7 Jun 10: June 7, 2010: Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 for Mobile Industry
Posted on: May 19, 2010 – Filed under: Global
MobileMonday Helsinki
7 June 2010 at 14:30–17:00
Molly Malone’s Irish Bar, Kaisaniemenkatu 1 C
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.