SIME Stockholm Registration now open!

SIME this year opens its doors to welcome you to register to our flagship event in Stockholm November 15-16, 2011. The opportunities in the digital arena keep developing and creating business, entertainment, political turmoil and unparalleled opportunities for the ones in the know. During two action-packed days SIME Stockholm will be your guide into new insights, concrete business opportunities, tools and the smartest brains from the international digital arena. In addition we take having fun seriously and know that no event is better than its participants. Each year SIME invite speakers and panel participants from all over the world. All speakers are leading professionals within their respective niche and are representatives for the Internet, telecom, entertainment and media industries. Stay tuned as we confirm some of the leading names in the industry.

Welcome to a world of digital opportunities. Welcome to SIME Stockholm!

Register here

Have you ever wondered how strange your online life is?

Something that we saw at SIME Barcelona today is what would happen if you extrapolate your online world offline, and the result was the video below.

We are having a great time at Barcelona, bringing together CTO of Amazon, founder of Flickr, serial entrepreneurs, investors, marketing experts to discuss the digital landscape. The morning session has been all about

1. Making marketing click  - how marketers operate today? And how has the consumption of information changed? From rich media ads to performance marketing, iPads to mobile phone, consumption of information and content has become ubiquitous.
2. CTO of Amazon had 3 golden principles – institutional YES whereby any idea is by default gets a yes or go ahead, and if someone wants to oppose it, he elaborates the reasoning as why not to implement the idea instead of the other way around. Second is, product development begins with an internal press release and a customer FAQ document since then you can come back to what you have promised and what you think you have delivered. And finally, motivating developers through pizzas.
3. The Panel on serial entrepreneurship was about finding the passion and motivating teams to drive towards a larger vision. With the life span of tech companies being very less (M&A booming in the market conditions), the market has a lot of 20+ and 30+ serial entrepreneurs who still go back to building their company instead of playing golf. And if you are still in your job, are you questioning your assumptions every day or are you connecting your passion to opportunity?

Looking forward to the rest of the day!

SIME welcomes Caterina Fake (Flickr) and Jyri Engstrom (Jaiku, Ditto) as new speakers for SIME Barcelona

SIME Barcelona is just 3 days away and we are excited to return with a brand new program and fantastic speakers.  Blending in a mix of local and international speakers, SIME Barcelona promises to be inspiring, energizing and a lot of fun – true to the SIME style.

On top of the existing speakers, we have added Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr (acquired by Yahoo) and Jyri Engstrom, co-founder Jaiku (Google) and Ditto.

Jyri is going to be in a panel along with Erik Wikstrom on serial entrepreneurship, while Caterina Fake will be on an exclusive fireside chat sharing her experiences on building and selling one of the darling companies Flickr during the first burst of Web 2.0 companies.

The event starts at 10:00 and ends at 1600 and the venue is Fira de Barcelona

If you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so here

Welcome to SIME Barcelona! Welcome to a day of inspiration, knowledge and fun!

Summary Video from SIME Amsterdam

SIME Amsterdam held couple of weeks ago gathered over 1000+ people in a high energy setting featuring inspiring speakers and panelists. Some of the speakers included Dr. Werner Vogels CTO Amazon, Stefan Glaenzer, Last.Fm, Europe’s premier angel investor, Sara Ohrvall, Head of R&D for Bonnier, Pieter Paul Van Oerle, Lead Media and Entertainment, Accenture, Jacob Hsu, CEO Symbio Group with offices in China, US and the Nordics.

The day touched upon different aspects of digital ranging from marketing going ka-ching, to the exponential growth of mobile, a sneak peek into Amazon’s world and the growth of the SME phenomenon. The star of the day was Puck from puckipedia.nl – a 11 year old wiz kid who is into developing apps (both paid and free) and was a revelation on stage.

Our friends at Powerstar (Shahin Totabi, Roman Sarghandoy) i.c.w. Marlooz and HvA have made a great summary video of the day. Thanks guys.