Mobile Device Management in Milan on 13th October
Mobile Monday begins its 5th season!
At the next event, on the 13th October at "Le Biciclette" in Milan, we talk about Mobile Device Management (MDM):
"We don't even know how many are out there."
Do you know, how many laptops, smartphones, PDAs and in-vehicle devices your company has around? Do you know how confidential data of your business they contain? Which applications their users have installed on them?
The use of mobile devices (most of them equipped with corporate email-access and many with capabilities to run proprietary business applications) have changed dramatically, writes Richard Martin at InformationWeek and continues:
Today, powerful mobile devices are as likely to be found in the hands of field technicians, mobile salespeople, and mid-level managers as they are C-level executives.
As the power and connectivity of mobile devices surge, their numbers are exploding: research firm IDC predicts that sales of enterprise "converged mobile devices" (smartphones, UMPCs, and the like) will reach 63 million units worldwide by 2010, up from 7.3 million in 2005...
Evidently, mobile devices enable communications and facilitate access to necessary data regardless of time and place. At the same time, however, it is necessary to support and manage the devices - also regardless of time and place.
What does it take to keep the company mobile device fleet safe and updated? Mobile Monday will talk about the rapidly expanding MDM Business with an impressive line-up of top specialists:
Abraham Joseph
Founder, Device Management Forum
Abraham Joseph is Founder and CEO of the Device Management Forum and Managing Partner of Inteligentis Ltd. (a boutique research and consulting group). Device Management Forum is an industry group formed to promote the interests of key stakeholders in device management and of which Nokia is a sponsor member. Abraham has over 20 years experience in telecommunications and IT and has managed major projects. Previously, Abraham worked as Consulting Director at Ovum, and before that, Director of Consulting at Gartner. Before his career in consulting and research, Abraham worked for over ten years in the vendor community (Nortel and then Alcatel) in a variety of strategy and management roles. Abraham writes for a number of influential publications such as GSM World Focus, Total Telecom and Mobile Europe and has chaired as well as been a frequent speaker at international conferences on topics such as fixed mobile convergence, mobile device management, mobile device security, IMS and mobile terminals outsourcing.
Jouko Vierumäki
CEO, Fromdistance
Mr. Jouko Vierumäki is the founder and CEO of Fromdistance Ltd. The company works through partners like system integrators and IT service providers to offer its device management solutions to IT managements of large organisations. Fromdistance is now looking for partners in Italy with the expansion support investment from Aura Capital VC. Prior to founding Fromdistance, he was the CTO of NETikos Group, wireless solutions arm of Telecom Italia. Before joining NETikos by founding NETikos Finland, he was the CTO of Wapit Ltd., a company specialised in mobile software platforms and value-added services. Jouko has 17 years of experience in software industry. He was born in Finland, has lived for 3 years in Italy and has in 2004 settled to Tallinn, Estonia.
Wouter Deelman
CEO, Qelp
Wouter Deelman is Founder and CEO of Qelp, a software-as-a-service provider established in the Netherlands in 2005, serving major mobile network operators and MVNOs in multiple countries. Deelman has over 20 years experience in telecoms and high tech, including business management covering most European countries, USA and Japan. Prior to founding Qelp, he was Founder and CEO of ThreeFive Photonics, a venture backed start-up company supplying optical chips to network systems vendors. In 2002 Time Magazine elected ThreeFive as one of Europe’s 50 most promising technology companies. In 2003 the company was acquired by ASIP from NJ, USA (now called CyOptics) and Deelman served as an executive member on the Board of Directors until founding Qelp in 2005. Before becoming a seral entrepreneur, Deelman was managing consultant of the mobile practice at Logica Consulting, marketing director AT&T for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and set-up a telecoms products business unit for Sony Europe.
Come to Mobile Monday and hear the latest about the new HOT TOPIC in the global mobile market!
Next MoMo : When and Where
Topic: Mobile Device Management
Date: Monday, 13th of October 2008
Time: 17h30-20h00
Place: Restaurant & Art Bar Le Biciclette, Via Torti / Corso Genova, Milan
Keywords: Abraham Joseph, MoMo, Mobile Device Management, Mobile Monday, Wouter Deelman, Jouko Vierumäki
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