Thursday, February 9, 2012

MobileMonday: "Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012"



Dear MobileMonday Friends,

Welcome to the next MobileMonday event, co-hosted with Telkomsel and themed "Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012"

This is a very hot and interesting topic. As noted by Tomi Ahonen (Pearls #3 - Mobile Money, 2011), mobile application in commerce space has gone from a long way from a simple SMS alert for banking transactions (yr. 1996 by Merita Bank, Finland), to paying train tickets (yr. 2000 in Austria), to mobile wallet (yr. 2004 by NTT DoCoMo), to the very successful m-Pesa (yr. 2006 in Safaricom/Kenya), and the list goes on and on.

I am quoting David Birch of Consult Hyperion in his book "The Digital Money Reader (2011)"
Looking around the world now, it appears that the era of mobile payments, mobile banking and mobile money is upon us. Mobile and wireless will be central to strategy in the payments world for the foreseeable future.
Are you ready to explore this untapped market? And opportunity that potentially can deliver a huge impact for our country. Joining us are speakers to discuss and share insights about various aspects of the mobile commerce space:
  • Frost & Sullivan - Iwan Rachmat, Sr. Consultant for ICT Practises
  • SWIFF - Angus Ogilvy, Chief Sales Officer
  • IndoMOG - Donald Wihardja, CIO
  • Telkomsel - Deny Abidin, GM m-Commerce
  • Payfone - Matt Tucker, COO
Event details:
  • Date: Monday, 13 February 2012
  • Time: 18.00 - finish
  • Venue: Blowfish Restaurant & Bar, City Plaza, Jl. Gatot Subroto (right behind Wisma Mulia)
As usual, please register on http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks for Research in Motion the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for their annual sponsorship. And once again thank you for Telkomsel for hosting this event.

See you there!

Yours,
MobileMonday Indonesia

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