The Speakers of Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference 2010.
(click the speakers’ name to see their short bio below)
Sanyu Kiruluta, Team Lead, Developer Relations EMEA, Research In Motion.
Sanjeet Matharu, Principal Manager, Developer Marketing at Vodafone.
Anand Iyer, Senior Product Manager in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team.
Srikanth Raju, Director of Marketing, Forum Nokia.
Fabio Sisinni, Director of Product Management at PayPal Mobile.
Jim Small, Head of Country Deployment and Operations for the Orange App Shop.
Jose Rodriguez, Head of Product in Telefonica Developers Global Communities.
Sami Viitanen, Head of Technology Consultancy Services, Forum Nokia EMEA.
Paul Rouget, Technology Evangelist at Mozilla Corporation.
Rob Jonas, VP & Managing Director, Europe, InMobi.
Andreas Bovens, Group Leader Developer Relations, Opera Software.
Fredrik Ademar, CTO at The Astonishing Tribe (TAT AB).
Volker Hirsch, Chief Strategy Officer at social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop.
Vidhya Gholkar, Senior Manager, Industry Engagement, Vodafone Group.
Christine Perey, Principal at PEREY Research & Consulting.
Fernando Kanacri, Marketing Services, Games & Media, Nokia.
Vincent Hoogsteder, co-founder Distimo.
Jascha Samadi is Managing Director and Co-Founder of apprupt.
Martin Higham, Founder of Ocasta Labs.
Laurent Eschenauer, Architect of OneSocialWeb.
François Daoust, Mobile Web Initiative specialist at W3C.
Tom Hume, Managing Director of Future Platforms.
Ted Morgan, CEO & Founder, Skyhook Wireless.
Wolfram Kriesing, Co-Founder at uxebu.
Israel Ferrer, Business Developer of Bubiloop.com and founder of and.roid.es.
Julián Moreno-Beltrán – CEO Droiders.com.
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Sanyu Kiruluta, Team Lead, Developer Relations EMEA, Research In Motion.
Sanyu Kiruluta is a Senior Application Development Consultant with the Developer Relations team at Research in Motion. Her team is responsible for providing technical support to RIM Alliance Partners and BlackBerry® platform developers around the world. Sanyu specializes in mobile social networking applications on the BlackBerry platform. She has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Concordia University and an MBA from Queen’s University.
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Srikanth Raju, Director of Marketing, Forum Nokia.
In this role, Srikanth is responsible for driving the creation and execution of all worldwide market-to and market-with activities related to Nokia’s developer communities. Prior to this role, Srikanth was managing Forum Nokia’s regional technical services operations leading technical services teams in Americas, APAC, China and EMEA. Before joining Nokia, Srikanth worked as the Wireless Technology evangelist at Sun’s developer marketing and market development organization, where he played a key role in developer strategy and market development in the emerging wireless developer space. Prior to joining Sun, Srikanth was at Oracle and Borland in various management, engineering and product management roles.
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Sanjeet Matharu, Principal Manager, Developer Marketing at Vodafone.
Sanj Matharu drives the developer outreach and developer content for the mobile applications and devices at Vodafone. Prior to Vodafone, Sanj had a long career at Symbian starting in developer tools development, managing Symbian Signed and then onto engaging with developers via OEM developer programs. He then moved to Samsung and created the Samsung Mobile Innovator developer program – Samsungs first large scale foray into engagement with the developer community.
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Anand Iyer, Senior Product Manager in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team.
Anand is a Senior Product Manager on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team. He works on the Application Developer Experience of the platform and is responsible in productizing the platform for consumption by Startups, Students and Hobbyists. Anand joined Microsoft in January 2005 as an Evangelist, Microsoft’s ambassador to the Silicon Valley. During his tenure there, he has been in the midst of several launches, such as Visual Studio, SQL Server, Vista, Office and many others. Anand is actively involved in the startup community in the Silicon Valley and liaises with Microsoft corporate development teams and startup companies. Before joining Microsoft, Anand worked for Cisco Systems’ New Business Ventures team, pioneering XML-based manageability solutions. Anand has extensive experience software methodologies, and has worked on several development platforms. He has also earned two patent awards related to manageability solutions on networking platforms. Anand has a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.
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Jim Small, Head of Country Deployment and Operations for the Orange App Shop.
Jim Small is Head of Country Deployment and Operations for Application Shop within the Mobile Multimedia team in Orange Group Innovation Marketing with responsibility for delivery and operational running of Orange App Shop across all Orange France Telecom global markets. Jim and his team work directly with the Orange country product marketing heads to ensure local country requirements are delivered, and also manage direct relationships with the with application developer community to ensure that the sourcing and delivery of application content for Orange App Shop delivers to multi-country, multi-language and multi-platform requirements.
Jim joined Orange Group in March 2009 following 6 years in the Orange UK Multimedia team including project delivery responsibility for the initial Orange World portal and moving on to business ownership of the UK Multimedia Communication Services portfolio (Chat, IM, Email, Blog, Postcards), leadership of the UK downloads team and product portfolio (music tracks, ringtones, games, video & TV and wallpapers) including UK business ownership for launch of the UK web and mobile Application Shop in 2007. In 2008 Jim served as Head of Product Development and Operations for Orange UK Portals, responsible for product delivery and operational ownership of Orange World, Community / UGC product portfolio, downloads and targeting / profile enabler deliveries.
Prior to working at Orange Jim has a background in client service and project management within the New Media agency world and, before that, in the development of electronic publishing technologies for typesetting and pre-press.
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Sami Viitanen, Head of Technology Consultancy Services, Forum Nokia EMEA.
Sami works at Forum Nokia focused in providing Developers with the latest Nokia experiences through tech workshops. Previously Sami has worked in Digia’s Consultancy team, providing technical training and consulting for Symbian OS projects worldwide. His working history includes working as an entrepreneur and partner as well as in globally operating mobile companies from areas like software design and testing to project and product management – as well as expert positions.
Sami will run two workshops on the following topics:
1) Using Qt to develop cross platform applications
Benefits for developers
Toolchain:Nokia Qt SDK
Mobility APIs
Deployment
2)Using Web Runtime on Nokia
Create a mobile application in less than an hour using standard web technologies
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Jose Rodriguez, Head of Product, Telefonica Developers Global Communities.
Jose Rodríguez, Project Manager at Telefónica R&D. Presently leading product definition for Telefónica Developer Communities. Has been involved in Movistar social media projects and mobile media products related to music and content distribution. Mobile and web developer and passionate about social media, he has contribute to promote open innovation in major Telco workshops and innovation projects funded by the European Commission.
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Fabio Sisinni, Director of Product Management at PayPal Mobile.
Fabio is a mobile technology addict and is having fun running PayPal Mcommerce products and inventing new ways consumers will pay with their mobile phones. In his role he is responsible for bringing to the market mobile payment solutions directly to developers and in partnerships with carriers, devices and mobile OS vendors. He has over ten years of experience in the mobile industry. Prior to joining PayPal, he worked at Motorola, where he helped build the billion+ dollar Bluetooth accessory business and worked for NA and EU carriers as management consultant advising them on strategy and operations. Fabio received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
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Paul Rouget, Technology Evangelist at Mozilla Corporation.
Paul Rouget works on promoting the OpenWeb and Mozilla as a platform. He has been involved in the Mozilla project since 2003. He works for Mozilla as a Technology Evangelist. Paul experiments with the new technologies of the Web and the Mozilla platform. Lately, he has been working on a set of demos showing how far we can go with the new standards and Firefox, both on the desktop and on mobile.
Paul will do a session on Firefox and HTML 5 on Android.
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Rob Jonas, VP & Managing Director, Europe, InMobi.
InMobi is the world’s largest independent global mobile advertising network.
Rob joined InMobi in December 2009 as Head of Europe, with overall responsibility for building the business in Western and Eastern Europe. He brings deep experience of launching, building and scaling digital advertising businesses in Europe.
Rob joins InMobi from Google, where he was Director of Strategic Partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for some of Google’s largest commercial relationships in the region. Prior to Google, he was part of Yahoo! Europe, having joined through the acquisition of Overture Europe (formerly GoTo.com), which was acquired by Yahoo! in October 2003 for $1.6 billion. As an early employee of Overture Europe he was a key member of the European management team, contributing to the growth of the paid search industry in more than 13 markets in Europe over 2 years. Before Overture, he was an Executive Producer and founding team member of the European office of Bill Gross’ idealab!, which facilitated both US companies’ entry in Europe and executed local investments. Rob is a graduate of Oxford University in the UK and started his career in systems engineering and consulting at IBM Global Services in Europe and the US.
Rob was attracted to InMobi by the phenomenal talent and success of the existing team, combined with their desire to build a truly global business in the fastest growing digital sector of the next decade.
Rob will talk about “The Real Consumer Perspective on Mobile Advertising”.
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Fredrik Ademar, CTO at The Astonishing Tribe (TAT AB).
Fredrik is since 2005 active as CTO of TAT, heading the overall research and innovation activities, technical strategies across products, partner relationships and collaborations etc. He has been working for various companies within the mobile industry since the late 90′s such as e.g. AU-System, Teleca/Obigo, TeliaSonera and within industry forums like WAPForum/OMA/3GPP. Before joining TAT, he was heavily involved in driving the technology evolution of embedded web browsers and mobile media technologies, establishment of a Bluetooth technology start-up, product development at Telia R&D extending mobile internet services with multimodal UI schemes e.g. for unified messaging.
Frederik will talk on “Mobile UI trends and innovation”.
Where subtopics typically would be to look at challenges and opportunities around emerging device and UI trends, and more specifically take an example of lessons learned from our activities within Augmented Reality in mobile (from a concept and business perspective, based on the experiences we had from the Recognizr project).
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Fernando Kanacri, Marketing Services, Games & Media, Nokia.
Fernando Kanacri is Marketing Services, Games & Media, Nokia Iberia. He is responsible for managing Ovi services including Ovi Store, Nokia’s key application and content selling platform. After twelve years of experience in the Internet and IT sector, he joined Nokia in January 2008, to focus on games and music and when Ovi Store was launched, he focused on reinforcing the relationships with developers to add local relevant contents to the store.
Fernando will talk about Business Opportunities with Ovi Store.
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Volker Hirsch, Chief Strategy Officer at social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop.
Volker is the Chief Strategy Officer at social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop who bring sociality including monetization tools to mobile platforms and the web. He is also a co-founder of Blue Beck, a social games creator and publisher for smartphones.
Volker has been at the forefront of mobile and digital media for a decade. From helping conceive the world’s first mobile artist services for the likes of Britney Spears, Eve and Duran Duran, working with radio stations to use mobile as an audience activation tool to mobile games (at Hands-On Mobile and Connect2Media and incl. licenses with Marvel, Hasbro, Activision, LEGO, BMW, Konami, WPT, etc.) he has been fortunate in playing a part in industry firsts.
Volker maintains his blog at http://vhirsch.com/blogand tweets @vhirsch.
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Christine Perey, Principal at PEREY Research & Consulting.
Christine is an evangelist with over 19 years experience in new and emerging multimedia communications markets.
In 2007 she prepared the Informa Telecoms & Media market research report: Mobile Social Networking: Communities and Content on the Move published by Informa in January 2008.
In 2008 Perey co-founded Mobile Monday Switzerland . She also prepared the Informa Telecoms & Media market research report: Mobile Social Networking: Business, Technology and Mobile Operator Strategies published by Informa in September 2009.
In 2009 Perey was the co-chair of the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking which was conducted January 15-16, 2009. Following this workshop, she became an invited expert in the W3C Social Web Incubator Group.
She also was the chair of the Mobile Committee of the ISMAR 09 conference where she conducted the first Mobile Magic Wand Augmented Reality Workshop.
She founded and is the organizer of the Swiss Augmented Reality Meetup Group.
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Vidhya Gholkar, Senior Manager, Industry Engagement, Vodafone Group.
Vidhya has held a variety of technology and strategy roles in Communications and Web technology at Vodafone Group. Prior to this he was looking after device and service platform requirements and business cases for Vodafone UK. He was the CTO at Argogroup, a start up specialising in Mobile Internet user experience, where he designed some of the first web services, lead due diligence for acquisition, developed solutions for several operators and changed the companies technology/product direction which all layed the foundation for significant sales growth and Industry awards before the companies eventual acquisition. Prior to that he was with Schlumberger managing and developing software and algorithms for data analysis, Internet and wireless projects.
Vidhya will talk about the Wholesale Applications Community: Making it easier for developers to build applications and expanding the market for those applications.
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Vincent Hoogsteder, co-founder Distimo.
Vincent will talk about the “Mobile Application Stores State of Play”.
Vincent Hoogsteder is CEO and co-founder of Distimo, the innovative app store analytics company. Founded in May 2009, Distimo was founded to address the challenges created by a widely fragmented app store marketplace filled with equally fragmented information and statistics.
Prior to co-founding Distimo, Hoogsteder was Mobile Product Manager at eBuddy, the world’s leading independent web and mobile IM service. Hoogsteder managed eBuddy’s mobile IM application from its inception and played a pivotal role in helping eBuddy achieve more than 20M mobile app downloads worldwide in less than 2 years. Hoogsteder holds a Masters Degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
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Jascha Samadi is Managing Director and Co-Founder of apprupt.
Jascha Samadi is Managing Director and Co-Founder of apprupt, the first affiliate network for mobile apps. apprupt was founded in 2008 and lets developers market their apps on a pay-per-download basis through whitelabel app shops on publishers’ mobile sites. At apprupt, which is venture backed by Deutsche Telekom and Neuhaus Partners, Jascha is mainly reponsible for the companies’ progress on the publisher and developer side. Before founding apprupt Jascha founded several other companies, among them online retailer mypokershop and worked for XING in a legal position. Jascha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Corporate Law from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
His presentation will focus on “Affiliate Marketing for Mobile Apps”.
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Martin Higham, Founder of Ocasta Labs.
Founder of Ocasta Labs and responsible for platform architecture. Previously an architect for WiderWeb Ltd and then Openwave, Martin has over twenty years experience in technology development across many web and data services organisations including IBM, T-Mobile, Intuwave and Volantis.
Martin will do a workshop on”Using CouchDB to develop mobile solutions”,
an introduction to CouchDB, why it is appropriate to mobile development and lessons from developing project Agora for Vodafone Betavine.
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Laurent Eschenauer, Architect of OneSocialWeb.
Coder, not blogger. Technology enthusiast. Exploring the future of the web & mobility. Software engineer at Vodafone Group R&D. Architect of Storytlr and OneSocialWeb.
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François Daoust – Mobile Web Initiative specialist at W3C.
Before December 2007, François helped develop an on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge from its first minimalist draft within a small French start-up to a full-featured version within Microsoft. This kept him busy for more than seven years.
Then he joined the W3C where he learned the theory behind the great Web, and now happily tries to conciliate theory and practice within the Mobile Web Initiative. He maintains the online W3C mobileOK Checker, contributes as a tutor to the online training sessions on Mobile Web Best Practices and serves as Staff Contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group.
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Tom Hume, Managing Director, Future Platforms.
As Managing Director, Tom divides his time between greasing the wheels of our design and development team and business development. He’s actively involved in the mobile industry, serving as an Invited Expert for the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Group and speaking regularly at industry events like Mobile Mobile, the Future of Mobile and dConstruct.
Before founding Future Platforms Tom spent 5 years at early UK digital agency Good Technology, where he served as Technical Director and Head of Wireless, helping grow the company from 3 to 80 and serving on the management team as the business was sold to communications group WPP.
Tom is a rabid champion of user experience and holds a Designers & Art Directors Silver Nomination for his work in Interactive Media (client: Kylie Minogue). He somehow finds time to write online at http://tomhume.org/ ; in 2005 this site beat strong competition from The Guardian and Ofcom to win the NetImperative “Best Digital Media Blog” award, but he doesn’t let that go to his head (much).
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Ted Morgan, CEO & Founder, Skyhook Wireless.
Ted Morgan founded Skyhook Wireless with Michael Shean in 2003 to capitalize on the explosive growth of Wi-Fi usage and the emerging demand for location-based services. Prior to founding Skyhook, Mr. Morgan was the Vice President of Marketing for edocs Inc., a provider of customer self-service solutions that was sold to Siebel Systems in January 2005. At edocs, he ran marketing communications, inside sales, product marketing, and product management. Prior to edocs, Mr. Morgan was Group Product Manager for Open Market, one of the early leaders of the e-commerce revolution. Prior to that, he was a product manager for Harbinger Net Services in Atlanta. Prior to the technology industry, Mr. Morgan spent four years in the financial services industry, as part of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Alliance Capital, and Allen & Company. Mr. Morgan has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Andreas Bovens, Group Leader Developer Relations, Opera Software.
Back in 2007, Andreas started working at Opera Software’s Tokyo office as a QA Engineer and then as a Web Evangelist. In May 2009, he moved to Opera’s headquarters in Oslo to lead Opera’s Developer Relations team. Consisting of ten people in six different time zones, this team reaches out to the Web developer community, spreading Opera’s vision on open Web standards and One Web, and making sure that websites work well in all Opera browser products.
In a previous life, Andreas did a Master in Japanese Studies, researched Japanese copyright law at Meiji and Keio University, and coded for Tokyo Art Beat. He loves espresso, and picks up his banjo from time to time.
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Wolfram Kriesing – Co-Founder at uxebu.
Wolfram has more than 12 years professional experience in IT. The early involvement in web technologies provides him with deep knowledge and experience for designing and implementing stable and scalable architectures. Additionally he developed a deep understanding for business cases and the Voice of the Customer concerning required products and services. With two equivalently experienced web experts he founded uxebu, a software consulting company focused on RIA client technologies. He has been an active open source contributor on multiple projects and currently is an active committer to the Dojo Toolkit.
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Julián Moreno-Beltrán – CEO and Founder of Droiders.com.
Julian is the founder of Droiders. Specialized in Android and iPhone/iPad development. Droiders were finalist in Android Development Challenge 2 with two projects (Yuilop and Voicetrans) and won the HTC-Telefonica Android contest. Julian has appeared in several international articles like TechCrunch and Ciberpaís
Julian will do a workshop on “HTML5 and the new generation of Tablets”.
Description: We are going to show how we did rich apps using HTML5 for iPad and Google Tablet. The case study is about Veotrip, a travel ecosystem site for hotels ready to improve the way customers interact with the business in the area they visit.
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Israel Ferrer, Business Developer of Bubiloop.com and founder of and.roid.es.
Israel is developing in Android for +2 years and is running and.roid.es Barcelona, the biggest Android community in Spain, a monthly event for the Android User Group in Barcelona. He will do a workshop on “Using Geolocation and Maps in Android”.
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