Grant Skinner is an internationally recognized leader in the field of interactive development.

His body of work spans experimental interaction, applications, games, websites, installations, embedded devices, and mobile, with a recent focus on projects that span multiple screens.

Chris Dury is CEO for GetJar. Prior to GetJar, Chris helped grow scanR, a mobile productivity service, from inception to millions of users. He also co-founded OneFone, a mobile virtual network operator. In addition, he held leadership positions at two VoIP startups, TalkingNets and Firetalk, and started his career at Intel. Chris holds a degree in Economics from Michigan State and an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business.

Danielle Lee is the Vice President of Product Marketing and Innovation at AT&T AdWorks. Her team is responsible for developing new online, mobile and TV advertising solutions, defining the go-to-market strategy and growing the multi-screen ad business. Lee originally joined Cingular Wireless (now AT&T Mobility) in 2007 to build their mobile video business, managing and marketing exclusive distribution relationships with programmers including HBO, NBC and WWE.

Prior to AT&T/Cingular, Lee spent 3 years at Showtime Networks where she directed new products marketing and advertising for the premium cable network. She was instrumental in building awareness and tune-in to Showtime’s award winning original series like Weeds, Dexter, Fat Actress and The L Word. Lee also bolstered subscriptions to the network by developing acquisition campaigns in collaboration with cable and satellite affiliates that involved brand partners including Xbox, Apple, and Haagen-Dazs.

Prashant Sridharan is a Developer Advocate at Facebook, where he helps developers around the world learn how to build great apps using the Facebook platform. Prior to Facebook, Prashant was the Director of Marketing for Amazon Web Services, the chief Product Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio, a product manager at various startups, and a software developer at Sun Microsystems. He is well past the "yucky" phase with Objective C and LOVES to build iOS apps, adores Ruby on Rails, and spends every moment of his free time either snowboarding or training for snowboarding season.

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic “Ben and Dion” duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and is now running mobile architecture and engineering at Walmart.com after being acquired along with their start-up team in early 2011. Ben’s been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he’s written books, given hundreds of award-winning presentations world-wide, produced a few technical conferences, sold three companies, and has held

Matt McMahon currently serves as Vice President of Mobile for Fox Digital Entertainment, a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment.  He focuses on the license and distribution of Fox films and television series on portable devices such as tablets and smartphones, via carriers and handset manufacturers, and, particularly, on application platforms such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.  

Blake Dournaee, Product Manager, Intel - responsible for setting Intel’s application security, data protection, and API management roadmaps for Intel’s Expressway line of gateway software appliances. Blake was a specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security an established author who wrote the first book on XML Security and co-authored "SOA Demystified"

Winston Wang is Global Director, Strategic Innovations for marketing technology at AB InBev with responsibility for exploring and experimenting with cutting-edge digital technologies from start-ups and innovators that are transforming consumer marketing.

Winston joined AB InBev in 2011, bringing with him an extensive background in innovation leadership and mobile products and technologies; both at start-ups, and within global companies.

As General Manager of Microsoft’s developer & platform evangelism efforts based in Silicon Valley, Matt has the first hand opportunity to both observe and engage with a number of Silicon Valley’s most interesting technology startups. He spends much of his time working with this influential community of entrepreneurs and technologists as they leverage mobile & cloud technologies to build out new apps and services.

Richard Balsewich is a Senior Enterprise Developer at Research In Motion. Mr. Balsewich provides Enterprise Mobility Strategies, Application Deelopment guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies and government agencies in North America.  Prior to joining Research In Motion, Mr. Balsewich was a high-tech consultant for Eighteen Twenty Consulting assisting the United States government and the private sector to deliver mission critical business systems and applications.  Mr. Balsewich brings 7+ years of experience in mobility and 13+ years of enterprise software development experience to the team.

Sean Cook is Senior Mobile Partner Engineer at Twitter, where he works with companies and developers from around the world to help them understand and fully leverage the power of Twitter in their mobile applications.

Prior to Twitter, Sean was Client Engineer for North America at SurfKitchen, and before that he was a Senior Engineer of Handset and Mobile Content Services at kajeet. He has developed mobile clients and the server-side architectures that support them for the past decade, most recently focusing on iOS and Android applications.  

Sean holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, both from Auburn University.

Andreas is the Director of Mobile Partnerships for Groupon. He is responsible for mobile business development and strategic partnerships at Groupon, focusing on global distribution and integration of Groupon's mobile services.

Manish Jha is the General Manager of Mobile at the National Football League. Previously, he was President and CEO of SkyWeaver. Manish has spent over 20 years in the media business, running startup companies such as SkyWeaver and Vantrix and creating new businesses for ESPN. At ESPN, where Manish spent 16 years, he built the mobile business from scratch and launched ESPN3, ESPN’s pioneering Internet video service.

Andres leads the global business team responsible for Citi’s Consumer mobile and tablet banking offerings around the world. He joined Citi 11 years ago from an international personal-finance startup and has been in a variety of digital roles since then, first for Citi’s Latin America business, then for its U.S. consumer businesses, and, since this year, globally.

Niccolo de Masi joined Glu as its President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2010 and brings to Glu a strong background of senior management and executive experience in the mobile gaming and content sectors. Prior to joining Glu, Niccolo was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Hands-On Mobile, a mobile technology company and developer and publisher of mobile entertainment, since October 2009, and previously served as the President of Hands-On Mobile from March 2008 to October 2009. Niccolo was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the

Kjell Hegstad is Managing Director, Mobile and Emerging Channels at Capital One, responsible for driving the mobile banking strategy while using innovation to simplify the customer experience for the digital customer base.  Prior to the 2012 Capital One buyout of ING DIRECT, Kjell spent eight years with ING DIRECT as the web tsar and he also conceptualized and designed Planet Orange, an award winning free financial literacy edutainment site for kids 6-12 years old. Due to the massive success of the ING DIRECT mobile apps, Kjell got to celebrate this by co-ringing the opening bell at New York Stock Exchange.

Paul Lanzi leads the Mobile App, Web App and Portal team at Gilead Sciences.  Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need – in therapeutic areas like HIV, hepatitis, serious respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic conditions, cancer and inflammation.  Paul and his team deliver beautiful and useful mobile apps to Gilead’s 5,000 global employees, seeking to make the job of finding, developing and marketing treatments for major unmet medical needs just a little bit easier.

Donald King, a Infrastructure Solutions Engineer at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has more than 12 years of experience in IT-half of those working in the mobility field. His research has led to helping internal customers learn and utilize the benefit of products and devices being offered.  

Kiran Prasad joined LinkedIn in 2011. He currently leads the company’s mobile efforts, including phone/tablet and server solutions. Throughout his career, Kiran has lead & built industry changing mobile consumer products that help people communicate. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he was the Sr Director of Applications at Palm Inc., a leader in mobile OS and device development, where he started and delivered webOS, Palm’s first Windows Phone and was the tech lead for the original Treo. Kiran also held previous roles at Handspring. He received his MS from University of Michigan in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics.

Akshay runs a product development group focused on building consumer facing mobile products for Turner’s media & entertainment brands – CNN, NBA, TBS, Cartoon Network, to name a few.  In this role, he also manages a rapidly evolving technology roadmap & partnerships to stay ahead of the curve on emerging devices & standards.  His most recent interests include HTML5 based multi-touch experiences and disruptive startups in iTV.

Jason is responsible for the strategy and development of global mobile and tablet products for Travelocity. His team builds and maintains a portfolio of mcommerce solutions including Travelocity for iPad, iPhone and Android allowing customers to access Travelocity on any device.

Prior to joining Travelocity he was part of the mobile leadership team at Gannett, the parent company to USA TODAY and more than 100 local media properties.

Martin has more than 25 years of experience in telecoms and IT, with a wide background of IT development, solutions architecture and delivery and is now an independent consultant and Executive Director of AQuA.

Brian Sathianathan is an experienced entrepreneur and digital media executive with experience in products, technology and startups. Over the last fifteen years Brian has been working in startups and Fortune 500 companies to bring innovative consumer and enterprise products to market. At Turner, Brian is a part of the emerging technology team looking for startups in the Advanced TV, Advertising & Recommendation space.

Christopher Mahoney is the Director of Emerging Platforms at PlayStation, responsible for PlayStation® Home, PlayStation Mobile, and non-game applications.  Mahoney is a 16-year veteran of technology and gaming companies having previously worked at Linden Lab as the global business development lead for Second Life. He has over 7-years experience building virtual world business models and economies, including developing PlayStation® Home’s marketplace to 16,000+ items and 200+ games. Mahoney is a published author and received his BA, Economics from Northwestern University and his MBA from Babson College, where he earned the Price-Babson Fellowship.

Dominic Nessi is a Deputy Executive Director and Chief Information Officer for Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). He has held that position since September 2007. As chief information officer, Nessi is responsible for all information technology-related functions, including technology planning, design, implementation and utilization of LAWAs information infrastructure and related voice, data and video communications systems for LAX, the worlds fifth busiest airport, Ontario International and Van Nuys.

As the Director of Apps Research at Strategy Analytics, Mr. Martin is responsible for overseeing the two research services he launched in 2011: AppTRAX and App Ecosystem Opportunities.

Recognizing the dearth of granular data in the apps market Mr. Martin undertook an initiative to create a compelling data set that clients could leverage in order to contextualize the market.

Doris is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Windows 8, Ajax, and Java).  
Doris has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, Java platform, .NET and distributed computing technologies.

Fawad is currently leading the Mobile Payments team responsible for developing and promoting the NFC based mobile payments ecosystem at AT&T Mobility.  Fawad’s area of interest and involvement include new product planning and development, mobile commerce including payments and advertising space, and operations. At AT&T, he has been involved in several cross-carrier initiatives including Isis Mobile Wallet.

David has more than ten years experience covering the markets for enterprise and government mobility solutions, wireless data communication technologies and automatic data-capture research and consulting. David focuses on identifying the key drivers and enablers in the adoption of mobile and wireless solutions among mobile workers in the extended enterprise. David’s consulting and strategic advisory experience is far reaching and includes technology and market opportunity assessments, technology penetration and adoption enablers, partner profiling and development, new product development and M&A due diligence support.

Mr. Neville is a highly accomplished technology executive with a proven history of partnering with “C” level executives and department heads to define IT strategies and deliver innovative solutions that have a top-line and bottom-line impact. As Director of Technology and Enterprise Architect for United Rentals’ Logistics and Field Operations, Mr. Neville led the organization’s award-winning FAST (Field Automation Strategy and Technology) program, which was recognized as Most Innovative Use of Enterprise Technology by Mobile Enterprise Magazine in 2012. FAST has been an industry changer – effectively integrating order fulfillment, transportation, supply chain, and CRM systems.

Drew Onufer is vice president for interactive products at National Geographic. He is responsible for leading the strategy, definition, development and go-to-market strategies for National Geographic smartphone and tablet products as well as its magazine archive products.    

National Geographic has over 35 smartphone and tablet apps. Its apps have been ranked No. 1 in nine Apple iTunes app categories: Books, Education, Entertainment, Navigation, News, Newsstand, Photo & Video, Reference and Travel.  In 2012, National Geographic’s National Parks App was recognized with an Apple Design Award. National Geographic’s World Atlas App has been a perennial top-grossing reference app on the iPad and iPhone since its launch in 2010. National Geographic digital magazine is available through iTunes, Kindle, Nook and Zinio stores and currently has the most digital subscribers of any U.S. magazine title.

Pam was appointed President of the Online Publishers Association (OPA) in June 2006 after having served as VP of Marketing and Membership for two years. Prior to joining the OPA, Pam worked at Zinio Systems Inc. where she was the Vice President of Marketing and oversaw the marketing and distribution partnerships for the digital magazine publishing system.

Neil Goodrich is the Director of IT at HOLLY HUNT; a manufacturer, reseller and distributor of luxury home furnishings. He is a member of the Leadership Team where he participates in setting the strategic course for the organization and its customer experience. With a unique multi-disciplinary background that includes accounting, operations, fraud investigation, and, most recently, technology, he has spent his career as a problem solver, change agent, and innovator. Neil is a certified Project Manager and an adherent to the idea that IT is a creative endeavor. Neil earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago and returned there to earn a Master of Business Administration from the Liautaud Graduate School of Business.

Scott Sanchez is Director of Strategy for Rackspace Private Cloud and a recognized name in the cloud computing space. A Racker since 2011, Scott is responsible for overall business and partner strategy for Rackspace's OpenStack-powered private cloud. Prior to joining Rackspace, Scott held leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, Unisys and has been co-founder of a number of technology startups along the way. Follow Scott on twitter at @scottsanchez.

Michael Ludden is the Sr. Marketing Manager of Samsung Developers, based in the heart of Silicon Valley. In addition to being on panels and judging contests, Michael has spoken at various conferences including CES, Mobile World Conference, IFA, DroidCon and more. In a previous life, Michael was a Developer Evangelist at HTC, and was involved at various times in development, product marketing, and even tech show hosting. Michael has a degree from UCLA and is thrilled to share his vision for Samsung Developers.

Mr. Farquharson’s skills span many industries and include designing and implementing system architectures, as well as spearheading initiatives as development / team lead. He is an expert in custom application development, distributed environments, architecting scalable hardware and software applications and systems, and Web services application development.

Donn Felker is the founder of Agilevent, a agile software development company located in Scottsdale, AZ. He is a partner in Qonqr and Agile Health.  He has over 11 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. He is the author of Android Tablet Application Development for Dummies and the best selling Android Application Development for Dummies. He is also a Microsoft ASP Insider, an MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET and is a certified ScrumMaster.

Patrice Slupowski is Vice-President Digital Innovation & Communities running NExT.com, the innovation team of the New Growth Businesses Division of the Orange – France Telecom group. The team is in charge of various innovative projects on mobile, PC, TV and tablets like TVcheck, Newsblend and Orange actu Revue and strongly involved in advanced social networks, content recommendation, social and interactive TV or personal data aggregation.

Sean Bumgarner is Interactive Design Director at Rodale Inc. and is responsible for the direction and creation of all content on mobile devices, including tablets, smartphones and other apps. Sean has done work for the iPad edition of Vanity Fair Magazine, designed the Vogue Met iPad App celebrating Alexander McQueen’s work and was part of the team that transitioned Glamour Magazine to its first iPad issue. Most recently, Sean held the position of Creative Director at OK! Magazine, where he implemented a redesign of the magazine.

Tom recently joined the NOOK team and is focused around evangelizing the NOOK platform to the developer community at large. He loves working with developers, helping them bring their products to market by providing great tools, support, service and evangelism.

Bertrand leads the charge at App Annie, where he oversees data across the leading app store platforms globally and provides insights to over 20,000 unique app publishers. He is a technology entrepreneur with 14 years of executive experience in the mobile, Internet and analytics space across Europe, US and Asia. Previously, he was Vice President of Mobile for Gomez, a  web analytics company that was acquired in 2009 by Compuware.

Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Marketing at Zandan, a mobile analytics company that was acquired by Keynote Systems. Bertrand also held management/founder roles at Neocom Multimedia and Arkadia Netsystems. An enthusiast of both business and technology, Bertrand received an MBA from The Wharton School and a Masters in Computer Science from ISEP, France. Outside of running tech companies, Bertrand is usually found trying out the latest gadgets and reading on his tablet.

Russ Schafer brings 22 years experience as a marketing executive for Yahoo!, Intel®, Sybase®, and IBM® to his role as the Senior Director of Global Marketing for Yahoo! Connected TV. Yahoo! Connected TV received the 2011 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Primetime Emmy® Engineering Plaque Award, for shifting the television viewing paradigm by enabling the Internet experience on TV to become a reality. With new technologies like Broadcast Interactivity and Device Communication, Yahoo! Connected TV will continue to deliver the state of the art in interactivity across televisions, tablets and phones.

Harry Mower is the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft's US Developer Evangelism Organization. He's an eight year veteran of Microsoft and has 20 years experience writing software. Harry resides in New York City.

Robert Green is the founder of Battery Powered Games, a mobile software development studio based out of Portland OR.  Robert and his team have developed dozens of mobile applications for Android, iOS and Blackberry and he is currently the lead developer of BatteryTech SDK, a cross-platform development framework.  Robert co-authored the book Beginning Android Games 2nd Ed (APress).  Robert has been involved with Android development since 2008 and continues to work to contribute to the Android development community.

Adam Hansen is a long time Racker who started from the ground up at Rackspace.  Having worked with Startups his entire time at Rackspace has allowed him to learn how Rackspace can help Startups take advantage of Rackspace's Open Cloud as well as other tools available only to Rackspace customers.  An avid entrepreneur himself, Adam still holds on to several businesses he has helped start in the San Antonio area.  Adam loves learning about Startups making a difference and disrupting the way folks do business.

David Butler is the Product Manager of the OpenAPI Platform at MasterCard Worldwide. He is responsible for providing the global developer community with access to MasterCard’s services and data, which bridges the gap between applications and MasterCard’s internal systems, and reduces the cost, time and resource burden of integration with MasterCard.

With more than 16 years of experience in creating revenue-generating sites for broadband, 15 years in interactive television, and 22 years in information design, Ty Ahmad-Taylor is a recognized authority in creating deeply engaging and profitable experiences for viewers across multiple screens.


He is currently the Head of Smart TV Services at Samsung Electronics, creating interactive television applications for the world's largest television and smart phone manufacturer.

He came to Samsung after his startup, FanFeedr, was acquired by the company in October of 2012. FanFeedr created an operating system for sports content that delivered the best news and information for over 4,000 sports teams and 55,000 players directly into social channels like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, as well as mobile, web and television devices. FanFeedr was founded in 2008 in New York City.

As the Vice President, Digital Development at Random House, Inc., Randi Rosenkranz oversees mobile application development for all Random House divisions ­ including Crown, Knopf Doubleday, Random House Children¹s Books and the Random House Publishing Group -- and manages the relationship with recently acquired digital media agency Smashing Ideas.
Prior to Random House, Randi led multi-disciplinary teams in the creation of enterprise content management systems, portals, websites and mobile applications for various media &

Thilo Koslowski is Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and founder of the Automotive practice at Gartner Inc., the largest business and technology strategy advisory company in the world.  Mr. Koslowski is recognized as a global thought leader, futurist and strategic advisor regarding the evolution of the automotive industry, the connected vehicle, mobility innovation and new business models.  In his role Mr. Koslowski works with senior business and technology leaders in the automotive, consumer electronics, Internet, communication and technology industries on disruptive and successful cross-industry business opportunities.  He is also an advisor for venture capitalists, start-ups and public agencies focusing on a variety of topics including vehicle applications, new mobility concepts, e-Mobility, mobility-as-a-service and autonomous vehicles. Mr. Koslowski’s work spans across the entire automotive value-chain including vehicle-centric information and communication technologies (Vehicle ICT), marketing & sales, distribution of automobiles, customer centricity and the automotive supply-chain.
Before founding Gartner’s Automotive practice in Silicon Valley in 1999, Mr. Koslowski was Lead Consultant in Gartner’s Consulting Practice where he managed global consulting assignments for companies in the automotive and emerging technologies markets. Prior to that, he worked in various marketing and strategy positions for a premium German automaker.  Mr. Koslowski graduated from the Technical University (RWTH) Aachen in Germany and holds a master's degree in Business Studies with majors in Marketing, European Economy and Production Engineering.

Jared Allgood is a mobile gaming entrepreneur and co-founder at Juxta Labs, Inc. Juxta's goal is to make life fun. Over 30 million users have installed apps built by Juxta including Yearboook (on Facebook) and WordTag (iOS, Android, and Facebook). Jared has been twice voted to the v100 - top 100 entrepreneurs in Utah, though he recently moved Juxta to Mountain View. Prior to Juxta he co-founded ClassTop, Inc., an educational software startup focused on social learning that innovated on the Facebook platform and became the first recipient of the fbFund grant in 2008.

Kelly Bumann is Senior Vice President, Digital Marketing for Starz Entertainment.  Bumann directs the strategy, program management and digital campaigns for the STARZ and ENCORE digital sites, as well as the mobile extensions.  Bumann also leads the planning and development of the digital marketing campaigns in support of all STARZ Original series, including development of interactive experiences, management of social communities, and social outreach.

Bumann has led award-winning campaigns for “Spartacus,”
“Magic City,” and “Camelot,” including live video chats with cast, interactive missions for fans, consumer sweeps, e-card sharing apps, Twitter aggregators, crowd-sourcing content reveals, Facebook Connect experiences and development of online paid media campaigns.

Raj Koneru is an experienced entrepreneur with a record of success, an eye for market needs, and an ability to bring teams together, from technical developers to sales. Since founding Kony in 2007, Raj has spearheaded the development and continued innovation of the Kony Platform. Among the many successes Kony has experienced with Raj at the helm, the company has generated significant traction in the market, with global Fortune 500 brands leveraging Kony's products and services today.

He has more than 18 years of experience delivering to global enterprise business requirements. He co-founded Intelligroup (NASDAQ: ITIG) which grew to a $200m company over five years under his leadership. He also built Seranova (NASDAQ: SERA) which he grew to about $100m in revenues within 2.5 years and was sold in 2001. Raj co-founded a BPO company, iTouchPoint, which was sold in 2005. Raj has a master's degree in management from BITS, Pilani, India.

Paul Condolora is senior vice president, digital & Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) for Turner Broadcasting System Inc.’s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media Group (AYAKM), a portfolio of cable networks, digital properties and entertainment businesses for kids and young adults.  In this capacity, Condolora is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the digital strategy and product development across multiple platforms for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim-branded products and services.  Additionally, Condolora oversees creative development and day-to-day operations for two industry leading Web sites CartoonNetwork.com and AdultSwim.com, and also oversees digital strategy and operations for both the investigative website, TheSmokingGun.com, and the new digital comedy website, ThingX.com.  He also oversees the CNE teams in Atlanta and New York with John O’Hara, executive vice president, Cartoon Network Sales, Marketing & CNE.  Based in Atlanta, Condolora reports directly to Stuart Snyder, president and chief operating officer for AYAKM,

Mark McCabe is an accomplished technology and start-up leader, currently Director of Global Mobile Payments at Western Union. Mr. McCabe has worked with CITI Bank developing mobile strategies in the digital money, wallet and NFC space. Before that he was part of the senior management at RAZZ, a global publisher of entertainment software and services for mobile phones. 

Before becoming CEO of CreditCall Limited in February 2007, Peter joined the company as COO in 2002, having previously held successful senior level positions in large international Japanese and American companies. Under Peter’s direction, CreditCall has achieved dramatic growth as a leading payment gateway in the unattended payments sector such as parking, vending and ticketing as well as mobile and online and is now a major supplier of EMV Kernel technology for manufacturers of mPOS devices, ATMs, card readers, PIN pads, and unattended terminals.

Paul joined Betway over a year ago and has been responsible for driving strategy for all mobile products and experiences. He has over nine years’ experience in the digital space. He previously worked at the US company, IGT. At Betway he has developed a variety of Native and HTML5 mobile products. Betway has Mobile Sportsbook, and Mobile Casino products and it is available on Android and iOS. Before working at Betway, Paul worked at the US company IGT in its mobile division helping to grow UK B2B product Kerching.

John Lunn (Global Director, PayPal Developer) John has been building payments and anti-fraud systems on the internet for over 15 years and has advised many of the successful and less successful start-ups on their payment strategies. Originally a java certified developer and now an all-purpose hacker, John runs PayPal's Developer Evangelism team.

Markus leads the strategy and execution for next-generation entertainment user experience at Rogers Communications, one of Canada's largest diversified communications and media companies. He leads a team responsible for delivering the end-to-end video user experience for a large portfolio of interactive TV, web, mobile and tablet apps. Over the past 10 years, Markus has managed the design and development of highly successful, award-winning apps while at TELUS, Orange/ France Telecom and several leading design agencies in Europe.

Monica Bannan is Vice President of Mobile Media at Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and what they buy.  There, she oversees Nielsen’s mobile media products, including mobile audience measurement solutions and Smartphone Analytics, both of which rely on data collected from Nielsen’s new smartphone on-device meters.   Monica came to Nielsen through the acquisition of Telephia, where she worked across Telephia’s mobile products.  Before that, Monica worked at a number of mobile and market research startups, who recruited her away from Bertelsmann AG, where she began her career.

Maribel Lopez, founded Lopez Research LLC in 2008 to research how technology trends such as mobile, big data, social and cloud will transform business. Today, she is evaluating how mobile technologies will integrate with big data, analytics, and cloud computing solutions to build what Lopez Research defines as “Right-time Experiences”. Right-time experiences use context from mobile, social, and analytics to deliver an employees and customers the proper information at the point of need.

Dr. Brian Laughlin has served many roles during his 19 years at the Boeing Company, covering many aspects of airplane production, including everything from actual aircraft construction as a Compoosites Mechanic, to trouble shooting and fixing Production problems as a Process Engineering Analyst, to his roles in IT as an eBusiness Software developer, Federated Search Developer/Manager. Brian has filed numerous patents, and received a plethora of awards for his inventive, problem solving solutions in IT, including: an Ed Wells Technical Excellence Award (99) Meritorious Invention Award(03), two Special Invention Awards(02, 09), and a Technical Replication Award(11).

After two years of working as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, Aaron left to start MarkedUp. He's passionate about native app development, ASP.NET MVC, gaming, traveling, and camping. This is Aaron's second company in the analytics space

Brian is the Vice-President of Mobile Advertising Sales at Pandora, where he is charged with helping advertisers reach their target audience across Pandora’s mobile product portfolio. Pandora boasts one of the largest mobile audiences in the country based on monthly unique visitors and is one of the most downloaded mobile applications of all-time.  

Dan Martin is responsible for the MasterCard OpenAPI platform and Developer Zone community.  He’s passionate about making MasterCard’s wealth of data and technology available to the worldwide software development community.  

Previously, Dan worked on building several of the services that are now available on the MasterCard Developer Zone. Before joining MasterCard, Dan spent nearly a decade working in software research and development, building a variety of systems with geographic, mobile, web service, and e-commerce focuses.

Aashir Shroff is Vice President of Mobile Banking and Payments for Wells Fargo's Digital Channel Group.  Working in mobile for the past 10 years, Aashir has garnered much success by leading a variety of business development, product management and marketing functions. Aashir's career with Wells Fargo began in 2008 as an early member of the Wells Fargo mobile team. Throughout his tenure, Aashir and his teams have led efforts to help foster growth and deliver success for the mobile channel. Prior to Wells Fargo, he worked for both industry leaders and startups.

Wayne Walls is a Solution Architect at Rackspace, the open cloud company, where he evangelizes global strategy and product portfolio.  A tenured thought leader in the technology industry, Wayne has engineered complex technical solutions, delivered cloud transformation plans, and implemented multiple training initiatives. 

Jimshade Chaudhari is the Director of Digital Product Management at DISH where he is responsible for DISH’s portfolio of online, mobile, and interactive products. This includes management of the online video portal (www.dishanywhere.com), the DISH Anywhere mobile apps, and a variety of other mobile and interactive set-top box apps. He also plays a key role in defining DISH’s multi-platform strategy to meet customers’ evolving entertainment needs across the various devices they own.
Prior to DISH, Jimshade spent 6 years at Sprint in business development, marketing and product roles. In his last role as General Manager, he managed the product marketing strategy for all of Sprint’s consumer wireless data services (messaging, social networking, mobile video, etc.). Before joining Sprint, Jimshade worked in the financial services and technology sectors. He holds a MBA from the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University.

Sonny Fisher is the founder of Mahala. Sonny was previously the CEO of JSE listed Information Security Architects, the largest IT security consultancy and value added reseller in Africa. Having started programming at the age of 12, Sonny went on to start his own point of sale business which he listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1997. At 29, Sonny was one of the youngest CEOs of a listed company in the history of the JSE. As founder and CEO of Microangelo POS, he developed and implemented point of sale solutions for FMCG, fashion and specialty retailers.

William Siu is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Storm8, the leading developer of social games for iOS and Android with more than 300 million total downloads across 100 million devices. Storm8 is also home to innovative brands: TeamLava, Shark Party and FireMocha. William is in charge of Storm8’s product vision in the company’s quest to bring social games to mobile devices around the world.

Pranay Kapadia serves as Head of Product Management for Mobile Payments and Point of Sale at Intuit. In this role, Kapadia leads the global product management team responsible for one of Intuit’s fastest growing businesses - Intuit’s mobile payments offering - GoPayment, along with the development of Intuit’s point of sale software and hardware.

Michael De Jongh was appointed Global Head of Sales for MACH’s Mobile Billing and Content business in February 2012. In this role, Michael is responsible for driving the wide spread adoption of MACH’s direct operator billing solution, its Direct Billing Gateway, amongst merchants, content providers, application stores and mobile operators across the globe.

Bill Scott joined the mobile data industry in 2000, as VP Latin America for Infospace.  There he launched some of the region’s first mobile portals with numerous mobile operators.  Subsequently Bill held VP Latin America positions for Critical Path and Openwave.
In 2007 Bill joined GetJar.  As SVP Sales & Business Development, Bill’s team manages advertising, publishing, and monetization for app developers.
Bill is from Seattle, Washington, USA.  He has a BA in Philosophy from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard University.

Roy Sutton is the Community Manager for HP's Open webOS project. He is the author of Enyo: Up and Running from O'Reilly Media and a contributor to the Enyo project. He has been a mobile developer for longer than the term has existed. You can find him on twitter as @Pre101.

Since 2010 Tapjoy has played an integral part in launching many of today's top mobile studios.  As Tapjoy's Director of Developer Partnerships, Brian works closely with mobile game developers of all sizes, from two person indie teams working on a shoe string budget to multinational gaming corporations, helping them successfully navigate the competitive mobile landscape.  Prior to joining Tapjoy, Brian conceptualized and founded the music discovery site Fuzzedout.com and worked with Sony Entertainment. Brian is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Faye Iosotaluno is Vice President of Digital Business Development for Viacom Media Networks.  In her role, Iosotaluno is responsible for developing business relationships with digital content partners and emerging platforms across Viacom’s diverse network portfolio.  She works with partners to create business and monetization strategies for partners in areas such as social media, second screen TV, content aggregation and other growing digital segments. Based in the company’s New York City headquarters, Iosotaluno reports to Jim Eadie, Senior Vice President of Digital Business

Pragati has over 12 years of experience in mobile operating systems, mobile security, mobile payments, and m-commerce. From working as a platform security engineer with Motorola Mobility to designing and developing PayPal’s mobile offerings, she has extensive end-to-end experience in all aspects of mobile technology. Pragati has dual masters in computer science and has taught and trained computer science students at different levels. She is a recognized speaker at international technology events. Pragati currently works as the Mobile Technology Evangelist with PayPal, eBay Inc..

Oren is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer. Oren founded AppsFlyer to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – campaign measurement and user attribution. Before founding AppsFlyer, he worked at Stage2 Ventures and held management and engineering positions at Veraz, Avaya and Intel. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.

Matt Harrington is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.  Before joining Microsoft in 2011, Matt was active in the local open source community.  He discovered functional programming through Scala, which he enjoyed very much.  At a Silicon Valley Code Camp in 2008, Matt had a break in his schedule and decided to attend a talk on F# by Tim Ng of Microsoft. 

Deepak Thomas is the Senior Director, Mobile Strategy & Product Management at Shutterfly.  Previously he was the GM of Mobile Classifieds at eBay with responsibilities for their global mobile properties in Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Prior to that, he was GM of Mobile Products at IAC/Match.com and held  various product and partner development roles at Oracle Corp.’s Mobile Products division.

Anthony Bettini is the CEO and part of the founding team at Appthority, the leader in Mobile App Risk Management solutions and winner of the "Most Innovative Company of the Year" award at the Innovation Sandbox held at the RSA Conference 2012. His professional security experience comes from working for companies like Intel, McAfee, Foundstone, Bindview, and Netect.

Michael Singer is based in San Francisco where he previously worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit as part of its Thought Leadership Group. Prior to joining The Economist, Michael managed online news operations for UBM/TechWeb's InformationWeek and served as senior editor for the 2010 Folio award-winning Internet Evolution project. He's also been an editor and writer in San Francisco for ABC-7 News, KTVU FOX 2, and CNET News.com.

John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of real-time browser networking and co-founder of Kaazing. Originally from Northern Ireland, John graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for over fifteen years. Prior to founding Kaazing, John was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies.

Drew Dillon is Director of Product Management at Yammer - an enterprise software company with consumer DNA. Yammer uses traditionally consumer metrics and rapid product iterations to build enterprise software, ensuring voluntary adoption by millions of users. In addition to leading feature development, Drew leads the team that is responsible for helping Yammer partners succeed in growing and engaging their own users.

Drew has worked in development, military collaboration, encryption (he's forgotten everything), construction, and at a vet clinic. He landed at Yammer in 2010, and since then has occupied no less than 15 different desks.

Oxman brings two decades of technology industry and policy experience to ETA. He joins ETA from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association that produces the International CES®, where he served as senior vice president of industry affairs. Previously, Oxman served as general counsel of a technology industry  trade association and as vice president of a Silicon Valley‐based technology company.

Walter is Founder, CEO and creator of Corona SDK, the flagship product of software development company, Corona Labs. In a previous life, Walter was Lead Architect for Adobe Flash Lite, a mobile runtime that has shipped on over a billion devices. During that time, he led the engineering team, pioneered advanced mobile graphics, and jump-started key strategic relationships. Prior to Flash, Walter shipped several industry-standard products for creative professionals including Adobe Illustrator and Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Walter holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Swarthmore College, and a masters in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Jag oversees Developer Outreach for Barnes & Noble, NOOK 3rd Party Apps business unit.  Her team is responsible for developer recruitment, evangelism, app merchandising and marketing.  She loves working with partners to deliver rock solid, innovative programs that bring the digital side of B&N together with the physical retail side.  Prior to joining the NOOK team, Jag has held various leadership roles in the consumer electronics and video game industries at companies including Palm, HP, and Ubisoft.

Justin Pirie is a leading SaaS and Cloud specialist- he authors an influential blog and runs the largest SaaS community in the world, with nearly 40,000 members. He is on the EuroCloud and IAMCP UK boards, is the Cloud Strategist at Mimecast, one of the largest European SaaS companies where he helps organisations adopt Cloud successfully. Justin has been in IT over ten years, gravitating towards SaaS over the last five. Before Mimecast, Justin was an Officer at Endeavors Technology, the inventors of Application Virtualisation after running an IT Services company for 7 years.

Longstanding member of MEF North America, the community for mobile content and commerce, Andy is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in credit card processing and mobile operator billing technology. Prior to founding Buck with its Single Click Checkout, Andy was the Sr. Manager of the AT&T Wireless mMode portal. Before entering mobile, Andy was the founder of WeddingChannel.com (a leading wedding planning web destination) which was later sold to the Knot for $80+MM.

Chris Pearson is the President of 4G Americas.  In his role as the spokesperson and senior operating officer of the corporation, he is responsible for the strategic planning of the organization and providing executive management for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas of technology, marketing and public relations as well as public and regulatory affairs. 

Jeff is a native of Madison, Wisconsin, USA and has been a European resident for the past 18 years, living in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Brussels and Vienna. He has a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He had a 10 year career in the telecom industry with GTE (now Verizon), starting in Minneapolis and then was responsible for two European start-ups in Belgium and Hungary.

Jeff Potts, Chief Community Officer, has been a recognized and award-winning leader in the Alfresco community for many years. He has over 18 years of content management and collaboration experience, most of that having come from senior leadership positions in consulting organizations.

Tan Tmangraksat is Vice President of Publisher Solutions at Velti . He oversees strategic partner and platform development for the Mobclix Exchange and Velti Media.   Tan has provided thought leadership at various speaking events and articles regarding mobile app monetization and user acquisition with a global focus. Previously, Tan joined us from Yahoo! where he was responsible for pricing and yield optimization for the entire Western Sales region. He joined Yahoo! as part of the BlueLithium acquisition where he contributed strategic leadership and direction and was instrumental in their integration with the Right Media Exchange. At BlueLithium, Tan managed their key partnerships as well as media optimization strategy to help grow the network’s reach significantly. Tan’s expertise in managing strategic relationships, monetization, media planning and executing new revenue generating opportunities successfully brings brands to premium publishers while building stellar products and teams. Tan holds a degree in Political Economy from the University of California.

Nick Holland is a principal analyst leading Yankee Group's Mobile Money research. His research examines the development of technologies enabling mobile transactions in both the digital and physical domains.

Holland has spoken at and has chaired a variety of conferences and events, including RSA Conference 2009, the IFSA Annual Global Payments Symposium, CardTech SecurTech, Card Forum and 3GSM.

Eric Alterman is a founder of numerous software, telecommunications and semiconductor technology ventures, including KickApps Corporation (acquired KITD in 2010), MeshNetworks (acquired by Motorola in 2005), Triton Network Systems (2000 IPO), MILCOM (technology incubator) and TeraNex.  In 1997 Eric co-founded and operated MILCOM, a venture accelerator company that formed a number of venture-backed companies based on technologies licensed from military contractors like Lockheed Martin, ITT and Raytheon.

Miko Matsumura is currently Senior Vice President of Developer Relations at Kii Corporation through the merger of Servo Software and Synclore. Kii provides Smartphone and Mobile Data Cloud solutions that serve the largest phone carriers and phone makers in the world, serve over 40 million subscribers and drive over $250M in industry revenues.
Miko Matsumura’s career spans over 15 years of entrepreneurial technology leadership, having built and led technology platform marketing and product organizations across a wide range of software organizations from startup to billion-dollar levels. Miko is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked to drive shareholder value through multiple significant M&A events at both startups and midsized companies.

Michael Becker North America Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association Michael Becker is the North American Managing Director of the Mobile Marketing Association, where he is responsible for overseeing the association’s North American membership, research, strategic initiatives, events and education businesses. He also holds the position of Founder and Strategic Advisor to iLoop Mobile, Inc., an industry leading mobile marketing solutions provider. In addition to his commercial activities, Mr. Becker is an author and academic. He is the founder and publisher of the MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing, has authored two books (Mobile Marketing for Dummies and Web Marketing All-in-One for Dummies), written over more than 80 articles and contributed to 5 five other books. He also is frequently quoted by the press for his expertise including the WSJ, NY Times, RCR, AdWeek and hundreds more. In addition, Mr. Becker is an adjunct professor of Mobile Marketing at Golden Gate University (GGU) and is pursuing his doctorate, with a focus on next generation consumer information ownership business models, at GGU.

Andrew is TinyCo's Director of Business Development. Before joining TinyCo he was head of mobile publishing at 6waves where he helped the company pivot from social to mobile game publishing. Andrew has over 14 years of experience in video games, product management, and digital media at leading entertainment companies such as EA, where he contributed to the company's social media and community strategy as well as driving front line execution of its digital business growth. He has held online marketing and production roles at Take 2 Interactive, Atari, and Miramax Films. Andrew started his career as the co-founder of a venture backed startup at the age of 18.

Mr. Tam-Scott brings a highly varied background – marketing, advertising, finance, sales, and cars - to digital media in his current function managing NBC News Digital’s mobile advertising business.  His passion for mobile marketing has been cultivated by previous engagements with Microsoft Advertising’s Mobile Display Ad Business and Bing Mobile Search.  Although Mr. Tam-Scott is excited about 2012 being the 4th consecutive “Year of Mobile”, he believes that mobile advertising is still in its infancy- NBC News Digital’s mobile advertising strategy is focused on bridging the gap between an emerging standalone product and a scaled integrated digital solution.

Reza Alizadeh is the Chief Technology Evangelist for Windows Phone with Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism division. His main focus is working with top mobile app partners in the Western US and supporting their efforts to adopt the Windows Phone platform, while also supporting the general development community.

Emil Rensing is the Chief Digital Officer of EPIX, a premium entertainment cable channel jointly owned by Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, and MGM.

Rensing has over 15 years of experience working in both technology and television worlds. As a member of the founding team of EPIX, he brings a unique insight into the traditional and emerging media landscape, overseeing a team that has delivered many firsts in pay-television at EPIX.

Arte Merritt is a serial entrepreneur who has more than 12 years mobile experience in roles ranging from founder/CEO to product management, business development, and hands-on technical roles.

Arte was the founder and CEO of Motally, a leading mobile-analytics tracking and reporting service. He led Motally through a successful exit, selling the company to Nokia in August 2010. Arte built the first version of Motally, got the initial customers, and raised a Series A round as a sole entrepreneur.

Juan Posada is a Senior Director of Business Development with Expedia. His leads a team responsible for originating new partnerships with companies of all sizes in the growing travel ecosystem across online, social, local, and mobile. Juan joined Expedia in 2012, bringing with him an extensive background in innovation leadership, product management and business development as well as a deep understanding of mobile, gaming and online media.

Craig Palli is a seasoned inventor and entrepreneur. Craig leads the charge on all of Fiksu’s worldwide Business Development efforts, spanning the Client Development and Client Performance teams who ensure client success to the global buy-side strategy and traffic partner portfolio. Craig’s insight and quick wit make him a popular speaker at industry events as well as a trusted go-to source for the trade and business press.

A B.Sc graduate of Dublin City University, Brian is the founder of Purpledecks.com, specialists in the field of connected devices software.Brian has over 12 years in the devices industry, beginning his software initiation in the early world of WAP, moving through to the domain of J2ME and Symbian programming  and onto more recent platforms all whilst working for some of the major world players in the telecoms and networks arena.

With over 10 years of experience across multiple industries including telecommunications, online media, and management consulting, Fraser Thompson is known for his driven leadership, acuity and ability to execute. In his current role, Fraser oversees carrier and business operations, product vision and strategy, and has a proven track record of successful product launches, new market expansion, and strategy execution. Thompson holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Alessandro Prest is co-founder and CTO of Nivpat, a US-based startup specialized in digital garments. He also co-founded LogoGrab and Fighissimo, where he helps delivering Artificial Intelligence solutions to different markets.

In the past he has covered several research positions in different institutions. He received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from ETH Zurich in 2012 and a M.Sc. cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Udine

Mack is a fan of people, games and the Internet. Specifically the mobile Internet. When not spending time with his family he likes to create things - stories, software, communities and the future. Mack hopped into bed with Tapstream in 2012 after dabbling as a Product Manager, CEO and investment group associate. When the opportunity arrose to join a hockey sticking company with an incredible team solving a real problem it was a no brainer. He hasn't stopped smiling since.

Krams has over 18 years of experience developing applications. He started with developing retail banking solutions in windows and the web. He has played many roles in software development including testing and release management over the years. Most recently Krams has been developing mobile and collaboration applications for CDW. He has planned and implemented the strategic direction for the mobile platform at CDW, currently focusing on unifying the mobile experience across devices and applications. Components of this strategic vision include technology choices, sourcing choices for development and unification of applications on multiple platforms.

Ty is the CEO of StackMob and founded the company in January 2010. He brings a wide range of product and engineering expertise, including building scalable distributed systems and monetizing mobile applications. Prior to StackMob, Ty managed mobile, API, and frontend teams at imeem. Building out imeem’s popular mobile applications to over 1.2 million users, Ty learned first hand the pain behind writing apps and what it takes to grow them.

Emmanuel Carraud is CEO at MagicSolver, the user acquisition specialists for mobile applications.
MagicSolver helps over 10 million users to save money every day with their mobile phone by downloading free apps and in addition helps developers and publishers gain visibility for their apps in the App Store.

Lisa joined A+E with more than 18 years of sales and marketing experience in the videogame industry and a strong record of developing revenue generating partnerships. Prior to A+E, Lisa held the position of VP of Business Development and Marketing at Arcadia a start-up focused on building a 3D virtual world for casual gamers. Lisa joined Arcadia from Oberon Media where she held the position of Mobile Business Development Director; managing key carrier relationships for content sales and collaborating with tier one partners, such as Verizon and Comcast, on their platform convergence strategy. Purchased by Oberon in 2006, Blaze Entertainment was a mobile games publisher where Lisa managed all aspects of U.S. sales and marketing including carrier and license partner relations. She was formerly the Sr. Director of Strategic and OEM Sales at Electronic Arts where she secured revenue and marketing deals with worldwide partners including: Compaq, Sega, Pepsi, and THQ. Lisa holds a BA degree from Indiana University.

Anders Evju leads all business development and mobile social gaming partnership initiatives for PlayPhone's social gaming network.  He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry and has been involved in the creation of mobile entertainment services since its inception in the mid 1990's.

Anders joined the PlayPhone team in 2010 after 10 years on the management teams of I-play and Oberon Media. Anders was responsible for co-founding and leading I-play US in 2000, where he was SVP and General Manager and an integral part of the success leading to the sale to Oberon Media in 2007. Following the acquisition, Anders later took over the responsibility as SVP of Oberon Media where he managed the global operations of the leading casual games company.

Prior to starting up the US division of I-play, Anders was with MobileSpring as co-founder and Vice President of Business Development. He has U.S. wireless carrier background from Omnipoint Communications, where he was responsible for strategic planning of Wireless Internet Solutions. Anders gained extensive European telecom experience during his three years in Norway at NetCom GSM, where he was as a Director of Business Development and responsible for the initial planning, development and commercial launch of Mother, one of the world's first mobile portals, as well as the development of content based text messaging products. Major launches included the first commercial launch of SMS-chat over text-TV, downloadable ringtones/icons, and calendar/e-mail wireless integration. Anders was educated at West Virginia University, and has attended the MBA program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.

Jim joined Fiberlink in 2004 as Vice President, Business Development helping establish new indirect sales channels. In 2006, Jim became VP of Product Management and Marketing, and was responsible for product strategy, customer requirements and marketing of Fiberlink's Mobility-as-a-Service platform. In 2008, he was promoted to SVP and is currently responsible for customer revenue and lifecycle management including customer acquisition, integration, professional services and education.

I'm working at Rackspace to build and promote tools that make it easier for developers to create software on OpenStack and the Rackspace open cloud. I also ensure third party developers have a Fanatical advocate within Rackspace.

Niki Acosta is a Cloud Evangelista fat Rackspace. A Racker since 2008, she had held numerous roles throughout the organization and across many different products and services in the Rackspace portfolio. Prior to joining the Private Cloud team, she was responsible for training and sales enablement for the Rackspace Public Cloud products. A frequent speaker, tweeter, and blogger, she has become a recognized name in the cloud industry.

Dr Nilo Mitra is President of the Open IPTV Forum, the global IPTV industry specifications and certification organisation. He is also Engineering Director (Systems) at Ericsson, and coordinates Ericsson's standardization activities in the area of IPTV.

He has been working on IPTV standardization for the past seven years, in particular with the establishment of the Open IPTV Forum. Previously he was chairman of the Forum's Architecture and Solutions Working Groups, which produced two releases of the IPTV Solution specifications during his tenure.

Stephen Pinches was appointed group product manager for Emerging Technologies in June 2010. He is responsible for product development across all emerging platforms, including the FT’s iPad and iPhone apps and mobile websites.
Pinches joined the Financial Times in 2002 on the FT graduate scheme; having previously worked as a teacher and journalist throughout Europe and Latin America, and has since then held a series of roles in e-commerce and business development for FT.com. He has been working in digital product development for the past five years.
Pinches holds a first class Bachelors and Masters Degree in European Literature from the University of Warwick.

Carlo Longino is the Director of Developer Marketing Services for the Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP), where he leads strategic consulting and marketing projects for mobile developer programs. Carlo has more than a decade’s experience in the mobile industry, beginning just after the turn of the century when he worked for Nokia at its headquarters in Finland and mobile data services were in their infancy.

Brian has been responsible for the creation of several leading edge companies in the mobile space including one of the first US mobile phone retailers; a $200,000,000 finance company that provided construction and operational funding for new wireless operators; and one of the first mobile e-commerce transactional sites that included a mobile data application initiative.
Brian continues his visionary leadership as co-founder and CEO of neXva, Inc. neXva provides a fully managed and hosted white label digital content distribution solution for mobile carriers, brands and others that want to distribute mobile content without managing to the infrastructure necessary to make the store a success. Through a unique combination of proprietary cloud-based technology solutions and a robust mobile content distribution platform, neXva solves the problems affecting the mobile app ecosystem.
In addition to his business experience, Brian is an attorney who has practiced in the areas of corporate transactional law and business litigation. Brian is a frequent speaker on issues of mobile-content convergence, mobile marketing, application store evolution and investing in companies in the mobile space.

Atul is  an independent consultant helping companies on strategy  within social media, mobile and video games sectors. Till  recently, he was the Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Internet and Video Games industries at Lazard Capital Markets. Previously, Atul was the Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Social Media and Video Games industry at ThinkEquity where he authored multiple research notes including a couple white-papers on Games-as-a-Service. He has been regularly presenting at industry conferences in the US as well as international such as Game Developer Conference, LOGIN, Inside Social Apps, Social Games Summit, Virtual Goods Summit, ChinaJoy and others. He has also been regularly interviewed on TV and print media such as Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, Bloomberg, Washington Post. Prior to ThinkEquity, Atul worked as Equity Research Analyst with Smith New Court (now Merrill Lynch.) Atul received his MBA from Haas School of Business at University of Berkeley, Masters in Management from University of Bombay and Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India.

Evan Young is Senior Director of Product Marketing at TiVo Inc., where he is responsible for overseeing broadband content, applications and interactive advertising.  He has extensive experience in broadcast, broadband, and consumer services, and has edited books on digital video recording and digital home audio recording and production.  Evan has an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard University.  While at Stanford, Evan was the founder of "The Future of Entertainment", an annual business and technology conference about media convergence.

Bill Magnuson is the co-founder and CTO of Appboy, a customer engagement platform for mobile apps. He oversees both the architecture and scaling of the Appboy platform across millions of customers, as well as building a strong technology culture within the company.

Bill began working in mobile on Google’s App Inventor project, the first app creation platform for Android. There, he helped universities unlock new opportunities in education by simplifying the complicated app development process. He later joined Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, before winning the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon with Appboy co-founder Jon Hyman.

Bill attended MIT, where he received both a Master Degree in Engineering as well as a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science. His Master’s thesis describes the cloud based multiplayer coordination framework he built for mobile Android games.

A native of Minnesota, Bill loves the outdoors and a good debate (he won the 2010 North American Debating Championship). His first mobile phone was a Motorola V2288.

Thorsten Leiduck has held several roles over the past eight years with SAP, most recently as VP Platform Ecosystem & eChannels where he leads the development of a large, vibrant, open ecosystem around SAP’s core platforms.

As founder, Chief Executive Officer and board member, Ron Czerny serves as the visionary and driving force behind PlayPhone's corporate strategy. Czerny's more than 18 years of experience in the games industry has allowed him to help establish PlayPhone's dominance in the mobile social games industry and position the company to compete and thrive on a global scale.In 2000, Czerny founded Atrativa, a online platform and games company with operations based mainly in North and South America. As chief executive officer, Czerny led Atrativa to its current status as the premier Web games provider, powering several major ISPs including Earthlink, UOL (South America's largest ISP), Yahoo!™ Brazil, AOL™ Brazil, MSN™ Brazil, Ibest (Telecom Brazil), Terra Networks (North and South America) and many others. RealNetworks, Inc. acquired Atrativa in 2006.Czerny also played a key role in Latin America's video game industry between 1992 and 1999 as the co-founder of the Brazilian Video Game Association and Head of Capcom's video game distribution and strategy in the region. Czerny is currently the Chair of  MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce North America Chapter and a Board Member of MEF Global. He holds a Bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in international business from San Jose State University.

 

Eric Schrag is a Senior Android Developer at Comcast. After starting as a data ingest and middleware engineer, he innovated his way from the back-end to the front-end, using his passion for sports and data during a Lab Week to produce a sample app for browsing TV listings in a way more appealing to sports fans. He was given the opportunity to switch teams, and has been enjoying the excitement of mobile development ever since, helping to develop the Xfinity TV Remote, TV Player, AnyPlay, and creating the original Xfinity Sports Remote product.

As president of Ludei, Joe Monastiero brings over 20 years of technology management experience to the Company.  He co-founded appMobi, a pioneer in HTML5 mobile application development platforms, helping the company acquire over 50,000 active developers. He also co-founded Intervideo, (formerly IVII, acquired by Corel Corporation) where he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development activities and helped drive the company to become the dominant force in delivering DVD software playback to the world. Over 500M copies of WinDVD have been delivered to the market worldwide.

 Prior to joining appMobi, Joe was a leading consultant to technology startups, including muvee Technologies of Singapore and Cyberlink Corp of Taiwan and was also employed by Rockwell Semiconductor, Zoran and Turtle Beach Systems. Joe’s experience includes helping to take two companies public and managing two successful exit M&As.

 At Ludei, Joe is responsible for coordinating all business strategy and planning, funding initiatives, strategic partnerships, business models, product planning and roadmapping, new hires, marketing, PR, and of course, developing a sound revenue and profitability plan. He works daily with most of the larger companies in the mobile game industry and its ecosystem. As a technologist, he is also actively involved in the day-to-day planning of the company’s offerings. Ludei is a cross-device native mobile game development and delivery platform that allows app developers to build, deploy and monetize high performance, native competitive HTML5 games for both iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Pete is the Lead for the AT&T Developer Content, Tools and API Support.  His teams supports 3rd developer accessing the AT&T API Platform, releasing tools such as the AT&T Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) and supporting open source efforts within the company.  

As a veteran of the mobile industry with over a decade at Palm, Enda leads the Developer Relations team at HP that supports both the Enyo and Open webOS product lines. He began his professional career as an electronic engineer before switching to web development. In2010, he began working on Palm’s line of PDAs and smart phones, ultimately returning to his passion for web technologies with the introduction of webOS. He has spent the last 4 years developing WebOS from the ground up and supporting its enthusiastic developer community.

Jason Loia is Chief Operating Officer at Digital Chocolate, a leading cross-platform publisher of social games for mobile and web. Among his many duties at Digital Chocolate, Jason manages monetization, partnerships, technology, and platforms. Before joining Digital Chocolate, Jason helped build Lavastorm, one of the first mobile game studios in the U.S. Jason holds engineering degrees from U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Stanford, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.

UI/UX Designer, Conceptualizes and wire frames usable design for touch screen and mobile applications for CBS Entertainment properties. Creates completed elegant design solutions including all Graphics for iPhone, iPad, Android, ios.

Latest Projects include CBS All Sports App, Grammy's Live App

Kevin Morgan has 32 years of experience in the commercial system software business. He joined MontaVista Software in 1999 as the Vice President of Engineering and led the engineering and product strategy for nearly seven years, growing the company to the world's dominant embedded Linux products provider. He began his career in 1980 at Hewlett Packard developing kernel level software in the RTE operating system, and departed after 20 years as the Laboratory Manager for the HP-UX kernel and overseeing all HP-UX product development. Kevin holds the position of Vice President of the Digital Asset Protection Association, an organization co-founded by Arxan.  He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

 

Giancarlo is a serial entrepreneur with experience in many online and offline ventures. He is an expert at both online and offline marketing and running large scale sales centers. He has been the CEO and Founder of two finance companies which cater directly to consumers, one of which he exited in 2011. He is active in both providing seed investment and incubation to startups in technology and digital media in his home town area of Orange County, California. He is passionate about results, innovation and everything mobile. When he is not working hard at the office, he is most likely working hard on his tan, while hanging out with his wife and daughter at the beach.

Stephen is the founder and CTO of PubNub. Stephen’s vision and strong technical chops drove the initial architecture of PubNub, building a core engine that has successfully scaled to the some of the largest real-time deployments in the world. Stephen has been a successful software entrepreneur his whole life, starting his first company, LTSun, at age 17, and joining Microsoft after its acquisition. Stephen was the chief architect for TrustedOpinion.com, a 50-language social recommendations site that grew to over 1 million users across over 100 countries.

Chris focuses on investments in IT with a particular focus on consumer Internet, Big Data, software and mobile. Chris also leads General Catalyst’s seed investment program. He is based in our Palo Alto office.
Previously, Chris was a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies including Millennial Media (NYSE: MM), Goal.com (acq by Perform Group) &  Enforta Wireless. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, Chris spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, which was acquired by Telular Corporation. At Skybitz, Chris led Product Management and was responsible for finance, recruiting the executive team as well as market & business development. Earlier in his career, Chris founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google to form the foundation for AdWords & AdSense). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company.

Chris received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy. He has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, The Journal of Private Equity and other leading publications."

Stephen maintains that the most interesting people live at the crossroads of technology and art because that’s where magic happens.

He first experienced the magic as an apprentice architect when he was introduced to computer graphics in its infancy. Single frame renders took hours using all the mainframes cycles, the artistic process was so technologically confined he retrained as a programmer to build better tools.

Simon is a tool maker. He grew up in New England with LEGO, LOGO, and Paul Simon. His career has been about learning: learning how to lead, learning how to follow, and learning how to help. He believes in the overwhelming power of positivity, music, and community. 
Prior to Singly, Simon founded Introspectr, a personal search engine that aggregated social services and provided a single place to search for them. He is a recovering mechanical and jet propulsion engineer.

John Donham is the CEO behind the world's fastest-growing music and listening service TuneIn. John co-founded his previous start-up, social gaming company Metaplace, which was acquired by gaming giant Playdom in 2010. Playdom subsequently sold to Disney and soon after John was promoted to co-COO of Playdom, overseeing product and technology. John has a long-standing track record in consumer Internet, entertainment and gaming. He was previously a Vice President of Development for Sony Online Entertainment where he led the development of dozens of popular titles including the EverQuest franchise and Star Wars Galaxies. When he’s not obsessing over product, you can find John building high-quality custom speakers. Some of his creations now pump out the sounds of favorite employee shows and stations through the TuneIn offices. John’s favorite stations and shows on TuneIn include ESPN, HOT 97, WSB, KQED, and Radio Paradise.

Gray Norton leads the team responsible for the Enyo JavaScript app framework. Enyo helps developers build native-quality HTML5 apps that run across all platforms and form factors, from mobile to desktop and beyond. Before assuming leadership of the Enyo team, Gray led product management for the webOS developer platform. He believes that the web is destined to become the dominant app platform of the future, and has been working on web-centric products and platforms for 15+ years, at Palm/HP, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and a handful of startups.

Paul is an award-winning mobile strategist who leads the Tier I publisher and demand-side business at MoPub. Prior to MoPub, he was the Vice President and Founder of the mobile practice at Razorfish. He joined Razorfish, the #4 ranked agency by Ad Age’s prestigious A-List, in 2007 as an MBA intern. By 2011 Razorfish was listed #2 by Ad Age for agency mobile revenue. The mobile practice’s service offering includes integrated strategy engagements, app and site design and development, messaging, media planning and buying, search and ad creative. Paul’s passion for mobile and leadership has led to an unrelenting output of groundbreaking mobile work for over 70 clients. The mobile practice has created many of the most successful sites and apps, including 17 apps that were listed in the iTunes App Store, the top branded application of 2008, a top ranked free iPad application, a top grossing iPad application and a commerce experience that generated over $8 billion in transactions. Paul’s success has not gone unnoticed. He was the youngest executive to receive Mediaweek’s Media All-Star award. The practice was recognized by Forrester as a mobile marketing agency Industry Leader, their top rating. His clients have won mobile marketer of the year, luxury mobile marketer of the year and a Cannes Lion. Paul's groundbreaking work and point of view have been sought out by and received press in the New York Times, the WSJ, Adweek, Ad Age, Fast Company, Mashable, Wired, Contagious, SAI, MediaPost, Digiday & Mobile Marketer. Recent conference speaking engagements include Television Upfront, SXSW, Mobile Upfront, IAB, Advertising Week, OMMA, Proxxima (Brazil) & MMA, The Mobile Show (Dubai), INMA, Digiday, DMA, Digital Hollywood, SEMPO, Admonsters, SAI, Wharton and Harvard. Paul is also an advisory board member for several companies.

Mark leads mobile strategy and business development on behalf of NBCUniversal's Digital business units with a primary focus on growing distribution, co-marketing and product innovation for mobile web & app content and services for Fandango.com, Movies.com, DailyCandy, and DailyCandy Deals

Nat Friedman, Xamarin’s co-founder and CEO, has been writing software for 27 years and is passionate about entrepreneurship and building products developers love. With over 220,000 developers building apps with Xamarin, Nat brings a unique perspective on how top businesses and developers are using mobile to transform customer relationships and business processes.  Nat is also an avid traveler (visiting 20 countries in 2010 alone), an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

Eduardo is a Software and Services Executive at GE responsible for the creation and go-to-market activities for cross-platforms applications and digital services. Using predictive analytics, social collaboration, and elegant user experiences, GE Services provides business insights that empower customers to make better decisions.

Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Developer Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he has been actively involved in furthering web technologies for more than a decade. As a Developer Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at conferences and user group events across the globe. Prior to joining Adobe, Kevin held various information technology roles ranging from interactive design to enterprise infrastructure. Kevin lives in Denver, CO and enjoys photography and general aviation in his free time.

Sheffield is the CEO of AppTrailers, the industry leader in driving high quality app installs and user engagement. Prior to AppRedeem, Sheffield developed multiple iPhone apps that climbed to the top 5 paid and top 5 free spots on the iTunes App Store in multiple countries. Previously he architected and managed large scale solutions for many Fortune 500 companies and venture backed startups, including Visa, eBay, PayPal and AltaVista. In 2004, Sheffield launched the search engine Clush. Sheffield developed a machine learning categorization system for Clush, using probabilistic models for clustering and content classification

Jeppe Dorff, a native of Denmark, returned in 2011 to Canada to join Rogers Communications and brings with him a wealth of global perspective with a career spanning most continents and more than a handful of individual mobile payments and mobile banking deployments. Jeppe joined Rogers Communications where in his role as "Head of Transaction Services" he is responsible for development and execution on the transactional technology, product and business strategy.

Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked across the space over the past 12 years. Raj is the Founder and CEO of venture-backed Tempo AI focused on developing a day assistant. Tempo AI was spun-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) where Raj served as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence). Previously, Raj was the founding Vice President of Business Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports full Flash rendering. Prior to Skyfire, Raj co-founded venture-funded Veeker, NBC’s mobile video citizen journalism service and ToneThis, CNET’s top downloaded ringtone creation product.

Guy is the co-founder and CEO of Onavo. He brings over a decade of technology entrepreneurship and management experience to Onavo Insights, spanning mobile, cloud technologies and analytics spaces. Prior to co-founding Onavo, Guy was an industry-leading cloud computing analyst, crunching data to publish research about that fast-growing sector. Guy has also previously held management roles at Collactive, as Head of Operations and at Blue Security as Lead Analyst.

In 2006 Eric Mugnier joined the founding team of Inside Mobile, whose aim was to provide international brands mobile marketing solutions with a creative edge. By 2010 Inside Mobile had managed to go above and beyond all expectations and in March 2010 part of the company was sold to M&C Saatchi and Inside Mobile was rebranded M&C Saatchi Mobile. Eric Mugnier has a vast marketing experience and has worked at numerous leading global brands over the last 9 years.
Eric has worked across all business areas at M&C Saatchi Mobile and has been able to use his extensive knowledge and experience to help drive the business forward, allowing it to become a market leader. In 2011 Eric moved to the US to open the first international office of M&C Saatchi Mobile.
Today Eric heads up M&C Saatchi Mobile in Americas, via two offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Kevin Nickels started off as a programmer at Sun, NCD and Wyse where he immersed himself in technology. Then he took a sharp left-hand turn into management, serving as a serial CEO and entrepreneur for startups such as Netmosphere (sold to Critical Path in 2000), @Court and BioPop. He led the cloud computing effort at BT all the way back in 2006! At FatFractal, Kevin is getting to embrace his programming roots once again, diving deep into programming. He’s also the president, which is great fun, but he likes coding even more.

Kobi Marenko is entrepreneur in mobile and media in the last 12 years. He was a partner in m- wise that provided SMS platforms for media companies in the early days of mobile content. Than he founded logia mobile, a leading provider of content solution to mobile carriers (recently acquired by manadaly digital). In the last 2 years he invested in mobile advertising technology and launched taptica - a technology provider of mobile user acquisitions services. Kobi is also co- founder and share holder in two mobile gaming companies.

Chris Akhavan joined the Tapjoy team in January 2010 as SVP, Global Partnerships. In his role, he manages developer partnerships, publishing and international expansion teams; leads app monetization, distribution and publishing strategy development; and is responsible for operations in North America, South America,

Ravi Kamran is responsible for strategy, business development and distribution at Trademob. He studied business administration at the WHU Vallendar, in Mexico and in the US. Within the scope of his diploma thesis he investigated the innovation management of companies. Afterwards he successfully launched a business in the field of advertising (games) together with leading internet investors. Due to his fascination for technology, he has dedicated his time to exploring the technology developments in the mobile market during the past two years. He decided to combine his two interests by founding Trademob, the pioneering platform for mobile app marketing.
Ravi Kamran is deeply connected in the German mobile community and is involved in various events and conference. As expert for mobile app marketing, he has spoken at several events such as Germany’s biggest mobile conference the M-Days and is frequently asked by the media to contribute expert interviews.

Responsible for the full lifecycle of all application development efforts for the Weather Channel around Android related technologies. Directly involved at all levels of activity from technical leadership at an architectural and coding level to implementing process to ensure that the products meet the expectations of our partners and business as well as the needs of our end users. Leading a diverse team of developers and quality analysts from conception to deployment through a collaborative and effective agile process.

Andy is responsible for leading the next stage of the agency’s evolution in mobile and emerging platforms, working in
tandem with counterparts across the world. Andy joined the UK agency in May 2003 and became MEC’s first Digital
Strategist in 2005. During this time, he developed overall communications strategy for Monster UK, as well as digital
strategy for Colgate Palmolive and Paramount Pictures International.

Adam is the Director of Mobile Marketing for HotelTonight, the leading last minute hotel-booking app, where he leads user acquisition, marketing strategy and analytics. Adam is has been involved in mobile strategy since targeting Java developers to build mobile games 8 years ago for Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been immersed in all facets of emerging and digital media, marketing and business development for companies ranging from establish brands like Sun, MSFT, Kraft and Budweiser, to startups such as Zoosk, TapSense and now HotelTonight. He is also an avid speaker, writer and advisor for several early stage startups.

Aimee Viles serves as Senior Vice President of Emerging Media, Bravo Media. Viles is responsible for supervising Bravo’s Emerging Media department, including all wireless, interactive TV, gaming, and other emerging media initiatives.

Prior to joining Bravo, Viles served as Director of Creative Services at Ensequence, a premiere provider of internet TV products and services, responsible for building revenue generating business services for programming and advertising partners and

Colin Eberhardt is currently the CTO of ShinobiControls and a Technical Architect at Scott Logic Ltd.

Colin has had a diverse career having worked as a research fellow, laser-powered microscope designer and software engineer for medical systems. But finally, Colin has found his groove in software, where he has most recently been helping corporates define their mobile technology strategy. Colin is a keen technical writer and speaker, having written on subjects covering a wide range of mobile technologies including Windows Phone, iOS and HTML5 technologies. Colin has a PhD in Physics and is currently based in Newcastle, UK.”

Dion Almaer is a technologist who loves to code and build. He and his long time partner-in-crime Ben Galbraith recently brought their team to Walmart to power the mobile engineering efforts. He enjoys sharing his passion for software production across various communities, including a new property called FunctionSource.com.

Dion has been writing Web applications since it took over from Gopher. He has been fortunate enough to speak around the world, has published many articles, a book, and of course covers life the universe and everything on his blog athttp://almaer.com/blog/ .


He has been called a human aggregator, and you can see that in full force if you follow him on Twitter https://twitter.com/dalmaer.

David Rangel is the COO of Corona Labs and a seasoned technology and startup executive. Rangel oversees marketing, business development and operations for Corona Labs’ flagship product, Corona SDK, a development platform used by over 150,000 developers. Corona allows developers around the globe to create rich, graphical multi-platform mobile apps, games and eBooks. Previously, Rangel was Founder and CEO of Daily Gourmet, Head of Merchant Services at Groupon, a Principal at MK Capital and a Group Manager in the Corporate Strategy Group at Microsoft. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Northwestern University.

Mike helped create Mag+ as a member of Bonnier’s R&D team, and was part of the group that got Popular Science+ on the iPad when it launched in 2010, making it the first magazine on the device. After serving as Deputy Director of R&D, he later co-founded the Mag+ company. Today he helps decide where the platform should go next, and helps its more than 600 clients figure out what they should do with it to take best advantage of the new opportunity digital publishing presents. Prior to his work in R&D, Mike was executive editor at Popular Science and began his career as a graphic designer. 

Carl is a Unity product evangelist at the award wining company Unity Technologies. Carl has 10 years production experience working in AAA and indie game development. As an Autodesk Certified Instructor and Unity expert, Carl has taught specialized courses on game dev at leading companies and education institutes.

Joost Schreve is General Manager for TripAdvisor City Guides. He joined TripAdvisor through the acquisition of EveryTrail.

Joost founded EveryTrail in 2006 with the vision to change the way travelers share their experiences and interact with information in the mobile era. He grew EveryTrail into an early travel app leader and successfully sold the company to TripAdvisor in 2011.

Meet Swift, developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and mad scientist hacker. As a lifelong developer himself, Swift has made it his personal mission to enable developers by helping them get the tools and resources they need to make awesome, creative stuff. Swift is also one of the founders of Hacker League, the platform for hackathons and a former engineer at Crowdtap.

A global business management and development expert, Dmitry specializes in implementing integrated product, service, and sales solutions via newly emerging tech channels. His experience spans across digital marketing, upper-tier enterprise brand management, and sales arenas. A management and digital initiative veteran at Hilton, Marriott, and Enterprise Holdings Inc. before joining ComboApp Dmitry has cultivated a unique blend of expertise that runs the gamut from salesmanship axioms to tech savvy branding.

As Co-founder and SVP of Alliances & Marketing, Anil Malhotra is focused on building long-term relationships with Bango’s key customers and partners, including mobile operators and OEMs. Anil is a highly experienced marketing and business development manager, spending the last 20 years at entrepreneurial, fast-growth businesses in the Internet, software publishing and technology sectors.

Ashu Goel, CEO, has 23 years of technology and consulting experience focused on helping business and technology leaders harness the power of Collaboration and Analytics across the enterprise.

Phani Pandrangi is Vice President of Products at Kii and is in-charge of product vision, management and execution. Previously, Phani was Director of Product Management at Software AG where he was responsible for the webMethods Business Process Management product. Before Software AG, Phani worked in Product Management and Product Development roles at BEA Systems, Plumtree Software, Datasweep and Savvion. Phani holds an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Computer Science from Oregon State University and Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering from Osmania University.

Ariel is the Director of Publisher Relations at StartApp, he is responsible for the entire life cycle of our developer partners – from lead generation through sale and retention. Previously, Ariel held several positions in the online marketing world, from analyst to affiliate account manager. In the past year, he has studied the Android world, inside and out, to offer our developers extensive knowledge on every business aspect of this intriguing and booming industry.

Robleh Jama is the founder of Tiny Hearts, an award-winning app studio based in Toronto. Pocket Zoo, Tiny Hearts' debut title went on to become a #1 Education app and top 50 overall app on the App Store. Pocket Zoo has been featured on the New York Times, Wired magazine, Techcrunch and by Apple as a New & Noteworthy and Staff Favorite app.

Tiny Hearts is Robleh’s second successful startup. His first was an online social network he co-founded in 2006 called Sneakerplay. Sneakerplay received international attention from a variety of mainstream media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today and blogs like Techcrunch, Mashable and Cool Hunting. The company worked with a stellar list of brands which included Nike, Adidas, Microsoft and EA Sports. Sneakerplay was acquired in 2009.

As CEO of Placecast, Alistair Goodman brings both passion and experience in helping create, build, and scale successful new media organizations.
Prior to Placecast, Alistair was Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Exponential Interactive, an online media services and technology company whose flagship brand — the Tribal Fusion ad network — grew to be one of the largest privately-held digital media companies in the U.S. during his time there. Before joining Exponential, he was a founder and Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Impli, a San Francisco-based digital media company which was acquired by Premier Retail Networks (PRN). Earlier in his career, he worked first on Wall Street and then as a management consultant for both CSC Index and Corven UK Ltd, helping large organizations with process reengineering and the implementation of growth strategies.
Alistair holds a BA from Haverford College, an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and was a Henry Luce scholar in Asia from 1993—94. He is a frequent speaker at online advertising and mobile media industry conferences.

Thomas Pinter is Business Development Digital Entertainment Manager at paysafecard. paysafecard is a prepaid solution for online payments, that enables customers to pay online and is offered by more than 450,000 sales points in 33 countries .  Over the past years, paysafecard has become one of Europe’s leading alternative online payment solution.
Before joining paysafecard in 2012, Thomas was Cloud Computing Evangelist for Google.

Alex Bakman is a president and founder of Snappii. He is a successful software entrepreneur having built 3 companies with sales in tens of millions of dollars and successful acquisitions by large software companies.  Alex is recognized industry expert in Mobile Apps, Security, Audit, Compliance, and Datacenter Virtualization.  He has presented at many industry tech shows including MS Tech Ed, VMworld, LotusSphere and holds several patents in USA and Europe.

Randy is co-founder of TVplus, the leading platform for creating, syndicating and monetizing rich, interactive content for the 2nd screen and beyond. TVplus powers award-winning products for top media companies, including Fox, CBS, Viacom, Discovery, Univision, EPIX, CBC and more. The TVplus platform has been honored with awards from CableLabs and the SocialTV Summit.
Most recently, Randy was Founder & CEO of Red8 Interactive, an interactive agency based in San Francisco, Shanghai and St. Louis. Randy began his career in Asia living and working in Hong Kong, China and Japan for leading media and internet companies, including CMGI, Fox Networks, Shop Channel Japan and CCTV9 Beijing.
Randy received a BA with honors from the University of California at Irvine and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Brent Hieggelke is the CMO of Urban Airship, which helps the world's top brands grow mobile engagement through push notifications, and in-app purchases and subscriptions. Previously, he spent a decade helping brands optimize digital marketing initiatives in executive marketing posts at WebTrends, TouchClarity and Omniture. Most recently, Brent started and ran Second Porch, the first Facebook-integrated social vacation rental site sold to HomeAway, Inc. in May 2011. Early in his career, Brent co-founded New City, a media company in Chicago. Brent has been awarded multiple marketing awards, and is a frequent speaker at both marketing and digital conferences

Greg Richardson is the founder and CEO of Rumble Entertainment, a company dedicated to developing and publishing immersive, premium-quality free-to-play games.

For over 20 years, Greg has been a veteran and a driving force in the video games industry. After leading Product Development as Senior Vice President of Eidos Interactive, Greg joined Electronic Arts to serve as Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners.

Michele leads the global marketing team at mBlox, including product management, product marketing and corporate marketing. Prior to mBlox, Michele was the Executive Vice President of Products at Cooliris, a venture-backed company building the next generation in personal media communications. Michele has over 20 years of experience in high-tech product marketing, product development and business management. She joined Adobe in 2006 as Vice President of the Platform Business Unit, where she was responsible for product management, product marketing and developer relations for the Adobe Flash Platform. She spent two years as a Principal at Strategic Instinct consulting where she worked with several Web 2.0 and search startups, including Kaboodle, Kosmix, KnowNow and Wink. Before moving into consulting, she served as Vice President of Product Marketing and Design at Netflix. Earlier in her career, she was Senior Vice President for Product Marketing at AOL, where she helped drive product strategy, definition and delivery of AOL's Advanced Communications, Personalization, Mobile Portal and Netscape product lines. She was also Senior Vice President of Product at Excite@Home and held management positions at Silicon Graphics. Michele holds an M.B.A in Marketing and Finance from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.

•    Todd is the co-founder and CEO of PubNub. As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procument solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.

Jim Stewartson has 20 years’ leadership experience in combining technology and interactive entertainment content.  As the CEO and Founder of RIDES.tv, Inc., Jim provides the vision, strategy, and business execution for the company.

RIDES.tv is a platform for that provides tools, infrastructure, distribution and playback for multi-screen content. Highly scalable and portable to nearly every device, RIDES.tv is a recognized leader in providing technology and content for next-generation entertainment.

Previously, Jim raised $15M for Fourth Wall Studios, and built a world-class team that created RIDES.tv and a dozen groundbreaking original content series for the platform. The first major production by the company, DIRTY WORK, won the first-ever Primetime Emmy® for Original Interactive Content.

Brian Formato is the Global Director of Web Strategy and Communications for Ingersoll Rand’s Industrial Technologies business sector.  Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) advances the quality of life by creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments. Our people and our family of brands – including Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Schlage®, Thermo King® and Trane® – work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings; transport and protect food and perishables; secure homes and commercial properties; and increase industrial

Robert Spier serves as Director, Mobile at Travel Channel.  Robert worked previously as Mobile Product Director for Travel Channel’s parent company, Scripps Networks Interactive, which is also home to HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network and Cooking Channel. Robert was formerly Director of Content Development & Mobile OPs at NPR, where he oversaw award-winning mobile web, applications and podcasting portfolios.  A dual US/French citizen, Robert is based in Washington, DC.

Chuck is an innovative Media industry leader who is currently the Chairman of the 2nd Screen Society, President of the intersection (a research and consulting business) and has his hands in several diverse Digital Media/Technology opportunities, but is always looking to hear about the next “big thing” when it comes to the evolving media space. Chuck spent 15 years in various senior level roles at Technicolor, an industry-leading creative and technology company committed to the creation, management and delivery of entertainment content to consumers around the world. Chucks roles at Technicolor included President of their Digital Division, where he delivered the foundation products for what is now M-Go, MediaEcho, and MediAffinity, Chief Commercial Officer worldwide for all products and services, EVP & Managing Director of their International Home Entertainment division and CIO. He holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated with honors.

His extensive blog on the evolving 2nd screen ecosystem is at: http://digitalvideospace.blogspot.com
You can find him on Twitter @ChuckParkerTech

Michael Smith has worked as an engineer and product manager at Box for the past three years, striving to bring simple, secure content sharing to all mobile devices. Michael currently serves as lead Mobile Product Manager with a focus on building out Box's mobile SDKs and libraries via the Box OneCloud platform. Michael received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Before co-founding and managing ZooZ, an exciting startup in the mobile payments domain, I was an executive director at Brookline (USA) for eleven years, managing its global sales efforts and strategic partnerships initiatives. Prior to Brookline I held marketing and technical positions at BATM, Fundtech and L.G.E.S. (Israel).
I received my MBA from IDC Herzelia and hold a BSc from the Shenkar College.  I have three amazing kids and am an avid windsurfer.

Heather Hromoho is the Director of Developer Operations for Millennial Media’s Global Monetization Solutions team. Heather mentors developers of all levels, helping them develop and execute a successful business plan, monetize their inventory, optimize based on results, and grow their user base with mMedia.com tools. Heather is dedicated to educating the developer community on industry resources and best practices in order to help developers create an efficient revenue stream.

 

@heatherhh

Camay Wells is the Director of Mobile Games Marketing at GameHouse, responsible for overseeing mobile and tablet app marketing, consumer acquisition and distribution.  A thirteen year marketing veteran, Camay is currently focused on Gamehouse’s mobile game development and product launches.  Leveraging her previous marketing experience in game consoles and handhelds, as well as both core and casual games, Camay has brought such notable games such as Doodle Jump, Collapse! Blast and Emily’s Wonder Wedding to the mobile market.
Camay started her career in advertising and then went on to diversify her marketing experience, ranging from broadcast and online media, sports and event marketing, to consumer marketing with companies such as  JWT, Fox Broadcasting, IMG, Pierce Promotions (an Omnicom Company), MasterCard and Condé Nast.

As the Director of Mobile Media Solutions at CBS Interactive, Malène Sam oversees the mobile advertising sales and product marketing efforts for CBS broadcast and web brands, including CBSSports.com, CBS.com, CBSNews.com, CNET.com among others, and translates them into effective mobile media campaigns to achieve multi--‐million dollar revenue targets. Malène has close to ten years experience in the rapidly evolving mobile media space. She started at CBS Entertainment in the reality development/programming division working on shows such as “Survivor,” “Amazing Race” and “Big Brother,” to name a few, and it was during her collaboration with the emerging mobile team for an on--‐air Big Brother SMS integration that she was first exposed to and subsequently piqued her interest in the mobile space. She parlayed her interest into mobile specific roles as a producer, project manager, account executive, to now managing a team of mobile experts. Malène and team collaborate with product and sales teams to identify, develop, package and sell cross--‐platform initiatives to major brands to include mobile solutions for various on--‐air and online marketing initiatives.  As part of this specialist role, they continue to evangelize mobile marketing internally within CBS and externally with clients.

Prior to CBS, Malène served as executive assistant to President/Agent of a talent agency who represents on--‐air talent, producers and directors in the reality television genre. She has a Bachelor of  Arts degree from the University of Washington, where she double majored in Political Science and Dance.

Before co-founding AnyPresence, Richard Mendis spent over 16 years in the software and information services industry. Most recently, Richard was Vice President of Solution Management at SAP, where he led product management of SAP’s carbon and energy management suite. Richard joined SAP through the acquisition of SaaS startup Clear Standards, where he was co-founder and CMO, responsible for marketing, product management, and business development. Before that, he was Vice President of Marketing at Current Analysis, a leading competitive intelligence firm in the mobile telecommunications sector, where he launched the company’s web commerce channel. Richard has held senior roles in product management, sales consulting and professional services at Siebel Systems, and worked at software development startup Saratoga Systems. Richard is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Rhodri Thomas is Chief Commercial Officer at SwiftKey, leading the commercialisation of its technologies. This primarily involves owning the relationships with Mobile Network Operators, Handset Manufacturers, as well as leading efforts to take the generic AI/NLP technologies into new vertical markets such as Accessibility applications. Before joining SwiftKey, Rhodri worked with other software centric companies such as Texperts, Celona Technologies and Convergys.

Alan is a creative technologist, with over 15 years of experience leading teams that innovate on digital products.

Before joining MOVL, Alan founded Digimix: creators of audio applications for the web and the desktop, which was acquired by Aviary.com.

Alan started his career in the music business and was a pioneer in the creation of enhanced CDs at Intersound Records. He later became a Media Director at IBM where he worked with teams dedicated to innovation in new media for clients such as Chrysler, Kodak, NBA, and PGA. Alan has worked at Schematic, Halcyon Worlds and Shockwave.com architecting and developing products as well as managing teams that create online multilayer games and applications.

In addition, Alan teamed up with Studiocom from 2001 to 2005, where he built multiplayer games and online experiences for clients like Coca-Cola, Turner, Mattel, and other name brands.

At MOVL, Alan is head of technology, and has created a proprietary technology platform that connects users on mobile devices and internet connected TVs to allow for quick deployment of multi-user and multi-device applications.

Garrett MacDonald is an entrepreneurial sales and marketing professional with 14years business development and B2B territory sales management experience, as a mentor and top performer with Fortune 500 companies at the convergence of Mobile, Finance, and Technology. Garrett spent five years in mobile data and technology sales at Nextel, and four years as Regional Manager Business Development at American Express Co –during the companies’ digital transformation. As Regional Sales Manager at StrikeAd, Garrett enables advertisers to reach mobile audiences in a far more transparent and effective manner.

Mark Donnigan is a thought leader and business builder who helps CE and technology companies navigate the convergence of technology and content delivery services with CE devices.  As General Manager, Americas for Dune HD and Partner, Technology & Business Strategy for The OAC Group, Mark works at the intersection of digital technology, content licensing, strategic go-to-market planning, and channel sales / business development.  A sampling of companies in the CE, technology and digital entertainment sectors Mark has worked for include VUDU, Kaleidescape, MOD Systems and Dune HD. Maintaining an active professional profile, Mark served on several Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Councils and working groups, was active in the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium (UltraViolet), and spends much time speaking and presenting at IPTV and OTT industry events. With a formal education in computer science and music, Mark's passion for technology, business, movies and music drives him to build and launch breakthrough next generation products and services.  www.linkedin.com/in/mdonnigan

Jennifer Wong is the Founder and CEO of Alt12 Apps, developers of the largest mobile women’s network. She has helped the company grow to over 7M downloads with over 1.3M monthly active users.  She’s spent the last decade in productmarketing and strategy roles, most recently at Gracenote, a music technology company.

Jennifer’s pregnancy inspired her to harness mobile technology to address women’s needs. Her journey from pregnancy to parenthood has defined a company mission to ensure women’s lives are enriched and empowered throughout every life stage.

Jennifer is a graduate of UCLA and the California Culinary Academy.

Kevin Schaaf drives product and architecture for Enyo, an open source app framework that makes developing native-quality web applications a dream.  Kevin started his career on the web back in the Netscape days at a startup in Tokyo, and after an 10 year hiatus developing automotive infotainment systems followed by grad school, returned back to the web world to help manage the webOS developer platform at Palm/HP.  He finds the difference between now and then stark—and exciting—with the web having graduated from an awkward application platform to a huge force changing the way users interact with connected devices of all types.

Mike has over 20 years experience developing server based solutions for the media, speech recognition, and real-estate industries.  In the last 10 years he has focused on mobile, creating top consumer applications such as Recipe Search, as well as Citizen 911 for the police and fire agencies.

Mike usually engages at the earliest stage of a product and provides conceptualization, design, architecture, and hands-on engineering to proof the idea.  He has a history of building teams out of these early efforts and bringing the product to market.  At Nuance Communications, after developing the Voyager Voice Web Server, he transitioned into strategic sales, and then became Nuance's Strategic Partner Manager for companies such as Intel, Sun, and Compaq.

Michael Burton is the Android Engineering Manager at Groupon. He built the Groupon, Digg, TripIt, and OpenTable Android apps, among others.  He's flown a project on the Space Shuttle.  He's the author of Android Application Development for Dummies and spoken on Android development at conferences in London, Boston, Silicon Valley, and Rio.  He's also the author of RoboGuice, the open-sourced Android framework used by Facebook, Google and others.

As Director of Sales at INTERSOG, Margaret is focused on delivering trend setting custom b2b and b2c mobile apps.  She has been in IT consulting sales since 1996, starting with ERP and client/server development services progressing to eBusiness and eCommerce solutions, and now technology innovation in mobility initiatives.  Prior to sales, Margaret taught acting at the University of Oklahoma during her graduate student tenure where she received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting.

Carrie Coffee is currently the VP, National Sales U.S. at Mojiva, where she oversees all U.S. sales and business development initiatives for Mojiva. In this role, Carrie and her team partner with marketers and their agencies to create mobile advertising programs that scale to audiences across the Mojiva network. Carrie has been a part of the mobile advertising community since 2006 and has worked with advertisers to realize their potential with mobile search, SMS, mobile display, mobile rich media and video technologies.

As Director of Business Development Jared manages business development for M&C Saatchi Mobile in North & South America. Prior to that Jared led West Coast sales and Business Development for Impact Mobile, a leader in retail mobile CRM.  Jared started his professional career at the William Morris agency where he worked with Fortune 500 brands and the agency's celebrity talent on digital and social media strategy and execution.

Fred has more than fifteen years of technology experience covering everything from network design, data center design, mobile solutions, building management systems, to enterprise systems requiring centralized integration. He has architected the solutions for many multi-million dollar projects and programs that have delivered value to satisfied business clients. Fred currently oversees all architecture and strategy for the Gas line of business at Pacific Gas & Electric.

Before joining Vision Objects as director Product Development, Christophe Droulers served as Technical Director for Be Europe, an infrastructure and multimedia software vendor and Christophe co-founded their European organization (Be Europe was purchased by Palm Inc).

Brian Johnson joined tyntec in May 2012. He boasts a wealth of previous experience in the telecommunications industry and is a regular speaker at the world’s premierindustry events, including AdTech, CTIA, MWC, and 3GSMHong Kong. In addition, Brian also has extensiveexperience in M&A activity and VC fund raising. He wasnamed as one of Mobile Entertainment's Top 50 Most Influential Leaders in Mobile.

Brian has held a number of senior positions in the telcoindustry. His most recent position was as Senior VicePresident, Global Sales, at mBlox, which he joined in 2005.There, he was responsible for revamping the direct sales organization andestablishing relationships with carrier, portal and content companies around theglobe. Prior to joining mBlox, Brian led sales organizations for Comverse,PacWest and ATG. He has also held general management positions at Harris, GE,Winstar and McCaw Cellular.

Sravish is the Founder and CEO of Kinvey. Prior to Kinvey, he invested in and advised various startups in the areas of cloud computing, virtualization and Green IT and helped grow business at Red Hat and United Devices. He is also the Founder at We Flap, a 501(C)(3) non-profit that trains and helps non-profits and NGOs in India use social media to create a support network of people that are interested in helping them with their professional expertise. Sravish loves to cook and is driven by a passion to build teams and technologies that bring value to millions of people.

Steve Hawley is Principal Analyst and Consultant for tvstrategies™ (Advanced Media Strategies LLC), which provides industry analysis, consulting services and subject matter expertise globally; in the related areas of managed pay TV, Internet-delivered (“OTT”) video and multi-screen video services for firms that supply products, services, strategic information and investments to the broadband telecommunications industry.

tvstrategies publishes qualitative IPTV market analysis and research reports directly, as well as in collaboration with leading market research organizations, including MRG, GigaOm, Pivot Media, Pyramid Research and others.  Prior to establishing tvstrategies, he served in management and team member roles for companies that include Myrio Corporation (later a unit of Nokia Siemens Networks), Northern Telecom (later Nortel Networks), and Aldus Corp. (acquired by Adobe Systems).

Mr. Hawley has delivered more than twenty technology products to market, including IPTV middleware (service delivery) platforms, Web-based commerce platforms; digital media content design, management & production tools; personal videoconferencing, integrated messaging and other multimedia communications solutions.  He has also contributed to a wide variety of industry events and is also a member of the New York chapter of the National Academy of the Television Arts and Sciences (“N.Y. Emmys“).

Chris Beauchamp is a Mobile Engineer at Kii and a Developer Evangelist for Kii Cloud. Chris works to build SDKs, samples and tools in order to help developers utilize Kii Cloud's MBaaS solution - which now powers over 25M users. Previously, Chris was an app developer for both the iOS and Android platforms where he created a series of applications that saw over 5M downloads. He received a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Clemson University.

A pioneer in cross-platform marketing and commerce, with global experience spanning Europe, Asia, and the USA. He recently joined Resource Interactive as Director of Convergence & Mobile Strategy, previously he was a key contributor to the mobile and cross-channel strategies of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, worked on mobile applications and mobile web initiatives for macys.com and bloomingdales.com, introduced QR code scanning, and a wide range of other technologies to enable and support cross-channel marketing and multi-channel commerce across the enterprise, such as behavioral targeting technologies, mobile promotions and coupons, and cross-channel media serving platforms.

Paul Tuscano is a veteran product developer and product manager at Verizon Wireless.  With over 20 new products launched, his notable development efforts include Verizon Wireless’ suite of parental control services, mobile security, mobile Search, SureResponse – Verizon’s first mobile health product, and most recently, the ISIS Mobile Wallet. He is responsible for having created Verizon Safeguards, Verizon Wireless’ over arching brand for safety and security. 

Kevin McNeish is author of the best-selling iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series, winner of the prestigious 2013 Publishing Innovation Award. This book series is designed to teach non-programmers and programmers new to the iOS platform how to create Apps for the iPhone and iPad.

Before co-founding and heading the technology at ZooZ, I was the R&D senior manager in VeriSign managing the development of VeriSign Fraud Detection Service. Before VeriSign I was a development manager in Mercury Interactive, which was acquired by HP.
I have over 14 years of experience, in the Software industry with vast experience as business, operation and engineering manager. I specialized in enterprise applications and platforms, with emphasize on mobile, web security and fraud detection.

Julia has spent over six years in the IT and Mobile technology industries. In that time she's become an expert on mobile industry marketing techniques. Over the years Julia's perennial motivation propelled her to rise from executing marketing plans for individual clients to leading the daily operations of ComboApp, a busy mobile marketing agency. She adeptly implements global marketing strategies, and has proven herself flexible enough to succeed everywhere from the Gaming software Industry to commercial B2B markets.

With the encouragement of a friend/former coworker who found success in the early days of the IOS, Steve learned mobile working with Stand Alone, Inc, and built Crosswords Android.  He then took a position at Tribune corporation working on and supporting apps for multimedia and news oriented organizations.  

Eric is a veteran of the mobile marketing world, having designed and deployed effective mobile campaigns for companies like Groupon, Bidz.com, eHarmony and Modnique. Eric co-founded Tap for Tap to provide developers with a one-stop solution to promote and monetize their apps. Eric also hosts a podcast called Tap Your App where he interviews everyone from indie app developers to back end service providers in an attempt to provide his audience with practical and useful information about how to be successful in the ever-evolving mobile app space.

Phil Lenton is CEO of Compsoft Plc, one of the UK's leading mobile and tablet app developers.  Compsoft have delivered bespoke mobile apps for many global businesses, including Hotels.com, Symantec, Belron (Autoglass), Computacenter and npower.  Compsoft also released its own sales and presentation tool for iPad, iPresent, at the beginning of 2012.

Ankit is the CEO of Micello, Inc. which he founded in 2007. Micello is building the worlds largest collection of indoor maps. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. Micello's customers include mobile carriers, mapping and navigation companies, retailers, hospital groups and application developers. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale (USA) and has offices in Tokyo (Japan) and Ahmedabad (India). Ankit attended the University of California, Davis and studied chemical engineering.

Don Kellogg is Director of Telecom Research and Insights at Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and what they buy. Don helps those in the mobile ecosystem understand trends in consumer adoption and usage of smartphones, tablets, mobile apps, advanced network technologies, and mobile operating systems. Don's research has been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, International Business Times and The Harvard Business Review. Don is also a founding member of the board of the Museum of Art & Digital Entertainment, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the artistry, craftsmanship and inspiration that go into the creation of video games and other digital works of art.

Andreas oversees the growth and strategy of VisionMobile. He has been working on the mobile industry since 2000, helping take the very first smartphones to market. Since then he's worked with the top brand names in the mobile industry including Telefonica, AT&T, Telenor, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, MTS, Nokia, Sony, RIM, HTC, Qualcomm, Ericsson and Microsoft. Over the last five years, Andreas has grown VisionMobile into the leading, most respected research firm on telco economics and developer economics, with a client base and reputation that outrivals companies many times the size.

Asif, is a veteran tech start-up, business-development and marketing entrepreneur with more than 15 years experience. He currently worksas a consultant, educator and speaker to the location-based marketing services community as founder of the Location Based Marketing Association (The LBMA).

Prior to launching The LBMA, Asif worked with companies as diverse as Limited Brands, IBM, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Molson-Coors, Communispace, BestBuy, American Airlines, ScotiaBank, and Sears.

On any given day you'll find Morgan programming mobile SDKs, building backend APIs, and discussing the future of web and mobile technology. As part of the core founding team at Kinvey, he owns Kinvey’s technology vision. Prior to Kinvey, he wrote enterprise software for a decade. He held various technology roles at AMD, where he gained a wealth of experience designing and deploying systems in the areas of big data warehouses, web applications and real-time data intensive computing clusters. Morgan is an athlete, runner and a cyclist. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Steve Fanale is the founder of MassMedia Studios, an Australian leader in the provision of digital services that moved on to the international stage when he opened offices in London and New York in 2006. He grew the team to more than fifty employees with global brands like Audi, Cadbury, Unilever, &  Diageo on its key client list.

He was also the creator of  Traction, a relationship marketing platform which is highly regarded across the digital marketing industry. Traction is now the cornerstone product of Traction digital whose clients list includes multinationals operating out of North America, Europe and Asia.

Steve also co found 2and2 an e-learning company focused on creating beautiful digital experiences that educate, engage and inspire and Feverpitch Entertainment a content company with a mission to entertain

In 2012 Steve decided to venture into the world of apps. As the founder and creator of AppVillage, Steve believes he has developed an incubation model to meet the needs of innovators, designers, developers, investors and consumers who love being part of the app world.

Ilya is a generalist's generalist. Whether it's through product design, architecting large scale systems, or building a company — he's all about creating products that people love to use.

Most recently Ilya was the first employee at Etacts (acquired by Salesforce) where he worked on all things product and engineering. Before that he built a ton of stuff as an early engineer at Ooyala. His boss from those days is now an investor in Parse.

Nick Pudar, Vice President of OnStar Planning and Business Development, is responsible for the managing the business planning activities and development of key business relationships critical to sustaining the OnStar business. He assumed this position on February 1, 2005.

Liyan Chang is Founder and CTO of Filepicker.io. Responsible for architecture and developer experience, Liyan takes tremendous pride in creating the tools and infrastructure that helps mobile and web applications excel. Liyan is a graduate of MIT, and has spoken at numerous web and mobile conferences on creating compelling developer platforms.

Nicole is responsible for all operations related to print and online advertising sales, reprint, supplement, and other special commercial sales opportunities for SAGE and its society partners.  

Nicole joined Leonard Media Group in 2003.  She moved into her role as Advertising Sales Manager for Leonard Media Group’s Publisher’s Representative team in 2006, working as sales representation for Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, SAGE, and several self-published society and association publications. 

A seasoned digital marketer, Richard O’Connell most recently was Vice President of Marketing Programs for the Disney ABC Television Group where he was responsible for driving traffic and building engagement across a portfolio of network websites including ABC.com, ABCNews.com and Disney Channel.
While at Disney, Richard oversaw the digital marketing strategy for the Academy Awards including the launch of The Oscar Backstage Pass app which was rewarded with an Emmy for "Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media."

Vikas has 13 years of technical experience in web and flash based technologies. Prior to Bash Gaming, Vikas was a lead developer at Yahoo’s Platform team where he wrote search middleware and custom databases which run on thousands of networked servers and handle more than a billion queries a day. http://www.linkedin.com/in/vikasatwork

Fernando Rynne serves as Marketing Director; he is responsible for all of Vision Objects’ corporate marketing, product marketing and public relations. Mr Rynne has been involved with developing and leading marketing and product directions in companies ranging from Lotus/IBM to Trend Micro.

Steve has been involved with technology ventures in the United States and Europe for over 16 years. As GET IT Mobile's President, Steve is responsible for the company's business operations and corporate affairs. His prior roles include Director of Business Development and licensing at Intrinsic Graphics, General Manager at Metabyte, and co-founder and Managing Director of Indigo Systems GmbH (now Medifox GmbH & Co KG.), a thriving software firm in Hanover, Germany. Educated as an electrical engineer in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany, Steve relocated to the USA in 1997.

yuilop was created & co-founded by Jochen Doppelhammer – a passionate telecomms enthusiast & specialist. Prior to yuilop, he co-founded Simyo in Spain, and thus introduced the “low-cost” communication concept to the Spanish market. With the creation of yuilop, the concept of free global communications is being truly realised – with more innovation to come!

Francisco took an interest in information technology as a medical student specializing in genetics and serology at the University of Vienna. He participated in various research projects at the Vienna Serological Institute and was heavily involved in medical data processing. He took part in such projects as establishing and organizing Austria's dialysis register database and creating a patient documentation system for the university clinic.
In the mid-1990s, he worked with Konrad Becker to found Vienna's Institute for New Culture Technologies and Public Netbase - at that time Austria's only free public-access  internet server - thus establishing an international competency platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies.