Andrew Grill is regular and sought out presenter at
conferences and seminars on topics related to
mobile
advertising, mobile location, local search and social
networking. Andrew is also an entertaining, professional and skilled
Master of Ceremonies, and Motivational Public Speaker,
experienced at presenting to audiences of up to 500 people.
You can contact Andrew by using
the contacts page.
He is also a regular contributor to the European
and Australian media on topics related to business communication and
ecommerce. Visit the media page for recent and published articles. Andrew is represented by The Next Speaker Latest Talk: Mobile Monday Amsterdam 1st June 2009 Audience size: 400 Topic: How mobile impacts advertising Scroll down for more upcoming and previous speaking engagements. |
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Andrew's upcoming speaking engagements for 2009
November 12th - mashup* event Social Media 09 - London
mashup* is putting together an event - Social Media '09 on the afternoon 2pm - 6pm of 12th Nov and Andrew will be contributing on the topic of social media monitoring.
More details at socialmedia09.com
November 17th - Monitoring Social Media 09 - London
The conference
will bring together leading brands, Social Media Monitoring experts
and suppliers with PR & marketing professionals for a one-day conference in
London on 17th November 2009. The first event of its kind in Europe, MSM 09
offers attendees a series of high-value talks, panel sessions and debates, with
contributions from leading digital agencies and brands. More details from
the conference
website.
November 19th Web Goes Mobile Keynote Speaker, Brussels
Organised by
MobileWeb.be, Plug & Play Mobile Solutions, the Web Goes Mobile seminar will
take place on Thursday, November 19th, 2009. It will be a morning seminar,
followed by a lunch with presentations by ComScore and Microsoft as well
Andrew's keynote presentation. The seminar speaks about Mobile Internet in
general and this year’s edition specifically about “Web or App?”.
The target audience consists of +/- 150 business people, from large corporates,
media, ICT companies , and media agencies.
Stay
tuned for other events or
contact Andrew to speak at your event.
Previous speaking engagements - 2009
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Digital Lounge - London 28th January 2009
Guest speaker on mobile advertising
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona February 16 - 19
Andrew was a keynote speaker who closed the Ogilvy Telco Conference in Barcelona on February 20th.
February 25 - London Agency briefing on
mobile advertising, London
In-house event (not
open to the public)
March 9th - Mobile Social Networking World Forum - London
Andrew was the MC and chair of day 1 of this event to be held at
the Olympia conference centre.
More information from the
conference website.
March 23 - 25 - IIR Mobile Internet conference, Vienna
Andrew was the MC and chair of day 3 of the conference.
More
information can be found on the
conference website
London Digital Agency briefing (private event) May 6th
May 7th - VisionGain Mobile Advertising and Marketing
Awards 2009, London
The conference was held on
the 7th May 2009 at the Guoman Charing Cross Hotel in London,
Andrew was the
guest speaker at the awards dinner at the conclusion of the conference.
More
details from the
conference website.
May 12 - 14 - IIR Mobile Advertising
Conference, Amsterdam
More details are on the
conference website
May 19 - 20 - Mobile User Experience
Conference MEX 2009, London
Andrew was an integral part of the annual MEX conference where 100 of the most
creative thinkers in the mobile business come together and are challenged to
create a collaborative response to the 8 point MEX Manifesto through 2 days of
workshops and debates. More details from the
MEX 2009 website.
June 1 - Mobile Monday Amsterdam
MoMo Amsterdam is the world's largest gathering of the Mobile Monday chapters
around the world, with a regular attendance of 400 people.
Andrew will be joined by
Om Malik, Joseph Pine II, Alan Moore, Jamais Cascio and Howard Rheingold. The
theme was Visions on Mobile.
More information at
www.mobilemonday.nl
and see Andrew's presentation
online.
June 3 - Mobile Retailing 2009 - Keynote Speaker, London
June 3 - 4 Osney Media Mobile Web 2.0
Summit London
Chair of the conference -
more details at
www.mobilewebsummit.com
24 June - Mobile Marketing Summit, Cologne
Read a
review on my keynote presentation (in German).
August 24 - 26 The Dialogue Conference - Sweden

Arranged every year since 1997, the Dialogue Conference – Dialogkonferansen – has become the largest and most important and popular conference within customer marketing/CRM in Scandinavia. In 2008, more than 350 Marketing Directors, CRM Managers, decision takers and influencers from major Scandinavian companies met for this 3-day unique event – taking place on the beautiful and spectacular Swedish west coast in August, with favourable summer climate, and the sun setting in the ocean late in the evening.
September 24th Mobile Marketing Ireland 2009, Keynote Speaker - Dublin
More details can be found on the event website.
October 1st 118 Awards,
Keynote Speaker - Edinburgh
More details can be found on the
event website.
Previous speaking engagements - 2008
November 27th - London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup
Hosted by Google at their offices in Victoria. Presenters include
Yahoo Fire Eagle – Gary Gale (Yahoo! Geo Technologies)
CloudMade/Open Street Map – Nick Black (CloudMade)
Location Based Advertising – Andrew Grill (London Calling)
See the website for more information.

November 18th - 21st - Mobile Content - London
Andrew will be participating at this event as the Chair of Day 3, and also on a panel on day 1 on the topic of "What Are The Biggest Hurdles To Developing A Profitable Mobile Advertising Ecosystem?"
Andrew will be joined on the panel (Chaired by Jonathan MacDonald from Ogilvyone) by
Dan Rosen, Head of Mobile, AKQA
Harry Dewhirst, Co-Founder & Media Director, RINGRING MEDIA
More details can be found on the
conference website.
November 17-18 - Future of Mobile Conference
Andrew will be spoke at the Future of Mobile event in London on November 17-18th at the Kensington Town Hall.
Also on the platform was
Rudy de Waele,
Tomi Ahonen, Doug
Richard from Trutap and Simon Rockman from Sony Ericsson. The conference is
being organsied by
Carsonified who have also been responsible for the hugely successful Future
of Web Apps, Future of Web Design and Fuel conferences
November 14 - Annual Innovation Conference InnoEstonia - Tallinn - Organised by the Government of Estonia
Andrew presented a Keynote at this conference in November on the Future of Location-aware Advertising.
Other presenters at the conference included Bob Iannucci, CTO of
Nokia and Head of Nokia Research Centre, Erik Jorgenson Microsoft VP, Shane
Green VP, NAVTEQ, and Jussi-Pekka Partanen , Nokia
You will find more detailed information on the
conference website.
October 28th - Location Based Services 2008 - Berlin Germany
On day 2 of the LBS 2008 conference, Andrew presented a keynote
on "Examining Techniques For Generating Revenue From Location Enabled
Mobile Advertising".
He also chaired the afternoon of day 1, and on day2 was on on a panel session: Can Location Deliver On The
Hype Surrounding Mobile Advertising? with the following
Alain Heureux, President, IAB EUROPE
Jonathan Macdonald, Senior Consultant, Ogilvy (Session Chair)
More information on the conference can be found at the
LBS 2008 website.
October 7th -
Mobile
Marketing Association Mobile Marketing Forum - Budapest
Andrew presented an introductory session on mobile marketing basics. Many brands
and agencies are still struggling to understand how to fit mobile marketing
effectively into their plans. The session focused on the basics that must be
covered to achieve success in mobile.
Andrew presented with Roland Tauchner , Managing Director, DIMOCO Direct Mobile
Communications & MMA Austria, Chairman
September 24th - British Computer Society: Mobile Location-Based Services
What are the main location technologies and how do they work? What technical, business and social challenges do companies face when developing LBS for mobiles? What LBS can we expect to see on mobiles in the next 2-3 years? How will current favourites such as social networking and online advertising evolve in a location-aware world? This talk will address these questions and more.
Andrew was joined by Justin Davies, Founder & CTO, NinetyTen/Buddyping, and Gary Davies from Yahoo! to talk about location based services.
10th June 2008: Being-Digital Conference - London
Andrew was the moderator of the Location session at this
mashup*
Event in London.
See
pictures of the location session here.
The conference was based around 7 digital themes
(advertising, identity, content, location, social, retail and search) which
cover the full range of “being digital”. In addition, the event aims to
attract “200+ executives, entrepreneurs and investors” - all with an interest in
these themes.
The event was held in Central London at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly London
W1J 9LN.
More information is available from the website
www.being-digital.com.
4-5 June 2008: Navigation and Location Europe 2008 - Amsterdam
Andrew will be speaking on the afternoon of day 2 in the Business Development stream.
Topics covered included:
Get the latest on developments in proximity
based adverts and stakeholders with geo-local ad clients
Find out who you need to partner with to
deliver geo-local ad campaigns.
Understand the best ways to build campaigns
designed for different devices. How will geo-local ads vary from device to
device?
Learn the importance of intelligent user
profiling. Find out how best to target and disguise marketing messages
Discover the best ways to integrate geo-local
ads into local search and city guides
Understand what is needed to overcome
consumer hesitancy and learn how to avoid intrusion
Other companies presenting at the conference included Orange, TomTom, Nokia, Garmin, O2, Telenor, T-Mobile, Webraska, Jaguar, Land Rover, Motorola, Skyhook Wireless.
The conference was organised by Telematics Update.
MobilMedia Kongress 2007 - Speaking on the topic "HomeZone and beyond" - how new
location search and mobile marketing solutions can use location technology
without needing GPS See mm-kongress.de
Mon 08 Oct 2007 - Thu 11 Oct 2007 Andrew was a keynote speaker and chair of day 1 of the
conference.
Click
here to view the video of the
event. Video sponsored by
Clarity Capital Partners.
Previous speaking engagements - 2007
18 - 19th September, Tegernsee, Germany
IIR
Telecoms Location Based Services 2007
Melia Avenida America Hotel, Madrid, Spain
More information is available on the conference website
www.iir-conferences.com/lbs2007
Presenter and chair of Day 1:
IIR
Conferences Mobile Content & Services held in Berlin on 25th June 2007.
May
9th Presenter at Innovate Europe 2007 in Zaragoza, Spain.
Click
here to view the slides and hear the audio of the presentation.
April
2nd
Mobile Monday Munich on Homezone 2.0 – the Foundation for new Homezone
solutions and Local Search!
16th
April
Mobile Monday London on the
topic of "Location - I still haven't
found what I'm looking for"![]()
Event produced by
Mobile Monday London.
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Previous speaking engagements - 2006
London - November 20 - 23 2006
Andrew was a keynote speaker at the conference on Monday 20th
November in London, speaking on the topic of "Evaluating The
Use Of High Accuracy HomeZone As An Enabler To Drive New LBS Revenues".
He was conference Chair on day 2 of the conference and on day 4 spoke on
"Evaluating the effectiveness of different location technologies".
Details on the conference can be found at www.iir-conferences.com/lbs
Previous speaking engagements - 2005
Andrew spoke at the 4th
CommsDay Summit
in Sydney on March 3rd, outlining a range of Location Based Services to be
launched by Seeker Wireless in 2005.
Previous speaking engagements - 2004
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Previous speaking engagements - 2003
Tuesday December 9 2003, Chair of Rotary Club of Sydney
meeting. Audience 120+
Saturday November 23, Master
of Ceremonies at the
Busy Bookkeeping National
Conference at the Novatel Brighton Le-Sands Hotel in Sydney.
Audience 30+
Friday November 22, Featured
speaker and Master of Ceremonies at the
Busy Bookkeeping National
Conference at the Novatel Brighton Le-Sands Hotel in Sydney.
Audience 30+
Friday October 24, Andrew was Master of Ceremonies at the
Hong Kong - Australian
Business Association Awards night at the Four Season's Hotel
in Sydney. Audience 320+
Thursday October 24, Andrew
presented a
Symposium on
"Opportunities for Wireless Enterprise & Healthcare Solutions"
organised by the Australian Graduate
School of Management
Centre for Corporate Change.
Andrew's address was titled "The Business Case for SMS".
Audience 50
August 19 2003, Chair of Rotary Club
of Sydney meeting. Audience 120+
August 15 2003, Andrew debated at the
Rotary Cub of Sydney's
Great Debate at Parliament
House. The topic was "That regulation can replace
conscience". The debaters include David Hill, Kerry
Chikarovski, bush poet Michael Darby, academic Carolyn Currie
and John Timbs QC. Audience 100+
April 29 2003 - Team captain of winning Rotary inter-club
debating team. Audience 100+
March 24 2003 Presenter at a motivational session for 20 secondary students coming to
Sydney from Bourke, Cobar, Narromine, Nyngan and Warren. The visit
is sponsored by the Rotary clubs of Bourke, Cobar,
Narromine, Nyngan, Warren and
Sydney in conjunction with the NSW Department of Education and
Training. Audience 25
February 24 2003 Guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Menai - "Getting the Message Across - Marketing Rotary to a new audience"
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Previous speaking engagements - 2002
28 November 2002 Guest speaker at the
Australian Property Institute's
Royal Exchange Discussion Group, University and Schools Club,
on the topic "Internet Property Marketing is alive and
well". Audience 50
October 26-27 Speaker at the
Melbourne Property Expo. Combined Audience 150+
October 16, 2002 Kuala Lumpur -
Speaker at the
21st Pan Pacific Congress of Real Estate Appraisers, Valuers
and Counsellors on the topic of "Marketing Property in
Cyberspace" representing the Australian Property Institute.
Click
here for a copy of my
paper. Audience 100+ representing over 30 countries.
July 22nd, 2002 - Guest speaker
at the
Rotary Club of Kings Cross on the topic "Keeping Rotary
Relevant". Audience 40+
Chair
of a motivational session for 20 secondary students coming to
Sydney from Bourke, Cobar, Narromine, Nyngan and Warren. The visit
is sponsored by the Rotary clubs of Bourke, Cobar,
Narromine, Nyngan, Warren and
Sydney in conjunction with the NSW Department of Education and
Training. Audience 25
March
23 - Speaker at
Property Online 2002 in Melbourne sponsored by PropertyLook.
Audience 50+
Rotary Club of Hurstville Guest Speaker February 25th - see the flyer here. Audience 60+
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Previous speaking engagements - 2001
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Previous speaking engagements - 2000
August 9th -
online
as part of Telstra's Networked
Series of web-casts for Small Business. The topic
was "Visions for the future".
Click
here
for the text of the presentation. Audience -
unqualified but was available online for over 12
months.August 8th - Vote of
thanks to guest speaker Patrick Fair, Chairman of
the Internet
Industry Association at the
Rotary Club
of Sydney. Audience 120+
July 27th - Speaker at
Portal
World on the topic of "More than just a
portal.... How Telstra is leveraging it's
e-commerce strengths into new vertical markets." Audience 50+
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Previous speaking engagements - 1999
November 20
1999 Ballarat Australia
Online Field Day,
presenting on behalf of Telstra on
"Doing
Business Online" Presenting the latest
applications to help communities get online. View
the Online Field Day
Seminar Program. Combined Audience 100+.jump straight to previous speaking events in 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 or go back to the top