Daniel Vecino, Sevenclick and Confëttika CEO, will mentor the iWeekend Zaragoza startup meeting next weekend. iWeekend is an uncommon event, where entrepreneurs and technology experts gather together to found a new startup, born and built all over that weekend !!

Next iWeekend event is more special as its really happening over ten cities, so ten parallel meetings will be held, and ten new startups will be the result. The host cities are Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Alicante, Castellón, Málaga, Sevilla, Logroño y México DF.

The agenda for iWeekend Zaragoza can be found here. Vecino´s talk is planned for saturday afternoon. I know I shouldn´t say this as I´m biased being part of Sevenclick as I am, but I´m convinced it will really worth it as he has too much to say on founding startups.

Campus Party is one of the greatest LAN parties of the world. Born in Spain, it even spread out to other spanish talking countries over the years, reaching Colombia and Brasil. Campus Party has never been so live.

However I feel a curious feeling (kind of pity?) each time I look at the TV news showing Campus Party like a zoo of freaks. I´ve been on Campus Party 2009 on the developers area, and I want to share with you a different vision of CP: conferences, workshops, competitions… a nest of learning and collaboration.

The thing I like most about CP is the mix of people. Some are there just to play games as long as their eyes could keep open, others came in order to learn or to share their knowledge on the most diverse areas… there are people with their robots, with big modded cases, with a camera on their hand and a MacBook
on the other… Definitely, its a great place to know new and interesting people.

In Campus Party you just can´t be bored, there are tons of things to do each minute. In order to get all these people organiczed, and trying to give to all these differents profiles the more focused entertainment and learning, this year CP was divided into four areas: Innovation, Digital Leisure, Science and Creativity. Each one has sub-areas like Developers, Open Source Software, Photography, Modding, Astronomy, Open source software, CampusBot… just get into www.campus-party.es and take a look.

The other great thing about CP is that all the contents are streamed live at Campus Party TV, and then all is uploaded to Youtube. So you can watch all the conferences as well as other events on their Youtube channel.

I guess I´m probably a kind of “freak among freaks” as I didn´t play a game all over CP. There´s always time for a quick match on CP no matter if you are a developer or bot lover or whatever area you are into… but I just was overwhelmed with all the incredible conferences that took place on this 13th edition.  Take a look to the Youtube channel if you have some time, there are some interesting conferences there.

My two favourite conferences were the one of David Del Val about entrepreneurship, (you can download the mindmap he used on the conference on this post of the blog that Telefónica I+D made for the ocassion), and the one about pishing on emails, with live demos of how to cheat all the big ones: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail; and explanations on how they could implement the security to defend over these cheats (in case you are interested, you will find the video on the CP Youtube channel, and here is a post of the blog of the speaker, explaining step by step the techniques showed on the conference). But there were other conferences really interesting about ethical hacking, cloud computing, eyeOS, developing widgets for Nokia and for Windows Mobile 6.5 and so on …

There were also several workshops, personally I made the Arduino workshop leaded by David Cuartielles, Arduino´s father. Arduino is a nice piece of Open Hardware, perfect to introduce students to the world of electronics. Visit David´s blog for read his thoughs of Campus Party and the workshop we made.

The other side of CP are the contests. One of the reasons for me to come this year to CP was that I came to the 11th edition two years ago, but I didn´d participate on any contest, and I felt I really wanted to. This year several competitions were organized, apart from the traditional videogames fast-programming contest (on 72 hours). One was Nokia´s Challenge for developing Widgets for Nokia N97. As a mobile software developer, I had interest on this one, specially because I´ve never developed nothing for any Nokia technologies. It was really hard because the challenge took place on 48 hours, but I finally won the second prize and the reward worth it: a Nokia N97!! (Stay tuned with us on the third week of August -when I came back from holidays- for a deep review of the N97!).

So, in conclusion, Campus Party is more than anything anyone could imagine before coming in. And I almost forget the human side… you will know very nice people sharing your motivations, personal and professional. Most are “campuseros” like me that came  because we wanted to, others came with their companies like the people of Telefónica I+D, the bloggers of And.roid.es, or the boys from Noise Marketing… I bet I will see all them again on another Campus Party.

Campus Party Links

www.campus-party.es

Campus Party TV

Campus Party Youtube channel

Campus Party on Flicker

Other Related Links

Arduino Blog

Telefonica I+D on Campus Party Blog

Un informático en el lado del mal Blog

Today June 18th, Iniciador comes for the first time to Zaragoza. Iniciador gathers enterpreneurs allowing them to share experiences. This event wants to transmit the “enterpreneur spirit” all over the country.

The guest speaker will be Santiago Baselga, founder and CEO of TB·Solutions and  Co-founder and President of SevenClick.

Schedule:

• 19,30 h Presentation Iniciador Zaragoza
• 20,00 h Presentation of the participants name, company or project and goals for the Iniciador.
• 21,00 h Guest speaker: Santiago Baselga.
• 22,00 h Networking

Place:

• Digital Water Pavilion (Pabellón Digital del Agua, Avda. Francia, s/n, en La Almozara. Zaragoza)

Other:

• Free, but limited to 45 people pre-registered
• To register you must complete the following Registration Form: Formulario de Inscripción del Iniciador Zaragoza (Indicate Name, email contact and project where are working or planning to work)

Stay updated on upcoming events:

• Facebook Group (Join the group on Facebook)
• Google Calendar.

Via: Loogic

SevenClick, TBS Group company specialized mobile solutions development, is participating as speaker in the Banking Technology Comittee of the European Savings Banks Group, taking place in Madrid on June 8 and 9.

Invited by La Caixa for such an important event, José Manuel Cristóbal, SevenClick’s CTO, will make a presentation entitled “Mobile Banking. Getting Satisfaction!”covering a number of first-level success stories.

Among them, those related to iPhone and Android electronic banking solutions, mobile Digital Signature, secure authentication mechanisms and payment authorization methods. All of them from a pure mobile perspective, assuring security and legal validity of each process.

Undoubtedly, a new opportunity to know the most important innovations in banking and mobile technology.

All of them in a exclusive environment with representatives of Technology Departments from the main European Savings Banks.

Press Note

Last tuesday the HTC Touch HD was presented in Madrid. The press conference took place in Shoko Club. HTC exhibited its new device like in a hollywood movie release ambience. Pedro Abad, Country Manager of HTC in Spain & Portugal, talked to SevenClick about this new handset and The future of the T-Mobile G1 in Europe and many more. Check it out

HTC Touch HD can be the real iPhone killer, because of its 3,8″ screen, because of its 5Mpx camera, because of many more features. You can check all of them in this post.

At the beginning of the conference Pedro Abad (HTC Country Manager for Spain and Portugal) talked about the past and the present of HTC in Spain and he introduced us the HTC Touch HD, the best HTC handset created ever. Watch the entire press conference in the following video.

HTC Touch HD will be launched in the first week of Dicember in Spain by Telefonica.The picture below shows 5 rate plans in order to get it. Starting price is 149€ with a 2 years contract including 90€ of voice and 15€ of data. Final amount is more expensive than the iPhone.

We asked Pedro Abad for the launch date of the T-Mobile G1 in Spain, and for the HTC Max 4G, just released in Rusia, in order to know if it will finally be released in the rest of the world. Watch the interview in this video.

Finally the most important thing is, if this handset is useful or not for you and it if covers all your needs. I think it is the best Windows Mobile OS based Phone because of its user interface and features and even better in some aspects than the iPhone. You can discover all its features in this hands-on video.

Here we leave some pictures of the showroom. It was great, you can see me in this movie posters. It was fun!

link HTC Touch HD