Keitai-l people:
In the unlikely event that you're in Tokyo and *not* on the 2 or 3 mailing
lists that received this event announcement....well, here's this event
announcement, from the ICA.
Note that the panel-discussion topics have been thoughtfully selected from a
list of certain burning questions that have beaten to within an inch of
their miserable lives on keitai-l -- e.g., "Can i-mode's success be
replicated outside Japan?", "Will 3G flop?", "WLANs and Bluetooth -- threat
or menace?", and "Hey, how about those Shibuya girls?" But it might be fun
anyway. Stranger things have happened. Even at ICA meetings.
I've only done the regular member meetings, which were at the Foreign
Correpondents Club (nice) and we were pretty well-fed. This one's a
different venue, and it's buffet, but if the production values approach the
usual ICA/FCC event standard, 5,000 yen is not exorbitant. Or look at it
the other way: it's too pricey for me these days, and therefore almost
certainly beyond the budget of other riff-raff not worth meeting, so if you
value your time....
I guess I'm getting off-topic here. Without further ado, the details (note
the October 22 noon cut-off for RSVPs):
> Oct 24 the ICA will hold a special networking and round table event at the
> International House in Roppongi.
>
> TOPIC: The Future of Mobile Data Communication
>
> The event will start with a networking session with stand-up buffet and
cash
> bar (including one free drink ticket). The highlight of the event will be
a
> round table discussion with some of Japan and Europe's top mobile
> communications experts.
>
> We will be joined by a delegation of mobile specialists representing the
> StartUpFactory in Scandinavia who will be on a tour to explore
opportunities
> in the Japanese market. Topics covered in the discussion will include but
> not be limited to:
>
> - The European vs Japanese operator perspective
> - Will DoCoMo be able to copy the I-mode success outside of Japan?
> - What are the latest trends for mobile contents creation and what is the
> future?
> - Will 3G be a flop? Who will use it for what? Differences Japan and
Europe?
> - Who will create/develop the services of the future?
> - The environment for European and Japanese mobile start-ups
> - Disruptive technologies - Unlicensed networks e.g. WLAN and Bluetooth
>
> Speakers include:
>
> Pekka Lundmark, Managing Partner at Startupfactory, a Nordic early stage
> venture capitalist focusing on IT, datacom and telecom industries. Prior
to
> joining Startupfactory, he served almost 10 years at Nokia, latest as
Senior
> Vice President, Marketing for Nokia's Internet Communications division in
> the Silicon Valley. Earlier he was Vice President, Strategy and Business
> Development at Nokia Networks, the network infrastructure division within
> Nokia. Pekka holds a Master of Science degree from Helsinki University of
> Technology, with majors in Information Systems and International
Marketing.
>
> Kazutomo Robert Hori, President and C.E.O. of Cybird, a leader in the
> rapidly expanding sector of content providers for cellphones. Cybird
IPO'ed
> in Decemver of 2000 and went from incurring operating losses on the order
of
> (I%(B100 million to profiting (I%(B10 million in Q2 2001. The high
profile firm
> works closely with Docomo, J-Phone and other market leaders and also is
> pioneering mobile business solutions in addition to content creation. Hori
> is a graduate of the School of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University and studied
at
> the University of London and City Polytechnics
>
> Gerhard Fasol (http://fasol.com/) is CEO and Founder of Eurotechnology
which
> builds and develops the Japan business for European and US corporations,
and
> helps Japanese companies globalize. Recently much of Eurotechnology's work
> is in the imode and telecom areas. Fasol was Manager and Chief Scientist
of
> one of Hitachi's R&D laboratories developing new electronic devices. He
was
> faculty member at Cambridge University and at the Dept. of Electrical
> Engineering of Japan's elite Tokyo University, where was leading a
research
> group on new electronic and opto-electronic nano-devices as Associate
> Professor. Fasol has a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and
Trinity
> College (Cambridge, UK).
>
> MEETING DETAILS - RSVP REQUIRED
> If you would like to attend please RSVP at our event signup page
> http://www.ica.gol.com/signup.html
> by 12:00 noon Monday October 22. For inquiries regarding reservations,
> send a message to Chris Ohta at mailto:ohtac@gol.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001
> Time: 6:00 Doors open, drinks start
> 7:00 Stand-up buffet
> 7:45 Round Table starts
> 8:45: Q&A
> 9:00: Finish
> Place: The International House of Japan (Roppongi)
> Map: <http://www.i-house.or.jp/ihj_e/intro_e/index.html
> Cost: 5,000 (yen) members, 7,000 (yen) non-members
> Stand up buffet one drink included, then cash bar
> No shows will be charged.
>
> ***********************************************
> --<< Former ICA President - BOISVERT, ROGER 1951 - 2001 >>--
>
> This special notice is to let you know that the Memorial
> reception for Roger Boisvert, the late founder of Global
> Online KK and former ICA President, will be held on
> Saturday, October 27, 2001, at the Foreign Correspondents'
> Club here in Tokyo. More details are available at the
> www.boisvert.jp Web site.
>
> Also the organizers of the Web site, Tom Caldwell and
> Peter Evans, have advised us that they are actively
> soliciting donations to the Reward Fund, which will be
> used to gain information from the local community in
> Hawthorne, L.A., about the perpetrator of this terrible
> act. Apparently they have been advised by the relevant
> local authorities that any reward to be offered has a
> better chance of persuading an informant to come forward
> if it's offered soon after the event. So those of you
> inclined to support this effort should do so quickly.
>
> Otherwise, we'll see you at the reception -- to honor
> the memory of this very special person.
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Received on Wed Oct 17 12:10:44 2001