About MobileMonday
MobileMonday is a community of mobile professionals. The open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.
MobileMonday Chapters
Chapters Being Founded
- Barcelona
- Kuwait
- Madrid
- Moscow
- New Delhi
- St. Petersberg
Founders and Organizers At the Summit
Helsinki, Finland
- Vesku Paananen
- Jari Tammisto
- Peter Vesterbacka
- Timo Poropudas
- Roger Pineda
- Micah Gland
- Tuomas Talvio
Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen
Mobility and Information Worker Evangelist, Microsoft Oy
Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen is the mobility and information worker evangelist at Microsoft Oy in Finland. He is responsible for delivering Microsoft’s “New World of Work” vision to global and strategic enterprise customers and help them to improve the productivity of their mobile and information workers. He has a strong background both in the mobile and ITC industries.
Prior that Mr. Paananen was one of the founders and the Chief Technology Officer of Add2Phone Ltd. pioneering and building the global mobile marketing industry. He has worked closely for the past years with operators and service providers both on strategy, and their innovative services. Together with Linus Torvalds, in 1999 he started the first Open Source WAP Gateway Project called Kannel.org. In year 2000 he founded MobileMonday.net, the open Finnish mobile society.
