On 5th August, we had Mobile Monday Delhi chapter kick off and the first meet went off very well. We had people from all walks of life - mobile enthusiasts, NGOs, venture capitalists, mobile carriers, content developers, content aggregators, entrepreneurs, students,.... - so what more could you expect! It was a charged audience - around 90 people turned up!!
The meeting kick started at 10 with everyone giving a brief overview of themselves and one killer feature they would want in their mobile phone. After that we had an enlightening talk by Mr. Naresh Gupta - VP Adobe, Managing Director India. His take was SMS and Voice are the two killer applications and perhaps Location based Services might be the next - but wait and see...
And then we had a series of talks till lunch:
- Nishant Kavi from iGate presented their solution for content adaptation on mobiles, gave a demo.
- Lomesh Dutta from Wirkle Inc. gave a presentation on
LinknSurf - product focussed for building community around media.
- Prerna Gupta - cofounder Yaari.com gave a presentation on Social Networking on Mobiles via SMS... I was surprised to see my name appearing in her demo :-) Sometime back I got an invite for Yaari.com and just made a brief profile.. Didn't give me stardom but may be one day :-)
- Rajan presented his thoughts on Mobile 2.0
And after that we broke up for lunch.
After lunch we had two parallel sessions:
Track one had the following presentations:
- Saurabh Jain presented his talk about Convergence in mobile world..
- Nimesh Bhandari from ValueFirst gave a talk on Business Model Innovation in Value Added Services
- And then it was my turn , and I gave a talk on Mobile 2.0 - I guess I asked too many questions trying to analyze what's mobile 2.0 :-) But got a great response from the audience.
- Mr Chirag Jain, VP Webaroo, gave a talk describing Webaroo's offline search solution.
- Milind Nimesh gave a talk on Pervasive Computing..
Track two had the following presentations:
- Kunal Bajaj gave a talk on Telecom policy
- Joshua and Ashok Datar from Koolpool talked about their SMS based solutions for car pooling in Mumbai
- Sunadini and Ekta from ACL Wireless gave a talk on Usability on Small Screens
- Girish gave a talk on tools for mobile development
And finally we had an open panel session. The panelists include:
- Mr Manoj Dawane - COO Airtel
- Mr Alok Mittal - Partner Cannan Partners, Band of Angels
- Mr Vish Bajaj, CEO
ValueFirst- Mr Kiranbir Nag,
Silicon Valley Bank- Mr Arvind Jha - VP Monsoon Multimedia
- Mr Chirag Jain - VP Webaroo
The star attraction of the panel, atleast from my perspective, was Mr Manoj Dawane. Even though I have been against the walled garden approach of the carrier, but the way Mr Dawane handled all the queries and presented his perspective, all hats to the man..
I missed completely the track two of presentations and even with other presentations, I was quite occupied with getting things streamlined - always happen when you are part of the organizing team.. But nonetheless we have been able to capture some of the videos and we will be uploading them to youtube..
Presentations will be uploaded onto the wiki, so be sure to check http://momodelhi.pbwiki.com
Just posting down a pic of me and lomesh captured by
Prashant. It was captured at the very end of the event, I was really exhausted....
Me and Lomesh
You can see other pics at
flickr.
