To make the finalist selection as transparent and open to the industry as possible, the Mobile Premier Awards is bringing together an online jury of industry experts to select the best startups to present on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona.

For the MPA in Innovation award in partnership with MobileMonday, each local chapter selects its nominee to go into the final. For this edition we have  75 chapters nominating their favourite startup, so we ask the online jury to select the 20 finalists that will present at the event in Barcelona.

If you’re interested to become part of that jury or know someone who should be part of it, send an email to jury AT mobilepremierawards DOT com with a short bio, your LinkedIn profile, and personal blog and twitter name.

Join @Russell Buckley, @Tomi Ahonen, @Ajit Jaokar, @Andrew Grill, @Raimo van der Klein, @James Whatley, @Pat Phelan, @Chetan Sharma, and other mobile illuminates. Previous juries have included, amongst others, representatives from Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, Google, Yahoo!, HP, VentureBeat, GoMoNews, Shozu, Plazes, dotMobi, Nexit Ventures, Balderton Capital, Xtract…

About the Mobile Premier Awards

The Mobile Premier Awards are the point of reference in startup premiers during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010 in Barcelona and are organized in collaboration with some of the main networks in the industry including MobileMonday, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), MEX, MobileActive.org, Women 2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association.

Participation to the awards is free and open to any startup with a mobile angle. To sign up entrants simply need to create their own company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they want to compete in. Visit how to sign up for the mobile premier awards and how to create a good company profile. The deadline for entry is December 31^st 2009.

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