BIOGRAPHIES

Jarkko Sairanen is Vice President, Head of Corporate Strategy at Nokia. In this role he drives with his team Nokia’s strategic priorities and decision making. The scope includes business strategy and development as well as technology strategy.

Before assuming his current role Jarkko has held two positions at Nokia. Vice President, Strategy and Services, in the Technology Platforms and Vice President, Head of the Insight&Foresight unit at Nokia Ventures Organization.

Prior to joining Nokia summer 2001 Jarkko worked nine years at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and in Helsinki. Jarkko has earned his MBA from INSEAD in France and M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology. His hobbies include various sports (such as cross-country and downhill skiing, running, indoor hockey and golf), boating, and cars.

Elizabeth Keating is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Science, Technology & Society Program. Her research interests include: societal impacts of new communication technologies, visual communication, computer-mediated communication, and the role of language in social stratification. She has conducted fieldwork in Micronesia, the Deaf Community, and the U.S. She has published and presented papers on a variety of interrelated topics in language and society, including new communication technology, language and social inequality, gender, language and space, language and cognition, American Sign Language, and multimodality. She is a past editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Bremen, and a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and CNRS-CREDO in Marseilles.

Lara Srivastava is ITU New Initiatives Programme Director with the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva (Switzerland). Ms. Srivastava has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. She is currently responsible for monitoring and analyzing trends in information and communication technology, policy, and market structure, with a particular focus on mobile and wireless communications (e.g. 3G, WiMax, RFID). She organizes and advises on workshops and symposia programmes, covering topics of interest to policy-makers, regulators and industry. In this context, she acts as Programme Director for ITU’s New Initiatives Programme (www.itu.int/ni), and contributes to programme development for the global ITU TELECOM Forum.

Ms. Srivastava also writes and manages publications produced by the ITU’s Strategy and Policy Unit. These include e.g. “The Internet of Things” (2005), “The Portable Internet” (2004), “Licensing of 3G Mobile” (2001), “Shaping the Future Mobile Information Society” (2004) and “Ubiquitous Network Societies” (2005). She has published several articles in refereed journals such as INFO and Telecommunications Policy, and in books such as “Mobile Understanding: The Epistemology of Ubiquitous Communication (2006, Passagen Verlag), “Thumb Culture” (Transcript, 2005), and “Asia Unplugged” (2005, Sage Publications) on topics ranging from the mobile Internet and market regulation to the growing nexus between technology and society. Ms. Srivastava is contributes to a number of editorial committees and boards and is a guest lecturer in various university and college programmes.

Before joining ITU over six years ago, Lara Srivastava worked for the Legal Department of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC), the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands) as a Research Fellow in telecommunication regulatory reform, and for the UK-based telecommunication consultancy Analysys as part of its management consultant team. She has also had the opportunity to work for an Internet start-up company, App-Tap, as strategic manager.

Ms. Srivastava holds an advanced B.A degree (B.A. Hons) and Master of Arts (M.A) from Queen’s University (Canada) and a French Studies Diploma from the Université de Strasbourg (France). She received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Ottawa (Canada) and an Advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in International Law and Telecommunications (C.R.A.) from the Université de Panthéon- Assas Paris II (France). She completed a Master of Science (M.Sc) in Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex (UK). Ms. Srivastava is a qualified barrister and solicitor, and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Matti Hämäläinen is a professor at the Software Business and Engineering Institute (SoberIT) of the Helsinki University of Technology. In the mobile services area his research interests include approaches that lower the barriers in creation, deployment and adoption of new services. These include methods for helping to realize dynamically configured services, "lightweight" models for supporting networked business and ways of enabling consumer involvement in service innovation and creation.

Prior to his current role Matti has been involved in mobile services and games business. In 1998 he started Codeonline (now Codetoys) to develop mobile solutions for learning and entertainment, offering games services to a worldwide operator base. As a board member of the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum he has been involved in developing specifications in the emerging industry. Matti has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin and he holds M.Sc. in Computer & Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology

Markku Ranta

Mr. Markku Ranta joined Nokia Corporation in 1994. Currently he works as Director, New Opportunity Hunting within Nokia Multimedia in Espoo Finland. His main responsibility is to identify and pursue novel service and software innovations that add customer value and provide new business possibilities for Nokia. Recently he has worked on techno-economic modeling and business development of end user service concepts within Nokia Technology Platforms. Between 1998 and 2001 he was based in Beijing were he started the first R&D operations for Nokia in mainland China and was heavily involved in cooperation with local partners. Before Nokia, he spent 3 years in Brussels at the Finnish EU office as the councellor of Science and Technology and before that, 4 years at TEKES (Finnish Technology Development Agency) as program manager. Ranta holds Licentiate of Technology on microelectronics from Helsinki University of Technology (in 1986) and MBA from Theseus Management Institute in Sophia-Antipolis, France (in 2002).

Mr. David Tilson is a doctoral candidate in the Information Systems Department of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. His doctoral research explores the role of standards in coordinating innovation, regulation and the marketplace in the mobile computing and communications industry. Prior to returning to academia David focused on the telecom industry while working as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He also worked for 10 years in telecom and broadcast system R&D and project management. He won a Royal Television Society award in the UK for broadcast technology innovation. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin, a Masters degree in Telecom Engineering from the University of London and a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Queen´s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Dr. Marko Turpeinen is in charge of the Digital Content Communities group at HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology). He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology and a M. Sc. Degree in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic research addresses issues in customized media content and active computer-mediated communities. He has also worked at Alma Media Corporation, a Finnish media company, as Director, Business Opportunities. Marko's recent projects include Mobile Content Communities (MC2), which started in June 2003, and studies the social meaning and impact of new communication technology for communities that are interested in mobile gaming.

Kristian Segerstrale