14 Dec 09: Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?
14 Dec 09: Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?

14 Dec 09: Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?

14 Dec 09: Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?

Posted on: December 6, 2009 – Filed under: Global

MobileMonday Helsinki
14 December 2009 at 15:30–19:00
Molly Malone’s Irish Bar, Kaisaniemenkatu 1 C

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.