For the Mobile Payments and Banking event (Mobile Monday Switzerland #2, first meeting in Lausanne), the situation was perfect! All the ingredients came together:
1. Attendees: our grass roots marketing was quite effective, reaching people from many fields (academia, businesses of all sizes including financial institutions, a Swiss mobile carrier, and other disciplines) and regions of Switzerland.
We thank everyone who attended (we were nearly 60). Special thanks to those of you who came from Valais, Geneva, Bern and Zurich. We even had one participant who came to us all the way from Paris for our event! Thank you, Philippe!
2. Our local sponsors, Marc Gandar (Alliance) and Mark Miehlbradt (A3), mastered the event logistics with grace. They provided nice sized room (well equipped for presentations as well), name badges, the free drink for those who registered in advance, signs on the EPFL campus so that visitors could easily find their way to BC 410, and even managed the photography for the event (see photos which will appear on the Flicker feed). Thanks to Hewlett Packard for sponsoring the registration desk help and the rooms for our out-of-town speakers.
3. The programme: our speakers were outstanding in the field of mobile payment and banking.
From business case analyses, technical platform topics, business issues in Switzerland and the developing world, and the mobile operator’s perspective, the excellent presentations kept the audience’s attention and we all learned a great deal. Thank you to Claude Florin for coordinating the invitations, and all our speakers for their valuable contributions:
Yves Pigneur, UNIL Presentation 1-pigneur-momo-oct-6th.pdf (PDF)
Simon Cavill, Mi-Pay Presentation 2-cavill-momo-oct-6th.pdf (PDF)
Silvano Maffeis, Vipera Networks Presentation: 3-maffeis-mobile-monday-oct-6th (PDF)
Dennis Flad, Credit Suisse Presentation 4-flad-momo-oct-6th.pdf (PDF)
Antonio Brignoli, Hewlett Packard Presentation: 5-brignoli-momo-oct-6th.pdf (PDF)
Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting Presentation: perey-introduction-and-overview-oct-6th (PDF)
Marc Gandar, Alliance Presentation: About Alliance (PDF)
This is the type of event we can all aspire to participate in and support in the future.
Have a look here: http://qik.com/thierryweber
You will find some very short live video made during this Meeting
Interesting topics, is there a write-up of information shared in that meeting?