MoMoVan - November 1, 2010

Smile it's Monday! You asked…we deliver Forum NOKIA, VCs, angels, investors!

This content-packed MoMoVan promises to be one of the best ever. NOKIA Forum from its California offices is scouting for BC innovators and offer FREE training and some awesome prizes. That presentation will be followed by an exciting panel discussion on "Access to Capital for Start-Ups" and lots of networking.

To start the evening Joseph Luk from ika mobile and one of MoMoVan's volunteers will show us in less than 15 minutes how with a few clicks, a moderately tech-savvy user can customize their Android phone to disable ads from the major ad networks, across all apps. What does rooting and re-flashing mean today for users, developers, and the Android platform? He'll demonstrate some of the possibilities on a Samsung Galaxy S.

Martin Barclay from Forum Nokia (Mt. View, CA office) will represent Nokia.

• He'll be covering the "Calling All Innovators/10M" contest that Nokia recently announced for developers in the US and Canada. (www.callingallinnovators.com/10M)
• He will also promote the FREE 2 day Qt training that Nokia will be offering in Vancouver in November 18-19. (http://events.forum.nokia.com/invitation/qtvancouver)
• And, to top it off, he'll have a couple Nokia N8 devices to giveaway to some lucky developers!

Martin Barclay is Sr. Manager, Marketing with Forum Nokia, Nokia’s worldwide developer outreach & support program. Martin works with small to medium sized developers as well as big brands and Internet properties to create and execute co-marketing campaigns in both open markets/retail as well as operator channels. Martin has been in telecom and Internet communications since 1992, and has held senior product management and marketing roles at IBM, 3Com, Avaya, and several Silicon Valley startups including Telera and Ubiquity Software.

Simon Backer, a veteran of the wireless industry and CEO of Wireless Image will ask four of the best people in the investor community about where you can find the capital you need to get your start-up off the ground or to nurture your growing company.

Divesh Sisodraker is a partner with Vanedge Capital, one of Canada’s largest digital media venture capital firms. Divesh was EVP and CFO at San Francisco based Taleo Corporation, where he led them to the second largest software initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ in 2005. Prior to that, he was CEO of Pivotal Corporation, a leader in mid-market CRM software. Divesh currently sits on the board of Bridgewater Systems, one of Canada's largest mobile infrastructure software companies.

David Raffa is COO and a founding Partner of Lions Capital Corp. Lions is a boutique investment bank providing investment banking services to small to mid-cap companies in multiple verticals. David is President of Lions investment banking division. David was a practicing corporate finance lawyer for 20 years and has served as a Board member or Advisory Board member of over 20 private and public companies, and is currently on the Board of Contigo Systems, Mobidia Technologies, Redlen Technologies, NxtGen Emission Controls, Rewardstream, and an Advisor to Wolf Medical.

Glen Sampson is an ITA (A.K.A. "Business Advisor") at National Research Council (IRAP Program). Fore more than five years he conducted due diligence on early stage information technology clients (Web 2.0, mobile, software, gaming etc.). Worked with portfolio companies on business model refinement and financing strategy. Provided advice and connections. His focus is on helping Canadian IT companies get connected to investors, partners and customers in Canada and in the Bay Area. Formerly a Trade Commissioner at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Product Manager with Solution Inc. and Consultant with PwC.

More information at: http://www.momovan.com/events/2010/110110/momovan.html

Registration deadline: Saturday, October 30, 2010