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.