Money Meet Mobile Developers

Posted on: June 3, 2010 – Filed under: Helsinki

This exceptional MobileMonday event is organized in cooperation with the Mobey Forum, a global not for profit organisation driven by the finance industry aiming at a prosperous Mobile Financial Services Ecosystem. The event will start the Mobey Forum’s three-days international meeting in Helsinki and bring together the Mobey Forum’s network of the finance industry and the MobileMonday’s network of mobile business influencers and developers to network and discuss the future of mobile payments.

Register at http://www.mobilemonday.fi, place 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

17:30
Doors open with a light buffet and drinks provided by Mobey Forum and Fortumo.
18:00
Mobey Forum / Executive Director Ms Liisa Kanniainen: “Mobey Forum and the Future of Mobile Financial Services”
18:10
A panel discussion on the possibilities of and obstacles to mobile financial services with the following professionals:
Deutsche Bank / Director Head of Emerging Payment Streams, Mobey Forum Chairman Ron van Wezel
e-la Caixa / Head of Mobile Payment Jordi Guaus
Nokia / Director Financial Services Gerhard Romen
Nordea / Senior Product Manager Juha Risikko
18:40
Fortumo / FounderRain Rannu – an Open Mobile Payment Platform from Estonia heading to International Success
18:50
MobileMonday / Petri Salminen: “MobileMonday as an enabler of Open Innovation via Design Thinking based Underground Workshops”
19:00-20:00

Networking and informal discussions.

Sponsors and key speakers
Mobey Forum

Mobey Forum is a global, financial industry driven forum, whose Mission is to facilitate banks to offer mobile financial services through insight from pilots, cross-industry collaboration, analysis, experience sharing, experiments and co-operation and communication with relevant external stakeholders.

The membership encompasses leading financial institutions, mobile operators, handset manufacturers as well as other companies that want to be actively involved in creating the future of mobile financial services. The common denominator for all Mobey Forum members is their commitment to accelerating the take-off of user-friendly mobile financial services by promoting open, non-proprietary technology standards.

Liisa Kanniainen, Executive Director of Mobey Forum

Liisa Kanniainen has around 15 years of working experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. She has led several pioneering projects during the early days of this industry. First she worked at Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia Corporation.

In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she has been in charge of mobile financial services on corporate level. In Mobey Forum she carries since Feb 2007 the full operational responsibility of all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the rapidly growing cross-industry consortium.

Liisa Kanniainen is a well-known and knowledgeable industry expert who often contributes the industry conferences as Chairman or Keynote presenter.
Fortumo

Founded in 2007 and with offices in Europe and Silicon Valley, Fortumo is an open mobile payment platform, currently operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. We allow virtual goods providers, social networks, app developers, online and offline businesses to better monetize their users. With Fortumo, everyone can launch revenue-generating mobile payment service instantly and without any startup or monthly costs.

We offer a wide range of countries, multiple price-points, competitive revenue sharing and ready to use widgets. Fortumo believes that anyone, from home-based businesses to global web entrepreneurs should have open, easy and cheap access to mobile payments. We believe that making a revenue-generating mobile service should be as easy and cheap as creating a blog or a webpage.

Rain Rannu, founder of Fortumo

Rain has been involved in mobile industry for 10 years. Prior to founding Fortumo, Rain was also the founder and head of business development for the leading Baltic mobile service provider Mobi Solutions. Rain has also worked in several innovative enterprises in the fields of sales, web development and project consulting. Rain has an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Technology Management from the University of Tartu. He is frequently lecturing at E-Governance Academy and is among the speakers at industry events like Mobile World Congress.