We just created a company profile presentation, trying to explain our vision about mobile services, bottlenecks of current (walled-garden) and the alternative (the bit pipe), and explain our approach to boost mobile services and solutions and how we positionate our portfolio to increase the possible data based services and improve usability of existing ones . Feedback more than welcome :-)
Solaiemes together with its partner, the URJC (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) submited a paper to the Second International Conference on Internet Multimedia Service Architecture & Application to be held in Bangalore (India) next 10th-12th December.
The level of companies and research centers with accepted papers is impressive ( HP, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Georgia Tech among others) , and we are happy to be there :-). See list here.
Our paper "A declarative authentication and authorization framework for convergent IMS/Web application servers based on aspect oriented code injection" will be explained in Bangalore by Chema Recio, our VP. He will post in the blog about his experience there
We will be present at FICOD2008 (International Forum of Digital Content). Solaiemes has prepared a Workshop on mobile UGG (User Generated Content) used in Web 2.0 (live and offline content).
We will show how easy could be adding content from mid-tier devices with no additional application, video and/or audio to websites (enterprise and mass market recreational use cases), based on our technologies LiveServe & VoxServe. The appointment is November 25th, 15:30 pm. Find the full list of workshops here. The location of the event:
Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid
Avenida Capital de España Madrid, s/n.
Campo de las naciones
28042 - Madrid
From 3rd to 7th of November Solaiemes attended the Gartner ITxpo symposium at Cannes, where CIOs and IT people from very diverse industries put in common their experiences and thoughts.
The symposium is a week full of conferences and workshops around key points that helps to better understand the IT industry. Trends for next year are analyzed and more important, how the crisis will affect them.
It is quite a new experience for us, more used to telco events, where participants are from the IT industry and IT is the core business. In any case it is a fresh new view that comes from real IT customers with real necessities.
Most relevant findings this week, directly from analyst and industry leaders:
For us it is important messages as the creativity should not be stopped during crisis times, the point is focusing in less projects, not freezing whole budgets :-) and CIO's should be empowered in their roles.
Javier
After reading carefully the opinion of important VC's (Sequoia and Altos Ventures) about economic downturn impacting start-ups vs new opportunities, we prepared a ppt to explain from our perspective, the start-up focused in technology perspective. We think perhaps now it is time for big companies with cut budgets to focus in innovation opportunities, and start-ups are the best choice for that :-)
After months of very intensive work, we are glad to announce our new product line, VOXSERVE. Voxserve (release 1.0) is the platform to easily build up value added services based on push-to-talk technology (working with 2G and 3G devices, from low-mid tier to high tier).
Our platforms enables person-machine push-to-talk interaction delivering compelling experiencies beyond the primitive use cases of PTT (mobile to mobile voice, mobile to groups voice, and PTT dispatcher). Fortunately, the use cases we are enabling are not circuit switch cannibalizing revenues. Some applications but not all :-) include:
The VOXSERVE is OMA compliant, and works with OMA Push to Talk Server and device clients. In case of being interoperated with Nokia Siemens Network which matches OMA and Nokia PTT most of Nokia devices and mass market services become feasible.
We welcome PTT independent service providers using OMA servers, Mobile Carriers and MVNO and high intensive CRM enterprise (Banks, Utilities...), ERP SW companies, and media sites to trial our technology as an alternative CRM channel. Please, take a look to the video with demos, feedback desired.
Solaiemes has been invited to join KIS 100 Club, part of the Knowledge Intensive Services - Innovation Platform (KIS-IP), a new initiative funded under Europe INNOVA, with the aim to accelerate the take-up of services innovations in Europe and form a community with the most interesting and successful companies in Europe with high growth potential in the KIS area.
The Club, which is accessible by invitation only, provides members with an opportunity to network with their peers and develop new co-operation partnerships with businesses from other sectors and markets. It also offers a good publicity platform and a forum to discuss common regulatory, technological and organisational issues with other companies. More information about the Club can be found in the brochure.
The KIS Innovation Platform, was initiated in February 2008 and has duration of 3 years. It will foster technological and non technological innovation in services whilst taking into account the dynamic interconnections between research, skills, entrepreneurship, finance and clusters and addressing the needs of high growth ventures active in KIS. The platform provides horizontal support services via online tools, informative resources and European KIS contests that aim to identify top European KIS SMEs as well as creating a dynamic community for mutual learning and exchange of practical experience.
The first KIS 100 Club summit will be hosted as part of the Europe INNOVA Conference 2008, at Lyon, France, 22-24 October 2008, we will post in the next days about our experiences there.
Follow our innovation trail in our blog and our twitter.
Chema
Solaiemes attended last Wednesday to Pamplona's semifinal of the European Venture Context, where the 30 semifinalist start-ups presented their projects to a group of experts and VCs competing for the 3 finalist postion for final round in Barcelona. The event was hosted by Caja Navarra , as usual with an excelent organization that enabled a perfect enviroment for networking.
Awarded as Finalist companies where:
They all will have the chance to defend their initiatives in Barcelona. Congratulations and good luck in the final round for all them. Their presentations were impressive.
Solaiemes did no so bad. We where ranked 9th and this possitions gives us the opportunity to present our project in the European Venture Summit that will take place in Dusseldorf on 1&2 December 2008.
Hi, Solaiemes was one of the companies attenting the Ready4Growth Seminar organized by Barcelona Activa for mobile/mobility companies. 2 days of very intensive training with a lot of pannels covering:
The final goal of the seminar is prepare companies to plan the expansion and prepare to start properly the funding rounds. In pareallel is a useful networking opportunity.
Firstly, we would thank Barcelona Activa to invite us and Unkasoft (advergaming), Madrid based companies :-), to attend the seminar (20 companies) , it was a good opportunity to meet Barcelona area entrepreneurs colleagues and perhaps we will find space to synergies and mutual collaboration soon.
All the subjets were covered with excelent pannelist, and the Parc Tecnologic de Barcelona Nord was a very nice place, typical building encouraging to innovate :-)
We encourage public institutions trying to promote entreprenership to continue with this important task, (last spring we attended a funding planning seminar organized by Madri+d) and cooperate to build a robust ecosystem.
We want to know about you, your opinions about our work and about the industry. You can use the comments in this blogs, and from today on you can join our Linkedin group. We would like to discuss mobility trends, path to improve multimedia solutions, early adoption of new enablers, usability... Nice to listen the feedback from partners, customers, technologists, innovation experts, people who like or dislike the things we do and how we do :-)
Feel free to join, start discussions, comment in open subjects, invite colleagues to join also, etc
Next coming months will be challenging. Hope to see you there (and here)
juan
