SIME Stockholm: More thought leaders, more inspiration!

With only little more than 3 weeks left to one of the most important events of the year, the digital journey with SIME just got more exciting.

[SIME Stockholm is to be held on November 11, 12 in Stockholm]

More thought leaders who we have been trying to hunt down for a very long time have finally given their nod, and clearly, they are going to be a major catalyst for this year’s SIME Stockholm edition. With workshops and networking bazaars that gives you all the knowledge and most importantly time (we think networking breaks are typically undervalued in most events) to meet other entrepreneurs, VC’s, intrapreneurs, creatives that are going to SIME this year, the buzz is going to be scintillating.

Workshop Info and Networking Bazaar information

We already mentioned the names of the first batch of top speakers consisting of Dr. Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Steven Overman (founder Realtime project), Josh Cooper Remo ( MD, Kissinger Associates), Sara Öhrvall, SVP R&D, the Bonnier Group (Sweden). Now, we have some fresh names:

Anil Hansjee (Head of Corp. Dev, Google EMEA, UK)

Sven Hagströmer (founder Hagströmer & Qviberg, Sweden)

Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO Schibsted (Norway)

Pekka Pohjakallio (VP Concepting and Innovation, Nokia, Finland)

and there is more …

Check out the speaker roster here

Check out the agenda here

The beauty of SIME is the diversity of the speakers and people who participate. So having a rock star, a hacker and a venture capitalist on stage could be bizzare for some, but we think its pretty cool to see what brings all such people under one digital banner. And probably SIME can be proud that its one of those rare events that feature corporates in a completely chilled out setting, away from the tightly suited mindset one might associate them with. And no wonder we have a slew of such companies working with us, since it does not hurt to be considered cool. Adding the entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial quotient just made it a perfect digital event, one that you should not miss

Registration / pricing here

See you at SIME Stockholm, November 11, 12

SIME – mobile business round table and beers with Tre

Because your mobile is more important than your pinky

SIME together with tre (or 3, the telecom company) is organizing a mobile business round table (and what’s the spice without a hint of pint) tomorrow in Stockholm.

And it goes by the tag line “because your mobile is more important than your pinky” which is not just a random WTF statement, but rather a line that was made at SIME last year. During one of the panels, when the moderator of the day, Ola Ahlvarsson made a quick survey of the audience if they would trade their mobile for their pinky, there was a sizable number that were perfectly fine in losing their pinky in lieu of the mobile phone, and if that’s the market demographics your mobile business is targeting, you got some die hard users of the gadget.

Event information:

Date: Thursday October 7, 2009

Time: 1700 – 1900

Venue: O-Baren Restaurant, Stureplan, Stockholm

(View Map / Karta)

And the facebook event invite can be found here

So are you going to O-Baren to learn more about the mobile business? We think you should.

Welcome!

Mid Autumn Summary from the SIME Team

SIME Stockholm 2009 is gathering a lot of steam. It is slowly taking shape into something that promises to be very interesting, unique and extremely catalyzing to the entrepreneurial environment, taking us closer to our lofty vision of giving the best ever SIME in the 13 year history. From inspiring keynotes and panelists to business galvanizing workshops, and SIME Awards and gala that celebrate Nordic’s finest in the heart of Stockholm city, a true fitting to the SIME aficionados, we have them all weaved into 2 days full of inspiration, knowledge, business and fun – the mantra that the SIME crew lives by.

Check the SIME Stockholm Web

This post aims to summarize all the developments that have happened from the month of July aiming to keep track of all the blood and sweat that is going on behind the scenes to take the Nordics (Stockholm) by storm this year.

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SIME Awards, the doors open to the Mighty 36: Meet the first 12.

Yes, its finally official. After months of screening, indexing, and going through some of the best companies from the Scandinavian soil, we have opened the doors to the SIME Awards officially to present them to you.

View the SIME Awards Process Info here

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”.

We at SIME started working behind the scenes through the summer, stealthily attending various entrepreneurial events, going to places where the young minds congregated, going for the geek girl meet up’s, going for those likemind and social media lunches, we took all the effort to make sure we covered every corner of the entrepreneurial news sources, and voila, we came up with a grand list of companies that we thought were befitting to be considered for our prize.

View the full list of nominated companies and the chosen 12 of the Mighty 36 here

Then we hand picked some top digital minds within Scandinavia, the one’s that in their sleep dream of startup’s and new media, and the one’s that help big companies make such dreams come true, the geeks, the big intrapreneurs, and in all true spirit of SIME, with a smile on their face, they congregated like in the Vatican secret conclave, went through the long lists, and came up with their jury words of wisdom.

View the list of jury here

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SIME Awards Stockholm: Process, meet the jury

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 who’s who of tomorrow’s digital stars of Scandinavia all indexed and tagged, ready to go through a stringent jury committee to capture the top prize at the Awards Gala and Dinner on November 12 in Stockholm.

View the agenda for SIME Stockholm here

SIME Awards has 2 categories this year:

1. SIME Rising Stars of the North: The pioneers and innovators within the tech scene. Companies that have a working product / service, do not have more than 50 employees and, preferably was founded in the last 2 years. We call them the rising stars, the one’s that will be the toast of Scandinavia, giving the SIME audience a chance for a “aha” moment (more in the likes of “aha, we saw them first in SIME 09″)
2. SIME Grand Prize: The Big Industry Star are the big lions that are roaring past the competition, finding interesting niches and most importantly, constantly innovating in the Scandinavian digital landscape.

View more info on the Awards here

At the present moment, we have made a list of companies that fit into these criteria, and passed it to the jury members. Once the jury express their opinion and reach a consensus, the nominees will be announced through the blog. The chosen companies will then be given a chance to talk and connect with you, make a quick blog even on why they think they would / should win the top SIME prize.

The jury for SIME Awards 09 consists of a handpicked team of experts within the areas Internet, technology, journalism and entrepreneurship. You can find their quick SIME – twitt- profiles, their online hang out spots right here

Good luck jury, looking forward to present the nominee list soon.

SIME Stockholm: 4 Dimensions of Digital Opportunities

SIME is all about digital opportunities. And at this year’s SIME Stockholm, we present to you the 4 dimensions of digital opportunities:

1: Inspiration

Inspiration comes from every single atom of SIME. But of course the main drivers are the various speakers and thought leaders, panels and the quality of the conference itself.

Find some of the inspiration ambassadors who are going to be SIME this year here.

2. Business

Business through Networking Bazaars where we are dedicated to making you meet all the people that you are interested in meeting of the over 1 000 thought leaders, entrepreneurs, communications experts, developers, venture capitalists, marketers and of course the SIME speakers and guests from all over the world.

The Experience Manager ensures you meet the people you want to; meet the speakers corner is a natural hang out place for the speakers after their show on stage, truly in the spirit of SIME always ready to mingle and have a discussion with you; demo zone for you to play and see some funky stuff; nominees plaza, a place for you to catch the digital stars – emerging and the current biggies and finally, a welcome to Stockholm counter for you to understand and get all the local expertise for you to expand your business into Sweden.

A detailed idea of the different facets of the networking bazaar here

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3 and SIME launching an Android Dev. Competition. Are you up for the challenge?

3 together with SIME is launching what is called as the Swedish Android Developer Competition 09 (SADC 09),
that invites all the developers to create fun, smart and useful applications for the Android community. The winning app developer gets an Android phone, 2 free tickets to SIME Stockholm (November 11, 12) and an opportunity to present the app during the SIME Awards Evening (November 12) to an audience of top representatives from leading companies within IT, media, Internet and Advertising, giving you a perfect launch pad for your idea.

The video below is a teaser, and the link to find more information and to register is here

[Update: Check out the comments for some interesting links to Android coverage and versatility]

SADC09 from SIME on Vimeo.

SIME – PwC Launch of Global Entertainment & Media Outlook (2009 – 2013)

About Outlook

Mission: Inspiration Barcelona

And without a doubt inspiration is the need of the hour.  The global market place is undergoing dramatic shifts beneath your feet that businesses need to be on top of the knowledge node 24*7 to filter through the noise and find the gold mine. So the question is whether there is a secret recipe to stay on top of the puddle?

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