We are thrilled to announce this special MobileMonday event to to join with 250 international visiting delegates and hear exciting stories from various perspectives about what is it like to be an entrepreneur in the emerging mobile industry markets. Come to listen when the entertaining moderator André Noël Chaker interviews i.a. Nokia’s Head of Corporate Strategy Heikki Norta about the role that mobile phones can play to help to connect the next Billion people to the internet.

The event is organised by MobileMonday, City of Helsinki, and the World Bank Group’s infoDev, as a part of the 4th Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs of innovative start-ups – See the list of invited 50 SMEs – from around the world will be on stage, in addition, Finland will showcase GraphoREAD project and No Emission Monday concept.

Participants will have a fantastic opportunity to meet leaders of social networking hubs in cities Africa, Asia, or Europe, and to learn about opportunities to connect with developers, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, partners and customers on the ground.

The evening will kick-off at 6:30 pm with the seminar session, followed by an occasion to network with international mobile influencers and innovators whilst enjoying a buffet and refreshments in MoMo spirit until 21:00 pm.

When: Monday 30.5.2011 at 6:30 pm
Where: Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13
Dress code: Smart casual

Timetable:
18:30 Doors open
19:00-20:00 Seminar session moderated by André Noël Chaker
20:00-21:00 Networking over a salad buffet and drinks

The event is free of charge, Register Here Soon to ensure your spot as the number of available seats left is now limited to 100! MobileMonday has also reserved some free VIP passes to the 4th Global Forum – if you want this special MoMo invitation, please Contact Us for details.

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UPDATE JUNE 4th
What a Super evening in the Grand Old Helsinki City Hall..!!!

Some 400 folks on-hand, with delegates from around the world visiting for the infoDev Global Forum along with a great line-up of speakers and panels. We were thrilled to welcome two new chapters to the MoMo family, meet an impressive line-up of mLab reps while the mix & mingle buffet was buzzing with plenty of juice – red and white – for the assembled thirsty masses.. Kiitos!

What are the mobile trends and hot topics for spring 2011? The Mobile World Congress is always a good place to spot them, so let’s hear Timo Argillander from Digital Media Finland sum up the MWC talks about Nokia&Microsoft, operators in search for growth, buzz around mobile apps, mobile publishing and the latest gear. And when everyone seems to be talking about Nokia, we want to hear what’s happening at Microsoft, so let’s welcome Mika Okkola to the stage to share some insights.

Talking about mobile trends in 2011 we also need to remember the growing and vast potential of the developing countries. Jari Tammisto from MobileMonday will tell about the topics and news from the infoDev Global Forum in Helsinki in May 28 – June 3, 2011 in Helsinki. And let’s not forget about MoMo’s role as a trendsetter in using Design Thinking, Co-Creation and open communities in mobile – Petri “Pete” Salminen will share the latest finds about the topic.

The event is held at Molly Malone’s, Kaisaniemenkatu 1, Helsinki, and moderated by Jari Tammisto from MobileMonday. The event is free of charge.

Timetable:

17:30 Doors open with a light buffet and drinks.

18:00 – 18:20 Timo Argillander, Digital Media Finland: Report from the Mobile World Congress 2011

18:20 – 18:40 Mika Okkola, Director, Developer & Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Oy: Windows Phone – A different kind of a phone

18:40 – 18:50 Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday: Sustainable Mobility – The infoDev Global Forum in Helsinki in May 28 – June 3, 2011 in Helsinki

18:50 – 19:00 Petri “Pete” Salminen, Researcher of MobileMonday: The MoMo Model Setting an Example

19:00 – 20:00 Networking and informal discussions.

To join the event: Register Here Space for 150 first registered people.

What would be a better way to spend a Little Christmas party than learning more about the rising starts of the Finnish mobile scene? On the stage we will have two wizards of mobile games: Rovio sharing news on Angry Birds, and Grey Area Labs telling the story of Shadow Cities. Rovio is also the other one of the two Finnish mobile startups that made it to the finalists of the World Summit Mobile Awards organized by UN, in cooperation with MobileMonday. The finale will be held in Abu Dhabi in December.

And of course we also needed to get the other finalist here, so be prepared to welcome to the stage Newelo from Tampere city. Never heard of them? Then it’s about time. There must be something special about their solutions for the media industry and field force management renewal that made them get so far in such a tough international competition – so come and hear what it is and what plans these guys have in mind for the future of Newelo.

Let’s make this the most interesting Christmas party of the season!

To join the event, register below 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. The event is free of charge.

Timetable:

17:30 – Doors open with a light buffet and drinks.

18:00 – 18:15 Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday: The World Summit Mobile Awards 2010

18:15 – 18:30 Ville Heijari, VP Public Relations of Rovio: News and Future Plans from Rovio

18:30 – 18:45 Andreas Karlsson, Co-founder and Graphic Designer at Grey Area: Shadow Cities – Using multiplayer dynamics around location to build engagement

18:45 – 19:00 Newelo: The Distinctive Characters and Future Potential of Newelo’s Services

19:00 – 20:00 Networking and informal discussions.

Advance Registration Now Closed.. See You There!

As the event of the year is getting closer day by day, it’s soon time to arrange an official kick-off that will also serve as the semifinal for the Peer Award candidates from Finland. Simultaneously, a similar event is organized in Tallinn. (Please note that for Helsinki this means that the MoMo Helsinki event planned to be held on 16.8. will be moved to this new date, 6.9.)

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 Nexit Ventures, Elisa and Aalto Venture Garage.

18:00
MobileMonday / CEO Jari Tammisto: “MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards 2010″

18:15
Peer Awards 2010 – Semifinal Finland

19:00-20:00
Networking and informal discussions.

Money Meet Mobile Developers

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 at http://www.mobilemonday.fi, 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 / FounderRain Rannu – an Open Mobile Payment Platform from Estonia heading to International Success
18:50
MobileMonday / Petri Salminen: “MobileMonday as an enabler of Open Innovation via Design Thinking based Underground Workshops”
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.

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.

Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?

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.

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 :: Pitching from Finnish Start-ups
18.45 :: Tasty Buffet - with plenty of Drinks of course..!!!