Previous Helsinki Events
December 14, 2009: Best in Mobile Europe: Estonia #
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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.
September 29, 2009: Helsinki-Marseille #
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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.
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August 17, 2009: The state of location based services #
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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!
June 8, 2009: Behind The Screen: Nokia's success story #
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The June event of MobileMonday Helsinki will have three interesting topics: “Behind The Screen; Nokia's success story” by the author Ari Hakkarainen. “The secrets of mobile data services” will be revealed by Janne Aalto, the ceo of QAim, a company that maps the mobile customer experience for the content service providers in any network and any device. “Love and hate - start-ups and operators” Panu Mustonen, the digital media services director at Elisa, will discuss the changing relationship of start-ups and operators. Welcome to Molly Malone’s Irish Bar Kaisaniemenkatu 1c at 17:30. The program starts at 18:00.
February 2, 2009: Mobility in North America #
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J. Wayne Gudbranson will talk about North-American mobile market situation. He is President & CEO of Branham Group Inc., an independent global industry analyst and strategic marketing consulting firm focused on ICT.
Other speakers include:
Pekka Pärnänen, director, finNode Innovation Center.
Artturi Tarjanne, general partner, Nexit Ventures.
Andrè Chaker, Veikkaus, will be the master of ceremonies.
November 3, 2008: The British are coming in November #
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Several mobile companies from UK are vising Finland looking for cooperative business opportunities with their Finnish counterparts. The tour is being organized by the UK Trade and Investment.
The British visitors will include at least the following companies:
Jataayu Software is represented by Amod K Dadhich; Novauris Technology Ltd represented by Dr Melyn Hunt and Siltanet Ltd represented by Managing Director Colin Speirs; CellAntenna Corporation, a Florida company with offices in England and Poland; SecurEnvoy, a tokenless two-factor authentication company;. RFI Global Services (RFI), with over 20 years of experience and a global presence RFI Global Services (RFI) is a trusted provider of testing, consultancy and automated software and hardware engineering to the global technology market. RFI's expertise covers the Cellular, Wireless and Smart Card technologies, with particular emphasis on convergent products that combine multiple technologies.
Also present will be Mike O'Malley, Regional International Trade Specialist Advisor - ICT Sector, UK Trade & Investment, East of England International and Iain Bennett Sector Leader, Digital and Creative Industries, Northwest Regional Development Agency. Mr. Bennet will introduce large MediaCity project.
Welcome to MollyMalone's Irish Bar. Doors will open at 17:30 and the program will start at 18:00. Snacks and refreshments will be served.
October 6, 2008: Social and Mobile #
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Special guest speaker: Marc Davis, social media guru at Yahoo!
Marc Davis is Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Connected Life and Director of ESP. His work focuses on creating the technology and applications that will enable the billions of daily media consumers to become daily media producers.
Santtu Toivonen works at Idean as a senior consultant in market analysis. He will speak about mobile crowdsourcing.
"Crowdsourcing is an emerging social media phenomenon, allowing companies to externalize various processes to individuals and communities to carry out. Often the opportunities for crowdsourcing appear while people are on the move. Mobile crowdsourcing applications are therefore needed," Toivonen says.
Kaija Pöysti from Blue White Venture and Idean board member, will talk about the upcoming book on social media which she has co-authored with Dr. Leenamaija Otala.
September 15, 2008: Earning models in Mobile Entertainment #
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Welcome to Helsinki Mobile Monday to discuss earning models in Mobile Entertainment.
We have three international presenters who will be able to tell how mobile entertainment content and earning models vary oi different countires.
The presenters will be Dr. Alan Moore, the author of “Communities Dominate Brands”, Dr. Madanmohan Rao, India; Lars Cosh-ishii (Cnet interview), Japan; Dr. Josef Noll, Norway.
Doors will open 17:30. Snacks and refreshments available.
June 2, 2008: Mobile learning: need and tools #
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Learning is moving more and more out of the classrooms. Learning takes place at work locations, at home, out on the field. The new methods of learning are necessary with the fast pace of change of working methods and new technologies. It makes no sense to pull in people from their jobs to classrooms when the needed skills are best learned in practice on the job sites.
Increasingly mobile world needs mobile tools also for learning. Helsinki MobileMonday will look at the state of mLearning and learning tools available today.
Short presentations will be delivered by Pekka Pirttiaho, Director, Mobile Learning, Mobiletools International Oy; Marko Heikkinen, CEO, Brieftec; and Sami M. Leppänen, Head of Devices, Nokia Devices Human Resource Development.
May 5, 2008: Momo at Momo: Most mobile enterprise #
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Enterprise mobility at Helsinki MobileMonday
The winners of Most Mobile Enterprise competition will reveal the reasons for their success at MobileMonday May 5 event: Helsinki City Transport (HKL), Finnair and car import service provider Assistor.
Jouko Lintunen, a Vamos activator,will give a state of business mobility overview. Vamos is the enterprise mobility business program of Finnish state funding agency. 
Kerkko Vanhanen will represent Helsinki City Transport. He is the head of development. He will talk about new mobile information services of HKL
Welcome to discuss enterprise mobility issues at the remodeled restaurant Schönes Fraulein.
The sponsor of the event is Vamos. Doors open 17:30, the program starts 18:00. Snacks and refreshments served.
April 7, 2008: Mobile open source #
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Finland has a very strong open source community and well developed business practices in the mobile environment. MobileMonday Helsinki will take a look at the mobile open source community in its April meeting at Molly Malone’s downtown Helsinki. (Molly Malone’s Irish Bar at Kaisaniemenkatu 1 C is the location where MobileMonday was first started in September 2000.)
The present state of the mobile open source in Finland will be discussed by a panel that will include Ari Virtanen of Nokia, Miko Nieminen of Nomovok, Joonas Lehtinen of IT Mill, Pauli Kuosmanen of COSS Petteri Holländer, Digia and Sampo Nurmentaus of Movial.
. The discussion will center on open source community and open source business practices.
The panel discussion will start at 18:00. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Welcome!
January 21, 2008: MobileMonday Global Peer Award, Round Finland #
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The first Helsinki MobileMonday of the year 2008 opens a route to the Barcelona and Kuala Lumpur Global Peer Awards.
The Helsinki Momo will take place on January 21 at Stockholm Diskotek where the Finnish participant will be chosen for the European round of the Global Peer Award. European winners will advance to the MobileMonday Global Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Participation in the Finnish Peer Awards is easy. Just send a description, max 2000 characters, of a mobile application or service to Mobile Monday Helsinki. Tell us where the product or service is in use and where we can test it (please include an id and password). Include your and the company contact information. You may enter your own application, of course, but you are also allowed to enter somebody else’s service or product.
It does not cost anything to enter the MobileMonday Finland Peer Awards. The deadline for the entries is January 14.
MobileMonday is especially looking for new companies. The start-up finalist presentations in Barcelona will be divided into two categories: 1) early-stage start-ups (founded in 2007, early- stage financing), and; 2) emerging start-ups (founded in or after 2005, between Series A & B funding).
Please send the entries to jari.tammisto@mobilemonday.net and editor@mobilemonday.net with “MobileMonday Peer Awards” and the name of your company in the subject field.
A jury of peers, mobile developers and people active in the mobile industry, will choose which entries are invited to present at the Finnish finals at the January 21 MobileMonday event. The finalists will have a chance to convince the members of the jury in a three-minute public presentation. The jury will give immediate feedback on the entry and the presentation.
The winner will have a chance to enter the European Peer Award on Monday, February 11th, starting at 2:00 PM at Espacio Movistar, (only 6 stops away with direct green line from Plaza Espanya), Barcelona. The best applications and/or services will have an opportunity to advance to the Kuala Lumpur finals on May 18 - 22, 2008.
December 3, 2007: Xmas Party! #
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Welcome to the MobileMonday's famous Xmas Party. Open Mike! This will be first official open microfone program during last few years, but at the same time it will revisit the original MobileMonday sessions at Molly Malone's. Please contact editor@mobilemonday.net to reserve a two-three minute slot at the mike. The first slot has been reserved for Timo Laaksonen of First Hop. He will talk about the sale of First Hop to Airwide. Doors open 17:30. Food and refreshments served.
November 5, 2007: Mobile marketing and advertising #
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Watch some highlights and meet some of the regulars of Helsinki's November 2007 event (12:22).
October 1, 2007: October event cancelled in Helsinki #
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Stockholm Diskotek is undergoing an extensive renovation that will not be finished in time the October 1st MobileMonday event. The next event will take place at the renewed nightclub on November 5th. The topic will be mobile marketing and advertising. We also hope to return to some of the Global Summit highlights.
September 10, 2007: Global Summit 2007 #
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Watch highlights of the 2007 Global Summit (05:42).
June 4, 2007: Mobile Search #
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Mobile search has been one of the hot topics in mobile world for the past year or so. MobileMonday chapters around the world have had events around it. Helsinki MobileMonday had a mobile search session in late 2005.
Helsinki returns to mobile search topic on June 4 when several international specialists are visiting Finland.
The speakers for the evening are:
Marc Bookman, CEO of Mobile Content Networks, Inc. (MCN”), a leading provider of mobile search solutions from Silicon Valley.
Takayuki Hoshuyama, COO of D2 Communications, a company that was jointly established in 2000 by NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Dentsu, Inc., and NTT Advertising, Inc., as the advertising agency for the DoCoMo i-mode service.
Jari Anttonen, CEO, Add2Phone, Europe's leading technology company in the mobile marketing and mCRM applications market.
Sarah Lipman, CTO, Founder, Power2B, a start-up behind revolutionary 3D interface technology based on active stylus and which can be applied to mobile phone and large screens.
Kari Mattsson, CEO, Trivore Corp., an IP infrastructure services and products provider.
We will also have speakers from two mobile operators, DTAC from Thailand and DNA Finland.
May 7, 2007: MobileMonday presents Mobile Finland #
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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."
April 2, 2007: Mobile TV today #
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Over one hundred people paid attention to all five speakers and stayed afterwards to discuss the topic of mobile TV.
Antti Kohtala, Ministry of transportation and communication, said it would be possible to grant another mobile TV network licence if there is demand for.
Kristiina Kantola, VTT, talked about researching Finnish mobile TV in 2007. VTT is setting up a small new test network in Helsinki are. The study will focus on out-of-the-pocket mobile TV experi3ence during the Eurovison songfest and also loger term usage pattern. The mobile TV handsets will be Nokia's old and new, yet to be shipped models.
March 5, 2007: Betting on mobile gambling #
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The expectations for all kinds of mobile gambling are very high. Juniper Research predicts that the global market for all forms of mobile gambling (casinos, lotteries and sports betting) will grow from EUR 1 billion in 2006 to EUR 12.7 billion by 2011 in terms of gross value of bets placed.
Veikkaus will introduce new mobile products (just in time for Eurovision competition?). This is the department of Helsinki MobileMonday’s excellent MC André Chaker.
Fintoto has experience on mobile betting. In fact, Fintoto gave a presentation on this subject in a January 2004 MobileMonday. The mobile growth has not kept pace with Internet betting. Betting manager Pertti Koskenniemi will discuss the problems related to mobile interfaces. Fintoto and Veikkaus have also promised to treat the participants to some refreshments.
WinOne is a mobile gaming technology company. Martin Prantner, CEO and president, will explain what works in both online money gaming and mobile technologies.
Air Dice Games, too, believes in money and entertainment. Sami Mäkinen, CEO, says that by giving players more game interaction at all stages of the game, without removing the basic element of chance associated with money gaming, a whole new breed of money games evolves.
January 8, 2007: Riders of the mobile broadband #
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Riders of the mobile broadband. Finnish service providers are building wireless broadband with four different technologies: WLAN, 3G-HSPA, Flash-OFDM, WiMAX.
There will be fierce competition for users between operators. All technologies have their strong points but their coverage and functions overlap.
At MobileMonday evening we hope to clarify what are the strong points, where the technologies overlap, what are the drivers for each and what can be expected. We would also like to get an idea how this development is impacting different parts of the mobile community.
There will be a panel of fiercely partisan debaters who will defend their chosen technology and point out why it is better than any competing modulation method or protocol.
Airspan (the company that bought Radionet) will speak for WiMAX and Digita will be the champion of 450 MHZ and Flash-OFDM.
Prisma Research will lay the groundwork with a concise presentation of the Finnish wireless broadband market.
December 4, 2006: Helsinki X-mas Party #
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With the streets bare of snow, the Helsinki MobileMonday X-mas Party may have been less than Christmassy, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t festive. Some 150 visitors braved the drizzle to attend Helsinki’s 6th “pikkujoulut” (Little Christmas).
With Andre Chaker not being able to attend, Micah Gland took over the MC duties, and kicked off the evening with an overview of the year past — over a dozen new chapters founded this year! — and a glimpse of what is to come.
The first speaker, Marko Ahtisaari, introduced the wifi operator FON, which is currently bolstering its Finnish and Nordic launch by offering free wifi routers to those willing to share their wifi networks with other FON customers.
“This isn’t in competition with ISPs,” Ahtisaari said.
The next speaker was Staffan Ljung, Ericsson’s manager of entertainment solutions. Ljung is one of the five authors of “Mobile Media and Applications — From Concept to Cash”, and he graciously offered a stack of the books to be raffled off at the end of the evening.
Pasi Ilola, of Sulake, no stranger to MobileMonday Helsinki, spoke about Habbo’s growth worldwide, and how the company is trialing a mobile version of the virtual community in Finland.
Petri Talala of Futuremark presented the company’s benchmark results for several smartphones currently on the Finnish market (see: Faster phones for Christmas). The results were first published on MobileMonday Global.
While poor Jari Tammisto had to leave early to catch a flight to Hong Kong — in MobileMonday business, no less — I dare say he wasn’t the only one who’s evening ended all too soon. I guess this could be chalked up as an early present from the nice barkeeps of Stockholm: their punctual closing of the bar saved the morning after of the Helsinki mobile industry.
November 6, 2006: Windows Mobile in enterprise use #
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The November MobileMonday in Helsinki returns to an enterprise topic. This time we will be looking at how Windows Mobile fits the various needs of companies and organizations.
A founder of MobileMonday movement, Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Paananen will open the discussion. He is nowadays Mobility Evangelist at Microsoft Finland.
Peter Wissinger, Business Group Lead, Microsoft Nordic, will explain Microsoft's mobile strategy and Windows Mobile.
Another familiar MobileMonday face will be Reidar Wasenius. Last time at MobileMonday he spoke about Visual Radio for Nokia's behalf. This time he is speaking as marketing manager, Samsung Finland. He will discuss his company’s offerings for enterprise users.
Mikael Carlson, Product Marketing Manager, will talk about Brightpoint's Windows Mobile tools and solutions. Brightpoint is one of the world's largest distributors of mobile phones.
Anssi Kuoppala, Director, Sysopen Digia, will explain the value of developing on Windows Mobile. SysOpen Digia recently announced that it had gained Microsoft Mobility certification for enterprise handheld systems.
Welcome to Stockholm Diskotek, Yrjönkatu 31, Helsinki. Doors open 17:30.
October 2, 2006: Acquired! What next? #
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“Acquired! What next?” turned to be an interesting topic even if Telcogames/Fathammer was able to send a speaker and Marc Norris of SliceWireless/Oplayo was stopped on the way when he ended up assisting in an accident.
About one hundred people had registered for the event where Artturi Tarjanne of Nexit Ventures and Ari Viitanen of Cboss Finland gave very interesting talks. The evening was MC’d André Chaker of Veikkaus who had his own “acquired experience” when Enpocket bought his Mobicus.
Tarjanne approached the topic from Finnish society angle pointing out that in the US venture capital is responsible for ten percent of jobs and sales. The number is quite a bit lower in Europe and even lower in Finland.
The biggest reason for this is a lack of proper exit possibilities in Finland and even in Europe. Exits are seldom done through IPO’s in these days. More common exit strategy is large company acquiring start up.
“Even Nokia is not spending very much money buying companies,” Tarjanne said. “This situation keeps VC market small and prevents the growth of serial entrepreneurs who would be needed to lead innovations into new business.”
Ari Viitanen talked about how real time billing systems development team had survived from Nokia to ICL to Fujitsu before being acquired by large Russian telecom software house Cboss. It was interesting to hear that the mother company has adjusted itself to the much smaller Finnish subsidiary in business methods and logic.
