mobileCampLondon
by Imran Ali
The final weekend of the Summer will see the first mobileCampLondon, a very hands-on unconference for designers, developers and entrepreneurs working on mobile applications, devices and user experience.
The impending launch of the iPhone in Europe and the advent of open platforms such as Trolltech’s Greenphone and the Openmoko project, is suddenly making grassroots innovation, of the sort experienced by the Internet industry, finally possible for mobility.
The weekend’s proposed sessions look really interesting - from hacking hardware to VoIP, gaming, widgets and GPS as well as social networking, payment systems and advertising.
The weekend has been organised by Fjord’s Victor Szilagyi - a graduate of Milan’s prestigious and now defunct Interaction Design Institute Ivrea - and Christian Lindholm, formerly of Yahoo! And they’ve attracted an impressive roster of speakers and attendees, ranging from Nokia+Orange’s Chris Heathcote and FT’s former VP of Technology Research, Dr. Norman Lewis and Openmoko’s William Lai…who’ll kindly be bringing out some Neo1973 development kits for attendees to play with.
Signup at the camp wiki and find out who else is coming at the Upcoming event listing.
