Mobile Monday Colombo kicks off 2013 with 18 Feb. meet up

Mobile Monday Colombo (MoMo) kicks off 2013 with a meet up on 18 February at the Bayleaf.

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Geoff Gregson, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Edingburgh Business School on ‘Commercialising and Protecting your ideas and Intellectual Property: Focusing on the Mobile Application Industry’.

A weak approach to IP has proven to be disastrous for emerging businesses and entrepreneurs as mistakes will be very costly to rectify down the road. Your business may have a wealth of IP but you may not know it. Most of the emerging businesses fail to maintain confidentiality and ownership of their IP. The speaker will look at the options to protect your IP and commercialisation strategies with particular emphasis on IP infringements.

“This being the second event within a short span of time since the revamp of MoMo late last year, we are encouraged by the participation and the support of the industry. We have seen a rise in the interest levels for the session on 18 February which will no doubt be as successful as the last meet up,” said Nayana Serasinghe, CEO of Dinota, who heads the Mobile and Telco CoE of SLASSCOM.

Mobile Monday (MoMo) Colombo was set up in 2010 as an initiative of the Mobile & Telco CoE of SLASSCOM. The MoMo team is geared to take the necessary steps to encourage individuals from within the mobile and telco community to meet on a regular basis, share ideas, network and work as a community platform as is the philosophy of the global Mobile Monday group.

MoMo Colombo is strengthened by the membership of industry leaders such as 99x Technologies, Axienta, Dialog, Dinota, hSenid Mobile, Informatics, JKCS, Leapset, Motorola, Sabre, Talliance, Virtusa and Wavenet.

MobileMonday (MoMo) is an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border P2P business opportunities through live networking events to demo products, share ideas and discuss trends from both local and global markets.

Originating in Helsinki Finland, in 2000, activities are organised by some 300 dedicated volunteers from around the world and have become an industry leading mobile platform. Chapters have held events in over 140 cities worldwide and continue to launch new locations monthly.