A great turnout for the annual Ladies Lunch in Barcelona. Thanks everyone for coming and have a great week.

The sun is shining and we welcome our Heroes to the first day of the festival – the Yoga starts in an hour and what a day is it to be channeling your inner calm before the onslaught of the week!

Hope to see you @ MOB for some Innovation on the Fringe in a few hours time!! Hasta Pronto!

We are counting down the seconds till the launch of the Heroes of the Mobile Fringe Festival – BCN 2013. We hope you enjoy our lovely festival and we look are really looking forward to meeting and greeting all the innovators tomorrow for our first event of the season.

As our inaugural Art on the Fringe festival is so amazing we wanted to give you all the opportunity to experience the art, even if you cannot make it to MOB to view in person. Scan below to enjoy!!…..

Heroes of the Mobile Fringe is proud to present our inaugural exhibition, showcasing the work of 3 extremely talented artists who use their mobile phone’s as their medium for expression.

Tracey Moberly describes why she choses this medium “as an artist my mobile phone has developed and grown from my inspirational muse via SMS to paint box and pallet with both high and low resolution phone camera specs and the different Apps I use. I create large scale canvases for gallery exhibition and commission filtered through Apps such as Instagram. I use it in a wide number of disciplines from creating films and music industry videos to embroidered and art worked text messages thus giving longevity to an otherwise disposable medium. My mobile has become not only my tool box, but a vehicle to take and make my creations globally …

Our fabulous artists exhibiting are Tracey Moberly, Ben Lowe and Heike Schuricht. The show is on for a week so come and view the 50 pieces of Mobilography in the coolest space in town, MOB, Makers of Barcelona, open daily from 10.00am – 7.30pm, Sunday 25th – Thursday 28th Feb.

3 Cheers to our Twilio, our lead sponsor for our Innovation on the Fringe event, in their own words “we empower developers to build powerful communication. Twilio powers the future of business communications, enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent & complex communications systems. As your app’s usage scales up or down, Twilio automatically scales with you. You only pay for what you use – no contracts, no shenanigans.

Check them out at MWC here http://ahoy.twilio.com/MWC

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We have another great community party joining the Heroes festival line up – itnig and Camaloon. These wonderful supporters will be hosting our Mobile Media and Advertising panel – to be announced shortly. Thanks and check them out – we salute you!!!

Camaloon is a young startup based in Barcelona selling custom products through a slim and attractive online platform that has reached audiences throughout Europe. In addition to the customisation, Camaloon offers a space for artists to sell their printed designs on the finished product. This way Camaloon brings together artists looking to commercialise their creations and individuals looking for a special, unique product. Camaloon has experienced a fast growth in its first year targeting companies with a need for custom gadgets to promote their activity. Thanks to the usability of the website and the quality of the products and services, Camaloon has obtained a wide number of fans in a very short time.

WOW WEE have we got a treat for our Heroes. Do you have to work while your in Barcelona but can’t face having to sit in your hotel room on crappie wifi?? – well we have the solution for you!

Our wonderful friends at MAKERS OF BARCELONA (MOB) are offering a special day rate for our Heroes. This day pass gives you full use of the following amenities at MOB:

* 1 day rental of Desk Space with WiFi

* Access 9.30-7.30pm (Mon-Fri)

* 1 Free Estrella Beer

* price does not include printing/conference room rental or locker rental.

For Reservations please email: hello@mob-barcelona.com and quote the code: MOBILE – hurrah for MOB!

Our lovely Innovation on the Fringe sponsors, 51Degrees.mobi have a fantastic competition to our wonderful Hero’s. 51Degrees.mobi actually makes the mobile web work for over 500,000 websites across the globe. How? well they provide the real time device detection needed to optimise content cost effectively for mobile.  Supporting 19 of the world’s leading content management systems including: WordPress, DotNetNuke, Joomla!, Drupal and many others.

So for the chance to win an iPad mini, simply click on the link below to enter – good luck! http://MWC13.51Degrees.mobi

For more information check out their blog here: http://tinyurl.com/awdml6j

Congratulations to the ten lucky winners of our ticket giveaway competition who will each receive 2 tickets to the legendary MEF Connects MWC 2013 party, celebrating its 11^th anniversary at a fabulous  new venue, the Musee D’Art Contemporani (MACBA). We had an amazing response to this year’s competition, so thanks to everyone who entered, and bad luck if you didn’t make the list. You will be contacted by email if you are one of the lucky winners!

The winners and their guests will join the cream of MWC’s mobile executives from the MEF membership for some serious networking at one of the hottest parties of the congress – congratulations to all of them, we’ll see you at the bar!