About Mobile 2.0

MOBILE 2.0 Silicon Valley brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. This is the Sixth Year of our Event and we have gone a tremendous amount of support from the Global Mobile Community. Thank You!

The MOBILE 2.0 Conference will be held on September 1, 2011. This Year, The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee proposes to examine the impact of an “Always On, Always Connected” Mobile World. A day of interactive panels and workshops, we will highlight the latest trends in Consumer Acceptance, Mobile Design, Monetization and Advertising. We will hold a morning plenary session with a series of panel conversations, followed by interactive workshops in the Afternoon.

We, The Organizing Committee, are all mobile practitioners with years of experience in the wonderful but frustrating Mobile space. We pride ourselves on putting together an annual Event that is informal, interactive and informative.

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley is all about giving our audience the opportunity to learn, network and voice their views. Our Event does not talk at you — you are the Mobile Community and we strive to create an atmosphere that challenges your business assumptions and provides you with hands on understanding of mobile platforms. Join us!

The Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee

Senior Technology Strategist at Vodafone Group

Daniel K. Appelquist is an evangelist and technology strategist at Vodafone Group R&D, where he works on Web and Internet projects and industry activities. He is active in the Web standards community, currently holding an elected seat on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. He helped to create dotMobi and the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, where he chaired the Mobile Web Best Practices working group. He is also a founder of Mobile Monday London and co-founder of Mobile 2.0 conference and Over the Air mobile developer hack-a-thon, and has spoken on the mobile Web and other topics at numerous conferences and events. He’s also active in the technology start-up community.

Principal at Tertius Advisory Services

Gregory is a technology professional with over twenty years of experience in the digital media and telecommunications industry. Gregory is a founding partner of Tertius Advisory Services, a San Mateo, CA based wireless consulting firm. His firm advises startups on business strategy, building mobile ecosystem partnerships, creating a successful Telco channel strategy and fund raising. Gregory has worked with leading technology companies and mobile startups, including Aligo, Bell Atlantic, Critical Path, HP, Solid Data Systems, Soonr, Skout, Verisign and Looksmart. Gregory holds Juris Doctor degree from Columbus School of Law in Washington, DC and Masters in Advanced European Studies from College of Europe in Belgium. He is co-founder of Mobile 2.0 conference and an active member of Mobile Monday London and Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneur, Investor and Author

Tony Fish is an entrepreneur and strategic thinker with over twenty years of experience with leading brands, high growth companies and in venture capital. Tony is an experienced and qualified board level executive with professional experience crossing mobile, web and TV and divides his time between his non-exec roles and board advisory work. Tony is acknowledged public speaker and a leader in “2.0″ thinking, through the recipient of independent awards such as placement in the top 10 in The Observer and Guardian newspapers ‘The future 500 rising stars’, and from global recognition from his peer group. Tony is known for delivery, probing questioning, clear decision making, simple no-nonsense attitude, robust financial views and governance controls. Tony enjoys an unblemished professional reputation, has a wide and diverse professional network and will bring a truly innovative flair. Tony Fish B-Eng MBA C-ENG FIET FCIM is the author of “My Digital Footprint: a two sided business model where your privacy will be someone else’s business” Nov 2009 and has previously co-authored two books on mobile and innovation: “Mobile Web 2.0: the innovators guide to developing and marketing next generation wireless/mobile applications”, August 2006; and “OpenGardens, the innovators guide to mobile data industry”, December 2004.

The Mobile 2.0 Advisory Committee

Partner at Churn Labs
/ Co-founderMobile Monday Silicon Valley

Mike (@miker) is a hacker and entrepreneur.He’s spent the last 10 years specializing in mobile products and services at AdMob, Mowser, Skyfire, and Chomp. In 2004 he started the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley meetings, and is one of the organizers who put together the Mobile 2.0 conference series. Currently he’s a partner at Churn Labs, an engineering led organization aimed at exploring new directions for mobile development.

Founder Some Bazaar / “Mighty Eagle” of Angry Birds

Peter has a tremendous year behind him in his new role as “Mighty Eagle” of Angry Birds. He currently helms the North American operations of Rovio, creators of Angry Birds, a mobile game which has surpassed millions of downloads since it’s release in December 2009. Peter also manages the companies marketing and business strategy, including expanding the Angry Birds franchise into a broader entertainment franchise. Peter is also the founder of Some Bazaar, a new approach to building and growing new businesses. Prior to this Peter worked for HP in several communications industry related roles. While at HP Peter founded the HP Mobile E-Services Bazaar, a global innovation & corporate partnership program that BoozAllenHamilton declared an industry benchmark. Peter is also co-founder and the original initiator of MobileMonday.

Co-founder dotopen / AppCircus

In the last 10 years, Rudy (@mtrends) has been a leading figure in the development of the mobile ecosystem, as we know it today. Rudy is a key networker, strategic advisor, speaker and entrepreneur driven by a great passion: to foster innovation.
Rudy is co-founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and Madrid and organizes the yearly Mobile 2.0 Europe conference and the Mobile Premier Awards. He co-founded dotopen.com, a global network of companies and recently launched AppCircus: a traveling showcase of innovative apps around the world presented by their creators.
A graduate from the Executive Program at the Singularity University, Rudy continues to be a frequent speaker at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo,
PICNIC, next, The Next Web, MIDEM, MIPTV, Plugg, now, Digital Leaders Forum, Future of Mobile, Club de Creativos, MobileMonday Amsterdam, Mobile Web Africa.
Building on the great success of his collaborative outlook on Mobile Trends 2020, Rudy recently launched a brand-new sequel called Mobile Trends Africa 2020.

Co-founder at Nexit Ventures

Michel Wendell has over 10 years of experience in mobile and wireless venture capital. He has been the first or an early investor in companies like Mobile365, Bitfone, Ecrio and Funambol. He also is involved with the US and international expansion of many of Nexit’s European portfolio companies. Prior to founding Nexit, Michel held sales, marketing and general management positions in companies like Cadence, Mentor Graphics and Nokia in Finland, Sweden and France. Nexit Ventures was co-founded by Michel in 2000, as a mobile/wireless early stage venture firm. Nexit has offices in Helsinki, Stockholm and Silicon Valley, it manages $200M and has invested in over 20 mobile and wireless companies in Europe and the US.