Advisor, Strategy & Market Development - Enabling Next Generation Mobile & Web Services Strategies
Barcelona Area, Spain
- Current
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- Co-Founder and CNO at dotopen
- Founder at MobileMonday Madrid
- Founder at MobileMonday Barcelona
- Past
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- Online and Mobile Media Strategy at MyStrands
- Contributor at The Rights Marketing Company
- Co-Founder at Random One
- Research & Consulting at AdMob
- Research & Consulting at Gotomedia Inc.
- Research & Consulting at Mulimob
- Strategic Consulting at Mindworks Oy
- ICT Project Manager at European Cities of Culture 2000, Brussels
- Managing Director at CyberTheatre
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Rudy De Waele’s Summary
I am Belgian, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Often invited as a speaker and contributing writer to a number of professional publications, my thoughts and ideas on Mobile 2.0 have gone around somehow. You can view my last presentations on the subject here on Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/rudydw/
Currenty I work at dotopen, an open innovation consulting firm advising start-ups and established companies with their strategic positioning, defining business models, creating alliances, and identifying market and funding opportunities.
I am part of the organizing committee of Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco - http://www.mobile2event.com/ and Barcelona - http://www.mobile20.eu, and the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and MobileMonday Madrid.
Professionally one could describe me as a creative, visionary, thoughtful and self-motivated strategist with excellent inter-personal and communication skills in several languages, and technology platform experience across the Internet, Mobile Internet and Wireless Media.
I have worked on projects as diverse as R&D, competitive intelligence analysis, digital concept, think-tank, content and event development, mobile and digital music distribution, communities and social network analysis and development, and content integration of wiki’s, blogs and RSS feed technologies.
Well-connected among key players in the digital media distribution and global mobile value chain players, I’m passionate for the new and the innovative and not afraid of mixing the unmixable.
You can read my blog m-trends.org on Mobile Media Trends and Lifestyle.
Rudy De Waele’s Specialties:
open innovation, social media, strategic planning, business development, market research, brand building, mobile services, mobile applications, web 2.0, enabler, mobile ecosystems, user-generated content, mobile 2.0, networking, mobile web, ubicomp, ubiquity, wearable computing, augmented reality, image recognition, disruptive technologies, usability, user-experience, design, events, startups, location-based services (lbs), blog, blogs, collaborative systems, mobile communities, wikinomics
Rudy De Waele’s Experience
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Co-Founder and CNO
dotopen
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Founder
MobileMonday Madrid
(Non-Profit; Wireless industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Mobile Monday is a leading networking event supporting the local mobile industry. The idea behind Mobile Monday is to bring together local people and companies interested in mobile: to meet and chat with each other, see what others are doing, share ideas, and possibly even work together.
Events are organised on a regular basis in Barcelona and Madrid, one Monday each month in both cities, the events are free, and open to everyone. Check this blog for more details before each meetup for topics, times and locations.
MobileMonday Madrid exposes local mobile developers to foreign companies and markets, and gives opportunities for non-Spanish wireless industry players to meet their Spanish counterparts.
Mobile Monday Madrid is organised by Rudy De Waele and Carles Ferreiro from dotopen, Marcos Eguillor and Barcelona Media. -
Founder
MobileMonday Barcelona
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
I recently co-founded the Mobile Monday chapter for Spain in Barcelona, where I focus on programming interesting topics related to anything mobile and inviting local start-ups and internationally renowned speakers. The Mobile Monday open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people.
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Online and Mobile Media Strategy
MyStrands
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — June 2008 (2 years )
Launch of the partyStrands brand concept in Spain and USA, using Public Relations, press, blogging and events. partyStrands is a new service from MyStrands, the company develops behaviour-based recommendation technologies that help people organize and discover digital media, through Internet connected devices (computers, mobile devices, etc). See also blog.partystrands.com.
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Contributor
The Rights Marketing Company
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)
I am a contributing on a regular basis to TransMission, a unique subscription resource that provides exclusive 24/7/365 access to the 2.0 thought leaders. A global team of advanced technology and media authorities using powerful IP-based publishing tools to feed a dedicated 'content factory' that delivers customised content to the subscriber's enterprise network along with a subscriber 'tool-kit'.
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Co-Founder
Random One
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
June 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 7 months)
Co-Founder of RandomOne in Barcelona in 2001; introduction of SMS to TV in Spain; I led numerous innovative concepts for SMS marketing via television, advertising and traditional publishing.
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Research & Consulting
AdMob
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)
Market Research project for Spanish-speaking market introduction. AdMob is a new pay-per-click mobile advertising channel that is delivering 4 times the ROI of online advertising.
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Research & Consulting
Gotomedia Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — June 2006 (8 months)
Mobile research and consulting project for San Francisco-based Gotomedia Inc, which currently results in http://www.gotomobile.com
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Research & Consulting
Mulimob
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
September 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Mulimob, about Multilingualism and Mobility.
A research project funded by the European Commission on the subject of multilingualism and mobility. My role in the project was to investigate and consult on mobile multilingual technical barriers and to map opportunities within the mobile music value chain. Along with several reports, the results also conceptualised in a demo how users will consume music with the mobile in a near future, including relations to communities, events and locations.
The MuLiMob consortium brings together five experienced and enthusiastic SMEs: Musiwave, Paris. Random One, Barcelona. PlusConnect Telecom, Wireless Around People, London. Crammed Discs, Brussels. Hélène Abrand Consulting, Paris.
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Strategic Consulting
Mindworks Oy
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — March 2001 (7 months)
Strategic Consulting and Business Development for the Finnish company Mindworks. Mindworks designs and implements creative concepts for the converging media, like rich media Internet services, streaming media solutions and concepts for the mobile world. Coaching of their more then 20 employees in Helsinki, Finland.
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ICT Project Manager
European Cities of Culture 2000, Brussels
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 9 months)
ICT Projectmanager for the New Media and Internet Projects for ‘Brussels 2000, European City of Culture of the year 2000’. In Belgium, responsible for the internal network and internet connections, hard- and software setup, production of internal database and website, technical partnerships, sponsorships, technical co-ordination of european projects such as Cafe9.net (together with other EU cities as Avignon, Bologna, Helsinki, Prague, Reijkjavik) and World-Information.Org.
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Managing Director
CyberTheatre
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 1 month)
Founding and managing a start-up team of 42 people based in Brussels, Belgium which later became Reef, producing business and cultural events and trainings. Production of more then 300 multimedia events live in the CyberTheatre and online on Nirvanet.com per year! References include, Apple, Cisco, Digital, Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, and many more…
Additional Information
Rudy De Waele’s Websites:
Rudy De Waele’s Interests:
people, art and technology, social software and mobility, jazz and electronic music, mobile music, blogging, social entrepreneurship, communities, moblogging, mobility, multilingualism, multiculturalism.
Rudy De Waele’s Honors:
Unesco Web Prize Award 1999.
I composed the web team together with Nirvanet Founders Marie-France Perez and Christian Perrot.
Nirvanet (http://www.nirvanet.com) - not available anymore - presented cultures and places around the world through art, music and video in a clean, clear and avant-garde design with strong navigational tools. The International Web Prize Jury hailed Nirvanet as a "subtle mix between global and local", and as an "excellent combination of audiovisual arts, advanced technology and cyberculture". The site, offering a "new vision of a multicultural world", was available in 4 languages contributing to enhancing multilingualism on the web. Nirvanet wass created and maintained by an international team of webdesigners based in Brussels, Belgium.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/news/991109_webprize.shtml
