Speakers
Andy Abgottspon The Foundry
Andy Abgottspon is a Software Engineer and Games Developer from Switzerland. After his studies at the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University, he moved to London to work at The Foundry, a world-leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies. In his spare time, he develops applications for iOS and loves playing football.
Hamish Allan Olive Toast
Hamish Allan is a UX enthusiast and one half of Olive Toast Software Ltd. Coming from a Unix background, he fell in love with Mac OS X and segued comfortably into iOS development.
Paul Ardeleanu Hello24
Paul Ardeleanu is a software engineer, user experience enthusiast and entrepreneur with a passion for mobile utilities. He is the founder & CTO of Hello24 Ltd and currently teaching iOS development at SkillsMatter in London (http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server).
Paul graduated with a PhD in Computational Physics from UCLan and enjoys introducing fresh minds to new technologies.
Andrew Betts Assanka
Andrew is an experienced PHP and JavaScript developer, founder of London based web development agency Assanka, and maintainer of the Meteor open source project
James Bloom Betfair
James has 13 years experience in Java development for distributed and web based enterprise systems in a wide range of industries. James is currently the technical lead of the mobile web team at Betfair, London. In his current role he has focused on building high performance web sites which are designed to run reliably across a wide range of devices with sophisticated progressive enhancement. He has also focused on high quality sustainable delivery through fast feedback loops in agile, continuous delivery, and a very high level of automated tests across a wide range of devices.
Markus Bokowsky Bokowsky + Laymann GmbH
Markus Bokowsky is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bokowsky + Laymann GmbH. For more than 15 years Markus has explored the capabilities of online media in marketing communication. Identifying the strategic potential of emerging technologies had always been a key factor to the success of his company throughout its history. Markus is a passionate iPhone user, and his strongest belief is that the future of the Internet will lie anywhere but in front of a PC.
Scott Bown Mubaloo
Scott has 8 year’s software development experience based in financial services and software development houses. Scott lives and breathes mobile with specialty in the Android platform and is passionate about creating fun, social and useful apps. As Android Team Leader at Mubaloo, Scott oversees all Android resources and projects from inception to delivery, striving to build in quality, security and performance. Scott's favourite apps include Feedly, Swift Key, Netflix, Read It Later, Wow Gorilla, Met Office.
Peter Friese Zühlke Engineering GmbH
Peter Friese is a software engineer with 15+ years hands-on experience in software development, technical writing and public speaking. Peter works as a software engineering consultant at Zühlke Engineering. Having worked on a host of industry projects in diverse domains and being an active committer on a number of open source projects, he has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies. His main areas of expertise are model-driven software development, cross-platform mobile development (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and mobile web) and Eclipse tooling. Peter blogs at http://www.peterfriese.de and tweets at @peterfriese.
Marko Gargenta Marakana.com
Marko the founder of Marakana.com and is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android to 1,000+ developers and sales engineers at companies such as Cisco, Motorola, Sprint, DoD, Qualcomm, Intel, and many others. Marko wrote Learning Android book published by O'Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform. Marko is also the co-chair of Android Open, an O'Reilly conference focusing on Android ecosystem.
Atiq Hashmi Inspirity, Inc.
Atiq Hashmi has a Software Engineering background with over 15 years experience in building and managing advanced systems in the Telecom/Mobile industry. His background includes working at a top-tier wireless provider where he managed and delivered many mission critical systems used in supporting 24x7 Engineering Operations Support Systems, including the rollout of the largest Engineering system involving wireless cell-site lifecycle management.
He has also published technical articles. He is a mobile web evangelist and is interested in studying related trends.
He serves on the Information Technology Advisory Board of the New Jersery Technology Council - a large professional networking group of many IT, telecom, and other businesses.
He is also a member of a Chamber of Commerce and is helping to revive their web and mobile strategy.
Atiq is the President of Inspirity, Inc. - a New Jersey, US based technology company that is uniquely focused on mobile web software platform. The company is building the technology, Applications and tools to enable businesses establish themselves with their own mobile web brand that offers their consumers efficient ways to interact with the business.
Jonny Kaldor Kaldor Ltd
Prior to setting up Kaldor, Jonny was MD, Technology and Product Development at News Corporation's Digital Media Group, focusing on building new digital brands. This followed three years as CTO at News International, where he was responsible for technology delivery across the business. Kaldor is a software house that conceives, designs and builds beautiful and innovative mobile content platforms and applications.
Sanyu Kiruluta RIM
Sanyu Kiruluta is the Team Lead for Developer Relations, EMEA at Research In Motion. She is responsible for driving and managing the development of applications for the BlackBerry platform, working closely with BlackBerry Alliance Partners. Sanyu has extensive experience in the architecture and design of multi-tier software systems in the information technology, biotechnology and financial industries. Prior to joining RIM, Sanyu held technical leadership positions in a diverse range of companies, including Celera Diagnostics and Innoventry. Sanyu also holds both a BCompSc from Concordia University and a MBA from Queen’s University, Canada.
Graham Lee Fuzzy Aliens
Graham is the "smartphone security boffin" in the lab at UK mobile phone operator O2. He has been working in software security for around five years, primarily on the Mac and iOS platforms but he has increasingly been working on Android, Windows Phone 7 and Rails of late, too. Graham is the author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security" (Wiley 2009) and "Test-Driven iOS Development" (Addison-Wesley 2012).
John Bailey Apphance
I am a British software engineer living and working in Warsaw. I graduated with a PhD in Software Engineering from Durham University (UK) in 2007. Since then I have held various roles within software ranging from tester, web / mobile developer and business analyst. Right now I'm helping to ensure Apphance addresses the real needs of developers and project managers during mobile development.
Ben Medlock SwiftKey
Dr Ben Medlock is the Co-founder and CTO of SwiftKey, one of the all-time best selling Android apps, and winner of the Mobile Premier Awards best app 2011. Ben's team use cutting edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to enhance text entry on mobile devices. Ben developed his expertise in this area during eight years of computer science research, culminating in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent academic journals, and he has multiple publications in ACL, the leading conference for research into applied natural language processing.
Sean O Sullivan Rococo / LocalSocial
Sean is co-founder of two mobile startups, Rococo Software and Dial2Do. Rococo is a world leader in proximity software, and has shipped its software on over 200M mobile phones to date. Rococo has recently launched the LocalSocial Proximity Platform, making it easy for developers to take advantage of short range wireless in their apps. The first service on the platform enables hyperlocal advertising and loyalty for retailers. Dial2Do is a voice service platform that makes it easy to trigger application actions and events by speaking. Dial2Do partners with the world's leading headset manufacturers, including Plantronics, Jabra and Jawbone, among others. From a technical perspective, Sean's interests are distributed systems, mobile and wireless technology, and the space where the web meets the plain old telephony system. His LinkedIn propaganda is here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sos100.
Chris Perret Nukona
Chris Perret is CEO of Nukona, Inc. Chris’s background includes spending many years as a software engineer working on compilers and various embedded technologies before moving on to take over the business side of delivering value to customers through technology.
In 2005, Chris took over Wind River’s Solutions & Services business and started up multiple business lines, including the highly successful mobile business, which resulted in Wind River being the first commercialization partner for Google’s Android mobile operating system.
In 2010, Chris recognized an emerging challenge for enterprise IT related to the massive influx of consumer-oriented devices invading the enterprise and the associated security vulnerabilities, data loss possibilities and compliance issues and founded Nukona to provide a solution.
Chris’s simple goal with Nukona is to enable organizations to gain competitive advantage by grasping the opportunities afforded by the latest advances in consumer mobile technology…. without compromising their most valuable asset: their data.
Jesus Rodriguez Tellago Studios, Inc
Jesus is a co-founder and CEO of both Tellago Studios and Tellago, two fast growing start-ups with a unique vision around software technology. Jesus spends his days working on the technology and strategic vision of both companies. Under his leadership, Tellago and Tellago Studios have been recognized as an innovator in the areas of enterprise software and solutions achieving important awards like the Stevie Awards’ American and International Business Awards.
A software scientist by background, Jesus is an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include hundreds of articles and sessions at industry conferences. Jesus serves as an software advisor to several software companies such as Microsoft and Oracle, and hold different industry awards. Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to software technology and entrepreneurship. You can gain valuable insight on business and software technology through his blogs at http://jrodthoughts.com and http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx .
Robert Virkus Enough Software
Robert comes from a cross platform background and works in the industry over ten years. So yes, he's old but that does not stop him from being provocative and thought provoking. In this talk recent mobile developments will be put into their historic context and we will battle out once for all who will prevail: web or app.
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