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MOBILE BRAIN BANK LAUNCHES EUROPE’S LARGEST MOBILE AFRICA EVENT
Mobile Brain Bank today announced that Mobile Africa will take place at the Astoria conference centre in Helsinki on Thursday, September 30th, 2010. With 500 attendees this will be the largest event in Europe addressing the topic.
Mobile Africa is for companies and individuals looking to succeed in the burgeoning African mobile market. It will enable entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses from Northern Europe and Africa to share ideas and experiences, and generate new contacts and sales leads.
Petra Söderling, founder of Mobile Brain Bank, said: “Our events are specifically designed to give attendees the knowledge and personal networks they need to grow their businesses. Mobile Africa is a must-attend for anyone targeting the fast-expanding African telecoms market”.
For more details please visit www.mobilebrainbank.org
Some sponsorship opportunities are still available for organisations offering relevant services to Mobile Africa attendees.
About Mobile Brain Bank
Mobile Brain Bank is a global non-profit network of skilled individuals who share ideas and perspective to help each other develop their businesses. It provides a forum for collaborating, testing business cases, and connecting with people who are experiencing similar professional pains and gains.
For more information visit www.mobilebrainbank.org, connect on LinkedIn, Facebook or twitter.com/mobilebrainbank or contact Bridget Fishleigh at Telecoms PR Africa, bridget@telecomsprafrica.com +27 21 813 6725 and +44 7946 342 903.
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May 22, 2010
Fresh and able talent to Mobile Brain Bank
Mobile Brain Bank is a global network of idea-rich individuals, entrepreneurs, and start-ups and creating new. We believe that new business, product and service innovation is best generated by sharing ideas, sharing experience, and by solving challenges together.
To support the ideology in practice, the Mobile Brain Bank is now being registered as a structured and fully transparent non-profit association under the Association Register of National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland.
As required by the Finnish Associations Act, a registered association shall have a Board of Directors. We are thrilled to announce these skillful and experienced people have accepted the invite to join Mobile Brain Bank’s Board of Directors.
Harri Lakkala
Harri has earned his kudos from being the person introducing wikis and blogs to Nokia back in 2005. Currently running his own business Intosome, Harri continues to educate corporations on the wide opportunities of social media.
Pertti Lounamaa
After an extensive career at Nokia, as a Vice President level influencer to mobile architecture, standards, web technologies and research, Pertti is heading his own start-up Pajat Management for initiating and building mobile software startups.
Sari P. Päivärinta
Enjoying a front row seat to the technological advancements of the future as innovation and spearhead project manager at Nokia. Also heading the world's most northern mobile industry demo lab in Oulu and welcoming all for a mighty inspirational visit.
Petra Söderling
Is someone who likes to see a connection between technology, science, nature and a good life for all of us on this planet. A decade in mobile R&D has grown a keen interest in research, user interface design, human-computer relations, augmented reality, nanosciences, biomaterials, ubiqutous computing etc. This topped with a humanist's approach, stong values in equality between those who have and those who have not.
Peter Vesterbacka
Serial entrepreneur, founder of Some Bazaar, accelerating business by applying a shared everything model to business creation. Co-founder of Mobile Monday, founder of Wreckamovie.com and Connected Day. Prior, Founder of HP Bazaar. Helsinki – Palo Alto – Helsinki.
For more information:
Petra Söderling
Mobile Brain Bank r.y.
Email: petra ( at ) mobilebrainbank.org
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MoBB co-organizes Helsinki Twestival January 12, 2010
Twestival, the Twitter festival, is a global charity event that takes place in 250+ cities on March 25th 2010. Helsinki Twestival will be a great party where people meet offline for one night, have fun and do some good for an important cause in the process. This year's theme is the importance of education. Global fundraising goes to Concern Worldwide, providing education to the world’s poorest children.
Helsinki has chosen to raise funds for Concern's Education For Girls and Teacher Training campaigns. Evening event on March 25, 2010 from 8pm in Nude Lounge & Club http://helsinki.twestival.com/
You can help in the fundraising, not only by coming to the party, but via donations and sponsorship. For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact us.
New look&feel
Mobile Brain Bank is growing from the hobbyists' grass root activity into the serious hobbyist's grass root activity with style. Our old visual mark was created on the fly by using a word document and whatever happened to be the default font on that document. The hurry back in July 2009 was to get a LinkedIn group opened up, and that LinkedIn form required a logo of some sort, otherwise the group would not have been established.
Even if you don't have fancy sponsors doesn't mean you cannot afford style.
Pasi Lehtinen, a MoBB activist from
Says Pasi: "I saw the huge potential in Mobile Brain Bank, but it wasn’t reflected in the visual identity. I wanted to change that. I wanted people tp see that there is something new and exciting going on and you should get involved. RIGHT NOW! Mobile Brain Bank is all about getting connected.
Conversation is the key. The new logo speaks for itself. It wants you to speak, interact and exchange ideas. Speak, and speak loud! A speech bubble logo is simple, but unique. It´s funny, but elegant.
I hope it will create some additional conversation also :D
I have worked with corporate identities for over a decade. These projects range from huge multi-million technology brands to small one man art projects. Making new and fresh identities is an obsession to me. I love it, it´s hard but rewarding work.
Other parts of my work are on various fields of design from print blueprints to prototypes of mobile touch user interfaces. I just can´t sit and do nothing, I have to be on the move all the time.”
Pasi’s philosophy is not to advertise his work on the web, instead, he relies on good results bringing more work by itself. His own website, www.designsapiens.com, shows mostly his photography work which he is doing in between design projects.
Check out Pasi’s website for inspiring photos, or follow his crazy life on Twitter www.twitter.com/designsapiens
October 23, 2009
Mobile Brain Bank and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society connect in Slush Helsinki
Mobile Brain Bank (MoBB) is a network energizing the idea that as experienced mobile professionals are freeing themselves from corporate ties, there is a growing population of individual ideas and un-chained inventions on the verge to flourish.
The seasoned Mobile Brain Bank members help each others to connect, promote startup mentality, and support each others’ product and service innovation.
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (AES) is student run organization promoting entrepreneurship and helping students to set up companies within up coming Aalto University. Aalto University is a newly established university combining the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design and the Helsinki University of Technology.
The solid experience of Mobile Brain Bank, and fresh enthusiasm of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society connect for two days at Slush Helsinki, November 3-4, 2009.
Slush Helsinki – the event by startups for startups – will entertain an unprecedented chain of new startups from MoBB and AES, some to be born right there and then.
For more information on Mobile Brain Bank:
http://www.Mobilebrainbank.org or petra@mobilebrainbank.org
For more information on Aalto Entrepreneurship Society:
http://aaltoes.com/aes/about/ or markus.nuotto@aaltoes.com
For more information on Slush Helsinki:
http://slushhelsinki.com/ or peter@somebazaar.com
October 19, 2009
Mobile Brain Bank and Protomo into cooperation
In a kick-off event on Wednesday October 21st in Tampere, Mobile Brain Bank and Protomo will find synergies for cooperation. Protomo is an "innovation apparatus" for experts, policy makers and enthusiasts aiming at transforming the Finnish economy and innovation system in the middle of the economical crisis. Mobile Brain Bank is a network of young mobile startups. Both parties look to expand their cooperation to Jyväskylä and Salo.
October 5, 2009
Our website hit 10,000 visits in first six weeks
Mobile Brain Bank's website has received over 10,000 visits in its first six weeks of de facto operations. Visitors started flocking to our website during the week of August 13, around our first meeting in Helsinki. By end of September, the 10,000 visit limit was broken.
The visitor curve is steeply upwards. The week of September 21st was busiest so far with 2,708 visits. Most traffic is direct, with Google search, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter feeds following, in this order. Most used search term in Google has been "mobile" and "brain".
To date, the MoBB website has had over 12,000 visits. They come through all major public domains, operating systems and browsers.
October 2, 2009
MoBB is in London. Kickoff to be held on October 26th, 2009.
September 29, 2009
MoBB is in Tampere. Kickoff to be held in cooperation with Protomo on October 21st, 2009.
September 15, 2009
MoBB recognized by Oulu Regional Business agency news. (in Finnish)
August 27, 2009
MoBB is on in Oulu. Prepare to attend the kickoff event.
August 17, 2009
MoBB is now in Facebook. If you prefer this alternative, don't hesitate to throw in comments.
August 16, 2009
LinkedIn group is now open. Join the discussion and bring in your ideas.
June 27, 2009
MoBB founding meeting and f2f to be held on August 13th, 2009 in Helsinki. See more in events.