Santiago Ristol Jorba

Santi Ristol is General Manager of Tempos 21 (a subsidiary company of Atos specialized in mobile solutions), member of the Atos Scientific Community and President of INES (Spanish Technology Platform for Software and Services – www.ines.org.es). He has been working in Atos since 1992, he started working in satellite communication projects (from progammer to project manager), then he worked in internet/eBusiness projects (from Project Manager to Operations Manager) and during last ten years he has been focused in R&D Activities (From Area Manager to Business Development Manager in Atos Research and Innovation). Since 2010 he leads Tempos 21 and is the responsible of the Atos Smart Mobility Global Key Offering in Spain. Santi is Telecom Engineer from the Univestitat Politècnica de Catalunya and holds a Master in eCommerce by La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona.

Mobile payment encouraged by new mobile shopping experiences

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During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2013, many people from all places of the world come to my city to learn about the latest trends and new solutions around mobility. Among these new solutions, I would like to highlight those related to new shopping experiences that are enabled by smartphones. read more

Mobile Augmented Reality – One Step Beyond

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Augmented Reality cannot really be called a ‘new technology’, but for first time it is available and ready to change the way people will interact with the world. Atos sees augmented reality becoming a part of everyone’s reality in the next few years, transforming mobiles into advanced sensors and lives into connected networks.

Augmented Reality Services are likely to emerge from different sectors crossing over current niches to generate direct benefits to users, businesses and workers. Atos also expects that the natural evolution of the technology will transform the mobile device into a router for other Augmented Reality peripherals, like glasses or car windshields, integrating different Context-Enriched Services that will be born in the next years.

Earlier this year, as part of my work in the Atos Scientific Community, I published a whitepaper titled “Mobile Augmented Reality – One Step Beyond”, which you can find here in the Atos site. This whitepaper introduced the latest developments in Mobile Augmented Reality and summarized the challenges and opportunities for the coming years. I recommend all of you to read it and comment here how you see this introduction of Mobile Augmented Reality.

GSMA names Barcelona first Mobile World Capital

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Last week, the GSMA (GSM Association)  announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile World Capital from 2012 to 2018. As the Mobile World Capital, Barcelona will be the home of the mobile industry’s event, the GSMA Mobile World Congress, and will also develop a range of other programmes and activities that will span the entire year benefiting not only the citizens of Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain, but also the worldwide mobile industry.

Being myself from Barcelona and leading Tempos 21, a subsidiary of Atos located in Barcelona specialised in the development of mobile solutions, I thought it was something to highlight in my first contribution to this blog where I will try to focus in Mobility related issues in my future contributions.

I am very excited that Barcelona will be the Mobile World Capital for the next seven years, and I look forward to seeing you in the Mobile World Capital.