Om Malik and Surj Patel of GigaOM are organizing a pretty good event focused on mobile with an excellent line of speakers. The event called Mobilize is going to be held on Sept 18th in San Francisco. There is a $200 discount (on $595 standard ticket) until Aug 15th.

Topics to be discussed

Next Generation Networks

Next Generation Handsets

Next Generation Chipsets

Looking at non-mobile-phone devices for opportunities – e.g Amazon Kindle

Economics of mobile developer platforms

Web Development vs Native app development

The Right Stuff – 12 newly minted startups strut their stuff

Widgets – useful or an entrepreneurial distraction?

Mobile browsers

Location-based services

Keynote speakers include

Rich Miner Group Manager, Mobile Platforms, Google

Padmasree Warrior Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems

Disclosure: I am involved as an advisor.

Hope you can make it. It will worth your while.