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MIPTV in Cannes April 2010 the place to be this year #miptv

I’ve just seen the details for this year’s MIPTV to be held in Cannes April 12 – 16th. From the conference agenda – where else would you find Shine Group’s Elisabeth Murdoch and Joanna Shields, News Corp’s Jonathan Miller, Sky’s Jeremy Darroch to name just a few in the same room. MIP Digital kicks off [...]

Rudy De Waele’s Wonderful People 2008

The wonderful Rudy De Waele from m-trends.org has sent me his Flickr set of “wonderful people” he met at conferences across the world in 2008. I was delighted to catch up again with Rudy most recently at the Future of Mobile event in 2008 where he snapped me speaking with Claire Boonstra from www.sprxmobile.com. Rudy, [...]

Big mobile week in London

One of the things I really like about the wordpress theme by Futurosity that I use on the site is the front page post monitor that shows which days of the month I have blogged. The downside though is that if I don’t post very often in a given month it is pretty obvious!  Well [...]

The Future of Mobile is….

I attended a fantastic Future of Mobile conference in London on Monday attended by well over 450 people at the Kensington Town Hall in London. There have already been a number of write-ups of the event, but the most interesting one came from Alan Patrick who was not even at the event. He was following [...]

Mobile Content conference in London 18 – 21st November

I’ve just been invited to Chair the whole of day 3, and also sit on a panel at the IIR Mobile Content Conference in London in the next couple of weeks. The Panel topic is “What Are The Biggest Hurdles To Developing A Profitable Mobile Advertising Ecosystem?” and I will be joined on the panel (Chaired [...]

British Computer Society LBS event 24th September

On Wednesday 24th September, I was among the presenters invited to speak at the British Computer Society’s evening on Mobile Location Based Services in London. The event was organised by the British Computer Society, North London Branch, in association with the BCS Geospatial Specialist Group. I was joined by Justin Davies from NinetyTen, and Gary [...]

Mobile Marketing Association Conference Budapest October 7 & 8

On October 7th and 8th in Budapest, the Mobile Marketing Association will be holding their regular forum program. I will be attending so if you are going, please contact me so we can arrange to meet at the forum. The speaker lineup and range of topics covered is impressive. Listed below are just some of the [...]

Future of Mobile event in London November 17 – 18

I’m delighted to be involved with this year’s Future of Mobile conference to be held in London on November 17-18th at the Kensington Town Hall. I’ll be in good company as I will be joined by fellow bloggers James Whatley, Vero Pepperell, Helen Keegan, Jemima Kiss and Ewan MacLeod.  Also on the platform are Rudy de [...]

Masterclass in Mobile search at City University London 22nd July

I met Professor Jonathan Raper at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference in Amsterdam recently and he has asked me to be part of his upcoming masterclass in mobile search at the City University London.  More information is below and also on Jonathan’s Blog.  Perhaps I will see you there? This one day Masterclass on Tuesday 22nd [...]

what is the collective noun for a gathering of mobilists?

An interesting evening was had tonight at Home in London, where Dominic Travers and Ryan Carson from Carsonified hosted a dinner to gather thoughts about the next Future of Mobile conference to be held in London in November. An excellent gaggle (is this the right collective noun?) of thought leaders in the mobile space were [...]

Andrew to moderate Location session at being-digital event June 10 in London

Andrew has been asked to moderate the LOCATION session at the Being Digital event on June 10th in London. This looks to be a very exciting event, as it packs in 7 digital themes (advertising, identity, content, location, social, retail and search) which cover the full range of “being digital”.  In addition, the event aims [...]

Forum Oxford Conference summary – and more evidence that flat rate data drives uptake

This year I was not able to attend Oxford University’s Forum Oxford Conference, but the next best thing – having my friend and fellow blogger Martin Sauter write up a comprehensive  review over at wireless moves has allowed me to catch up with what transpired at the conference last week.  I also had the opportunity [...]

Andrew will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference on June 4th – 5th at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam

Andrew will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference, organised by Telematics Update magazine on June 4th – 5th at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam. Built on the long running success of 4 years of navigation conferences, Navigation and Location Europe 2008 represents the next step forward for the industry. Joining Nokia, [...]

Spotme – the new way to network at conferences

Recently I attended the Financial Times World Telecoms Conference in London.  Upon registration, I picked up my delegate badge and was ushered towards an interesting machine that contained a camera and small LCD screen.  My photograph was taken by the camera, and I was handed a “spotme” machine. As I walked into the conference room [...]

Andrew Grill to speak at MobilMedia Kongress 2007

Andrew Grill will be presenting at MobilMedia  Kongress 2007 – Speaking on the topic “HomeZone and beyond” – how new location search and mobile marketing solutions can use location technology without needing GPS.  Other companies presenting include Microsoft and Tom Tom.  More details at http://www.mm-kongress.de/

Andrew Grill to speak at LBS 2007 in Spain October 8 – 11 2007

Andrew Grill will be a keynote speaker at the LBS 2007 conference to be held from Mon 08 Oct 2007 – Thu 11 Oct 2007 at the Melia Avenida America Hotel, Madrid, Spain. See more information at http://www.iir-conferences.com/lbs2007 Andrew will be outlining the latest Fixed Mobile Substitution offering from location specialists, Seeker Wireless. As location enabling [...]

Seeker Wireless Enables New Location Based Services at LBS 2006

http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2006/nov/16/news5.html London, November 16 2006 – Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service providers, announced today that it will be showcasing its unique range of location solutions at the forthcoming Location Based Services 2006 Conference, to be held at the Hilton Olympia in London from November 20th – 23rd. The company has developed [...]