First MobileMonday Event in Bulgaria
The first MobileMonday Sofia conference will be held on 08.06.2009 in club “Bibliotekata”, 88 “Vasil Levski” boul.
Attendance is FREE! Please RSVP at our Facebook event page.
Agenda
18:30 – 19:00 Registration and networking
19:00 – 19:10 Introduction
19:10 – 19:30 Session 1: Jure Sustersic, Forum Nokia
19:30 – 19:50 Session 2: Raphael Goumot, Orange / France Telecom Group
19:50 – 20:10 Session 3: Krasen Hinkov, Mobiltel
20:10 – 20:30 Q&A, Competition results
20:30 – Open networking
Sessions
1. Mobile Device and Service trends
Jure Sustersic, Business Development EMEA, Forum Nokia
Session presentation: download.
The business of mobility is changing. Devices are becoming smarter and able to better cater to customer’s everyday needs creating oportunities for operators, service providers and developers. This presentation will address some of the current and future trends in the mobile marketplace and outline some of the emerging opportunities from the world’s leading manufacturer perspective.
2. Thoughts on what’s next for mobile services in Europe, an Orange view
Raphael Goumot, Director, Start-Up Programme
Orange Partner, NExT Strategic Marketing, Orange – France Telecom
Session presentation: download.
- What the consumers dream about, and actually do… review of market trends among European countries.
- Coming opportunities to keep the market growing in terms of use and turnover:
- - Mobile multimedia: application shops, developers’ communities
- - Enablers and services: TV, content browsing, GPS, NFC
- Industry insight: challenges for the mobile ecosystem, especially for mobile operators with the mobile internet 2.0 era (iPhone, Android).
3. Doing mobile business in Bulgaria – enablers, value chain, success stories
Krasen Hinkov, Deputy Director, Marketing Data Division
Session presentation: download.
This presentation will cover a mobile operator’s perspective in doing successful mobile business in Bulgaria. Main topics will be handset technologies penetration, enablers offered by the local operators (SMS, MMS, WAP integration, LBS, etc), value chain and the model of work, illustrated by several success stories.
