Leading media innovation experts will share their experience and future vision of mobile and social network-oriented businesses with a Russian audience.

Ralph Simon, one of the pioneers of mobile entertainment dubbed the “father of ringtone”, Kei Shimada, CEO of the Japanese based mobile content producer and industry analyst Infinita, will be the first hosts in a series of discussion groups organized by RIA Novosti news agency.

The event will take place on June 2 at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow. It will focus on the integration of mobile devices with social networking services and other innovations which are expected to hit the market over the next few years. The guests will also discuss examples of successful brand promotion campaigns which relied heavily on social networks.

Among the hosts of similar future events will be Tomi Ahonen, ex-senior manager at Nokia and author of a dozen books on mobile marketing, and Peter A. Bruck, head of Research Studios Austria, a non-profit organization helping university students get their innovations onto the market.

The series of discussion groups are part of the International Future Media Forum, which Moscow will hold in late June. RT is one of the event’s information sponsors.