IndustryForum Government is an annual event for decision makers in government’s organization. It will be arranged this year 23-24 November 2010 at Vanajanlinna, in Hämeenlinna, Finland. There will be discussions on current topics like digitalization and automatization of services as well as change management at a turning point of operational environment. Ixonos is a gold-level co-operative partner in the event.

Antti Kytömäki from Ixonos will give a speech on “Effortless Content Management with Integration to Office Environment”. Ixonos Easy Content Management solution boosts both customer service and internal processes.

More information:
Heikki Lanu, Director, Public sector, tel. +358 50 511 3882, e-mail heikki.lanu/at/ixonos.com

More information of the event in organizer’s home page:
http://www.managementevents.com/IndustryForum/Government.html

Openmind is COSS’ annual conference focusing on open source related business and technologies. It gathers together vendors, users and developers who utilize open source. Openmind event has been arranged since 2004. This year’s event will take place on 9 and 10 November in the House of Municipalities (Kuntatalo), Helsinki, Finland.

Ixonos’ Timo Aittoniemi gives a speech in the workshop titled “Selling and productizing open-source solutions”.

Ixonos is an active participant in COSS and a sponsoring member of the steering committee.

For more information, please contact:
Timo Aittoniemi, tel. +358 40 566 7060, timo.aittoniemi/at/ixonos.com

Ixonos participates in IBM Software Day organized on 9 November 2010 at the Helsinki Fair Centre, Finland. This year’s event concentrates on how organizations can be built to be even more innovative and smarter. The program consists of interesting case examples.

At the event Ixonos introduces the Ixonos Easy Content Management solution, which enables fluent management of information and documents in the MS Office environment. Ixonos’ solution is easy to integrate to document management solutions based on IBM’s solution platform. Ixonos is IBM’s Value Net partner and has certified and extensive knowledge on the design and implementation of ECM solutions on top of IBM technology.

More information about the event is available on the organiser’s web page in Finnish:
http://www-05.ibm.com/fi/news/events/softwareday/agenda.html

For more information, please contact:
Mikko Sjöblom, Solution Area Manager, ECM, tel. +358 44 273 3188, mikko.sjoblom/at/ixonos.com

Finnish National Project Management Conference will be organized in the Conference Center Dipoli in Espoo, Finland, on 9-10 November 2010. Project management professionals and 80+ expert speakers will attend the event. Young Professional Crew, a network for young project managers and young leaders, arrange a Finnish project management championship as part of the conference.

Ixonos’ Teppo Kuisma, Head of Business Solutions, will give a speech about large ICT projects from selling all the way to the implementation of e-service solutions, as part of a stream dedicated to selling and purchasing of projects. For more information and full programme of the event (in Finnish), go to: http://www.projektipaivat.fi/

Ixonos’ Susa Lindström, Head of Consulting, Managed Services Centre, and Panu Kause will be judging the project management championship. In the competition students in higher education take on each other´s skills in project related rivalry. The purpose of the competition is to support project education, develop interest towards project management and at the same time find a fun way to network among other like-minded future professionals and organizations. Ixonos’ assignment in the competition is related to finding new business opportunities in the area of ”mobile in the cloud”.

More information about the competition and the upcoming winners and results, please follow Finnish project management championship pages, Ixonos’ Twitter and Facebook.

For more information, please contact: 

Teppo Kuisma, Head of Business Solutions, tel. +358 50 581 40 75, teppo.kuisma/at/ixonos.com

Susa Lindström, Head of Consulting, Managed Services Centre, tel. +358 44 320 3000, susa.lindstrom/at/ixonos.com

The Smart Device and Mobile User Experience Summit 2010 is held on 2-3 November 2010 in London, UK.

With specialist focus groups on tablets, monetization, augmented reality and a host of other essential topics, it is a great opportunity to share ideas, find solutions and prepare for the changing shape of the market. The event has 35+ expert speakers, interactive keynote presentations and working group sessions.

Ixonos’ Sami Paihonen, Vice President, User Experience Design Services, holds a presentation with the topic: “Can an emotional value reverse the ‘homogenisation of functionality’ in smartphones?”

He will also take part in a panel discussion on “Defining ‘Smart Device’ –Where is the Smart Device Industry Heading?”

To learn more about the event, visit the event website at http://www.deviceanduserexperience.com/

For more information, please contact:
Sami Paihonen, Vice President, User Experience Design Services, tel. +358 50 502 1111, sami.paihonen/at/ixonos.com