Celebrating 10 years of community, collaboration and innovation.

Press release, Helsinki, Finland, 7 June 2010 - In celebration of its 10 year anniversary, and in the collaborative spirit of MobileMonday, Helsinki and Tallinn are officially announced as co-hosts of the MobileMonday Summit and Peer Awards that will be held from 27-29 September 2010.

Jari Tammisto, Mobile Monday’s CEO says, “We’re thrilled to be back in Helsinki to ring in 10 years and also to be co-hosting this year’s event with our sister chapter in Tallinn. Estonia is a hub of mobile creativity and has pioneered several innovative services in the past decade. We could not ask for a better partner and collaborator for 2010. And given that we’re only a stone’s throw away (80km by ferry), it was natural for us to join forces. Everyone attending this year’s event is in for a treat.“

From its humble origins in Helsinki in 2000, MobileMonday (fondly known as ‘MoMo’) has grown to a dynamic global community with 102 local chapters in 50+ countries including megacities such as New York, Tokyo, Mumbai, Shanghai, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Buenos Aires.

In the past 12 months alone 18 new chapters have been added, close to 1000 events have been hosted, and some 150.000 mobile professionals have been involved across all continents. And everything is organized by an open and independent community of individuals who volunteer their time, energy and creativity in developing the local MoMo concept, organizing monthly meetings and events, and fostering all things mobile including grass roots innovation, cross border business development, idea sharing, and just good old camaraderie.

Tammisto adds, “This year’s theme ‘Fin/Est Mobile Innovation’ will bring the best of the Finnish and Estonian mobile industries right to the MoMo community including workshops, presentations and site visits in both Helsinki and Tallinn. The summit will also highlight exciting developments coming from some of our newest chapters, and of course the event will include the annual Peer Awards bringing the best of mobile startups. Oh…and we can’t forget the party. MoMo’s phenomenal success and growth is because of our great community and we look forward to celebrating our 10 year anniversary with our comrades and supporters from Finland, Estonia and abroad.”

Registration for the MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit is now open and program information can be found by visiting www.mobilemonday.net.

Welcome!

About MobileMonday

When two well-know visionaries of the wireless industry in Finland invited a bunch of their colleagues for drinks and an exchange of ideas and information one Monday night in the Fall of 2000, they had no idea they were creating an international phenomenon.

Since then, in cities all over the world, thinkers and innovators in wireless have been getting together on the first Monday of every month in their own MobileMonday chapters. There are now chapters in major cities on every continent, making MobileMonday the world’s leading mobile community.

The Global Summit is a true fast-growth story. The first summit in 2005 brought four MoMo chapters and fewer than 500 delegates together. By the 2006 summit, the number of chapters had grown to 17, with over 1,000 delegates. At the 2008 summit there were more than 50 chapters from around the world and 1,500 delegates.

Now open for registration. But hurry, certain programs have limited seats and participation will be on a 1st come 1st serve basis. Register here.

MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards Helsinki, Finland/Tallinn, Estonia 27-29 September 2010 Celebrating 10 years of community, collaboration and innovation.

Wow…. what a decade it’s been! From our early days in Helsinki to now reaching 100+ chapters in 50+ countries and spanning every continent of the globe, MobileMonday has truly become the world’s leading mobile community and that’s something for us all to be pretty proud of.

This September 27-29, in celebration of MoMo’s phenomenal 1st ten years, we’re hosting the MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards and we’ll be joining forces with our sister chapter in beautiful Tallinn to bring a 3-day event across the two cities – Helsinki and Tallinn.

Six reasons not to miss this year’s Summit

This year’s theme ‘Fin/Est Mobile Innovation’ will bring the best of the Finnish and Estonian mobile industries to the MoMo community including workshops and site visits in both Helsinki and Tallinn.

You’ll get updates and exciting developments from some of MoMo’s newest chapters (rise of the creative markets) like Uganda, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Brazil joined with the most advanced of Japan, Scandinavia/Baltics, US etc. Direct and in-person.

Connect with industry leaders and experts including the MoMo founders and founding chapters.

Participate in seminars with mobile visionaries (some from down the street and some from locations around the world) in a casual setting.

The annual Peer Awards are where the world’s best mobile products and services will compete for the honor of being this year’s winner. Hear their pitch presentations and join in the voting for 2010’s winner.

And last but not least - the party! The phenomenal success and growth of Mobile Monday is because of you. So, we’d like to say thank you, celebrate and have a toast (or two).

And in the spirit of Mobile Monday there’s no entry fee to any part of the event program. You only need to cover your expenses for travel and accommodation (as needed). Attendance however limited so please book early.

The Program

The main event theme is ‘Fin/Est Mobile Innovation’ and during the course of the Summit we intend to bring you the best and brightest of the Finnish and Estonian mobile industries including Nokia, Skype and Fortumo. Through seminars, workshops and site visits, you’ll gain deeper insight to Finnish and Estonian mobile industries, where they're going next, and what we can learn together from their global experience.

Additionally, we’ve got a great lineup of top people from Finland, Estonia and around the globe who will speak on a range of interesting and current topics. And our friends from MoMo’s newest chapters will share the fantastic work they’ve been doing and you’ll have many opportunities for one-to-ones with these very creative markets.

Day 1: 27 September, Helsinki MobileMonday’s 10 Year Anniversary Summit will kick off in Helsinki with the official MoMo welcome followed by the highly anticipated Peer Awards finale where everyone in attendance will get to hear the pitch presentations and vote for 2010’s winner.

Following the voting, the prizes will be awarded and it’s on to celebrate the winners and MoMo’s 10 years! As they say ‘eat, drink and be merry!’

The location for the Awards and the Party, Restaurant Kaarle XII, aka"Kalle", is truly a Helsinki institution. Buffet dinner and drinks will be served. And the MoMo House Band will be rockin’ the house. We hope to see some dancing on the tables in true ‘Kalle’ style.

17:00 - 17:15 A MoMo Welcome and Opening Remarks from MobileMonday’s Jari Tammisto and Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman F-Secure

17:15 - 19:30 Peer Award Pitches, Voting

19:30 - 19:40 Closing speech, awarding the prizes

19:40 - 20:30 Buffet dinner

20:30 - 24:00 Party time (no pre-registration required)

Day 2: 28 September, Helsinki/Espoo Day 2 continues in Helsinki’s neighboring city of Espoo and we’ll be running the site visits to Nokia HQ, F-Secure HQ and Microsoft Oy during the morning. Since there are only 150 slots available, we encourage you to register soon so you don’t miss out. Sorry Finnish friends, but our international visitors will get first priority for the Finnish site visits this time around.

Immediately following lunch, the seminar program will kick off at the Design Factory or Venture Garage at Aalto University, Otaniemi Espoo (final location tbc) and in typical MoMo style these sessions are casual and we encourage lots of questions and open exchange.

Following the day’s sessions, those who have registered in advance for the Tallinn program will be taken by shuttle to the Länsisatama (West Harbor) for departure to Tallinn by boat. The program will continue on the boat with dinner followed by what’s sure to be a lively workshop/panel discussion. 10:30 – 12:00 Site visits (Nokia headquarters, F-Secure headquarters, Microsoft Oy) (Open to the 1st 150 who register for this program)

12:30 – 17:00 Lunch and Seminars/Workshops program Design Factory or Venture Garage, Otaniemi, Espoo

17:45 – Arrival to Länsisatama, Check-in for boat to Tallinn

Boat from Helsinki-Tallinn

18:30 – 20:15 Tallink departs / Buffet dinner

20:15 – 21:45 A Design Thinking based MoMo Workshop will be held in the boat’s conference rooms (8 groups)

22:00 – Ferry arrives in Tallinn, Transfer to hotel. Accommodation is at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, formerly a Reval hotel.

23:00 – 1st day after party (entrance open to all registered guests).

Day 3: 29 September, Tallinn Good morning Tallinn! Day 3, the final day of the Summit, begins with a super seminar program at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia followed by Estonian site visits after lunch.

The site visits are set up in two parallel tracks each accommodating 50 people. If you chose Track 1 you’ll visit SKYPE (presented by Sten Tamkivi) and then off to TEHNOPOL with a presentation from the aspect of Finnish companies entering the Estonian market (presented by Margus Udam). If you chose Track 2 then you’ll be visiting the ERICSSON FACTORY (formerly Elcoteq) and DEMO CENTER (presented by Indrek Vimberg).

Since there are only 100 slots (50 per track ) available for the site visits, we encourage you to register soon so you don’t miss out. And this time we need to apologize to our Estonian friends as the site visits are open for the international visitors as a first priority.

And last but certainly not least, the day and the Summit will close with an evening reception at the medieval Tallinn Town hall set in the city’s beautifully preserved Old Town. With its splendid cobbled streets, red-tiled roofs and elegant spires, not to mention restaurants, bars and shops, it’s no wonder that many visitors to Tallinn never make it outside the Old Town’s ancient walls. Enjoy!

Following the reception we’ll have bus transfer back to the hotel and then also to the port so we can head back to Helsinki by boat.

09:00 – 13:00 Seminar program (with short coffee and refreshment breaks) at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (buffet) and bus transfer

14:00 – 16:15 Site visits in two tracks accommodating 50 people per track: (Open to the first 50 + 50 who register)

17:00 - 19:30 Reception at the medieval Tallinn Town Hall concluding the Mobile Monday 10 Year Anniversary Summit

20:00 – Bus transfer to Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia

The Speakers

We’ve put together a roster of top-notch speakers coming from various fields, various parts of the world, and each with a different point of view of the mobile industry. Here’s the lineup thus far and we hope to have the full list confirmed in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

In Helsinki: Jeffrey Stern (USA) Innovation Expert , Amdocs /Speaking on innovation - confirmed

Christian Lindholm (Finland) Partner and Director, Fjord - to be confirmed

Linnar Viik (Estonia) Estonian ICT visionary and Member of Advisory Board of Estonian IT College – confirmed

Veiko Sepp (Estonia) President at Ericsson Eesti AS – confirmed

Jessica Colaco (TED fellow) & Eric Hersman (both of Kenya) co-founders of Ushahidi, iHub - to be confirmed

Zibber Mohiuddin (Pakistan) Member, Board of Directors at Panasian Group Member, Board of Directors at Hilti Pakistan Founding Member, Board of Directors at TowerShare – to be confirmed

Dr. MadanMohan Rao (India) TechSparks – confirmed

David Logg (Nordic Region) Managing Partner, Gartner - to be confirmed

In Tallinn: Juhan Parts (Estonia) Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications/Opening words - confirmed

Tõnu Grünberg (Estonia) Chief Technology Officer at EMT - confirmed

Marko Ahtisaari (Finland) Sr VP, Design and User Experience, Nokia/Modern developments in mobile user interaction design – to be confirmed

Vesku Paananen (Finland) Mobile Monday Founder, Business Development Executive, Microsoft - to be confirmed

Skype - to be confirmed

The Site Visits

Detailed information coming soon. Stay tuned.

The Peer Awards

Category 1: MobileMonday Peer Award in Bottom of the Pyramid - The best startup using mobile for creating innovative business in developing countries

Category 2: MobileMonday Peer Award in LTE - The best startup making profitable business out of 4G.

This exceptional MobileMonday event is organized in cooperation with the Mobey Forum, a global not for profit organisation driven by the finance industry aiming at a prosperous Mobile Financial Services Ecosystem. The event will start the Mobey Forum’s three-days international meeting in Helsinki and bring together the Mobey Forum’s network of the finance industry and the MobileMonday’s network of mobile business influencers and developers to network and discuss the future of mobile payments.

Register now, place for 150 first registered people. The event is held at Molly Malone’s, Kaisaniemenkatu 1, Helsinki, and moderated by André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus Oy.

Timetable

17:30

Doors open with a light buffet and drinks provided by Mobey Forum and Fortumo.

18:00

Mobey Forum / Executive Director Ms Liisa Kanniainen: “Mobey Forum and the Future of Mobile Financial Services”

18:10

A panel discussion on the possibilities of and obstacles to mobile financial services with the following professionals:
Deutsche Bank / Director Head of Emerging Payment Streams, Mobey Forum Chairman Ron van Wezel
e-la Caixa / Head of Mobile Payment Jordi Guaus
Nokia / Director Financial Services Gerhard Romen
Nordea / Senior Product Manager Juha Risikko

18:40

Fortumo / Founder Rain Rannu / CEO Martin Koppel: "An Open Mobile Payment Platform from Estonia heading to International Success"

18:50

MobileMonday / Petri Salminen: “MobileMonday's dna as an enabler of Open Innovation and Social Sense Making”

19:00-20:00

Networking and informal discussions.

Sponsors and key speakers

Mobey Forum

Mobey Forum is a global, financial industry driven forum, whose Mission is to facilitate banks to offer mobile financial services through insight from pilots, cross-industry collaboration, analysis, experience sharing, experiments and co-operation and communication with relevant external stakeholders.

The membership encompasses leading financial institutions, mobile operators, handset manufacturers as well as other companies that want to be actively involved in creating the future of mobile financial services. The common denominator for all Mobey Forum members is their commitment to accelerating the take-off of user-friendly mobile financial services by promoting open, non-proprietary technology standards.

Liisa Kanniainen, Executive Director of Mobey Forum

Liisa Kanniainen has around 15 years of working experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. She has led several pioneering projects during the early days of this industry. First she worked at Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia Corporation.

In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she has been in charge of mobile financial services on corporate level. In Mobey Forum she carries since Feb 2007 the full operational responsibility of all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the rapidly growing cross-industry consortium.

Liisa Kanniainen is a well-known and knowledgeable industry expert who often contributes the industry conferences as Chairman or Keynote presenter.

Fortumo

Founded in 2007 and with offices in Europe and Silicon Valley, Fortumo is an open mobile payment platform, currently operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. We allow virtual goods providers, social networks, app developers, online and offline businesses to better monetize their users. With Fortumo, everyone can launch revenue-generating mobile payment service instantly and without any startup or monthly costs.

We offer a wide range of countries, multiple price-points, competitive revenue sharing and ready to use widgets. Fortumo believes that anyone, from home-based businesses to global web entrepreneurs should have open, easy and cheap access to mobile payments. We believe that making a revenue-generating mobile service should be as easy and cheap as creating a blog or a webpage.

Rain Rannu, founder of Fortumo

Rain has been involved in mobile industry for 10 years. Prior to founding Fortumo, Rain was also the founder and head of business development for the leading Baltic mobile service provider Mobi Solutions. Rain has also worked in several innovative enterprises in the fields of sales, web development and project consulting. Rain has an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Technology Management from the University of Tartu. He is frequently lecturing at E-Governance Academy and is among the speakers at industry events like Mobile World Congress.

How can Finnish mobile industry take advantage of the Helsinki World Design Capital year 2012? Can it help them to get visibility or create growth and new business? What is the role of design for mobile anyway? Martti Malmivirta from Eera and Curt Collinsworth from Fjord Helsinki will give their insights to answer these questions on this June MobileMonday event. Register now, there are places for 150 first registered people. The event is held at Molly Malone’s, Kaisaniemenkatu 1, Helsinki, and moderated by André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus Oy.

Timetable

17:30

Doors open with a light buffet and drinks provided by Eera and Fjord.

18:00

Eera / CEO, Chairman of the Board Martti Malmivirta: “What every CEO should know about WDC 2012 - What opportunities does it create to generate growth and new business?”

18:30

Fjord / Managing Director Curt Collinsworth: “Why service design matters - understanding the strategic role of service design in the digital age”

19:00 - 20:00

Networking and informal discussions.

Sponsors and key speakers

Eera

We are a Finnish business management consultancy whose core expertise is recognising and building sources of new growth in collaboration with the client. We have operated successfully since 1986. Our mission is to support the management of companies and organisations in finding, creating and implementing distinctive and innovative sources of new growth. We act as a management resource with the objective of bringing a new perspective and saving management's time.

Martti Malmivirta, CEO of Eera

Martti has focussed on new business development during the past 15 years. Many of his development projects in industry, services or trade have included ICT as a key enabler. He has participated in developing successful new IT-infrastructure services as well as software businesses, global mobile value added services and new media businesses. Martti is a true believer of open innovation and embedded design, fostering their development both in new business development projects and in specific platform projects. He was a key person in creating the winning concept and application for the World Design Capital 2012 competition and managed the related strategy process for the anchor players. Martti is an advisor to the top management or board of several international blue-chip companies as well as a sparring partner to a few selected start-up companies.

Fjord

Fjord designs products and services that transform the value of digital media. We apply design techniques to solve complex business, service, and interface problems. We always adapt the project focus and output to the specific needs of our clients, who we work in close collaboration with.

Fjord understands the strategic value of digital, the business dynamics and user trends and how these combine into strategic opportunities. We also know how to realise the full potential of digital and have a range of methodologies that enable us to apply elegant simplicity. Elegant simplicity is Fjord’s answer to the challenge of digital complexity. Elegant simplicity is the key to defining iconic services and interfaces. Elegant simplicity guides everything we do.

Fjord offers a team of talented individuals with deep experience in digital media and cross-platform design. Clients come to us and stay with us because we have key strengths that differentiate us from other design companies. Our design work is framed by a solid strategy. We aim to challenge and surprise our clients.

Fjord was founded in 2001 and in December 2009 Fjord was named as one of the fastest growing private companies in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 (number 47). We have approximately 100 employees and operate five offices internationally including Berlin, Helsinki, London, Madrid & New York. Fjord works with world-class clients such as Yahoo!, BBC, Nokia and Telefonica.

Curt Collinsworth, Managing Director, Fjord Helsinki

Curt has over 15 years experience in digital design, branding and leadership. He started his career in Moscow, Russia in 1993 working for BBDO and McCann-Erickson. After several years there he moved back to the states and San Francisco and started his focus on digital design during the peaks and valleys of the dotcom explosion, during which time he worked for numerous agencies and had his own design company, Morphology. Curt then moved to Seattle to start a digital department within Publicis in the West focusing on business with T-Mobile.

Before joining Fjord, Curt worked as Creative Director at Frog Design in Stuttgart, Germany. He collaborated with clients such as Yello Strom and Nero developing highly usable, branded and unique experiences across multiple platforms including desktop, mobile and web. As Managing Director of Fjord's Helsinki office, he looks forward to bringing all this experience together.

Connected people workshop @ Lift10

• Communities : Web 2.0 celebrated the so-called "amateur revolution" and triggered the "Mobile Web". What did we learn in the past 5 years? How is the the mobile Web progressing and what are social / technical challenges ahead?
• Old new media : Newspapers are struggling, TV is not sure of what the future holds, Music consumption has moved away from the major record companies. What is the role of mobile media and entertainment in this new media space and how will mobile engage people?
• Evolution of privacy : what is privacy in the 21st Century? Is personal security threatened by the massive collection of data? How much will people share location, phone contacts and real-time messages.

The upcoming MobileMonday Singapore event will feature Trilibis Mobile, an innovative company that provides hosted solution to solve mobile web fragmentation problems, based in San Mateo, California. Mr Meyyappan Alagappan, Chief Technology Officer will share how the global mobile ecosystem is evolving and during the course of evolution, how one should decide on their AppStore strategies.

Mr Meyyappan Alagappan's Bio

Meyyappan Alagappan is a Chief Technology officer for Trilibis Mobile, a company that provides hosted solution to solve mobile web fragmentation problems. As CTO, he is responsible for driving the company’s technology direction and managing the engineering team. Prior to joining Trilibis, Meyyappan was the founder and CTO of Mobile Solution. Meyyappan also worked for Cisco Systems, Fujitsu and Siemens, as well as several technology start-ups such as Electron Economy and OnMobile. Meyyappan has spoken in several technical conferences such as XTech, XML-Asia pacific, IC-2001 etc and holds several patents (awarded and pending).

Meyyappan holds an MS in Information Technology from the University of Birmingham, England, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (REC), Tiruchirappalli India.

At this MobileMonday event you’ll have an exceptional chance to learn how Mobile Digital IDs convert to profitable business, what kind of new services they enable and what is the role of legislation in the game. Register now, there are places for 150 first registered people. The event is held at Molly Malone’s, Kaisaniemenkatu 1, Helsinki, and moderated by André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus Oy.

Timetable

17:30

Doors open with a light buffet and drinks provided by Valimo and Uoma.

18:00

Valimo / CEO, Head of Sales Juha Murtopuro: “SIM Card as Universal Multipurpose Mobile ID”

18:15

Elisa / Development Manager Mika Repo; Sonera / Business Manager Pekka Turpeinen; DNA / Department Manager Cedric Kamtsan: "Identity on a SIM Card - Case Finland"

18:30

Uoma / CTO Juha Lamminkari: “A New World of Possibilities? An Integrator's Perspective”

18:45

FiCom / Reijo Svento: “Possibilities and challenges created by legislation”

18:55

Sopima / CEO Jaan Apajalahti: “B2B Contracts and Mobile ID. Service Provider’s Perspective”

19:05 - 20:00

Networking and informal discussions.

Sponsors and key speakers

Valimo

VALIMO is your ID On-Line

Valimo mobilizes digital IDs. Valimo Mobile ID allows mobile phone users to securely authenticate, digitally sign documents, confirm transactions and payments, simply by entering a self-chosen PIN code. Valimo Mobile ID is used in a variety of services throughout the world, including online banking, mobile payments, e/m-commerce applications, governmental services, along with enterprise identity and access management. Valimo Mobile ID solutions are global market leaders in terms of installation base and number of active users. Founded in 2000, Valimo Wireless is headquartered in Finland.

Juha Murtopuro, CEO, Head of Sales

Mr. Murtopuro has managed Valimo as the CEO since September 2008, and today he is also leading the Valimo sales. Murtopuro has been leading the growth of Valimo's worldwide business and the expansion Valimo Mobile ID into a global solution for highly secure authentication.

Contact Details:
Tel: +358 40 414 1007
Fax: +358 9 4365 0082
Email: juha.murtopuro valimo.com

Uoma

Uoma creates highly usable IT solutions offering customers a rapid return on investment. Uoma’s competence covers everything from consulting on the electronic business model to the implementation and maintenance of the online services. Profound understanding of digital media and strategic vision combined with strong systems competence ensures that Uoma’s customers always get the smoothest processes and technical solutions realised following best practices, whatever their need.

Regardless of their business sector, Uoma serves its customers in three service areas:

• New digital business
• Integrated web and e-Services
• Enterprise 2 solutions

Juha Lamminkari, Chief Technology Officer (juha.lamminkari uoma.fi)

Mr. Lamminkari has worked at Uoma and its precedents since since February 2003 - first as the CEO of IT Moon Oy providing enterprise Java and Rich Internet Applications services, then after the company was purchased by Onesta Solutions in 2008, as the CTO of the company since then known as Uoma Oy. Prior to this he has worked at e.g. HUT Department of Industrial Management and Vineyard International Oy in project management and business development functions and as a Business Unit Manager working on CRM and ERP services. His convincing articles on IT solutions development and markets can often be found on newspapers and publications like Helsingin Sanomat, It-viikko and Tietoviikko.

Sopima

Sopima® Online Contract Bank™, Contract Management Software-as-a-Service, revolutionizes the way organizations control, create, negotiate, and utilize their contracts. More information: http://www.sopima.com

Can’t make it to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona? Don’t worry, we’ll bring the best and worst of Barcelona to Helsinki! Come and hear the most interesting developments of the mobile industry.

Confirmed panelists: Artturi Tarjanne from Nexit Ventures, Curt Collinsworth from Fjord Helsinki, Roger Pineda from Finnish Mobile Association and Petri Salminen from MobileMonday. Invited commentators: Perttu Pitkänen from Taloussanomat, Petri Sajari from Helsingin Sanomat, Communications Consultant Hanna Manninen and Jari Tammisto from MobileMonday. The event is moderated by André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus Oy.

Starting at 5.30pm at Molly Malone’s, Kaisaniemenkatu 1, Helsinki.

MobileMonday Belfast is exhibiting on stand E61 in hall 1 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 15-18 February 2010, to offer three services to companies:

1. Speakers Bureau We will recruit top speakers of the mobile industry among the 45k+ visitors for our next events in Belfast, but also to present the NI speakers we've had at our past events to other MoMo chapters who will be visiting us;

2. MobileMonday MeetUp! We will promote all NI companies active in the mobile space present at the MWC to the global MoMo community, for the companies members of other MoMo chapters interested in those NI companies can arrange a meeting on the stand, during the MWC; Contact us now if you are interested, as time is running out;

3. Showcase of the NI Mobile Community We will prepare a presentation about the mobile cluster in NI and the activities of the MobileMonday Belfast chapter, as well as highlight the different companies that offer a technology/product/service/application with a global relevance.

Please join Forum Nokia at the InfoMart(Big in Japan office) Monday, February at 7PM for an update on Nokia developer offerings and business and distribution opportunities. We’ll be providing an overview of the Nokia web developer experience, including web runtime and Flash, Qt for S60 and Maemo and more. Local mobile developer luminary Kirk Ballou of Flash Widgets LLC will be co-hosting, and showing demos of some of the applications he’s developed for Nokia devices. We’ll also provide an update on the Ovi Store and the Open Screen Project Fund. Food and refreshments will be provided.

Sponsors:
Architel: http://www.architel.com (Hosting)
Forum Nokia: http://forum.nokia.com
Flash Widgets: http://flash-widgets.com

Extending to the active discussion as of why Finland has lost the leadership in mobile development (or has it?), MobileMonday invites Estonian mobile developers to share their views. Overviews, stories, and cases from Finnish-Estonian Fromdistance Ltd, Ericsson, MobileMonday Estonia, Nutiteq, Fortumo, Positium LBS.

Join us in this lively MoMo Helsinki year ending event. Doors open at 17:30 with glögi, a light buffet, and drinks provided by Enterprise Estonia.

18:00

Welcome by MoMo MC

18:10

Mobile market overview — Priit Salumaa, MobileMonday Estonia

18:30

Ericsson experiences in Estonia — Indrek Petersoo

18:45

Fromdistance experiences from Estonia-Finland — Jouko Vierumäki

19:00

Case presentations from:

• Nutiteq
• Fortumo
• Positium LBS

Debates, discussions, networking and possible challenges to tackle...

Nutiteq

Nutiteq is a mobile software development company, providing open mobile mapping solutions for B2B markets. Nutiteq's clients are location-based service providers, mobile operators and mobile developers and it's applications have millions of end-users.

Fortumo

Fortumo provides a simple mobile payments platform for internet entrepreneurs to monetize online games, social networking sites and other web-based businesses.

Founded in 2007, the company is experiencing rapid growth, having launched its service in 30 countries in Europe and Asia. In 2009, Mobile Monday chose Fortumo as one of the Top 20 most potential mobile startups in the world and TechCrunch featured Fortumo in its list of the Top 100 most interesting startups in Europe.

Positium LBS

Positium LBS is a spin off company of Tartu University that concentrates on scientific and real-life implementation of large scale crowd location and movement data. Products and services mostly based on anonymous passive mobile location data from wireless operators’ networks provide new approach, knowledge and value in tourism (destination management) planning, urban (also traffic, transportation) planning, rescue and security services, social sciences, outdoor media and many other fields. The company has been developed by the leading geographers, architects and planners of Estonia since 2001.

MobileMonday Rio de Janeiro will hold its first event on 9 November 2009 at the ESPM Auditorium starting at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is free-of-charge. Pre-registration, however, is required due to limited space at the venue. Registration is now open.

MoMo TechTalks, a series of open, collaborative and informal networking for the Argentine mobile community, will launch its first event on 26 October 2009 at the Universidad Tecnologica National in Buenos Aires.

The first gathering will host Maximiliano Firtman, director at IT Master Professional Training and Forum Nokia Champion, and Bryan Tafel, CTO of Insomnia Business Solution. Mr. Firtman will present The Mobile Web and Multi-platform Widgets, and Mr. Tafel will discuss Mobile Development Challenges.

MoMo TechTalks will be coordinated by Mario Zorz and Fabio Caballero. The event is free-of-charge, pre-registration, however, is required because of limited space at the venue. Register by sending an email to rsvp@momobuenosaires.com or by calling +54 11 4961 6172, or +54 11 4962 1856.

On September 29, Marseilles IT cluster proposes a strategic partnership with Helsinki. As one of the fastest growing cities in southern Europe, Marseille is willing to enlarge its links towards Helsinki, the city which has become, after years of investments, the reference in Europe for their private and public innovative experiences.

In its desire to catch-up, Marseille is going to spend more than 7 billion euros in the next five years in infrastructures, equipments, transportation, and high-tech parks — impacting the growth of the local IT industry.

In a two hour conference, CEO’s of six of Provence’s leading companies, Gemalto, Inside Contactless, Avenir Telecom, ST Microelectronics, Tagsys, Mobile Distillery will discuss the advantages of this partnership, the ambition of Marseilles and the opportunities of this partnership for Finnish companies.

Based on this current business flow committed to Nokia, the common objective is to reinforce any Business and R&D opportunities between the two clusters.

Program

16.30

Welcoming

• Gabriel Rebourcet, Finnish Consul, Marseille
• Patrick Dalez, Forum Nokia

16.45–17.00

Key attractivity factors, the Hot Spots in IT

• Robert Maury, Director Provence Promotion
• Jean-Daniel Beurnier: Founder, Avenir Telecom and Member Club Top 20
• François Jalinot, Managing Director Euromediterranée

17.00–17.45

Testimonies from Marseille IT leaders: Round table with a Moderator

• Philippe Brun, Président, ST Microelectronics SAS, Aix en Provence
• Remy de Tonnac, CEO, Inside Contacless, Aix en Provence
• Jacques Seneca,Vice Président, Gemalto France
• Jean-Daniel Beurnier, Founder, Avenir Telecom, Marseille
• Alain Fanet, Président and CEO, Tagsys RFID, Marseille

17.45–18.15

R&D opportunities between Helsinki and Marseille

• Georges Falessi, CEO IT cluster Provence-French Riviera cluster
• Vincent Berge founder, PACA Mobile Center and coordinator Mobile Monday Marseille
• Michel Combe, Landwell Global, legal and tax advises

18.15–18.45

Pitch from Finnish Start-up

18.45

Buffet

What to do with position information?

Kalle Snellman, Idean: Where is the Finnish positioning market today?

Tuomo Kolehmainen, Foreca: Weather, one of the best on-demand contents for LBS

Petri Kiianlinna, LogiNets: RFID Mobile does not rely on human memory

Doors open 17:30, the program starts 18:00 Welcome!