Apps World (www.apps-world.net), which runs from the  30th of Nov – 1st of December at Olympia, London, is one of the first events to cover the emerging global TV App Store marketplace.  Apps World closely examines how Pay TV and consumer electronics companies have already started to integrate app store models into their services, and how open developer models can open new market ecosystems and revenue streams for content providers.

Leaders in the Pay TV market will be discussing the next generation of TV App Store at Apps World.  TV Apps are a logical extension of the smartphone world, and an app store on the TV could revolutionise how we watch and engage with TV content and finally resolve consumer demand for a-la-carte programming.  The question is whether operators will embrace them or get cut out of the equation altogether.

Leading CE companies, Pay TV operators, IPTV service and technology providers – and broadcasters – will be debating the role apps will play in driving content for the TV.  What’s more, Apps World is the perfect place to look at multi-platform app models with tracks for mobile apps and multi-platform app development for developers targeting TVs, mobile devices, tablets and PCs.

Apps World will examine the competitive dynamics between stakeholders in the TV market, with many speculating that Pay TV operators will have to act quickly if they are looking to sign up independent developers before consumer electronics companies lay claim to the opportunity to leverage their own brands in this space.

Speakers at the Apps World event on the TV App stream include:
•    Jaskirat Singh Gill, General Manager – Entertainment, Bharti Airtel Limited
•    Loo Cheng Chuan, Principal, SingTel Idea Factory
•    Dr. Randolph Nikutta, Leader New Media, Innovation Development, Deutsche Telekom
•    Gerry Gouy, Global Senior Director, MTV Networks
•    Richard Kastelein, Founder/Editor, App Market TV
•    David Gibbs, General Manager Mobile, BSkyB

The full event agenda can be found at www.apps-world.net/workshops/agenda

“With various device manufacturers announcing centralised app stores for TVs, mobile phones and other devices, the next generation of multi-platform app store is emerging” commented Ian Johnson, MD Six Degrees Events.”Connected apps stores are already revolutionising the TV industry, and bring into debate a number of different models and if the TV app store will remain a controlled environment, or go for a more open developer model?”

The Apps World exhibition is free, and delegates interested in attending the TV Apps workshop track can book online for only £225 at -www.apps-world.net/register/workshop-registration

Connect with the event:
•    Twitter – twitter.com/apps_world
•    Linkedin – www.linkedin.com
•    Six Degrees also run the Social Media World Forum events – www.socialmedia-forum.com

With service offerings from music and messaging to advertising and social media built within a open API,  IMImobile seems well placed to place the operator at the heart of consumer activities. IMI have partnered up with Apps World as Platinum sponsors, and will be exhibiting at the show.

IMImobile launched their  DaVinci Social service earlier in Jan this year, aiming to provide a seamless experience across the handset, WAP and Web enabling
consumers to remain in full control of their digital social-lives.

Anu Shah, Head of IMImobile Europe commented that  “DaVinci Social fulfills some of the most fundamental needs of consumers today; to be able to easily stay in touch with everyone they want to and protect personal contacts and valuable digital content in the event they loose or change their handset.DaVinci Social places the operator at the heart of a consumer’s daily activities. Combined with an intuitive user experience built on IMImobile’s open technology, it is a spring-board to launch other consumer services such as music, content and advertising.’

Connected with IMI at Apps World on the 30th Nov / 1st Dec

Location based services and mobile advertising are some of the key areas of expertise that NAVTEQ brings to the Apps World event.   The NAVTEQ developers network allows developers to connect and harness location based applications over multiple devices and platforums.

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About NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) is an online developer community (NN4D.com) with complete development resources, information and technical support for creating location-aware solutions using NAVTEQ products and services, including complimentary sample NAVTEQ® map data.

NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world.  NAVTEQ maps span 78 countries and territories on six continents.  NAVTEQ is headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA, with more than 5,000 employees worldwide located in 211 offices in 48 countries.

They will be at the show exhibiting if you want to come along and hook up on the 30th November & 1st December, register for your free exhibitor pass here

Full details of the Workshop passes can be found here

Apps World Workshop pass Registration is now open!

The event will take place on the 30th Nov & 1st Dec at Olympia, London and will adopt a workshop style education format with the aim to address the entire app ecosystem, and the challenge of delivery, development and design of apps across multiple platforms.

A truly international event, Apps World will bring together leading operators worldwide, and is the first show to draw in parallels between the emergence of the TV apps store, and the challenge to IPTV and pay TV operators, and the challenges mobile operators face, device manufactures and the emergence of the tablet apps marketplace.

Workshop passes allow delegates to mix and match between the different workshop zones and sessions as they like throughout the day – creating tailored agenda’s to maximize visitors event experience.

Your workshop will gain access to the below workshop Zones:

Developers Zone
Marketing Zone
TV Apps Zone (Day one)
Handset & Operators Zone (Day two)

One or Two day passes available.  For full details of what your pass will include visit here.    Early bird available until 29th September

Register Today!

Apps World are looking for Official Bloggers to cover the show being held on the 30th Nov & 1st Dec at Olympia, London.

All App World Official Bloggers will receive:

•    Logo and link on event website as Official Blogger
•    Access to all workshop areas over the two days
•    Access to the exhibition
•    Access to Press/Bloggers area with light refreshments
•    Free Wi-Fi

Bloggers Passes are limited and are subject to approval.

In return for your Blogger/Press pass we ask the below in return:

* Display of an event banner/Blogger Supporter badge on your main website
* Post at least two blogs pre show about the event

For more details on becoming an Official event blogger, please email Ian (@) sixdegs(dot).com.

For full event details for Apps World visit www.apps-world.net

Apps World are pleased to announce that MPEGIF & DTG will be supporting the Apps World event taking place on the 30th Nov-1st Dec as Media Association supporters.

MPEGIF is an independent and platform neutral not-for-profit organisation facilitating and furthering the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG and related standards in next generation digital media services.

It provides a forum to exchange information and views on technological, economic and regulatory issues that are relevant to these services. It also provides a powerful industry voice advocating the adoption of standards and consolidating the direction of the industry in the time of transition from analogue to digital television and media services. Its focus and constituency is derived from cable, satellite, telecommunication and new media service operators, channel owners, content providers, broadcasters, equipment manufacturers, system integrators, software providers, as well as industry advocacy groups, industry analysts, financial institutions and academic institutes.

The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for digital television in the UK and is independent and platform neutral.

Formed in the mid 90s to facilitate the introduction of digital terrestrial TV in the UK, the group is now at the centre of UK digital TV development. It publishes and maintains the DTG ‘D-Book’, which sets out the detailed technical standards for digital terrestrial TV in the UK, and runs the industry’s test and conformance centre: DTG Testing. The DTG has ensured the delivery of a rich consumer experience, a vibrant and stable market, and helped position the UK as a world leader in the evolution of television.

The group is presently focused on emerging consumer devices and experiences including Connected TV, 3DTV, high definition TV (HD) and video-on-demand (VoD)

Bored with iPhone OS?  Frustrated by Apple’s death-grip platform control?

Well David “planetbeing” Wong may have an answer for you. He’s successfully dual-booted Android on an iPhone. Yes, really! In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look on, in slack-jawed amazement.

It would appear that a way to run the Android OS on an iPhone has been discovered.  This is massive news for iPhone users waiting for the new iPhone OS 4.0 and all the features that are available with that platform.

Googles platform has been hard on the heels of Apple for quite sometime, and despite some good features has so far been shunned in favour of the iPhone OS.  Android however has seen a growing interest over the past few months with many predictng 2010 to be the year of Android.  The Android App sotre now has in the region of 30,000 apps with 9000 apps added in March alone.

News of a way to run Android on an iPhone will only fuel speculation that Android is becoming the must have OS for your smart phone.

For more information on this story visit http://blogs.computerworld.com/15980/android_on_your_iphone_theres_an_app_for_that?source=rss_blogs.

The Social Shindig party, the official networking party of Social Media World Forum will be taking place on the middle evening of the event.All conference pass delegates are invited to head over to the Archangel venue situated opposite the Kensington Royal Garden Hotel.  The venue is a10 min walk from Olympia & The Hilton Olympia Hotel – the official event hotel and 5 m ins from High Street Kensington Tube Station.

Please Note: Open only to full conference pass holders – wristbands will need to be shown to gain access Networking Party Partners

About Social Media UK

‘Social Media UK’ is a networking community based in London consisting of a LinkedIn group of 850+ members, a crowdsourced blog www.socialmediamonday.co.uk and a monthly networking event ‘Social Media Monday’ with presentations & plenty of ‘social’ till late… (follow @SocialMedia_UK & tweet about #SMUK)

We’ve grown tremendously over the last 6 months and we’re really proud to be continuing these talks in the Workshops at the Social Media World Forum 2010.

‘Social Media UK’ is organised by the Digital / Social Media recruitment specialists; Fresh Resources. We’re ridiculously passionate about all things digital and absolutely believe that being an active part of the community and contributing towards the industry we specialise in, means we’re poised to consistently deliver precision services to our much adored clients. 

#SMUK loves social media, that why even this description is wrapped up in 140 words!

Buongiorno

Mobile Communication, like the printing press, personal transportation and the advent of mass media – is delivering new levels of personal independence, choice and opportunity. Through the most popular gadget in history, billions of people are beginning to interface with their world in completely new ways. More than 3 billion people now carry personal mobile devices, which can offer far more than just voice and text.

Social networking has clearly been an exciting, if unexpected, success on the web. This success has attracted hundreds of millions of users who connect to each other on their own terms, actively creating content and defining the links between this content. Social networking has proven to be the natural expression for the Web 2.0 movement, allowing users to wrestle the publishing power from established media to become both consumer and supplier.

Buongiorno believes the success of web social networking is but a pre-cursor to the explosion of mobile social networking. The mobile phone is the most prevalent social networking tool on the planet, combining media capture with always-on connectivity, portability, simplicity, personalisation and individuality. Quite simply, the mobile phone is the medium of friendship. From a business standpoint, aiming at a market of mobile community users that will grow by a factor of 10 by 2012, to 428 million[1], opens up a huge market where mobile devices will rapidly prevail over PC-based devices .

Mobile internet connectivity is now a reality , which, when combined with the ubiquity of devices, networks and internet “understanding”, will transform mobile behaviour. Research predicts the rapid growth of mobile broadband access, as users expect high-performance devices and faster mobile networks to deliver better user experience and data capacity – all amidst a cheaper pricing environment and the pervasive use of Web 2.0 services. A similar revolution is taking place on handsets, as users increasingly demand a rich experience based on seamless access to messaging, search, entertainment and content. These users are redefining their needs – needs built around “diversion” and ever-richer “connection.”

Clearly, existing web players understand this new and potentially game-changing opportunity, and will be offering mobile features to their services. Will they be successful? That depends on the nature of mobile social networking – will the future deliver social networking through mobile (the status quo) or true mobile social networking (the new)?

Mobile social networking will offer something new, and this offering will not come from a web incumbent. Instead, it will be a mobile native solution from a mobile specialist, a company which understands the power of the medium, the technical environment, user behaviour and the needs of consumers. The environment is now right for an explosion in mobile social networking; the devices, network capabilities, and user understanding and desire is all in place. Until now, what has been missing is a mobile-centric solution from a mobile expert.

To learn more about Mobile Social Media visit – Mobile Social Media Show (www.mobilesocial-networking.com)

Speaker line-up announced at the London Social Media Events.  200 confirmed speakers across the conferences.  See our full line-up below.

Speakers @ Social TV & Mobile Social Media 15/16^th March  include – http://www.social-tv.net & http://www.mobilesocial-networking.com

• Robert Marsh, VP, Interactive & Telephony, Freemantle Media
• Peter Ward, Co-founder & CEO, WAYN
• Bob Rapp, Head, User Communities, Vodafone Group
• Rahul Chakkara, Controller of TV Platforms, BBC
• Angel Gambino, Vice President, Sonico
• Mark Watts-Jones, Head of Development & Innovation, Orange UK
• Yoel Flohr, Head of Mobile, Bebo
• Andrew Kearney, Vice President TV Products at UPC Broadband
• Richard Griffiths, Director TV and Entertainment, Eircom
• Nicolas Bry, Vice President, Orange Vallee
• Kevin Baughan, Head Technical Strategy, Virgin Media
• Ian Kegel, Head of Future Content Group, BT UK
• Triona Campbell, CEO, Campbell Ryan
• Pasa Mustafa, Head of Digital Studios, Endemol
• Damien Byrne, Head of Entertainment, T Mobile
• Miroslaw Smyk, General Manager TV Business Division at Romtelecom
• Matt Dicks, CMO, Flirtomatic
• John Cole, Managing Director UK, Adknowledge
• Claudio Venezia, Researcher, Telecom Italia
• Cian O’Sullivan, Editor in Chief, GoMo News
• Tim Hussain, Head of Mobile and Video Advertising
• Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP R&D New Initiatives, NDS
• Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Head of Product, Mobile – EU, Yahoo!
• Paul Berney, Managing Director Europe, Mobile Marketing Association
• Adrian Drury, Principle / Media, Broadcast & Telecoms, Ovum
• Paul Berney, Managing Director, Europe, MMA
• Deborah Porton, Head of Mobile Development, Badoo Ltd
• Franco Beschizza, Head of Mobile, Interactive Services, COI
• Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Head of Product, Mobile – EU, Yahoo!
• Martin Harris, SVP Corporate Sales, Bango
• Peter Ward, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, WAYN.com
• Stefanie Hoffmann, CEO Finance, Business Development, aka aki
• Simon Spanswick, Chief Executive, Association for International Broadcasting
• Dan Cryan, Head of Broadband, Screen Digest
• Paul Bristow, Vice-President of Strategy, ADB
• Dr William Cooper Founder and Chief Executive, informitv.com
• Justin Kan, founder and President, Justin.tv
• Aliza Beckett, Business Development, Web, Mobile & New Platforms, Channel 4
• Chi-chi Ekweozor, Director, RealFresh.tv
• Dick Rempt, CEO, Talents Media
• Richard Lindsay Davis, Director General, DTG
• Benjamin Schwarz, Owner, CTO Innovation Consulting
• Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development GVF

Speakers @ Social Media World Forum 15/16^th March – http://www.socialmedia-forum.com

• Lucas Herscovici, Global Marketing Manager, Becks
• Dr. Torsten Wigenter, Head of Social Media Marketing, Lufthansa
• Trevor Johnson, Head of Strategy and Planning, EMEA, Facebook
• Stephane Panier, Global Head, Bebo
• Nick Halstead, CEO, Tweetmeme
• Allison Wightman, Head of Marketing Systems, Virgin Atlantic
• Kerryn Dinsdale, Senior PR Manager, Barclaycard
• Muhammad Karim, Senior Brand Manager, Mars
• Peter Crosby, COO, Viadeo
• Dr. Helmut Becker, COO, XING
• Mark Schmid, Communications Director, Talk Talk
• Martine Edgell, CRM Specialist, Mercedes Benz
• Neal Sato, CTO, mixi
• Christian Schultz, Head of Communications, Mattel
• Michael Smith, Deputy Director of Interactive Services, COI
• Lorenz Bogaert, CEO, Netlog
• Jason Baker, Head of CRM and Digital Media, Ikea UK
• Justin Kan, founder and President, Justin.tv
• Guy Clapperton, Freelance Journalist, Editor and Broadcaster
• Penny Power, Author, International Speaker, Entrepreneur and founder of Ecademy
• Matthew Fraser, Senior Fellow at INSEAD & co-author of  ‘Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom
• Fred McIntyre, Vice President, Product, CBS Interactive
• Sienne Veit, Social and Mobile Commerce Development, Manager, M&S Direct
• Ricky Chopra, Digital Marketing Manager, Speedo International Limited
• Igor Beuker, Founder, SocialMedia8
• David Henry, VP Digital Marketing, Europe, Monster Worldwide
• Mark Watts-Jones, Head of Development & Innovation, Orange UK
• Lisa Mane, Head of Social Media, COI
• Mike Gamoroff, Owner & MD, Gamoroff
• Will McInnes, Managing Director, NixonMcInnes
• Michael Caselli, Editor, Online Casino News
• Adam Caplan, Vice President – Virtual Currency (Super Rewards), Adknowledge
• Neal Sato, CTO, mixi
• Fred McIntyre, Vice President, Product, CBS Interactive
• Oli Newton, Head of Emerging Platforms, i-Level
• Celina Maguire, Consumer Director, Gorkana
• Laila Takeh, Online Manager, British Heart Foundation
• Kristin Wadge, Director, Metrica
• Sam Barratt, Head of Media, Oxfam
• Craig Elder, Online Communities Editor, Conservative Campaign HQ
• Alex Aiken, Head of Communications, Westminster City Council
• Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East & New Media Communications Spokesperson
• Mark Jones, Online and Social Media Editor, Thomson Reuters
• Alex Miller, Head of Social Media, i-Level
• Markus Berger – de Leon, CEO, VZ Networks
• Angel Gambino, Vice President, Sonico

Speakers @ Enterprise Social Media & Cloud Computing http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com – 15/16^th March

• Dion Hinchliffe, Editor in Chief, Social Computing Magazine & Web 2.0 Journal
• Geoff Timblick, Group Internal Communications Manager, New Media, Vodafone Group
• Helen Farrar, Head of Internal Communications, Virgin Media
• Martin Bellamy, CIO, Cabinet Office
• Adrian Steel, Head of Infrastructure Management, Royal Mail
• Thanos Kokkiniotis, Business IT Analyst, Shell International Ltd
• Eachan Fletcher, CIO, Sporting Index
• Simon Revell, Associate Director, Collaboration and Web Technologies, Pfizer
• David Wilde, CIO, Westminster City Council
• Per Rombouts, Project Manager Intranet & Social Media, ING Group
• Kenneth Verlage, CIO, DHL Express
• Paul James, CIO, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, MOD
• Dominic Burch, Head of Corporate Comms and New Media, ASDA
• Sonia Carter, Senior Manager Online Communications, AXA
• Anthony Frost, Head of Corporate Communications, Santander
• Euan Semple, Independent Advisor/former Director of Knowledge Management BBC
• Alison Coward, Owner, Bracket
• Evangelos Kotsovinos, Vice President, Technology, Morgan Stanley
• Eachan Fletcher, CIO, Sporting Index
• Richard Ellis, Manager, UK & Ireland, Iron Mountain Digital
• Andrew Charlesworth, Director, Centre for IT and Law, University of Bristol
• Dr Bill Ashraf, Director of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sussex
• Adrian Davey, Head of IT, Tube Lines