Welcome to the next MobileMonday event, co-hosted with Telkomsel and themed “Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012”

This is a very hot and interesting topic. As noted by Tomi Ahonen (Pearls #3 – Mobile Money, 2011), mobile application in commerce space has gone from a long way from a simple SMS alert for banking transactions (yr. 1996 by Merita Bank, Finland), to paying train tickets (yr. 2000 in Austria), to mobile wallet (yr. 2004 by NTT DoCoMo), to the very successful m-Pesa (yr. 2006 in Safaricom/Kenya), and the list goes on and on.

I am quoting David Birch of Consult Hyperion in his book “The Digital Money Reader (2011)”

Looking around the world now, it appears that the era of mobile payments, mobile banking and mobile money is upon us. Mobile and wireless will be central to strategy in the payments world for the foreseeable future.

Are you ready to explore this untapped opportunity? And opportunity that potentially can deliver a huge impact for our country. Joining us are speakers to discuss and share insights about various aspects of the mobile commerce space:

• Frost & Sullivan – Iwan Rachmat, Sr. Consultant for ICT Practises
• SWIFF – Angus Ogilvy, Chief Sales Officer
• IndoMOG – Donald Wihardja
• Telkomsel – Deny Abidin
• Payfone – Matt Tucker, COO

Event details:

• Date: Monday, 13 February 2012
• Time: 18.00 – finish
• Venue: Blowfish Restaurant & Bar, City Plaza, Jl. Gatot Subroto (right behind Wisma Mulia)

As usual, please register on http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks for Research in Motion the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for their annual sponsorship.

See you there!

MobileMonday is a community partner for the BOOST Asia and you, as MoMo members, are entitled for special priced entry ticket (quantities are limited, please act fast). For details please contact nita_aprilia@biznetnetworks.com.

This interactive and engaging conference on Mobile Marketing in Indonesia provides in-depth knowledge into the mobile milieu in Indonesia. Delegates will get first hand insights into consumer trends of 2012, tips and tricks to optimising consumer purchase experience and brand loyalty. Embark on a 2-day comprehensive learning journey and discover how companies like Google, Dell, Intel, TNS, Nokia Siemens Networks and more have harnessed the power of mobility as drivers of success. Delve deep into the various social media platforms that your mobile marketing strategies could potentially integrate with and activate customer engagement for outstanding results.

For more details, please visit http://conferences.com.sg/i5202-mmi-35w-b.pdf

For more information, please email Ms Joyce Yip at joyce@conferences.com.sg or call us at +65 6592 7355

“Apps” – in the era of smart phones, apps have played a very important role, and an important monetization means for telco, platform provider, and developers.

We are also living in the time of major shifts that helps in app developers: 1) there are more ways to monetize in apps – not just one-time fee to download, 2) Asian countries are on the rise for Apps – good for us, 3) apps dynamics, what leads today may not tomorrow – if you’re not yet successful, try again.

It is also, on the other hand a tough objectives – competing in apps is competing against thousand (hundred thousands) other apps.

Among those there are quite a bunch of apps that can make it to the million download mark.

Let’s learn from our fellow developers, on how to capitalize on the apps trend.

Join us in the upcoming MobileMonday:

• Date: Monday, 28 November 2011
• Time: 18.00 – onwards (presentation starts at 18.30)
• Place: fx Sudirman, The Only One Club, 5th Floor

Please kindly register on this link:

http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks for our sponsor – Research in Motion the maker of BlackBerry!

See you there!

One of the most overlooked opportunity is mobility applications in the enterprise.

According to IDC (IDC Blackbook March 2011 Ed.), enterprise IT spending in Indonesia is worth $2.89 billion in 2011, about the same size as consumer IT spending. About 28% of that spending goes to software and services, including mobility applications… and about 36% goes to devices – including post-PC-era tablets and smartphones.

So why not? Because catering for enterprise market is a different game. Take this opportunity to learn and understand this market. Join us with exciting and insightful speakers from:

• Ad-Ins (http://www.ad-ins.com)
• Pravina (http://www.mypravina.com)
• Tagit (http://www.tagitmobile.com)
• and Research In Motion

to explore about mobility life in enterprise environment.

Event detail:

We would like to acknowledge as well and to express a special thanks for Research In Motion the inventor of BlackBerry for their annual Platinum Sponsorship in 2011/2012.

See you there!

Buka Bersama MobileMonday Indonesia will feature a topic dear to every developers and mobile enthusiasts: mobile apps… Hot-hot-hot space to be, complex and competitive as it can be. One analyst estimated that by 2012 the global mobile app market could worth $17.5bio with no less than 50bio downloads (Sizing App the Global Mobile App Market, Chetan Sharma, 2010). The number can go to 183bio downloads by 2015 (IDC, 2011).

Indonesia is also leading in the mobile app, even with some of the latest technology, e.g. Apps with BBM capability. So… joining us for the event are:

• Iwan Rachmat (Senior Consultant, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan) “Mobile Apps – Where Are You in The Value Chain?“
• Kevin Osmond (COO, Bouncity) on his Location-based Gaming Platform – Bouncity - need no further introduction…
  
• Sandy Colondam (Product Manager, Elasitas) “Menoo, what’s your menu today?” – a cool app that features augmented reality among other things
• Tjuk Indarsin (Business Development Manager, Seatech Infosys) “Book a Bird” – taxi apps are hot abroad, but nobody ever successfully launched it in Indonesia… what’s different now?

Special appearance from Johan Kremer from Research in Motion and friends from The Founder Institute Indonesia.

So be there!

• Date: Monday, 8 August 2011
• Time: 16.00 WIB (yes… 4 o’clock in the afternoon, so we can finish on time for BUBER)
• Place: The Only One Club, FX Sudirman, 5th Floor

Make sure you register and bring your confirmation email to the event. For registration please visit the link: http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

See you.

On one hand video is sooo sexy that it is de facto measurement for any network performance i.e. “can you (mobile) Internet do youtube without buffering?” AND video is wide open to various monetization (something straightforward like advertising to something more complicated like social video campaign, curation, etc.)

The other side of the coin, is that we’d better monetize video soon, otherwise the network will scream – can’t cope with the bandwidth demand. Talk to any mobile operator… they will agree

Join us in the MobileMonday networking event with our speakers:

• Nickhil Jakatdar, CEO and Co-Founder, Vuclip, “The Mobile Video Phenomenon: Unwrapping the Social Force, Monetizing the Opportunity”
• Dharma Simorangkir, APAC Strategic Marketing, NSN, “Mobile Video: The Next Big Thing?”
• HB. Naveen, Falcon Interactive
• Remko Weingarten, Dotus Indonesia, “idfilmcenter on BlackBerry Playbook”

The event details:

• Monday, 18 July 2011
• 18.00 – onwards
• The Only One Club (FX Senayan, 5th Floor) – profile @ urbanesia

Please visit the registration link: http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks for our platinum sponsor: Research in Motion the maker of BlackBerry… and for our drinks sponsor: vuclip.

See you there!

Let’s meet up in the upcoming MobileMonday Networking Event, co-host and sponsored by IDS/ideosource.

We’ll take a (re)look at the mobile advertising/marketing landscape in Indonesia… featuring the following speakers:

• Andi S. Budiman (founder of IDS International Design School and partner of Ideosource) “Monetize Indonesian Mobile & Internet through Community and Consumers”
• Tri Meyliana Sadewi (BuzzCity – one of the global leading ad network) – “Mobile Internet Advertising: Growth, Trends and What Advertisers Fail To Do and What They Should Do”
• Yoshiki Enohara (COO, MicroAd Indonesia) – “Development of Ad Networks in Japan”
• Oon Arfiandwi (7langit, representing Research in Motion

Event will be held on:

• Monday, 27th June 2011,
• from 18.00 onwards
• at IDS School, Rasuna Episentrum, Jl. HR Rasuna Said, Jakarta.

Registration link: http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Information about IDS can be found @ http://www.idseducation.com

See you there!

Second serving of MobileMonday for May? Yes!

Join us and network with your peers on the next Monday, the 30th May 2011… listen to great presentations on another hot topic of the industry: Payment and Commerce, Mobile Perspective. We’ve heard a little while back from DailySocial about e-commerce usage – and it’s a positive growth. The audience and the industry players, however, agreed that payment mechanism is something which is still lacking… Analysts also agree that mobile will play a BIG role in payment, thus BIG opportunity for us.

We have the privilege of having the following folks as our speakers, many are working on payment and commerce ecosystem:

• Daniel Tumiwa, Indonesia Country Manager, Multiply Inc. “Mobile Payment in Social Commerce”
• Leontinus Alpha Edison, COO, TokoPedia “e-Commerce ala TokoPedia.com”
• Nabillah Alsagoff, COO, Dokupay.com “Doku e-Payment System”
• Sarim Aziz, Research in Motion “AppWorld and Monetization in BlackBerry” – with a bonus topic: “Quick Update from BBWC Orlando”

Event details:

• Date: Monday, 30 May 2011
• Time: 18.00 registration open, 18.30 event starts
• Venue: e’Corner, Rasuna Episentrum Walk, Ground Floor, Jakarta
  (this one is a nicer restaurant, more spacious definitely)

Here’s the registration link: http://mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks for our Platinum Sponsor – Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones.

See you there!