Ola Ahlvarsson, Host

Ola Ahlvarsson, the former world champion in Kickboxing turned serial entrepreneur and founder of Result that has helped more than 200 Internet companies grow internationally the last ten years. Ola is also the chairman of SIME.

Timo Suokko

Timo Suokko has worked in Marketing Communications since 1984. He has worked with several leading Finnish and international companies in developing and executing their brand strategies.

During the years 1991 – 2000, Mr. Suokko led the planning and production of Nokia´s marketing communications in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was actively involved in the original development and strategy of the Nokia brand.

After a period as MD of Publicis Helsinki in 2007-2008, he now continues on free lance basis, currently in strong cooperation with Activeark.

He is a wanted speaker and moderator at various marketing seminars and executive meetings and training sessions  throughout the world. In this role he has worked in Finland, England, Germany, France, Hungary, Iceland, Denmark, Italy, USA and South Africa.

Pekka Pohjakallio, VP Concepting & Innovation (US)

In Nokia’s solutions unit, Pekka is in charge of finding new ways to connect people and places leading the concepting & innovation practise.

During his 18 years career in Nokia Pekka has worked both in various business leadership and marketing roles including the early SMS business in early 90’s to the Nokia Nseries product responsibility, Nokia’s music business, and latest the user experience and consumer data acitivities for Ovi by Nokia.

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Kaj Arnö

Kaj joined MySQL in 2001, after 14 years as an entrepreneur. For MySQL, Kaj was VP Training, VP Professional Services, VP Services, and VP Engineering at MySQL, before assuming his last pure-MySQL role of VP Community Relations in 2005.

With MySQL AB being acquired by Sun, Kaj continues to lead the MySQL community efforts and assumed an additional role as MySQL’s Ambassador to Sun. A native of Finland, Kaj lives in Munich since 2006. He devotes his spare time to founding Runnism, the Religion of Running.

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Jacob Lachmann

Jacob is today Managing Director for the Nordics at GoViral and has been pioneering online ad sales and digital marketing since 1996. He was part of the start up of OMDs digital department in Copenhagen followed by 7 years with German listed company ad pepper, where he played a central role in the companys development first as Managing Director in Denmark and from 2003 as Executive director covering the Nordic countries, global head of Lead gen products and member of the M/A team in ad pepper.

Nazar Yasin

“Forticom is the world’s 3rd largest social networking company, and the #1 social networking company in Eastern Europe / Russia / CIS. Forticom operates the world’s #1 Russian-speaking social network (Odnoklassniki), the #1 Polish social network (Nasza-klasa), and the largest social networking brand in the Baltic states (ONE)”
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Lahti Jari

Manager for YLE New services. Lahti is in charge for internet- and mobile services and the YLE New services unit.

Steven Overman, founder the Realtime project (US)

Founder The Realtime Project, communications pioneer including Lowe Worldwide Global Strategy Director for IPG Team Nokia and as one of the enthusiast behind Wired Magazine as well as in many other innovative teams. Steven was in the room -94 when the first banner was created…

Twitter: stevenoverman
Web: therealtimeproject.com

Anders Berglund, Sales Director Aftonbladet (Sweden)

Aftonbladet is Sweden’s largest media house. Anders is the Head of Sales for Aftonbladet New Media, owned by the Schibsted Group. Aftonbladet is the largest daily newspaper in Scandinavia. Before Aftonbladet, Anders worked for International Data Group, the largest IT publisher in the world. Anders has a lot of experience in the Online Industry and companies with both print- and online products.

Robin Bade

CEO and Founder, Active Ark. Passionate entrepreneur at heart. Founded Activeark in 2003 when studying at the Helsinki School of Economics and have since then been driving the company to being a true player in the digital industry. Robin enjoys managing a growth company through developing a quality driven culture and utilizing the opportunities technology has brought to the entrepreneurs of our generation.

Anni Ronkainen

Anni Ronkainen has worked with advertising and internet business for 17 years. Currently she works as Industry Head at Google where she responsible for developing and driving commercial devevelopment of search as well as consulting the clients to utilize search in an affordable and measurable way.

Prior to joining Google, Anni worked for 2 years at McCann Worldgroup Helsinki as CEO and at Satama Interactive as Senior Consultant and Business Unit Director for 7 years.

Tuomas Syrjanen

Tuomas Syrjänen is the CEO and one of the founders of Futurice. Futurice is the fastest growing technology company in Finland 2003-2008. Tuomas has played a key role in building the company to become the prime player in the field of digital service creation. Tuomas is a wanted guest speaker in the area of lean company operations and agile service creation. It is easy to bring in bureaucracy and loose the speed and the flexibility of the operations. Luckily there are also different paths to follow, which can bring great rewards.