Janne Jalkanen

Janne Jalkanen is the NFC Program Manager at the Nokia Devices R&D unit.  His team is responsible for defining, developing and deploying NFC solutions for mobile devices across the Nokia portfolio.  Janne has been working in the NFC area for many years at various positions ranging from Corporate Strategy to R&D, and was involved in the NFC Forum from the beginning.  He was the editor of several NFC Forum specifications.

Prior to Nokia, Janne worked broadly all over the IT industry, including software consultancy, virtual reality, and rocket science.

Janne holds a M.Sc. and Lic. Tech from the Helsinki University of Technology, and in his spare time relaxes as the lead developer for JSPWiki, an open source wiki solution. Janne as well as was present with the Nokia at the inseption of the NFC-Forum when Nokia, NXP and Sony formed it.

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