After a great holiday season break, we're back in Tokyo with the No. 1 networking event for mobile and technology insiders! Join us Monday, 7 February, 2005 for MoMo. Special: Meet with an EU-based mobile executive team visiting Tokyo for fact-finding, trend-watching and deal-scouting and watch two more excellent presentations.
Pascal Lorne from I-CF.org
As founder of the European Club of i-mode Content Providers, Pascal will present focus group results from France and Japan, with some surprising results. He is also CEO of Miyowa, a leading France-based i-mode content provider. Pascal will be joined by Walter Adamson, VP Asia-Pacific of the i-mode Content Forum and founder of i-mode Business Strategy in Melbourne, Australia.
Norihiko Fujita from bitWallet
As Business Development Manager at m-payment provider bitWallet, Fujita-san will present on the potential for Japan-style mobile e-wallet services in Europe. bitWallet is a joint venture that includes Sony and NTT DoCoMo among its many shareholders; the company operates the Edy e-cash service based on Sony's FeliCa technology and helped realize NTT DoCoMo's Mobile FeliCa service.
Date - MONDAY February 7 2005
Venue - The Pink Cow
18:30 - Doors Open
19:30 - Presentations
20:30 - Q&A
21:00 - Networking
23:00 - Last Call
Come out for another fantastic Mobile Monday evening of professional networking, education, relaxation and live presentations from two of the most interesting companies shaping the future of Japan's mobinet. Join over 150 fellow mobiheads for Tokyo's hottest mobile industry networking event!
Mobile Broadcasting Corp.
Dr. Yoshitake Yamaguchi, the General Manager from Mobile Broadcasting Corp., will describe his company's first-ever provision of direct satellite-to-mobile data services spanning two major Asian markets as Mobaho! goes nose-to-nose with 3G cellular operators for a slice of mobile consumers' wallets. Mobile Broadcast is a JV led by Toshiba, SK Telecom and a grouping of technology companies, broadcasters, media players and content vendors and is helping set the standard for flat-rate data services that traditional ground-based providers will find tough to beat.
ColorZip Japan Inc.
Evan Owens, senior manager at ColorZip Japan and a long-time Japan market development pro, will present ColorCode, an innovative new way to use barcodes as more than just black-and-white data blobs. ColorCode technology will significantly boost options for mobile phones in advertising, marketing and public communication applications. ColorZip Japan is targeting a launch of its technology on Japanese television later this year. ColorZip will also be featured in an upcoming WWJ programme.
Date - MONDAY, 18 APRIL 2005
Venue - Zest Cantina
18:00 - Doors Open
19:15 - Presentations
20:30 - Networking
23:00 - Last Call
Mobile Monday invites you to KDDI's ultra-hip Harajuku showroom Designing Studio for this summer's swankiest mobile networking event! Join Tokyo's mobile elite for a highlight presentation on Japan's world-beating mobile music industry from Warner Music Japan and get the latest 3D audio tech scoop from Be4. Also: Tokyo's GMAP will work the crowd after a showcase demo of their fast-growing maps-to-mobiles service linking places with people!
GMAP K.K. - Steven Kim - Business Manager
GMAP and Dejime use camera keitai to link people and places. GMAP delivers maps to mobiles using 2D-barcodes or emailable shortcodes. Dejime links an online profile to your bar-coded meishi. Includes live demonstration.
Be4 Ltd. - Mr. Giora Naveh - President & CEO
June's MoMo presentation is the first-ever public showing of the company's MPulse 3D audio technology. MPulse delivers 3-D MIDI, immersive 3D and sound optimization, greatly enhancing the mobile experience for gamers, music lovers and ring-tone fans. MoMo is delighted to catch Israel-based Be4 in town for Symbian's invitation-only conference.
Warner Music Japan - Andrew Dunbar - GM, New Media
According to industry reports, "Chaku uta Full" full-track downloads to mobile was a JPY 810 million business in FY 2004, nearly 5X more than FY2003 and growing strongly! Andrew Dunbar reports on the genesis of this stunning new market, how music labels will manage the explosive growth, what lessons Japan can teach markets elsewhere, and how rights management can work in an era of open platforms.
Date: MONDAY, 27 JUNE, 2005
Venue: KDDI Designing Studio
18:00 - Doors open
18:30 - Presentations
19:30 - Facility Tour
20:00 - Networking @Wired Cafe
22:30 - Last Call
Update: Our final count shows that just over 200 people attended last night to see the presentations from GMAP's Steven Kim, the MPulse guys from Be4 and Warner Music Japan's Andrew Dunbar. Our post-presentation tour of the KDDI Designing Studio showrooms followed by the massive, 2-hour networking session on the 5th floor at the 360 Wired Cafe was a blast! Overall, it was terrific evening. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Summer break's over, and MoMo Tokyo is back to rock your socks! It seems like only yesterday that we announced our launch event! But that was last September — a lifetime in the mobile space — and we've since grown from bottle-feed darlings to lovable little monsters getting our fingers into everybody's (wireless) business!
The 5 September MoMo event will have plenty of room for everyone — including well-wishers from the ACCJ — at the uber-trendy loft-style club Warehouse in Azabu-Juban. The evening includes presentations from Opera Japan and FreeVerse Partners, with a super buffet by the good folks at Corporate Gourmet. We'll see you at MoMo - oh, and bring your own party hats!
Kazuoki Saito - Managing Partner - FreeVerse Partners
Mobile Movie Showdo is a software toolkit and application control product for BREW video and audio integration. Showdo allows BREW developers to rapidly integrate video and audio streaming media into new or existing mobile applications. Showdo's core technology is based on TruVideo, a high-performance video codec; the product is a joint development effort between FreeVerse Partners and Nihon Enterprise (presentation in Japanese).
Brent Mori - VP Sales & Business Development - Opera Japan
With Japan adopting global-standard 3G networks, overseas tech firms are breaking into this market and Norway-based Opera, maker of the highly rated Opera browser, is one of the players intent on shaking up domestic competition. In July, KDDI announced yet another Opera browser-equipped WIN phone, following on the heels of DoCoMo's M-1000 in June. Brent Mori presents on the challenges of enabling full-featured Web content on mobile handsets in the world's most advanced 3G mobile market.
Date: Monday, 5 September, 2005
Venue: The Warehouse in Azabu-Juban
18:45 - Doors Open
19:20 - Welcome/introduction
19:30 - 1st presentation
19:50 - 2nd presentation
20:10 - Open forum/Q&A
20:30 - Networking
22:00 - Last call
Update: Wow! We have always said we'd be happy if 80, maybe 100 people show up for any particular MoMo. And after a two-month summer break, and in the face of what has proven to be a destructive typhoon #14, we weren't expecting such a large crowd. You proved us waaaaay wrong! :-)
Can you spell chaos with a capital K?? Woot! MoMo Tokyo's 1st birthday bash was (almost) out of control. Best count, thanks to our somewhat tipsy volunteers, shows almost 300 strong turned out to munch and mingle with reckless abandon. It was super to see plenty of new faces combined with many of the usual suspects generating a vibrant buzz in the house all night long.
We are already planning the October event, slated for Monday, 3 October, 2005. Check back for details and to grab copies of past MoMo files.
Get your sombreros and lederhosen out of the closet! MoMo Tokyo is set to take over Ebisu-Zest Cantina on Monday, 3 October, for another great event. We'll have two fantastic presentations - from G-Mode and Macromedia - blasting onto that monster-sized screen and WWJ chief editor Daniel Scuka will be back leading another mobile intelligence mission, so it's an evening not to be missed!
Applications are the heart of 3G and this event will highlight Flash and Java, the two heavyweights of cutting-edge, rich mobile content development. Make sure you complete the registration form below and we'll look forward to seeing you for some serious “OktoberZest” mobile networking… Mexican style!
Hiro Higashiyama — Mgr. Overseas Business — G-Mode
Gaming is one of the most profitable and fastest-growing mobile content segments and enjoys cross-cultural acceptance worldwide. G-Mode is one of Tokyo's liveliest development houses and was founded when DoCoMo launched the first Java i-mode phones in 2001. Higashiyama-san will present on the gaming market, usage in Japan, usability factors and the company's success with delivering games to customers in Japan, Asia and Europe.
Akio Tanaka — VP and Tech. Advisor — Macromedia Japan
Macromedia's Akio Tanaka and Dwight Rodgers, Senior Software Engineer, will present an update on the Flash mobile business in Japan including the recently launched NTT DoCoMo iChannel service, which is based on Macromedia's Flash Cast technology.
Date: Monday, 3 October 2005
Venue: Ebisu Zest Cantina
18:30 - Doors Open
19:00 - Welcome/introduction
19:15 - First presentation
19:30 - Second presentation
19:45 - Open forum/Q&A
20:00 - Networking
23:00 - Last call
Update: It was yet another stellar MoMo turn out at Zest Cantina with almost 250 folks heading down for a few margaritas to take in the evening's feature presentations from Hiro Higashiyama from G-Mode and Akio Tanaka and Dwight Rodgers from Macromedia. We got fantastic overviews on how Java games have started to gain traction in global markets while FlashLite and the new FlashCast service (branded i-Channel on DoCoMo) are pushing mobile data to the next level here in Japan.
We will be making the announcement for our next event here sometime soon - mark 14 November on your schedule - and meanwhile we'll get the most recent presentations online for everyone ASAP.
Join us on 14 Nov. for MoMo Tokyo's season finale Mobile Networking Bonenkai at Super Deluxe! The past year has really been a blast with fantastic presentations from insiders at bitWallet, i-CF, ColorZip, Mobaho!, Warner Music, MPulse, GMap, Opera, FreeVerse, G-Mode and Macromedia. Tokyo's hottest mobile networking community is strong and growing, with typically over 200 participants attending, and we look forward to another great MoMo year in 2006. Bring plenty of meishi!
With the year-end party season just around the corner, we've decided to make the November MoMo event a 100% relaxed and fun Super Mobile Networking Bonenkai.* And for good little boys & girls, Santa will be there with some door-prize goodies!
Date: Monday, 14 November 2005
Venue: Super Deluxe Roppongi
19:00 - Doors Open
20:00 - Networking
21:00 - Singing
22:00 - Dancing
23:00 - Last call
Update: Our Super-Deluxe Bonenkai hosted over 300 people at a swank, underground Roppongi niteclub last week. For this year-end party event, we had no presentations, opting instead for a casual evening of business-card swapping and mobile networking. It was great to see such a wide mix of people from all corners of Tokyo's wireless community attending for a super evening of cool jazz and, er… 'fine' wine.
It was also great to see high-profile attendees from the wireless carriers, ad agencies, several embassies and the hardware, application and content provider ecosystem in the house — plus at least a few VCs. We had hoped to provide a free i-Pod shuffle to everyone, but the price-tag proved to be a bit steep.. and with Santa being too busy to visit all the good mobile boys & girls, we settled for doing a business card draw instead. Congrats to the winners from Ante Music, Dai Job and Ubit…!!!
The next MoMo is in planning for mid-January 2006 and we'll send a notice to all registered MoMo members as well as post details here as soon as we have them.