The Mobile Premier Awards opens – and there’s an award for female entrepreneurs

You might be familiar with the Global Peer Awards that Rudy de Waele has been running in partnership with Mobile Monday for the last few years in Barcelona. Well, he’s now extended the concept to include more networks, including the Women in Mobile Data Association (see us on Facebook and LinkedIn) and has launched The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 and it is now open for entries.

The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Start-up Innovation and are the largest open, global start-up competition in the mobile industry. The awards are the point of reference in start-up premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona (yes, it’s nearly that time of year again) and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the mobile industry.

We’re particularly excited about the award for female entrepreneurship… Anyway, more details about the whole shebang here. It’s free to enter and it seems to me to be exciting to be involved in it with both my Mobile Monday London hat and my Women in Mobile Data Association hat on. (Good job I like wearing hats eh).

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 will include the following awards:

* MPA in Innovation - The best grassroots start-up innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with Mobile Monday. The Mobile Monday chapters will vote for their local most innovative start-up. An international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select the 20 finalists from all the local chapter nominees to pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

* MPA in Marketing - The best start-up in Mobile Marketing

* MPA in Entertainment - The best start-up in Mobile Entertainment in partnership with the Mobile Entertainment Forum

* MPA in User Experience - The best start-up in Mobile User Experience in partnership with MEX.

* MPA in Social Change - The best start-up using mobile for social change in partnership with Mobile Active.org

* MPA in Female Entrepreneurship - The best woman-led mobile start-up in partnership with Women2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

Participation to these awards is free and open to any start-up with a mobile angle. Go to www.mobilepremierawards.com and take your chance to walk the red carpet in Barcelona!

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Events, events and more events

Admittedly I get involved in more events than the average mobile executive, but even so, it's clear that everything is ramping up in preparation for the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.

Just to bring you up to speed with some of the stuff I'm working on event-wise in the coming weeks...

Mobile Monday - 2nd February - it's our monthly event and this time we're covering off the Mobile Web - The changing landscape covering everything from widgets to the browser experience. The event is sponsored by Ikivo and OMTP Bondi. The event will be at the CBI at Centrepoint and I'm afraid the RSVP list is currently full. However, we do have a standby list  so it's worth adding your name to it as it's quite likely we'll get drop-outs in the next few days. More details here (registration required).

E-Consultancy - one-day training course on mobile marketing - 3rd February in London. I run only a few public training courses in mobile marketing and this is one of them. We usually have a small group so it means you get lots of opportunity to ask questions and discuss key topics pertinent to the group. The course offers an excellent opportunity for you to gain a better understanding of the opportunities mobile marketing can offer. You will learn a range of techniques to help you plan and execute an effective mobile marketing campaign, including best practice, historical context and insight into current trends and future directions. So if you'd like to come, please book your place. The cost for the day is £545 + VAT.

Amsterdam and the Dutch Cowgirls - this warrants a separate post but I'll be in Amsterdam on 5th and 6th of February.

IDM - Kings College Lecture 9th February. I do an annual evening lecture at Kings College for the Institute of Direct Marketing giving an overview of what's happening in the mobile world. I'm not sure how open it is to the general population, mobile or otherwise, so if you wanted to come to this, it's best to email me about it so that I can ask if I'm allowed to bring any guests.

Which brings us on to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress. I'll do a separate post on this too but suffice to say, there's a lot going on - I'm running a Swedish Beers event, a Women in Mobile Data lunch on the Tuesday and a lunch event for the UKTI/Mobile Monday London on the Wednesday. I'll also be around for Rudy's Mobile Sunday bash, the MoMo Global Peer Awards on Monday evening and Mike Butcher's Techcrunch afternoon on the Thursday. There's also Caroline's MobileJamSession on Thursday too - so somewhat torn. And there's a ton of stuff I want to do inside Congress this year too including some interesting Nokia stuff. Plus I need to try and fit in a visit to La Roca on the Friday. Sheesh.

The following week, I'll be enjoying London Fashion week for a couple of days before heading off to Denmark to hang with the Seismonauts and speak at one of their events in Arhus which I'm *really* looking forward to. (If anyone's in any doubt, I absolutely love Scandinavia!)

Then in March, I'm going on holiday. Hurrah! I'm going to need it by then. Two weeks in sunny Spain on the south coast. Can't wait.

Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, a pal of mine is on Channel 4's Come Dine with Me next week. Go Matt, go!

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Realeyes 3D win again

Realeyes 3D are doing some very cool things with mobile phones. By simply moving your phone, you can move around pictures and websites. You can check out how it works over at youtube. In fact, it's such a cool application, that not only did it win the Momo Global Peer Award at 3GSM in Barcelona this year, but they've also just landed a Red Herring 100 Europe award. This annual award is given to the top 100 private technology companies based in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Well done Realeyes 3D and let's hope with this success, the software will be installed on more cameraphones hitting the market.

Global Peers Awards 2007 finalists announced

Rudy, over at MoMoBarcelona, is doing a great job of organising the 1st Global Peer Awards which is happening on Monday 11th February in Barcelona alongside 3GSM. Unfortunately, my flight gets in too late to join the event but I'm sure it will be just as good without me there!

The British finalist is Reporo, which is great news as I think they have a good chance of winning with a proven customer base of 100,00 or so already and a mobile business model in action. Check out the other finalists on the MoMoBarcelona blog and check out the different companies involved. And if you*are* going to be in Barcelona on the Monday, then it's worth checking out the Awards event and take some notes for me!