Vodafone will be holding a widget workshop on 3 March at 4 pm in Huxley 311. this will be a hands-on session, with members of the Vodafone team available to answer technical questions, so please do come along with problem, ideas, questions etc.
The tentative programme is:
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Imperial Challenge spread the word in the JCR today, as Vodafone’s Sanj Matharu and our own Matei Vasile manned a table during lunch.
4 pm, Wednesday 24 February
311 Huxley (Dept. of Computing)
Pieter Knook, Director of Internet Services at Vodafone, will give a presentation on Vodafone 360 and Mobile Application Development at Vodafone to introduce the Vodafone Imperial Challenge. The talk offers an opportunity to hear from a senior executive of one of the world’s largest mobile network operators about where application development is headed in the mobile world.
Pieter Knook, a former senior vice president of Microsoft, was appointed to the newly formed role of Director of Internet Services in March 2008, Vodafone Internet Services leads the development and delivery of Vodafone’s current and future consumer propositions for the internet, and focuses on the provision and delivery of distinctive consumer web services such as IP communications, mobile internet access and selected content categories, across Vodafone. This is an exciting new role for a traditional provider of voice services now providing communications services in the broadest sense.
Knook joined Vodafone on 10 March 2008, following 17 years with Microsoft where, as one of the most senior executives in the company, he spent the last 5 years as Senior Vice President running Microsoft’s Mobile business, including strategy, product development, marketing and sales. During histime with Microsoft, Pieter led a wide range of programmes across seven businesses.
Vodafone 360 is a new internet service for your mobile, PC and Mac. It brings your phone, email, chat and social network contacts together in one place. Communicate with your friends, see their status updates, share your photos and favourite places – from your phone, PC or Mac.
In Spring Term 2010, Vodafone UK are sponsoring a mobile applications competition at Imperial, with help from our research group, the Social Computing Group (formerly the Internet Centre).
The competion is open to all Imperial College students. The prize is a pair of fully paid internships for the winning team.
You can sign up–and find out more–on the competition website.
We are planning a programme of talks and workshops. Information will be posted here and on SCG’s home page.
