April 2, 2010

Mobile Developer Conference – Post Event Note

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Mobile Developer Conference gathered the mobile developer enthusiasts & professionals from Bangalore and other parts of the country on March 27 2010 at Hotel Royal Orchid for a day long event. The theme titled as Emerging Edition explored to examine the massive changes in the mobile industry and the enhanced significance of developer communities in the changed scenario.

The Conference exceed expectations with over 225 people (expected 200) attending the conference from various parts of the country Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai & Pune.

The conference day had a good line up of thought provoking and challenging agenda for the delegates including discussion on user experience, pitfalls of a technology approach, perils of having a single app dependence of business success and appconomics. It also included deep technical session which covered tips, techniques on solving common issues from experienced professionals in areas of porting, automated testing, enterprise mobile apps, game development and others.

Audience in the conference included policy makers, CTO & VP Engineering of mobile development companies, publishers, UX designer, product managers, business managers and most significant in numbers the mobile developers.

Keynote speaker Mr. R N Prabhakar, outlined the journey the Indian mobile industry and criticality of keeping user experience in mind for success. Plenary session by Mr. Atul chitnis explained on “how to” and more importantly “how not to” build applications to be adpoted by the next billion set of users. Session from Mr. Edwin Moses left the audience spell bound on how one needs to go beyond the koolaid to think and build successful business from the new changes in the mobile landscape. Panel discussion on Appconomics discussed in detail the different goto market strategies and its significance of economics of app building.

March 19, 2010

Optimization & Performance Tuning in Mobile Software – Mobile Developer Conference Deep Dive Technical session

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Mobile Developer conference is being designed in a way to offer an overall & high level market , business and technical trends in the mobile market as well as to discuss specific technical topics.

Mobile being a resource constrained device it poses various challenges to developers for optimizing the resident software. Raghu Sesha Iyengar , a Senior Software Engineer with Motorola will present this session. The session will cover aspects of optimization of applications on mobile and talk about  mobile software optimization of various kind. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this session are given below:

1. What makes a slogging application? How to overcome it.
2. Is there a high expectation from a small device?
3. Should I have data on demand or rely heavily on cache.

Target Audience : This talk is meant as an Intermediate & Advanced level talk, experienced  developers will derive the most mileage out of the talk.

Please leave your suggestions and feedbacks as comments for Raghu to address them in his session

Mobile Developer Conference: Plenary Session by Atul Chitnis, Chief Products Officer, Geodesic

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Atul Chitnis, Chief Product Officer, Geodesic will present a plenary session titled  “Mobile Applications: The Next Billion Users” and highlight the importance of technology perspective in designing applications for user needs. Atul is one of India’s best known technologists and has been at the forefront of many of India’s technology revolutions.

Mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our lifestyles, and serve to make life easy, organized, less complicated and fun, for users who may have never used a computer before, or may not want to. But for that to happen, developers need to take into account the environment and the technologies that these applications need to work with, and the way people expect to use them.

This session will highlight these expectations, and the opportunities for developers to address them.

Target Audience: A technology savvy and receptive audience : developers, product managers

More about the Mobile Developer Conference here

Mobile Developer Conference: Opening Keynote by Mr. R N Prabhakar,member TRAI

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Mobile Developer Conference is designed to give a wide perspective about the mobile ecosystem. Mr. R . N Prabhakar will deliver the opening keynote of the conference. He has over 36 years of technical , financial and administrative experience in the telecom industry. Mr Prabhakar recently completed his 3 year tenure as the full time member of TRAI . The keynote titled as Developer says “app”, Consumer says “experience” will highlight key drivers that have led to a surge in the use of mobile apps  across various spheres of life. The market for mobile applications will be viewed from the perspective of a mobile app developer as well as a consumer. It will serve as an excellent food-for-thought for entrepreneurs and business development managers focused on increasing the appeal of their mobile apps amongst their target consumers.

Target Audience : Anyone interested in mobile.

Details about the conference here

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