Recent Events

Personal IM Seminar - Mobile World Congress
Barcelona, 11 February 2008

Personal IM: Messaging Evolution or Revolution?
SMS extension vs Mobilised IM

Messaging Asia
Singapore, 6 - 7 December, 2007

Messaging Asia co-located with MeM Asia 2007 and IPTV Asia 2007 in Singapore, will look to set the stage for industry leaders and players to discuss in depth the evolution of mobile messaging services in Asia and what value propositions lie ahead for 2007 and beyond.

Mobile Instant Messaging Conference
London, 27 - 28 November, 2007

Mobile Instant Messaging is now available through a range of operators around the globe and is being heralded as the new messaging application. Informa Telecoms & Media is holding Instant Messaging for the industry to network and learn about current issues.

Mobile Asia Congress
Macau, 13 – 15 November, 2007

The 3GSM World Congress Asia is the fastest growing mobile communications event in Asia and the sister event to the Mobile World Congress. The objective is to position the achievements and challenges of the Asia market in a global context.

GSMA Latin America Plenary Seminar
Buenos Aires, 21 – 23 August, 2007

This was a GSMA Plenary Seminar for South American operators.

Mobile Instant Messaging Asia
Hong Kong, 25 – 28 June 2007

IIR's Mobile IM Asia Conference brought together global thought leaders to share the latest interoperability updates, best practice examples and insights into the challenges and benefits that exist in successfully deploying mobile IM services. The GSMA’s Strategic Initiatives Director, Ana Tavares, spoke at the event.

NXTComm
Chicago, 18 – 21 June 2007

Global industry Executives met to exhibit, explore and buy the latest technologies driving the converged communications and entertainment industry.

Global Messaging Forum
Monte Carlo, 5-6 June, 2007

In its seventh year, the Global Messaging Forum brought together experts from around the world to debate some of the most talked about subjects in the industry.

3GSM World Congress, 2007
Barcelona, 12- 15 February 2007

In 2007 approximately 55,000 attendees and 1,300 exhibitors from across the globe came together to network and learn from eminent industry leaders. This year's GSMA press conference demonstrated the global commercial momentum behind Personal IM. View the press release that accompanied the press conference.

A Personal IM Zone played host to a number of presentations and interoperability demonstrations throughout the week from participating Personal IM vendors Colibria, Comverse, Ecrio Geodesic, fastmobile and NeuStar.

Here are some of the presentations from the event:

Personal IM Boom or bust for mobile operators – T-Mobile (pdf)

Personal IM: our need to act – MTN (pdf)

Launching Personal IM Turkcell Messenger (pdf)

Introducing fixed-mobile convergence – Telecom Italia (pdf)

The South Korean experience – ROA (pdf)

How to Launch Mobile IM – NeuStar (pdf)

3GSM World Congress Asia 2006
Singapore, October 2006

The Singapore PIM Seminar held in October 2006 brought together operators and vendors to discuss progress.

If you would like to view or download the presentations from the 2006 Asia PIM seminar, please click here.