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Day1

App Marketing Stream

App Promotion & Marketing
Brand Building with Apps
Mobile Entertainment Apps
Mobile Social Media & Gaming

Day2
Advertising, Tablets & Monetization

App Advertising & DIY
iPad, Tablets & New Models
App Monitization & Payments
Cross Platform Apps Promotion

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Mobile Operator & Handset Stream

Key Industry Challenges
Business Models & App Store Strategies
Billing, Payment & Device Integration
Future App Tech & Challenges

 
TV App Store – Pay TV as an App Platform

Current State of Apps for TV
Apps in a Connected TV Environment
Turning Pay TV into an Apps Platform
Socially Enabling TV with Apps

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Developers Stream

Creating Compelling Apps
App Store Partnerships
Developing with a leading App Store
Building & Innovating in Location Based Apps 

Developers Stream

Pitching New Apps & Funding
App System Testing & Quality Control
Developing Enterprise & Cloud Apps
Developer Challenges: Future Cross Platform Apps


Day 1  (30 Nov 2010)

App Marketing Stream
This stream is designed for Marketing Professionals who want to find out whether the value of having an app as part of their marketing strategy is worthwhile. Many brands are extending their Social Media strategy with the inclusion of mobile apps, hear tangible insights from leading companies who have experimented with this.
This session will address what’s needed to market your app successfully, answering common questions such as what are the options to get in the top 10?
Mobile Operator & Handset Stream
This zone is targeted towards operator handset, cloud computing & billing providers to examine how apps are changing the key mobile business models. Worldwide operators will debate the challenges of multiple app stores, and how they can protect their traditional business models. Device manufactures and technology providers look at building the right hardware to facilitate app functionality, and the associated billing, security and testing issues.
Developers Stream
A two day developers stream geared up for app developers focusing on all the issues dealing with development of apps across different app stores. Technical presentations from leading developers & app stores cover a myriad of issues and challenges faced when developing apps.

"Free to attend for developers"
0915 Event Chair Welcome & Introduction
Ben Rooney, Technology Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe
0930 Morning Keynote Session

- Nick Lansley, Head of R&D, Tesco.com

  SESSION ONE: APP PROMOTION & MARKETING
Discover how the mobile apps medium is exploding as an essential marketing tool, and what response rates are being delivered versus traditional media.
1010

Choosing an agency or go directly to developers?
- Richard Collins, Managing Director, Pocket Marketing 

1030 Stella Artois Case study - Building an iPhone app with location based augmented reality 
- Jane  Linton, Business Development Director, Imano
1100  BioLock Biometric Security: Iris/Face recognition technologies applied to apps and how smartphones are bringing Biometrics to the masses.
Jason Braverman, CEO, Blue Planet Apps, Inc.
1130

Morning Break

  SESSION TWO: BRAND BUILDING WITH APPS
There are a large number of mainstream brands and companies incorporating apps into their marketing strategy enabling them to drive brand awareness, transactions and loyalty.
1200 Trip Advisor Case Study
- Séverine Philardeau, Senior Director of Partnerships, TripAdvisor
1230

JustGiving Case Study

- Elizabeth Kessick, Community Product Manager, JustGiving.com
- Rahul Power, Founder, Apsmart


 
1300 Panel: Leading Consumer Brand App Case Studies Debated
What have been the most successful brand app case studies, and why? Successful determinants of leading app case studies? Frustration over paying for multiple app stores and the importance of cross platform narrative within app strategies
 

- Babs Rangaiah, Vice President, Global Communications Planning, Unilever
- Kelaine Olvera, Director of Product Marketing, Operators & Media, Velti
- Ian Malone, Managing Partner, We Are Apps
- Lloyd Price, Director of Marketing, Badoo
- Jaskirat Singh Gill, General Manager - Entertainment, Bharti Airtel Limited

1330 Networking Break
 

SESSION THREE MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT APPS
The music industry has been quick to embrace mobile and apps, leading with many of the forward
thinking app development projects.

1430

Case Study:Showcase of the award winning music discovery app

Examining some of the best music apps in the market, and what determinants make them successful.
- Beatrice Farina, Vice President Marketing Communications, Shazam

1500 MTV case study
How a broadcaster is utilizing mobile apps, different challenges and models
Gerry Gouy, Global Senior Director, MTV Networks

1520

Panel: Apps & the Music Industry
How are labels using apps to promote theirbands? How to monetize this fan base for the music industry?
- Sébastien Marteau, Vice President, Sales & Business Development EMEA
, Fox Mobile Group, News Corp.
- Faisal Galaria, Global Head of Business Development, Spotify

- Josh Saunders, Head Of Technical And Creative Digital Marketing, EMI Group UK

1600 Networking Break
 

SESSION FOUR MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA, GAMING & TV APPS
Session four examines both how social media has been a driving force behind app adoption and
usage, but also how it can be used as part of your marketing strategy to promote apps.

1630

Youview case study: TV as a portal and apps based platform.
The challenge of building an apps and widget based TV platform, and the opportunities for brands and marketers to engage with TV apps.

Anthony Rose, CTO, Youview

1700

Examining the latest in mobile social networking as a key driver for the apps industry
- Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Head of International Business Development, Facebook

1730   Social Dating Meets Apps
- Lothar Eckstein, Chief Marketing Officer for Badoo.com
0915
Event Chair Welcome & Introduction
0930
Morning Keynote Session - Ensuring Your Success with Huawei Digital Shopping Mall
- Mehdi Khorasani, Head of Consumer Business Solution, Europe, Huawei 

SESSION ONE: KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
1010

The role of the operator in the Apps ecosystem

- What assets can the operator bring to the table: Customer knowledge, network APIs, user experience investments, etc.

- How to make this useful to customers.

- How to make this simple to developers.

- How multiplatform proposition makes sense for a converged operator like Telefonica.

Javier Lorente, Global Project Manager - Mobile Data Group , Telefónica Europe

1040

Why Android is not enough

What is the idea behind Sony Ericsson’s user experience? Why is Android only a qualifier? In this session, Karl-Johan Dahlström will take you on a journey behind the scenes of Sony Ericsson’s phone propositions, and you will learn how Xperia™ phones will be made successful thanks to the influence of Sony, the Android platform and unique design elements from Sony Ericsson. Also, you will learn how the Android platform is implemented and what it means to be working with Android from a manufacturer perspective.

- Karl-Johan Dahlström, Developer Program Architect, Sony Ericsson
1100

The role of Telcos in Apps arena , Vodafone Italy case study

- Vodafone Calcio, a vertical branded app  looking at distribution of football content via apps

- My 190, Self Care Application

Melany Libraro, Head of Mobile Access at Vodafone IT

1130
Morning Break

SESSION TWO BUSINESS MODELS & APP STORE STRATEGIES
1200
Launching the Orange Apps Store – Multiplatform app store models
Integrating Orange TV and Orange gaming into the App store
What impact will the growth in app usage have on operators’ networks?
Building apps into increased data plans for subscribers
- Jean-Luc Ottensen, Head of Mobile Games and applications, Orange France
1220 Verizion Casestudy
- Laura Osbaldeston, Head of the VDC for Business Markets & Applications, Verizon Wireless 
1240
How Apps make Entertainment Bigger – Revenue, Experience & Marketing Impacts
How can operators enhanced their traditional business models to deliver new entertainment revenue streams?
Jaskirat Singh Gill, General Manager - Entertainment, Bharti Airtel Limited


1300
Networking Break

SESSION THREE: BILLING, PAYMENTS & DEVICE INTEGRATION
This session examines the application payment mechanisms being used, and the challenges of
introducing carrier billing
1430
Is there gold at the end of the rainbow?
The Operator paradox – help or hindrance?
The developer choice – monetisation?
The content owner dilemma – build or buy?
The user experience – pain or pleasure?
- Graham Rivers, CEO of WIN/Executive Director of IMImobile
1500
Cross platform app billing Examining the different billing functions, and propensity to increase in app purchases.

-Charles Damen, VP Business Development, MACH
1520
 The smartphone as a credit card payment acceptance device?
The power of the smartphone has been harnessed to provide a fully secure card payment terminal. What opportunities exist for developers wishing to integrate secure card payment into their apps?
 - Peter Turner, CEO, CreditCall – CardEase Mobile
1600
Networking Break

SESSION FOUR FUTURE APP TECHNOLOGIES & CHALLENGES
1630
 An Examination of the Russian and EE apps marketplace - MTS 360

Building industry standard for mobile apps

Dmitry Troshkin, Head of Mobile Commerce and Applications Department, MTS Russia

1700
Launch of new industry standards - Wholesale Applications community (WAC)
• Using web standards for mobile apps – will operators succeed with a global apps platform?
Tim Haysom, Head of Developer Relations at the Wholesale Applications Community
1720
Panel - How will mobile telco business models evolve?

- Sissel Henriette Larsen, VP, Head of Content & Applications, Telenor Group, Corporate Development

- Laura Osbaldeston, Head of Verizon Developer Community, Verizon Wireless

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Sam Arora, Director, DeviceAnywhere Ltd.
0910
Event Chair Welcome & Introduction
Brian Friedman, CEO, Nexva
0930
Morning Keynote Session
- Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO, GetJar

SESSION ONE APP DESIGN & CREATION
1010
Creating compelling iphone apps: This session examines some of the latest tips and tricks in app design and development and building compelling user interfaces.

- Ed Lea, CTO, Grapple Mobile

1030
All about the user interface: User Experience & App Payments
- John Lunn, Director of Platform and Integration, PayPal Developer Network
1100
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Adobe will be providing a 1.5 hour developers track @appsworld.

Create, Distribute and Monetize cross platform applications

With the expanding number of platforms and devices, it is becoming harder to develop and distribute applications that reach a large number of users. Learn how you can easily create, distribute and monetize applications for PCs, netbooks, tablets, phones and televisions. In this session, we will develop a basic Adobe AIR application and then publish the application through Adobe InMarket.

Serge Jespers, Platform Evangelist, Adobe

1230
Cross Platform Development Today
Cross platform development options.  Discuss existing tools such as J2ME Polish, Phone Gap, Appcelerator and more and highlight their respective strengths and weaknesses.Tool free cross platform strategies, such as common architecture or using pure web apps. Compare the cross platform development with going native all the way. 
Robert Virkus
, CEO, Enough
1300 Pricing models & how does one make money from his/her app
-Tamar Shachar, Chief Revenue Officer of Logia Group
1310
Networking Break
1400

nokia-sponsorNokia Developer track:

A cross-platform framework that creates huge opportunities for future Symbian and MeeGo smartphones.

A robust, tried and tested application development framework that has delivered thousands of use-cases across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems.

A greatly reduced development effort through intuitive APIs, as well as 70% reduction in lines of code.

A framework that compiles your code to native, and will not slow it down through runtime.

1500

Moving from 2D to 3D UI on Android

With the growing hardware support for accelerated graphics on mobile devices we face new opportunities for advanced user-interfaces for application developers. As users add more information to their screens we need new ways of visualizing it without decreasing the overall user experience. Erik Hellman from Sony Ericsson will show how to move your old and flat 2D UI to a new dimension by combining standard Android UI widgets with OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware accelerated 3D graphics.
Erik Hellman, Lead software architect, Sony Ericsson

1600
Networking Break

SESSION FOUR BUILDING & INNOVATING IN LOCATION BASED SERVICES
1630
Innovating with location based apps.  The technologies and business of creating compelling location based apps.

 

-  Mimmis Olsson, Global Manager, Technical Marketing & Developer Technologies, NAVTEQ

1650
Development of applications focused on location based services and features
Understanding core location frameworks, mapping technologies and available platform to execute on.
- Nick Black, Co-founder, CloudMade
1710 - 1730

Huawei’s inTouch Partnership Program for Developers
Mehdi Khorasani, Head of Consumer Business Solution, Europe, Huawei  

Day 2 (1 Dec 2010)

Advertising, Tablets & Monetization
TV App Store – Pay TV as an Apps Platform?
This day covers the emergence of the TV app store, and the key issues involved with building apps for Pay TV services and devices.
Developers Zone

0915 Event Chair Welcome & Introduction
- Ferhan Cook, President Any Screen Productions & MobiAdNews
0930 Morning Keynote Session

- Peter Vesterbacka, CEO, Rovio (Angry Birds)

  SESSION ONE APP ADVERTISING & DIY
1010

Panel: Building the Advertising Model within Apps
Examining the latest in ad funded apps and best practices for in-app advertising.
- Jon Mews, Head of Mobile, IAB
- Limvirak Chea, Director Business Development Europe & Middle East, InMobi
- Stephen Upstone, VP Sales and Business Development Europe, Velti

1040  

Mobile TV app case study: T-mobile International

Luke Magnuson, Head of Apps Propositions: Products and Innovation, T-Mobile International

1100

Rolling out apps across the enterprise
Delivering in-house apps, for employees of large scale enterprises

Matt Hatch, Managing Director, Mubaloo

1130

Morning Break

  SESSION TWO IPAD & TABETS – NEW MODELS FOR PUBLISHERS & ENTERTAINMENT?
The iPad and various tablet launches have attracted a great deal of interest for the publishing and associated industries. It’s still too early to tell what long lasting opportunities smartphones and tablets will have but some promising starts have been made by newspapers. Many publishers, newspapers and magazines are seizing the opportunity, and this session explores the challenges in the tablet apps marketplace.
1200

Tablet apps
Key insights as publishers head towards the tablet app model, how to
encourage deeper engagement with individual publications?

- Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile Products, Reuters Comsumer Media

1240

Case study: Sky Mobile TV Apps Combining TV and apps into a compelling experience Future apps strategy – broadcast and mobile synergies
- David Gibbs, General manager for Mobile, BSkyB

1300 Panel: Business & Revenue models for iPad & tablet apps
Ad funded, sponsorship and premium subscription based apps for publishers. Examining subscription issues on tablet apps. Examining iPad launches, and how to add value to paid content?

- Stephen Pinches, Lead Product Manager, FT.com at Financial Times 

- Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile Product, Reuters Consumer Media

-Jamie Walters, Digital Director, Metro

- Limvirak Chea, Director Business Development Europe & Middle East, InMobi

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Tristan Leaver, Director of Business and Audience Development, EMEA, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network

1330 Networking Break
 

SESSION THREE  - BUILDING SUCCESSFUL MOBILE APP STRATEGIES
This session examines who is making money in apps and top tips for launching successful mobile apps

1430  Ten top tips for launching a successful mobile app to promote your brand
- Mark Lister, Managing Director, Imano
1450

Who’s making money in apps?
How do you price your app in the app store and what
are the other ways of monetising it?

-Jamie Walter, Digital Director, Metro

1520

Success in a multi-platform app world
How to ensure your apps succeed on all platforms and the pitfalls to avoid.
- Nigel Little, Managing Director of Distinctive Developments

1540

Networking Break

 

BUILDING YOUR APPS STRATEGY

1630

Building on the previous 2 days of sessions, we have hear a  variety of case studies, examples on app promotion, branding, entertainment and tablet apps – for brands an marketers we wanted to offer a summary session assisting and guiding you on key areas to do with setting up, and building you own apps strategy.

1720

 SUMMARY & CLOSE 

0915 Event Chair Welcome & Introduction
Bill Scott, Chief Operating & Commercial Officer, EaselTV
0930 Morning Keynote Session: What prompts TV operators to get into the apps business?
Examining the current state of the world of TV apps, and TV App Store launches
- Andrew Burke, CEO, Amino Technologies
  SESSION ONE THE CURRENT STATE OF APPS FOR TV
We start by establishing the current state of the intersection between apps and television, and then examine each facet; including the applications themselves and also their value to operators, content providers, application providers and advertisers.
1000

Smart TV: Where next for TV Apps?

Will apps fundamentally change the way we interact with TV?

Integration with social networking sites, the socialization of tv?

Opening TV platforms for developers – the challenge to the TV industry to embrace developers

- Dan Saunders, Head of Content Services, Samsung Electronics

1030

Apps in a Connected TV setting - Building Content Related Interactive Applications
Apps that extend the TV experience and enrich and interactive viewing experience.

- Angelo Pettazzi, Head of DTT Content Factory, Mediaset S.p.A.

1100  Key lessons in interactive tv and how these can be applied to apps and widget based viewing.
- John Denton, Managing Editor, TV Platforms, BBC
1130

Morning Break

  SESSION TWO APPS IN A CONNECTED TV ENVIRONMENT
During 2009, major operators launched mobile smartphone apps to program the home DVR. This year, some of them added the ability to use the mobile as a TV remote control. But that’s just the
beginning. This session shows how devices used in multiple contexts work together to enhance the TV experience
1200 How operators can leverage apps on Pay TV & Connected TV environments

- Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo Broadband AB

1220

Panel : Connected TV Apps  - Building the case into making TV’s capable of delivering the widget experience. Developing apps for connected tv's, and examining the advertising opportunities within apps

- Peter White, CEO, Rethink Wireless
-  Stela Bokun, Senior Analyst Europe, Pyramid Research
- Senior Representative, Netgem

- Ian Valentine, Founder, miniweb


1250

Using apps & widgets to make the TV experience stickier

  • Enriching the TV experience by using apps
  • Quantifying the potential of Yahoo! Connected TV and Google TV platforms for IPTV operators
  • Integrating communication services and social networking with IPTV
  • Legal aspects in using widget overlays over TV broadcasts
  • Comparing the apps & widget strategies for different IPTV operators

Jukka Helin

CTO, Qbitech Ltd (former Director - TV, Content & Digital Home at TeliaSonera)

1310 Networking Break
 

SESSION 3 TURNING PAY TV INTO AN APPS PLATFORM
What is the current state of affairs in the world of TV apps here at the end of 2010? What’s at the leading edge and hasn’t been done until just now? This session provides a survey of apps from major service providers around the world. Apps seem natural for IPTV operators with universally available two-way pipes, but what about satellite providers and cable operators?

1400 TV & Internet crossfertilization, using Apps to make the TV experience stickier
Bringing compelling content to the user, what techniques can be leveraged by apps, to improve audience reach and keep them using your app and its content for longer periods of time and more often?

- Nicolas Bry, FT/PRESIDENCE/, Orange Vallée

1420 Panel: Broadcasters, TV Programmers and Apps
Which Broadcasters & TV programmers are experimenting with apps and what kinds of results are they getting? How are players from the traditional broadcast world leveraging new media? Are apps simply extending their existing audiences to new screens, or are they actually attracting new audiences and younger demographics?

- Shirlene Chandrapal, Director, Connected TV Yahoo! Europe

- Simon Miller CEO, Betfair TV

-Gerry Gouy, Global Senior Director, MTV Networks

-Paul Rawlings, Founder & CEO, ScreenReach

- Tristram Biggs,YouView Launch Manager, BBC

 
1450 Examining the role of key technologies to build an apps & widget based platform over Connected TV devices

- Nigel Smith, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, NDS

1520

Panel: Can IPTV services harness the development of Social TV services and applications?

- Loo Cheng Chuan, Principal, SingTel Idea Factory
- Dr. Randolph Nikutta, Leader New Media, Innovation Development, Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories
-Fearghal Kelly, VP Media Solutions, ioko

1610

Networking Break.

 

SESSION 4 SOCIALLY ENABLING TV WITH APPS
Socially Enabling TV with Apps Social media has not only become an important part of our individual lives, but it’s also becoming a part of the TV experience. Operators see social features as differentiating their services while exposing TV to younger audiences for whom the
TV is not the first screen.

1630

Launching new TV Services, a practical demo. Apps add social networking features to the TV experience
From a feature, technology and social impact perspective; how successful it has been as a
marketing tool from a TV context?
- Loo Cheng Chuan, Principal, SingTel Idea Factory

1700 Delivering the Connected TV Apps Proposition
- Barry Rubery, Founder & Chairman, GreenButton
1720 Panel – The pros and cons of Social Media on TV
Is social media is paradoxically a private experience that most social media users don’t want to share with others in a living room environment? Or is it something that will extend the viewing experience?

- Andy Gower,  Research & Innovation Consultant, BT
- Richard Kastelein, Founder/Editor, App Market TV / Social TV

- Jukka Helin, Director - TV, Content & Digital Home at TeliaSonera

- Mike Foss, Chief Operating Officer, Antix Labs

- Ian Valentine, Founder, miniweb

0915 Event Chair Welcome & Introduction

Jeff Hadfield, President, The Code Project

0925

Morning keynote sessionwipPitching your New App, the process developers go
through submitting their new app to each app store, and how easy this process is ?
- Thibaut Rouffineau, VP Developer Partnerships, Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)

  SESSION ONE : PITCHING NEW APPS & FUNDING
The first session looks at the process of pitching a new app, what developers go through when
submitting to the app store, then a panel of expert evaluate different app pitches, and we look at how app developers can get finance and funding for new app projects.
0950

Application Submission Stories
Listen to "dream or nightmare" stories around application submissions from developers and appstores owners.
- Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)

1030

In-App and Mobile Browser Payments using PayPal

- Anthony Hicks, Senior Integration Manager, Strategic Partners and Platform PayPal X

1100 Panel: Attracting VC Investment & Funding for your App
This panel looks at what investors are looking for in app development, what evaluation criteria applies to their decisions and advise on getting funding for your app projects.

- Randeep Wilkhu, Senior Investment Manager, T-Venture Holding GmbH

- Joe Neale, Principal, m8 Capital

- Charles  Pangrazi, Partner, Equity Plus Partners

1130

Morning Break

1200 intel2
Learn how to turn your code into cash
Join Intel at Apps World in London on Wednesday 1st December for a free developer workshop to learn how to make money by selling your apps on the Intel AppUp Center. Enrollment in the Intel AppUp Developer program is free for a limited time. We'll be discussing revenue opportunities for Adobe AIR* and Windows* C/C++ developers, as well as how you can optimise existing iOS, Windows and runtime applications for netbooks.
1330 Networking Break
  intel-appup
1400  

Hear why you should develop for the Intel AppUp Center, learn about our SDKs with live coding walkthroughs, listen to other developers already involved in the program, and talk to Intel experts in our staffed open lab. Bring your code and questions! Want to see what to expect? View our videos from past Application Labs.

Drinks and snacks will be served throughout the workshop. All attendees will have the opportunity to win a top-of-the-range netbook* and any developer who submits their application to the Intel AppUp Center at the event could win an expenses-paid trip to Mobile World Congress* in February!

*Prizes subject to conditions

Nina Woolvett, Portfolio Manager,  Intel AppUp Developer Program (IADP) Team

Costas Stylianou, Senior Software Engineer, Intel

Christoph Weinmann, Application Engineer, Intel

 

1600 Networking Break
 

blackberry-agendaDelivering the BlackBerry Super App Experience

1600

Learn how to maximise your investment on BlackBerry by leveraging the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry Application Platform to create a best-in-class mobile experience.

- Building full-featured apps in Java or HTML-5

- Learn about new BlackBerry Commercial Services to help you monetise apps

- How to deliver killer Super App experiences using Push, Multi-Tasking, Inbox / PIM / BBM Integration and more

- Sanyu Kiruluta, Team Lead, Developer Relations, EMEA, Research in Motion

1720 Event Wrap Up
Debate on the key issues discussed at the event, and next challenges for developers