This Friday March 14 it is time for Stockholm’s first Facebook Garage Event, organized by Mahesh Kumar and his team at KTH NuStart. (Mahesh also works with SIME and Result). The Friday night event is a meetup on Facebook and OpenSocial application development. Speakers include:
David Haddad (Spontu) – speaking on Mobile Space
Tomas Nihlen (Innovationsbloggen.se,, Urban-Lifestyle) – speaking on Social Networks
Brit Stakston (JMW Kommunikation) – speaking on the other reality: how companies often fear social media instead of focusing on the possibilities.
Jonas Lindberg Nyvang (MySpace.com) speaking on Open Social
Martin Andersson (Pronto Communications) – speaking on developing apps on FB. They created the pink ribbon campaign in Sweden.
The company P, creative advisor to SIME07, is nominated for and International Emmy. The participatory drama The Truth About Marika, a co-production with Swedish Television SVT, is nominated in the category “Best Interactive TV Service” by The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The company P created a pervasive experience across many platforms. During almost a year over 100,000 participants tried to find the truth about Marika’s disappearance. Following fictious homepages, satellite maps and coded symbols accessed through mobile applications, the audience went deeper into the drama.
This is a great example of what the future of television could look like. The success of the production shows that the audience wants to participate, to break down the borders between life and screen.
We’re kick-starting the New Year with SIME Innovation Day, and as we promised on the SIME07 Conference you have the opportunity to nominate one company to the event.
More about SIME Innovation Day:
SIME Innovation Day is a by invitation only, free event for distinguished entrepreneurs. The objective is to create a meeting place for entrepreneurial companies and to open the doors to partnerships, investments and co-operations with our Co-Hosts (Ericsson, Google, Telenor). The entrepreneurs will be able to present their cases to relevant executives from Google, Telenor and Ericsson at the venue. Either in pre-arranged speed meetings, or live on stage.
The following criteria need to be met for all companies invited to participate:
* High level of innovation
* Clear end user focus
* Large market potential
* International growth potential
* Skilled management
* We prefer companies/products that are already established to those that soon will be
* We prefer companies that either want to become convergent or already have convergent solutions
If you are such a company or if there is a company you know that meet the criteria, send an email to innovationday@sime.nu and we’ll invite the company suggested, provided that there still is a spot open.
WHERE? Polstjärnan, Sveavägen 77, Stockholm, Sweden
WHEN?February 7th, 09.00-17.00 CET
QUESTIONS? Don’t hesitate to email us at innovationday@sime.nu if you have any questions about the event!
Leonieke Verhoog of Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO has compiled all her SIME coverage on the first page of their Knowledge Center blog. Thanks!
