June 03, 2008, Madrid: IE Telecom Club organized its speaker series with a distinguished speaker Mr. Alejandro Romero, Director Strategic Relationships, Yahoo, Iberia. The topic for the event was "Yahoo & Its Mobile Strategy". The event was attended by the alumni of IE Business School. Yahoo is trying to be an early bird in the field of mobile search by doing partnerships with the leading telecom operators. It has created a different eco system for the mobile users and enhances the experience through their new product "Yahoo One Search". They have engineered different kind of search pages for the relatively smaller mobile phone screens.

With Yahoo One Connect, they provide users the ability to control and access their friend lists from various Social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIN and Orkut. This Mobile strategy also finds synergy with the strategy of Telecom operators who are finding out ways to increase their ARPU (Average Revenue Per User). As more services on Mobile Internet transforms into more data usage by the subscribers. Yahoo's mobile applications are compatible to almost all the Operating systems running on mobile phones like Windows Mobile, Symbian etc. They are extremely cautious about the Google's entry into the mobile market with their new proprietary mobile handset operating system called "Android". Google has already been supported by the leading handset makers like LG and Samsung in this cause.

Yahoo is keeping all its options open to remain in this dynamic and growing world of Mobile Internet.

Thursday 5th June, 7.15 pm

Dear friend,

I am writing to invite you to the conference* about how IT and mentoring can contribute to your business strategy. It will be opened by Rafael Puyol, President of IE University, with Helena Herrero, VP of Hewlett-Packard and professor Ramiro Montealegre, from University of Colorado, as keynote speakers.

In today´s international business environment,  innovation is essential. Prof. Ramiro Montealegre and Helena Herrero will present how talent and IT are critical organizational resources to develop a successful business strategy.

Please confirm your assistance to met@ie.edu o through the online invitation.

Best regards,

Yanire Braña
MET Program Director

*The session will be in English and Spanish

"Cómo las TI y el mentoring pueden contribuir a desarrollar tu estrategia de negocio"

Jueves 5 de junio a las 19:15

IE Business School, Serrano 105

Estimado alumno,

Es un placer invitarte a la conferencia*  sobre cómo las TI y el Mentoring mejoran tu estrategia de negocio. Será presentada por Rafael Puyol, Presidente de la IE Universidad y en ella intervendrán Helena Herrero, vicepresidenta de HP y el profesor Ramiro Montealegre de la Universidad de Colorado.

En un entorno empresarial cada vez más complejo e internacional  la gestión de la innovación es esencial.  Helena Herrero y el profesor Ramiro Montealegre hablarán de cómo el capital humano  y la tecnología son recursos clave para desarrollar una estrategia empresarial de éxito.

A la espera de que sea de tu interés,  esperamos poder  contar con tu presencia.

S.R.C.  en met@ie.edu o en la invitación online.

IE Telecom Club is delighted to invite you to the conference

 

"Yahoo & Its Mobile Strategy"

By

Alejandro Romero, Director Strategic Relationships, Yahoo, Iberia.

Topics: Yahoo´s view of the mobile world now, their positioning & rational to focus on mobile, their key products

When & Where:

Tuesday, 3rd June, at 1715 Hrs, Serrano 105, IE Business School.

90 places are available

April 23, 2008, Madrid: IE Telecom Club organized its speaker series with an eminent speaker Mr. Agustin Nunez, Director for Innovation Services and New Devices, Telefónica, España. The topic for the event was "Predicting the Future of Mobile Business". The event was attended by Ricardo Perez, Program Director of Master of Management Telecom & Digital Business and management students.

Although Telefonica is expected to touch the customer base of 300 million worldwide by 2010, its revenue may not increase proportionally. There is a new threat poised to its traditional revenue source namely voice calls revenue. The threat is poised in the form of free calls over internet using VoIP (Skype). Mr. Nunez talked about the new revenue sources for the telecom service providers.

The future revenue source is mainly based on the Data Traffic from the mobile devices. To encash that Telefonica has started open mobile forum http://www.open.movilforum.com/en/. This initiative aims at capturing the talent and innovation of the independent API developers to create wonderful applications on SMS, MMS, and GSM etc., which can be used by the Telefonica Mobile phone customers for free by downloading those applications from the website.

"By 2012, worldwide telecom consumer spending on non-voice mobile services, from music, to search, mobile TV and video downloads, location based services, games, gambling and mobile payment services will exceed $250 Billion. But is Europe's mobile industry ready to successfully monetise it?" Source Financial Times.

IE Telecom Club is delighted to invite you to the conference

"Predicting the Future of Mobile Business"

By

Agustín Núñez, Director for Innovation Services and New Devices, Telefónica, España.

When & Where:
Wednesday, 23rd April, at 17.45 Hrs, Aula Magna (María de Molina, 11).

Followed by a Networking Cocktail.

Luis Sotillos gave the audience the opportunity to follow simultaneously the session in the real world and in the virtual world.

Those present enjoyed the session so much that the Funky Business Club, the TechIE Club and the Entrepreneurship Club (organizers) are already thinking of a follow-up event.

Download fileTO READ THE PRESS RELEASE

SPONSORED BY

Anil de Mello (Mobuzz TV), Fernando Molina (Vodafone), José María García (Google) and Gonzalo Guirao (Zinkia), joined by Enrique Dans as presenter and moderator, ensured the success of the event.

Download fileTO READ THE PRESS RELEASE

To participate, please register at MediaComm.Club@ie.edu

SPONSORED BY
TechIE Tuesday: “The Digital World Ahead”
Have you ever thought of creating an internet start-up and reap the benefits like in the latest successful tech IPO's?
Are you interested in a career in the telecom sector and want to know the hottest issues from top companies in the industry?

Date: Tuesday, 22nd of May
Venue: Aula Magna, Instituto de Empresa Business School (María de Molina, 11)
Agenda:
16.00 – 16.15 : Opening & welcome
16.15 – 17.15 : Entrepreneurship workshop: Mobuzz TV, Anil de Mello, CEO, introduced by Enrique Dans
17.15 – 17.30 : Break time
17.30 – 19.00 : TechIE Panel "Co-opetition in the telecoms & internet", moderated by Enrique Dans
José María García, Multi-sector Industry Leader, Google
Gonzalo Guirao, Director of Interactive Entertainment, Zinkia
Fernando Molina, Director of Products and Services, Vodafone
19.00 – 20.00 : Cocktail & networking

MANDATORY REGISTRATION at techie.club@ie.edu

A big player in the telecom European market, Deutsche Telekom, was the second guest for the TechIE Club.

On the 28th of March, we received Stefan Behrendt, Senior VP for Corporate Development & International Business in T-Online, now part of Deutsche Telekom. Mr. Behrendt gave a detailed presentation of how the Telecom market is today being mixed with the internet business.

Lots of players converging like: operators, hardware and software vendors, service retailers, media companies, IT services providers, device manufacturers, infrastructure builders and finally lots of internet companies, leveraging specially the web 2.0 movement.

That's changing the way business is being done, as corporations are switching its former vertical structure with different business lines into a more horizontal one, involving most of the actors in the value chain.

TechIE Club invites you to a panel session with a Deutsche Telekom executive

Date: Wednesday, March 28th, 19:00-20:30
Venue: S-001 (C/ Serrano, 105)
Speaker: Stephan Berendt, Senior VP Corporate Development & International business T-Online

* The session will be conducted in English.
* Please mandatory registration at techie.club@ie.edu
Available seats are limited and they will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.

(versión en español)...

¿Cómo ves el futuro de las telecomunicaciones e internet?

TechIE Club te invita a una mesa redonda con un ejecutivo de Deutsche Telekom.

Fecha: miércoles, 28 de marzo, de 19:00-20:30 horas
Lugar: S-001 (C/ Serrano, 105)
Ponente: Stephan Berendt, Senior VP Corporate Development & International business T-Online

* La sesión será en inglés
* Regístrate en techie.club@ie.edu

Las plazas son limitadas y serán asignadas por orden de llegada.

TECHIE CLUB and GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CLUB
Wanna know more about China?
Interested in discovering how a Chinese big firm is doing business?
Or maybe you like the telecom sector?
Date: Monday, March 26th, 16:30-18:00
Venue: B-302 (María de Molina, 13)
Agenda:
1. Introduction of China & its culture
2. Conference by Mr. Zuo Feng, President of China Netcom Broadband Online Limited Corporation (CNC)
Presented by Mr. Fernando Cortiñas (Director Public & Health Sector, Telefónica)
* The session will be conducted in English.
* Please mandatory registration at: techie.club@ie.edu Available seats are limited and they will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.

Techie Tuesday at IE was a smashing success!

We will hold a meeting next Wednesday 17th of January in room P-210 in Pinar starting at 4pm. The main idea will be to begin shaping the TechIE Day: topics, dates, possible companies, sharing responsabilities, etc.

Let us introduce you the TechIE Club blog!

Any suggestions / comments are welcome to techie.club@ie.edu

Dear TechIE people!

As we talked about in the first meeting for the Club, we will hold TOMORROW a pre-Christmas meeting to discuss about specific activities to carry out during 2007, in room P-413 (Pinar, 18), starting at 4 pm.

Hopefully the meeting won't be too long for those of us finishing works before holidays it won't be too time consuming. For the people that cannot attend the meeting and want to suggest something, please send an email to techie.club@ie.edu, and Merry Christmas and see you next year!

Summarizing a bit some of the things that we discussed during the presentation in our first meeting:
TechIE Day to be organized perhaps by end of April, beginning or May. I'd like MBAs, IMBAs, EXMBA, etc. to tell us depending on their schedule, which could be the best time to attend (depending on exams, projects, etc.), so IE people is more willing to come.
Brainstorming: concretized in expert panels (and?). Some of our targets could be to try to bring Enrique Dans and/or/vs Martin Varsavsky, which are very related to IE.
Blogs / newsletter : this requires continuity
Publish publications, articles, focusing on business development plans: collaboration required among us, as this involves certain workload added to our Programmes
Partnering with other Clubs for certain mixed panels (GBE, Net Impact, ... ?)
Promote IE among today's new internet media (?): videos, content,... The idea would be to make IE present in those places where American Universities may be taking the lead
The Club should provide some kind of 'output' to make visible our actions

Do you want to understand the business around all the strange acronyms around telecoms? Do you know the new business opportunities behind the combination of your mobile phone, TV and Internet? Today we´re living the Renaissance of the Information Technologies. After the glorious days in the end of the 90´s and the "Dark Age" of the bubble burst, new movements like the Web 2.0 and the Convergence progress are changing the "Digital Economy".

Based on these thoughts we have come up with the idea of creating a TechIE Club. We expect it to be a forum and a resource in IE for the students interested in this world. Among our proposed activities, we want to prepare a "TechIE Day" for next spring, maybe other conferences/events and also to be a reference point in exchange of ideas about this exciting market (maybe you want to create the "next big thing" in internet?).

What do you want TechIE Club to be? We will make a brief presentation on the 30th of November at 4 pm at class P-312 (C/Pinar, 18). Those of you that are interested, please send us an email with your ideas and suggestions for the Club as well as if you’re willing to attend the presentation session to techie.club@ie.edu

See you @TechIE!
Daniel Torres, Álvaro Prendes and Amparo Marín (all MMTDB 06)

You are invited to visit Daniel Torres ´s blog on Tech issues!

(Versión en español, pinchando en "more")

¿Quieres entender el negocio que hay alrededor de todos esos extraños acrónimos de las Telecomunicaciones?¿Conoces las oportunidades de negocio detrás de la mezcla de tu teléfono móvil, la TV e Internet? Hoy en día estamos viviendo el Renacimiento de las Tecnologías de la Información. Después del esplendor del final de los 90 y la Edad Oscura de la explosión de la burbuja tecnológica, nuevos movimientos como el de la Web 2.0 y el proceso de Convergencia están cambiando la "Economía Digital".

Basados en estas reflexiones ha nacido la idea de crear el TechIE Club. Esperamos que sirva de foro y como recurso en el IE para todos los estudiantes interesados en este mundo. Entre nuestras propuestas de actividades queremos preparar un "TechIE Day" para la próxima primavera, quizá otras conferencias/eventos y también servir como punto de intercambio de ideas sobre este excitante mercado (¿quizás quieres crear el próximo bombazo de Internet?).

¿Qué te gustaría del TechIE Club? Haremos una breve presentación del Club el jueves 30 de Noviembre a las 4 de la tarde en la clase P-312 (C/Pinar, 18). Por favor, aquellos de vosotros interesados, enviadnos un email con vuestras ideas y sugerencias para el Club, así como si tenéis intención de venir el día de la presentación, a techie.club@ie.edu

Nos vemos @TechIE!
Daniel Torres, Álvaro Prendes y Amparo Marín (Programa MMTDB 06)

Estás invitado a visitar el blog de Daniel Torres