The real story of 1st Augmented Reality Business Conference - last 24 hours
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value" Albert Einstein
ARE 2010 The next Event where I will participate like Augmented Citizen Advocate
Gracefully thanks you: speakers, participants, crew team, sponsors ( Ericsson , Madvertise , Vito , Metaio , Tic-Mobile , Smaato ), streaming team from Aurea , Location Management LEH, partners and media partners
Start on 22.04 Evening :-) 8:30 p.m. meeting with Kwela and Willi
10:00 p.m. Test the skype connection and take the movies from Max Celko for the presentation
11:00 Chetan Damani is definitevely blocked in India :-(
12:00 in Bed, try to sleep...
2:00 a.m. Check the last time the list of the speakers that will come and who is blocked. NY people, oha... Think about a solution, skype and beamer - ah!! organize a beamer.
3:00 a.m. Write new emails to be sure. Good news Alex Oldwal will come, Pia Vuohelainen not...
4:00 a.m. write the last twitts, facebook arbcon site
5:00 a.m. Matthew Szymczyk told me that a live presentation will be very difficult to do, I need on my side AVS components, find a new speaker or improvize
8:00 a.m. From Gesundbrunnen to the Ludwig Erhart Haus, the way with S-Bahn
7:05 a.m. I am in the Haus, Sacha and Anja are waiting - very precise and punctual work, i love them. Start the organisation - technical think my improvisation with the skype calls is working.
Klaus Löw and his team start to install the transmission hardware. Very professional, for the next time I have a some Idea how to make more interactive the event, but now constructive stress.
8:00 a.m. The first members of crew are coming. Oh, oh I have forget completly to send someone to take the beamer, quick send Stefan Hampel - great that you were here :-)
8:40 a.m. The first participant!! and where are the Lanyards??
Harald Neidhardt where are you?
Carsten Szameitat is the first to the exhibition area, he help me with very good information about the workflow of an Event. I remember for 4-5 years when we meet first time in Cologne, M-Days was just born :-).
8:45 a.m. OH, Oh Harald is coming with the Lanyards :-) Patience Dan, will be everything OK, said Kwela Hermanns , it's for me like a swister for all the day.
Sacha and Anja have finished to arrange the badges, people are coming, they are open to show or to learn something new. Willi call me, he is printing the schedule, we have one mobile but seems that people not to have enough devices to look on mobile. I hate paper, is very good for writing history but not for real-time information... 9:00 a.m. Beamer is here, start to install the remote part of the conference - I call this "Volcano Solution" I do not know how many conferences where organized this week, but I must to start a meet-up group to chage information how we have managed this crisys context.
Alex send me an email that his machine was canceled OHOOO!!!. But he will try to catch another. Now is to take a decision, take his speak out - I decided to wait, change with Christian slot, and let Alex to perform at the end. Hope will work. Sabine have started to manage the press part, we meet first time face2face, but she is very professional. Stories based on experience, I like his Idea because this what I want to make with Augmented Citizen. The story will continue next days, stay tuned...
ARBcon.europe just started, stay tuned for new announcements
About Me
Dan RomescuBusiness Background: Mr. Romescu Mobile Social Technology Architect and consummate multicultural business leader with a clear vision for an open, innovative, green and transparent society - right now I am working on social networks metabolism. I have a strong interest in Mobile Augmented Reality and Social Networks Physics, working on a new concept to sustainably increase our lifestyle.
Mr. Romescu was IT Director of Hiwave GmbH, Germany's first system house for Mobile Marketing technologies that mainly operate on the basis of Bluetooth®, infrared, WLAN and NFC. With the range of products Hiwave offer, consumers can download content to their mobile phones for free from locally placed proximity networks. Hiwave develops the first proximity marketing network in the o2 Word Arena in Berlin where Digital Signage meets Proximity Marketing. The main attraction of this lounge is the "Blue Window", a video wall consisting of nine seamless 42 inch plasma screens. As entertainment hotspot, and high-quality eye-catcher the Blue Window calls attention to the local mobile content served by Hiwave's Bluetooth transmitter. Top games of renowned publishers like EA mobile, Gameloft, Glu, as well as ringtones and wallpaper by O2 are offered for as Bluetooth downloads. To get content, the PULL method was established.Mr. Romescu was Board Director of Cellixx S.A. , the European leader in mobile software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Asked about cellixx’s astounding success, Mr. Romescu explained, “Cellixx started developing mobile applications, and has succeeded just by creating Windows CE, Symbian and Java-based software to enhance its customer’s mobility and connectivity. Cellixx develops reliable and flexible software solutions inspired from the business needs of today’s rapidly changing economical and informational environment.” He continued, “Our team of highly skilled software engineers is prepared to design solutions tailored from the needs of your company, efficiently combining the power of web applications with fast, lightweight software applications created for mobile devices. We created a mobile ecosystem based on secure and trusted transaction that give a maximum on reliability for mobile environment”. As Chief Software Architect, Mr. Romescu knows this business inside and out. Since opening, cellixx has grown under his talented direction to encompass 24 employees in three locations. In September 2000 at The Microsoft Partner Congress, when he was chief technology officer of Vision to Reality, Mr. Romescu helped launch—with Compaq, T-Mobile, and Microsoft –“the first Data GPRS Application worldwide.” Still, Mr. Romescu is most proud of (and globally respected for) the Home Zone Project for mm02 plc. Taking the market by storm, the Home Zone Project formed the base of the Genion Leadership Product by mm02. A consummate multicultural business leader, Mr. Romescu speaks Romanian, German, French, Italian and English. Presently, Mr. Romescu is a Partner with Fraunhofer SIT (“Sichere Informations-Technologie”) and DFKI –the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI)—with whom he intends “to build a new communication era with the help of artificial intelligence.” Now, Mr. Romescu looks “to give the people a new dimension of the cross media utilities based on secure and trusted transactions and to create a better position on the European and world market for cellixx’s products.”
Associations & Honors: Proximity Marketing Comitee (Mobile Marketing Association), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Professional Member, IEEE , SigMobile, opentravel Association
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