Future Mobile Applications: Practical and Fun

What is the future of Mobile applications? With the new generation of technologies supporting high speed data access on today’s mobile networks more and more applications are sprouting up with new services and features. What makes a “Killer App” for end users? And what are the revenue streams that can be generated from this growing market?
Service providers and startup companies alike are positioning for good business opportunities in this space. What are the difference ways to make money in this space and how are companies’ approaching this. Join us, along with industry leaders, for presentation and discussion on this exciting mobile growth market.
Questions to be covered: 

·         New “Killer Apps” are in play for this market?

·         What new advances in hardware and network infrastructure are making developers paying attention to mobile applications?

·         What are the business opportunities for service providers, for startups and others?

·         How do consumers benefit from these new applications?

·         What consumer needs are met, how are the products that meet these needs marketed?

Date:    May 12th, 2007 (Saturday)
Time:    1:00 - 4:00 pm (Registration starts at 12:30pm)
Venue:  Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center

           801 California Street

           Mountain View, CA 94041,

Tel:      650 988-8500

Light refreshment will be provided.

Moderator: 

Sheridan Tatsuno, Dreamscape Global

Panelists:

Jeff Freebairn, President/CEO Big G Mobile

Evan Tana, VP Marketing Loopt, Inc.

Selvan Rajan, CTO and founder mPura                  

Ray Wu, Director HP New Business Ventures

Blake Turrentine, CEO, Hot Wan

Nam Mokwunye, founder UDC

Language: English

Seminar Agenda:
12:30 - 01:00 PM: Registration and Networking (Light refreshment will be provided)
01:00 - 04:00 PM: Panel Discussion
04:00 PM:              Adjourn

Fee:
Regular member: Free
Associate member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door
Non-member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door

Student: $5 (Student ID required)

RSVP:
rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line: "5/12: Your Name"

Contact and More Information:

Brad Adrien, badrien@yahoo.com +1 925-984-3275

Jenny Oshima, jenny.oshima@svcwireelss.org

Speakers Bio:

Moderator: Sheridan Tatsuno VP/Business Development, Dreamscape Global

Writer-Director-Marketer, Mr. Tatsuno is a seasoned businessman with over 30 years of experience in the high-tech and urban planning industries. Trained in novel writing, he began his video career by advising a student on a video class assignment, which won the 1980 PBS Documentary of the Year Award for Survivors about California survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. During Japan’s heyday in the 1980s, he wrote two business books on Japan, The Technopolis Strategy and Created in Japan, which were optioned, respectively, by Central Independent Television plc of London for Japan Dreaming (1991) and Alvin Perlmutter Inc. of New York for The Creative Spirit 4-hour PBS series (1992).

Since 1991, Mr. Tatsuno has written eight screenplays, one of which is in production (The Last Millennium as co-writer), and is currently writing two screenplays slated for independent production. He is an active member of Cinemar (www.cinemarfilm.org), an independent filmmaking group in Santa Cruz, California.

In the high-tech industry, Mr. Tatsuno has advised over 700 companies in the U.S., Japan, Asia and Europe while working as a senior analyst at leading market researcher Dataquest/Gartner Group (1982-1989) and his own consulting firm, Dreamscape Global (1989-present). A visionary thinker, Silicon Valley business strategist, and thought leader, Mr. Tatsuno was involved with the early stages of the “Intel Inside” marketing campaign, Nokia’s global strategy planning, AMD’s breakthrough sub-$1000 PC, and Canon’s networked equipment strategy. His strength is helping companies develop breakthrough strategies. Currently, he is writing two books on RFID (radio frequency ID) and wireless network technologies, as well as advising China IP (intellectual property), business simulator, and online travel booking startups.

Mr. Tatsuno has studied in France and Germany, worked in Caracas, Venezuela and Japan, and traveled on business to Japan, Asia and Europe. He speaks and reads Japanese, Spanish and French. His current activities can be found at www.ryze.com/go/tatsuno 

Panelists:

Jeff Freebairn, President/CEO Big G Mobile

Jeff Freebairn is President and CEO of Big G Mobile.  Big G Mobile is a self-funded mobile media platform company focused on creating an end-to-end ecosystem for content creation, testing and validation, and distribution for social networks and media companies.  Prior to starting Big G Mobile, Jeff Freebairn directed sales efforts for FunMobility in the Americas.  During that time Jeff increased FunMobility’s revenue more than 500% with over 100 product launches--selling applications directly to wireless carriers in North and South America.  Jeff graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in English.

Big G Mobile is a media platform company with two platforms, Recognize and RetroFolio. Each platform focuses on enabling media from different market segments to become mobile assets. RetroFolio is a media management platform for wireless carriers and their media partners to simplify the creation, testing/validation, ingestion and deployment of mobile content. Recognize takes media from the web, renders it on-the-fly, profiles the handset in real-time, and pushes the media to 100% of all US handsets--monetizing social networks and other online companies.

Evan Tana, Director of Marketing and Business Development Loopt, Inc.

Evan is responsible for marketing and business development initiatives at loopt, a Sequoia and NEA backed startup building a revolutionary social mapping service to change the way people use mobile phones to keep in touch with friends. Before loopt, Evan was a Product Manager at Digital Chocolate, one of the world's largest publishers of mobile games. Evan earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering.

Selvan Rajan, CTO and founder mPura

Selvan V. Rajan, CTO and Founder of mPura, Inc., is an experienced architect and designer of enterprise e-commerce, internet and wireless technologies at Accenture, WellsFargo, Washington Mutual, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, SUN, e*trade, Bank of America, US Sprint, Sybase, Fujitsu, manage.com, CFOWeb.com and BEA Systems. Previously a founder of Ultimia Wireless; Mr. Rajan holds an MS in Computer Science and Math from University of Madras, India, and attended Stanford towards MS in Management Science & Engineering.

Ray Wu, Director HP New Business Ventures

Ray Wu currently leads HP's New Business Ventures to manage company-wide technology evaluation process, VC outreach and partnership, and venture transactions, Prior to HP, he spent more than six years with Cisco Systems, and held several senior positions leading internal incubation, software investment and M&A, technology and business consulting in both North America and Asia Pacific. Prior to Cisco, Ray was a senior partner of a leading Internet consulting and software development company. Mr. Wu has a bachelor of applied science degree in electrical engineering, and dual MBA degrees from both Columbia GSB and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Blake Turrentine, CEO, Hot Wan

Blake Turrentine holds an Electrical Engineering degree from SJSU. His background includes being a Microwave Transmission and Systems Engineer for Harris. He has conducted frequency coordination, and extensive backbone infrastructure design / implementation for companies like Sprint and PCS PrimeCo (Verizon) across the US as well as BellSouth throughout Brasil. Furthermore, he has also worked as a Senior Project Manager of Networking Engineering and System Operations for Pacbell / SBC Internet Services (AT&T). Blake is currently a co-founder and Chief Architect of a WiFi Internet Service Provider called HotWAN. The existing footprint is approximately >1.5 miles of high density deployment in San Franciso and is called ‘The SuperNet’. Way beyond “plain, old vanilla Internet access”, WiFi Shopping Networks as well as Wireless Gaming Channels are integrated into the WiFi user’s experience.

Nam Mokwunye, founder UDC