Mobile Peer Awards - Open for the first time to Israeli startups!

As announced yesterday in our mobile UI event (thanks all for coming was great seeing you again, pictures here), this year for the first time, Israeli startups can take part in the influential Mobile Peer Awards contest, which will be held in Barcelona on Feb.16, 2009 (First day of 3GSM or in its new name: Mobile World Congress).

The contest is organized by MobileMonday Barcelona in collaboration with the entire MobileMonday community. Each MoMo chapter nominates one startup to send to the competition, and after further review by an international jury, 20 lucky startups get to go to the contest and give a 3-minutes pitch of their product, and hopefully win one of the awards (Jury Award, Audience Award, MoMo Award).

Since MoMoTLV was launched earlier this year, this is the first time Israeli startups can actually participate in this event. Any startup can apply, whether you are in the seed stage with no clients or an emerging startup with big sales - however, you must have at least a live working demo to show (i.e. not concepts on napkins...).

To apply, your first step is to go to www.mobilepeerawards.com and sign-up, indicating MoMoTLV as your home chapter. Then submit info, a presentation and a video about your company/product. All this must be done by Nov. 30 - if you're not in by then, you're out...

We will hold an event on December 15, 2008 in which we will select the startup that MoMoTLV sends to the contest. But again, if you don't register by Nov.30 you cannot participate, and we can not help you in any way, as the registration system is not handled by us. We will announce more event details as they become available. If you would like to sponsor this event, please contact ofir dot leitner at gmail dot com.

Questions about the competition should be sent via the Mobile Peer Awards thread in our discussion board. See you on Dec.15!

MoMoTLV is back!

After a well deserved holiday season we are returning with our 5th event. The theme of the event is Mobile UI. Also, during the event we will announce details about MobileMonday's Mobile Peer Awards contest that will be held at 3GSM. This year for the first time Israeli start-ups will be able to take part in this great contest. So join us for some drinks and interesting sessions at the Mandy's in Tel Aviv.


When: Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 19:00
Where: Mandy's, Sderot Rokach 2, Tel Aviv
What: Mobile UI
Price: Free (but pre-registration is required)

Agenda:
Ofir Leitner, Founder, MoMoTLV: Mobile Peer Awards
Itai Vonshak, Co-Founder, Elements: Mobile interaction design trends
Ronel Mor, CEO & Founder, Mantis: Branding in Mobile UI

Panel with:
Bertrand Louveau, VP International BizDev, Mobile Distillery
Shai Almog - Software Architect, Sun Israel Development Center
Raphael Menachem, CEO & Founder, Neo GUI

Registration is done via the MoMoTLV November event page in Facebook. If you are not already a member of MoMoTLV Facebook Group, please make sure you join that first.

Due to limited places we will not be able to allow on-site admittance without pre-registration, so please make sure to register before the event.



The event is sponsored by our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel), Amdocs and the event sponsor Eurocom (Nokia Authorized Distributer in Israel).

September Event wrap-up

We had a good one this time... And with such guests it's no surprise... We really had fun hosting Bill Gajda from the GSMA, Gian-Luca Cioletti from Forum Nokia and Stephane Gantchev from Orange-France.

As usual you can take a look on the MoMoTLV September Event Gallery to see how much fun we had...

Thanks again to our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel), Amdocs and BlueRun Ventures, and also to our very special event sponsor Forum Nokia, which is a big supporter of Mobile Monday around the world.

We will be taking a break for the holidays so there will not be an October even't - so see you in November, until then MoMoTLV wishes all its members Shana Tova (Happy new year), it was our pleasure to meet you in our events so far, and we hope to see you all in the next one as well, we have a lot of great plans for the post-holidays events, so stay tuned...

Very special event this month...

We are delighted to invite you to our 4th and very special Mobile Monday Tel Aviv event. The event will feature international guests from the GSMA, Orange-France and Forum Nokia. So join us and them for some drinks and interesting sessions.

When: Monday, September 15, 2008 @ 19:00

Where: Mandy's, Sderot Rokach 2, Tel Aviv (Subject to change!)

What: Global Mobile Partnerships

Price: Free (but pre-registration is required)

Speakers:
- Bill Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer, GSM Association
- Stephane Gantchev, Head of Orange Trial Factory, Orange-France

- Gian-Luca Cioletti, Head of BizDev EMEA, Forum Nokia

Registration is not done via facebook this time but rather via this registartion page. Be sure to specify there your involvement/interest in the mobile industry - without it you'll not be approved. Note that registering on the form does not guarantee entry, we will send an approval mail a day or so before the event.

Due to limited places we will not be able to allow on-site admittance without pre-registration, so please make sure to register before the event.

In addition to our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel) and BlueRun Ventures and our new anuual sponsor Amdocs, we are joined by Forum Nokia as a special event sponsor.

MoMoTLV mobile content event summary

Thanks to all of you who came to the event, was great seeing familiar faces, and also seeing new ones. We hope you enjoyed the event, we got great feedbacks on the venue (Mandy's) and its location, so we might use it again for next times as well.

Looking back, since we launched MoMoTLV, we had 3 events with an attendance of 100+ people on each event. But that's not enough for us, and we're already planning the next event, which will probably have some guests from abroad and ought to be very interesting - we'll release more details as they become available.

As usual you can see the pictures from the event in our gallery (more pictures will go up later on). Also, the presentations from the event will be available soon here, so stay tuned.

We would also like to remind you that you can use the google group for just about anything related to the mobile industry: business questions (which companies give service X), technical questions, job postings, "philosophical" debates about the state of the local/global industry and other stuff - feel free, the discussion board is here to use it. The strongest MoMo chapters usually have very active boards, and so should we!

See you at the next event!

Thanks again to our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel) and BlueRun Ventures, our new annual sponsor Amdocs, and the event sponsor Eurocom (Nokia Authorized Distributer in Israel).

MoMoTLV August Event - Mobile Content

A new event is upon us, and this time, the topic is Mobile Content, certainly a prominent category in the Israeli mobile scene. We have a great line up of speakers and as usual drinks and networking.

Note that we changed places again, the event will be held at Mandy's on Rokach boulevard, right across Reading and next to the Daniel Rowing Center. There's plenty of parking in the Reading parking lot which has now turned to be free, and there are also several spaces near the Mandy's itself, so if you get there early, you might give that a try.

When: Monday, August 18 2008 @ 19:00
Where: Mandy's, Sderot Rokach 2, Tel Aviv
What: Mobile Content
Price: Free (but pre-registration is required)

Speakers:
Aviad Rabinovich – Music Manager, Content Division @ Partner
Gal Raz - VP Content @ Logia Mobile
Guy Ami-Ad – Managing Director @ Mobi (Unicell)
Ori Elraviv – CEO, Co-Founder @ Dragon Ports / Spiced Bits (Special guest from China)

The event is free, but pre-registration is required, and it is done via facebook, where you can find all the details. To register go to the MoMoTLV August Event page. If you don't have a facebook account, either get one or register via our less recommended way of registering via the registration form. Specify there your involvement/interest in the mobile industry - without it you'll not be approved. Note that registering on the form does not guarantee entry, we will send an approval mail a day or so before the event.


Due to limited places we will not be able to allow on-site admittance without pre-registration, so please make sure to register before the event.

In addition to our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel) and BlueRun Ventures and our new anuual sponsor Amdocs, we are joined again by Eurocom (Nokia Authorized Distributer in Israel) as an event sponsors.

MoMoTLV mobile VoIP event summary

Well, our second event is behind us and we are already looking forward to the next one... With over 120 people attending, we are feeling that MoMoTLV is getting some real traction with the mobile community here in Israel.

We got some great feedbacks regarding the content. The lecture from Yossi Cohen from DSP-IP (see PPT here) as well as the spiced-up panel with Yossi Hasson from BlueRun Ventures and Roy, Tzahi and Oded from Fring, Jajah and Skuku were both very enlightening. Thanks goes to all lecturers/panelists and additional thanks goes to James Tagg from Truphone who recorded this video on Truphone and mobile VoIP especially for us.

We also hope you liked the "charm" of the underground look and feel of south Tel Aviv, if there's a subject that deserves underground atmosphere it is certainly mobile VoIP...

If you want you can take a look at pictures from the event at our July 2008 Event Album (Additional pics are on the way - also if you have ones you pictures, please send in). We opened a MoMoTLV Picasa gallery where we will upload all pictures - the pictures from the first event are already there for those of you who didn't get a chance to see them on Facebook.

Thanks again to our annual sponsors Partner Communications (Orange Israel) and BlueRun Ventures, and to the event sponsors Eurocom (Nokia Authorized Distributer in Israel) and Sun Microsystems.

We at the organizing team are already working on the next event, so see you all again in a month or so...