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Thanks to everyone who participated on Friday - it was a great day.

Please send me an email when further details of the 2013 ForumOxford Conference are confirmed.

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Join our LinkedIn group where we will be discussing the latest trends in mobility including trends in convergence, tech policy, mobile payments, apps, devices, IOT etc, as well as hosting a Free Friday chat group.

We had a live twitterfeed at ForumOxford 2012 - you can see some of the tweets here!

The 2012 conference theme was Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley (funding, investment, advice) - watch this space for details of the 2013 conference.

Many of us have been working with mobile data technologies for a decade, and finally the Mobile revolution is truly here.

Venture Capitalists like Fred Wilson now advocate a 'Mobile first' strategy.

A plethora of mobile innovation is upon us with many mobile technologies like location, mobile payments and mobile apps becoming mainstream; more significantly, a commercial ecosystem is developing for mobile apps. Not only are we prepared to pay for apps - but an investment ecosystem is developing around mobile apps.

We hope that the ForumOxford Conference will act as a catalyst to take your ideas to the next level.

Five reasons to attend the ForumOxford Conference:

• Learn how to take your ideas from concept to execution.
• Network opportunities across the ForumOxford ecosystem - technologists, operators, investment experts.
• Learn about new funding models (Crowdfunding).
• Understand how start-up accounting is different.
• Become a part of the ForumOxford ecosystem.

Description

ForumOxford is pleased to be working with some great Media Partners - Click here for details

Speakers:

Details below are from the 2012 conference - expect to see another great lineup for 2013 - watch this space!

• Svetlana Grant, Director of Smart Cities, Connected Living Programme, GSMA
  Presentation: The Future of Mobile: Innovating for Connected Living
  
  
• Simon Dixon, CEO, Bank to the Future
  Presentation: New ways to raise finance for your business
  
  
• Dan Appelquist, Head of Product Management for BlueVia, Telefónica Digital
  Presentation: TBC
  
  
• Margaret Gold, Chief Marketing Officer, Ether Books
  Presentation: How Mobile is disrupting the Publishing Industry
  
  
• Torsten Stauch, Co-Founder and CEO, AppShed
  Presentation: My journey as an Entrepreneur
  
  
• Will Jones, MD Europe, Monitise
  Presentation: When Worlds Collide
  
  
• Neil Driver, Partner for Davis Grant LLP
  Presentation: Seven "must do" financial foundations
  
  
• Aditya Jaokar
  Presentation: Feynlabs & Concepts of Programming Language for Kids
  
  
• Dr Andrew Eliasz, Director, First Technology Transfer
  Presentation: Interfacing a RaspberryPi to a 3D Printer - "Why would you want to do it and how?"
  
  

  ***Panel discussion***

  
  
• Peggy Anne Salz, Chief Analyst and Founder, MobileGroove
  Panel Moderator
  
  
• Russell Buckley, (Founder of AdMob which is now Google AdMob), MobHappy
  Presentation: Start ups and funding
  
  
• Tony Fish, Entrepreneur and Strategic Thinker, AMF Ventures
  Presentation: Mobile and Funding - What is the best way to find your backers
  
  
• Muriel Devilliers, Founder- Managing Director, LUMU Invest
  Presentation: The long and winding road of a woman in Tech
  
  
• Jouko Ahvenainen, Entrepreneur, Investor, Founder, Grow VC Group
  Presentation: Disruption in finance: new funding models and how to get it work from seed to IPO
  
  

  ***Panel discussion***

  
  
• Priya Prakash, Founder, Design for Social Change
  Presentation: Mobile needs in emerging and submerging economies
  
  
• Rudy de Waele, Mobile Strategist, Business Angel and Appreneur
  Presentation: Mobile Opportunities in Africa - Engaging With The Next Billion
  
  
• Fabian Stelzer, Co-Founder and CMO, EyeQuant
  Presentation: The Attention Age - Designing Apps and Devices for the Brain's Bottleneck
  
  
• Prof Khalid Al-Begain, Professor of Mobile Computing and Networking, University of Glamorgan, and Glamex Security Ltd
  Presentation: Towards the Smart Apps
  
  
• Tomi Ahonen, Communities Dominate Brands
  Presentation: Augmented Reality as the Next Mass Media

(Please see the Staff section below for further details about our ForumOxford speakers)

Conference Chairs:

• Ajit Jaokar, futuretext
• Tomi Ahonen, Communities Dominate Brands

Conference Participants (you, the audience):

• ForumOxford encourages and promotes questions, opinions and contributions from you, the audience

What is ForumOxford and why is it unique?

Unlike many large, impersonal conferences, ForumOxford is highly interactive and promotes open communication between participants and speakers - we expect in the range of 70 - 100 participants. The event is designed with ample Q&A time and opportunities for further discussions of the conference topics during breaks, over lunch and at the early evening drinks reception.

No sales pitches - this is a conference for presentations, questions, answers, interactions and discussions

ForumOxford is pleased to have the support of Mobile Groove.

Programme details

To join in the discussion of all things mobile, visit our Discussion Forum Click here!

Watch some of the presentations from 2011:

• Dave Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion
  Presentation: Identity is the New Money
  

• Tomi Ahonen, Author, Consultant and Motivational Speaker, Communities Dominate Brands
  Presentation: Imagine Perfect Money
  

This conference is aimed at web and mobile technology experts and visionaries, telecoms leaders and anyone who has an interest in future mobile technologies with an emphasis on all the interesting things going on in the world of mobile technologies.

Speakers at each year’s event include global industry leaders, media specialists, strategists and journalists. Previous conference participants have come from Vodafone, Nokia, Samsung Electronics Research Institute, Qualcomm, Intel, RAC, Telefonica Europe, Qatar Telecom, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Consult Hyperion, EMAP, Symbian, GSMA, BBC, T-Mobile, Informa, SonyBMG Music Entertainment, MTV, Financial Times, Alcatel-Lucent, Three, NXP, Guardian News & Media, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and many more.

09:00-17:00 followed by a drinks reception.

Free WiFi, three-course lunch, refreshments and drinks reception included.

We have a number of meeting rooms which will be freely available to those attending if required.

Please email us to register an interest and receive updates about this conference.

ForumOxford Online

ForumOxford, the web-discussion forum of the Technology Programme, was established to bring together the best thinkers in the telecoms industry to enable the sharing of ideas on all aspects of mobile applications with other like-minded members of the community. ForumOxford has been a huge success and now has over 2000 members with participants from 87 countries and from six continents. Figures correct as of 9 February 2011.

The University of Oxford's Technology Programme has met the needs of the industry by doubling the number of courses offered in the past year, particularly in emerging fields in the industry such as Web 2.0 and mobile technologies.

Staff

Mr Ajit Jaokar

Role: Chair

Author and Telecoms Specialist

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext...more (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies -including Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0. In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the World Economic Forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem. Ajit is best known for his books Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing. Two new books (‘Open Mobile’ and ‘Implementing Mobile Web 2.0') were released in 2009. His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack spanning both technology and strategy. He has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, telecoms operators, device manufacturers, social networking companies and security companies in various strategic and visionary roles. His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: CEBIT 2009; MobileWorld Congress (2007, 2008, 2009); Keynote at O'Reilly Web2.0 expo (April 2007); Keynote at Java One; European Parliament – Brussels – (Electronic Internet Foundation); Stanford University’s Digital Visions program; MIT Sloan; Fraunhofer FOKUS; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Mobile Web Strategies (partner event of CTIA in San Francisco). Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Privacy and Reputation Systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands. His blog OpenGardens is one of the top 20 wireless blogs in the world. His latest book is OpenGardens. close

Mr Tomi Ahonen

Role: Speaker

Author, Consultant and Motivational Speaker

Mr Tomi T Ahonen is the most published author in the mobile industry who released his...more twelfth book in 2011. Translated into several languages, he is the father of numerous industry tools, theories and concepts, and already referenced in over 100 books by other authors. Lecturing at Oxford University's short courses on mobile, digital and media, Mr Ahonen has been quoted in over 300 press articles in major media like the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Economist and Financial Times, and is often seen on TV. He has presented papers at over 250 conferences in over 40 countries to a cumulative audience of over 100,000 on all six inhabited continents. Tomi's Twitter feed is @tomiahonen

The Finnish born ex-Nokia executive is now based out of Hong Kong. Tomi Ahonen runs a boutique consulting company that provides strategic consulting services to clients needing support in the digital convergence space from small start-ups to Global 500 sized companies around the world including Axiata, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BBC, BT, China Mobile, CNN, Ericsson, HP, HSBC, IBM, Intel, LG, Motorola, MTV, MTS, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Ogilvy, Orange, BNP Paribas, RIM, SK Telecom, Telenor, TeliaSonera and Vodafone.

Before starting his own consulting company in 2001, Tomi Ahonen headed Nokia's Global Consulting unit and oversaw Nokia's 3G Reserach Centre. Before Nokia, he worked for two operators/carriers, Elisa/Radiolinja and Finnet Group in Finland, and started his technology career in New York City at one of the world's first internet service providers, OCSNY. Mr Ahonen's accomplishments include creating the world's first fixed-mobile service bundle; setting the world record for taking market share from the incumbent; and creating the world's largest multi-operator billing system. Tomi Ahonen holds an MBA from St John's University New York City. His latest book is The Insider's Guide to Mobile.

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Mr Jouko Ahvenainen

Role: Speaker

Entrepreneur, Invester and Founder – Grow VC Group

Jouko Ahvenainen is serial-entrepreneur, e.g. co-founder of Grow VC Group, new...more funding solution, including equity crowdfunding, pioneer. He has participated the work to change the US finance regulation and get the Senate and President to allow crowdfunding. Jouko is a partner and board member in other finance or portfolio companies, like Lost In Translations Inc., Skimmler Ltd and Project Papillon. He also co-founded data analytics businesses. Before his serial entrepreneur career Jouko held senior positions at diverse technology firms including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Powerwave Technologies Inc., Nokia, and Sonera. In all roles he has been a key driver to create new business. He is one of the pioneers in social media marketing, and personally had significant role to develop and sell the first social marketing intelligence solutions for mobile and media companies. Jouko has vast experience of international business in Asia, Europe, and North America; he has lived and worked in Finland, Malaysia, UK, and the US, and run business in Hong Kong.

Jouko has worked in teams to close several VC deals (from 150k USD to 15M USD), and also closed many large customer deals and been responsible for 40M USD annual revenue. He started his first own software business when he was 16-year-old. Jouko has been a Certified Adviser in NasdaqOMX First North list at Helsinki and Stockholm stock exchanges. Jouko is on the boards of various start-up companies, and is a co-founder or seed investor in 11 companies.

Jouko is a regular speaker in many marketing, start-up funding, mobile and web conferences including SXSW, Mobile World Congress, CTIA, Next Conference, Echelon and Singapore Infocomm conferences around Europe, Asia, and the US. He is also a co-author in Social Media Data Analytics book.

Jouko holds an MBA from Helsinki School of Economics / McCombs School of Business, at the University of Texas, Austin and a M.Sc.(Tech.) from Helsinki University of Technology.

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Prof Khalid Al-Begain

Role: Speaker

Professor of Mobile Computing and Networking, University of Glamorgan and CEO of Glamex Security Ltd

Khalid Al-Begain is...more Professor of Mobile Computing and Networking and the Director of the Integrated Communications Research Centre (ICRC) at the University of Glamorgan. He is the founder and general chair of the IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies.

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Dan Appelquist

Role: Speaker

Head of Product Management for BlueVia, Telefónica Digital

Dan’s an American Ex-Pat living in London. He’s a father of two and...more husband of one. Dan works for BlueVia (a unit of Telefónica Digital) where he heads up Product Management. Dan founded Mobile Monday London, Over the Air and the Mobile 2.0 conference series. Dan is an advocate for the open Web and for Web Standards.

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Russell Buckley

Role: Speaker

(Founder of AdMob which is now Google AdMob), MobHappy

Russell Buckley is a leading practitioner, speaker and commentator on...more mobile marketing.

He has spent 15 years in marketing, working with some of the world’s largest brands such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, BT, Texaco and Mars.

In 2000 he helped found ZagMe, as Marketing Director of this VC funded start-up. ZagMe was recently described as one of the “Grand-Daddy’s of mobile marketing” and they were certainly one of the first high profile companies in the sector. ZagMe launched a location based advertising channel in Lakeside and Bluewater shopping malls, where they sent direct marketing messages via SMS (text messages) from retailers in the malls to an opt-in consumer base of shoppers in the malls on that day.

The service was very successful, signed up 85,000 consumers and 150 retailers. And it allowed Russell to get first hand, practical experience of the wireless channel through the 1,500 campaigns they ran. This is still a pretty impressive number, even today.

Sadly, ZagMe failed to survive in the new investment climate post 9/11 and in retrospect, it entered Location Based Marketing far too early. Russell’s free White Paper (published May 2004 and revised in 2007) recounts the main lessons of both the business model and the marketing campaigns.

After a period of consulting, Russell started AdMob in Europe and was actually the first employee in the world. AdMob is going from strength to strength, having served over 27 billion ads in its first 30 months and advertisers have over 2.6 Billion pages of inventory available per month in 160 countries.

AdMob is an advertising network that serves ads on partners’ websites when they are viewed with a mobile phone. This has allowed thousands of publishers to start generating revenues from their mobile websites, often for the first time.

He lives in Munich, supposedly as the skiing and beer are better than in his native London.

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Rudy De Waele

Role: Speaker

Rudy De Waele is a leading figure in the development of the mobile ecosystem as we know it...more today. A native of Belgium, he recently (summer 2012), re-located after 10 years from Barcelona to London, England.

In Barcelona, he co-founded dotopen.com in 2007. Three years later, his company launched AppCircus, a value creation on-line platform for developers and the world's first travelling showcase and app competition; sourcing innovative apps and developers around the world. dotopen also organises the annual Mobile Premier Awards.

Rudy co-founded MobileMonday Spain in 2006 and joined the Mobile 2.0 Advisory to organise the seminal Mobile 2.0 events in San Francisco and Barcelona. In 2010, he curated the successful Mobile Trends 2020, a collaborative outlook on the trends in mobile for the next decade and its sequel Mobile Trends 2020 Africa in 2011.

A key networker, entrepreneur, strategist and advisor, Rudy's passion is to foster innovation and discover talent.

Rudy is a graduate from Singularity University and has lectured at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, The Next Web, PICNIC, next, MIDEM and MIPTV.

Rudy plays the saxophone, enjoys art, music, travelling, running and yoga; and is a happy father of three daughters and one step-son.

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Muriel Devilliers

Role: Speaker

Founder Managing Director, LUMU Invest

Muriel was born in Paris and has a global nationality, she studied Law and Politics at...more Assas Paris II (France). Muriel started out in PR for Nestlé and then Revlon.

Muriel worked as a journalist for a radio station in France called Europe N1 and started 4 free radios in Paris, becoming the youngest French Chief Editor. Muriel has also had collaborations with USA Today, Orange County Press Group, Paris Match and Le Quotidien du Jeudi among others.

Muriel established and ran the Shoah Foundation (Spielberg) in The Netherlands and opened a Fiduciary in Luxembourg & Missions within several fiduciaries as juridical manager.

In 2008 Muriel opened a first Holding in California and a second in Luxembourg for Investments in the New Technologies and is an advisor to several start-ups

Muriel has also acted as an advisor to several start-ups and is an active mentor.

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Simon Dixon

Role: Speaker

CEO, Bank to the Future

Simon Dixon is CEO and founder of BankToTheFuture.com and an active Banking Reformer, using his influence...more in business, education and politics. Author of the books ‘Bank To The Future’ and ‘Student To CEO’, Simon Dixon spent the early part of his professional career in the City of London having experience as a stock broker, trader and investment banker.

Originally trained as an economist, mastering from the University of Manchester, he now spends his time helping entrepreneurs and investors through BankToTheFuture.com, working with students and graduates through BankTalkShow.com and a public speaker, presenting across financial institutions, universities on banking reform and social entrepreneurship.

His current roles as CEO of BankToTheFuture.com, managing the investment portfolio of Metal Monkey Private Equity and Chairman of training and consultancy company Benedix (Owner of BankTalkShow.com) keeps him closely in touch with the financial industry and technological innovation.

He is actively involved in campaigning for a fundamental reform of our banking system and educating all levels on the financial crisis. As a public speaker, he has presented at financial institutions including TD Waterhouse, Bloomberg, ODL, Schroders, the FSSC, Institute For Social Banking, the CISI and Man Group to mention a few.

His work with universities includes presentations at LSE, UCL, Oxford, Cambridge, LSBF, Warwick and most other major universities across the UK. He has also provided commentary for the BBC, Channel 4, Bloomberg and major papers like FT, Guardian, Times, City AM, Investors Chronicle etc.

Simon Dixon dedicates himself to his belief that banking can truly be reformed by investing in alternative banking technology, educating the next generation of banking and finance professionals and marketing the political campaign for banking reform.

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Neil Driver

Role: Speaker

Partner, Davis Grant LLP

Neil has advised and helped businesses grow for over 20 years and is one of the driving forces in Davis...more Grant LLP. Neil set up his own accountancy practice in 1992 and know first-hand what it is like to be in business from start-up to becoming established. Together with his experienced partners and team at Davis Grant LLP he delivers professional, trusted, accounting, tax and business growth services.

Businesses recommend Neil as “innovative, measured and professional”. They say that “Neil is a highly competent and experienced accountant. His advice is clear and simple and you don’t need a maths degree to understand where he’s coming from. He’s saved our business a lot of money in the past and his business advice on the way has been invaluable to us. Highly recommended,” (Josh Coleman of Bike Dock Solutions Limited).

Realising that a large number of business owners across the board do not understand traditional accounting reports, or the information they receive is often inaccurate and untimely, Neil has assisted in finding workable solutions. DGIT is a complementary business that has evolved out of his main practice and combines sophisticated data analytical techniques with expert systems, accounting and tax knowledge to offer a range of solutions that provide business owners with accurate real time business information, presented in a format they easily understand.

Neil has proved to be instrumental in guiding start-up businesses as they move forward. Helping ensure businesses have the correct foundation for all levels of growth across multiple business areas. Through DGIT Neil also specialises in advising on IT based solutions to increase business efficiency and information flows. Neil currently works with a number of internet entrepreneurs and tech start-ups helping them manage their finances through integrated business solutions.

Passionate about educating businesses to focus on leading indicators rather than traditional historic accounting results, and engaging in a process to help businesses and their owners focus on and achieve their chosen potential. This is mixed with traditional accounting and tax minimisation strategies to maximise potential and results.

Outside of work Neil has recently taken up adventuring. His exploits include climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Spring 2011, and cycling from San Francisco to LA in Autumn 2012, both of which have raised funds for charity. Neil is an active participant in the blogosphere and you can read more on his journeys and challenge at www.davisgrantblog.com. close

Dr Andrew Eliasz

Role: Speaker

BA Biochemistry - OXON, BA Maths - OXON, PhD Chemistry, FRCPath, BSc Psychology, MSc Chemical Physics, Diploma Computer...more Science

Dr Andrew Eliasz established First Technology Transfer (FTT) in the early 1990’s with a view to providing specialist, innovative and highly tailored technical training and consultancy to organisations developing Web Technologies, Real Time, Digital Embedded and traditional Information Systems. Since then, it has built around the core of the company a network of consultants and technologists who collectively provide FTT with access to extensive expertise across the complete spectrum of IT and software and systems engineering disciplines. These consultants have had established careers within their own sectors and have seen many projects through the full life cycle. This diversity enables FTT to put together experienced multidisciplinary teams to provide mentoring, consultancy and training in a wide range of projects ranging from real time process control and laboratory automation through to networked and distributed database projects.

Dr Eliasz has over 30 years experience of delivering training courses such as C, C++, Unix, Networking, Perl, Android, Mobile telephony, advanced databases and systems analysis and design. In that time he has also been involved in various consultancy projects including, work on implementation of industrial protocols such as the HART protocol and on the implementation of firmware for fuel cell sensors.

Dr Eliasz breadth of expertise has enabled him to write technical articles for hobbyist and trade magazines such as Elektor and Embedded Systems Europe and write papers on Medical Informatics and Expert Systems applied to Medicine.

Dr Eliasz also regularly presents papers at conferences on topics ranging from AdHoc Sensor Networking - Concepts, Strategies and Systems through to Using Tiny Languages and Their Interpreters in Embedded Systems.

Dr Eliasz taught courses in computer science as an associate professor at the University of Maryland (UMUC).

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Tony Fish

Role: Speaker

Entrepreneur and Strategic Thinker, AMF Ventures

Tony Fish: entrepreneur and strategic thinker with over twenty years of...more experience with leading brands, high growth companies and in venture capital. Tony is an experienced and qualified board level executive with professional experience crossing Web, mobile and TV and divides his time between his non-exec roles and board advisory work.

Tony is an acknowledged public speaker and a leader in “2.0” thinking, through the recipient of independent awards such as placement in the top 10 in The Observer and Guardian newspapers ‘The future 500 rising stars’, and from global recognition from his peer group.

Tony is known for delivery, probing questioning, clear decision making, simple no-nonsense attitude, robust financial views and governance controls. Tony enjoys an unblemished professional reputation, has a wide and diverse professional network and will bring a truly innovative flair.

Tony Fish B-Eng MBA C-ENG FIET FCIM is the author of “My Digital Footprint: a two sided business model where your privacy will be someone else’s business” Nov 2009 and has previously co-authored two books on mobile and innovation: “Mobile Web 2.0: the innovators guide to developing and marketing next generation wireless/mobile applications”, August 2006; and “OpenGardens, the innovators guide to mobile data industry”, December 2004.

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Margaret Gold

Role: Speaker

Chief Marketing Officer at Ether Books

Margaret is a mobile industry veteran and one of the Founders of Over the Air, the UK's...more premier mobile developer event. As an innovation & business launch specialist she has worked with a wide range of start-ups and corporate ventures. Past projects include launching the Mobile Application Centre at Imperial College, advising Vodafone Betavine on their strategy and launch-to-market, re-positioning Mobillcash for acquisition, and rolling out the LUUP UK mobile payments business.

Margaret is also involved in the social cause Citizen Science.

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Svetlana Grant

Role: Speaker

Director of Smart Cities, Connected Living Programme, GSMA

Svetlana has been a part of the GSMA’s Connected Living programme...more since 2009. The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.

Svetlana worked initially on the development and publication of the first release of the Embedded Mobile Guidelines which focussed on the issues of provisioning large volumes of embedded devices. Thereafter she has managed the mUtilities work stream and participated in the regulatory and standardisation work for smart grid and smart home. Since March 2012, Svetlana has been leading the GSMA Smart Cities initiative, working with mobile operators and vendors on the development of opportunities for mobile connectivity in urban smart energy and transport.

Svetlana has over 10 years of experience in mobile industry analysis and research, previously working for Pyramid Research.

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Will Jones

Role: Speaker

MD Europe for Monitise plc

Prior to joining Monitise in late 2010, Will had over 20 years experience in Financial Services roles...more including Exec positions within Retail, Private and Wealth management. He was on the Exec team that launched Egg, the UK's first Internet Bank, and followed that up with Programme Director and COO roles at Egg Invest and Funds Direct respectively. Following two years external consulting with M&S Money and Santander, Will was accountable for setting up and running an Innovation function within RBS Retail, followed by a spell implementing the Bank's Retail Transformation Programme. He is now the Executive Director at Monitise accountable for the RBSG strategic partnership.

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Priya Prakash

Role: Speaker

Founder, Design for Social Change

Priya is founder of Design for Social Change a social impact business with a mission to change...more the way brands engage locally with communities to improve lives and get better return on their social good investment.

An entrepreneurial board level Director with 12 years hands-on strategic digital product design and leadership experience responsible in creating market leading products with unique IP for household brands e.g. BBC iPlayer – No.1 brand in UK and Nokia Asha Smart Phones commanding 35% market share in Asia. Her designs have boosted share value by 18%, created online properties worth £8 million, paved way for successful start up exits up to £2 million and converted billions globally into passionate brand advocates.

She is an industry commentator, instigator and tutor, passionate about raising the craft of designing for mobile and social impact. Her experience and knowledge of digital product design, emerging markets, new technologies and innovation has led her to be invited as a speaker for conferences worldwide such as SXSW, O'Reilly ETech, MEX, TEDx and Apple Computers Inc. Prakash is a RSA fellow with a MA in Interaction Design from Royal College of Art and holds patents for iPlayer & Nokia Asha phones.

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Torsten Stauch

Role: Speaker

Co-Founder and CEO, AppShed

Torsten built his first computer game at age 12 and has gone on to start 3 companies and build a...more large variety of software products. He is a popular speaker in the Edtech sector with a strong focus on creativity and entrepreneurship.

Torsten is the CEO of AppShed. AppShed was started in 2009 as a content management system for native apps, targeting the SME market. It pivoted during 2011 to become an Edtech company focusing on the use of app development as an education tool.

Torsten has helped grow AppShed to almost 10,000 users and many hundreds of schools and colleges both in the UK and internationally. AppShed is the most versatile free tool available for students to create mobile apps. Students easily create a wide range of apps and deploy them as web-apps in a matter of minutes.

The next hot product is AppShed academy – an in-line learning environment to facilitate student development of apps. Intuitive, step-by-step learning allows teachers to include app development in the classroom without the need for an in-depth understanding of app development. Teachers have the ability to create their own e-learning content and distribute it across all mobile and desktop platforms.

Torsten is also a founder and technical director of Red C, a 12-year-old digital consultancy based in London’s Tech City. Red C boasts many large corporate clients including Thames Water, The Independent, Mitsubishi Securities, Société Générale and Fabergé. Torsten oversees the technical solutions and product development with a primary focus on the financial services sector.

As a developer Torsten built a variety of web and app products including “Plug and Play CMS” (a web-content management system) and Bus Guru which provides 100K+ London bus users with real-time bus information.

Dream job: Farmer

Pet hate: Wastefulness

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Fabian Stelzer

Role: Speaker

Co-Founder and CMO, EyeQuant

Fabian started his career at Outfoxed and Lijit Networks, Inc. (acquired by Federated Media...more Publishing), where he was responsible for Business Development. Fabian studied Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and has received awards in philosophy, advertising and business development. He is an occasional mentor at the London School of Communication Arts 2.0 and regarded as one of Germany's neuromarketing experts. At EyeQuant, Fabian directs marketing and sales.

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Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

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