MobileMonday presents Mobile Finland
May 7, 2007
15:00–20:30
Schönes Fräulein
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Presentations
- Ritva Siren, Nokia
Nokia’s participation in .mobi - Ronan Cremin, Director of Developer Initiatives, dotMobi
Mobile Web Developer’s Guide: W3C standards in action - Juha Parviainen, Kiinteistömaailma
Kiinteistömaailma´s new service - HomeCode
Pre-Event Entries
MobileMonday presents Mobile Finland / dotMobi
The Dudesons will make a special guest appearance at the "MobileMonday presents Mobile Finland" to Eurovision Song contents media.
The group known for its crazy, deathwish humor describes itself this way:
"The long Arctic winters, ruled by ice and darkness, have frozen our brains and the endless summer nights, lit by the midnight sun, have kept us from sleep for months and driven us insane." See: http://www.dudesons.com
Text messaging and ringtones were invented is Finland. Finns are also behind the world’s first mobile operator offering free calling and also the MobileMonday movement.
MobileMonday opens up Finnish mobility to the international media and visitors of the Eurovision Songfest. The open Mobile Finland session will take place on Monday, May 7 at 15:00-17:00 in downtown Helsinki. It will be followed by a “regular” MobileMonday evening starting at 18:00.
In the media session André Chaker, will conduct rapid interviews with the father of text messaging Matti Makkonen; inventor of ringtones and a founder of MobileMonday Vesku Paananen; the head of largest Finnish advertising agency and a returnee from Kuwait’s Watanya Timo Everi; and Peter Vesterbacka, a former head HP’s MobileBazaar, also a MobileMonday founder.
Among other interesting topics the Mobile Finland session will introduce two services that have been awarded separately first prizes by MobileMonday Helsinki and by Teleforum, mobile operators, Nokia and Samsung.
Jari Tammisto, CEO of Mobile Monday is still working on conforming the presence of other mobile luminaries.
The topic for the 18 o’clock MobileMonday evening will be dotMobi progress and .mobi based services.
Both sessions will be open to people interested in mobility (sign up) and they will take place at Stockholm Diskotek, Yrjönkatu 31, Helsinki.
Partners
(Published 25 Apr 2007 at 09:17)
Mobile Finland's Greatest Hits
The May 7 meeting should have been headlined "MobileMonday Marathon". We opened Stockholm Diskotek's doors at 3 p.m. and it was past 9 p.m. before we managed to get everybody out. The special session attracted the usual CEOs, Nokia alumni, VCs and members of the media who have flocked to Helsinki for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Thanks to Jari Tammisto's flair for whipping up a whirlwind of activities around MobileMonday Helsinki and lots of help from friends, we introduced a line-up of the dads and grand-dads of innovative applications that have come out of the Finnish landscape to the invited members of the Eurovision media.
The afternoon show served up nostalgia, news and networking. After the half-time entertainment by The Dudesons, the show segued to the usual MobileMonday Helsinki evening which featured reps from dotMobi.
Highlights
Andre Chaker, MobileMonday master of ceremony extraordinaire, kicked-off the event with rapid-fire interviews, first with Vesku Paananen, pivotal guy in starting-up the ringtone business, and co-founder of MobileMonday back in 2000.
Jari Ängelsvä, director at Invest in Finland, gave some insights on direct investments to the Finnish mobile industry. Artturi Tarjanne, Principal at Nexit Ventures, addressed similar issues, and managed to neither confirm nor deny that they are starting a new fund. Matti Makkonen, grand-dad (compared to Paananen) of SMS revealed that the SMS business idea was hatched at a bar. Panu Mustonen, mobile gaming veteran and head of Ramblas Digital as well lead activist for Neogames, spoke about interesting trends in the gaming industry.
Timo Everi, CEO of Hasan & Partners ad agency, discussed the role of mobile services in the marketing mix. Peter Vesterbacka, CEO of somebazaar, highlighted various activities in social media. Jouko Vierumäki, CEO of fromdistance, introduced their mobile video reporting application. Timo Airisto, CEO of ConnectedDay, gave an update on their project, which began as part of the Finnish Forum Virium project.
Winners of Teleforum's best mobile application contest gave briefs on their winning applications. Juha Parviainen, director at real estate agency Kiinteistömaailma, and Harri Silvonen, Director at Amli Corp. took the spotlight.
Never resting on past success, Pasi Ilola, CEO of Sulake, gave an update on Habbo Hotel as well as their new acquisition. Juha Rytky, CEO of Ball IT, showed that his company literally has balls. Ball-shaped game controllers, that is.
Patrik Lindberg, CEO of Meteli, got the honor of closing the afternoon show, and proceeded to make some noise about their dotMobi project to redefine the live music experience.
Intensive networking among old and new friends at the bar almost drowned out the briefs given by the dotMobi presenters. But not to be outdone, the evening line-up led by Ritva Siren, Director of Nokia's Technology Collaboration Center, Ronan Cremin, Director of Development Initiatives at dotMobi and Micah Gland, Kämp Goes Mobile, re-focused everybody's attention to one of the most exciting dotMobi project underway in Helsinki.
"You guys are crazy," said Andre Chaker with a tired smile to the event organizers. "These marathon sessions are going to kill me."
(Published 10 May 2007 at 18:56)
