MWC Podcast Interview: Mobile Monday's Jari Tammisto

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers, influentials and other interested parties fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events.  The interest to share ideas, best practices, mutual utility and talk trends in the the global mobile industry is the 'glue' that keeps the group together. Consider it Face to Face Social Networking around the mobile campfire one Monday a month all around the world.

Listen to my conversation with MoMo CEO Jari Tammisto here (8 min)

Physically meeting, making face to face connections, this is an off-line, 'open source' grass roots organization that has taken the mobile industry by storm.  Every first Monday of the month, mobilists gather at over 70 local MoMo outposts around the world. MoMo communities convene to encourage innovation in the mobile sector, facilitate networking between individuals drawn from small and large companies, as well as between local and foreign contributors. As a volunteer organization it promotes mobile innovation through the organization's monthly events, organizational awards and international conventions,-- there is a global convention in the works for May in KL, Malaysia.

As Jarri relayed to me off line after our conversation: "We plan to host over 700 Mobile Monday events in 2008 in 70 different cities around the world, and we expect to see more than 90,000 participants. This makes MoMo the world’s leading event organizer in the mobile technology industry.” Besides running the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards here in Barcelona co-located at the GSMA World Congress, where Luis Jorge Romero, Standards and Innovation Director at Telefónica O2, and Pekka Ala-Pietilä, CEO and Co-Founder of Blyk were keynote speakers, he was also working forwarding a project with the GSMA, so look out for word on that soon.

Check out whether there is a Mobile Monday in your corner of the mobile world. If there isn't one, start your own!