Fernando Canales, chef of Etxanobe Restaurant, will explain how new technologies are merged with the restoration in a workshop entitled “Restaurant Menu App, Social network and Creativity”, and on behalf of the company Innovae, Gerard Chevallier, will present the concept of augmented reality. There will be also space for mobile applications related to the media; Fernando J. Barrera, from 1001 medios, will delve into the use of mobile devices by journalists, and Alvaro Andoin, of Filmatu, will focus on mobile content production for interactive media.

The openness of the Workshops allows the offer to be extended until the day of the Conference, since any of the attendees have the option of creating a workshop through the official website of the Conference. The system enables attendees to register themselves online at the Workshops.

In addition, nonick will integrate for the third consecutive year, the final of the Start Up 2.0 Competition, a contest for start-ups that use 2.0 technologies. In nonick, the five finalists will have five minutes to present their mobile application projects to a jury composed of specialists and developers from all over world. At the closing of the conference, on Saturday 18 June, the organization will announce the winner.

The final 2.0 Start Up Competition has a great international impact, and is expected to more than 2000 specialists and professionals will follow the event through Internet. Since the first edition of this competition, several finalists have secured funding or been acquired by larger companies, such as 11870, Panoramio, Bubok or Sclipo, among others.

In his keynote, Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe, will discuss what the future holds for the Web as a first-class platform for user experiences that will drive the next generation of mobile browsing. This session will also explore the rich application development opportunities for the open Web, including the advantages of modern tools and open standards.

nonick, the international conference on Internet trends, will celebrate its 3rd edition on 17th and 18th June in EiTB Headquarters, in Bilbao (Spain). Tristan Nitot, President and Founder of Mozilla Europe, creators of Firefox browser, will give the opening keynote. Under his leadership, Firefox has reached 50 percent market share in countries like Germany and Poland. Tristan Nitot was with Netscape from 1997 to 2003 and has also helped launch the OpenWeb.eu.org project in 2002, aiming at promoting Web standards and accessibility.

The Programme of nonick is made up of seven keynotes, two round tables and some Workshops, and it includes, as in previous editions, the Start Up 2.0 final. The seven keynotes of nonick will present mobile apps related to very different areas, like photography, sports, music, communication and mobile marketing. Between the keynote speakers, stands Jed Alpert, CEO of Mobilecommons, the platform that Barack Obama will use to promote his re-election. Lucas Allen Buick, from Hisptamatic, selected like one of the 10 best Iphone apps in 2010, and Alex Powell, from Soft Pauer, company responsible for developing applications to track official MotoGP and Formula 1 Championship will be also speakers at nonick. Jason Titus, CTO at Shazam Entertainment, will close the conference on Saturday, with a presentation about Shazam, the mobile app for music identification most widespread of the world.

The two round tables of nonick will deal with the use of mobile devices since two different perspectives: the first will focus on the apps development, and the second will tackle on the activism in Arab countries through mobile devices.

A wide offer of Open Workshops, that the own attendees may give to show their projects, share knowledge or seek alliances, completes the nonick programme. In addition, nonick will include for third consecutive year the Start UP 2.0 final, a competition for startups that use 2.0 technologies, in which 5 finalists will present their projects to a jury of specialist and developers from all around the world.

Organised by eitb.com and the Industry, Innovation, Commerce and Tourism Department, trough the public society SPRI, and with the collaboration of CBT, nonick expects to meet more than 400 experts from the entire world. The event is held entirely in English, and the registrations, which are already open, include all the conference and workshops, coffee breaks, two lunches and the official dinner of nonick in the kafe Antzokia of Bilbao.