YOUtopia: Smart Citizens & Good Cities
MLOVE ConFestival Europe 2014 closed with a common vision for a YOUtopia of Smart Citizens that share their ideals for good cities in the advent of exponential growth of technology innovations.
• AirMarkr wins Grand Prize of MLOVE ConFestival startup competition
• eFarmer, Amazers and Birdi are startup competition category winners
• Photos now made available at mlove.com and via flickr
Hamburg, 07/04/2014 – MLOVE ConFestival Europe announces the winners of the startup competition and enjoys raving feedback from passionate participants.
MLOVE ConFestival Europe celebrated the 5th anniversary of passion & inspiration in a castle South of Berlin. It featured inspiring speakers and topics from Internet of Things, smart cities, creative design, brands & mobility, maker movement to quantified self and bio hacking.
It was great to see the participants and speakers at MLOVE to be so vividly engaged in sharing their vision for the Future of Mobility. We could foster great collaborations to work on combining industry trends like Internet of Things to include the needs and desires of citizens to create ‘good cities’ amidst all the exponential growth of technical innovation
stated Harald Neidhardt, curator of MLOVE.
MLOVE is the coming together of completely different profiles of professionals: from large company executives to single person start-ups with in between a mix of very creative and open-minded people looking for innovation. When you blend these profiles together in smart way sudden magic happens
added John Baekelmans, CTO S+CC at CISCO.
The inspiring event thrives on open innovation and intense networking. It brings together those who are creators of our world today and tomorrow. MLOVE is inclusive to those who code, make, think, create, hack, finance and communicate about things that matter most. Participants from across the US, Japan, Africa and all over Europe convened in an inspiring medieval castle to share optimism and opportunities about our Lifestyle of Mobility.
Speakers & Themes
MLOVE expanded the mobility theme to meaning and opens up to new opportunities for startups and enterprises through the Internet of Things & maker movement.
“For the first time I grasp the potential of maker movement,” tweeted angel investor & serial entrepreneur Stephan Uhrenbacher (@uhrenbacher) after visiting the MLOVE Maker Lab and the inspiring talks at the maker sessions. The activities included collaborations on a YOUtopia concept with IXDS, MakeTechX with Fab Lab Berlin and Munich Maker Lab.
Speakers represented Rambus, Google, Microsoft, IXDS, CISCO, IBM, NBBJ, SoundCloud, Automattic, Conrad and inspiring entrepreneurs from D4SC, meetin.gs, Singularity University, HQAfrica, Indiegogo, Spark Plug Labs and Revelflow to name a few. The full speaker list can be found at www.blog.mlove.com/confestival.
Startup Competition Winners
The following startups pitched at the startup competition and won prizes by Samsung and American Airlines through a partnership with Tech Wildcatters:
- AirMarkr (Berlin), CEO Miho Tanaka – Grand Prize: Flight to Silicon Valley
- Birdi (San Francisco), CEO Mark Belinsky 1st Prize “Internet of Things”
- eFarmer, CMO Michael Utkin – 1st Prize “Mobile Apps & Mobility”
- Amazers, Co-CEO Fabio Carlucci – 1st Prize “Meaning”
The jury included Nikolaus Röttger (WIRED), Felicitas Hackmann (Venture Village), Fred Becker (GGM Venture Capital), Corentin Cremet (App Developers Alliance) plus representatives from simyo, Rambus, Cisco, IBM, SBB, Alice, TechStars, hub:raum and was led by Andrew J. Scott.
Art, Culture & Burning Man
Director and producer Steve Brown opened MLOVE ConFestival Europe with a private show of the Burning Man documentary “Spark” and discussed his journey from app developer to film maker. He set the right frame of meaning & creativity for MLOVE by revealing a spirit of participation, activism and passion – that was vividly expressed by a drum circle.
MLOVE has a special emphasis on bringing arts, humanity and soul to its events and growing tribe. This is the perfect setting to generate inspiration and cross-pollination among all guests. The performers of the art & show parts included: Bella Berlin, w33tv, Arkei, ChixxClique, Roomdivision and Z-Vector with Nuance from Finland. Where else could you see a world premiere of a drone camera projection on a 60m wide castle wall with live stream by Reelive ?
Photos are now available here: www.flickr.com/photos/mlove-confestival/
Quotes & Feedback:
This MLOVE was another mind-blowing event. It is safe to say that the people you meet and insights you receive you don’t get at other conferences
Felicitas Hackmann, Venture Village.
In very simple words, #MLOVE14 was fucking awesome. Tranks a lot to @hneidhardt & his fabulous team, see ya next year pic.twitter.com/iNjL6CUEVW
— Matthias Prohl (@ma_promat) June 29, 2014
still digesting the great mlove 2014 experience. Great speaker, great people and great loaction Thx @mlove Team / thx @hneidhardt #mlove2014
— anton klees (@aklees) June 29, 2014
Thx @eva & @hneidhardt & team #mlove14 Y know how to host a great event & set stage 4 #openminded exchange among attendees, loved #cube
— dromescu (@dromescu) June 28, 2014
Thank you @hneidhardt &team for #mlove14 You really know how to host a great event & set the stage for openminded exchange among attendees
— Arne Kittler (@ArneKittler) June 27, 2014
