MLOVE announces start-up competition!

New Speakers added from Google, Dentsu and Angry Birds (Rovio)

Berlin, 23-05-2011 – The MLOVE ConFestival is announcing a start-up competition and new additions to its speaker list. Five free tickets are given to five promising start-ups that will be invited to present their company on stage.

MLOVE is seeking innovative start-ups that demonstrate a cool new app or a new mobile service that shows some new way of using new technologies (like LTE), new design or UI advances or a leading edge combination of mobile services with social media or Augmented Reality.

Apply with a short description of your app or innovative mobile service: launch@mlove.com

The competition is open to companies that raised less than €1 Million and are founded after January 1, 2010. The jury includes: Jean Schmitt, Managing Partner of JolTech and Sofinnova Partners; France and Daniel Graf, Director, Google Apps Lab; USA.

Mobile will change our future and how we interact with music, media, advertising, automobiles, education, health and many more aspects of our lives. This generates new opportunities for start-ups and enterprises alike.

MLOVE ConFestival has an eclectic list of international speakers that all highlight how mobile will change our future. As an interactive new format, it has already a ‘must join’ status among the mobile scene. The event is anything than a usual tech conference.

MLOVE is designed as an interactive event to network, exchange ideas and collaborate on the future of mobile – here are some new additions to the speaker line up:

Mobile Innovation:

Daniel Graf, Director, Google Apps Lab, USA

Thorsten Dirks, CEO of E-PLUS (BASE), GER

Russell Buckley, MobHappy, Singularity Alumni, UK

Kei Shimada, CEO, Infinita, Japan

Advertising/Media/Communications:

Takeshi Mizukawa, Director, Future Communications, Dentsu, JP

Will Samson, Editor, Contagious Magazine, UK

Jonathan MacDonald, Founder of Every Single One of Us

Gaming/Music:

Peter Vesterbacka, CMO Angry Birds; Finland

Justin Ellington, Music Producer, USA

Izzy Lawrence, DJane, TV & Radio Presenter, UK

Health/Sensors:

Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, WIRED Magazine, USA

Yuri van Geest, two time Singularity University alumni, NL

Social Change:

Adele Waugaman, Director, United Nations Foundation, USA

Bernd Kolb, Founder, Club of Marrakesh, Marocco

Corvida Raven, Founder, Shegeeks.net; the ‘Oprah of Social Media’

Start-up competition Jury:

Jean Schmitt, Managing Partner of JolTech and Sofinnova Partners; France

Daniel Graf, Director, Google Apps Lab; USA

Additional supporting companies include NOKIA, Alcatel Lucent, BASE, Smaato, Vodafone, Huawei, and Onitsuka Tiger (Asics). Co-Curators include Beverly Jackson, Recording Academy /Grammy’s, Amish Patel, Microsoft and Jérôme Nadel, MobiWire.

For more information, the developing speaker line up and tickets registration, visit our official website at www.mlove.com.

About MLOVE

The MLOVE ConFestival has been named a ‘TED for Mobile’ and a meetup of the ‘IT avantgarde’ with an engaging and inspiring format in the setting of a 19th century castle in the former Eastern Germany. The MLOVE ConFestival, hosted south of Berlin from June 29 to July 2, will focus on innovative mobile opportunities for brands, entertainment and advertising and the impact of mobile as a social catalyst for positive change.

The MLOVE tribe started grass roots by an international group of “mobile passionistas” in 2008. Through MLOVE “camps” in Andorra, Barcelona, San Francisco, Munich, London, New York and Singapore the agenda for MLOVE evolved into more than mobile.

CONTACT:

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