Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 for Mobile Industry
June 7, 2010
17:30–20:00
Molly Malone's Irish Bar
Presentations
- Jari Tammisto, MobileMonday
Press release on MobileMonday's 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards, Helsinki/Tallinn, 27-29 September 2010 (PDF) - Martti Malmivirta, Eera
What every CEO should know about WDC 2012 - What opportunities does it create to generate growth and new business? (PDF)
Pre-Event Entries
June 7, 2010: Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 for Mobile Industry
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
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.
(Published 19 May 2010 at 10:45)
MobileMonday announces its 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards, Helsinki/Tallinn, 27-29 September 2010
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.
(Published 8 Jun 2010 at 08:04)
