Renewed MoMo Brisbane a Mobile Success!
The revitalized Mobile Monday event in Brisbane this week was an unqualified success, with around 40 attendees joining Oliver Palmer, Chris Kettle and Phil Larsen to discuss iPhones, the application store, and the future of mobile at our new venue, The Exchange Hotel.
Phil Larsen told the story of Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja game, and what it took from a promotions effort to get to one million paid downloads on the AppStore. Besides of course an engaging, “sticky” game experience, it also takes a lot of hard work with reviewers and plain tactical sense to get your application noticed, rated, reviewed and (most importantly) bought in the launch period. My247’s Chris Kettle spoke about their effort to launch and promote MyMovies as a paid application, while TigerSpike’s Oliver Palmer provided some real insights into emerging trends around the world of mobile and mobile applications.
We also welcomed Peter Leutjens from AIMIA, our drink sponsors for the evening, and i.Lab’s Peter Allison, who spoke about their forthcoming Angel Investor event. We’d heartily recommend that you attend this event to get a chance to pitch your next mobile idea at some qualified local investors.
But the real star of the show was our new venue, The Exchange Hotel’s Corner Bar – our follow-up survey (mobile of course) confirmed the new room a resounding success, with the drinks, discussion and networking extending far into the evening.
Mark your calendars for the next Mobile Monday Brisbane, on Monday August 16th, and stay tuned to the e-mail list for forthcoming speaker, sponsor and other event announcements.
Mobile Monday Brisbane is back!
After too long a hiatus, we’re thrilled to announce that Mobile Monday Brisbane is back with a new venue, a bunch of great speakers and a fresh chance for the city’s mobile faithful to connect, mingle, and exchange experiences and ideas with similarly-minded mobile enthusiasts in the River City.
Save Monday, July 19th 2010 at 5:45pm (for a 6:00pm start) in your calendars for what promises to be a great evening of networking. We’ll be meeting at a new (for us) venue in the Brisbane CBD – The Exchange Hotel, and hearing presentations from Halfbrick’s Phil Larsen on their iPhone games, My247’s Chris Kettle on the MyMovies application developed with Liquid Interactive, and TigerSpike’s Oliver Palmer on what’s happening in the mobile future. We’ll be closing the evening with a panel discussion aiming to throw open the doors on the pitfalls (if any) of the AppStore model for developers.
The Corner Bar at the Exchange Hotel
The MM Brisbane team has also cleaned up our contact tools, so on the Contact page you can choose your medium for staying in touch with Mobile Monday announcements via e-mail, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
We hope you’ll join us for what promises to be a fun and engaging evening of all things mobile!
Date: Monday, July 19th 2010
Time: 5:45pm for a 6:00pm start
Venue: Exchange Hotel, 131 Edward Street, Brisbane
RSVP: Via Facebook or rsvp@mobilemondaybrisbane.com
About Keith Ahern and Oliver Weidlich [MoMoMay]
Keith Ahern – CEO, mogeneration
Keith is a seasoned internet entrepreneur with over 12 years of innovative software and service development. Before founding MoGeneration Keith was Mobile Technology Manager for News Ltd where he was responsible for mobile platforms, strategy, development and vendor management. Keith helped grow News Ltd’s mobile business from simple SMS services to engaging mobile websites with million’s of page views each month. Keith started working for pioneering web company Netscape in Silicon Valley working on the Navigator browser and later worked for Philips Research and Development where he was granted 2 US patents
Oliver Weidlich – Mobile Customer Experience Specialist, Ideal Interfaces
Oliver draws on a background in psychology, experience in usability and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy, and customers, and to recommend & design solutions. He has a wide range of experience evaluating and improving the end-to-end customer experience with mobile devices, portals, applications and content. Oliver has consulted to clients such as; Hutchison, Optus, Telstra, ninemsn, ABC, MySpace and RPO.
As part of the local mobile industry Oliver is playing a key role in the design and project management of the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, which looks at mobile content usage in the local market, a project on behalf of the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group. He also co-hosts Mobile Monday Sydney, a mobile focused networking night.
In addition, Oliver is a judge, author and speaker on the mobile customer experience.
Keith (@pubzak) and Oliver (@oliverw) will both be presenting in Mobile Monday May 18 at the Riverside Function Room QPAC. This is a combined event with AIMIA Queensland – first the great debate, followed by some networking drinks, and then the start of Mobile Monday Brisbane.
MoMo Brisbanites will need register for this event! Don’t forget to use the promo code PLANET.
See you all there!
Mobile Monday Brisbane
MoMoBNE Speaker for May – Keith Ahern
We’re thrilled to announce and confirm Keith Ahern from MoGeneration will speak at the MobileMonday Brisbane event on May 18th. Keith’s topic will be:
“Pick me! Pick me! Getting ahead in the Apple App Store”
AIMIA event registration details and links can be found in the previous post. You must register for the AIMIA event to attend MobileMonday Brisbane this month. We hope to see you there!