Developing on multiple mobile platforms can be an arduous task. Discover and learn how other people are using various different tools to create cross platform solutions.

Some of the questions we will be looking to answer:

Which platform(s) should you develop for?

What software tools are easy and which are difficult to use, and which give the best benefits?

Should you be focusing on one platform, or many?

What can platform owners do to make their platforms more attractive to developers?

What is the % split of smartphones on the market ie: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry etc?

Confirmed Speakers:

Marmalade – Speaker to be confirmed

Chris Garrett – Abstraktion

Stuart Smith – Managing Director – 3 Sheep Limited

Amir Latif – Director - Me,We Studios

After a recent survey to our members, Cross Platform Development was the most requested topic to be covered and has generated a lot of interest. Please Register in Advance Here.

Dukes 92 – Merchant Room
18-20 Castle Street
Manchester, United Kingdom
Monday, April 30, 2012 from 6:00 to 9:00PM

We look forward to seeing you.

Come and join MoMoMcr and BBC our sponsors and hosts for the 1^st event of 2012.

Just some of the topics we will be discussing:

- 2^nd screen experiences

- the potential for 2nd screen services as a compelling interactive media.

- how broadcasters engage their audience on tablets or smartphones?

- Real-time play along

- 2^nd screen content synchronization to accompanying advertising opportunity

-  industry trends towards social media and television shows.

Confirmed Speakers to date:

Ryan Norton – BBC – Senior Product Manager

Paul Rawlings – Screach – Co-Founder and CEO

Jeff Coghlan – Matmi – CEO

Date:              23^rd January 2012

Venue:           MediaCity UK, BBC, Quay House, 5^th Floor

Time:              6pm

Due to security access – please arrive promptly, as all attendees will need to be signed into the building and escorted in groups to our event.

How to get there: http://www.mediacityuk.co.uk/destination/getting-here

Please note that limited places are available, so please register if you wish to attend.

Please bring ticket for a free drink.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Smile, It’s Monday!

Our next event will be held on 14th November and topic is Freemium vs Premium.

Would you like to find out how to generate revenue from Freemium apps?  What are the pros and cons for Freemium vs Premium?  Come and join us at the next MoMoMcr event and find out more.

Chaired by Greg Robinson – COO and Co-Founder of Connect2Media

Confirmed Speakers are:

Alex Bowker – Partner Solutions Architect – RIM/BlackBerry

Adam Fleming – CTO – Apadmi Limited

Jeff Coghlan – Founder & CEO – Matmi

Simon East – CEO & Co-Founder – DriveGain Limited

Stephen Hey – Connect2Media

More details on the event, and speakers profiles can be found on our website

We look forward to seeing you.

Location, Location, Location - utilizing mobile to better engage with your customers

Event to be held at Dukes 92, 18-20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ from 6pm on 10th October

These days most of us have a smart phone which is increasingly becoming smarter at knowing what consumers want, when and where we want it.  Location-based applications are becoming hot news for consumers and retailers alike.  Whether we are checking in on our social networking sites or seeking a location to drive consumers in.

This event is for developers, digital agencies, brand or if curiosity is biting about valued opportunities to drive consumer awareness to mobile, join us at MoMoMcr to find out more.

Confirmed speakers so far are:

Damian Hanson, CEO and David Hague, CTO both Co-Founders of One Iota.

Mike Gannon – Product Consultant – 2ergo Group plc

Thanks to our sponsors for sponsoring the event and for their ongoing support of MoMoMcr.

Please Register in Advance Here

As you may already be aware the Vodafone Foundation have set up the Smart Accessibility Awards:

http://developer.vodafone.com/smartaccess2011/

These awards are to celebrate apps that help people in four key areas: Social participation, independent living, mobility and well-being. They are free to enter and there is a prize fund of €200,000. The awards are now open for entries until 15 October 2011.

As part of this initiative, alongside our friends at Mobile Monday London, we’ve teamed up with the ICT KTN and Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards to bring you a half-day workshop looking specifically at this area.

The goal of the workshops is to inspire and enable app developers and entrepreneurs to create useful tools for people who have visual, aural, cognitive or other impairments by helping you understand and empathize what life is like for people in this situation. This empathy and understanding is created by bringing together app developers, entrepreneurs and accessibility advocates and people with impairments to exchange information, and allowing developers to experience simulations of being impaired.

App developers who have had the opportunity to experience as directly as possible, first or second-hand, what it means to live with specific impairments, and have been put in touch with the larger community around accessibility, create more effective apps to better the quality of life for everyone. The result not only helps people with major disabilities, but also people with minor or temporary impairments, for example due to ageing or illness.

The format of the workshops will be discussion based and there will be technical people on hand to answer specific questions related to Android, but there will be different speakers and contributors to reflect the local scene. Plenty of time will be allowed for discussion and networking and refreshments will be provided.

We will be announcing our speakers over the next few days. Doors will open at 3pm for a 3.30pm start and we’ll be finishing around 8pm. The venue is Dukes 92, in castlefield.

This workshop is kindly hosted by Apadmi, and is in association with Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards and ICT KTN.
PS. As is normal the attendee list will be shared with the supporting organisations:

• Vodafone Smart Accessibility Awards. These are a new global awards to celebrate apps that help people in four key areas: Social participation, independent living, mobility and well-being. They are free to enter and there is a prize fund of €200,000. The awards are now open for entries until 15 October 2011.
• ICT KTN: http://www.ictktn.org.uk. The ICT Knowledge Transfer Network has been established by an industry-led group of leading players, with funding from the Technology Strategy Board. We seek to bring competitive advantage to the UK by promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing between the users and providers of Information and Communications Technologies, and helping to drive innovation in the sector. It’s free to join our network.

What an educational evening it was at the MoMoMcr NFC event last night!  Some really interesting presentations from all of our speakers – Danny Gray from Google, Dominic Howe from NFC Hub and Jason Rousseau-Hall of Everything Everywhere.  Some thought-provoking questions raised by audience members.  Good turnout too, in spite of the weather!  Thanks again to our speakers, to Tim Jefferson from The Human Chain for chairing and to everybody who attended.

We’ll be posting a full summary of the event shortly and, in the meantime, feel free to download a copy of our speakers’ slides:

Tim Jefferson The Human Chain slides

Danny Gray Google slides

Dominic Howe Bolser slides

Jason Rousseau-Hall Orange slides

Our next event is scheduled for 10^th October when the focus will be on Location, Location, Location – utilising mobile to better engage with your customers.

Tickets are now available on Eventbrite for our next event, NFC – Has contact-less technology come of age.
Monday the 12th September, 6pm, at Dukes 92.

More details here.

We have confirmed speakers from Google, Everything Everywhere ( Orange ) & The Human Chain.

Either click on the widget on the right to register, or the button below

What were the strengths of the event?  What did you find most useful or enjoyable and why?

• As a newcomer and working in a different sector, I found this event highly engaging.
• Good format, would have been better to have name/twitter details of speakers while they spoke
• Introductions and panel questions worked very well
• Wide range of views
• Debate format worked really well
• It was great to see passion about mobile
• Very Informative
• Good mix of folks and interesting panel
• Strong opinions on the panel – diverse expertise
• Good and Concise
• Strengths: location, venue and panelists
• Very strong debate and accessible to all
• Good questions were put forth and answered to the point
• Good panel of speakers from a variety of backgrounds (possibly one to many agencies)
• Yes – very good topic which drew interest – Drinks were good too. -
• There was a great turnout and plenty of questions –
• The open panel discussion, the networking aspect
• I found the presenters interesting on the way they enlighten a different perspective of the future of the mobile industry
• Good selection of speakers – good venue
• Learnt more about a good subject.
• Range of panel speakers
• Networking – general questions (Ie: panel needs to be shorter and sharper)
• Opportunity to listen to all points of view.  Good debate and lots too sales ‘pitches’.
• Get some women – maybe a woman on the panel – (try girl geeks)

Overall some great feedback whch we are taking on board to help make future events even more successful.

Our next event is on the 12th September 2011 at Dukes.  This event will be covering Mobile Payments and other uses for contactless technology.  Speakers are being arranged, and more details to be published as organised.  A registration page will be set up to register for the event and details posted here.