Mobile Monday is periodical networking event where hot topics of the mobile industry are discussed. Mobile Monday is a innovative space for networking, exchanging knowledge and experience in a relaxed atmosphere among like-minded individuals.
Every Mobile Monday is a chance to:
- Think OUTSIDE the box
- CROSS industry lines and meet EXPERTS from non-mobile industries
- LOOK BEYOND your own backyard
- To highlight the HOT TOPICS of the mobile industry
- Create NEW partnerships and BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
- To build networks between PEOPLE & COMPANIES
- To share knowledge of MOBILE INDUSTRY EXPERTS
- To bridge the gap between LOCAL and GLOBAL mobile industries
- To Serve as a CATALYST for the Mobile Industry on the Isle
- To enhance adoption of Mobile Technologies and thus create employment OPPORTUNITIES.
Mobile Monday is backed by big mobile players such Nokia and Nexit Ventures, as well as industry Visionaries such as:
- Anssi Vanjoki - Nokia Vice-President who sits on the Mobile Monday advisory board
- Vesa Matti Paananen - Creator of the $20 billion dollar Mobile Ringtone industry
- Daniel Applequest - Vodafone UK Director of Strategy, co-founder of Mobile Monday London Chapter
- Peter Vesterbacka - Mobility Mastermind at HP
The remarkable Mobile Monday phenomenon began almost by accident in Helsinki, Finland during the autumn of 2000. A couple of well-known Finnish visionaries, invited the who's who of the Finnish mobile industry to a pub for an informal get-together and perhaps a warming drink. The only suitable time? Monday evening.
After meeting many new faces and discussing the latest in mobility, the group decided to continue meeting on the first Monday of each month - and thus, Mobile Monday was born. Mobile Monday is present in 70 cities world-wide from India to China and Latin America and is found in six continents world-wide (with the seventh on the way).
See also http://www.mobilemonday.net