The Mobile World Congress, MWC 2015, brings together all the main players from across the global mobile ecosystem and presents the latest innovations at the many events and meetings taking place over the four days from March 2-5 in Barcelona Gran Fira.
This is the largest European annual mobile tech show where products, technologies and know-how is displayed and solutions for various mobile needs are being presented and shared. Besides the main conference there are separate tracks and side events for finding the right commercial and technology partners to collaborate with in future projects.
One of the events, 4 Years from now (4YFN), is the meeting place for the best mobile startups and entrepreneurs with investors, accelerators, incubators and corporations. 4YFN also offers inspiring talks and interactive workshops, an exhibition and unique networking opportunities focusing on specific topics each day i.e.- Disrupted by Mobile, Internet of Things and Digital Media.
This is where the Business Community of Future Networking Solutions (FNS) will be onsite with eight EIT ICT Labs supported startups to establish business connections and explore the opportunities of matchmaking with operators, vendors and other potential clients.
The MWC brokerage event is a great place for the startups of the FNS business community to build productive relationships, says FNS business developer Raoul Stubbe. Thanks to our networking expert in the field of international mobile business, Tomas Bennich and the Europe Enterprise Network we have a very good setup for the startups with pre-booked meetings during three days and plenty of other chances to make the most out of this very busy marketplace.
The FNS business community startups at the MWC brokerage event are: Undragrid (NL), Evothings Secure (SWE) and Sensewaves (FR), Hitseed (FIN), Negentis (ITA), Virtuor (FR), Waylay (BE) and Ubiqu (ES/CAT)
Undagrid empowers devices to connect to one another, organically growing a network without infrastructure or configuration. This solution that can work on a single battery for a couple of years is backed by fully integrated scalable cloud services. Link to video
Evothings is an open source tools company making it easy for developers, tinkerers and makers to create mobile apps for connecting phones and tablets with other things. With Evothings Studio, developers use HTML and JavaScript to make publishable Android and iOS apps where phones control and monitor things like microcontrollers, home automation, wearable sensors, industrial hardware dev kits etc.
Sensewaves is a TSAaaS -Time Series Analytics as a Service- platform for Business ready IoT data and impactful insights on the connected assets. By transforming raw sensor data into meaningful information we make connected assets smarter. We complement existing IoT platforms and legacy systems providing the owners of industrial connected devices with impactful insights on their connected assets.
Hitseed has a unique combination of experience in hardware, software, consulting and entrepreneurship. We work in close collaboration with a selected set of hardware startups and we have built a very cost and power efficient platform for wearables and IoT as well as our own Wristol smartwatch based on this platform.
Negentis, named by Gartner as Cool Vendor 2014, produces a very innovative Internet of Everything (IoE) software platform which empowers customers to design, deploy and manage the entire life-cycle of IoE applications in the Industrial Internet and Digital Business ecosystems. Negentis IoE platform seamlessly connects people, machines, data and applications blending Edge and Cloud computing throughout the entire IoE application stack.
To satisfy the increasing demand of IT services, many companies want to enhance their own on-premises infrastructure with on-demand services from the Cloud. VirtuOR introduces a new generation of network box which will help you to access your services easily without wasting time and money for managing complex installation and configuration to reach your Cloud service providers.
waylay is a PaaS automation platform for smart connected device solutions. With waylay, OEMs, integrators and solution providers move beyond data aggregation and visualization and create intelligent applications that save time, money, improve customer service or enable new business models.
Ubiqua is mobile marketing agency, passionate about communication and technology and all opportunities for open innovations via new digital medias, especially the mobile phone. We provide services in the fields of:
Mobile content development, App Marketing, Messaging and Proximity Marketing: NFC & iBeacons.
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