Speakers

Harri Koponen CEO Tele 2
Harri Koponen has a solid industry background. Former President and CEO at Wataniya Telecom, deputy CEO and president of International Operations at TeliaSonera AB, President and CEO at Sonera Corporation Ltd. and Executive VP and General Manager for Consumer Products North America at Ericsson AB.

L Cosh-Ishii, Representative Director, Mobikyo Japan and Wireless Watch
As founding partner of Wireless Watch Japan, a division of Mobikyo, 'Lars' has a developed a deep understanding of Japan's mobile industry. Reporting on the domestic market since late 2001, he built a strong contact network with operators, handset makers as well as content, service and application providers. A co-organizer of Mobile Intelligence missions since 2003, he also provides operational logistics for the local Mobile Monday Tokyo chapter. Based in Japan, he is a frequent contact point for visiting executives and is often quoted by overseas

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TietoEnator, Magnus Höglund, Head of Digital Media

Ville Virtanen Director Digital Media TietoEnator
Ville Virtanen has over 15 years multidisciplinary background in business development, consulting and academic research in telecom and media industries including work history in Nokia and TeliaSonera. He specialises in strategy development and business models for context based services and targeted advertising.

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Sergey Nevstruev, Director of Mobile Solutions Business Unit at Kaspersky Lab
Since March 2006, Sergey has been Director of Mobile Solutions Business Unit at Kaspersky Lab. His responsibilities center around developing the mobile solutions market, including security solutions for smartphones and various protocols for mobile users.

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Justin Oberman, Mobile Monday Washington

M Mohan Rao, Research Director Asian Media Information and Communication centre (AMIC) Bangalore
Dr. Madan Mohan Rao is a new-media consultant and author based in Bangalore, India. He is the editor of three book series: "The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook," "The Knowledge Management Chronicles" and "AfricaDotEdu". Madan currently serves on the nominating committee of ICANN (www.icann.org), and was on the international board of directors of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (www.cpsr.org). He is also editor-at-large of DestinationKM and contributor to the Poynter Institute blog on new media trends. Madan was on the international editorial board of the recently published book, "Transforming e-Knowledge."

Madan was formerly the communications director at the United Nations Inter Press Service bureau in New York, and vice president at IndiaWorld Communications in Bombay. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in communications.

M Wächter, Head of Mobile Marketing Association Germany
Mark Wächter, aged 41, is a graduated economist with many years professional and leadership experience, national and international market know-how in the areas of FMCG / food trade (Unilever), IT / Internet (UUNET, WorldCom) and telecommunications/ cellular phones (T-Mobile). In May 2005 he founded the strategy consultancy MWC focusing on Wireless Marketing. In March 2006 Mark became elected Chairman of the Section Mobile of Association of the Digital Economy e.V. (BVDW). Mark is Co-Founder and Chairman of MobileMonday Germany, heads the Mobile Marketing Associaton (MMA) Germany, is member of the Board of MMA EMEA and acknowledged Wireless Advertising Evangelist.

N Barake, co-founder and Director of Tedexis (South America)
Nidal Barake is co-founder and Director of Tedexis, a Mobile Solutions company based in Caracas, Venezuela, that provides mobile corporate solutions for carriers and enterprises in more than 12 countries in the region. Mobile Marketing and Mobile Banking are among the main services in Tedexis’ portfolio. Nidal Barake is in charge of Business Development , and also helps customers implement Mobile Marketing strategies. Prior to founding Tedexis, Nidal was a senior consultant in the telecom industry for Ernst & Young. Nidal is an Economist and holds an MBA from University of Delaware. Also, in his free time, Nidal is a chef.

A Zain, MobileMonday Indonesia
Andy Zain is regarded as one of the mobile industry pioneers in Indonesia. Since 1997, he has been responsible for numerous 'industry first' initiatives, such as the first ringtone service, the first WAP portal, mobile banking, m-commerce and kiosk downloads in Indonesia. In 2003 he co-founded Elasitas which currently is the largest mobile content aggregator in Indonesia working with the biggest brands including Disney Mobile, EA Mobile, Cartoon Networks and cobering channel partners like Nokia and Yahoo! Mobile. Andy served in different positions within marketing and product development roles for companies operating as internet service provider, system developer, channel distribution, and managing products such as Nokia Mobile Phones and Apple Computers. Andy is also the founder and organizer for Mobile Monday Indonesia.

B Bensaid, China Expansion Fund and Ventech China (Shanghai)
Bruno Bensaid is established in Asia since 1997. After a year learning Chinese in Shanghai, Bruno advised Philips Consumer Electronics on its China distribution strategy and then spent 3 years in Singapore at Cisco Systems driving the services business unit profitability. Since his return to China in 2002, Bruno became an actor of the China wireless and internet industry by building and operating internet and mobile businesses for Western firms (such as In-Fusio, a European leader in mobile gaming). In 2006, Bruno Bensaid became a Partner at China Expansion Fund, an M&A advisory firm supporting French and European VCs and their portfolio companies in the Telecom, Media and Technology sectors on their China investments. Current projects include online advertising, online social networking, e-commerce, online person-to-person services, IPTV, mobile value-added services etc.Bruno is also the founder and organizer of the Shanghai Chapter of MobileMonday.

Peter Westerbacka, Founder of MobileMonday

Suresh T Kumar, Consultant on Indian Telecom Industry for Bain&Co, Goldman Sachs etc
Will present the Indian Value Added Services Scenario from the Urban vs Rural Perspective. Since India is more rural in nature - like to present how these services are making a change to both the subscribers and the operator.

Primarily it is all about how an operator is able to increase about 11 % revenue from an Indian Subscriber given the fact that India is home to around 25 Languages and more than 250 dialects.

S R Raja, General Manager Sasken Communication Technologies
S R Raja is a telecom versatilist with over 14 years of industry experience. He has been associated with Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd in various senior management capacities for close to 10 years. As a General Manager - Strategy, his current role is define solutions that serve the needs of emerging markets.

He consistently travels and explores the rural Indian landscape and identifies key imperatives for business success. One of his recent focuses has been to examine the role of the mobile phone in the Empowerment of the Rural Indian Women and design livelihood applications that are consumed by the long tail - bottom of the pyramid

Tanguy de Lestre, project manager at AGORIA, Belgian technology federation
Tanguy de Lestre is well connected into the geo-ict scene in Belgium and Europe as project manager at AGORIA, Belgian technology federation. Recent developments in this scene are managed through his blog geo20.eu.

Jan-Eric Litton, Professor Biomedical Technology Karolinska Institute

SiewKiet TEO CEO, Zingmobile Siew Kiet is the Founder and CEO of Zingmobile, and has been the driving force behind Group's business and growth since inception. Currently spearheading some of the Group's most important initiatives, including the development of TV media , social networking mobile products and overseeing the group's international expansion plans.

Panu Mustonen, CEO, Ramblas Digital

Kauko Väinämö, Senior vice president, Head of Mobile Infra Solutions business in Elektrobit Corporation Plc
Kauko Väinämö has 20 years of experience in entrepreneurships, managing international business, creating strategies, executing sales and marketing, research & development, M&A, outsourcing, business & corporate development in companies engaged in SW development, telecom products and industrial applications. He has been in several board positions in technology companies and has a strong technology and management experience from launching and growing successful companies as well as creating and executing new growth strategies.

Jukka Salonen, CEO, BookIT
President, General management (VP and Director), Board memberships in telecommunication companies. Former VP international operations at Sonera. Also Founder of Macbite Ltd, sold to Microwarehouse.

Gian-Luca, Head of Business Development at the Forum Nokia
Mr. Cioletti has a technical background working as an electronic engineer, for more than 10 years designing and developing hardware and software and 15 years experiences in international business development and international marketing management.

Karthik Ramakrishnan
Karthik heads business development in Asia-Pacific for Imfinity, a company focused on bringing innovative mobile products and services to life. He loves working with Imfinity's passionate mobile development team and leverages on his network to envision and execute mobile marketing campaigns for clients.

Christian Kvikant
Christian Kvikant is CTO at Validus Technologies.