A Spotlight Keynote with Michael Gudinski

Few figures loom as large in the history of the Australian music industry as Michael Gudinski. More than 40 years after co-founding Mushroom Records and Mushroom Music Publishing, Gudinski, who is now the Managing Director of Frontier Touring Company, is still passionately taking Australian music to the world. Join Michael and interviewer Ralph Simon as they delve into just what makes the Australian music market so hugely successful as well as the long-standing relationship between the Australian and Canadian music industries.

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Introducing the World's First Flying Car

How many of us have at some point wished to be able to fly? In this talk, Ralph Simon introduces the audience to an innovator from Austria named Štefan Klein who created 'the world's first flying motor car.'

In this talk, Ralph introduces the audience to 'the world's first flying motor car.'

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Business Rockstars with Juergen Furian

Los Angeles, California. Appearing on the prestigious national radio, online broadcast show Business Rock Stars, Ralph Simon was interviewed by host and Business Rock Stars’ creator, Ken Rutkowski. ralph has brought with him, Juergen Furian, the founder and curator of Europe’s most important future tech gathering and Festival, which is held in Vienna on May 28th and 29th 2015 - known as Pioneers Festival. Furian is also at the helm of a $75m development fund looking at ways and companies that can be grown and developed between Vienna and Silicon Beach, LA’s name for the fast-growing and fast-moving tech innovation happening in Southern California. This interview gives a good insight into the kind of work that Mobilium Global is engaged in and does around the world.

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Mobilium at TEDx Gateway India

Surrounded by the team that created and produced the highly successful TEDx Gateway in the centre of Mumbai, is Ralph Simon, chairman of Mobilium Global and TEDx chief organiser, Mr Yashraj Akashi and his team.  This 5th annual TEDx Gateway, was the most successful yet with the event having been sold out weeks in advance in Mumbai.  People came from all over India to be present at this key event in Mumbai as is the case each year.

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San Francisco Music Tech Summit 2014

The San Francisco Music Tech Summit is an annual gathering in Silicon Valley that attracts the best and the brightest from the world of technology, music and social media.  Mobilum Global was extremely pleased to play a role in this year?s November 2014 gathering in San Francisco.  l. to r.  Mobilium Global chairman, Ralph Simon; Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of the Tribune Group?s Gracenote company and one of Silicon Valley?s smartest and most creative executives, Ty Roberts;  Tim Quirk, CEO of FreeForm Development - Tim was one of the creators of the Google Play platform for Google; Darryl Ballantyne, CEO & Founder of the world?s top lyric site, LyricFind;  Hakeem Seriki better known by his stage name of Chamillionaire, is a Grammy Award winning rapper and artist and tech investor and tech entrepreneur from Houston, Texas.  This particular session at the SF Music Tech conference proved to be one of the most popular sessions ever at this event which has been running for a number of years.

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Slush 2014 in Helsinki, Finland

Mobilium CEO Ralph Simon at Slush 2014 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Seen in Helsinki, Finland during the recent major innovation and tech gathering known as SLUSH are:  Mr Ken Hertz, senior partner and president of HLY Media Law and Membrain - Ken was a keynote speaker at SLUSH 2014; Ambassador Bruce Oreck, US Ambassador to Finland and a major protagonist for innovation and tech development for US companies, creators and the Nordics, Finland, Scandinavia and The Baltics; Mobilium Global chairman, Ralph Simon - after a special breakfast gathering at the US Embassy in Helsinki.  SLUSH brings the world?s top innovators and new start-ups to Finland for a high impact gathering and conference that sees the unveiling some great new ideas, companies and commercial enterprises
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Chief Bird Brain - Meeting of the minds as the founder and chairman of Rovio Entertainment Limited, the extraordinary Finnish mobile games company and originator / developer of the hugely  successful Angry Birds game, educational platform, product franchise and associated businesses, Kaj Hed seen here with Mobilium Global chairman, Ralph Simon in Helsinki.  The He?d family created Rovio as a mobile games company and it is said that they developed and launched 40 different mobile games of moderate success, until they then created and launched Angry Birds.  Within a few weeks it became evident that Angry Birds was a world-wide smash hit, enthralling mobile game players, men and women all over the world.  Today, Rovio continues to grow and build Rovio to also include a special Angry Birds Educational platform that has developed special educational programs using Angry Birds? characters, and making learning fun across a range of subjects and junior and high school subjects.  Kaj Hed has overseen the growth and global spread of Rovio Entertainment since its inception.

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Unicef's 'Imagine' Event in New York

 l. to r.  Mobilium Global; chairman Ralph Simon and head of Unicef, Executive Director Anthony Lake - photographed in the General Assembly of the United Nations.  Mobilium Global were the Executive producers of the huge global event and initiative produced by Unicef to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the singing of the UN?s Convention of the Child.  Some of the world?s greatest artists combined with Unicef and Yoko Ono, Hugh Jackman and Unicef offices in over 150 countries to create one of the most significant online, mobile and global campaigns in Unicef?s history.  Mobilium Global played a key role in making this event impact and happen.
General Assembly of the United Nations, New York
l. to r.  The great and distinguished Swedish composer and former member of the great musical group ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus seen here with Mobilium Global chairman ralph Simon during the recent Unicef special event that took place in the General Assembly of the United Nations in new York.  For Bjorn, bios appearance had an extra special significance, as 35 years ago, Bjorn and ABBA were the very first musical artists to get to play and perform in the General Assembly, when they recorded the great song, “Chiquitita” for a world-wide TV special that took place at the UN.  Bjorn returned this November 2014,  to join the galaxy of superstars and distinguished people who came together at the UN HQ to salute the 25th anniversary of the UN’s Convention on the Child, and create a whole new campaign built around the iconic John Lennon song, “Imagine”.
Seen here in the General Assembly of the Un is Mobilium Global chairman, Ralph Simon  and Nigerian superstar composer, recording artist, tech pioneer and investor, Don Jazzy.  Simon had arranged for Don Jazzy to come to New York to be one of the specially featured global stars in the Unicef special event that took place in the General Assembly of the United Nations to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the UN’s Convention of the Child.  With a distinguished cast that included Yoko Ono, major movie actor Hugh Jackman, Katy Perry, will i am, and leading artists and personalities from around the world, Don Jazzy made a particular impact at the event, which also has been getting significant audiences and a following online, on mobile and around the world as the Unicef teams in 190 countries spread the word of the “Imagine” Unicef event.
On the podium of the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York
Seen in the General Assembly preparing for the huge Unicef gathering that took place in November 2014 in the UN headquarters are l. to r.  Alexander Shulgin, the distinguished entrepreneur, composer, artist and innovation guru from Moscow, who was responsible for bringing the Russian teen sensation, Kristian Kostov from Russia to the United Nations to participate in the Unicef event, and Mobilium Global chairman, Ralph Simon, who was the Executive Producer of the global event for Unicef.    Many of the world’s greatest leaders have spoken from this podium, and so Alexander and Ralph were standing in the footsteps of the great, the good, the bad and the ugly - all of whom have addressed the General Assembly of the Un from this spot.

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Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government, His Excellency Arkady Dvorkovich

Moscow, Russia

l to r: Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government, His Excellency Arkady Dvorkovich reconnects with Mobilium Global chief executive, Ralph Simon at the important annual Open Innovations Forum at Skolkovo Tech Park, Moscow. Simon was conducting the Plenary Session at this key innovation gathering in Russia.

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Russia's Minister of Telecommunications & Mass Media, Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikifirov

Moscow - Reconnecting with Russia's Minister of Telecommunications & Mass Media: l to r: Ralph Simon, chief executive of Mobilium Global chatting with Telecoms Minister Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikifirov at the Plenary Session of the Open Innovations Forum 2017 with Prime Minister Medvedev & Ali Baba founder Jack Ma. Nikifirov has been the telecoms minister since 2012 & then, when appointed he was, & still is, the youngest Minister ever in the Russian cabinet. Nikolai is super smart & a terrific bloke.

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