About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals. The open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.
MobileMonday Helsinki
MobileMonday Finland exposes Finland’s mobile developers to foreign companies and markets, and gives opportunities for non-Finnish wireless industry players to meet their Finnish counterparts.
MobileMondays are held in English
MobileMonday, established in September 2000, is organized by a privately held corporation, which operates in conjunction with an Advisory Board of mobile, telecom, media industry professionals. MobileMonday is made available through the sponsorships of forward-looking mobile companies that support its activities.
MobileMonday’s main activities are the community’s face-to-face gatherings on every first Monday of the month and virtual networking on the MobileMonday.net website and newsletter. The working language of MobileMonday is English, which enables Finnish participants to gain practice in its use and to open the meetings and activities for non-Finnish speaking participants.
How to get to MobileMonday meetings
MobileMonday Helsinki events are currently held at Stockholm Diskotek, in downtown Helsinki. How to get there.
Helsinki Founders and Organizers
- Vesku Paananen
- Jari Tammisto
- Markus Myhrberg
- Peter Vesterbacka
- Timo Poropudas
- Roger Pineda
Past organizers
- Micah Gland
- Ismo Rantala
Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen
Mobility and Information Worker Evangelist, Microsoft Oy
Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen is the mobility and information worker evangelist at Microsoft Oy in Finland. He is responsible for delivering Microsoft’s “New World of Work” vision to global and strategic enterprise customers and help them to improve the productivity of their mobile and information workers. He has a strong background both in the mobile and ITC industries.
Prior that Mr. Paananen was one of the founders and the Chief Technology Officer of Add2Phone Ltd. pioneering and building the global mobile marketing industry. He has worked closely for the past years with operators and service providers both on strategy, and their innovative services. Together with Linus Torvalds, in 1999 he started the first Open Source WAP Gateway Project called Kannel.org. In year 2000 he founded MobileMonday.net, the open Finnish mobile society.
