Update:The Yankee Group will be raffling off ONE full conference access pass to Mobile Internet World valued at $1195. (Nov 13-15, Boston)

A round table discussion with Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group; Carl Taylor, Director of Applications & Services, Hutchison Whampoa Europe; Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software; Sean Owen, Software Engineer, Google; Matt Womer, Mobile Web Initiative Lead Americas, W3C; and Vance P. Hedderel, Director, PR and Communications, dotMobi, moderated by Lubna Dajani, co-founder MobileMonday New York, CEO Stratemerge.

Today’s Web has evolved into the service delivery platform of choice offering a realm of possibilities in communication and digital exchange. Mobile and related enabler technologies have the capacity to propagate and enrich the Web anywhere. In this way, mobility enables ubiquity. Now, it is time to integrate broadband mobile access with web-resident services to create the new world of ubiquitous computing and interaction known as the Ubiquitous Web. MobileMonday New York is pleased to announce that this month’s panel will be the first in a series of round table discussions. Throughout the series Ms. Dajani together with international thought leaders and innovators will explore the potentials, expose the challenges, and highlight the opportunities emerging from this mass convergence of technology, industry, and culture.

We invite you to join us this October 29th as we kick off The Ubiquitous Web with “Making It Happen”.

The panel will consider the collaborative industry initiatives that are enabling this to happen - including best practice from GSMA, OMA, and MMA for mobile web design, mobile marketing and advertizing; style guides from dotMobi; W3C developments such as POWDER (web of meaning) and others. The debate will be underpinned by one of the world’s most innovative network operators in creating products for the mobile web.

When: Monday, October 29th, 6:45-9 PM as always with a lovely networking reception compliments of our gracious host Samsung…

Giveawy: The Yankee Group will be raffling off ONE full conference access pass to Mobile Internet World valued at $1195. (Nov 13-15, Boston)

Where:

Samsung Experience Center
Time Warner Center – Shops at Columbus Circle
10 Columbus Circle, 3rd floor
New York City, New York 10022
(map)

At the intersection of Broadway, Eighth Avenue, Central Park South and
Central Park West.

Subways to Shops at Columbus Circle: A/C, 1/9, B/D
to 59th Street/Columbus Circle

Cost: FREE, please just RSVP here.

Moderator:

Lubna Dajani, is co-founder, MobileMonday New York, and founder & CEO of Stratemerge Inc. a provider of connected solutions, strategic development, & brand incubation specializing in mobile & emerging technologies. Ms. Dajani has been engaged by industry leaders such as Microsoft, CTIA, DotMobi, Viacom, VectorMax and a host of network operators. In partnership with Tribute Third Millennium, Ms. Dajani is architect of the digital & interactive elements of the global multi-media campaign Listen- an unprecedented collaboration between media, the arts, brands, & charity brought together to ignite a commercially sustainable communication platform aimed at raising the quality of life for children while funding children’s charity projects around the world.

Panelists:

Berge Ayvazian oversees Yankee Group’s new growth mission, providing thought leadership for the firm’s research, consulting and events in the mobile, telecom, IT, applications, media and entertainment industries. He directs a range of research and consulting projects across a broad group of topics, including communications industry structure, broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications. He leading several new research, consulting and product initiatives on the convergence of broadband and mobile network technologies, and the emerging business strategies of mobile broadband service providers. He is Yankee Group’s principal public spokesperson and is the co-chairman of Trendsmedia’s WiMAX World Conference, keynote speaker at W2i Digital Cities Convention and a featured moderator of a CIO panel on wireless and broadband at Telefonica’s Leadership Conference of the Americas.

Charles McCathieNevile is a Web standards and architecture expert, with a special interest in accessibility and usability. As a veteran of W3C, he has worked on many programmes including Semantic Web, Web Accessibility, SVG, HTML, CSS and more recently POWDER. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products. Opera’s business strategy is to provide a browser that operates across devices, platforms and operating systems, that can deliver a faster, more stable and flexible Internet experience.

Carl Taylor has worked for Hutchison since 2000 developing new applications and services for its 3G networks, and in the creation of Hutchison’s mobile technology strategy. He is currently focused on growing the Group’s X-series product range. Carl is Hutchison’s representative to the GSMA Services Review Group and Mobile Advertising Programme addressing the new business models, media buying platform, inventory management, auditing and campaign metrics. He is the Hutchison representative to the dotMobi Product Steering Group and W3C. For several years he managed a mobile communications consultancy business, before moving to NEC to lead their 3G radio infrastructure development. He has a history in mobile technologies dating back to 1987 with the first CT2 cellphone systems. Hutchison Whampoa Limited is a leading international corporation with US$31 billion turnover and 220,000 employees worldwide. Its mobile telecoms subsidiaries have more than 40 million customers. Hutchison’s X-Series products are mobile Internet applications that combine the best mobile broadband services with flat rate tariffs.

Sean Owen is a software engineer in Google’s New York office, focused on mobile web-specific search. He has helped lead development of mobile web search and Google’s search integrations with major operators like Vodafone, KDDI and China Mobile. Sean represents Google in the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative and is editor of the mobileOK Basic specification.

Vance P. Hedderel is Director of Public Relations and Communications at dotMobi. He brings more than a dozen years of experience in technology sector communications to dotMobi. Previous to dotMobi, Hedderel served as Director of Corporate Communications at XO Communications, the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the United States. He was also responsible for global marketing communications at Primus Telecommunications and at MCI / WorldCom, where was also a lead member of the team responsible for communications on the $37 billion MCI / WorldCom merger. Prior to the technology sector, Hedderel was Chief Marketing Communications Officer of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, where he directed all aspects of $10 billion company’s communications initiatives, including an award-winning corporate web site. He has also been an instructor of composition and literature at George Mason University. Hedderel has an MFA in Writing from George Mason University and a BA in English from the University of New Orleans.

Matt Womer is the Mobile Web Initiative Lead for the Americas at the World Wide Web Consortium. As such Matt is responsible for Mobile Web outreach activities. He also serves as the Team Contact for the Device Description Working Group within the Mobile Web Initiative, the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group, and the Voice Browser Working Group. Before joining the W3C, Matt worked on mobile web applications and standards at Orange Labs as a Principal Engineer. Prior to Orange, Matt was an engineer at number of Boston area startups involved in speech recognition, the Web and the mobile Web, including SnowShore (now a part of Cantata), and PureSpeech (now a part of Philips).