MindTrek 2010

From MindTrek Sponsors: Meet Team Signbook

Monday, 21 June 2010 - 08:03

Team Signbook: Who are you and what does your App?
We are 3rd year Information Technology students from the Turku University of Applied Sciences. Members of Team Signbook are: Tomi Härkönen, Kimmo Koski, Petteri Lehtonen and Johannes Maliranta. We participated in Imagine Cup 2010 Finnish semifinals with the Signbook application. The challenge it solves originates from the sign language interpreter students at Diak: they needed an application that eases and boosts the studying of sign language. Signbook is basically an open bank for sign language terms.

You can follow the development of Signbook in Facebook:...

LAURI KIVINEN - NATIONAL BROADCASTER CEO WITH NOKIA BACKGROUND

Friday, 18 June 2010 - 08:31

"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a lucky sixpence in her shoe?" is the title of the keynote speech by Mr Lauri Kivinen, the new CEO of YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company).

Before moving to Yle Lauri was the Head of Corporate Affairs at Nokia Siemens Networks. He held various senior roles within the Nokia Group, which he joined in 1988.

Lauri was appointed Vice-President of Communications at Nokia Mobile Phones in 1992, before moving to the position of Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at Nokia Group. His last position at Nokia before joining Nokia Siemens Networks was Head of Nokia’s EU Representative Office based in Brussels.

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NOKIA'S MOBILE LINUX LEADER ARI JAAKSI SPEAKS IN MINDTREK

Thursday, 17 June 2010 - 07:37

Ari Jaaksi has been involved in the mobile communications industry for more than 15 years and is currently Vice President, MeeGo Devices, for Nokia. In this role, Ari Jaaksi is responsible for the strategy and implementation of Nokia’s mobile Linux and open source based products, and software platforms. He heads the development of Nokia’s Linux-based devices, software and Nokia’s open source developer operations on www.maemo.org.

Ari Jaaksi joined Nokia in 1998 and has held various positions including the head of Nokia’s mobile browser development and the head of Nokia’s software research lab. At Nokia, Ari Jaaksi was instrumental in creating Nokia...

MINDTREK PARTNER DAY SESSION: CLOUD COMPUTING

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 - 09:31

Cloud Computing seems to be the word of the year and the hype around it can't be ignored! Why is this happening and what is behind it? IT goes to Cloud even if you want it or not! This MindTrek Partner Session concentrates on the biggest change since the existence of the internet.

In the morning session we will focus on the trends, ecosystems, opportunities and tools of Cloud Computing. There will be an interactive panel discussion from the view of enterprises: Why they have implemented the Cloud and what kind of values and benefits they have obtained. And in the afternoon session we will focus on the services and people; the users of the Cloud services. There will be several professional talks...

JULIEN FOURGEAUD HOSTING THE "NEW MOBILE ECOSYSTEM" TRACK

Thursday, 27 May 2010 - 09:48

Julien calls himself a Catalyst, a Visionary and a Social Animal. As Director of Le Catalyst, his primary role is to support their clients in making things happen and enabling them to refine their vision and deliver their products.

While at the Symbian Foundation, he worked as a Technology Catalyst, helping shape and communicate the value proposition and the future of the Symbian platform. Prior to moving to London to take up this position, he worked at Nokia, initially joining the E-Series division in 2007 before moving into the newly formed Devices Organization. During his time at Nokia, he developed his productization expertise...

OUTI AHO: ROBOTS DO NOT CRY?

Monday, 24 May 2010 - 12:19

Outi Aho will present her artwork Robots don’t cry? in the Social Machines track on Friday Oct 8th. The artwork addresses relationships between human, technology, and emotions.

The idea of emotional robots was born when she started out asking herself: Can machines be affective and responsive in social and emotional situations? Can robots cry? The artwork is her personal and tentative response to these questions. The artwork consists of slowly moving and singing robot balls. Songs presented are modern interpretations of ancient Finno-Ugrian crying songs. These songs were traditionally performed in social situations such as funerals and weddings. Cry...

FROM MINDTREK SPONSORS: BizSpark Startup of the Day – Eitbit Oy

Monday, 24 May 2010 - 12:11

In addition to Software, BizSpark members get support and visibility opportunities. Eitbit Ltd, based in Finland, was selected as startup of the day.

Timo Poikolainen, Managing Director of Eitbit Ltd:
“Between nomination and selection as a BizSpark startup of the day, Eitbit released updated versions of all of its accessory programs including Eitbit Picture Resize, Eitbit Tree and Eitbit Study. These updated versions were digitally signed and Windows 7 Logo tested; that is something we learned from a Microsoft partner meeting last year. Since that, code signing and logo-testing have been an important part of Eitbit...

Academic MindTrek Deadline Extension

Monday, 17 May 2010 - 15:01

The deadline for submitting short papers, posters and tool demonstrations (3-4 pages) to the Academic MindTrek Conference has been extended until 6th June!

For more information and guidlelines, see the Academic MindTrek web pages.

Kai Lemmetty: "Embrace failure!"

Wednesday, 12 May 2010 - 13:14

MindTrek 2010 is pleased to welcome Kai Lemmetty to the stage, who will share his experience about falling off the camel and getting right back on it again!

Kai Lemmetty is the co-founder of GigsWiz, a small startup based in Helsinki, Finland. Before GigsWiz Kai was the co-founder of Floobs (2007-2010). Floobs was developing a video streaming platform for the sports and music industry focusing especially on live video streaming. Floobs filed for bankruptcy in January 2010.

He will talk about how it went with Floobs, how to embrace failure and the learning experience related to it.

Conference Registration Now Open!

Wednesday, 12 May 2010 - 08:43

EARLY BIRD PRICES UNTIL 31.5.2010!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the MindTrek 2010 Conference, Academic Conference and Partner Sessions is now open!

Be quick and secure your place at the event of the year! Register HERE.

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