Welcome to 2012! From the team at MOMO Joburg we wish you all the best for the year ahead!
To get the year off to a rocking start, please join us for the first MOMO Joburg of the year, “Mobile Applications and the Developer Community in South Africa”.
With smartphone penetration in South Africa at 16% and rising, apps are going to be a critical tool for us in the way we use our mobile devices sponsored by Vodacom Digital Media, who is advancing the Mobile apps and the developer community in South Africa.
After the sponsor’s welcome, we’ll have a presentation all about the Vodacom Developer Programme and how it can help grow a vibrant developer community here in South Africa. We’ll then host a 10-minute panel discussion on mobile application development.
And now for something new! We’ll be offering three developers the opportunity to pitch their apps at the event. Each developer will have two minutes—we’ll have a stopwatch at the ready—to wow the panel. It’s a great opportunity to get your app out there. The winner, as judged by the panel, will receive free promotion and be featured in the Vodacom App Store. Fill in the form here and we’ll choose the lucky three.
Make sure to Register in Advance – We look forward to seeing you!
Wow can you believe that there are only a few shopping days until Christmas! To celebrate the end of the year, MOMO Joburg is hosting a HUGE end year event to end off the mobile year in style!
Our sponsor is 8ta and they are helping us put on quite a show with the help from their friends at Samsung -- Yes there will be some handsets given away, so bring your business cards for the draw!
Speakers, theme and more information will be released in the coming weeks so please keep your eyes on your Inbox, our Twitter account ( @momojoburg ) and our website but for now please "Save the Date" and register for this event on our Website Here
Date: Monday 21st November 2011
Door: Open 17:30 for 18:00 Start
Venue: Cafe Culture, Pineslopes Centre
We would also like to remind you that we have partnered with the Mobile Web Africa 2011 conference and have arranged an awesome discount on the entry fee for this conference, more details here.
We are running a MOvember campaign! For more info and how you can get involved in this worthy cause please click here
We are excited to announce that MOMO Joburg will be officially supporting MOvember, a very worthy cause in which MO bro's ( guys ) grow a moustache through the month of November to create awareness of Prostate and Testicular Cancer and to encourage donations to the official MOvember association which helps with cancer research and more!
Today we are launching our campaign for this cause, we encourage you all to register on our MOvember community page here ( http://mobro.co/MOMOJoburg ) and post photos and donate what you can afford! More information about MOvember on the Mobile Monday global page Here.
We will be having a competition at our huge end of your event on the 21st and prizes will be given away to those who have grown the best MO from now until the 21st, so everyone get growing ( or going ); and for all the ladies, get creative there is no reason you cant win best MO -- Yes, we will have a ladies prize too.. 8-)
Smile... It's MOvember!
We have great pleasure in inviting you to our next Mobile Monday Joburg event sponsored by Core Group!
Core Group represents some of the world’s premier professional and consumer technology brands in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are the sole distribution and marketing partner for Apple in Sub Saharan Africa (basically that means they are the guys that you get your iPad's, Mac's from!)
Please join us at Joburg's premier networking event for the mobile industry to hear more from the Core Group about how apps and Apple products are changing the way we do business! ( yes you can use the iPad for more than Angry Birds! )
Speakers for the evening:
- Oliver Graff: Mobile Device Management (concepts and solutions)
- Linda de Klerk: Discover Apps and iPad and their relevance in business (With over 425 000 apps on the iTunes App store the iOS ecosystem and iPad are changing the way we do business. Learn more about Apps and the iPad in general and how they are changing business and the way we work, play and access information)
Mobile Monday Joburg is the premier networking event for anyone and everyone in Mobile in South Africa, our events are the place to be if you are involved in Mobile in all shapes and forms!
Date: Monday 17th October 2011
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Cafe Culture, Pineslopes Centre, The Straight St, Off Witkoppen, Fourways ( Next to The Keg, opposite Monte Casino )
Please Click Here to book your spot!
For more info on the Core Group click here
Spring is just about here and Mobile Monday Joburg will be welcoming the change of season, "Russian Style" with a hot event with plenty of great networking, opportunities to connect, food and drinks all sponsored by Kaspersky and Westcon Security!
The subject we will be tackling this month is one which affects us all from brands, handset manufacturers, MNO's, agencies, marketers and the even the average mobile user, the subject is Mobile Security, come and learn more about the threats to mobile phones and how Kaspersky can help. Click here for a FREE trial of Kaspersky software
Date: Monday 12th September 2011
Time: 18h00 for 18h30 - to give everyone enough time to fight through the traffic!
Venue: Cafe Culture, Pineslopes Centre, The Straight St, Off Witkoppen, Fourways ( Next to The Keg, opposite Monet Casino )
Mobile Monday Joburg is the premier networking event for anyone and everyone in Mobile in South Africa, our events are the place to be if you are involved in Mobile in all shapes and forms!
To register for this event click here
We are excited to announce that Mobile Monday is back in Cape Town with BlackBerry® sponsoring our first event. This re-launch event will be hosted at the awesome Pepper Club Luxury Hotel and Spa ( yes we are treating you guys to luxury for the re-launch! ) and will be sponsored by our friends at BlackBerry®
We cant wait to see you all there, you can book for this event by clicking here - space is limited so please book ASAP!
BlackBerry guest speaker Michael Weitzel, Technical Partnership Manager Africa, will be sharing what’s new in the world of Research In Motion (RIM), including the new BlackBerry® PlayBook™, BlackBerry®7 Operating System and the latest BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) developments.
The event will be further enhanced by the presence of Ronald Bach, Product Manager at News 24 Mobile, who will talk about the power of real-time mobile news.
We look forward to hosting you for an informative, thought-provoking and entertaining get-together.
Also checkout the new www.momoct.com site which is the new home of Mobile Monday Cape Town
This is a reminder that are invited to another exciting, interesting and fun Mobile Monday Joburg Tech event on the 25th July at 18:00, which will be sponsored by mLab Southern Africa.
Together with mLab we are hosting and running a survey, your responses will be kept anonymous and will be shared with mLab for their research purposes, to take part in the survey please click here - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D5V3Y5Q
At this stage we can confirm the following speakers:
- Ben Zaaiman - CEO of mLab South Africa - he will be telling us more about mLab
- Steve Vosloo - Mobile Impact Evangelist at mLab South Africa
- Someone from Nokia ( TBC ) - Please no questions about WP7! :-)
- A surprise for all the techies ( non-techies will also be interested! )
If you have not done so already then click here to book your place ASAP, there are not many seats remaining! - BOOK MY SPOT!
Mobile Monday Joburg Tech sponsored by mLab SA will be hosted at Cafe Culture (Pineslopes Shopping Centre). Café Culture can be found just off Witkoppen Road in Fourways (just opposite Monte Casino). Directions can be found here
You are invited to another exciting, interesting and fun Mobile Monday Joburg Tech event on the 25th July at 18:00, which will be sponsored by mLab Southern Africa.
Mobile Monday Joburg Tech is proud to introduce a new mobile incubator called mLab Southern Africa (SA). mLab SA is a mobile applications laboratory, which incubates innovation and entrepreneurship in mobile apps and content services in the region.
mLab SA’s aim is to support the mobile developer and entrepreneur community in Southern Africa through a range of services, including training, handset testing, business incubation, mentoring, and holding networking events.
Mobile Monday Joburg Tech sponsored by mLab SA will be hosted at Cafe Culture (Pineslopes Shopping Centre). Café Culture can be found just off Witkoppen Road in Fourways (just opposite Monte Casino). Directions can be found here
We will announce the exciting speakers for this event closer to the time so for now - Click on this link to book your place ASAP! - BOOK MY SPOT!
BTW: one of the founding principles of MOMO is that anyone can stand up and present about anything Mobile so if you really want to get something off your chest then let us know, and we can try squeeze you in a 5 minute spot at our next event; we can't guarantee that everyone can present due to time constraints but if you have something to contribute on the events topic then let us know!
Yes we have been a bit quiet lately on the site but we have had good reason for this, you will notice that there is a new logo on our site, this is the proposed new logo for the MOMO Cape Town chapter, we have been down in Cape Town drumming up some support for the re-launch of MOMO Cape Town, watch this space for more information!
As mentioned we have been down in Cape Town attending the AppsWorld conference to drum up some support and interest in MOMO Cape Town and generally advocate mobile and the power of the MOMO community, it was great fun and I think that we managed to bring our own special flavour to the conference, we had a bit of a pose ( more like gang ) hanging around our stand and we injected some life into the official networking party at The Waterfront on Wednesday night; Thursday was our day to chair the AppsWorld presentations and between all of us I think we did a great/professional job and managed to keep everyone under control and tidy!
On Thursday night we organised an impromptu/unofficial afterparty again at The Waterfront. Chris ( Mobilitrix ) and Brett St Clair generously sponsored some drinks and snacks and a great little unofficial "MOMO on a Thursday" networking session kicked off!
Thanks again to all who helped us, complimented us, supported us etc. while we were down in Cape Town!
You will have noticed a couple of changes on the site, I hope you all like them!
P.S. Check out the pics from our last MOMO Joburg on our Flickr account.
Once again thanks to everyone that attended MOMO Joburg on Monday. The event on Monday was by far our biggest and best and thanks again to our sponsor Blackberry for the awesome presentations, drinks and snacks!
Keep an eye on the website, Linked In and our Twitter feed for pictures from the event.
MOMO Joburg will be down in Cape Town next week for the big Appsworld conference which is building up to be an awesome event, it seems that everyone who is anyone in mobile ( not just mobile app's ) is going to be there either speaking, discussing on panel's or attending. MOMO Joburg has partnered with Appsworld and we are able to offer our followers a 20% discount when you register for the event, just use code MOMO2011 when you register for the event! ( click the Appsworld advert on the left of this page for more info )
We hope to see you down in Cape Town!
