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SIME 09: Highlights

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Mahesh Kumar
on November 25, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Awards, Inspiration, SIME09, Sime Academy and Speakers

Relive the SIME Magic, the SIME Inspiration through some recorded footage and pictures

SIME 09 was all about the 4 dimensions of digital opportunities: business, knowledge, inspiration and fun, the 4 pillars or the corner stones for this year’s SIME. And we took every step to make sure during the 2 days you got your best business opportunities, learnt as much from the sessions, workshops, drew inspiration from the speakers and the participants and, most importantly had riveting fun before, during and after the conference.

Looking back, we did quite much shake the SIME cover. From coming up with a new format, an agenda that boasts of covering most verticals within the digital landscape, and a revised Awards format, we did have quite an uphill task to package them the best and add the SIME touch at the end. At the end, if you had as much fun at SIME as we had arranging it, we think it’s a job well done :)

The Highlights section is here

Some very good footage from the whole show is here

Interviews with SIME speakers and Participants here and here (thanks folks from 23business, Germany).

Pictures from Tom Solo (SIME’s “legend behind the lens”)

SIME Pool at Flickr (user uploaded)

And stay tuned for the year ahead. SIME is going even more international, so get ready to welcome SIME to your city!

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Lights Camera Action! SIME is set to take off.

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Mahesh Kumar
on November 11, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Knowledge, SIME People and SIME09

At Rigoletto, and the stage is perfect. The ambience music is in, people are slowly trickling in with their “FIKA” and “Kannelbulle”, the speakers are all gung-ho, the workshops and match-making desks are screaming to your senses, the lovely ladies with interesting “SMS Me” T-Shirts are everywhere taking interaction with them (and quite good number of followers, yes all men, some even thinking it’s their number), it’s time of that year where it’s a whole new world with SIME. The journey is about to begin in minutes.

Some relevant links before we begin:

Agenda: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/agenda

Speaker Profiles: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/speakers

SIME Live!: http://sime.nu/live

And it’s rare 2 days where the Scandinavians are forced to rig off the shyness, and talk to the camera, it’s not an option, it’s an order. So be ready to be filmed, flashed till your eyes bleed with photos, and make sure you suck the juice out of SIME by meeting people.

SIME is set to take off. Tighten your seat belts, it’s going to be  journey of inspiration, knowledge, business and fun.

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Lights, Camera, Action! SIME is set to take off.

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Published
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Mahesh Kumar
on November 11, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Knowledge and SIME09

At Rigoletto, and the stage is perfect. The ambience music is in, people are slowly trickling in with their “FIKA” and “Kannelbulle”, the speakers are all gung-ho, the workshops and match-making desks are screaming to your senses, the lovely ladies with interesting “SMS Me” T-Shirts are everywhere taking interaction with them (and quite good number of followers, yes all men, some even thinking it’s their number), it’s time of that year where it’s a whole new world with SIME. The journey is about to begin in minutes.

Some relevant links before we begin:

Agenda: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/agenda

Speaker Profiles: http://sime.nu/09/stockholm/speakers

SIME Live!: http://sime.nu/live

And it’s rare 2 days where the Scandinavians are forced to rig off the shyness, and talk to the camera, it’s not an option, it’s an order. So be ready to be filmed, flashed till your eyes bleed with photos, and make sure you suck the juice out of SIME by meeting people.

SIME is set to take off. Tighten your seat belts, it’s going to be  journey of inspiration, knowledge, business and fun.

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Workshops and More Top Speakers for SIME Stockholm

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Mahesh Kumar
on November 2, 2009

This post is about Agenda, SIME09, Sime Academy, Speakers and Upcoming

Experimenting with the format of having the staged show along with networking bazaar and workshops, SIME Stockholm promises to be extremely interesting and an elevated experience this year.

Read about the format here

We are happy to inform that, on top of the great speakers who have confirmed their attendance as reported 2 weeks ago, we have some more top names added into the speaker roster.

Check the speaker profiles here

Most of these speakers will also be present for you to mingle with at the networking bazaar and moderating workshops on various topics. All in all we have 24 workshops under 8 different categories, ranging from strategy, mobile, money to communication and excellence

Check the workshop schedule here

As we begin our penultimate week countdown to the ‘most important event of the year’, the SIME epidemic has begun to grip the region even more. Thanks to some great inspiration from SIME Helsinki, the energy levels are amazing.

Watch out for some high octane inspiration next week. Question is, are you part of the journey, and if yes, are you ready for some action.

Welcome to SIME Stockholm 2009.

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Helsinki is all set for some SIME action today.

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Mahesh Kumar
on October 28, 2009

This post is about Agenda and SIME09

SIME Helsinki, an invite only SIME day focusing on digital opportunities will be held today at Andorra cultural centre, Eerikinkatu 11. In tune with the SIME Mantra of “Great People, Great Conference”, the event features some of Scandinavia’s house hold brand names and thought leaders who would be talking about knowledge being the key differentiator in today’s business across different industries.

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Check out SIME Helsinki’s page here

Speakers

The highlight speakers for the day are:

pekka_pohjakallio_130x1701Pekka Pohjakallio, VP Concepting and Innovation, Nokia (Finland)

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.

You can also catch him at SIME Stockholm.

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Steven Overman, founder the Realtime project

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


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Gary Shainberg, member of the Tech Jury of the World Economic Forum, ex-CTO BT Innovation

Gary Shainberg, ex-CTO, BT Innovation and member of the Technology jury of the World Economic Forum. currently the Vice President of Technology & Innovation Support working for the Group Chief Technology Officer, Matt Bross. Runs a team who are known as the JFDI team (Just xxx Do It) and their motto is “There are no Barriers only Hurdles”.



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Kaj Arnö, chief Evangelist MySQL (Switzerland)

Chief Evangelist MySQL/Sun and founder of new religion, Runnism…




View the profiles of all SIME Helsinki speakers

The Agenda

View the Agenda details here

The agenda is a very good blend of topics digital, kick starting with a panel on everything mobile and marketing, the path drifts to new marketing techniques, followed by the change makers, the one’s who are taking industries by the neck and changing them with a smile. The post-break sessions focus on - ‘communication going wild’ - video as a format in particular, the concept of innovations and research and the importance of implementation in the growth cycle.

The post-lunch session marks SIME Helsinki’s tryst with the workshop format chaired by different experts on a plethora of different topics. More info on workshops below.

The penultimate sessions has Steven Overman, founder Real Time Projects talking about getting “real”, followed by a keynote by Kaj Arnö Chief evangelist MySQL with the key take away being why over 100 million people are hooked on open source and how it can lower your cost.

Workshops @ SIME

Beginning this year, SIME will feature thought provoking, content driven workshops taking the personalization of SIME to the next level. Almost, like an unconference of sort, the audience is free to choose the workshop topics that interest them the most, and be part of the dialogue. It’s the perfect place to talk about your company in the domain, ask questions to experts chairing and moderating the workshops, and meeting enthusiasts of the particular topic.

The workshops at SIME Helsinki focus on the following topics, a prelude of sorts to the main show in Stockholm which has 8 workshops with 3 sessions each, on both days of the conference.

Check out the SIME Stockholm workshop format here

Workshops @ Helsinki:

AOL

Futurice (Integrated operations – no to silos)

Open source

Activeark (Marcom, service development and sales are converging into one)

Real time

Marketing

Internationalization

Innovation

Some tracks are repeated to make sure the audience can schedule them depending on other workshop topics they are interested in which might be held parallel to the popular tracks.

An orgy of knowledge

Bringing together the best of knowledge, content and inspiration from Scandinavia, Finland is all set for some rock n roll, SIME style today. If you are in Helsinki, do keep an eye on the crazy entrepreneurs who are doing everything in their might to get an invite into SIME.

We call it the SIME Magic.

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Countdown: 17 days to the most important event on digital opportunities. You got your ticket?

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Mahesh Kumar
on October 26, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Inspiration, Knowledge, SIME09 and Speakers

Exactly 17 days from now, the smartest people from all over the world will go missing.

And yes, if you are looking for them, you can find them at Rigoletto in Stockholm. When we finished SIME 2008, the DNA of Change edition in Stockholm, we realized that we have upped the ante considerably since 2006, and had a very lofty vision of making SIME 2009 the best SIME ever in the history of the 13 year conference.

May be I am a bit biased, but I dare to say we have the best mix of agenda, speakers and formats, all packaged into a format that will stick. We have learned a lot from the conference goers experience over time, and we believe that the learnings will transcend into an exhilarating SIME experience this year.

So my question to you is: have you got your tickets to inspiration? Stitch your own SIME with the workshops you want to attend (during this week, the SIME Blog will have more information on the speakers and experts who will be moderating the workshops), and the awards gala and dinner. The mayor of Stockholm has decided to give the keys to the city during the 2 evenings, and yes, we will be raiding the best of the best nightclubs to give our international friends some tryst with history starting from the way the Vikings partied (in all good sense that is).

Check out the agenda and speakers

Get your ticket to inspiration

Welcome to the most important event on digital opportunities. Welcome to SIME Stockholm, 11, 12 November.

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SIME Talks 14: Kjell Aamodt, former CEO Schibsted talks about changes in media landscape

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Mahesh Kumar
on October 21, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Inspiration, Knowledge, SIME09, Speakers and Upcoming

Back in 2006, when we were still trying to understand the online space a little bit better, there were very few big media companies or “dinosaurs” that really could come to terms with the fact that their core business model probably is going to have to change, and that the change will sweep them right from beneath the feet. They could either jump in or sink, and Schibsted with a CEO who boasted of a fantastic sense of vision rightfully decided to jump in, take the mantle and steer the ship to safety

Schibsted has grown to become one of Scandinavia’s largest media houses with diverse footprints in the landscape, operating in 22 countries, and having some of the leading sites in Scandinavia like Aftonbladet.se (the most read online newspaper), blocket.se amongst other very interesting and successful verticals.

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View Schibsted’s profile here

Kjell Aamodt, who has led Schibsted for 20 years decided to step down mid this year. Rolv Erik Ryssdal is the new sergeant at the helm. You can catch Rolv Erik Ryssdal at SIME Stockholm this year, he is one of the speakers at the conference.

View the speaker listing here

View the agenda here

Below, is a video dug out from 2006, which I think is still relevant, as many media companies are still questioning the viability of the online model and holding the traditional channels too near and dear to their heart. Probably, the alarm bells are not loud enough, or may be, a Lehman brother kind of shock is needed for people to realize where the money is being spent. At the end of the day, its a simple mantra of “Follow your customers”, and when the customers are going online, what’s stopping them, they only know

SIME 06 - Kjell Aamodt from SIME on Vimeo.

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SIME Stockholm: 4 Dimensions of Digital Opportunities

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Mahesh Kumar
on September 11, 2009

This post is about Agenda, Blog, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Inspiration, Knowledge, SIME News, SIME09, Sime Academy, Speakers and Upcoming

SIME is all about digital opportunities. And at this year’s SIME Stockholm, we present to you the 4 dimensions of digital opportunities:

1: Inspiration

Inspiration comes from every single atom of SIME. But of course the main drivers are the various speakers and thought leaders, panels and the quality of the conference itself.

Find some of the inspiration ambassadors who are going to be SIME this year here.

2. Business

Business through Networking Bazaars where we are dedicated to making you meet all the people that you are interested in meeting of the over 1 000 thought leaders, entrepreneurs, communications experts, developers, venture capitalists, marketers and of course the SIME speakers and guests from all over the world.

The Experience Manager ensures you meet the people you want to; meet the speakers corner is a natural hang out place for the speakers after their show on stage, truly in the spirit of SIME always ready to mingle and have a discussion with you; demo zone for you to play and see some funky stuff; nominees plaza, a place for you to catch the digital stars - emerging and the current biggies and finally, a welcome to Stockholm counter for you to understand and get all the local expertise for you to expand your business into Sweden.

A detailed idea of the different facets of the networking bazaar here

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