• Mon. Oct 8th, 2007 @ 5:30am - 7:30am
• MoMo Chicago
• ThoughtWorks Offices
• Address: 200 E Randolph, 25th Floor, Chicago IL
• Fee: 0
• FREE but registration required (limited seating - so please register early)

An industry analysis of mobile financial services as they are today and a vision for the future. With mobile payment systems all advancing fairly quickly what does that mean for the consumer as well as the providers - do the carriers have a stake in this vision (as everywhere else in the mobile spectrum?
The two persons on our panel providing us insight into this exciting new area in mobile commerce are:

George Fasching, Product Leader at the Mobile/Wireless Centre of Excellence in Master-Card. Georg is based in London and drives the innovation and development of payment elated services via mobile/wireless means. Products like MasterCard PayPass and Master-Card RePower are some of the results. He has almost a decade of in-depth experience in the mobile telephony services industry.

Kevin Bailey, is a member of Motorola�s Corporate Technology Office CTO) Incubator Group. For the past few years, he has been focused on defining and delivering -commerce solutions. The technology incubator is a team of multi-disciplined, experienced professionals directed towards recognizing opportunities for growth from ideas and technologies generated within Motorola. Each project run out of the incubator group is much like a start up company and is provided with the leadership, resources, and capital to advance the technology and its connected eco-system to a position that can be graduated into a new or existing business.

Where: ThoughtWorks Inc,
200 E Randolph, 25th Floor,
Chicago, IL 60601
When: October 8th, Monday @
5:30pm

RSVP Required!

Email:
chapin@momochicago.com
kiran@momochicago.com,

• Mon. Dec 4th, 2006 @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm
• MobileMonday Chicago
• ThoughtWorks
• Address: 200 E Randolph (25th Floor)
• Fee: 0.00 USD
• Please join the mailing group - link on the website

partyStrands is a free interactive music and entertainment service for bars, clubs and DJs that utilizes screens, mobile phones and digital music and offers partygoers a new, colorful and fresh way to have fun. Partygoers can pick the nights music, send text messages and pictures and vote on songs, drinks, and much more, all from their cell phones.

partStrands will present at this MoMo session. Stephen Venute of pS will present the application and describe his companies view of social technologies such as pS and recommendation based mobile communities. Where is this technology headed and what the future holds and ofcourse we will have an interactive session with pS and get to try it for ourselves.

Thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting the event.

Where:
The ThoughtWorks office:
25th Floor,
200 East Randolph, (The Aon Centre)
Chicago, IL

When:
6pm on Dec 4th (Monday)

Light Snacks and Drinks will be served at the venue
At this session - be ready to draw your mobile at the sight of partyStrands, the latest in interactive music entertainment projected to a wall. With a simple text message (alias + artist) you will be able to influence the music and request a favorite artist from our music library. You can also interact with other MoMo’ers via text messages sent to the screen, or email your pictures to the display, or even participate in votings.

Please sign up to the mailing group for more details. We might get over-subscribed this event so it would be a good idea to rsvp on the mailing group.

Questions? Contact: Kiran (kiran [doT] bellubbi aT gMail [doT] com

• Mon. Nov 27th, 2006 @ 6:00pm - 7:30pm
• MobileMonday Chicago
• ThoughtWorks
• Address: 200 E Randolph (25th Floor)
• Fee: zero (0) USD
• Please join the mailing group - link on the website

To celebrate the year end and to regroup we’ve decided to have a MoMo Chicago Mixer. This will allow everyone in the community to get to know each other better and give us some more time to figure out what we would like to see in the upcoming MoMo Chicago events and generally hang out.

There will be an assortment of snacks and drinks for everyone to enjoy.

Please feel free to bring friends that you think will find this community of interest.

Thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting the event in their spanking new office

Where:
The ThoughtWorks office:
25th Floor,
200 East Randolph, (The Aon Centre)
Chicago, IL

When:
27th of November, (Monday)
6pm

Please contact me in advance to let me know if you (/and friends) are going to be there so I can have an estimate for food and drinks - kiran [aT] momochicago [.] com

• TiE Trends: Wireless Market
• Thursday, September, 21 2006
• 6:00 PM -Â 6:30 PM Registration, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and networking
• 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Program
• Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP 191 North Wacker Drive Suite 3700 Chicago, Illinois 60606-1698 Telephone: 312.569.1000
• TiE Midwest Members: no charge, Non-Members: $20.00
• Parking for event attendees is available for $9. You must use the parking garage at Lake and Wacker.
• Register here prior to September 15th

The event will consist of 10 small discussion groups and will provide a unique networking and speaking opportunity for all participants. Â
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Prior to the event, participants will be asked to review a list of questions.  A leader of a small group discussion will facilitate the interaction and synthesize the groups conclusions for the larger audience.  The purpose of the event is to extract meaningful insights from the collective knowledge of the audience that can be informational to a large company like Motorola as well as a technology advocacy group like the Mayors Council of Technology Advisors (MCTA).Â

TiE Midwest will capture the best thoughts from the event, publicly post them to the website, and share them with Motorola and the MCTA.
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Small group discussion leaders will include:

• Bob Zieserl, Managing Director, KB Partners
• Larry Roches, CEO, DBS Communications
• Jai Shekhawat, CEO Fieldglass
• Art Roldan, CEO, SecurePipe
• Michael Krauss, Managing Principal, Market Strategy Group
• Deepti Arora, Senior Director, Motorola
• Christine Mason, CEO, SpringCM
• Ian Robertson, Director IT Americas, Wm Wrigley Jr. Co.
• Sunil Gaitonde, CEO, GS-LabÂ

Registration will be limited and on a first-come-first-serve basis. Registration is now open and will close on September 15. Please mark your calendars to ensure a reservation during the open registration period.
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For further information contact
TiE - Midwest
Email: tiemidwest@gmail.com
http://www.tie-midwest.org
or call Revathi Rao, Assistant Director of TiE Midwest, at (630) 353-1900 x10

• Mobile Web 2.0 - who put the mobile in it? how? and why is it important?
• August 21st, 6:00 PM
• ThoughtWorks: Suite 600 (6th floor) 651 W Washiington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60661
• Pizza and pop will be served, rsvp with number attending to kiran [aT] momochicago [.] com

Neal Ford is our guest speaker for this Mobile Monday. Neal is the author of many books - Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, Art of Java Web Development, and The 2006 No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers conferences worldwide - you might have heard him more rexently at the NFJS series.

We are also going to have a sneak preview of the Neuros OSD platform. (first MoMo to demo this worldwide and probably one of the first previews of the Neuros ever!). Neuros is a TI/Linux multimedia platform that uses open source applications, and is community supported.