MobileBarcelonaSponsors_2007

PLATINUM SPONSOR
	Envivio is the leader in IP video convergence solutions using MPEG-4 technology to make IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device - from 3G to xDSL and from mobile TV to HDTV. Supporting a wide range of network protocols, resolutions, bit rates and devices, Envivio is the only company to offer IP video convergence solutions that deliver industry leading AVC/H.264 compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadcast services. Telcos, ISPs, broadcasters, cable operators and enterprises worldwide can use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers compelling video services anytime and anywhere.
SILVER SPONSOR
	Air2Web is the leading developer of mobile messaging and marketing applications for enterprises and carriers. Since 1999, Air2Web has made significant investments in its core mobile and wireless solution offerings-delivering wireless content and mobile marketing messages for household names like UPS, The Weather Channel, CitiBank, Cingular, Traffic.com and ABN Amro. Because Air2Web is device and carrier agnostic, its solutions allow customers to reach the broadest number of wireless users. Today, Air2Web solutions connect businesses of all sizes with 482 carriers in 220 countries, providing access to 95 percent of US subscribers and more than a billion subscribers worldwide. Air2Web is headquartered in Atlanta , GA , and operates offices India (serving the Asia Pacific market), France and England (serving the European markets). Learn more about Air2Web by visiting www.air2web.com
BRONZE SPONSOR
	Since 2003, Digital Fountain has been building the foundation for flawless networked entertainment applications and mission critical defense applications. The company's growing body of solutions enable home-theater quality television over the Internet (and IPTV networks), efficient multimedia broadcasting to mobile devices and life-critical reliability in the extreme conditions of the battlefield. In 2005, the company's technologies were standardized by two leading mobile communications organizations. The company has broad-based partnerships with some of the largest and most innovative companies including global defense leader Northrop Grumman and IPTV pioneer Sumitomo Electric Networks. Investors in the company include Cisco, Sony, Adobe, TI, Honda Motors, Matrix Partners and Granite Ventures.
	MCN is the leading provider of real-time mobile search services, supporting operators and content providers worldwide. We operate MobileSearch.net an agile, scalable, and global search platform that allows our partners to drive traffic to content and create sustainable and profitable search businesses. Our patent-pending technology is based on a real-time search model that supports virtually all content sources, all languages, and any type of mobile client software. MCN-hosted mobile search solutions are delivering unrivaled end user experiences that continue to set new standards for the mobile industry. MCN was founded in late 2004 as an outgrowth from a two-year research and development project in mobile search. MCN has offices in Silicon Valley , Japan and Finland . Our international team has unparalleled experience building and managing real world search and mobile content solutions for the industry's leaders and pioneers.
	NeuStar, Inc. (www.neustar.biz, NYSE:NSR) is a leading provider of essential clearinghouse services to the communications and internet industries. Since 1997, NeuStar has provided the wired, mobile and internet industry with innovative and essential directory and addressing services carriers, service providers and enterprises have come to trust and rely upon to offer new services, increase revenue, and increase efficiencies within their networks, and ensure interoperability among network operators.
	Promptu is a leading innovator of voice recognition-based search and navigation services for mobile phones. The company's award-winning search technology delivers an exciting user experience, instantly responding to spoken search requests with on-target results drawn from enormous content libraries. Founded in April 2000 as AgileTV, Promptu is privately held. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is led by a senior executive team with extensive backgrounds in voice recognition, mobile telecommunications, consumer products, and system integration. The company's major equity holders include Steelpoint Capital Partners LP, Insight Communications, Lauder Partners, and private investors.
	Since 1982, Sun has brought together the world's brightest technical minds to solve the world's biggest technical problems. Our vision of "Everyone and everything participating on the network" means that when people are networked, they share, they interact, and solve problems.
	Volantis Systems is at the forefront of the Mobile Information Age - the new era of dynamic digital communication and entertainment - providing unique value to brand-leading carriers and media, entertainment, online business, financial, and IT organizations as they develop multi-channel paths to digital content delivery. Focused on technological innovation to enable more efficient communication through multiple channels, Volantis helps organizations solve the complexity of delivering digital content to thousands of unique devices, without compromise to the highest quality user experience, performance or reliability. Volantis is the world leader in Intelligent Content AdaptationT solutions.
	Zoran Corporation is a leading provider of digital solutions for applications in the growing digital entertainment and consumer electronics markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications, and Connect and Share technologies for the digital home. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer products have received recognition for excellence and are now in hundreds of millions of homes worldwide.
CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR
	Since 2002, Berazy has been an innovative and creative content provider in the mobile entertainment business. Berazy has become a worldwide distributor of mobile content, reaching about 1 billion potential customers in over 60 countries worldwide. Please contact us to find out how your properties can be successful mobile content.
	Mercora's mission is to catalog and organize the world's music and make it universally searchable and legally listenable. Quite simply: Mercora has built the world's largest and legal music radio network composed almost entirely of music resident on people's computers. Our strategy is to: 1) create the world's largest music catalog by leveraging peer-to-peer technologies and user contributed content, 2) unleash the music by building technologies that make this content available to anyone on the network in the form of CD-quality broadcasts, 3) delight the listener by providing great search, discovery, personalization and community services, and 4) uphold the letter and spirit of the copyright law by building compliance and reporting into our products and services and paying performance royalties to organizations that represent songwriters and music record labels.
	Vringo recently launched a video sharing community which allows you to share video ringtones (or Vringo's) with your buddies each time you call them. You choose the clips you'd like your buddy to see and they chose the clips they'd like you to see. These Vringo clips are licensed content from the best of movies, TV, music or are user generated and created from your own mobile phone. Vringo will make sharing viral videos as easy as calling your friends.
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
	The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative to select and promote the world's best e-Content, started in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This is done through national contests, a global contest, held every 2 years, and numerous content-focused national and international conferences and workshops - the WSA Road Show. As of today, 168 countries are actively involved in WSA. New partners from all over the world are always welcome to join this global initiative!
	Founded in 1975, Ipsos is the only independent, publicly-listed company in its field that is managed by research professionals. We have grown beyond our French roots, and achieved continuous improvement, through organic growth and an aggressive strategy of acquiring companies who share our worldview of inquiry and multiple points-of-view. Since 1990, we have created or acquired more than 40 companies worldwide. This growth has been built with both internal and external funding, including the stock market. Ipsos debuted on the Paris Stock Exchange on July 1, 1999. In 2003, Ipsos Group revenues reached € 570 million.
	When Josh Dhaliwal and Graham Brown started Wireless World Forum in 2001, they realised that few technology and media companies were able to access insight about how their consumers were being impacted by changing technologies and markets. We set our goal to serve our clients through our understanding of consumers. That's why we are Passionate about consumers and believe that our experience in working with over 700 companies in 60 countries is a key cornerstone in the strategic developments of our clients. Working with a wide range of clients has given us the ability to see commonality and parralels in market development and share this experience with emerging sectors, such as convergent telecoms media. Who does Wireless World Forum work for? Every client is an opportunity for us to learn something, that's why we enjoy taking on clients who sometimes present the biggest of challenges.
MEDIA PARTNERS
	ABI Research was founded in 1990 to assist manufacturers of wireless semiconductor components in understanding and entering new markets. As tech-driven emerging markets proliferated during the 90's, ABI Research expanded its analytical coverage to a broader base of manufacturers and service companies participating in the technology market revolution. ABI Research is committed to reinvestment in research infrastructure, enhancing knowledge sharing and speeding the flow of information between our research teams and the industries we cover.
	Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals. In fact, Business Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around the globe.
	C21Media.net is the leading source of programming news from around the TV world. Posting between 10 and 20 stories a day, we keep the International Entertainment Community up to date with what's being commissioned, produced, bought, and sold on the international market. From the latest Hollywood pilots to the greatest European formats, programming comes first on C21Media.net. Users can scan a front end news digest on the site and then click through from the headline to read the full story. The current news is held within a 'Latest News' area, with an option to search the 'News Archive' by keyword. These functions are all accessed through the news menu bar, which sits below the main C21Media.net toolbar.
	Charged is a straight talking business and lifestyle magazine providing readers insights into the world of the mobile consumer. The magazine aims to be the thought leader on successful business models and future trends in the industry. Not just for the technically minded, Charged will cover everything from the latest music, TV, games and gadgets to interviews, as well as bringing you statistics about the more surprising aspects of mobile. In keeping with the mobile lifestyle, you'll be able to stay in touch with new developments with Charged's weekly newsletter, e-zine and mobizine. Charged is distributed across Asia Pacific and has an initial print run of 25,000.
	Conference Guru knows that the reasons you attend conferences are to help establish your leadership position in the marketplace and network with your peers. A worthwhile conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. We help make sure that happens for you.
	iSuppli Corporation is the global leader in communications, media and technology value chain research and advisory services. iSuppli provides market intelligence services for the EMS , OEM and supplier communities in addition to servicing consumer electronics and media concerns. Services afforded by iSuppli range from electronic component research to device-specific application market forecasts, from teardown analysis to consumer electronics and from display device and systems research to multimedia content and services. More information is available at www.isuppli.com
	The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is the premier global association that strives to stimulate the growth of mobile marketing and its associated technologies. The MMA is a global organization with representation in over twenty countries. MMA members include agencies, advertisers, hand held device manufacturers, carriers and operators, retailers, software providers and service providers, as well as any company focused on the potential of marketing via mobile devices.
	The MAG objective is to provide its members a global forum to openly discuss industry-wide issues, agendas and services related to the dotMobi company as well as a place to explore the commercialisation opportunities .mobi domains have to offer globally. Through the MAG, members are empowered with a structured, collaboration platform to get direct feedback from the dotMobi company and its stakeholders.
	Backed by comprehensive industry knowledge and expertise Nexec Partners are Europe 's leading Executive Search business and aim to bring an innovative sense of understanding to the market. Our ICE focus and extensive international network of executives and non executives are key to the structured selection process we bring to our clients. Our partner-based structure facilitates a delivery model where client considerations and flexibility of approach come first. Working in close collaboration with our clients we seek a detailed understanding of their business, competitive challenges and market drivers before commencing a search; the process remains collaborative throughout and is designed to add value at every stage.
	Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home. The company's expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems.
	Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty practice, has been meeting the public relations needs of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer technologies and lifestyles, and related programming, hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides public relations and strategic marketing counsel services to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums and Mobile Entertainment Forums.
	For more than 15 years, Tradefair has been helping companies to build business in the UK and worldwide, through professional, efficient and cost-effective participation in trade exhibitions and trade missions. More than 5000 companies - some of them now household names - have benefited from our unique blend of experience, expertise and attention to detail. Our experienced staff are committed, hard working and client-focused, and their efforts are backed by a network of carefully selected service providers in the UK and in over 30 countries throughout the world. This outstanding team allows us to offer much more than exhibition support; with Tradefair on your side, you'll have the backing of an organisation that knows how to help you succeed in new markets.