September Mobile Monday Event - Mobile Search

Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006

Time :5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Location:: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, 655 Burrard Street, 34th Floor

Tickets: $15 Mobile Monday, Mobile Search Presentation

Work and Play, Day and Night..the Future of Mobile Search

The future of Mobile Search provides the convenience for every user to search for information, anytime, anywhere from a mobile device. Current users have come to expect effortlessly and efficiently being able to access context-driven information, based on who/where they are and what they want and need. If you are a provider, are you delivering? As a consumer, what are the trends?

Join us to hear from industry experts as they discuss:

• The state of Mobile Search
• Trends
• Opportunities
• Future
• Building this ecosystem

Event Moderator: Matthew Synder, Head of Business Development in Media History, NOKIA

Panelists:

• Mark Gilbert, Group Program Manager for Windows Live Search for Mobile, Microsoft
  Mark Gilbert is the Group Program Manager for Windows Live Mobile Search at Microsoft, in this role he is responsible for defining Microsoft's product development plan in the mobile search space. Mark has been involved in creating a number of mobile technologies over the last eight years at Microsoft. These include the initial development of Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework and mobile development tools, technologies in the Windows CE operating system; and more recently helping to create and grow Microsoft's technology incubation center in Europe which focuses on creating mobile networking and security technologies for Microsoft products. Mark has a number of publications and has received a number of patents related to his work on mobile devices. He has a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
  
  
• Brett Butterfield, Technical Director North America, ShoZu
  Brett Butterfield is ShoZu's Technical Director for North America and is responsible for driving the ShoZu products and direction for US and Canada. Brett was one of the founding members of Ofoto as Director of Imaging and moved on to the Director of R&D for Kodak Gallery and Kodak Mobile after theacquisition in 2000.
  
  
• Linda Kim, Senior Business Development Manager, Nokia
  Ms. Kim is responsible for business development and marketing of Mobile Search software at Nokia. She works with global and local search engine providers to build the ultimate, highly optimized mobile search experience to Nokia end-users.Prior to joining Nokia, she was at Philips Consumer Electronics building and managing digital content partnerships with companies such as Yahoo! and iFilm to bring Internet content to the home: help to build a Digital Living Room. Prior to Philips CE, she was the alliance marketing manager at Sun Microsystems responsible for building joint go-to-market programs with its top ISV partners such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Ariba. For more information go to Mobile Search from Nokia
  
  
• Medio Systems, Speaker TBD
  

  Elevator pitches from UK delegation:

• Alvaro Bravo, Business Development Manager, ActiveMedia Technology
• John Phillips, VP of Business Development, Astraware Ltd
• Carsten Boers, President, Flytxt
• Mark Bole, CEO, Cognima

Register now to attend!