Mobile Monday Bangalore

Talk Topic:

Is Voice the King of VAS?

Speaker: Ashish Sinha, for the last few years has handled product management functions in enterprise as well as consumer space. He runs pluGGd.in , a technology blog that profiles Indian startups and deals with technology landscape in the Indian context. He is a alumni of IIT Roorkee, IIM Bangalore.

 

Demo:

VOICE PHP

VoicePHP is a new platform from TringMe which allows you to quickly create rich voice application from Web, IM or Mobile.

http://voicephp.com/

Some recent reviews are here

http://gigaom.com/2009/01/05/voicephp-indian-startup-marries-voice-with-php/

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/do-we-hate-sound-our-own-voices

Presenter: Yusuf Motiwala, CEO of TringMe.

Supporting MUNIMO:

MOMO Banglaore, pleased to announce supporting of MUNIMO.

Munimo is an initiative started by Mayank Kumar in partnership with Mobisy to get a forum for Mobile Enthusiast to discover and share mobile applications. This is an absolutely free service which allows all of us to find interesting downloadable mobile applications at one place. As of today, we are looking for help from all the Mobile community to share their favorite applications on Munimo using it’s simple interface.

Mr. Lalit Bhise will give more details about MUNIMO at this month event.

When:

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
28 - January - 2009

Venue: Craig Barret Auditorium, Sasken Communication Technologies Limited
139/25, Domlur Inner Ring Road

Driving Directions:
(Take the left into the lane in front of Hyundai Workshop - if coming from
Koramangala Side - and then the first left, second right)

(Take the U Turn and then take the left into the lane in front of Hyundai
Workshop if coming from Indiranagar Side - and then the first left, second
right)

Parking:
Ample parking space is available in the grounds next to the Sasken building

Register:
It is free event. Registration is must. Please register at www.momobangalore.org

When: 20th October 2008, 6:30 PM to 9 PM

What: Rural Opportunities in Mobile

Brief:
Rural consumers in South and South-East Asia have tremendous potential for telecom adoption but very few know how to either identify these consumers or reach out to them. Remoteness and low spending capacities are cited by prominent organizations as reasons for not conceptualizing dedicated rural marketing strategies. The situation is changing with growing rural prosperity and the need for technology to resolve challenges of remoteness through information access.

The question then arises is how should telecom and other industries now orient themselves to these untapped rural markets? Are the strategies to be explored here the same as for urban markets? How well do urban marketing strategies function with rural consumers? What can telecom companies do in order to facilitate telecom uptake among urban low income and rural users? Answers to these questions and more and identifying key recommendation areas on ways in which telecom players stands to strengthen their positions and lead global rural marketing efforts.

Speaker: Saswati Saha-Mitra Knowledge Manager, CKS Consulting.

Demo: Mobee by Dasarath.

Cost: Free

Where: Craig Barret Auditorium, Sasken Technologies, Domlur (Outer Ring Road office).

When: 28th July 2008, 6:30 PM to 9 PM

Topic: Challenges of delivering rich media and applications over the Internet

Speaker: Bruno Goveas, Head – Marketing & Product Management (India) Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Brief:
Has the Internet infrastructure kept pace? As the Internet is rapidly evolving as an important channel to sell, inform, entertain, and conduct the business online, traffic loads and performance requirements have increased dramatically. Bruno will discuss the evolution of the Internet, key challenges faced and implications for businesses. As end-user consumption of content on mobile devices reaches critical mass, he will also share the current state of the Mobile Internet .

Demo: MyDunia Enterprise Services By Mr Sachin, Assistant Vice President Marketing, MyDuniya

Where: Akamai Technologies, #77, Salarpuria Ascent, Jyoti Nivas College Road, Near Bhima Jewellers, Koramangala, Bangalore - 560095

Cost: Free, but registration is required.

Register: here

Sponsor:

Yusuf did not have any slides. So please visit the TringMe blog if you want to get a lowdown on it.

Thanks to everyone who made it despite the IPL matches. And thanks to Sagar for a nice talk, and Yusuf and Sridhar for the demos. And Forum Nokia for sponsoring.

See you again on June 23rd.

When: 26th May 2008, 6:30 PM to 9 PM

What: Mobile Browsing In India

Speaker: Sagar Chandna Country Manager, Opera Software India.

Demo: TringMe Mobile VoIP By TringMe, Yusuf Motiwala

Cost: Free, but registration is required.

Register: here

Where: BrewHaHa Cafe, #88 Industrial Layout, JNC Road, Koramangala, 5th Block, Bangalore

Directions: here

Sponsor:

When: 28th April 2008, 6:30 PM to 9 PM

What: How do we develop steady innovation for future mobile services

Speaker: Ashish Thomas of SingTel.

Demo: MyDuniya by Ganapathy Subramaniam

Register: here

Where:
Nokia India Pvt Ltd.,
#2A, Jupiter block,
Auditorium room , 3rd floor
Sarjapur Marathahalli Ring Road,
Kadabeesanahalli,
Bangalore - 560 017
Ph: 40159000,

Directions: Download the map here.

Sponsor:

A good news for Symbian developers in India: the Indian website for Forum Nokia has been launched. A Nokia N95 is up for grabs as well. So sign up now.

When: 24th March 2008, 6:30 to 9 PM.

What: Mapunity: Mobile Applications, Social Technology and Social Networking, by Dr. Ashwin Mahesh.

Dr Ashwin Mahesh is Chief Executive Officer and one of the co-founders of Mapunity, incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. He is also a co-founder of the public affairs magazine India Together, and a consultant to the Administrative Reforms Commission of the Central government. This year, he is on the visiting faculty at IIM, researching and teaching the re-invention of government through policy and implementation.

In this talk, Ashwin will focus on social technology, its potential to address key problems, and the spin-off commercial advantages of this focus. He will show some of the application spaces for Mapunity technology, discuss the social networking platform the company is building, and a few of the directions in which technology development could go in the future. He will also share some of Mapunity’s experience in creating and growing a startup in the mode of a ‘research lab’ rather than a product or services organisation.

Demo: Mapunity Mobile Applications by Pradeep BV.

Cost: Free. Register here.

Where:
Nokia India Pvt Ltd.,
#2A, Jupiter block,
Auditorium room , 3rd floor
Sarjapur Marathahalli Ring Road,
Kadabeesanahalli,
Bangalore - 560 017
Ph: 40159000,

Directions: Download the map here.

Sponsor:

Forum Nokia (one of our recently announced sponsors) is organizing code camps in Bangalore about widgets and flashlite, which might of very good use to the developer community.Here is the blurb about the event from the site.
Forum Nokia proudly brings to you:

The Forum Nokia Code Camps are specially organized for developers in APAC. You can immediately start coding during the camp and upload your innovative application to MOSH to win the exclusive Code Camp Goodie Bags! During the camp, you’ll be overloaded with how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself.

Click here for the Widgets Code Camp Agenda. Click here for the FlashLite Code Camp Agenda.

Don’t stop after the camp, continue to learn at Forum Nokia Lobby ( http://community.forum.nokia.com/ ) that has blogs, discussion boards, Wiki and much more.

More about it here

Here is the much requested presentation given by Admob from our Jan event.