The start to the event was a few words from our Sponsor of the night, Nick Gallon of the BBC, who had graciously put us in Quay House, overlooking the Docks, and laid on refreshments.

First up to speak, was Ryan Norton, talking about what the BBC has been looking at, and piloting, covering a range of technologies, from Watermarking, Synced live, to audio detection. Great to hear what the BBC have been doing – a link to be provided soon to their content.

Second up was Paul Rawlings from Screen Reach Interactive, covering some of the interactive second screen experiences.  From swiftcover billboard game, through to football stadium surveys.

Finally we had Jeff Coghlan, from Matmi, explaining some of their experiences, with multi screen gaming, what they have been doing with TVs, and how they are integrating the experiences going forward.

After the presentations, the questions from the floor covered topics such as how to generate revenue, how to make sure the second screen apps are found, the value of advertising in this space, and also data protection.

Big Thanks to the speakers, and looking forward to the next session.

Event to be held at Dukes 92, 18-20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ from 6pm on 10th October

These days most of us have a smart phone which is increasingly becoming smarter at knowing what consumers want, when and where we want it.  Location-based applications are becoming hot news for consumers and retailers alike.  Whether we are checking in on our social networking sites or seeking a location to drive consumers in.

This event is for developers, digital agencies, brand or if curiosity is biting about valued opportunities to drive consumer awareness to mobile, join us at MoMoMcr to find out more.

Confirmed speakers so far are:

Damian Hanson, CEO and David Hague, CTO both Co-Founders of One Iota.

Mike Gannon – Product Consultant – 2ergo Group plc

Thanks to our sponsors for sponsoring the event and for their ongoing support of MoMoMcr.

For more information: momomcr.org

As you may already be aware the Vodafone Foundation have set up the Smart Accessibility Awards:

http://developer.vodafone.com/smartaccess2011/

These awards are to celebrate apps that help people in four key areas: Social participation, independent living, mobility and well-being. They are free to enter and there is a prize fund of €200,000. The awards are now open for entries until 15 October 2011.

As part of this initiative, alongside our friends at Mobile Monday London, we’ve teamed up with the ICT KTN and Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards to bring you a half-day workshop looking specifically at this area.

The goal of the workshops is to inspire and enable app developers and entrepreneurs to create useful tools for people who have visual, aural, cognitive or other impairments by helping you understand and empathize what life is like for people in this situation. This empathy and understanding is created by bringing together app developers, entrepreneurs and accessibility advocates and people with impairments to exchange information, and allowing developers to experience simulations of being impaired.

App developers who have had the opportunity to experience as directly as possible, first or second-hand, what it means to live with specific impairments, and have been put in touch with the larger community around accessibility, create more effective apps to better the quality of life for everyone. The result not only helps people with major disabilities, but also people with minor or temporary impairments, for example due to ageing or illness.

The format of the workshops will be discussion based and there will be technical people on hand to answer specific questions related to Android, but there will be different speakers and contributors to reflect the local scene. Plenty of time will be allowed for discussion and networking and refreshments will be provided.

We will be announcing our speakers over the next few days. Doors will open at 3pm for a 3.30pm start and we’ll be finishing around 8pm. The venue is Dukes 92, in castlefield.

This workshop is kindly hosted by Apadmi, and is in association with Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards and ICT KTN.
PS. As is normal the attendee list will be shared with the supporting organisations:

• Vodafone Smart Accessibility Awards. These are a new global awards to celebrate apps that help people in four key areas: Social participation, independent living, mobility and well-being. They are free to enter and there is a prize fund of €200,000. The awards are now open for entries until 15 October 2011.
• ICT KTN: http://www.ictktn.org.uk. The ICT Knowledge Transfer Network has been established by an industry-led group of leading players, with funding from the Technology Strategy Board. We seek to bring competitive advantage to the UK by promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing between the users and providers of Information and Communications Technologies, and helping to drive innovation in the sector. It’s free to join our network.

We’ll be posting a full summary of the event shortly and, in the meantime, feel free to download a copy of our speakers’ slides:

Tim Jefferson The Human Chain slides

Danny Gray Google slides

Dominic Howe Bolser slides

Jason Rousseau-Hall Orange slides

Our next event is scheduled for 10^th October when the focus will be on Location, Location, Location – utilising mobile to better engage with your customers.

More details here.

We have confirmed speakers from Google, Everything Everywhere ( Orange ) & The Human Chain.

Either click on the widget on the right to register, or the button below

Mobile Monday Manchester co-founder, Garry Partington, was interviewed yesterday evening on Steven Saul’s Business Programme on BBC Radio Manchester.  Speaking about the growth of the mobile industry generally, Garry highlighted MoMoMcr events as an ideal opportunity to learn, network and share ideas.  Listen to Garry’s interview :

• As a newcomer and working in a different sector, I found this event highly engaging.
• Good format, would have been better to have name/twitter details of speakers while they spoke
• Introductions and panel questions worked very well
• Wide range of views
• Debate format worked really well
• It was great to see passion about mobile
• Very Informative
• Good mix of folks and interesting panel
• Strong opinions on the panel – diverse expertise
• Good and Concise
• Strengths: location, venue and panelists
• Very strong debate and accessible to all
• Good questions were put forth and answered to the point
• Good panel of speakers from a variety of backgrounds (possibly one to many agencies)
• Yes – very good topic which drew interest – Drinks were good too. -
• There was a great turnout and plenty of questions –
• The open panel discussion, the networking aspect
• I found the presenters interesting on the way they enlighten a different perspective of the future of the mobile industry
• Good selection of speakers – good venue
• Learnt more about a good subject.
• Range of panel speakers
• Networking – general questions (Ie: panel needs to be shorter and sharper)
• Opportunity to listen to all points of view.  Good debate and lots too sales ‘pitches’.
• Get some women – maybe a woman on the panel – (try girl geeks)

Overall some great feedback whch we are taking on board to help make future events even more successful.

A summary of the event can be found here.

Next event is scheduled for the 12th September.

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Our next event “Apps Vs Mobile Web”  the gloves are off, the coaches are getting their teams ready, and the ringside seats are getting booked.

Join the debate, propose your provocative questions, and lets see where the debate goes.

If you want to find answers to your mobile questions, this is a good debate to attend.  Register here