I am pleased to announce the Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010 Developer Conference on June 17 in Barcelona, and there’s going to be, once again, a lot of mobile developer activity in my beloved Mediterranean city.
On June 15-16 and co-located with Mobile 2.0 Europe, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding an Industry Workshop on Augmented Reality and the Web (co-chaired by Mobile 2.0 founder and organizing-committee member Daniel Appelquist). The workshop is free to participants but in order to participate you must submit a position paper. Check their website for more information and instructions on how to submit a paper.
On June 18, 22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum. Developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at the forum the following day, read below for further information.
And here, the details on the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference, the one-day event in Barcelona on June 17, 2010 exploring the future of mobile development and innovation, presented by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee. This year, with the support of Barcelona City Council, 22@ Barcelona, Nokia, PayPal X, BlackBerry, bluenove, Telefonica Developer Communities, Orange, Vodafone, Microsoft and Skyhook Wireless.
The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack).
We’ll kick-off the day with a couple of panels that will set the tone: “Web vs. Native Apps” and “How to Make Money as a Developer”.
This year’s Developer Track will have 16 different workshop sessions and take place in four fully equipped rooms. Participants will get hands on insights into the latest in mobile development directly from the platform leaders and experts: Nokia, Vodafone, Blackberry, Mozilla, Opera, Paypal and more. Some DevTrack sessions will be:
- HTML5 and the new generation of Tablets [with Julian Moreno Beltran]
- Mobile Mountains [with Tom Hume]
- OneSocialWeb Tutorial [with Laurent Eschenauer]
- Using Geolocation and Maps in Android [with Israel Ferrer]
- HTML5 Apps, The mobile web taking over? [with Wolfram Kriesing]
- Opera Mobile emulator [with Andreas Bovens]
- CouchDB [with Martin Higham]
- Mobile Web Evolution: HTML5, Video, Widgets and APIs [with François Daoust]
The Business Track will be all about the app economy with panels and talks from thought leaders such as Volker Hirsch who will talk about ”How Social helps to Deliver Effective Freemium Mobile Games & Apps”, Christine Perey focusing on ”Generating Revenues with Mobile Augmented Reality” and Vincent Hoogsteder from Distimo will talk about the “Mobile Application Stores State of Play”. Check the speakers’ page for more information and bio’s. More talks will be added the coming days.
To celebrate the great community of mobile developers Mobile 2.0 Europe will close the day with a spectacular AppCircus showcasing 10 of the the most innovative apps live on stage! Apply here if you would like to present your app in front of your peers and industry experts!
The event will be held at the brand new Communication Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is the most open & complete mobile developer conference supported by the major industry players and providing an intense hands-on and engaging experience.
You can get a ticket to Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for only 99€ for dotopen members. You can register for FREE here! Otherwise, standard ticket price for the event is 299€. Buy here.
Mobile Apps Investment Forum Barcelona, June 18th 2010 Barcelona
22@Barcelona and Barcelona Activa in collaboration with MediaKIS and the media clusters of Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Malta, partners of the ImMediaTe project consortium, are organizing the first Mobile Apps Investment Forum in the city of Barcelona on 18th June. The developers applying for the AppCircus will get a chance to pitch their app at this forum the following day. Click here fore more information.
I hope to see you in Barcelona next month!
We are currently putting together the AppCircus calendar of events for this autumn. We have already some 30 cities confirmed that will integrate an AppCircus at their local event, ranging from Mobile Mondays or Open Coffee Club events to droidcon camps and other international conferences. We have events scheduled in North America, LATAM, EMEA and Asia.
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