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Sponsored by
To create the future, we must first be capable of
imagining it
- Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad,
Competing for the Future, 1994
The Results
The Mobile Future Forward Team
announced the results of the contest.
See details here.
Lun Huang of Illinois Institute of Technology and Smruti Parichha of
University of California, Riverside wrote the top two winning papers
respectively and are being invited to meet with the senior executives in
the mobile industry and attend the Mobile Future Forward Executive
Summit. Our thanks to all the students who participated, the judges who
helped us pick the winners, and Intel for supporting the contest. Stay
tuned for 2011 Student Paper Contest.
- Mobile Future Forward Team
The Event
Mobile Future Forward is an executive summit
attracting some of the most influential minds who are shaping the mobile
industry. The experts and visionaries from around the globe will discuss the
mobile industry 2-5 years forward, envision what the user experience and use
case scenarios look like, discuss and debate the challenges and
opportunities in the journey to that vision.
The Contest
The best student paper contest is open to universities and research
institutes around the
world. Your task is to help us imagine new technologies, new experiences,
new applications and services, new use cases, new business models of the
mobile future. The paper can be on a specific technical or business subject
within the mobile industry from mobile teleportation to fuel cells to a new
enterprise collaboration tool and everything in between. The idea is to let
your imagination fly without any restrictions and dream of what's possible
in the next 5-10 years. Papers can be about technical solutions to the most
pressing problems, about new revenue models, about your vision of how mobile
will be used in the future, etc. Paper length: 1000-1500 words.
The Prize
Authors of the top two outstanding papers will get a
travel expenses paid trip to attend the conference and mingle with the who's
who of the wireless industry. Winners will also be eligible for more prizes.
Please send in your entries by July 15th, 2010 to
contest@mobilefutureforward.com including a copy of your current student
ID. Use of graphics and illustrations is encouraged. A panel of industry
experts will vote on the best papers. They will be ranked on originality,
ambitiousness, creativity, depth, and clarity of vision. The goal of the
contest is to bring out and reward the best thinking from the leaders of
tomorrow.
The Judges
Pankaj Kedia, Head of Mobile Ecosystems, Intel
Subba Rao, CEO, Tata DoCoMo
Len Barlik, VP, Sprint Nextel
Jeff Giard, Director, Clearwire
Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media
Matt Oommen, CTO, Sprint Nextel
Paul Struthers, Head of Regional Marketing, Amdocs
For more Info, please contact
contest@mobilefutureforward.com
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