Åse has 10 years experience working in the telecom industry including UIQ, Symbian and Teleca. Åse teaches VisionMobile’s 360 degree training course on mobile open source and is responsible for licensing and open source advisory projects.

Åse's expertise lies in software sourcing and licensing, including risk analysis and policy development, legal assessment, process assessment, corporate training, planning and intellectual property management for both proprietary and open source software.

While at Teleca, Åse Stiller was global business developer for mobile platform integration of the Obigo messaging and browsing products from 2001 through 2006. Åse worked with OEM and ODM customers in Asia, USA and Europe and program managed the integration of Obigo to two different mobile operating systems.

While at UIQ, Åse was responsible for software sourcing, strategic partnerships, supplier management and open source processes.

Christina has more than 12 years of experience in statistical consulting, business & customer intelligence design, data mining and financial analysis & forecasting. She holds an MSc in Statistics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BSc in Economics & Statistics from the University of Bath.

Prior to founding ClientIntell, she has served as Customer Relationship Manager for the Household Lending Unit of EFG Eurobank Ergasias, in charge of both the analysis / intelligence and the campaign design & execution of all direct marketing campaigns to customers for usage, cross-selling and retention reasons. Other managerial positions before that include that of the Customer Analysis & Campaign Manager and that of the Head of Financial Planning & MIS for EFG Eurobank Consumer Lending. While at the above positions, Christina was the first to design advanced financial reporting & forecasting analyses for EFG Eurobank Consumer & Household Lending, as well as set up from scratch all the customer analysis and campaign philosophy, infrastructure, analysis, and value-based direct marketing strategy. She also led big projects for the Bank, such as Risk & Value Based Pricing for consumer-lending products.

Outside the banking sector, Christina has worked on various transportation engineering projects, international-scale mobile industry research projects and retail industry business intelligence projects. As a trainer, she has several years of experience in training junior analysts in reporting and analysis methods, and has also taught statistical applications in transportation engineering and consumer lending.

Jean-Marie is a veteran of the GSM industry.

As the co-founder of Purple Labs SA, he was actively involved in the growth of the company from 2001 until its sale to Esmertec in early 2009, first as the COO and more recently as SVP Corporate Development.

Prior to funding Purple Labs, Jean-Marie was part of the funding team of Sensei Ltd (1998-2001), acquired by VTech. Beforehand, he was involved in the setup of Philips worldwide operations center in France.

Before joining the GSM industry, Jean-Marie was a consultant in real-time embedded systems. A regular speaker at numerous conferences, Jean-Marie is also lecturing with French engineering school Supelec since 1992.

Peggy Anne Salz tracks not only the global mobile telecoms industry, but also the business models and trends that will shape its future. Her drive to separate the reality from the hype and spark debate about issues impacting the mobile industry at all levels has won her international recognition as a brave new voice in the mobile content market. Her most recent report, Mobile Search & Content Discovery’the first of its kind’establishes Peggy as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies enabling media companies and mobile operators to monetize the Long Tail of hit-and-miss content. She is currently working on a follow-up report for VisionGain that will identify and analyze the breakthrough mobile search technologies that will help deliver the right content to the right users with the right results including voice and camera search, behavioral targeting and recommendation engines.

As a committed independent thinker and free agent, Peggy has established a successful writing career based on vision, insight, versatility, and over 15 years of industry experience. She comments on daily developments in mobile search and mobile advertising for MoCoNews.net, a site recently described by the Wall Street Journal as “the required reading of the mobile content industry.” She is also a regular contributor to magazines and online destinations such as Mobile Communications International, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Europe, Mobile Media, MusicAlly, and New Media Age. Peggy also writes ‘Agile Minds,’ a monthly column for eContent magazine documenting the breakthrough technologies and companies that will influence the next-generation Internet widely referred to as Web 2.0.

Not one to sit back and watch, Peggy proactively shapes industry debate in the mobile space. Her speaking calendar includes engagements at mobile search and mobile advertising conferences worldwide, where she both chairs the events and leads roundtable discussions. Peggy founded her site and independent consultancy in response to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from her mobile search reports and her in-depth analysis for clients in the media and technology business.

Graduating with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, Peggy earned a B.A. in Philosophy of Science, Political Science, and Economics. She is a Fulbright fellow and a member of the International Who’s Who of Professionals.