On December 16th, the AppCircus arrives to Lisbon to showcase the best apps of the region. Hello Portugal! AppCircus co-founder Rudy De Waele (@mtrends) will moderate the event.

The deadline to submit your app is on Dec 2nd, so hurry up! In a few days we will communicate which are the 10 selected apps that will pitch on the stage at the Vodafone Portugal Headquarters (Parque das Nações, Lisbon).

Remember that from the 10 apps that pitch on stage, the jury will reward the best with the following prizes:

• The overall winner will get a chance to be one of the 20 apps pitching at the Mobile Premier Awards during MWC 2012, plus a smartphone offered by Vodafone.
• For the best Symbian or S40 App, Nokia will offer the newest Nokia Smartphone.
• Last Minute news: Nokia just announced a special prize to the Developer that presents the best Windows Phone app!!

Meet the professionals that will be part of the jury on stage:

- Nuno Inácio, Senior Product Manager at Vodafone Portugal. More than 10 years of experience on the Telecommunications field, having a large and broad scale knowledge of various areas of this industry, namely roaming, high-level technical flows, mobile payments, apps and developer marketing.

- Vasco Elvas, Head of Innovation Design & Engineering at Vodafone Portugal. He has also worked as the head of Innovation in Vodafone Portugal and the Senior Technical Manager, Internet Services in Vodafone Portugal.

- Nicolau Mesquita, Iberian Music & Messaging Business Manager & Portugal Services Coordination at Nokia Mobile Phones. Previously he worked as the Services and Online Business Manager on Nokia Mobile Phones.

- Nuno Ribeiro, a manager focused on the business of media on digital platforms, has since 2008 been the director of the Multimedia Business of the Controlinveste group. He is an ambassador for Portugal in the only worldwide association of professionals and leaders in the operations and technology of on-line advertising – AdMonsters. Regularly writes opinion articles for Cibertransistor.com, Diário de Notícias and Meios & Publicidade.

This event is supported by Vodafone App Factory and Nokia Developer:

San Francisco is the heart of the tech world and the itinerant app show will be there again on June 29^th.

AppCircus@eComm2011 will take place during The Emerging Communications Conference & Awards (eComm), which will focus on the future of Telecom and its relation with mobile and Internet.

The media industry is changing rapidly, faster than ever, and this has to do with the huge improvement and innovation in communications technologies process we are going through. Now more than ever Internet and mobile technologies define the future of media and eComm was formed to analyse and participate in such process.

AppCircus will bring its show to the eComm 2011 to provide another great opportunity for developers. 10 apps will be chosen to pitch to in front of the jury. AppCircus winners can make it to the big stage: they are nominated for the pool of apps from which the 20 finalists for the Mobile Premier Awards 2012 will be selected

Submission deadline for apps is on June 13th, visit the AppCircus@eComm2011 page to submit you app.

eComm 2011 will take place at the San Francisco Airport Marriot Hotel, for more information please visit the eComm site.

Upcoming AppCircus events:

• AppCircus@MobileSWCopenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark
• AppCircus @ Internacional Free Software Forum, Porte Alegre, Brazil

If you are a mobile developer, Startup or company and would like to be part of AppCircus, please sign up to our global platform and hope to see you at a nearby event. For event organizers, if you are interested in hosting an AppCircus in your city, please contact us.

See you all at an AppCircus near you! Remember to follow us on twitter @AppCircus.

AppCircus is proud to announce the selected apps that will be presented at eComm America 2010 on April 19 and 21 in San Francisco.

Click the links to the company profiles on dotopen.com and  hit the "apps" tab to view their app!

Aloqa - Germany
Nimbuzz - Netherlands
CrowdScanner - Ireland
Cmune - China
Cellictica - Finland
waze - Israel
my6sense - Israel

If you'd like to see the AppCircus @ eComm, you can book tickets here.

AppCircus is proud to announce its first event in the US at eComm America 2010 on April 19 and 21 in San Francisco. AppCircus is a global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps by developers, startups and other organizations presented in front of live audiences.

The AppCircus @ eComm America 2010 is open to any developer or startup with an innovative app. Participation is FREE. Apply here http://www.dotopen.com/ecomm-america-2010 before Friday, April 5, midnight PST.

An international jury panel will select the ten (10) apps that will present at the event. The winner will be nominated for the Mobile Premier Awards that will take place in Barcelona in February 2011, during the Mobile World Congress.

About AppCircus
AppCircus is 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. AppCircus is open to developers, startups and any other organization and offers each winner a nomination to the Mobile Premier Awards. AppCircus is powered by dotopen.

About eComm
The Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards was created to promote and accelerate communications innovation. The world's leading-edge communications event. It's designed to showcase and accelerate both technology and business model innovation; and to explore the latest opportunities.

Behold the AppCircus!!!