Renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz in London
Renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz & Mobilium Global CEO, Ralph Simon, make a perfect picture.
Seen at Annie Leibowitz’s amazing new exhibition, “Women: New Portraits”, an extension of a project she began with her late partner Susan Sontag in 1999. Thanks to Annie’s representative, Ken Hertz, for helping bring this remarkable body of Annie’s work to London and the world - which included Annie’s iconic portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. (Photo credit: Ken Hertz)
Interview with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia
Stockholm - Ralph Simon interviews the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, as part of the important and extraordinary gathering known as “Brilliant Minds” in Stockholm, Sweden. Brilliant Minds is organised by Spotify founder Daniel Ek, Skype founder Nikolas Zennstrom & Natalia Brzezinski, the curator extraordinaire of what has now become one of the world’s most important gatherings of the top innovation thinkers globally:
Interview with Adam Wilkes, President AEG Live Asia & AEG Live
Interview with Adam Wilkes, President of AEG Live Asia & AEG LIve on the remarkable telling of how he managed to create & produce the first-ever Rolling Stones live concert in Havana in Cuba, despite every conceivable obstacle to block it coming to fruition - and by doing so, create history & a massive live concert & TV success for the Rolling Stones, before 1,000,000 excited Cubans. Never been seen or done before - Adam Wilkes made it possible !
Interview with Arthur Fogel - President of Live Nation Global Touring
Singapore - Keynote interview with Arthur Fogel, President of Live Nation Global Touring - the world’s leading international concert promoter, at All That Matters, Asia-Pacific’s major annual conference & most significant Asia summit for digital, live entertainment, brand marketing & professional sports entertainment.
The Minister of Industry & Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov
Yerevan, Armenia
l to r The Minister of Industry & Trade of the Russian Federation, Minister Denis Manturov getting a good ear-bending from Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon this week. They were chatting about Russian creativity, exponential health & creative innovation. Manturov serves in the Russian Cabinet.
Mobilium & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams and Ralph Simon in a stirring conversation at DLD, the extraordinary gathering that takes place in Munich at the start of the year. DLD is a great showcase for what’s coming next - in tech, and in what is affecting political and industry decisions around the world. Mobilium has a special insight into political strategy that affects digital and mobile businesses and brands. Jody Williams is also the founder of the Nobel Women’s Institute, the institution that specifically brings all of the world’s female Nobel Peace prize Laureates together for a very strong and unified voice for women and women’s issues around the world.
The Golden Age of Storytelling
The disruption of creative industries often comes to mind first when discussing the interface between digitalization and media. We know for a fact, that the TV & film industries will be shaken up significantly over the next 10 years. But which effect, precisely, will digitalization have on these creative industries ? What exactly is going to change for the directors, the screenplay writers, TV program creators, actors & costume designers ?
Mobilium keeps a keen eye on the very latest emerging patterns in media to be able to effectively advise their clients and creative collaborators on how best to enhance their creative output and create globally impactive programming - on mobile, online, on film, on second and third screens - it’s the golden age of “Screenagers"
Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikiforov, Russian Minister of Communications & Mass Media
Moscow, Russia. l. to r. Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon chatting with Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikiforov, Russian Minister of Communications & Mass Media at the Open Innovations Forum this week in Moscow where both were speakers. Nikiforov is the youngest government minister in the history of Russia - appointed at age 29 by President Dmitri Medvedev. Involved in implementing innovative developments in the government’s communications network & education system, & helped develop a program to introduce e-government across Russia.
Future Ready Now gathering in hip Berlin
l. to r. Ralph Simon, Mobilium Global CEO & Dr Heiner Benking of the Berlin-based Institute for Sustainability in Education, Work & Culture: saying “Wilkommen” to attendees at the special gathering & workshop held in Berlin this week for companies & NGOs to be ‘Future Ready Now’ & how to deploy mobile devices & media to enhance their global businesses. Dr Benking’s T-shirt says: “Failure is an opportunity”. We’re Future Ready !