2011 has been an incredible year in the mobile industry. The progress we have made has been staggering. There have been several industry shaping events throughout the year most notably the passing of the godfather of the digital age – Steve Jobs. While the economy is shaking other industries in their boots, mobile esp. in the north American market has continued its forward march with incredible fervor. This sets up our next and year-ending Mobile Breakfast Series nicely where we take the stock of the current year and look forward to the next one. We will anticipate and debate the trends, the players, and the shifts of the coming year. Our final event of the year will be on Dec 14th, and you don’t want to miss it as we will have some in-depth discussion that will help you prepare for 2012.
Our distinguished guests are:
Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service. SNS was the first subscription-based newsletter on the Internet, and is read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide. Mark is the founding chair of the Future in Review® (FiRe) Conference, as well as of SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to address technology design changes for one-to-one computing in classrooms. He is the founder of two software companies, a hedge fund, and the Washington Technology Industry Association “Fast Pitch†investment forum, Washington’s premier technology investment conference. Best known for his accurate forecasts of important technology market shifts, Mark was the first to predict the global liquidity collapse, on TV on CNBC Europe, in March 2007, in London. He correctly predicted Steve Jobs’ return to Apple before Steve was aware of it, as well as the future popularity of the “CarryAlong†format, now the fastest-growing computer category, represented by iPads and Netbooks.
Satya Mallya, Director of Mobile, Orange. He and his group is responsible for strategy and innovation in mobile, roadmapping products, technology, terminals, personalization. His team has created and delivered innovative products to the group ranging from Peekapp – the open mobile application directory, Bubbletop the personalization and widget framework, mobile assistant, mobile recommendation and commerce applications. Satya joined Orange Labs as an Architect and has over 18 years of experience in managing and developing products for telecommunications, enterprise and internet applications. Prior to joining Orange, Satya held various engineering and management positions at Bell labs(now Lucent), Octel communications and Aspect Software. Prior to Orange, Satya was responsible for engineering at two startups – Caritasoft – a marketing automation startup and HumanConnect – a Sales Force acceleration startup.
As usual, the discussion will be from 8:30-10:00am. Registration and breakfast will begin at 7:30am and there will be time for networking after the panel as well.
Registration – http://mobilebreakfastseries.com/register.htm
Where – Columbia Tower Club
When – Dec 14th, 7:30-11am
Hope you can join us and I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.