The Global Mobile Internet Conference is hosted annually in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Mobile executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and investors from around the globe and across platforms attend GMIC each year.
History
The first annual Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) was hosted in Beijing, China, April 23–25, 2009. The conference, organized by GWC , first aimed to increase the dialogue between mobile internet companies in China and Japan. As the conference became more attended by international attendees, and the attendee base grew from 300 in 2009 to more than 5,000 in 2012, the conference's agenda in 2013 expanded to focus not only on China, but on Asia as a whole, and the opportunity for Western and Asian mobile internet startups and companies to cooperate cross-border.
As of GMIC 2013, GMIC hosts tens of thousands of attendees from more than 60 countries.
GMIC Iterations
May 26–28, 2010. Beijing, China April 26–28, 2011. Beijing, China May 9–11, 2012. Beijing, China October 19–20, 2012. San Jose, California May 7–8, 2013. Beijing, China October 21–23, 2013. San Francisco, California May 5–6, 2014. Beijing, China April 28-May 2, 2016, Beijing, China April 28, 2016, Global Virtual Reality Summit, co-organized by DayDayUp in partnership with GMIC, Beijing, China.
Speakers
Previous GMIC Silicon Valley speakers
Akira Morikawa, CEO, Line Andrew Ng, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Coursera Dave McClure, Managing Partner, 500 Startups Dave Roberts, CEO, PopCap Games Robert Xiao, CEO, Perfect World Ed Fries, Co-Creator, Xbox Hugo Barra, VP, Xiaomi Global Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu & Canonical Martin Lau, President, Tencent Paul Graham, Partner, Y-Combinator Pavel Durov, Founder, VK & Telegram Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote Vaughan Smith, VP, Facebook Yu Yongfu, CEO, UCWeb Yuri Milner, Founder, DST Global
Previous GMIC Beijing Speakers
China Pony Ma, CEO, Tencent Robin Li, CEO, Baidu Charles Chao, CEO, Sina Joe Wu, CEO, 91 Mobile Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi Yu Yongfu, CEO, UCWeb Xu Xiaoping, Founder, Zhenfund Ventures Yang Yuanqing, CEO, Lenovo
India Abhinav Mathur, CTO, Spice Mobility Naveen Tewari, CEO, InMobi
Indonesia Danny Wirianto, CEO, Mindtalk Martin Hartano, CEO, GDP Ventures
Japan Isao Moriyasu, CEO, DeNA Yoshikazu Tanaka, CEO, GREE Takeshi Natsuno, Creator, i-mode
Korea Min Seo, CEO, Nexon James Song, CEO, Gamevil
USA David Roberts, CEO, Popcap Games Joff Redfern, VP, LinkedIn Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote Sanjay Poonen, President, SAP Connie Chan, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Finland Marc Dillon, CEO, Jolla Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle, Rovio
Sweden Niklas Zennstrom, Founder, Skype
Australia Phil Larsen, CMO, Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja)
Show Highlights
According to its website, GMIC highlights how mobile technology is changing every industry including advertising, education, finance, health, gaming, and marketing. As such it has organized tracks including: m-health, m-marketing, m-education, m-next, MoBiz.
GMIC highlights mobile app developers and startups through its competitions: G-Startup, appAttack, and Global Game Stars.
Headlines from GMIC
GMIC Silicon Valley 2013 CIO Ex-Googler Hugo Barra gushes over Chinese Xiaomi's fanboys CIO 'Russian Facebook' CEO Durov disses Zuckerberg, but loves Edward Snowden Forbes Here's Where Teens Are Going Instead Of Facebook TechCrunch Y Combinator Startups Now Have A Combined Valuation Of $13.7 Billion, Up $2 Billion Since June
GMIC Beijing 2013
TechCrunch: Evernote, Now With 4M Users In China, Aims For Enterprises With Yinxiang Biji Business TechCrunch: Eyeing $4.5B In Sales This Year, Phone Maker Xiaomi Looks To Emulate A 340-Year-Old Chinese Medicine Company BusinessWeek: Angry Birds TV Streaming to an IPad Near You Engadget: Jolla's Marc Dillon teases world's first Sailfish device, confirms launch in a couple of weeks WSJ: Foreign Tech Companies Changing Tune on China Financial Times: Chinese mobile browser eyes global markets
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