Simon Rockman

The conference organiser used to be, well, he used to be a lot of things. Editor of the recently lamented Personal Computer World, the UK ‘s biggest computer magazine,  While there he founded What Mobile magazine as a hobby. That’s another thing he used to be, owner, editor and publisher of What Mobile.

He spent ten years writing critical reviews of Motorola phones until it became clear that he knew Motorola better than the company did themselves so they gave him a job looking at the future, where he worked with a team that predicted a lot of things which have come to pass. His team was however ignored so he set up one to build a new user interface. Slick and consistent, easy to use and capable of running on the cheapest of phones. It was shut down and he went to Sony Ericsson where he worked on mass market phones. Four words: Sony Ericsson Mass Market.

Through all of this Simon has had a passion for phones that cater to the senior market. It felt a long way off being something he’d need when he started but now it seems imminent. Over the years he’s built an unparalleled set of contacts in the industry and it is these that he has brought to bear to assemble people for the conference.