A dozen topics I'd love to see at eComm Amsterdam 2009, SFO 2010

The previous formal call for speakers and how to express your interest in speaking or sponsoring. The first Emerging Communications Conference in Amsterdam is slated for sometime in the first two weeks of October 2009. The 2010 eComm San Francisco will be 2-4 March 2010.

A dozen topics I'd love to hear:

1. Digital identity barriers to mobile community. Products that get it and grow, and those that don't and fail the leap to community.
2. Lessons from six months of Skype on the iPhone, three months on Nokia smartphones. What worked, what didn't. What was hot in some markets and not in others. What Skype changed for OS3 and the new model iPhones.
3. Mobile programmers emulating the music business ecosystem. iTunes and the other mobile stores are baiting small teams to form garage bands, craft apps the way musicians make songs, market themselves to followers the way bands do, and trade off publishing/producing themselves or getting signed to a major label. Store optimization changes mobile software design, software engineering practices, and business models.
4. Mobile data portability: the new privacy policy. Can you move, get, sync, and use your data (profile, contacts, conversations, media, and history) among mobile applications? Across phones? Between carriers? Between your PCs, web sites and your mobile? Not likely. Let's look at the technologies and companies working in this area. 
5. Friend Of A Friend: Guanxi and the need for introductions. Instant friending isn't for everyone. Mobile, VoIM, and social apps designed in the West are losing to services where a third-person introduces and guides two people from strangers into relationship.
6. What mobile collaboration learns from war. Emergency medicine improves with each war; so does mobile communications, collaboration, coordination, and control. What have we learned from the last five years?
7. Handicapping the race to talkify the web. Odds-on favorites? Dark horses?
8. From asynch to synch. Blurring voice messaging, voice mail and live talk.
9. Undermining WebEx. Who is disrupting the leading seller of collaboration, conferencing, and other meeting services? Who is cheaper, faster, easier, and more fun? How is Cisco changing WebEx in response?
10. Real world Mobile Net Neutrality. Should your carrier limit citizen access to the Internet based on content? Based on device? Based on carrier's competitive interests? Let's hear from Deutsche Telekom and AT&T, from Skype and Google.
11. Running out of mobile bandwidth. Has demand for mobile data outstripped world and local supplies of capital to build out the data infrastructure? Are there regulatory hurdles? With today's capital markets, where is the money coming from to pay for the buildout?
12. Rural Stimulus. Who got government money to build access to the Internet? Is it being spent wisely?

tags: skype, ecomm, conference, emerging, communications

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