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NEoN INTERNATIONAL APP DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE & APPJAM

This key conference, organised by Dundee College and part-funded by the Interreg ‘Creative City Challenge’ project www.creative-city-challege.net, will bring together the very best in professional app development from around the North Sea Region. Platform providers, developers, and other industry professionals will provide practical, hands-on knowledge transfer together with a real insight into the future of apps development. Places are limited to 100. Running alongside the main conference, AppJam challenges small teams to create an original app in just 48 hours. It is free to enter and is open to everyone, from students and novices to experienced developers.

Venue: Discovery Point, Dundee
Date: 8th-10th November 2010

The Conference Sessions Keynote sessions

Paul Trowe

Founder and CEO of Replay Games (USA) Session - Leveraging IP Across Platforms

Forum.Nokia Development Team

UK Based Forum.Nokia Development Team including Mark Ollila & Tina Yang
Session – Developing with Nokia Qt SDK, the future of Nokia Apps

Other session speakers:

Thomas Joos

Founder of Gladiator Media (Belgium)
Session - User Interface for the Small Screen

Jeroen Retrae & Lyan van Furth

Founders of moblio.nl (Netherlands) Session - Vuvuzela 2010 & Freemium Model

Karsten Wysk

Founder of Miobilebits.de (Germany) Session - Cutting out the Publisher

John Chasey

CEO of Metismo & Chairman of FinBlade (UK)
Session - Tools & Practicalities of Getting to Market

Mark Ettle

CEO & Founder of Cobra Mobile (UK) Session - What Makes a Great App

Mike Wharton

Lead Programmer at Waracle
Session - Programming Project Management

Loretta Maxfield

IP Specialist for Thortons Law
Session - Creating & Protecting Original IP

Jon Jordan

Editor of PocketGamer.biz
Session – Industry panel answering the questions from the day!