CEO Teemu Arina of Meetin.gs presentation at 3rd Space World Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The video shown in the presentation about the solution is here: http://vimeo.com/38549604

1. Meetin.gs & Seats2meet.com Project
A THIRD SPACE FOR MEETINGS
www.meetin.gs
CEO Teemu Arina
March 2012
Twitter: @meetin_gs

2. UNIVERSITAS
the whole, total; the universe, the world

3. 500 Print
100
Radio
Movies
Records
50 Television
15 Internet
10 Mobile
3

4. “Today each of us lives several
hundred years in a decade.”
– Marshall McLuhan, Canadian communication theorist

5. I certainly do. TEEMU ARINA Stats
Meetings Emails
8 150
7.4
132
6.4 120
Received / work day*
6.5
Hours / work day*
6.1 6.2
4.8 90 93
4.7
3.2 60
59
1.6 30
25
19
0 0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
* Based on 253 work days / year

6. Is this what you do for a living?
!
?
go to meetings send emails
8%
>100
MONTH 10%
<10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 51-100 11-50
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 /day
22%
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 60%

7. Technology is a
Trojan Horse

8. Social Media Is The Vector For More Meetings
8

9. “Email is not a messaging protocol. It is
a todo list. And it is a shitty todo list.
Anyone of you can put stuff on my todo
list and I don't want that.”
– Paul Graham, inventor of Bayesian spam filters
9

10. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the
human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its
full potential, that–word would be meetings.”
Dave Barry
– Dave Barry, comedian

11. “In all physical meetings there are more or
less the wrong people present.”
– Esko Kilpi, Finnish Management Consultant

12. 69% feel that meetings aren’t productive.
(Global Survey by Microsoft)

13. In digital environments there could be
more or less the right people present.

14. Today is a simultaneous happening

15. Personal Cloud
Working & Learning
Environment
15

16. “The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of
everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
– Mark Weiser, former Chief Scientist, Xerox

17. DIGITAL
DNA
ANALOG
Meeting
or event

18. www.meetin.gs

19. Meetings: The Old Way
?
Reply All
Key participant
Endless
email chains...
...with more or less
the wrong people

20. Complete Meeting Lifecycle On the Cloud
Before
Find a suitable 1 2 Collaborate on
time together agenda & materials
After During
3
Share notes &
discuss next steps

21. 21

22. Sync
Dropbox
22

24. Meeting Communication Paradigm Shift
Point-to-point Point-to-point Multipoint
LOCATION PERSON CONTEXT
1 2 3
Landline Mobile phone,
& snail mail email, Skype
Thanks to: Esko Kilpi

25. Make a reservation
next week @ Seats2meet.com
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Founder, CEO Teemu Arina
Twitter
teemu@meetin.gs
@meetin_gs
+358 50 555 7636
Skype: infe00 Twitter: tar1na