A great day at ForumOxford...

Date: 11/5/2009

ForumOxford is a grown-up forum that discusses everything relevant to anyone with an interest in the Mobile Phone industry. Linked to the University of Oxford, the online forum is small but growing fast and covers a wide range of topics with contributions from people who really know their subjects and are prepared to share knowledge and debate ideas in a friendly and open manner without allowing corporate spin to get in the way - I cannot recommend it highly enough. 

Run by Ajit Jaokar, Tomi Ahonen and Peter Holland, and sponsored by Nokia, the forum has an annual gathering at Oxford each Spring where we get to meet each other face to face and listen to a number of interactive presentations given by a number of leaders in their fields and me!

The event took place this year on the 23rd April at Oxford University and is a very informal and relaxed event with about 80-90 top-level participants from all over the World. We heard from some tremendous speakers including;

Professor William Webb, Head of Research and Development, Ofcom
Nick Allott, Chief Technical Officer, OMTP
Graham Trickey, Senior Director, GSM Association
Phil Northam, Global Manager, Samsung Mobile Innovator
Martin Sauter, Wireless Consultant and Author, WirelessMoves
Mark Curtis, CEO, Flirtomatic
Professor Ed Candy, Chief Technology Officer, 3 Group
Tony Fish, CEO, AMF Ventures
Helen Keegan, Specialist in Mobile Marketing, Advertising and Media, Beep Marketing
Christine Maxwell, Chief Information Architect, MobileWorks 3D Inc.

Mi-Pay has sponsored the event for a few years now and its a great and valuable investment for us.  I was asked to speak again and gave a presentation updating the audience on recent developments in mobile phone initiated financial services as they move from various small pilots into mainstream services such as M-Pesa and Zap.

The organisers have pulled together all the presentations from this years ForumOxford event here including some great video interviews with some of the speakers (including me) and several attendees, undertaken in a very professional manner as ever by  Jonathan Marks who describes himself as a media "insultant" with 25 years of broadcasting experience and has a very interesting blog of his own.

 

Simon

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