Dear Friends,

Just three weeks ago, we were in the midst of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:

Above expectations great traffic in both busy pavilions, prospects comings, many questions asked at once, everyone running around and working diligently…

IMA is proud to say that the 2010 MWC project ran so successfully, thanks to a hard work of an amazing, enthusiastic, motivated, devoted and professional team!

Now that we are back and the dust has settled a bit, please allow us to share some details with you:

IMA holds more then 2,000 one-on-one meetings

At Mobile World 2010, IMA had a total of 40 companies. Our joint efforts created over 900 meetings before the event and though (we have not completed the calculations yet), we already have over 2000 meetings documented. Over 1000 people visited the pavilions from more than 60 countries.
The meetings were generated and followed by a business development campaign, held together with the global network of Israeli Commercial Attaches in the Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor in 37 countries. The Israeli Pavilion was under the auspice of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

IMA further grows its strategic network of partners

IMA is proud to announce the following collaborations, held during the show:

BUONGIORNO chooses IMA as a scouting partner in Israel
Buongiorno signs collaboration with IMA, which will resell IMA Portfolio companies’ products to its global customer base. Buongiorno has 130 mobile operator customers around the world, and serves 2 Billion consumers worldwide. Read more…

IMA launches a global partners program, which consists of approx 30 partners worldwide. These include agents, business accelerators, system integrators, consultants and content providers. This network of partners have been certified by IMA and chosen for their past history and positive experience with other Israeli companies in the Telecom Arena. This program will dramatically shorten the time-to-market and increase start-ups existence rates.

IMA is getting for a 3G market boom in India

IMA strengthens its position in APAC, signs collaboration agreement with COAI, India’s Cellular operators association.
This agreement is aimed to maintain and promote cooperation and understanding in the development of trade and business relations in the field of Cellular Telephony.

Vice Chairman of COAI, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO Aircel sign the partnership with Eyal Reshef, founder & CEO of IMA.  Aircel is one of the leading operators in India with 25 million subscribers.

IMA show cases its Innovation Lab

In collaboration with Partner Communication (Orange Israel Ltd), funded by the Israeli Chief Scientist. The IMA Innovation Lab will enable Israeli companies to shorten time-to-market and improve quality of products. Read more…

IMA and Perfecto Mobile partner to jointly offer web access to mobile devices in IMA’s Innovation Lab. Read more...

IMA and FinnMob (Finnish Mobile Association) announced an alliance to jointly promote their portfolio companies. Read more... 

IMA proudly hosted many VIP’s in its pavilion

Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, CTA, Aircel

Amrita Gangotra, CIO, Airtel

Andrea Casalini, CEO, Buongiorno
Chris Langdon, VP Network Services, Telus

Erez Yarkoni, VP Enterprise IT, T-Mobile US

Hugh Bradlow, CTO, Telstra

Joachim Horn, CTO, Airtel

Ken Corcoran, CTO, America Movil

Michael Lawrence, CEO, T-Mobile Macedonia

Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti

Oleg Svirsky, CTO, MTS

Oscar Ciccheti, CTO, Telecom Italia

Pierre Emmanuel Struyven, VP Innovation and New Markets, SFR

Pradeep Shrivastava, CMO, Idea

Shireesh  Mukundi Joshi, CMO, Airtel

Stefano Ciurli, Group Senior Vice Presdient, Telecom Italia

Sunzay Passari, Executive Vice President - Telecom & VAS, Loop

Victor Pinchuk, CTO, UTel

Vladimir Filippov, VP , Information Technology, Vimpelcom

Wolfgang Breuer, CTO, Romtelecom

IMA operated two direct private charter flights to Barcelona

These flights turned into an industry networking “flying event” and began the passengers networking up in the sky!

And - the photos speak for themselves…

Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&ref=ts&gid=13545173491

To view more IMA press coverage during the show, click HERE

The full scope of the results of this event will be seen in the following months. Much work is needed to follow up and help the Israeli companies overcome the of the multitude of leads and business opportunities

We look forward to a fruitful and successful 2010!!

The IMA Team