Announcing MLOVE ConFestival – June 23-25, 2010
Thursday May 27, 2010 , 3 min Read
MLOVE announced a new event exploring inspiration and how mobile will change our future.The first MLOVE ConFestival will combine a new way of sharing inspiring stories, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurial success from around the globe. The invite-only event will take place at an undisclosed location that is a 100-room castle and once served as a gathering place of a secret society. YourStory is the media partner for this event.The MLOVE Confestival brings together 200 thought leaders and innovators to discuss the powerful potential of mobile to act as a catalyst for community, change and inspiration.
Set in a 100 room, 19th Century private castle in Germany over three nights and 2 days, global mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs and developers will mix with architects, scientists, musicians and social entrepreneurs to share and develop experiences in a highly interactive format and learn from each other about the opportunites that mobile presents today.
MLOVE is proud to announce new Keynote speakers: Beverly W. Jackson, Senior Marketing Manager of the GRAMMY Awards and Nick E. Heller, in charge of Business Development for Google’s European future incubation labs. They will be joined by Richard D. Titus, CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND, part of the Daily Mail) – UK’s leading digital publisher of premium-content consumer websites. Media Futurist Jonathan MacDonald of JME.net will lead an “Open Space” innovation format. Altogether, MLOVE invited 30+ global mobile thought leaders from the likes of BMW, Flirtomatic, 1Goal and AutoDesk.
From the evening of June 23rd to June 25th, 2010, the global mobile community will join together to experience a new event format called the MLOVE ConFestival.
Set in an ancient castle south of Berlin, about 200 decision makers and futurists with a mobile background will create their vision of the future of mobile. Participants and speakers from within and from outside the mobile industry will come from as far as Japan and Silicon Valley, reflecting the recognition that mobile has become ubiquitous around the world. It is time for the mobile industry to interact with thought leaders from all disciplines and interests to learn from eachother about how best to utilize mobile to enhance our lives and businesses.
“The MLOVE ConFestival is designed to encourage networking and provides the participants with the opportunity to really get to know eachother in an informal atmosphere. Our goal is to strengthen relationships between the mobile elite and thought leaders from other industries and disciplines,” stated ConFestival Director Peter Giblin.
“This event is mandatory for anybody who wants to keep up with the rapid development of the mobile industry” said Stefanie Hoffman, CEO of mobile social company Aka-Aki, Berlin.
“It’s unbelievable what has happened since we started the MLOVE movement just over a year ago. This event will foster ideas and inspiration to work on a shared vision of the future of mobile. Explicitly not from a technical but from a social and human point of view,” added MLOVE founder Harald Neidhardt.
About MLOVE
The MLOVE tribe started grass roots by an international group of “mobile passionistas” in 2008. Through MLOVE “camps” in Barcelona, San Francisco, Munich, London, New York and Singapore the agenda for MLOVE evolved into more than mobile.
Peter Giblin is the Director of the MLOVE ConFestival and joined by a producer team led by Diana B. Krueger. The advisory board to the MLOVE ConFestival 2010 includes: Andrew J.Scott (Rummble), Jonathan MacDonald (JMA), Stefanie Hoffmann (aka-aki), Harald Neidhardt (Smaato & Founder MLOVE), René Bellack (formerly with Vodafone Media Solutions!), Fee Beyer (T-Mobile) and, most recently, Oliver Rothschild (Rothschild Corporate Advisors)
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