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All aboard for Mobilism · 1 May 2012 · PPK

In eight days the Mobilism workshops will take place, and in nine days the main conference will start. If you plan on coming, now would be a good time to buy your ticket.

So far we have about 320 attendees who have decided our programme is good enough to come to Amsterdam for. And let's face it, if your job involves the mobile web in any way you cannot afford to miss Horace Dediu, Remy Sharp, Jason Grigsby, Stephen Hay, Scott Jenson, the browser panel and device/network API panels moderated by Jeremy Keith, and many more sessions that focus exclusively on the mobile web.

Also, you cannot afford to miss the mobile social event of the year: our beer-to-beer networking event on Thursday night, which is completely free for attendees. You'll also have a chance to chat with 300 other attendees about the mobile web, free beer, or anything in between.

Ticket sales will close in a week, next Tuesday, so that our administration has a chance to catch up on Wednesday. So those few of you who haven't done so yet still have seven days and a bit to buy your ticket.

See you next week!

Mobilism 2012, 10th and 11th of May, Amsterdam

Featuring Scott Jenson and Seb Lee-Delisle

See ticket prices

Sharing the loot: 40 devices for our attendees · 24 April 2012 · PPK

Today we can announce the majority of the devices we'll share out among our attendees.

Mobilism 2012 will be sponsored by BlackBerry, Nokia, Intel, Google, HP, Adobe PhoneGap, and Microsoft. Of these seven sponsors, four will give us ten devices each that we'll share out among our attendees:

  • 10 Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones with Android 4 from Google
  • 10 TouchPad tablets with webOS from HP
  • 8 Nokia Lumia phones with Windows Phone from Nokia
  • 2 Nokia N9 phones with MeeGo from Nokia
  • 10 BlackBerry devices; their exact nature is not yet known. We'll give you an update as soon as possible

Thus every one of the about 350 Mobilism attendees will have a chance that's rather better than 10% to take a device home with them. In other words, you have a chance of at least 10% to get back your ticket price. Cool, no?

Anyway, you still have two weeks to buy your ticket and you chance of obtaining a modern device. See you on 10th of May.

Final line-up notes · 3 April 2012 · PPK

Well, the Mobilism line-up is complete now. We have one more item to announce: a device/network API panel featuring representatives from W3C, PhoneGap, and Blue Via to discuss how web developers will get access to phone functionality such as the address book and the camera, as well as access to payment systems that tie in with the mobile operator. These APIs are fairly new, and they represent a new kind of functionality that simply wasn't there before, so we're expecting a lively discussion. This panel will be moderated by Jeremy Keith.

Unfortunately, we also have a speaker cancellation: Ethan Marcotte has had to cancel his engagement for personal reasons. He will be sorely missed, although we think the rest of the line-up will allow everybody to almost, but not quite, forget about Ethan's absence.

With these two changes our programme is complete; and please note there have been some slight changes on day 2.

Tickets are still available; and frankly, if your job is to incorporate mobile into the web you can't afford to miss this conference. In addition, we'll feature workshops by Remy Sharp about building mobile web apps, and by Lyza Gardner and Jason Grigsby on taking your desktop web skills to mobile from a content and interaction design point of view.

See you in Amsterdam in May.

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