The PICNIC Green Challenge offers a 500.000 Euro award for best green initiative in the field of lifestyle, design, mobility and communications technology. The Chairman of the Jury is Sir Richard Branson.

As part of the cooperation with Amsterdam Cross Media Week Foundation, organizers of PICNIC, members of the MoMo community are entitled to a 10 percent discount on any conference ticket bought up until the event. MoMo members use the discount code: 272010 during their ticket purchase at the conference website.

Tammisto’s nomination is based on his work for the MobileMonday global organization, which has already spread to 57 cities worldwide.

Nominees for the awards come from all walks of Finnish business life—from small and large organizations, and from different industries. The nominees compete in three categories—Most influential catalyst Finnish economic discussion, Most Innovative large corporates, Most Innovative SMEs.

Online voting is available at Taloussanomat’s website, and will be in two rounds. The first round will select three finalists per category, and online voting will be open from 27 September to 7 October. The second round which will determine the winners will be open from 8 October to 12 October.

Non-Finnish speaking MoMo’ers can participate in the voting by following the link “Klikkaa, vaikuta ja voita!”, located at the bottom of the page, at the Taloussanomat website. Select the radio button for your candidate and click on "Lähetä".

Visitors will hear from some 150 world class speakers as they discuss and debate key issues surrounding ICT's critical technologies including: VoIP, Fixed Mobile Convergence, VoIP Peering, SIP, IPTV, IMS, Enterprise VoIP and IPTV.

The VON Expo will include well over 100 exhibiting companies showcasing the latest in IP technologies. As a MobileMonday member, you are entitled to a complimentary Expo Pass (valued at 92 dollars). Register for your pass.

The deadline for registration 10 June.

The three trends - lower data tariffs rates, GPS integrated mobile phones and enough processor power for a great user experience – gain additional power from Nokia and Motorola pushing forward to position themselves in this market thus raising awareness.

Another trend makes this industry interesting to those working in the content and mobile marketing business. This year navigation and location service providers are mounting new content on top of their services. They are keen on differentiating their services not only by integrating points of interest but by including services around topics like mobile marketing, real estate and dating - just to name a few.

The preliminary programme includes the following speakers and topics:

Oliver Marc Schätzle, Marketing Manager Central Europe, NAVTEQ (to be confirmed); Digital Maps - It’s all about content GmbH

Rainer Rother, Managing Director, Blue Cell Networks; Location-based content distribution via Bluetooth

David Funk, International Business Development, Jentro Technologies GmbH;

Online Navigation for the Mobile Mass Market

Registration and more information

The Finnish mobile industry is working on bringing internet-style interactivity to mobile TV.

On April 2nd MobileMonday Helsinki will look at today’s mobile TV. The Ericsson sponsored and Andre Chaker MC’d evening will have the following speakers:

Mikko Mattinen, Elisa
Esa Blomberg, Forum Virium
Kaapo Seppänen, Nelonen
Kristiina Kantola, VTT

The doors to the open and cost free evening will open 17:30, the program will start 18:00. Food and refreshments available. Please, remember to register.

Mobile devices become sensitive to movements (e.g. Nokia N5500), engaging players to physically move as part of the gameplay.

Currently, the mobile game market is highly dominated by games that have an easy gameplay, few simple rules and do not require special skills to enjoy. These games are mostly clones of successful casual games such as Minesweeper or Tetris.

In addition, the emergence near-field communication (RFID, Bluetooth, QR codes) and location-aware technologies enable new types of scenarios that link virtual worlds with the players’ physical surroundings.

The speakers will be: Nicolas Nova (Switzerland) - researcher at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne; Maarten Noyons (France) - Managing Director, International Mobile Gaming Awards; Ignacio Cavero (Spain) - President and CEO, LemonQuest; and a speaker, to be confirmed, from YDreams, Spain/Portugal.

Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available.

The event is titled: “The Launch of the First 3G Network in Ukraine. Innovative Services”.

The speakers that have been confirmed so far are:

Sergey Leschenko, PEOPLEnet, Head of the New Product Development Department. His topic will be “Approach to services development of the first Ukrainian 3G operator.”

Sergey Morin, PEOPLEnet, Product Development and Management Specialist will talk on “PEOPLEnet is a paradise for content providers.”

More information can be found here.

Speakers include Ivan Communod, co-founder and COO of vpod.tv; Anil de Melo - CEO and producer of MobuzzTV; José Luis Jorge Marrasé - Barcelona Competence Center Manager for Multimedia applications in Alcatel-Lucent.; Xavier Kirchner - Director of Telefonica I+D, Barcelona.

More information can be found here.