Muxlime is a great friend of the SIME house. Their CEO and founder Mohamed El-Fatatry was a speaker at SIME Copenhagen last October. And Muxlim has been nominated for the SIME Awards Mighty 36 this year. We found this very interesting interview by Tech Crunch on Muxlim where Mohamed El-Fatatry talks about how he is empowering the whole Muslim community and trying to change the perceptions of Muslims in the global scene.

Mia Rose, born January 1988 is a music sensation of the digital era. In days where artists are shelling out loads of money to get music distributed, she went right into the heart of it all, youtube, and did not shed a single penny towards distribution.

But, et voila, guess what, she is now youtube’s most subscribed musician ever, all in a matter of couple of years. It might be a bit unfair to call it a “gotcha” moment and state the unobviously obvious claim that music should be solely based on channels like youtube and we can stop the bleeding in the music industry. But calling Mia a one off wonder would also be a bit harsh. It was just the right thing at the right moment at the right place and a bit of business sense that made her a sensation of tomorrow.

This year SIME will again welcome a number of interesting bloggers to attend the event on a Blogger Press Pass! If selected for a Blogger Press Pass, you get a full conference ticket to SIME09, which means you get access to the two conference days on November 11-12, but not the SIME Awards gala dinner. [...]

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Now that the SIME Awards cat is slowly jumping off the bag (atleast partially), we thought we should do some canvassing for the nominees who actually got selected in Round 1. And so starting from today, we will put together a quick section called Nominee of the Day (NOTD) every single day, where 1 nominated company gets a quick introduction, if available, the entrepreneur behind the company gets an introduction too and the jury motivation for the company to be part of the SIME Rising Stars of Scandinavia. Meanwhile, we also getting in touch with the companies and their founders who are now part of the SIME family to make sure we get all “their” side of the story too.

SIME Awards this year focuses on 2 categories (as explained in the prev. post)
“SIME Rising Stars from the North” and “SIME Grand Prize, the former committed to finding the next Skype from Scandinavia, the later awarding the “most innovative big company”.

Maverick, Crazy, Non-conformist, Radical, Innovative, the hippie entrepreneur, all can also go by the 2 letter word, “ML” (for Morten Lund). He is so outspoken, loud, daring, and if you have watched him speak, you can lose a million dollars betting that he is not Scandinavian. Some say he is the pride of the lost Scandinavia, the one that went down with the Vikings. Whatever be his roots, the wiring in ML is quite simple. He does not believe in bull shit (in his own words) such as “going by the books, go by the rules, go by the mainstream”. Instead the man is a complete “screw it, just do it” kinds, and he wears that attitude every day to work, be it investing in Skype or being part of starting up dead duck companies (that made him officially bankrupt in 2008) . For him, its all about just doing it, or as he says “just fu**ing doing it”.

SIME Awards this year has taken a completely new path. From the previous year’s edition of allowing companies to nominate themselves and then doing a yes or no jury vote, this year we decided to hand pick the “deserving” companies ourselves and then do the jury process. We dare to say that we have the [...]

SIME is all about inspiration through the conference, speakers; business through networking bazaars which is dedicated to make sure you meet the people you want to meet all well coordinated and assisted by our Experience Manager; Knowledge through SIME Academy organized workshops on themes from Communication, Technology to Innovators corner and Excellence, and fun delivered all over the line through SIME Awards and the Gala dinner on Day 2 of the conference. Early bird discount of 20% throughout September. Customize your SIME and welcome to the inspiration-knowledge-fun-filled-orgy!

SIME Barcelona was beautiful. I use the word beautiful in particular since it packed the best of SIME, combined with the perfect weather in a beautiful city. For me personally, SIME is the ray of hope in the dark winters in Scandinavia, and it adding to the energy in a sunny external was just beautiful. [...]