Mobile Guru Rudy De Waele is a Belgian, living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Often invited as a speaker and contributing writer to a number of professional publications, his thoughts and ideas on Mobile 2.0 have been circulation around the globe; view his last presentations on the subject here.

Recently, Rudy has curated Mobile Trends 2020, a collaborative outlook of his personal heroes in mobile on the trends in mobile for the next decade. He co-founded Dotopen, a social platform for decision makers to connect & collaborate. Rudy presents at many Mobile & Technology conferences including MIPTV, Plugg, next, Digital Leaders Forum, PICNIC, Future of Mobile, Club de Creativos etc.

He is the organizer of Mobile 2.0 Europe and part of the Organizing Committee of Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley (San Francisco & Mountain View) as well as the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and MobileMonday Madrid. He also is the organizer of the Mobile Premier Awards and AppCircus, a unique global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web.

 Rudy is a regular jury member in various competitions on mobile applications and services, such as the MEX: The Mobile User Experience Conference & Awards, Under The Radar – Mobility, the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards and the TechCrunch Europas Awards.

Rudy works as in strategy & market development, with the goal of devising next-generation mobile & web services. Professionally one could describe Rudy as a creative, visionary, thoughtful and self-motivated strategist with excellent inter-personal and communication skills in several languages, and technology platform experience across the Internet, Mobile Internet and Wireless Media. Rudy has worked on many different projects ranging from R&D, competitive intelligence analysis, digital concept, think-tank, content and event development, mobile and digital music distribution, communities and social network analysis and development, and content integration of wiki’s, blogs, moblogs and RSS feed technologies.

Rudy is well-connected among key players in the digital media distribution and global mobile value chain players, he is passionate for the new and the innovative and not afraid of mixing the unusual.

Here some of Rudy’s most quoted posts:

About context and the mobile web (gotomobile.com)
Connecting Cultures through Music (Vodafone Receiver #16)
Understanding Mobile 2.0 (Read/WriteWeb)

10 Mobile Trends Impacting Consumer Engagement View more presentations from rudydw.