Mobile Social Networking Forum, Mobile Social Media

Twitter: (@yoel)

Yoel is responsible for Bebo Mobile - the mobile divison of the leading social network Bebo.com that offers the users access via a dedicated mobile site, the Bebo Messaging Service and an increasing range of mobile Apps. Besides serving the constantly growing userbase, Yoel works with operators, handset manufacturers and mobile software developers to help them promote, distribute and monetize mobile social media.

Twitter: (@bobrapp)

Bob Rapp is Head, User Communities at Vodafone Group.  He works with the Vodafone operating companies on strategies to identify, engage and nurture relationships with the key influencers in each Vodafone market.  Previously, as a Senior Director at Microsoft for a decade, he worked on new, difficult and different people and technology projects in 90 countries.   Bob works each day to help make mobile experiences perfect for each user – based upon their desires – while always protecting a users privacy

Konstantinos has been with Yahoo! for the past 2 years and leads the EU mobile product team. His team supervised the development and launch of mobile sites for Search, Mail and IM across Europe, as well as News, Sports and Finance iPhone and Blackberry apps. Before joining Yahoo!, Konstantinos was a Product Manager at Skype taking care mainly of the Voicemail, Conferencing and Alerts platforms. 

Paul is Managing Director of the EMEA branch of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). The MMA is an action-oriented, member-driven trade association, with a mission to lead the growth of mobile marketing worldwide and to drive forward a healthy and sustainable industry. Offering a wealth of industry knowledge in the form of research, educational tools and case studies, the MMA promotes and evangelizes the mobile channel and sets globally adopted initiatives, guidelines and best practices.

Matt Dicks joined the mobile social network Flirtomatic in November 2007 and is responsible for global marketing, business development including CRM, advertising sales and growing the company’s distribution relationships.  Currently Matt and his team are working on growth opportunities in the US and European markets across web and mobile and is interested in ad funding virtual goods in the mobile and social media particularly marketing solutions for customer acquisition.  Prior to joining Flirtomatic he was Managing Director of Mobile for Ministry of Sound London where he established the brands digital and mobile strategy through handset deals, on/off portal branded solutions and content partnerships with global Carriers and digital music stores.

Twitter: (@vhirsch)

Volker recently co-founded Blue Beck, a social games creator and publisher focusing to bring back true sociality to electronic games on the iPhone, Android, Symbian, BREW, Windows Mobile and Blackberry platforms. He is also a strategy advisor to social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop.

Twitter: (@PetaVard)

Peter Ward is co-founder and co-CEO of WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?). With over 15 million members across 193 countries WAYN is the world’s leading location-based social network, with a focus on travel and lifestyle. Having raised a £10K initial investment from Steve Pankhurst (co-Founder of Friends Reunited) in 2003, Peter - along with co-founders Jerome Touze and Mike Lines - grew the business on a strictly part-time basis before going full-time when WAYN reached one million members in October 2005.

Twitter: (@nanou_)

Stefanie Hoffmann, 32, worked as a product manager at Bertelsmann and developed strategies for a Berlin based fashion label. In 2004 she registered to study communications and strategic planning at the University of the Arts Berlin where she became part of the founding aka-aki team. At aka-aki she is a managing director for business development and marketing. With her being part of the management team, the Berlin based start-up successfully completed several rounds of financing and became a company with 18+ employees. Besides several other Rewards since 2008, aka-aki was named Best Mobile Social Network in the 13th Annual Webby Awards and Webby People’s Voice Awards in 2009.

www.aka-aki.com

Mark has worked for Orange in a variety of marketing roles, most recently leading Orange UK's partnerships with the world’s major social networks Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Mark also led the development of the social networking element of Dolphin, Orange UK's innovative Pay As You Go tariff with free mobile social networking included. Dolphin is Orange UK's major consumer proposition for 2008 and a UK first.