[Tccc] Student Paper Contest

The Event

Mobile Future Forward is an executive summit attracting some of the most
influential minds who are shaping the mobile industry. The experts and
visionaries from around the globe will discuss the mobile industry 2-5 years
forward, envision what the user experience and use case scenarios look like,
discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities in the journey to that
vision.

The Contest

The best student paper contest is open to universities and research
institutes around the world. Your task is to help us imagine new
technologies, new experiences, new applications and services, new use cases,
new business models of the mobile future. The paper can be on a specific
technical or business subject within the mobile industry from mobile
teleportation to fuel cells to a new enterprise collaboration tool and
everything in between. The idea is to let your imagination fly without any
restrictions and dream of what's possible in the next 5-10 years. Papers can
be about technical solutions to the most pressing problems, about new
revenue models, about your vision of how mobile will be used in the future,
etc. Paper length: 1000-1500 words.

The Prize

Authors of the top two outstanding papers will get a travel expenses paid
trip to attend the conference and mingle with the who's who of the wireless
industry. Winners will also be eligible for more prizes. Please send in your
entries by *July 15th*,*2010* to
*contest@mobilefutureforward.com*<contest@mobilefutureforward.com>
including
a copy of your current student ID. Use of graphics and illustrations is
encouraged. A panel of industry experts will vote on the best papers. They
will be ranked on orginiality, ambitiousness, creativity, depth, and clarity
of vision. The goal of the contest is to bring out and reward the best
thinking from the leaders of tomorrow.

The Judges

Pankaj Kedia, Head of Mobile Ecosystems, Intel
Len Barlik, VP, Sprint Nextel
Jeff Giard, Director, Clearwire
Hank Skorny, SVP, Real Networks
Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media
Matt Oommen, CTO, Sprint Nextel

(Please look at website
http://www.mobilefutureforward.com/student_paper.html for more info.)

For more Info, please contact contest@mobilefutureforward.com
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