MoMo Asia is pleased to announce we are supporting the 13th annual Mobility World Congress taking place from the 24 - 28 November 2008, Beijing, China. This leading wireless and mobile congress brings together the leading players in the mobile industry and will feature a full day of keynote sessions, an emerging markets day, two tracks on business strategies and technology issues and four workshops, including for the first time in Asia, Andrew Seybold’s Wireless University. The complete congress agenda brouchure is Here.

In 2007 34% of the MWC audience came from telecom operators, making them the single largest group at the event. The combination of a leading Congress and a highly targeted audience ensures you meet both the specifiers as well as the senior personnel who sign off on very large deals.

Now in its second year at the Venetian Resort in Macau, the Mobile Asia Congress provides the ideal setting for industry player from across Asia and the world to meet, share their ideas – and create new partnerships. Showcasing the best of the Asian market in a global context, this years event will incorporate a number of new initiatives. Full program Here.

We’re expecting a strong turn-out of MoMo Asia chapter founders, and our community members of course, to be in Macau for the week of November 17th. No doubt we’ll have impromtu get together for drinks in the hotel bar on Monday nite!

The CommunicAsia Summit returned to Singapore from 17 – 20 June 2008, attracting a total of 1,547 companies from 53 countries to exhibit the latest technologies of the ICT Industry on the show floor to the 45,239 industry professionals who attended the event. In its 19th edition, the show has consistently brought trade attendees the latest, most current happenings dubbing it Asia’s most relevant and unparalleled Infocomm & media trade event.

MobileMonday Singapore co-organised an event under the IDA Singapore Pavilion to host chapter founders Madan Rao from MobileMonday Bangalore and Andy Zain from MobileMonday Jakarta to share the mobile trends and experience from the respective countries. Their presentations certainly drew a large crowd of international delegates to stop by the IDA Singapore Pavilion. The seminar ended with a MoMo-styled networking session, sponsored by National Conmputer Systems, of wine and buffet with opportunities to network with some of the hottest mobile companies in Singapore.

The MobileMonday Malaysia Summit was held in Kuala Lumpur from May 18-20. The event was well received by both audience and industry, with over two dozen MoMo chapter founders, from around the world, attending. After the founders’ forum on May 18th, an opening gala dinner by the World Congress on IT — WCIT — 2008 was held, for which the MoMo summit was a co-located event. It was attended by the Prime Minister of Malaysia along with a number of other diplomats and CEOs from over 80 countries around the world. One of the most memorable images in terms of branding was a skyscraper fully lit up on one side with the MoMo logo in rotation!

The public event on May 19 was attended by some notable industry players and many university students. The schedule stretched from 9am (10am ‘island-time’ start) to 7pm with over 20 excellent speakers, mostly drawn from the MoMo founder community. Other presentations came from adMob, Ericsson, F-Secure, Google and Universal Music. Topics covered during the panels and keynotes included operator trends, mobile solutions for disaster management, various mobile industry profiles of countries ranging from China to Venezuela, metrics for mobile advertising, success factors for mobile television and platforms for mobile education.

December 13, 2007 — Helsinki, Finland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — MobileMonday (MoMo), the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry visionaries and developers, today announced it will invite the worlds most exciting and innovative mobile companies to attend the 4th annual Global Summit in Kuala Lumpur from May 18 - 22, 2008. MobileMonday’s unique cross-border platform has proven to generate real business opportunities via cooperative relationships with the Open Mobile Alliance and GSMA, which represents 700 mobile operators and 200-technology partners worldwide. The upcoming event, the first ever to be held in Asia, will be co-located with the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2008) conference to be held in Malaysia.

Kuala Lumpur is set to be the point of convergence for the largest-ever gathering of global leaders and decision makers on information and communications technology. Held once every two years, WCIT is the premier global forum that brings together leaders in business, government and academia to impact economic and social development through the exchange of policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is expected to be the point of convergence for more than 2,500 participants from over 80 countries worldwide. Keynote speakers are expected to include some of the most respected and admired names in the industry. WCIT 2008 is jointly organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Assoc. of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia, with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia.