Timo's background in mobile and telecoms spans over 20 years. During this time he has seen mobile phones and other devices shrink in size and multiply in functionality, as well as witnessed industry grow from small to very large.

His work experience includes working in Opera Software as a member of the management team responsible of mobile business unit as well as business development. Prior to that he worked in Symbian in various positions, most recently responsible of several Technology areas and as member of all-licensee Technology Committee. His background also includes Board level representation and extensive public speaking.

Timo has an MSc in Human Computer Interaction from University of London (UCL), and has a lifelong passion in evolving computers to the point that truly intuitive interaction with humans can occur.

Matt is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Aroxo, an online trading portal. At Aroxo he created the company strategy, wrote the technical documentation, sourced developers and designers, managed the development, built a heavy-hitting board and is currently planning a high-profile launch campaign.

Prior to Aroxo Matt has worked for T-Mobile and Orange. Whilst at T-Mobile ran the Instant Messaging project, during this time the IM team (circa 30 FTEs) developed TMO's IM requirements, performed its customer and market research, sourced developers, participated in standards bodies and designed and developed the product.

Whilst at Orange Matt was a corporate strategist guiding the board on its overall business positioning. He worked on projects such as the launch of the world's first Microsoft handsets, Orange's instant messaging strategy and Orange's 3rd party service strategy. Matt also ran a number of Orange's major partner relationships, including Microsoft, Symbian and Sun.

Matt is first and foremost a practical person, always thinking through how ideas can really be applied to an organisation.

Dimitris has 5 years experience in research and analysis in the telecoms market. His areas of expertise include Next Generation Networks, IMS, LTE, WiMAX, OFDM, mobile handsets and identifying emerging strategies for the operator business. He has written several white papers and award winning strategic reports on behalf of analyst house Informa and has also worked on several consultancy projects for leading telecoms companies, including global operators, vendors and service providers.

Dimitris holds a PhD in 4G networks with several publications and has been a frequent speaker and chair of technical sessions during his academic and work career.

Åse has 10 years experience working in the telecom industry including UIQ, Symbian and Teleca.

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 UIQ, Åse was responsible for software sourcing, strategic partnerships, supplier management and open source processes. Prior to that Åse spent five years at Teleca where she led a business unit through a major change process and managed the development of a mobile messaging client, from initiative to global sales & maintenance.

Martin has been at the epicentre of wireless and mobile since 1998, including seven years at Symbian, where he was responsible for ecosystem development and relationship management to Symbian strategic partners including Adobe, Opera, Packetvideo and Sun.

Besides outstanding networking skills, Martin has in-depth knowledge of the mobile ecosystem, from application developers to blue-chip corporates, coupled with a commercial and technical appreciation of what makes mobile business tick. Based on these skills, Martin has helped many companies navigate and prosper in the wireless value chain to date.

Based in Cyprus, and a frequent traveller to Europe and the Middle East, Martin embodies the new spirit of working in today's mobile world.

Martin also acts as an Advisor to Clarity Capital Partners, a boutique, corporate finance firm based in London, UK. He holds a Business Studies degree from Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England.

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.