Have a ticket for the Awards dinner? Not only will we announce the SIME Grand Prize, celebrate all the Awards winners and eat some fabulous food, there will also be an exclusive gig by Ace of Base.
Full press release in Swedish at Newsdesk. There is still time to register for SIME08 and the Awards dinner.
Ace of Base in Copenhagen
SIME Denmark is in full swing at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. We’ve had som great presentations and really interesting panels. Below is an image exposé of some of the speakers and insights from a great day.
Bettina Sherrain, Triplecph tells us how to make digital part of company DNA.
Vincent Fong, CEO of Symbio Group, gives us trends and numbers from China, both lucky numbers and cool statistics about the huge chinese market.
Tom Olsson presents Hidden Entertainment’s StarStable virtual world.
There are more muslims speaking English than Arabic. Mohamed al Fatatry of Muxlim gives us the demographics of his Muslim lifestyle community.
Watch out - soon simple, designed and easy to use hardware and software for neuromarketing is here. Jan Birger Olsson presents Mindmetic, the company to watch in this space. We also learned that you can fund your company by asking a few friends for money.
Berlingske Media editor in chief Lisbeth Knudsen gives us the lowdown on their strategy for competing in the new media landscape.
How do we reach these guys? Clicks and ratings don’t really tell us if they watched something. Our current metrics are not doing us very good, says Dean Donaldsson of EyeBlaster.
Today is election day for that really big country across the atlantic ocean. At SIME08 next week we’ll know which of the candidates came out on top. Early on day two CBS election commentator and technology expert Dan Dubno will give us perspectives on how technology has shaped this election. Last year Dan gave us a brilliant show-and-tell of new trends and technologies in his Digital Dan persona, this time he’s back with political commentary with a technology angle, telling us how to become president of the US.
At the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland this week, muslim online community Muxlim was awarded the WSA Finland nomination in the category e-Inclusion & Participation. Muxlim founder Mohamed El-Fatatry is one of the speakers at SIME Denmark, so if you want to hear more about this rising entrepreneurial star and his company, SIME Denmark in Copenhagen on November 6 is the place to be. Read more about the event and sign up at the SIME Denmark website.
Dopplr launches public profiles. If you want to share your trips with people, and get to know about those coincidences when you happen to be near good friends, Dopplr is the place to go. Dopplr CEO Lisa Sounio did an appreciated talk at SIME 07, and with her team she has now launched public profiles on Dopplr, so that trips can be shared with people outside Dopplr as well. The feature would have been announced at the Reboot conference, but due to illness it was released on the Dopplr blog instead.
Location social network service Plazes has been acquired by Nokia and previews new release of their web service. Nokia seems to be on a shopping spree, with recent decision to buy all of Symbian as well.
David Sifry, Technorati founder and SIME 08 speaker, has launched a new company: Offbeat Guides that will offer personalized printed travel guide books. The service is in invite only beta, but you can request an invite at offbeatguides.com.
Augmented mobile phonebook stars Zyb are hiring. They were recently acquired by Vodafone, and at the Reboot conference there were several people in Zyb t-shirts with a recruitment message, and postcards with a slogan about working in a startup environment but with the backing of a big organization. If you wan’t to work with Zyb, now’s the time to send your application.
Registration for SIME 08 is now open! Click here to register. Early bird discount until August 31st.
SIME 08, November 12-13 at Ambassadeur & Rigoletto, Kungsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden
Each year SIME invites approx. 60 speakers and panel participants from all over the world. All speakers are leading professionals within their respective niches and are representatives for the Swedish and Nordic Internet, telecom, entertainment and media industries.
The theme of SIME 08 is The DNA of Change, and the conference itself is in tune with its theme. There will be time to meet the winners of the SIME Awards, and more session styles like speed meetings, topical breaks and match making both before and after the event, to make sure you meet great people and companies to do business with.
Ten new speakers will be announced every month, stay tuned to this blog and the SIME website! See the full roster of announced speakers and more information about the event at www.sime.nu.
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