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February 2010

Mobile World Congress 2010


February 15-18, 2010, Barcelona

Funambol participated at this conference and demonstrated our new software release, Funambol v8.5. Click here to view a pdf file (1.2M) of the information that Funambol presented at our stand.


November 2009

Agile Day


November 20, 2009, Bologna, Italy

Funambol presented a new idea at this conference, about integrating Agile and open source development, check out the slides.


Silicon Valley Telecom Council, Mobile Forum


November 10, 2009, Decathlon Club, Santa Clara, CA

Funambol presented at this meeting about 'Building the Cloud'.


Harvard Club of San Francisco


November 10, 2009, San Francisco

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco discussed the opportunities and challenges of running a start-up on an entrepreneurship panel.


Open Mobile Summit


November 4-5, 2009, San Francisco

Funambol presented and exhibited at this conference.

October 2009

Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE) 2009


October 27-28, 2009, London

Funambol Community Manager Stefano Maffulli gave a talk at this conference about profitable business models with mobile open source.

September 2009

Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) World


September 15-16, 2009, Amsterdam

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco gave a talk entitled "Open Initiatives Are Changing the Game for Mobile Cloud Services" and spoke on a panel, "What are the potential benefits of the mobile cloud for Open Source?"


Mobile Content 2009 Conference & Awards


September 10-11, 2009, Seoul, Korea

Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger delivered a presentation about the open mobile cloud at this conference.

August 2009

Mobile World 2009


August 25-26, 2009, Seoul, Korea

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco chaired one of the main program tracks and delivered a presentation about the emergence of the open mobile cloud.



OpenSource World


August 12-13, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco spoke at a session called "The Role of Open Source in the Mobile Applications Marketplace".

July 2009

OSCON 2009


July 20-24, 2009, San Jose, CA

Funambol Community Manager Stefano Maffulli led a birds of a feather (BoF) session entitled, "Freedom For the Cloud: How We Learn to Control the Cloud and Live Happy".

June 2009

Global Messaging 2009


June 23-24, 2009, London

Funambol participated in the Innovation Showcase at Global Messaging 2009, where we highlighted our new Funambol v8 MobileWe portal that syncs billions of mobile phones with the Internet cloud, email systems, desktops and social networks.


CommunicAsia 2009


June 18, 2009, Singapore

Funambol particpated at this conference, in the Mobile Marketing and Advertising forum, on a panel discussion entitled "Creative Leadership - Can this be Crowd-sourced? How to Generate Mobile World of Mouth and monetization of the mobile social media".


Online Community Unconference


June 10, 2009, Mountain View, CA

Funambol participated at the (un)conference.



May 2009

Arabcom Telecom 2009 Summit


May 28-29, 2009, Beirut, Lebanon

Funambol participated at this event.





Mobile operator Smartpipes & applications


May 19-20, 2009, London

Funambol participated at this conference.



Better Software 2009


May 6-7, 2009, Florence, Italy

Funambol CTO Stefano Fornari presented ideas about how to work with an Open Source community.

April 2009

#sfmobile


April 29, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco presented at this meet-up.


European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford University


April 27, 2009, Stanford, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco participated in this program about European Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thought Leaders.


CTIA 2009


April 1-3, 2009, Las Vegas

Funambol demonstrated its new v8 open source mobile cloud sync solution at CTIA that syncs billions of phones with the internet cloud, popular email systems and desktop apps.

March 2009

OSBC InfoWorld San Francisco


March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco delivered a presentation about the evolution of SaaS-based open source software and associated business models.


Open Source in Mobile 2009 USA


March 11-12, 2009, San Francisco

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco gave a keynote address at this conference entitled, "The Rise of Mobile Cloud Services".

February 2009

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009


February 16-19, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Funambol previewed its next-generation open source MobileWe solution for billions of phones. Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco also presented at a Mobile World Congress special focus session about mobilizing open source.


Telecom Council Mobile Forum Meeting:
Deep Dive on Mobile Advertising


February 3, 2009, Palo Alto, CA

Funambol presented its ad-funded open source MobileWe push email and mobile sync solution at this forum.

December 2008

GSM>3G Middle East 2008


December 15-16, 2008, Dubai

Funambol participated at this mobile event.


Broadband Business Forum (in Italian)


December 2, 2008, Roma, Italy

Funambol Community Manager Stefano Maffulli presented Funambol mobile open source at this event.

November 2008

FunCon 2008: Funambol Developer Workshop 2008


November 25, 2008, Milano, Italy

Funambol hosted its first ever Funambol Developer Workshop in Milano, Italy, on November 25, 2008.


China Mobility 2008


November 24-26, 2008, Beijing

Funambol participated at this event.


3GSM Mobile Asia Congress


November 18-20, 2008, Macau

Funambol participated at this conference.


Open Mobile Summit


November 19-20, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco appeared on a panel about apps in the cloud and the browser as an application development environment.


Harvard Business School Open Source CEO Summit


November 14, 2008, Cambridge, MA

Funambol participated in this conference about open source business models and communities at Harvard Business School.


ISPCON Fall 2008


November 11 - 13, 2008, San Jose, CA

Funambol presented two case studies about how its service provider customers have implemented and deployed its open source push email and mobile sync solution.


Mobile 2.0


November 3, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco discussed the iPhone's impact on the mobile industry and how sync has become required for Mobile 2.0 apps, services and content.

October 2008

Handsets Forum USA '08


October 29-30, 2008, San Diego, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco spoke on a panel entitled 'Ban Open Source: What about everyone else?'.


Webconference: Wireless 'Push Email' Market


October 23, 2008, Webconference

Funambol was a panelist on this Radicati Group webconference that discussed the market for wireless push email.


PenLUG


October 23, 2008, Redwood City, CA

Funambol gave a presentation entitled 'Technical Overview to Running Funambol Open Source on Linux for Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps and Services'.

September 2008

Mobile Web Europe


September 24, 2008, London, England

Funambol Product Manager Mirco Porcari chaired a panel at this event about whether the mobile web should be viewed as a channel to build optimized consumer services (in brief, the collective consensus amongst the panel members was an emphatic 'Yes!' ;-).


Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) 2008


September 17-18, 2008, Berlin, Germany

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco delivered a keynote presentation at this conference about the impact of Mobile 2.0 on Carriers. Check out his blog post about his talk, that includes his slides. Funambol Community Manager, Stefano Maffuli, participated on a panel about Mobile 2.0 and represented Funambol in the exhibition area, where he said it was great to see so many people in the industry who were interested in mobile open source.


World Computer Congress 2008


September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco delivered a keynote presentation at this conference about successful business models for open source software. Click here to view his slides.


CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment


September 10-12, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger appeared on the Mobile Social Networking panel at the Application Developers Forum Special Interest Session.

August 2008

Funambol @ JAJAH Labs


August 6, 2008, Mountain View, CA

Funambol was one of the new technologies previewed at the JAJAH Labs event. Read the article for details.


LinuxWorld 2008


August 4-7, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco gave a presentation on Wednesday, August 6th, entitled 'Mobile 2.0: How Open Source and Global Communities are Ushering in a New Generation of Mobile Apps, Services and Widgets'. Click here for his slides or click here to listen to the presentation (44:30 minutes, 52.2MB, QuickTime Required). He was also on a keynote panel entitled 'Real-world Roll-out of Applications & Services on Mobile Linux' on Thursday, August 7th.


iPhoneDevCamp 2


August 1-3, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol sponsored iPhoneDevCamp 2 and participated at this event.

July 2008

OSCON 2008


July 21, 2008, Portland, OR

Stefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager, gave a presentation entitled 'Leveraging mobile open source for new wireless apps and services' as part of the mobile track at OSCON 2008.

June 2008

Informa Handsets World '08


June 10-11, 2008, Berlin, Germany

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco represented Funambol at this event.


CIO.com Open Source in the Enterprise Blogathon


June 2-6, 2008, CIO.com website

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco participated in this online executive panel about the use of open source in the enterprise.

May 2008

ISPCON Spring 2008


May 13-15, 2008, Chicago, IL

Funambol exhibited at this event and participated on a panel entitled 'Who should be running your email' that explored whether service providers should operate an in-house email solution or outsource their email operations.

April 2008

JavaOne 2008


May 6-9, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol's Edoardo Schepis, Java ME Tech Lead, presented a technical session entitled, "Funambol Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME Platform) Technology-Based Open-Source Messaging Client: Lessons Learned".


Global Messaging 2008


May 8-9, 2008, Cannes, France

Funambol participated at the Global Messaging 2008 conference.


Internet World


April 29 - May 1, 2008, London, UK

Funambol participated at this conference.


SofCon 2008: The Mobile Future

April 22, 2008, Silicon Valley, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco was on a panel at this annual conference co-hosted by Carnegie-Mellon and UC Berkeley's Fisher IT Center at the Santa Clara, CA, Convention Center. This year it focused on mobile technology and the new communications media.


Developer Relations Conference


April 7, 2008, Redwood City, CA

Funambol delivered a presentation entitled 'Building Community Loyalty' at the Fourth Annual Evans Data Developer Relations Conference.


CTIA Wireless 2008


April 1-3, 2008, Las Vegas, NV

Funambol demonstrated our latest open source push email & PIM sync software.

March 2008

Mobile JAM Session Las Vegas 08


March 31, 2008, Las Vegas, NV

Funambol co-led the Open Source in Handsets session at this event.


Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)


March 25-26, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco spoke on a panel entitled, 'Open Source: Out of the Server, Into the Network'.


DFD08 (Document Freedom Day 2008)


March 26, 2008, Worldwide

Funambol celebrated Document Freedom Day.


iPhone Developer Summit


March 18-20, 2008, New York, NY

Funambol gave a talk entitled, "Developing Open Source Mobile Messaging and Sync Apps for iPhone vs. Android". For more information, see this description of the talk.


eComm2008


March 12-14, 2008, Silicon Valley, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco presented about Mobile 2.0..


Open Source in Mobile USA


March 11-12, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol exhibited at this conference as well as chaired a panel that discussed the role of open source and openness relative to Mobile 2.0.


Building Vibrant & Sustainable Communities

March 3rd, 2008, Palo Alto, CA

Fabrizio Capobianco spoke at the SDForum Open Source SIG meeting about building a healthy and productive open source community.

February 2008
February 11-14, 2008, Barcelona, Spain

Funambol exhibited at 3GSM Mobile World Congress 2008. Read the press release about how Funambol won the Mobile Monday Global Expert Jury Award for best emerging startup.

January 2008

Mobile Web USA

January 23, 2008, San Francisco, CA, JW Marriott Hotel

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco appeared on a panel entitled 'Is the New Broadband Media Value Chain Forcing the Mobile Industry to Increase Openness?'.


.Mobile Internet Forum

January 21, 2008, San Francisco, CA, JW Marriott Hotel

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco was on a panel entitled 'Innovators Round Table: What's Next for the Mobile Internet Frontier?'.


Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

January 7, 2008, 7pm, Mountain View, CA, Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, Building 1

Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger presented on the impact that open source is having on the mobile industry. Click here for a pdf of the presentation.