MobileMonday Announces 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards
Posted on: June 7, 2010 – Filed under: Global
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.
Six reasons not to miss this year’s Summit
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.
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.
Connect with industry leaders and experts including the MoMo founders and founding chapters.
Participate in seminars with mobile visionaries (some from down the street and some from locations around the world) in a casual setting.
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.
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 (as needed). Attendance however limited so please book early.
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 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting 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 Microsoft Oy 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 Design Factory or Venture Garage at Aalto University, Otaniemi Espoo (final location tbc) 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 what’s sure to be a lively workshop/panel discussion.
10:30 – 12:00 Site visits (Nokia headquarters, F-Secure headquarters, Microsoft Oy) (Open to the 1st 150 who register for this program)
12:30 – 17:00 Lunch and Seminars/Workshops program
Design Factory or Venture Garage, Otaniemi, Espoo
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 A Design Thinking based MoMo Workshop will be held in the
boat’s conference rooms (8 groups)
22:00 – Ferry arrives in Tallinn, Transfer to hotel. Accommodation is at the
Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, formerly a Reval hotel.
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, we encourage you to register soon 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.
09:00 – 13:00 Seminar program (with short coffee and 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 50 + 50 who register)
17:00 – 19:30 Reception at the medieval Tallinn Town Hall concluding the Mobile Monday 10 Year Anniversary Summit
20:00 – Bus transfer to Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia
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 – to be 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
Jessica Colaco (TED fellow) & Eric Hersman (both of Kenya)
co-founders of Ushahidi, iHub – to be 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
Marko Ahtisaari (Finland)
Sr VP, Design and User Experience, Nokia/Modern developments in mobile user interaction design – to be confirmed
Vesku Paananen (Finland)
Mobile Monday Founder, Business Development Executive, Microsoft – to be confirmed
Skype – to be confirmed
The Site Visits
Detailed information coming soon. Stay tuned.
The Peer Awards
Category 1:
MobileMonday Peer Award in Bottom of the Pyramid – The best startup using mobile for creating innovative business in developing countries
Category 2:
MobileMonday Peer Award in LTE – The best startup making profitable business out of 4G.
Now open for registration.
But hurry, certain programs have limited seats and participation will
be on a 1st come 1st serve basis. Register here.
MobileMonday 10 Year Anniversary Summit and Peer Awards
Helsinki, Finland/Tallinn, Estonia 27-29 September 2010
Celebrating 10 years of community, collaboration and innovation.