This Year's Speakers

We’ve got some awesome speakers lined up for you this year at FOM. Here's who we've got lined up so far. Don't forget to check back for updates to the speaker list.

Andrew Grill London Calling

Based in London, Andrew is an experienced Senior Telecoms Executive, Business Developer and Marketer with particular expertise in sourcing and winning significant business across Europe in the mobile operator space. He has a specific focus on mobile advertising, mobile location and fixed mobile substitution. Until recently Andrew was head of Sales and Business Development for leading Location Based Services company Seeker Wireless. London Calling is a new blog by Andrew with news and opinion on mobile advertising, location and mobile social networking. All of Andrews blog posts can be found via www.andrewgrill.com.blog
Andrew Scott Rummble

Andrew Scott is currently CEO of Rummble, an award winning mobile technology company. Rummble is a location based social discovery platform which learns; enabling users to find people and places nearby which they will like. A serial entrepreneur, Andrew ran a successful web development company through the dot com years, which he sold in 2001; there he developed the world’s first online digital video news archive (www.britishpathe.com), he later built the UKs first interactive SMS dating service (DinnerDateAuctions), founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website (InTraining), pioneered Europe’s first location based mobile social software (playtxt) and ran an internet consultancy (Urban Horizon).
Charles Wiles Google

Charles leads Google's mobile web effort in London and has been the champion of Google's move to the "the browser as the platform" on mobile resulting in Google's suite of fast and fluid web apps on iPhone and Android. Charles has a PhD from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School and was a founder of two successful start-ups before joining Google.
Doug Richard Trutap

Having appeared in the first and second series of Dragons' Den, Doug is the founder and Chairman of Library House www.libraryhouse.net, Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels, Chairman and CEO of Trutap www.trutap.com, and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force. Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK. Between 1996 and 2000 he was President and CEO of Micrografx, a US publicly quoted software company which he sold to Corel Corp. in 2000. Prior to that he also founded and subsequently sold two other companies: Visual Software and ITAL Computers. Doug holds a BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor at the school of Law, University of California at Los Angeles. In 2006 Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. In 2007, Doug became a fellow of the RSA.
Ewen MacLeod Moble Industry Review

Ewan created and setup one of the country’s largest sms text to screen services in Nightclubs and bars across the UK (Neo One Impulse). Ewan was the first to program and launch picture messaging to screen back when the UK’s mobile operators were, it seemed, using sticky-tape to run their MMS gateways. An excitable, energetic chap, Ewan wanted the world to know about his team’s success with Impulse. Unfortunately the mainstream media didn’t want to know. Nobody cared. Mainstream journalists, often covering a wide area of the new media industry weren’t interested. Similarly, mobile coverage from mainstream media simply wasn’t good enough to provide Ewan and his colleagues with a good daily overview of what was ‘happening’ in mobile. Already getting hundreds of newsletters and feeds from all sorts of sources to support his day to day business efforts, Ewan resolved to sit down once a day and document stories, news and opinion that caught his eye. He named the site SMS Text News because the focus was originally on text messaging, however the site now covers a wide range of mobile spheres relevant to the executive and mobile fan, mostly with an eye on the end consumer.
Gerrit Mueller Yahoo

SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR MOBILE PRODUCTS FOR CONNECTED LIFE, YAHOO! EUROPE Gerrit Mueller joined Yahoo! in November 2007. As Senior Director for Mobile Products for Connected Life Yahoo! Europe, Gerrit Mueller is responsible for the development and evo-lution of Yahoo!’s mobile consumer product suite in the European market, including Ya-hoo!’s market leading mobile search product oneSearch. Yahoo!’s Connected Life business unit comprises the company’s broadband, mobile, digi-tal home and PC client businesses, including strategic alliances with some of the world’s largest telecommunications and cable companies, as well as global device manufacturers. Prior to joining Yahoo! Mueller was responsible for the launch of eBay’s first mobile marketplace in Europe. From here Mueller moved on to become Managing Director and Founder of his own German based company Icon Impact GmbH, focusing on the development of next generation entertainment formats for web and mobile. He holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business from the Technical University of Berlin.
Helen Keegan Beep Marketing

A retail and marcomms professional with over 20 years work experience, Helen has specialised in mobile for the last 8 years or so and was at the birth of mobile marketing in 2000 as Head of Customer Experience at ZagMe, the location based mobile marketing pioneer. Today, Helen runs her own mobile marketing, advertising and media consultancy, BeepMarketing, developing mobile strategies, creating products and services, and implementing campaigns for a wide variety of clients including NewsCorp, Teletext, The English National Opera and MyMart to name but a few. Helen has recently written the Guide to Mobile Marketing and Advertising, published by Tanla Mobile (link) in February 2008, she's a familiar face on the conference circuit at home and abroad and teaches mobile marketing at the University of Westminster, e-consultancy and the IDM. She runs the popular mobile networking event, Swedish Beers (link) in London, Barcelona and Sydney, and blogs about mobile marketing at www.technokitten.com
James Whatley Whatleydude

James Whatley is the Social Media Strategist at SpinVox, avid blogger and a regular contributor to the leading mobile news site, SMS Text News. During his time at SpinVox, James has been involved in numerous projects including; ‘The Future of Voice’, ‘Stand By What You Say’ and ‘Big Talk’. Prior to joining SpinVox he was Customer Champion at Mippin, (formerly Refresh Mobile), and was a major contributor to defining and refining the user experience for mobile consumers. James also helped to secure the prestigious ‘Nokia Pro Developer of the Year’ award for Refresh in 2006. More recently, James helped develop the concept for the ‘Social Networks through SpinVox’ service, which was a finalist at the 2007 Media Guardian Awards. Passionate for all things ‘Social’ (tools, media, networks and objects), James is a frequent speaker at Social Media conferences and events. A recent example of this was ‘Media Camp London’, where he led a discussion around Social Media and how it applies to big brands & companies, as well as to his vision for SpinVox. James is a regular guest on a number of podcasts and was invited onto Radio 4’s ‘Today Programme’ to talk about ‘The Business of Blogging’ in early 2008. James’ work centres around user experience, technology, and how on-and offline social structures mesh with technologies of engagement. You can read his personal blog at http://whatleydude.com
Jemima Kiss The Guardian

Jemima Kiss joined Guardian.co.uk's media desk in late 2006 as digital media reporter. Her tentacles extend across media technology and digital content into areas called things like social networking, Web 2.0 and startups, as well the shift of traditional media companies towards digital publishing and distribution. She has written for the digital business blog paidContent.org, the industry news site journalism.co.uk, and various other specialist web titles. So if the internet dies, everything she has ever done goes up in smoke. It's no secret that Jemima is addicted to the internet. It must be something they put in the Twitter.
Jonathan MacDonald Ogilvy One

Senior Consultant, Mobile Marketing - OgilvyOne Worldwide At Ogilvy, Jonathan is the Senior Consultant on Global Mobile Marketing Strategies. Prior to this, Jonathan was a Director of Blyk, the world's first purely ad-funded Mobile Network. As one of the original team, Jonathan shaped the overall business strategy in the sales, operations, analytics and creative departments. Before this, Jonathan was the Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of a Sky Television Channel, Chairman of the British Music Retail Industry and consultant to 100+ companies over 18 years. In his spare time he is a keen blogger, a renowned published author and martial arts expert (achieving black-belt in 2005 in full contact kick-boxing). He is currently writing his 2nd book called - The Communication Ideal with contributions from other 'Future of Mobile' speakers: Andrew Grill, Helen Keegan, Ewen MacLeod, Tomi Ahonen and Mike Butcher.
Kieran Gutteridge IntoHand

Kieran Gutteridge - CTO and Co-Founder. Kieran is a pioneer of application development in the mobile space, where he has led the deployment of innovative client-server solutions which deliver a diversity of mobile services. He has broad expertise in software development but also the skill to develop small footprint, efficient mobile applications, including Java mobile solutions. Kieran is CTO of Intohand and responsible for all technical projects within the business.
Mathew Millar Adobe

Matt Millar is Director of Multi-screen Applications at Adobe. He is responsible for the creation of new Adobe products and services that run across Mobile, TV and PC screens. While at Adobe Matt has been responsible for the successful launch of new Adobe services in the european market, and the launch of multiple high volume handset releases that take advantage of Flash. Matt moved to Adobe after leading the successful sale of his startup Mobile Innovation to Macromedia in 2005. Mobile Innovation was a leading designer, developer and integrator of user interface, user experience and software application platforms for mobile devices and successfully delivered products with global mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Samsung. Matt is passionate about the user experience, and is regarded within the industry as a innovator and pioneer. Matt was part of the founding team of Symbian when it was spun out of Psion plc and led the project team that successfully delivered the first open Symbian platform device - the Nokia 9210. Matt graduated from Oxford University in 1994 with a BA (Honours) in Physics. Before embarking on his professional software engineering career he worked at Price Waterhouse, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, having qualified in 1997.
Ricardo Varela Yahoo

Ricardo Varela MOBILE ENGINEERING LEAD, CONNECTED LIFE, YAHOO! EUROPE Ricardo Varela joined Yahoo! in December 2007 as European Mobile Engineering Lead. He and his team are responsible for Yahoo!’s mobile product development, working to provide Yahoo!’s community of users with the best possible mobile first experience Yahoo!’s Connected Life business unit comprises the company’s mobile and digital home businesses, including strategic alliances with some of the world’s largest tele-communications and cable companies, as well as global device manufacturers. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ricardo worked on mobile product development at Microsoft and Google. Ricardo started his career at the age of 19, forming his own mobile and web videogames community which he then successfully sold on to Broadcast.
Rich Miner Google

Rich Miner, Group Manager Mobile Platforms Rich Miner has been developing innovative communications and interface-intensive applications for over 20 years and he has occupied a variety of high-profile technology development roles during that time. He is currently Group Manager of Mobile Platforms for Google, helping to build the Android platform. Rich joined Google through the acquisition of Android, a mobile software platforms company he co-founded. Prior to starting Android Rich was Vice President of Advanced Services at Orange, where he headed the group's R&D activities in North America. He came to Orange through acquisition of another company he co-founded, Wildfire, which made a voice-based personal assistant product that was sold to fixed and wireless carriers. Rich held various positions at Wildfire, including CTO and MD for Europe. He met his founding partner at Wildfire when he helped incubate Avid Technology in his university lab. Rich received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he was also Co-Director of the Interactive Media Group, leading research projects with such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Apollo, IBM and NYNEX.
Rudy de Waele M Trends

Rudy De Waele, a Belgian, living and working in Barcelona, Spain has been working in internet media since 1995 and in mobile since 1999. Often invited as a speaker and contributing writer to a number of professional publications, his visionary thoughts on Mobile 2.0 have gone around the world. Currently he works with dotopen, an open innovation consulting firm he co-founded in 2007, advising start-ups and established companies with their strategic positioning, defining business models, creating alliances, and identifying market and funding opportunities. He is also part of the Mobile 2.0 organizing committee and the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and Madrid. His blog is at http://m-trends.org.
Ryan Carson Carsonified

Ryan is the founder of Carsonified and loves web tech, coffee and movies. (Is it wrong to see The Matrix seven times at the cinema?) He's got a degree in Computer Science and is passionate about connecting and encouraging people - which is why he's passionate about running events for the web community. He loves his wife and can't believe he's a dad.
Simon Rockman SonyEricsson

Simon Rockman is the head of requirements and applications for the entry platform in Sony Ericsson. This means he looks at what people and networks want (and what they say they want which might not be the same things). He’s always on the look out for new ideas, applications and use cases. Before that he was “Creative Experience Director” at Motorola. And before Motorola Simon founded What Mobile magazine. His time on the magazine enabled him to use hundreds of phones and meet many of the best, worst and smartest people in the mobile phone industry. He’s proud to call a lot of them friends and he’s very well connected. His areas of particular interest are consumer trends, user interface and gaming.
Stuart Varrall Fluid Pixel

Stuart is the founder of Fluid Pixel® Ltd (www.fpstudios.com) a development studio dedicated to Flash Lite and the iPhone platforms. Based in the North East, yet working worldwide, Fluid Pixel are a one of the few studios fully embracing the market for Flash Lite technologies for games and applications. With a background in AAA console game development Stuart and the team are able to exploit mobile platforms to reach new audiences. Building on this position, Stuart is Co-Manager for the Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group in the UK and has given talks to the BBC on the subject. He is also responsible for nurturing new talent giving guest lectures at leading Universities.
Symbian Team Symbian & Partners

Michael Coffey, Software Engineer, PIM Team, Symbian. Michael Aubert, Senior Software Engineer, Author, Former Symbian. Michael Moore, Technical Consultant for NAVTEQ's Partner and Developer Programs. Jezar Wakefield, Senior Software Engineer, Symbian. Mikko Rontyen, Head of S60 Spearhead products. Luca Cioletti, Leader, Business Development, Forum Nokia.
Tom Hume Future Platforms

Tom is Managing Director of Future Platforms, a Brighton-based software company that specialises in mobile product development and counts amongst its clients Nokia, Orange, the BBC, Channel 4, LastMinute, Trutap, Flirtomatic and Puzzler Media. Recent projects have included a casual stargazing service for the Royal Observatory Greenwich; mobile social software for Trutap; opening up GPS gaming to the world with Locomatrix; and helping viewers of Most Haunted in the US hunt ghosts with their mobiles. Tom holds a D&AD silver nomination for his work in interactive media and posts his thoughts on the mobile industry and software development (along with a healthy set of kitten photos) at http://tomhume.org/
Tomi T Ahonen Author

Tomi T Ahonen is a four-time bestselling author, independent consultant and speaker in the converging areas of mobile telecoms, internet, media, advertising, credit and banking, and virtual reality, based in Hong Kong. A firm believer in digital communities and social networking, Tomi lectures on all of these topics at Oxford University for which he has developed the short courses for 3G services, 3G business, and mobile-TV. The world's leading authority on making money with advanced wireless services, and the undisputed global evangelist for successful mobile applications. Tomi Ahonen is still involved in telecoms standardization and participates in how wireless services evolve from 3G to 4G. He also serves on the boards of several innovative high tech companies. Tomi is a founding member of the Wireless Watch, Engagement Alliance, Carnival of the Mobilists, and Forum Oxford.
Tony Fish AMF Ventures

Tony is known for delivery, his probing questioning, clear decision making, simple no-nonsense attitude and robust financial views and governance controls. He brings an innovative flare to delivery, deal execution and fund raising. With an enviable professional reputation, he has a wide and diverse professional network. Tony features in the top 10 of ‘The Observer Guardian’ newspapers “The future 500 rising stars” “Mobile Web 2.0” is Tony’s second book and provides a detailed strategic analysis of the changing relationships in mobile, media and retail as the markets move towards openness. Tony Fish MBA BEng CEng FIET FCIM has been involved for over 20 years in the Technology Media and Telecoms industries, and has been associated with building hi-tech companies since his first IPO (OFEX) in 1994.
Vero Pepperrell That Canadian Girl

Vero Pepperrell is a social media consultant and geekette, with 8 years of blogging history behind her. She's the community gal for http://www.taptu.com Taptu mobile search, and is living proof that having a big gob and a blog doesn't just get people fired, but can also get them hired. She writes about gadgets, online marketing and customer care at http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk and can be found harping on about the importance of building relationships with users in order to create a community of evangelists. Obsessed with her two cats, Mario Kart Wii and making fancy cocktails, Vero takes issue with rubbish advertising campaigns, bad drivers and spam (both kinds).