Mobile Monday is back to Ukraine

Mobile Monday is back to Ukraine and during first relaunched Mobile Monday Kyiv #1 on June 25th at iHUB Kyiv we had 90+ mobile developers, project managers, top managers, investors and mobile industry visionaries (Groupon, ABBYY, Lohika Systems, Intersog, 4shared, Ciklum, Luxoft, PaymentWall, Art. Lebedev Studio and many others).

Ms. Arja Makkonen, Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine, and Dimitri Podoliev, Co-founder&CEO at IHUB Network officially opened the event. During the first event, we had a unique opportunity to speak with Mobile Monday Founder Jari Tammisto via Skype live from Helsinki.

The general partner of the first event was the American IT-company Intersog. Sponsor of the event was the American IT-company Lohika (Kyiv office specializes in mobile development). Keynote speakers on Mobile Monday Kyiv #1 were:

• “What is Mobile Monday?”Jari Tammisto, Co-founder&CEO at Mobile Monday (via Skype);
• “Developing for Microsoft Band (wearable)” – Alexander Krakovetsky, Head at DevRain Solutions, Microsoft Regional Director;
• “How to save time when developing mobile applications” – Oleg Timoshenko, Team Lead, Senior Front-End Developer at Intersog & Andriy Radilov, System Architect, Senior Back-End Developer Intersog.

iHUB got a license to be the operator of Mobile Monday in Ukraine on May 7, 2015 and planning to make MoMo activities in all iHUB locations in Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.

Stay tuned and remember – Mobile Monday is about great people, networking, and fun!

For more details, please reach olga@seedforum.org.ua

iHUB – is a network of centers for entrepreneurship and innovation, established on the initiative of Seed Forum in 2014. iHUB contributes to the development of young, innovative startups and is a full-fledged Norwegian-Ukrainian network of centers for entrepreneurs, innovators, and IT specialists. iHUB is expanding its network actively: in the nearest plans for 2015 – to launch centers in Vinnitsa and Lviv, as well as to expand iHUB network in Moldova and Georgia until 2016. For more info, please visit: ihub.com.ua

MobileMonday got started in Helsinki, Finland when mobile enthusiasts, Peter “Angry Bird” Vesterbacka, and Vesku “Windows Mobile” Paananen invited peers for an informal Mobile Monday event to share knowledge on mobile trends, markets, technologies, and innovative services.

Since this landmark meeting back in 2000, Mobile Monday has launched its’ activities in some 140 hubs on all continents. Mobile Monday Oy, based in Finland, coordinates global activities and online service, guides new chapter formations, assigns chapter rights, and manages the regional and global partnerships. Mobile Monday Oy was awarded Finland’s Presidential Internationalization award in 2008 and World Brand Leadership award in 2009.

Our partners:

Intersog is a global provider of custom software development specializing in full service, end-to-end solutions for mobile apps, web, and wearable tech. Our expertise lies in UX design, native and hybrid app development and testing. We are known for delivering tangible results for Fortune 500 companies and startups that take into consideration cost, quality and mobile technology trends.   

Lohika is the IT software development company specializing in product innovation and engineering services for cutting-edge technology companies. Mobile competence center started in 2007 with the belief that the limitations associated with small device platforms and constraints around hardware resources must affect technical decisions made by developers. Today, as mobile applications continue to become increasingly complex on the inside yet retain the need to provide simple user experience on the outside, our universal principles of good software engineering make more sense than ever.

Aside from our general expertise in iOS, Android, and native ARM development, we have particularly deep experience in the following areas: Digital media on mobile, streaming to mobile clients, VoIP stacks on ARM, real-time applications Hybrid applications that combine HTML5 with native UX using fine-tuned interaction frameworks Developed analytic SDKs now used in most mobile applications. More information about company on www.lohika.com

Source: Seed Forum UKRAINE