ICA January 15 Event at FCCJ

PRESENTER: Jeff Funk
Professor of Business at the Institute for Innovation Research
Hitotsubashi University

TOPIC: Key Technologies, Applications. and
Strategies for the Mobile Internet
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EVENT OVERVIEW
Jeff Funk will discuss the technologies and applications driving
the mobile Internet and the need for effective platform
strategies. The former includes microprocessor speeds, memory
sizes, client-side programming, and network speeds. These
technologies are making the phone a portable entertainment player,
a new marketing tool for retailers and manufacturers, a
multi-channel shopping device, a navigation tool, a new type of
ticket and money, and a new mobile Intranet device. Service
providers, phone manufacturers, content providers, and technology
suppliers need to create the appropriate strategies to make
their products and services the platforms for the mobile internet.

Jeff has been studying the mobile phone market for almost ten
years, eight of which have been spent in Japan. He is the author
of three books on the mobile phone market, including "Mobile
Disruption: The Technologies and Applications Driving the Mobile
Internet," which has just been published by John Wiley.

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RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Wednesday Jan 14

MEETING DETAILS
Thursday, January 15
Time: 6:30 Doors open
6:30 Networking / Cash bar
7:10 Dinner
7:45 Presentation
8:45 Finish

Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost: 3,000 yen (members) 5,500 yen (non-members)
No shows will be charged. Dinner will be served.