We had a fantastic event on 13 November at the Canadian embassy in Tokyo to launch Mobile Monday Tokyo’s third year of operation in Japan. The evening was truly a perfect combination of venue and presentations, with just over 300 attendees on hand to mix and mingle over an open bar; by all accounts a […]
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.
“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.
October 16, 2006 Event theme: payment systems. Location: Collegia restaurant, Chaikovskogo str. 28 (between Liteiny prospect and Chernyshevslogo str.). Event speakers: Natalia Hajtina (Director SPb office, Yandex.Money): Where are Yandex.Money going to; Gennady Spirin (CEO, ASSIST): ASSIST payment system news; Michael Babushkin (CEO, Expert-Systema): Mobile Trading Solutions; Sergey Lusse (Certification & Charging Group leader, Siemens): IMS Developer Program. Event sponsors: Arcadia Inc., i-Free. Information sponsors: CForum.ru, MForum.ru, Mobilny Content, content-review.com, spbIT.
September 18, 2006 Event theme: mobile applications. Location: The A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications, Pochtamtskiy pereulok 4, in the very heart of St. Petersburg, near the St Isaac’s Square. Event speakers: Roman Chizhevsky (project manager, Arcadia, Inc.): Development of Web portals for mobile devices; Nail Ikhsanov (CEO, NLCOM): Natural language understanding – new paradigm for mobile VAS creation and management. Event sponsors: Arcadia Inc., i-Free. Information sponsors: MForum.ru, Mobilny Content, content-review.com, spbIT.ru.
June 19, 2006 Location: The A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications Event speakers: Jari Tammisto (MobileMonday Helsinki): Mobile Monday around the globe; Eugeny Krouglov (marketing director, United Fun Traders): United Fun Traders. Content, Worldwide & other issues; Yuri Ivanov (CEO, Arcadia ): IT personnel in St. Petersburg; Victor Naumov (partner, Beiten Burkhardt): New Russian government law initiatives for IT-industry. Event sponsors: Arcadia Inc., Arcadia , i-Free. Information sponsors: spbIT.ru, Rosbalt.
