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Register now for "Disruptive Wireless Technologies" event November 5, 2007!

Join us November 5 at 6 p.m., at Granville Island Brewing to find out how disruptive wireless technologies – VOIP, IM, SMS, WiFi, WiMax, GPS/LBS, RFID and others – are already changing our world...How did these technologies affect our lives? Which ones can help our communities? What’s next? What’s your contribution?

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia..."A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market. Disruptive innovations can be broadly classified into lower-end and new-market disruptive technologies. A new-market disruptive innovation is often aimed at non-consumption, whereas a lower-end disruptive innovation is aimed at mainstream customers who were ignored by established companies."

For instance in 1980s hard disks did that for notebook computers by replacing older technologies, or more recently digital photography, through a series of performance improvements, managed to displace incumbent companies and replace film photography.

Guy Kawasaki, in his best seller "Art of the Start", has this to say: "Markets for curve-jumping, paradigm-shifting leaps are seldom proven in advance. For example, when Motorola invented cellular phones, no one leaped to buy them. At that time, portable phone was an oxymoron because phones were always attached to places. There was no market for phones that customers could move."

It was in April 1973 when Dr. Martin Cooper from Motorola, inventor of the first portable phone, made his first call. That phone weighted two pounds, was a foot long and costing $4,000!

34 years later we’re seeing a HUGE market of consumers using mobile phones everyday: 18.5 million in Canada, almost 200 million in the US and 2.5 billion worldwide!

Mobility and speed are two of our main characteristics as an industry. A few weeks ago we participated at an event produced by TechVibes called Launch Party (very well organized) and had an opportunity to look at a few companies “Speed Demo-ing”. We thought it is a good idea so we’re offering the same opportunity at our MoMoVan events to established and start-up wireless and web 2.0 companies.

The intent of this module is to enable companies to show what they have in a compelling way as quickly as possible.

Only four to six companies can demo their products to a very knowledgeable audience for 20 -30 minutes at the end of each event.

Send your request for a speed demo table to michael@winbc.org

	Date:	Monday, November 5, 2007
	Time:	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
	Location:	Granville Island Brewing (GIB Taproom), 1441 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC
	Tickets:	FREE to WINBC Members
		FREE to WINBC Sponsors and Partners
		FREE to Students
		$20 to Non-members of WINBC and at the door
	Space:	Limited to 100 people
		Registration deadline: Friday, November 2, 2007

We thank Bank of Development of Canada (BDC) for sponsoring The Mobile Monday Vancouver series and wavefront™ (Accelerated Commercialization) for sponsoring this event.

Mobile Monday Vancouver is an open forum held for the global community of wireless industry professionals. It fosters cooperation and networking among interest groups, industry people and their companies by providing the logistics and opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

WINBC - Building Wireless Opportunities.

The Wireless Innovation Network society of BC (WINBC), is the focal point for wireless in BC, encompassing the entire wireless technology value chain. WINBC brings this diverse sector closer together by fostering collaboration and business development, regionally and with global organizations. 2005 BC Wireless Survey Results - Over 250 companies, $1 Billion in Revenue and 5500 employees. Find out more, download the survey here.

Provides small and medium-sized businesses with flexible financing, affordable consulting services and venture capital. BDC supports the needs of entrepreneurs at every stage of growth.
www.bdc.ca

wavefront is the commercialization bridge between the wireless developer community in British Columbia and the mobile operators, government and large enterprises that are deploying new wireless products and services. In collaboration with its established partners, wavefront provides the developer community with neutral, independent test services and the market knowledge to enable rapid commercialization.
www.wavefrontac.com

Everyone is welcome!

• Visionaries, entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, designers, investors
• Students, Ph.Ds, professors from UBC, SFU, UVIC and BCIT and elsewhere
• WINBC members and Non-members with an interest in wireless technology
• Members of other technology associations and government agencies
• Members of local media, new media, Web 2.0 and blogging community

Because together we can do more.

• We hope to open a long-lasting conversation that is relevant to the wireless and Web 2.0 community in Vancouver, BC and the world.
• We want to increase opportunities for casual networking, for identifying quality local talent, accessing early stage companies, building strategic partnerships and developing more business and businesses.
• We want to continue promoting local innovation and collaboration in the wireless and Web 2.0 industry, from small start-ups, to large companies, to research labs.