Google: Richard Hyndman
Richard is a Developer Advocate for Android at Google in the UK. He has enjoyed over 10 years in the mobile industry, including experience running a VC-funded mobile start up, working for a large mobile operator and a few years consulting. With his J2ME and XHTML years behind him, Richard now supports Android developers bringing excellent apps to the Android Market.
Speaking on: Google Fragments.
Sony Ericsson: Erik Hellman
Erik Hellman has a long experience of developing software for both mobile, web, telecom and enterprise. He was one of the lead architects for the Xperia X10 mini and mini pro projects at Sony Ericsson and is currently working as a Research Manager at Sony Ericsson Labs where he focus on new innovative mobile solutions for Android.
Speaking on: Sony Ericsson Application Development using the hidden Android platform APIs.
Google: Nick Butcher
Nick is an Android Developer Advocate in Google's London office. He has a passion for mobile technologies and learnt his trade in the gnarly world of Windows Mobile development. He is particularly interested in producing sublime mobile user interfaces & works with developers to make high quality Android apps. In his spare time he is an aspiring runner & triathlete.
Speaking on: UI For Tablet & Phone and TV.
CommonsWare: Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy CoderÕs Guide to Android Development and Beginning Android 2 published by Apress. He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on StackOverflow to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for nearly three decades, from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mark has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.
Speaking on: Traceview and MAT for Fun and Profit.
HTC: Bruce Jones
Bruce is a developer, business leader and volunteer. He comes to HTC after being the Developer Evangelist for the app store GetJar, CEO and App Developer at EventRadar, Chief Gecko at Savage Geckos, a futurist at Ford Motor Company and a Bedouin C programmer in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Bruce has an MBA from the University of Chicago and volunteers for efforts in climate change education, a presenter in Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Winning Climate Project and for children’s charities supporting medical research.
Speaking on: Using device APIs to expand market reach.
HTC: Dario Laverde
Dario Laverde is a Developer Evangelist at HTC. He has experience in software development for mobile, embedded, web and enterprise. Amongst his various professional roles, he has worked as an Android Instructor, consultant, Java architect, author and entrepreneur. Dario leads the NYCJava JUG and co-organizes both the NYC-GTUG and the New York Android Developers Meetup. He also co-founded the skylight1 open source Android project.
Speaking on: Using device APIs to expand market reach.
HTC: Lance Nanek
Lance Nanek is a Developer Evangelist at HTC. He has ten years of experience in information technology: implementing web metrics for ibm.com at IBM, writing Java web applications at State University of New York System Administration, and working on Android apps for many companies, including CardioTrainer by WorkSmart Labs with over three million downloads. He has a master's degree in Computer Science from State University of New York University at Albany.
Presenting a barcamp on: Enhancing User Experience with HTC: 3D, Pen, and Audio.
WIP: Caroline Lewko
Caroline Lewko, CEO, Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) Caroline, known as the ‘connector’, has been in the mobile industry since 1995, as a coder, funder, community builder and entrepreneur. She started WIP in early 2006 to to give a voice to developers and to provide information and resources to make app development easier. WIP is best known for its WIPJam and Muther! of all hackathon events, App Store Catalog (120 and counting), and the Mobile Community Calendar. Caroline founded WINBC (now DigiBC) in 2001, and Wavefront, a wireless commercialization center and got her start in mobile at Anderson Consulting (Accenture). She received her MBA from Dalhousie University and BA from the University of Manitoba. Caroline was named by Fierce Wireless as one of the Top Ten Women in Wireless for 2009..
CodeSurgeon: Mustafa Isik
Mustafa aka CodeSurgeon is a software engineer and all-around geek with particular interests in programming languages, concurrency research and electronic gaming. He has been teaching programming & algorithms classes at TUM. For the most part of the 2000s he built Augmented Reality systems for the automotive industry, worked on asset management systems for media professionals & game developers and was involved in open source development as Eclipse committer.
He devised and co-hosted SuperHyperTurbo, a video podcast on gaming which became the most successful of its kind in Germany during its one year production run. Currently, he is working on his indie development studio's first game release.
Speaking on: Android Gaming.
BlueVia: Yosi Taguri
Yosi Taguri has been a developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realize what can be done with cutting-edge technologies. In the past 2 years he made the iOS and Android platforms his new mistress.
Speaking on: Gaming and BlueVia.
Goode Intelligence: Alan Goode
Alan Goode is MD of Goode Intelligence (GI), a London-based research and analysis firm that specialises in all things to do with mobile phone security. Publications include the mobile phone as an authentication device, the annual GI mSecurity survey and mobile phone biometrics security. Alan has twenty years of experience in information security and has held positions at T-Mobile and Motorola.
Alan will talk about the use of mobile phones in the enterprise and share his experience of the Mobile Device Management market. Organisations are being challenged by employees bringing in their own mobile devices and expecting to access corporate networks and store corporate information. Alan will discuss some of the security challenges that this 'Consumerisation’ trend is creating and how organisations are meeting this challenge.
Speaking on: Use of Mobile Phones in the Enterprise.
Novoda: Carl-Gustaf Harroch
Carl-Gustaf Harroch is Director and CTO at Novoda. Throughout his career, Carl has constantly enriched himself with new skills and ensured he is in touch with the latest in technologies and sciences. He is passionate about computing and has a clear understanding of its importance within our society. He firmly believes the necessity of ethical computing and hopes to take part in the next generation of enthusiasts bringing new ideas to the realm of human experience.
Speaking on: Android's Message-driven Architecture.
Funky Android: Al Sutton
Al started programming before he started secondary school and has been coding ever since. He started living off his programming skills in the mid 90s when, while still studying for a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, he took on a contract to write the user interface for an embedded system which formed part of an interactive TV system. Since then he's written programs for a range of companies from start-ups to major multi-nationals and has been involved in the design and development of many systems including some designed to meet the low latency, high performance requirements of telcos' and financial institutions. Today he owns Funky Android Ltd. who provide a range of services interested in Android and still codes when he can.
Al will be talking about the mayhem of Multi-core. He'll teach you why more cores can be good for an application and show you when, and how, you can make use of any extra cores which might be available on the device your application runs on.
Speaking on: The Mayhem of Multi-core.
Accenture: Johnathan White
Johnathan White is the Android Technical Lead for Accenture. Johnathan leads various Android technical projects which span both the product creation and application development space. Having lots of experience in mobile industry creating devices and solutions he will talk about some of his recent experiences on Android. He also aims to prove Accenture is not just management consultancy company but we also do lots of hardcore engineering!
Speaking on: Android in Enterprise.
Kieran Gutteridge
Kieran Gutteridge is a pioneer of application development in the mobile space, where he has led the deployment of innovative client-server solutions which deliver a diversity of mobile services. He has broad expertise in software development but also the skill to develop small footprint, efficient mobile applications, including Java mobile solutions.
Speaking on: 'Reforming Addicts', or iOS to Android Made Easy.
Qype: Matthias Kaeppler
Matthias Kaeppler is in charge of mobile development for the online review company Qype, and he created or maintains the Android open source projects Signpost, Droid-Fu, and Calculon.
Matthias will talk about kick-starting Android Application Development: "Due to its basis in Java, the Android SDK is a simple way to get started with app development, even for those developers not coming from a mobile background. Still, the Android framework lacks standard, re-usable solutions to many recurring tasks, making it more difficult than necessary to get an application off the ground quickly. Thanks to the amazing Android development community, we have plenty of utility libraries today that patch these holes in the Android framework. In this talk I will present a selection of these freely available libraries, which will help kick-start app development, by managing your objects and builds, and by offering ready-to-use solutions for the most common issues."
Speaking on: Kick-starting Android Application Development.
SwiftKey: Ben Medlock
Ben leads technology and product development at TouchType, where he drives innovation and ensures the company’s products remain at the cutting edge of language interaction technology. He developed his expertise in natural language processing and machine learning during eight years of computer science research, culminating in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent academic journals and his work is published in both ACL, the leading conference for research into computational linguistics, and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics."
Speaking on: Android Development for Enterprise: the B2B Story.
OpenIntents: Friedger Müffke
Friedger Müffke is the Founder and President of OpenIntents, which is designed to implement open intents and interfaces to make Android mobile applications work more closely together. Friedger is the organiser of Droidcon Berlin and Brussels, and back in 2008 was the first ever Curl MVP. He will talk about Historify And Other Aggregating Applications (Google Summer Of Code Project).these freely available libraries, which will help kick-start app development, by managing your objects and builds, and by offering ready-to-use solutions for the most common issues."
Speaking on: Historify And Other Aggregating Applications (Google Summer Of Code Project)..
O2: James Parton
James Parton is a Chartered Marketer working hard to ensure Telco’s suck just a little less every day. James leads marketing for BlueVia, the new developer platform from Telefonica. In addition James is a global board director of Mobile Entertainment Forum, and is the chair of the Technology Market Interest Group of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, the worlds largest organisation for professional marketers.
Speaking on: Operator API.
InMobi: Terence Eden
Terence joined InMobi in 2011 to help reach out to developers and find out what they want from a mobile advertising platform. His background is as a mobile web specialist, Android developer, and Ubuntu fiddler. He is responsible for the development of the mobile Twitter client Dabr and sticking QR codes in museums via QRpedia
Terence wears a mobile phone wristwatch (which doesn't run Android), and in his spare time hacks Kindles. For more on Terence and the InMobi Developer Program, visit @InMobiDeveloper on Twitter.
Speaking on: The Reality of Mobile Advertising.
Sfonge Ltd.: Gabor Paller
Gábor Paller received his MSc. and PhD. degrees from the Technical University of Budapest in 1992 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Paller joined Nokia in 1998 and held positions in Nokia R&D and Nokia Research Center. His interests included wireless protocol development, mobile device management, mobile Java and middleware. He was also involved in standardization and joint research program activities. In 2010 he joined Ericsson where he works on IMS-related technologies. As a second job, he does consulting jobs for Sfonge Ltd., a Finland-based startup. Gabor Paller runs the popular My Life with Android blog and reviewed a number of Android books.
Speaking on: Motion Recognition with Android Devices.
Augmented Planet: Lester Madden
Lester Madden has been involved with mobile technologies for 15 years. He was a product evangelist for Microsoft, travelling Europe and talking about smartphone development at conferences. He also has held marketing or developer focused roles at Skype, Nokia, Symbian and Orange. In April 2009 he started blogging on augmented reality and has been involved with the community since. Madden is well known in the mobile augmented reality community, working with many of the application providers for content. He also runs augmented reality events in the UK and speaks extensively on trends in mobile augmented reality.
Speaking on: Choosing the right augmented reality platform palen.
Geeksphone: Javier Agüera
Aged 19, Javier Agüera is the CTO and co-founder of Geeksphone, the first European brand to launch an Android smartphone to the market back in 2009. Javier is a serial entrepreneur with deep understanding of both the market and technical forces that drive the mobile industry. In his short career, he has had the chance of "learning from the inside" and beleives there is an incipient revolution in the industry where the end-consumers, both domestic and developers, are beginning to claim for their deserved place in the equation.
Speaking on: The Geeksphone Story.
Bugsense: Konstantinos Polychronis
Konstantinos is one of the earliest Android developers and evangelists of the platform in Greece. He has developed for leading enterprises and startups like Taxibeat. He also loves to hack with his friends at BugSense making sure that he delivers apps that do not suck. He is also leading the greek Android community.
Speaking on: Steps to Best Beta Releases.
Urban Airship: Dylan Boyd
Dylan Boyd is the VP of Growth at Urban Airship, focused on OS, Technology Partner, Handset, Carrier and Channel relationships. With over 15 years in digital from coding to ecommerce to agency and now to mobile, Dylan has spent time helping companies and developers grow their programs globally.
Speaking on: Massively Scaleable c2dm with QoS and SLAs.
Pivotal Labs: Joseph Moore
Joseph Moore began his software career thirteen years ago at a large insurance company. He soon moved to Evant, a start-up which became a case study for agile software development processes. After spending several years as an independent consultant, in 2005 Joe joined Pivotal Labs as one of the founding members of Pivotal's Ruby on Rails practice. Joe has led projects at a wide variety of clients, from one-person start-ups to the world's largest social networks and search companies. Joe works remotely from Atlanta, GA for Pivotal Labs where he focuses on web and mobile development, remote pair programming full time with developers in San Francisco and New York City.
Speaking on: Why and How Roboelectric Was Built.
Tigerspike: Greg Taylor
Greg Taylor is the Design & UI/UX Director at TigerSpike UK. Greg focuses on UI/UX, innovation, fast-evolving technology platforms, and the way in which users interact with devices, software, and each other. He is fascinated by the future of technology and the way in which we'll interact with it - or perhaps the way it will interact with us.
Speaking on: The experience is everything: Strategic UX.
Lightbox: Thai Tran
Thai Tran is the co-founder of Lightbox, a developer of mobile applications and services based in London. Thai says: "Have you ever launched an app and gotten 1 star ratings because it crashed or behaved badly on certain handsets? One way to avert this is to run a private beta test of the app with a large number of testers before launch. However, it's unmanageable to use email to distribute APK updates and manage feedback from hundreds of people. The Lightbox team will tell you about their experience with "hacking" the Android Market to run a large scale private beta and how to avoid some of the pitfalls they encountered."
Thai will talk about How to Run a Private Beta on the Android Market.
Speaking on: How to Run a Private Beta on the Android Market.
Robot Media: Hermes Pique
Hermés Piqué (@hpique) is the founder of Robot Media, a children's book and comic book mobile publisher born in the Android Market. He started developing Android in 2009 with Droid Comic Viewer, now the leading Android comic reader. Hermés writes and reads comics, loves Miyazaki movies and lately reads a Song of Ice and Fire in his free time. He might never finish it.
Hermes will talk about in-app billing
Speaking on: In-app Billing.
Founder of Engineers: Ivan Trajkovic
Ivan Trajkovic is the Founder of Engineers, a creative team of developers and designers of fine Web and Mobile applications. His passion for highly complex algorithms placed him into a position to take major part in development of core product features of Monster.com and BWIN.com before he founded Engineers. During his mandate as an Adviser to the Minster of Telecommunications and Information Society of the Republic of Serbia he had amplified importance of the "Open Source, Open Standards, and Re-Use" Policy for Government procurement.
Ivan will talk about Animation and ARToolkit
Speaking on: Animation and ARToolkit.
Ribot: Antony Ribot
Antony Ribot studied ants, bees and termites at university and is passionate about taking inspiration from the elegant simplicity of natural systems to digital experiences on small screens. He is a designer/developer/entrepreneur and formed ribot as CEO and co-founder together with his brother Jerome back in 2006. Working together with Tesco, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia and Orange, they look to push the boundaries of mobile design and user experience, enabling behaviours that weren't previously possible.
Antony will talk about Time to Take a Tablet
Speaking on: Time to Take a Tablet.
Reasearch In Motion: Sanyu Kiruluta
Sanyu Kiruluta is the Team Lead for Developer Relations, EMEA at Research In Motion. She is responsible for driving and managing the development of applications for the BlackBerry platform, working closely with BlackBerry Alliance Partners. She co-ordinates and oversees multiple aspects of the BlackBerry applications programme to ensure the creation and delivery of compelling, high-quality and targeted applications which will appeal to business and consumer users in local markets across EMEA.
Sanyu has extensive experience in the architecture and design of multi-tier software systems in the information technology, biotechnology and financial industries. Prior to joining RIM, Sanyu held technical leadership positions in a diverse range of companies, including Celera Diagnostics and Innoventry. Sanyu also holds both a BCompSc from Concordia University and a MBA from Queen’s University, Canada.
Speaking on: TBA.
OTAMate: Carl Whalley
Carl Whalley provides UK Android training throughout 2011 at NTI in Leeds and onsite to the BBC in Manchester. In March 2011 Carl was appointed the Applications Director of the Mobile Data Association. During 2010 his company, OTAMate Technology Ltd, completed Android projects for Vodafone, drop.io (subsequently bought by Facebook) and Rentokil Initial along with work for similar clients under NDA. Carl and his colleagues run the largest Android group on LinkedIn, Google Android, created in March 2008 having worked with Android since the first SDK in November 2007. With 36k+ members it's in the LinkedIn Top 170 from 1m+ groups.
Carl will be on an Enterprise Panel
Speaking on: Enterprise Panel.
Inneractive: Itay Gadot
As an experienced publisher, Itay joined the inneractive team in 2010 in order to recruit new developers and help them boost their app revenue. As VP of Publisher Relations, he leads the entire sales and account management teams from "hello" to the app's release, and beyond. Itay makes sure that each app is maximizing its potential revenue. Before joining inneractive, Itay co-founded Cellfer, a company that brought a Kindle-like reading experience to mobile handsets. He successfully partnered with leading publishers and operators. Prior to Cellfer, Itay was Director of Marketing at WorldMate (MobiMate), a worldwide leading mobile travel service with a best-selling application on all mobile platforms. The WorldMate Live app won the Andrew Seybold Award for best consumer application. In his free time, Itay is an avid mountain biker, and he likes traveling and downloading new and fun applications.
Speaking on: Kick Start Your Android App Revenues.
Cisco: Tim Stone
Tim heads Cisco’s Collaboration Marketing for Europe and in this role, he is responsible for the business planning of Cisco’s European Collaboration Marketing strategy, directing the marketing campaigns, and working closely with the media and industry analyst communities.
He joined Cisco in July 1999 with the aim of driving the company to be the number one in the convergence area, transforming the 100 year old telecommunications market into the converged communications market we see today. Tim has lead the development and execution of go-to-market strategies for a variety of converged communications solutions and recently launched Cisco’s new Collaboration solutions in Europe including Unified Communications, Cloud, Video and Social Software.
Tim has over 24 years experience in the industry and has held a number of marketing management positions focusing on PBX and call centres. Topics of particular interest include convergence, the business value of converged applications, mobility, collaboration, TelePresence, and contact centre technology.
Tim will be presenting on the Cisco Keynote
Speaking on: Cisco Keynote.
Enterproid: Alexander Trewby
Alexander is Co-Founder of Enterproid, producers of the Divide Platform which enables professionals to consolidate work and personal life onto a single device. Divide combines cloud-based management with device-level technology that ensures enterprise security and control without compromising personal freedom and privacy. Whilst currently in beta, it will be available to download via the Android Market in October.
Alex will be a panelist on the Android in Enterprise Panel
Panelist on: Android in Enterprise.
Orange: Ashraf Hegab
Ashraf joined the Telecoms Industry after having worked in games industry for seven years. Working as a Graphics Programmer on console titles such as the BAFTA award winning F1 2010, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand and Brian Lara International Cricket. Ashraf is now trying to drive cutting edge technology development inspired by the games industry into the mobile sector.
Presenting a barcamp on: Using OpenGL & NDK for cross-platform development.
Little Fluffy Toys Ltd: Kenton Price
Kenton Price and Reuben Scratton are old schoolfriends that formed Little Fluffy Toys Ltd in 2009 to specialise in custom Android development and consultancy. We also publish our own applications on Android Market, including Cycle Hire Widget, the most popular Android application designed for London’s Barclays Cycle Hire scheme that is now active in over 30 such schemes worldwide, as well a retro-style game from the gems-and-boulders genre called Mole Miner. In homage to cutting our teeth in the eighties on the BBC Micro, LFT will launch Beebdroid, a free BBC Micro emulator for Android, at Replay Expo in Blackpool in November. If you want access to the fully-functional alpha, just ask!
“Stunning” – The Guardian on Cycle Hire Widget for Android, 11th September 2010.Speaking on: App rewrite case study: Touchnote for Android.
Closertag: Giorgio Venturi
Giorgio heads user experience design at Closertag. He has more than 11 years of experience in mobile strategy and design, information architecture, requirements and user research. Before starting Closertag up, he worked with many high-profile digital agencies including Fjord, Experientia, Grand Union and theTeam. Giorgio got in love with Android in 2008; he was one of the few designers in the industry who understood the huge potential of the ‘little green robot’ at that time.
Speaking on: Android Design Patterns.
INQ Mobile: Michael Smith
Michael is currently Head of UK Software at INQ Mobile in London building Android applications for the Market and INQ-branded phones. He has previously worked for 15+ years at a few small startups, Qualcomm, Amazon and Yahoo, building teams and developing software for mobile, embedded and web, consistently switching between software development and product management. He is an avid photographer and in his sparse spare time performs and directs amateur theatre.
Speaking on: Implementing INQ Switch.