The Mobile Market’s Cutting Edge
July 18, 2009
Lexington, KY


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Noah Kagan

President, Kickflip Inc. & Former Product Manager, Facebook Mobile
Topic: Making Money on Mobile. It’s Not Just the iPhone.
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Creating Facebook Mobile and Gambit Payments.
Blog: OkDork
Twitter: @noahkagan

I love building web products, burritos and watching movies. Please check out my latest passion at http://getgambit.com. I also like to rappel off of 300 foot bridges.

Brendan Lim

Director of Mobile Solutions, Intridea, Inc.
Topics: The Lure of Ubiquitous Mobile & Introduction to Palm’s Mojo SDK
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Lead the mobile development at Intridea, Inc. Created and sold a mobile-integrated micro-blogging network. Worked for a mobile virtual network operator startup, kajeet Inc. Developed widely used tools for mobile web developement for Ruby on Rails.
Blog: Intridea Blog
Twitter: @brendanlim

Markus Spiering 

Product Manager for Mobile Web Platforms, Yahoo Inc!
Topic: Making the Mobile Web Work. Write Once, Run on Thousands of Devices with Yahoo! Blueprint.
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Providing an easy-to-use platform for building mobile web services.
Blog: Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform
Twitter: @spieri

Ziv Tarsi 

Director of Product Management, TuneWiki
Topic: Emulators, Physical Devices, and Remote Device Services
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: TuneWiki has had roughly 2.5 million downloads on the iPhone and 200,000 downloads on Android. It has won several awards, including the ADC first prize and the GSMA Asia innovation award.
Twitter: @ztarsi

John Soward

IT Manager, University of Kentucky
Topics: Choosing a development strategy: WebApp, Application, or Hybrid & Push Notifications (iPhone)
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Getting APNS (iPhone OS 3.0 Push notifications) working during the beta.
Blog: soward.net
Twitter: @jpsoward

Sam Soffes

Freelancer
Topics: Web Services with Cocoa, Scrolling Like Butter, How I Made an iPhone App with One Million Users
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Youversion Bible, downloaded by 1.2 million iPhone users (Top 25 Free Apps).
Blog: samsoff.es
Twitter: @samsoffes

Nick Holland

CEO, CentreSource Inc. and SideHobby Inc.
Topics: If I Had a Time Machine… Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started a Mobile Game Company
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Launch of gpsAssassin.com
Blog: CentreSource Blog and SideHobby
Twitter: @nicholasholland

Brian Slick

BriTer Ideas
Topics: UITableView Overview & Tips, Tricks, and Resources for iPhone Development
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Getting my first application, SlickShoppoer, into the iPhone App Store
Blog: Clinging to Ideas
Twitter: @BrianSlick / @BriTerIdeas

Jake Behrens

The Oklahoma Publishing
Topics: How to Publish to the App Store and Best Practices
Biggest Mobile Accomplishments: Instant FAIL iPhone App
Blog: jakebehrens.com
Twitter: @withfoam

Justin Raney

Owner, APAX Software
Topic: 3 Beginner’s iPhone App Tutorials. Macbooks will be provided for development.
Twitter: @jrane2

I like to play soccer. I am also a total amateur Electrical Engineer (even though I have a EE degree).

These speakers will be presenting live through video conference.


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Speakers

Noah Kagan
Former Product Manager, Facebook Mobile
Brendan Lim
Director of Mobile Solutions, Intridea Inc.
Markus Spiering
Product Manager for Mobile Web Platforms, Yahoo! Inc
Ziv Tarsi
Director of Product Management, TuneWiki
John Soward
IT Manager, University of Kentucky
Sam Soffes
Youversion Bible (iPhone, Top 25)
Nick Holland
CEO, CentreSource Inc.
Brian Slick
Slickshopper (iPhone)
Jake Behrens
Instant FAIL (iPhone)
Justin Raney
Owner, APAX Software



 
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