Open Mobile Summit ‘09 San Francisco

November 4-5, 2009

This was our largest Summit to date, with over 360 C-level attendees, 85 speakers and 15 sponsors and exhibitors. The conference was reported on by all of the major industry press including the FT, SF Chronicle, Unstrung, MocoNews, Telephony, Fierce Wireless and more.

The conference brought together many of the most powerful people in wireless and Internet, past present and future, for a landmark discussion on how to build and monetize an open mobile ecosystem.

Follow the links below to access presentations and audio podcasts from the sessions, and more:

• Past agenda, presentations and podcasts
• Past speakers
• Past sponsors
• Photos
• Press coverage
• Read attendee comments

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Overview

This year, the conference actually sold out 5 weeks before it took place, and extra seats had to be created to accommodate the additional demand. The seniority of the participants was unusually high, and we were delighted to welcome a much stronger carrier contingent than in previous years. They joined Internet giants and start-ups, content and media owners, application developers, OEMs and wireless software companies.

The keynote speakers were Vint Cerf Chief Internet Evangelist Google, John Donovan CTO AT&T, Cole Brodman CTO T-Mobile, Dadi Perlmutter EVP and GM Intel Architecture Group, Jan Uddenfeldt SVP Ericsson, Kevin Lynch CTO Adobe and Michael Abbott SVP Palm. Walt Mossberg and Rich Wong moderated. They joined 80 more top ranking executives from right across the converging mobile and Internet ecosystem, including Amazon, Facebook, INQ Mobile, LG, Nokia, Verizon, Sprint, Clear, MySpace, Acer, the FCC and many more.

Quality of speakers was superb. This is one of the best conferences of the year to meet and interact with the movers and shakers of the mobile industry"
Eric Klein, Vice President Java Marketing, Sun Microsystems

this is THE conference in mobile right now"
Brandon Lucas, VP and GM Mobile, Black Entertainment Television

I must commend you for putting together such a brilliant conference. I participate in events around the globe on a regular basis and must say that this was cream of the crop. Excellent speakers, audience, and substantive discussion."
Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

Very rich, thought provoking, relationship building rvent"
Craig Martell, Director Business Development, Oracle

I must commend you for putting together such a brilliant conference. I participate in events around the globe on a regular basis and must say that this was cream of the crop. Excellent speakers, audience, and substantive discussion. Thanks for getting me involved.
Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

I attend a lot of conferences around the world and this was one of the best I have attended in a long time. The OMS had a real CxO crowd, and unlike the big trade shows there was real networking" Pascal Lorne, CEO, Miyowa

Great Conference!"
Derek Maxson, President and CTO, Front Porch

The quality of the content at the Open Mobile Summit was unusually high…compared even to other high-profile conferences. Walt Mossberg’s facilitation, in particular, cut through the corporate veneer to get to the real issues"
Dave Hagan, CEO, Boingo Wireless

The event gave me fantastic insights in the converged marketplace from different angles; Internet, Telecoms, Media"
Stefan Hedelius, Head of Strategy, Ericsson

…super high quality of people"
Laura Eaton, Application Sales Manager, Oracle

C-level views of the future of wireless"
Don Korn, Director Strategic Mobile Venture, Silverbrook Research

Great spectrum of audience, some keynotes were really interesting"
Hartmut Schittko, Director Marketing, Comneon

Many high-level people at one forum"
Hisa Naito, Sr. Director Business Development, Phoenix Technologies

Great conference, very high quality interaction of key people in the industry"
Rod Hall, Executive Director, JP Morgan