The Annual Seminar of Forum Virium Helsinki and DIMES ry will be held on February 28th starting at 11am at Vanha Ylioppilastalo, Helsinki.

The topic for this year is “Odottava Oranssi - Waiting for User Generated Services”. There will be keynotes given by Jari Pasanen (Nokia), Luis M. Correia (Technical University of Lisbon), and a special guest media artist Marita Liulia. In addition the organisers Jarmo Eskelinen (Forum Virium Helsinki) and Kimmo Ojuva (Dimes ry) will give a joint presentation. Also a variety of social media experts will be on stage, including Taru From (Ego/Taivas). Naturally the event includes also a networking part.

Growth business training, funded by the City of Helsinki and implemented by Forum Virium Helsinki and Digibusiness competence center, is closing for 2007 and invites everyone interested to follow the finals at Nokia House, Espoo on December 17th. The event is hosted by Nokia and starts at 2pm (language is Finnish only I would guess).

Agenda includes a presentation by Jari Pasanen, Vice President, Strategy and Technology, Nokia Multimedia, as well as greeting from the City of Helsinki by Jussi Pajunen, Lord Mayor of Helsinki, along, of course, introductions of the 5-6 firms who participated in the training.

Enrollment is free for all, but required beforehand by Dec 13th.