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Here at WIP, we partner with many mobile conferences taking place all over the world.  As a result, we are able to secure discounted registration for the WIP Community for most and sometimes even a FREE pass or two.  The next few weeks are jam-packed with events before the usual summer slow down. Check out the events below and many more on our Mobile Community Calendar:

AnDevCon, May 15 – 17, San Francisco, USA.  Still time to register for this technical conference geared towards software developers building or selling Android apps. Exhibit Hall is Free to attend. Conference discount for WIP Community.

APPNATION, May 15 & 16, New York, USA. This is where the app and connected device ecosystems meet, combined with social TV apps.  It is the first conference to focus entirely on the business of apps and their transformative impact on consumers and enterprise technology, devices, commerce, media and social interaction. Discount for WIP Community.

WhyMCA Mobile Developer...

Developers continue to be in hot demand as we enter 2012 with many events eager to cater to them - so many events it is becoming much harder to choose which to attend.  I see operators/carriers doing more and more to attract developers to their SDKs and APIs.  A couple of years ago, only a few were hosting developer events; now all are hosting at least one per year with many additional hackathons, seminars and workshops.

Much more emphasis will be placed on how developers can make money with their applications.  More events with this focus will be forthcoming in 2012 and beyond.  All conferences will include it as one of their conference streams if they are not dedicated the whole conference to it.  Other prominent areas include: Mobile Payments, NFC and Social Media and anything to do with Apps.

Mobile World Congress will continue to attract large numbers of mobile ecosystem members including developers.  GSMA really hit a home run with App Planet at MWC in 2010 and will...

The London Mobile Week!

30th September to 7th of October and now 8 mobile events!

Droidcon, Planet of the Apps, Over The Air, TechHub, Apps Junction, FrenchMobile, MMA, Sybase Enterprise Workshop... 

As the organizers of Droidcon next week in London we realized that there was quite a lot of mobile events going on in London that week!

So we contacted all of them and decided to call the week London Mobile Week and here it goes! It's taking a life of its own: 

• A website: londonmobileweek.com listing 8 mobile events going on that week!
• A twitter account @LDMmobileweek hashtag : #lmw11
• An article in the Guardian (Thanks to Bluevia)
• New events joining the week, AppsJunction and the French Mobile & Apero entrepreneur meetup
• And a few special offers for those coming for the week! Discounted events tickets, locations to work from... just get in touch @thibautr

Whether you're developers, marketers, investors you know where to head off next week!

If you want...

1 week to go till midem in Cannes!

Ever since Carlo moved to Austin, the debate has been raging within WIP as to which one of Midem or SXSW was the digital music event to be... Since my youth I had been hearing about Midem as the yearly gathering of the music industry, so you'll have to excuse a bit of partiality especially as WIP was contacted by the organizers to bring a bit of wipjam spirit to the event. 

And here started the hunt for discussion leaders! The story of which I'll cut short by just announcing the 2 London based music start-up entrepreneurs, Chris Moisan from Musicity and Greg LLoyd from Mixlr who will be help provide steering, expertise infusion, geekery, and Providing steering and their good looks. So here are the 2 sessions, in the usual WIP participative style:

Using Mobile Technologies to best Promote your Music

Sunday 23 January 2011, 3:30 PM

Speakers : Chris Moisan, Product Director, Musicity; Thibaut Rouffineau WIP

Finding it hard to stand...

My next exercise in "event moderation"   will be at the app-tly named Planet of the Apps which would surely call for some singerie from the so-called moderator.

While the role of panel moderator is fairly well documented  and respected activity the "whole day moderator" at a conference tends to be seen as a mix between a water-boy and  a linkedin profile reader.

Refusing to be either of them, I gave go at putting the job in the spotlight it deserves, by listing the duties of he moderator:

• Keep a straight line: Every event sometimes feels like a hazardous stumbling walk through presentations of various flavors, styles and topics. That's why the moderator helps connect the dots to give the event a sense of completeness and cohesion.
• Be a good companion: It's always annoying to see a good mate's best story wasted because the audience is left asleep by a lunch, scattered by a break, dreaming from a presentation or simply muted in the expectation of the closing beers. This...