Friday, February 01, 2013

BPN 1621: WSA Mobile content (1)






 SATURDAY, FEB 2ND

 
19:30 Welcome Reception hosted by the Austrian Embassy in Abu Dhabi
Get2Gether and Lightning Talks - Short Presentation Shots by WSA-mobile Winners

H.E. Rashed Lahej Al Mansoori, Director General, Abu Dhabi Systems & Info Centre (ADSIC)
Abdul Karim Al Raeesi, Director of Strategy & Planning, ADSIC
H.E. Peter Elsner-Mackay, Austrian Ambassador to Abu Dhabi
Dr. Wolfgang Penzias, Commercial Counsellor at Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, UAE
Prof. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the World Summit Award Board of Directors

 
SUNDAY, FEB 3RD

09:00 Official Opening: WSA-mobile Winners´Events 2013
H.E. Rashed Lahej Al Mansoori, Director General, Abu Dhabi Systems & Info Centre (ADSIC)
Abdul Karim Al Raeesi, Director of Strategy & Planning, ADSIC
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the World Summit Award Board of Directors

10:00 Opening of the Exhibition :: Best in Mobile Content

11:00 Mobile Innovation Session 1 :: Scenarios
Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue
Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA-mobile Chairman
Shot Talks:
Tomi Ahonen, Mobile visionary and author, consultant and motivational speaker, Hong Kong / Singapore “The Near Future of Mobile: Content in the Age of Augmented Reality”
Rich Ling, Professor, IT University of Copenhagen / Telenor Research Institute Oslo, Denmark / Norway “The Future Past of Mobile: Looking back on society from 2030”
Panellists:
Anya Sverdlov, Managing Director, Actis Wunderman, Russian Federation

12:00 Mobile Innovation Session 2 :: INTERSCREEN & DESIGN
Shot Talks:
Janine Warner, Media Executive Creator of DigitalFamily.com, USA “Mobile Design: Multiple strategies for multiple screens “
Gary Schwartz, President & CEO, ImpactMobile, Canada “MultiScreen: Designing interaction with Mobile as the driver “
Panellists:
Maya Makanjee, Chief Officer Corporate Affairs, Vodacom Group Limited, South Africa
Darius Bagdziunas, Director GAUMINA JSC, Lithuania
James Norwood, Associate Professor, Erhvervs Akademiet Lillebælt, Denmark

12:45 Excellence Presentation 1 :: Next Generation Mobile Experience :: Getting your hands on Blackberry+10 presentation by Research in Motion

Moderator: Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners

Presentation: Lewa Abukhait, Senior Alliance Manager, MEA, Research in Motion

13:00 Blackberry Luncheon

14:00 WSA-mobile Winners´ Presentations -
Meet excellence in mobile content I.
Grand Jury voting for WSA mobile global champions
 
m-Business & Commerce
Streetspotr, Streetspotr GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Keapo, Keapo, Paraguay
iButterfly, Cherrypicks and Media Palette Hong Kong, China | MobiCash, Ithmaar Bank, Bahrain
 
m-Environment & Health
Positive Technology, Instituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
Prognosis: Your Diagnosis, Medical Joyworks, Sri Lanka
Social Diabetes, Spain
Hormoncheck, The Consumer Council of Norway, Norway
Life with Cancer, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark

m-Entertainment & Lifestyle
Oz Book, Slypoz, Lithuania
DerManDar, DerManDar SAL, Lebanon
Qtom TV, QTom GmbH, Germany |

m-Government & Participation:
i-Police, Complustech Ltd., Nigeria
Roadroid, Roadroid, Sweden
Towngas,The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, China
Digital Library, NLB, Singapore
MyFunCity, MyFunCity, Brazil

16:30 Social Business –Mobile Activism

Workshop: Social entrepreneurs using wireless technologies
Shot Talks:
Katrin Verclas, Exec. Director, MobileActive, USA “Smart Swarms: Mobile content for social change “
Russel Southwood, CEO, Balancing Act, South Africa “Sustaining Mobile Content: Strategies for free and paid apps in Africa and beyond”
Panelists:
Niki Ernst, TEDx Ambassador, Austria
Mathias Haas, CEO & Founder, Findia, Austria

17:30 Thanks God it´s Monday: Emerging trends in Mobile innovation

Mobile Monday Workshop: Arabic and Global Views!
Shot Talks:
Jari Tammisto, President, Mobile Monday, Finland
Madanmohan Rao, Chief Researcher Mobile Monday, India
Nagwa Zahran, Mobile Monday Egypt Project Manager

19:30 Dinner and Cultural Program Emirati Delights and Arab Imagination

 

MONDAY, FEB 4TH

09:00 Mobile Innovation Session 3 :: FANS
Shot Talks:
Catherine Warren, President, FanTrust Entertainment Strategies, Canada “Your Mobile Fans: Best Friends, Taskmasters and Critics”
Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting, UK “The Mobile Consumer: The Center of the mobile Universe?“
Phil Hendrix, Founder and Director, immr, USA “Mobile, Social, Local: Value creation through connecting, contextualising, amplifying”
Panellists:
Alexander Felsenberg, CEO Felsenberg Consulting, Germany
Milind Pathak, Global Head of New Business of One97 Communications, India
Feras Jaffar Ahmed, Director Service Delivery & Channel Enhancement, eGovernment Authority, Bahrain

10:30 Networking Coffee

10:45 Mobile Innovation Session 4 :: EDUCATION
Shot Talks:
Badr Ward, CEO, Erti “Mobile Edutainment: Smart Playgrounds for Preschoolers”
Jon Mason, e-Learning Director, Centre for School Leadership & Learning Development, Charles Darwin University, Australia “m-Education: cognitive engagements and small devices”
Panellists:
Jak Boumans, Managing Director Electronic Media Reporting, Netherlands
Dorothy Gordon, DG, Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT & Development, Ghana
Madanmohan Rao, Chief Researcher Mobile Monday

12:00 Excellence Presentation 2 ::

Mobility & Enterprise – unwiring business by SAP

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue
Moderator: François Morin, CEO WCIT 2012 & President , M2m Digital

13:00 SAP Luncheon

14:00 WSA-mobile Winners´ Presentations - Meet excellence in mobile content II.

Grand Jury voting for WSA mobile global champions

m-Inclusion & Empowerment:
Blanco y Negro, Ecuador|AlzNav, Fraunhofer, Portugal
Magic Reader, GimmiQ, Japan WheelMap, Sozialhelden, Germany
Hand Talk, Hand Talk, Brazil

m-Media & News:
News 360, News360, Russian Federation/United States
Scoopshot, P25 Media Group, Finland
TrafficMate, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Bambuser, Bambuser, Sweden
Maestro Digital Publishing Suite, Pulse Mediatech Limited, China

m-Tourism & Culture:
map2app, GreenBit SNC di Petro Ferraris e C., Italy
Tripwolf, tripwolf GmbH, Austria
TaxiPal, TaxiPal Ltd., Estonia
Harpoen, Harpoen Pte Ltd & PT Kreasi Daya Luhur, Indonesia
Dérive app, Uganda

m-Learning & Education:
Back in Time, LANDKA, Portugal | WildChords, Ovelin Ltd., Finland
The Math Mage, RGH Games, Jordan
KnowledgePulse, KnowledgeFox GmbH, Austria
Project Noah, Canada

16:30 Growing up Mobile: The Future here, the World now!

Workshop: From representing reality, to doing life! Meet the most mobile YA- Winners!
Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman,
Respondent: H.E. Ambassador Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General, UN
Panellists:
Nathan Masyuko, Haki Game, Kenya,
Bistra Kumbaroska, Mladiinfo, Slovenia,
Matt Clark, Fair Play Anti-Corruption Youth Voices, Belgium,
Eba’a El-Tamami HarassMap, Egypt,
Mathias Haas, Findia, Austria,
Amr Sobhy & Abbas Adel MorsiMeter, Egypt

17:45 Mobile Battles: Who owns what in the Mobile Space?

User generated content, data privacy and the demise of publishers
Shot Talks:
Karim Taga & Clemens Schwaiger, Arthur D. Little, Tunisia / Austria “Making Money from m-Content: The battle for ARPUs, AdRevs and SubPay”
Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners “Value Add Services: How do Telcos strategize Content?”
Panellists:
George Sharkov, Director of ESI Center Eastern Europe, Bulgaria
Amr Kamel, Founder & Chairman - Global Technologies Online, Egypt
Jeremy Foster, Head of Marketing, Government & Industry Relations, Ericsson MEA

18:30 Explore Abu Dhabi

Grand Jury Voting on WSA-mobile Global Champions - for Jury Members only



TUESDAY, FEB 5TH

09:00 The Power of Mobile Sound

Dolby Mobile present
Presentation: Tarif Sayed, Regional Director, Middle East & Africa, DOLBY Inc

09:30 Mobile Innovation Session 5 :: ENTERTAINMENT

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue
Shot Talks:
Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum-Americas, UK
“Latest trends in mobile entertainment
Harri Koponen, COO Rovio, Finland "The Story of Birds. From an angry idea to global intercultural pleasure”
Panellists:
Eric Idiahi, CEO Spinlet, Nigeria
Yiannis Doxaras, CEO & Founder, Warp.ly, Greece
Niall Austin, CEO OmniMotion, Ireland

10:30 Networking Coffee

10:45 Mobile Innovation Session 6 :: INTERSERVICE | GOVERNMENT

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue
Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman
Shot Talks:
Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICT Board, Kenya “Between Safaricom and Silicon Savannah: The role of government in creating a viable ecoystem for local Content”
Marta Tomovska, Deputy Minister Ministry of Information Society and Administration, Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia
Panellists:
Rodrigo Assumpcao, President of the Social Security Data Processing Company (Dataprev), Brazil
Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg
Elizabeth Quat, Legislative Council Member, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

12:00 Excellence Presentation 3: The Next World in Mobile by QUALCOMM

m-Content and Next-generation Wireless Technologies
Moderator: Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners

13:00 Lunch by Qualcomm

14:00 Smart Scripting, Hidden Storylines: the Angry Birds Workshop

Workshop on Becoming World Class in Fun and Games: Heroes, Adventures, Skills, and Infinity
Workshop Leader: Harri Koponen, COO Rovio, Finland

15:30 Changing the World with Mobile: m-Content for Development

Fishbowl Session on UN Millennium Development Goals and the power of ICT4D
Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman
Shot Talk:
Osama Manzar, Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India “Voice as m-Content: Literacy and the diversity of local content”
Panellists:
H.E. Amb. Dr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
Reshan Dewapura, CEO ICTA, Sri Lanka
Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org, USA

17-17:30 Winners SumUp

Reflections on the past event and future steps

19:30 EXCELLENCE IN MOBILE CONTENT 2.0

Abu Dhabi hosts the WSA-mobile Award Gala
Award Ceremony with announcement of 8 WSA-mobile global Champions 2013 and ADSIC Dinner

 
 
 

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