Celebrating 10 Years of of Community, Collaboration, and Innovation

Wow.. what a decade it’s been! From our early days in Helsinki to now reaching 100+ chapters in 50+ countries and spanning every continent of the globe, MobileMonday has truly become the world’s leading mobile community and that’s something for us all to be pretty proud of.

This September 27-29, in celebration of MoMo’s phenomenal 1st ten years, we’re hosting the MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards and we’ll be joining forces with our sister chapter in beautiful Tallinn to bring a 3-day event across the two cities – Helsinki and Tallinn.

6 reasons not to miss this year’s Summit

1. This year’s theme ‘Fin/Est Mobile Innovation’ will bring the best of the Finnish and Estonian mobile industries to the MoMo community including workshops and site visits in both Helsinki and Tallinn.

2. You’ll get updates and exciting developments from some of MoMo’s newest chapters (rise of the creative markets) like Uganda, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Brazil joined with the most advanced of Japan, Scandinavia/Baltics, US etc. Direct and in-person.

3. Connect with industry leaders and experts including the MoMo founders and founding chapters.

4. Participate in seminars with mobile visionaries (some from down the street and some from locations around the world) in a casual setting.

5. The annual Peer Awards are where the world’s best mobile products and services will compete for the honor of being this year’s winner. Hear their pitch presentations and join in the voting for 2010’s winner.

6. And last but not least – the party! The phenomenal success and growth of Mobile Monday is because of you. So, we’d like to say thank you, celebrate and have a toast (or two).

And in the spirit of Mobile Monday there’s no entry fee to any part of the event program. You only need to cover your expenses for travel and accommodation. Attendance however limited so please book early.

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The Program

The main event theme is ‘Fin/Est Mobile Innovation’ and during the course of the Summit we intend to bring you the best and brightest of the Finnish and Estonian mobile industries including Nokia, Skype and Fortumo. Through seminars, workshops and site visits, you’ll gain deeper insight to Finnish and Estonian mobile industries, where they’re going next, and what we can learn together from their global experience.

Additionally, we’ve got a great lineup of top people from Finland, Estonia and around the globe who will speak on a range of interesting and current topics. And our friends from MoMo’s newest chapters will share the fantastic work they’ve been doing and you’ll have many opportunities for one-to-ones with these very creative markets.

Day 1: 27 September, Helsinki
MobileMonday’s 10 Year Anniversary Summit will kick off in Helsinki with the official MoMo welcome followed by the highly anticipated Peer Awards finale where everyone in attendance will get to hear the pitch presentations and vote for 2010’s winner.

Following the voting, the prizes will be awarded and it’s on to celebrate the winners and MoMo’s 10 years! As they say ‘eat, drink and be merry!

The location for the Awards and the Party, Restaurant Kaarle XII, aka”Kalle”, is truly a Helsinki institution. Buffet dinner and drinks will be served. And the MoMo House Band will be rockin’ the house. We hope to see some dancing on the tables in true ‘Kalle’ style.

17:00 – 17:15 A MoMo Welcome and Opening Remarks from MobileMonday’s Jari Tammisto and Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman F-Secure

17:15 – 19:30 Peer Award Pitches, Voting

19:30 – 19:40 Closing speech, awarding the prizes

19:40 – 20:30 Buffet dinner

20:30 – 24:00 Party time (no pre-registration required)

Day 2: 28 September, Helsinki/Espoo
Day 2 continues in Helsinki’s neighboring city of Espoo and we’ll be running the site visits to Nokia HQ, F-Secure HQ and Rovio during the morning. Since there are only 150 slots available, we encourage you to register soon so you don’t miss out. Sorry Finnish friends, but our international visitors will get first priority for the Finnish site visits this time around.

Immediately following lunch, the seminar program will kick off at the Aalto Venture Garage in Otaniemi Espoo, while a showcase of interesting startups will be presenting their demos in the neighbour building, the Design Factory and in typical MoMo style these sessions are casual and we encourage lots of questions and open exchange.

Following the day’s sessions, those who have registered in advance for the Tallinn program will be taken by shuttle to the Länsisatama (West Harbor) for departure to Tallinn by boat. The program will continue on the boat with dinner followed by the first ever WIPJam on water! Relax ’cause we’re all for “No Power Points. No Panels. No Ties”! Join the conversations for an evening of exchange, discovery, rants and learning on the mobile ecosystem.

8:30 – 12:00 Site visits to Nokia headquarters, F-Secure headquarters and Rovio!

12:30 – 17:00 Lunch, Seminars program and Showcase of Startups – Aalto Venture Garage and Design Factory

17:45 – Arrival to Länsisatama, Check-in for boat to Tallinn

Boat from Helsinki-Tallinn

18:30 – 20:15 Tallink departs / Buffet dinner

20:15 – 21:45 WIPJam on water in the boat’s conference premises

22:00 – Ferry arrives in Tallinn, Transfer to hotel. Accommodation is at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olumpia

23:00 – 1st day after party (entrance open to all registered guests)

Day 3: 29 September, Tallinn
Good morning Tallinn! Day 3, the final day of the Summit, begins with a super seminar program at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia followed by Estonian site visits after lunch.

The site visits are set up in two parallel tracks each accommodating 50 people. If you chose Track 1 you’ll visit SKYPE (presented by Sten Tamkivi) and then off to TEHNOPOL with a presentation from the aspect of Finnish companies entering the Estonian market (presented by Margus Udam). If you chose Track 2 then you’ll be visiting the ERICSSON FACTORY (formerly Elcoteq) and DEMO CENTER (presented by Indrek Vimberg)

Since there are only 100 slots (50 per track ) available for the site visits, suggest you register asap so you don’t miss out. And this time we need to apologize to our Estonian friends as the site visits are open for the international visitors as a first priority.

And last but certainly not least, the day and the Summit will close with an evening reception at the medieval Tallinn Town hall set in the city’s beautifully preserved Old Town. With its splendid cobbled streets, red-tiled roofs and elegant spires (not to mention restaurants, bars and shops) it’s no wonder that many visitors to Tallinn never make it outside the Old Town’s ancient walls. Enjoy!

Following the reception we’ll have bus transfer back to the hotel and then also to the port so we can head back to Helsinki by boat. After arriving to Länsisatama (West Harbor) in Helsinki, we can walk the few hundred meters to our accommodation at Radisson Blu Hotel Seaside

09:00 – 13:00 Seminar program (with short refreshment breaks) at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (buffet) and bus transfer

14:00 – 16:15 Site visits in two tracks accommodating 50 people per track: (Open to the first registered)

17:00 – 19:30 Reception at the medieval Tallinn Town Hall concluding the Mobile Monday 10 Year Anniversary Summit

20:00 – Bus transfer to the harbour via Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia.

21:00 – 23:00 Ferry back to Helsinki (Tallink Silja Star/Superstar)

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The Speakers

We’ve put together a roster of top-notch speakers coming from various fields, various parts of the world, and each with a different point of view of the mobile industry. Here’s the lineup thus far and we hope to have the full list confirmed in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

In Helsinki:
Jeffrey Stern (USA)
Innovation Expert , Amdocs /Speaking on innovation – Confirmed

Christian Lindholm (Finland)
Partner and Director, Fjord – Confirmed

Linnar Viik (Estonia)
Estonian ICT visionary and Member of Advisory Board of Estonian IT College – Confirmed

Veiko Sepp (Estonia)
President at Ericsson Eesti AS – Confirmed

Kristo Ovaska (Finland)
Co-Founder, CEO at Aalto Venture Garage – Confirmed

Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck (Austria)
Chairman, World Summit Award in eContent & Creativity by the United Nations – Confirmed

Srikanth Raju (Finland)
Director, Head of Marketing at Forum Nokia – Confirmed

Russell Buckley (UK)
Global Chairman Emeritus at Mobile Marketing Assoc., AdMob Evangelist at Google – to be confirmed

Jessica Colaco (Kenya)
TED fellow, Co-founder of Ushahidi, iHub – Confirmed

Zibber Mohiuddin (Pakistan)
• Member, Board of Directors at Panasian Group
• Member, Board of Directors at Hilti Pakistan
• Founding Member, Board of Directors at TowerShare – to be confirmed

Dr. MadanMohan Rao (India)
TechSparks – Confirmed

David Logg (Nordic Region) 
Managing Partner, Gartner – to be confirmed

In Tallinn:
Juhan Parts (Estonia)
Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications/Opening words – Confirmed

Tõnu Grünberg (Estonia)
Chief Technology Officer at EMT – Confirmed

Mikael Bäck (Sweden)
VP, Product and Portfolio Management, Business Unit Networks, Ericsson – confirmed

Vesku Paananen (Finland)
Mobile Monday Founder, Business Development Executive, Microsoft – Confirmed

Gabriella Poczo (USA)
Director of Mobile Engineering at Skype – Confirmed

Marko Ahtisaari (Finland)
Sr VP, Design and User Experience, Nokia – to be confirmed

Both the Helsinki and Tallinn programs are moderated by our charismatic moderators André Noël Chaker from Veikkaus and Priit Salumaa from MoMo Estonia.

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The Peer Awards

The Mobile Monday Peer Awards are among the most exciting events in the mobile industry. The concept is to find the most interesting new offerings from around the world and invite them to showcase to local, regional and global audiences. Introduced at the 2006 Global Summit, this peer recognition platform is a signature event combining a mix of dynamic individual talents with plenty of fun and a good dash of networking. The Peer Awards are organized collaboratively by the entire Mobile Monday community, there is no entry fee for our participants, and it has become the reference point for exposing new innovative startups.

Category 1: Bottom of the Pyramid
An outstanding mobile startup making a difference in: mobile health, mobile education, social change, mobile payments,employment or trade or even entertainment.

Category 2: Future Potential
An outstanding mobile startup making a difference in coming years.

Past winners include; Funambol, Taptu, Kimia, Buzzd, Plazes, Realeyes 3D, Device Anywhere, Opera Japan, Babajob, Orbster, fring, PopCatcher, comVu and Unkasoft. The annual Peer Awards receives wide support from the entire ecosystem including; Telefonica, Nokia, dotMobi, HP, Access, Yahoo! Xtract, Nexit Ventures, 02, Acision, Amdocs and many others.

Registration

In the standard style of MobileMonday this program is free of charge. Of course the participants have to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Note, registration for the event is Required and we stress the following: “Please register only if you really are coming as space truly is limited.” The secure online registration form is available here: https://secure.estravel.ee/mobile_monday2010/

The Summit 2010 also has its very own Facebook page — Hope you ‘Like’ us there too!

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Additional Partner Event Opportunity

Mobile Africa
When: Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Where: Astoria-Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Mobile is booming in Africa, but entrepreneurship and unconventional thinking is booming everywhere. This is why Mobile Brain Bank launches Europe’s largest Mobile Africa gathering in Helsinki, the hotbed of mobile innovation.

Register to a happening that offers you an insight to what’s cooking under the hood with fresh youngsters, students and start-ups, and gain a first-mover advantage to the fastest growing mobile markets in the world.

Prepare to be launching deals with 500 movers and shakers from the biggest and the smallest mobile runner-ups, established companies, universities and NGO’s from Europe and Africa.

Organized jointly with: Mobile Brain Bank, Mobile Monday, Mobile Web Africa and M4D 2010