Africa
Welcome to Europe's LARGEST and MOST INNOVATIVE happening on mobile opportunities in Africa
When: Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Where: Astoria-Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Mobile is booming in Africa, but entrepreneurship and unconventional thinking is booming everywhere. This is why Mobile Brain Bank launches Europe's largest Mobile Africa gathering in Helsinki, the hotbed of mobile innovation.
Register to a happening that offers you an insight to what's cooking under the hood with fresh youngsters, students and start-ups, and gain a first-mover advantage to the fastest growing mobile markets in the world.
Prepare to be launching deals with 500 movers and shakers from the biggest and the smallest mobile runner-ups, established companies, universities and NGO's from Europe and Africa.
Agenda
8. 30 Registration, morning coffee, expo visits
9.25 Welcome by the day's moderator Ms. Maja Andjelkovic, infoDev.org, World Bank
9.30 Opening remarks by His Excellency, LMS Mngqikana, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Finland and Estonia
9.45 Keynote by Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia
10.15 Keynote by Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks
10.45 Marlon Parker, Social Entrepreneur, founder of JamiiX, South Africa
11.05 Jessica Colaco, TED fellow, iHub manager, Kenya
11.30 Lunch break
Launch of partnering clinics
- Solution clinic
- Application clinic
- Funding clinic
Expo visits
Video greetings
Open mike
13.00 - 15.25
- Start-up afternoon:
Launch! Student research and consulting hub for East and West African markets
Mixem/Jalumba, Finland/Uganda
M4ID, Finland
XS2TheWorld, Netherlands/Nigeria
Fortumo, Estonia/South Africa
Sibesonke, Finland/South Africa
Suntrica, Finland/Namibia/South Africa
KZN Smart Learner, South Africa
Pajat, Finland/Kenya
Nimbus, United Kingdom
2 x startups from Kenya
Otasizzle, Finland/Kenya
Arada Services, Ethiopia
Start-up feedback by distinguished panel of judges: Dr Tim Kelly/World Bank, Peter Vesterbacka/SomeBazaar, and NN/Forum Nokia.
- match making clinics continue
- open mike
15.25 Special treat: connecting an air bridge to Johannesburg
- Developer debate between Mobile Africa, Helsinki, and Mobile Web in Africa, Johannesburg
- Panelists in Finland: Contador Wanarua/Somocon, Mr. Martin Koppel/Fortumo, and NN
16.35 Wrap-up, closing remarks by Ms. Maja Andjelkovic, infoDev.org, World
Bank
Relaxing with cocktails and good company
18.00 Thank you, and safe travels
Registration is open at Flabat.fi
(Flabat ticketing service works best with Mozilla Firefox)
Early bird price for those registering during June-July, 70 EUR
Normal ticket price for registrations during August, 95 EUR
Last minute ticket for registrations in September, 150 EUR
*) See student/researcher opportunity below
Register more than 2 persons from your company, and get 15% off the price of all the tickets. All prices include all transaction costs and service fees. Nothing is added to the checkout price.
All visitors who register by end of August will take part in a draw of 50 pcs of handy Suntrica SolarStrap SS-W201 for charging your mobile devices. The winners are contacted and published during September, and prizes can be collected in the event.
Good luck in the draw, and welcome to Helsinki!
*) If you are a cash-strapped student/researcher but would like to attend, please send a brief summary on what value you could bring to the event, e.g. writing and publishing a research paper on the topic for event attendees, working on staff duties during the day etc. Send your application with first name, last name, university, and country to Petra.
Mobile Africa is made possible by
Together with
We are looking for additional supporters and exhibitors in various categories.
Sponsorship includes a prominent logo placement on marketing materials, entitlement to presentation opportunities, and exhibition space.
Sponsoring options and exhibition space details found in this sponsor package (link opens best with Mozilla Firefox).
For more information please contact Petra.
Mobile Brain Bank is a non-profit association, supporting mobile entrepreneurship globally. As all other Mobile Brain Bank activity, this event is arranged in not-for-profit fashion. Country-specific tax reductions may apply for companies supporting such activity.
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Help us distribute the word on Mobile Africa. Download this poster and other materials here.
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To ensure the day will be an ultimate success for everyone, we've set up an advisory board consisting of both small and large companies, as well as related players from the public sector. Our distinguished advisory board is chaired by Nathan Eagle, PhD, MIT Design Laboratory, founder of Txteagle Ltd, founder and principal investigator of EPROM.
Other board members represent:
