official Music programme. At the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan, Rupert headed up New Media sales and marketing department and negotiated the agreements with Yahoo! to sponsor the record breaking official website, FIFAworldcup.com.

He also helped to create the official mobile sites with NTT Do-co-mo and Korea Telecoms (iMode and Brew).

CEO &  Co-Founder of Digital Republic

Digital Republic is the number 1 Digital & Creative Advertising Agency in Egypt. With offices in Dubai, and a client list boasting the biggest brands in the World, Digital Republic is at the forefront of driving mobile and online interactive solutions in the Arab World.

Karim’s personal expertise lies in all that is mobile – with over 12 years experience gained in mobile and ICT, coupled with solid marketing and branding expertise, he has an impressive track record of successful delivery of innovative technology and marketing solutions.

Karim was part of the core team that created the original ‘Vodafone live’ Mobile portal in the UK in 2000 – often considered by the industry as the original blue print for a successful mobile internet experience. Most notably, Karim championed the creation of the mobile advertising industry in Egypt – launching the first comprehensive mobile advertising portfolio in the Middle East in 2008, which was heralded as a best practice case for emerging markets.

Karim also led the delivery of the first 3G network launch in Egypt.

His diversity stems from holding senior positions in multiple industries around the World, including: Vodafone, Lucent, Maersk,  Hilton, and SODIC Real Estate.

Michael Schade, CEO & Co-Founder of FISHLABS, has been deeply involved with computer graphics, 3D animation, and software development for more than 15 years.

With 5 years in 3D mobile gaming and an award-winning portfolio of high-end 3D games distributed globally through mobile operators, Apple’s App Store and pre-loaded on Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets, Michael has a profound knowledge of the mobile business.

Michael is a well known evangelist for high-end gaming on mobile phones and a seasoned speaker with several lectures at mobile and gaming events all around the globe.

Recently, advergaming became a major business for FISHLABS and clients like Volkswagen and Barclaycard are relying on Michael’s knowledge and his team’s expertise how to engage millions of consumers worldwide through ad games on smartphones.

Jen McCabe is CEO/Founder of Contagion Health, a San Francisco health software startup that designs + builds social media, mHealth and eHealth experiential applications harnessing personal ‘microrelevance’ – created when consumers use technology for health, including logging Observations of Daily Living (#ODLs) and personal biometrics.

Contagion’s first product (http://getupandmove.me) is a microchoice bartering platform that allows users to harness the motivational power of their existing social graph (Twitter, Facebook) to incentivise healthier daily behaviours.

Contagion has also built an iPhone app that allows users to rate and map moods, called “hands2gether,” in partnership with Humana’s (HUM) Innovation Center. She likes cigars, Lowland Single Malt Scotch, whiteboarding, and catalyzing new relationships that solidify into fun, functional teams.

As for mobile devices – iPhone devotee but considering cheating on Apple with Google’s Nexus.

David is a digital media executive with a background in both multi-national media businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. David was appointed CEO of The Filter in September 2007.

David first started as a writer/photographer combo and founded his first media business at the age of 24 launching two national newsstand magazines in the UK – following that he amassed 13 years in magazine and web publishing, serving as Publishing Director at Future, with responsibility for the games portfolio of 10 Magazines, 2 websites and 80 employees – and also as International Publishing Director for Future’s French, Italian, German and Polish subsidiaries.

In 2003, David founded Future Plus, a creative content agency that provides tailor-made content. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Future’s Digital Director for the UK & Mainland Europe and was responsible for 55 website launches including GamesRadar.com, T3.com and TotalFilm.com.

In 2007, David launched iSporty.com (a sports social network) and worked as a consultant for the BBC to help develop its digital strategy.

Half French, David loves classic French movies, Euro-pop-dance… the less said about that the better. Current favorite TV show is Entourage.

For more information visit, please visit http://systems.thefilter.com.

Michelle Halsell is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Missing Pixel bringing over 15 years of experience in building teams and leading projects that explore new technologies and interactive story telling. She has trained filmmakers in New York, IOWA, Boston, and San Antonio as well as assisted the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) with their new media institute and mobile phone exploration in Ghana.

Michelle mentored for BAVC in San Francisco, NBPC in Jackson, Mississippi for the BB King Blues museum, and Scribe Video Center , eSights, eSounds for the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her goal continues not only to expose audiences to the potential of new media solutions, but also to encourage collaboration, exploration, and diversity in the field. Michelle received an Insight Award for Excellence in film and digital media arts for the FaceofMS.org.

Ms. Halsell received her Masters Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. In 2008 Michelle was invited to participate in the digital braintrust sponsored by NBPC in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Inspired by the work in Africa, in 2009, Michelle completed a website for girls making use of mobile phones and social networking applications.

Shaherose is passionate about open innovation in mobile and telephony startups. She is currently a founding team member and VP at Opinno, an open innovation network of entrepreneurs, incubation spaces and investors. Recently she lead new consumer products at Ribbit (acquired by British Telecom). Previously, she was Director of Product Management at Talenthouse and before that at JAJAH (acquired by Telefonica/O2) as the Director of Product Management and Marketing. She began her career in Silicon Valley at TiE Global overseeing governance and operations of 40+ entrepreneurship centers.

In parallel, Shaherose is perhaps best known as the CoFounder and CEO of Women 2.0, an organization for women-led startups in Silicon Valley. She has led its growth to include tens of thousands of participants, hosting monthly educational and networking workshops engaging entrepreneurs and investors from top Venture Capital firms and Angel circles. She has seen over 300 early stage startups through Women 2.0 and is experienced in building solutions to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Shaherose holds a B.A. in Business Admin from The University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business and completed an international exchange program at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.

He set up and run four companies in the last 17 years, all (reasonably) successful in innovation in emergent media. His background is in media and communications. He foresaw (a bit) the digital explosion of the 1990’s and set up CHBi, one of the first digital solutions companies in the UK, where among other achievements he lead the team that invented and developed Yell for Yellow Pages.

CHBi was successfully sold to become Razorfish London and he went on to lead and re-organise the 2000 person skills networks of Razorfish as part of the global leadership team.

From 2001 he was one of the founders of Fjord, a digital product and service innovation consultancy based in London (and now Berlin and Helsinki), working on strategic mobile projects for Nokia, Orange and the UK government.

In 2005 he had a book (”Distraction”) published, on the effect of digital communications on society. Most recently Flirtomatic has been the top company in the Library House Essential Mediatech 2008 list. Marc has 5 children, and likes running, cycling, wine, food, books, mountains. Sometimes together.

Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits.

Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights.

Leila is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold and TEDIndia Fellowships, and serves on the San Francisco board of the Social Enterprise Institute. She is a former Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Program on Global Justice and the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University. When she’s not running Samasource, Leila blogs on Social Edge and tries to keep up with her Twitter account.

She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.

Kei was born and raised in the United States and has now lived a little more than half of his life in Japan. After graduating Waseda University, he has worked for Panasonic, Lucent Technologies and Cybird, all leading companies in their respective industries. His passions aside from work, include tennis, snowboarding, traveling, farming and cooking with his wife. He is a gadget lover by nature and is now hooked on the HTC Hero Android phone.

Follow Kei on twitter: @kei_shimada

Jessica is Contagious’ Deputy Editor, covering the entire spectrum of the most innovative, effective and non-invasive strategies and campaigns in marketing, branding, design, technology and pop culture. She is a regular speaker at new marketing conferences, and has helped to build the Contagious consultancy, offering advice and insight to a number of clients from both agencies and advertisers.

Contagious exists to simplify and to advise. It is the global marketing industry’s early warning system; an intelligence resource for those attempting to stay ahead of all this change. Contagious’ audience comprises both local and multinational advertisers, as well as creative directors, strategic planners, CEOs and new business directors from communications companies around the world.

Jess spent a stint teaching music in France and Italy before returning to London to work as a music producer. One more career change landed her in the advertising industry as Editor of The Reel (a monthly publication showcasing the best global creative in advertising, music videos and short films), before helping to launch the award winning Contagious in December 2005.

Jess is fluent in Italian and French, and is a self-confessed Internet junkie.

His education includes: Studies of Industrial Design, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1991), Studies at École des Beaux Arts Toulouse, France, Scholarship of Office Franco-Allemand (1995), and Diploma thesis “Ways of intelligent habitation,” Hochschule der Künste Berlin in cooperation with Bauhaus Universität Weimar. He speaks German, English, and French and he is interested in Technology, Entertainment, and Design. His associations include, the Club of Pioneers, IMD Alumni Network, and TED Attendee.

Interdisciplinary designer Dawn Danby, recently named by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business, has spent the past decade working on sustainable design. Her projects have ranged from a tree-covered, wind-powered pedestrian bridge on the US-Canada border to closed-loop manufacturing strategies, furniture and food distribution. She currently manages Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Program, integrating ecological and human impact considerations into the digital tools used by 9 million designers, architects, and engineers worldwide.

Dawn co-authored WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, won a Royal Society of Arts (UK) fellowship, and was a Metropolis NEXT Generation runner-up. She holds an industrial design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Tomi T Ahonen is a six-time bestselling author of hardcover telecoms/tech books who has also released a series of three eBooks in 2009. An independent consultant and motivational speaker in the converging areas of mobile telecoms, internet, media, advertising, credit and banking, social networking and virtual reality, Tomi is based in Hong Kong. He lectures on these topics at Oxford University for which developed the short courses for 3G services, 3G business, mobile-TV and 7th Mass Media. Mr Ahonen is seen annually at about 20 conferences on six continents.

The father of several of the industry’s most used theories, tools and concepts, and a founding member of several industry groups, as well as being the holder of a telecoms competitiveness world record, Tomi Ahonen has been quoted in over 300 press articles, starting with the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week, Economist, etc and is regularly seen on TV; he writes several columns and articles to industry press every year.

Chairman of MLOVE ConFestival Advisory Board

CMO & Founder of Smaato; Founder of MLOVE

Harald is Chairman of the advisory Board for the MLOVE ConFestival and a Founder of MLOVE. He is an international marketing & business development executive and the CMO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc. – a pioneer in mobile advertising headquartered in Silicon Valley.

He was the CEO of Pixelpark Inc. (US), a former Bertelsmann company based in New York and headquartered in Berlin. Recently, Harald founded Cardmine, a successful viral marketing / web-to-print company in New York. In his career, Harald has served many clients in FMCG, fashion, transportation and telecoms incl. MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Lufthansa. Harald has a passion for photography, art, all things mobile and how innovation and inspiration can make the world a better place.

Harald is a frequent speaker at international conferences like MMA Forum (Singapore, New York, London, Berlin), AlwaysOn, Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0 (Barcelona, San Francisco) and attended TED twice as well as the Burning Man festival.

Follow Harald on Twtter: @hneidhardt
He blogs at: www.hneidhardt.com

MLOVE Summer Camp 2009, Barcelona from MLOVE on Vimeo.

MLOVE (www.mlovesociety.org) is a tribe that brings together people with a passion for mobile from around the world. With a focus on small format conferences, local meet-ups and “camps” – MLOVE brings together mobile passionistas in an atmosphere of inspiration, communication, learning and understanding. MLOVE participants debate about the future of mobile and how little things can make the world a better place. The first MLOVE ConFestival will take place June 23-25 in a castle in Europe. Request your invite here: 2010@mlove.com

Founder, this fluid world

Jonathan MacDonald is a co-founder of this fluid world, a business and marketing consultancy that helps global organisations achieve their full potential in the context of an ever-changing communications and business world:

“We do this by identifying and exploiting new areas of opportunity, by enabling companies to be flexible and agile, and by facilitating continuous learning, understanding and stretching of the mind. Organisations choose us because of our objectivity, broad general knowledge, wide experience and our contagious enthusiasm. With 30 years combined experience, the founders have worked with, and inside, many of the largest brands and agencies in the world, positively affecting strategy, innovation, change and new business.”

Jonathan’s experience, contribution to the industry, entrepreneurial spirit and passion means that he is widely considered as one of the primary strategists and thought leaders in the digital space. He has been a Senior Consultant at Ogilvy (who still regularly use his services), Sales Director of Blyk, Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of a Sky TV channel, advisor to British Government on education, the owner of one of the first online music stores, and a Chairman of the Music Industries Association.

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jmacdonald
He blogs at: www.jonathanmacdonald.com

Andrew is CEO of Rummble, his sixth start-up, which enables people to find and share things and places you like, online and on mobile. A serial entrepreneur, Andrew ran a successful web development company serving blue chip clients through the dot com years, which he sold to CMG plc in 2001; there he developed the world’s first online digital video news archive (British Pathe with 4000 hours of video and 13+ million images) and created the UKs first interactive SMS dating application (DinnerDateAuctions). Andrew later founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website with Olympian Dave Morgan (InTraining) and pioneered Europe’s first location based social software (playtxt) in 2002. As an authority in the field of mobile and online communities Andrew speaks at industry events and contributes to trade press.

Andrew also sits on the board of  UnLtdWorld, an online platform that connects and empowers Social Entrepreneurs.

CEO & Co-Founder

Stefanie Hoffmann is responsible for business development and marketing at aka-aki. The Berlin based start-up successfully completed several rounds of financing and is now a company with 18+ employees. aka-aki was named Best Mobile Social Network in the 13th Annual Webby Awards and received the Webby People’s Voice Awards in 2009 besides other international award recognitions.

Prior to aka-aki, Stefanie worked as a product manager at Bertelsmann and developed strategies for a Berlin based fashion label. She studied communications and strategic planning at the University of the Arts in Berlin where she became part of the founding aka-aki team.

Follow aka-aki on twitter: @akaaki

Fee is member of the advisory Board for the MLOVE ConFestival and a Founder of Mobile Monday Berlin. She works for Deutsche Telekom’s Product&Innovation department where she develops mobile apps and creates go-to-market strategies.

In her previous career, she has worked for various mobile startups, helping them develop and execute their marketing strategies and product launches.

Fee has a passion for climbing, traveling, tech and is currently taking classes to become a Personal Trainer.

Follow Fee on Twitter: @feebeyer

René Bellack, 35, joined Out There Media as VP Sales in May 2010 and is responsible for Mobile Advertising Sales within the global footprint of Out There Media.  Before he has been at Vodafone MediaSolutions! as Head of MediaService & AdManagement since 2007 while he worked for Vodafone from 2004 until January 2010. He started out as Marketing Manager for business areas MobileTV, Mobile Gaming and Sport, News & Entertainment at Vodafone live!. Mr. Bellack started to gain experience in Internet, Mobile Services and ITV at Razorfish in 2000 and studied Business Economics in Bielefeld, Alicante and Cologne. Furthermore he acted as Head of Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising Circle (MAC) within the section mobile of the BVDW Germany and is an active Board Member of MLOVE.

ConFestival is the MLOVE format, combining our inspirational speakers in a top-notch conference track full of international thought leaders. The festival part is the chance to network with the whole conference group at a welcome get-to-know-you dinner, a gala dinner & party and being entertained by great DJs. During the finishing vernissage of the MLOVE Future Cube gallery we will light up a big bonfire.

Think “Burning Man” meets TED…

You will craft, paint or create ideas to design your future cube and, after the session, compare your creations with the other groups during a vernissage. Finally, we’ll light up a big bonfire, partially fuelled by most of the created materials in the future cubes (but not before we have documented everything with photos for the MLOVE archive and for your later access).

In a short period the group will discuss the core elements of this complex topic. Then participants will suggest areas of interest. Within 45 minutes we will split into groups for more in-depth discussions. The process and conclusions will be recorded for all to see and share. These ideas can be further developed in the Future Cubes the next day.

• Communication and marketing
• Music and entertainment
• Emerging markets, with speakers invited from Japan, India and Africa.

Context will be provided by talks on privacy, the controversial subject of climate change and innovative service design.

Incorporated into the format is the Innovators’ Lounge, which gives a forum to 8 mobile entrepreneurs from around the world. They will share their visions of how they are using mobile to impact the future of health, education, gaming and community.

And be sure to stop by the Knowledge Drop Box, where you can step into a TV studio to explain your own view on the opportunities that mobile present for your business.

4 PM REGISTRATION starts

6 PM Welcome Drinks & MLOVE Photo Booth (be a part of the conference documentary)

Networking Dinner

Find your peers in pre-selected groups; each participant becomes a presenter

Welcome address

Peter Giblin – Conference Director, MLOVE & Harald Neidhardt – Founder, MLOVE

10 PM MUSIC & NETWORK RECEPTION

Thursday, June 24th 2010

9 AM MORNING WELCOME ADDRESS

Keynote

Nick E. Heller – New Business Development EMEA, GOOGLE, Zurich, Switzerland

Open Space

Moderated Ideation Session about Trends and Innovation for the Future of Mobile

Mobile Social Entrepreneurs

Kazi Islam – CEO, Grameenphone IT, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Aape Pohjavirta – CEO, SendandSee / Ympyra, Helsinki, Finland
Leila C. Janah – CEO, Samasource.org, San Francisco, USA
Rupert Daniels – Head of Content, 1GOAL for FIFA WorldCup, London, UK

Fireside Chat

Alcatel Lucent, N.N. – Mobile Developer & Platform Innovation, New York, USA

Music

Beverly W. Jackson – Marketing & Social Media, GRAMMY Awards, Los Angeles, USA
David Maher Roberts – CEO, The Filter, (A Peter Gabriel Company), London, UK
Plus 2 surprise music performers

VISUAL RECORDING of all Sessions by Heather Willems, ImageThink, New York, USA

8 PM POST CONFERENCE ENTERTAINMENT

Evening Program

Food Experience: Communal-Dinner and Drinks
World Premier: Visual Artist Castle Illumination & Interactive Mobile Play by Audience
Roman Beranek – CEO, Projektil, Zurich, Switzerland (with team of 12 staff)

Friday, June 25th 2010

9 AM MORNING WELCOME ADDRESS

Keynote

Jonathan MacDonald, co-founder, this fluid world, London, UK

Advertising – presented by Contagious Magazine

Gene Keenan – Creative Director, Isobar; Board Member MMA, San Francisco, USA
Allison Mooney – VP Emerging Trends, Mobile Behavior (Omnicom), New York
Greg Copeland –Editor Mobile, Contagious Magazine, London, UK

Mobility / Travel

Marc Mielau – Head of Digital, BMW Group, Munich, Germany
Marcus Casey – (TBC) Head of Digital, Lufthansa, Frankfurt, Germany

Innovation CEO Showcase

Mark Curtis – CEO, Flirtomatic, London, UK – Opening Keynote
Stefanie Hoffmann – CEO, aka aki, Berlin, Germany
Shaherose Charania – CEO, Women 2.0 / opinno, San Francisco, USA
Andrew J. Scott – CEO, Rummble, London, UK
Jen McCabe – Contagion Health, San Francisco, USA
Michael Schade – CEO, Fishlabs!, Hamburg, Germany
DiAnn Eisnor – waze, Israel / San Francisco, USA
Christopher Billich – Mobile Strategist, Tokyo, Japan
René Bellack – Mobile Advertising Expert, Düsseldorf, Germany
Michelle Halsell – Missing Pixel, New York, USA
Holger Meyer – CEO, 3D Zeitschriften, Munich, Germany

Media

Richard D. Titus – CEO, Associated Northcliffe Digital (Daily Mail), London, UK
Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen – CEO, WeTab, Berlin, Germany
Uli Hegge – Managing Director, Media Innovation Lab, Burda, Munich, Germany
Harald Neidhardt – CMO, Smaato, San Francisco, USA

Future Trends

Nils Müller – CEO, TrendOne, Hamburg, Germany
Amish Patel – Program Manager, Human Interface Group, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
TBC, Facebook, San Francisco, USA
Tomi Ahonen – Mobile Consultant & Author, Hongkong, China

Ideas for Change

Dawn Danby – Designer, AutoDesk, San Francisco, USA

9 AM MORNING WELCOME ADDRESS

Future Cubes

10 Ideation workshops led by speakers & media partners. Topics include:
Advertising • Media • Music • Fashion • Security • Location/Mobility • Design
Media Partners: Sportwear International, Contagious Magazine, etc.

9 AM MORNING WELCOME ADDRESS

Vernissage of Ideas

Future Cubes: Share knowledge & Ideas, Learn from peers
Food Experience: Flying Gallery Dinner & Drinks; Burningman Bar & Bonfire

Subject to chance without notice – Please check back for most up to date programme.