MobileMonday Global Summit @ Helsinki, Finland & St.Petersburg, Russia

The program begins with straight talk from some of the best thinkers in the business during the MobileMonday Executive Morning. There will be three main themes: Mobile Music, Mobile Marketing and Social Media.

Then we start the afternoon with the MobileMonday Global View, where you can find new opportunities to enlarge your business.

Throughout the day, you’ll need to find time to visit the demohalls and experience first hand the latest from some leading companies — big and small.

This year we are offering to you excursion to St. Petersburg, Russia. Local MobileModay Chapter will organize event for decision makers, who are interested to meet local business leaders.

Program at Executive Morning:

September 10th

08:30 Global Summit opens with the Executive Morning (invitation only)

08:45- 9:00 Global Summit Grand Opening
CEO Jari Tammisto, MobileMonday ltd

09:00-09:45 Future of Mobile industry
Managing Partner Lars Persson, Gartner

09:45 Executive Panel

* Lars Persson, Gartner group (moderator)
* Dr. Ph.D Hitomi Murakami, KDDI
* CEO Veli-Matti Mattila, Elisa
* Vice President Bill Sanders, Sony Entertainment
* Mark Ollila, Nokia

10:45 Start-Up Panel

* Madanmohan Rao , Editor-at-large, Wireless World magazine (moderator)
* CEO Martin Frid-Nielsen, SoonR
* CEO Christian Wolf, QIRO
* Co-founder Boaz Zilberman, Fring
* Co-founder Joonas Pekkanen, Floobs

11:15 Break

11:40 Insight to Mobile Markets in Asia
Madanmohan Rao , Editor-at-large, Wireless World magazine

12:00 The Future of Mobile marketing
Vice President Atakan Cetinsoy, MyStrands

12:30 Mobile Media - The business of change
COO Leif Fågelstedt, Blyk

13.00 Lunch

Program at Public Afternoon Sessions:

At the Public Afternoon Sessions, you can take a tour to different halls all over the Wanha Satama Fair Center. One hall is reserved for Forum Virium Launch Pad, where start-ups have great opportunity to demonstrate their business ideas. Another hall is filled with panelists, where you can take part in interesting discussion about Mobile Marketing, Mobile Entertainment and Social Media. One hall is for annual conference of TEKES and its VAMOS -program. Right next to it you can find @450 -hall. All that, plus chill out atmosphere is served to you for free!

Programs at different halls:

Panel room

ForumVirium Launch Pad

VAMOS-Conference

September 10th

12:30 Doors open at Global Summit evening
13:00 Program starts at ForumVirium LaunchPad
13:30 Program starts at Panel room
17:00 Cocktails
19:00 Closing Ceremony

Roundtrip to St.Petersburg:

September 11th

7.27 Train to St.Petersburg leaves from Helsinki Railway Station

13.35 Arrival to St.Petersburg. Accomondation to local Hotel

19.00-21.00 MobileMonday St.Petersburg Networking Event

* Venue: The Central Museum of Communications
* Speakers:

- Jari Tammisto (Founder, MobileMonday Helsinki, Finland);
- Kirill Petrov (Managing Director, i-Free, Russia);
- Arcady Khotin (CEO, Arcadia Inc., Russia);
- Hitomi Murakami (KDDI, Japan);
- Lubna Dajani (MobileMonday New York, USA

September 12th

10.00-13.00 MobileMonday St.Petersburg Networking Event - Meeting Russian Companies

* Venue: Holiday Club St. Petersburg/Sokos Hotel
* Companies presenting:

- Bercut (mobile VAS platform and service supplier, www.bercut.com);
- INFON (mobile content provider, www.infon.ru);
- Reksoft (software developer, www.reksoft.com);
- SmartPhoneLabs (mobile content provider, www.smartphonelabs.com);
- United Fun Traders (mobile content publisher & distributor, www.u-f-t.com)

16.20 Train to Helsinki leaves from St.Petersburg Railway Station

20.48 Arrival to Helsinki Railway Station

21.00 Waiting for MobileMonday Global Summit 2008

Sessions:

MobileMonday Executive Morning 8.30 am - 1 pm

Hall A: VAMOS

Hall B: @450 Broadband

Hall C: NOKIA

Hall E: Global Village

Hall G: Forum Virium Helsinki Launch Pad

Hall H: Media

If you wish to visit the event, please, register here:

http://www.tieturi.fi/koulutus/seminaarit/mobilemonday/signup.asp