Guests were treated to three engaging speakers, from mobile developers who took the “Just Do It” theme to heart by talking about real-world, deployed mobile projects.

First speaker was Stephen Kelly, from SJK Consulting, who spoke about their Jobs to Crews (J2C) product, which has been deployed by a major water management authority to help manage the Queensland water grid. Stephen spoke about the benefits of using the mobile handset to locate, diagnose, and help fix issues with the grid in real-time, across a distributed labour force.

Next was Sherwin Huang, Interaction Designer from Locatrix. Sherwin spoke about the recent Sushi Plane campaign from Telstra, and how they used the Inspired location-content engine and Layar to create an Augmented Reality game. There were also amusing stories about the Japanese-style challenges the contestants endured in Tokyo last week. Keep an eye out for footage on Telstra’s Sushi Plane website shortly.

Finally, Ben Novakovic from We Are Hunted spoke about a personal project, Tweete.net. A lightweight Twitter client, Ben spoke about the challenges (and solutions) to building and supporting a site that provides over 3 million page views per day, primarily from South Asia.

The MoMoBNE team ran a mobile survey the morning after the event, and we will post the results from than shortly, but thanks are due to our speakers as well as The Exchange Hotel, which again proved what a difference a terrific venue makes.

Next month’s event details were also announced: see you on September 20th (RSVP Details coming soon!)

Sam Collins from Locatrix

The first speaker was Barefoot Software’s Mike Hillsdon, who presented Barefoot’s on-device portal publishing solutions. Mike drew on Barefoot’s experience with major brands, showing interactive mobile catalogs and shopping carts they have created for companies such as Country Road & Mercedes Benz.

Next up was Sam Collins from Locatrix Communications. Sam presented Salamander, a Locatrix-developed Mobile Device Attribute Detection system. Salamander lets mobile developers access mobile handset attributes (screen size & resolution, browser type, supported J2ME etc) in real-time via a web service, allowing revision-controlled updates from the public WURFL data file. It also allows for application- or network-specific extension attributes, which helps your application and content to be optimized for each target handset.

Chris Kettle from My247

MobileMonday Brisbane co-founder Chris Kettle then presented My247’s forthcoming mobile and web projects, including a social network publishing and QRcode links for every venue to send mobile handset users click directly onto a venue’s mobile site. This approach helps both in usability – you can invite your friends to a specific venue to meet – and also in driving traffic to a venue’s mobile site for special offers, forthcoming event details etc.

Finally, SMS Fun’s Creative Director Matt Ascough  presented their free SMS mobile portal community. SMS Fun lets users send free SMS to their friends, recharge their pre-paid mobile accounts and much more.

Chris Kettle closed the formal part of the event by announcing a must-attend event: AIMIA Queensland is holding a “great debate” entitled Can your mobile phone save the planet? The event will be held at QPAC in Southbank from 4:30pm on Monday 18th May, the debate will be followed by networking drinks and then Mobile Monday’s May meeting. We’ll post more details here and at the various social networks in the next week – it promises to be a very entertaining evening.

A big thanks to our speakers and everyone who attended – it was agreed that the mobile community in Brisbane is certainly gaining momentum. Thanks too to i.lab for again providing the venue, and Locatrix Communications for sponsoring the evening’s refreshments. See you next month for another Mobile Monday!