Best in Mobile Europe – Estonia
Posted on: December 14, 2009 – Filed under: Helsinki
Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe?
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.