Speakers

David Krebs

Research Director: Mobile and Wireless Practice, VDC

David has more than ten years experience covering the markets for enterprise and government mobility solutions, wireless data communication technologies and automatic data-capture research and consulting. David focuses on identifying the key drivers and enablers in the adoption of mobile and wireless solutions among mobile workers in the extended enterprise. David’s consulting and strategic advisory experience is far reaching and includes technology and market opportunity assessments, technology penetration and adoption enablers, partner profiling and development, new product development and M&A due diligence support. David has extensive primary market research management and execution experience to support market sizing and forecasting, total cost of ownership (TCO), comparative product performance evaluation, competitive benchmarking and end user requirements analysis. David is a graduate of Boston University (BSBA).

For more information about VDC Research see: www.vdcresearch.com

Dr. Jonathan Bowes

Senior Data Analyst/Modeller (Diffuse Pollution) SEPA

Dr. Jonathan Bowes is employed in the Environmental Assessment Unit of Scotland's environmental regulator, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). He has 16 years experience working with GIS in environmental systems as a Senior Data Analyst/Modeller and is currently focusing on a nationwide project to assess and mitigate diffuse pollution issues. In the last 18 months he has been introducing SEPA to new ways of capturing environmental data in an attempt to change mindsets and remove paper from the field.

Jonathan will speak about an ongoing project where the Algiz 7 is being used to do field surveys of river catchments. He will also discuss the results from a study showing that electronic field data collection on rugged devices would result in significant time savings.

Michael Södermalm

Motivational speaker

What Would You Do ... if anything was possible? What would your life be like without all of the challenges, the drama, the pain that you currently have, and what if all of that could change ... in an instant?

Michael Södermalm is one of Sweden's most appreciated motivational speakers. With his sparkling personality, presence and genuineness, he has fascinated over a million people during his 20 years as an expert in mental training and performance psychology.

Michael has trained leaders in most of Sweden's largest companies. He has also trained Olympic athletes.

With Michael's mix of humor and seriousness people never walk unaffected from his sessions.

Jerker Hellström

CEO and founder - Handheld Group

Jerker is the founder of HHCS Handheld AB and is a seasoned veteran with close to 20 years in the handheld industry. Prior to founding Handheld Jerker worked for Husky Computers Ltd. as Manager for Scandinavia Markets. Before joining Husky Computers Ltd. he held a position as Product Manager with Dataloggers AB. Jerker´s educational background is in Engineering and Computer Science.

Mike Zelman

Vice President Business Development - Handheld Group

Mike joined Handheld in 2010 and brings a broad experience from worldwide organizations and different Marketing & Business Development positions to the company. Most recently Mike was employed by Merix Corporation, a global leader in the manufacturing of printed circuit boards, as Vice President of Marketing. Mike has also direct industry experience from his previous role as Director of Sales & Marketing at Tripod Data Systems. Mike holds a Masters degree from Penn State and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University.

Max Dahlbom

Service & Support Manager - Handheld Group

Max joined Handheld in 2006 with the mission to start up a functional in-house Service & Support department.
His experience within electronics and his passion for always keeping a customer happy have made a clear impact on Handheld’s worldwide support.

Sofia Löfblad

Marketing Director - Handheld Group

Sofia joined the Handheld Group in 2005. As Director of Marketing Sofia oversees all marketing efforts for the Handheld Group globally. Prior to joining Handheld Sofia has been working in various sales and marketing positions. Sofia holds a Masters in Business Administration from Linköping University of Sweden.

Amy Urban

Director of Marketing, Handheld US

Amy has been with Handheld US since it opened in 2008. She directs all marketing activities for the Americas. Prior to joining Handheld, Amy held a variety of marketing and advertising positions including 7 years with Tripod Data Systems (TDS) in marketing communications. Amy is a graduate of Grand Valley State University.