Android iPhone Staffing Training Consulting

iOS 4.0 (iPhone 4.0) is announced. iPhone iPad Business meetup will invite a group of experts to share their view of iOS.

Sponsor: PayPal

Agenda:
6PM Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Speakers and demo.

Moderator:
Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman is Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon West,
and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), which
focuses on the evaluation and adoption of open source software, as well as its use
in mobile devices. In 2000, Tony became VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by HP in 2001),
responsible for its West Coast Labs, where he led the creation of the award-winning open
source Total-e-Mobile toolkit, which allowed mobile devices to connect to web applications.

Tony is best known as the Founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE). Before starting IDE, Tony was a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tony has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from UC Berkeley.

Mike Fyall, Admob
As Manager of Product Marketing at AdMob, Mike Fyall is responsible for the company’s product marketing for next generation platforms, including iPhone and Android. He also leads the creation of the monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics Report, which analyzes the data in AdMob’s network of more than 23,000 mobile sites and applications worldwide to provide insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem. Prior to joining AdMob, Mike worked at Nielsen Mobile as an account manager handling the company’s relationship with a major national operator.

Kent Griffin Sr. Product Manager, PayPal
Kent Griffin is a Sr. Product Manager at PayPal and manages the mobile SDK products. His goal is to make it easy for you to integrate PayPal into your mobile apps. He has been with PayPal for over 5 years and is a founding member of the mobile team. Prior to joining PayPal, he helped developed search solutions for other financial service providers. Kent holds both a BS and MS degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.

Tejas Bhandarkar, Product Manager, Cisco (Webex)

Michael Aday, Senior Director, Beyondsoft
Michael Aday has a long history in the mobile space starting in 1998 with his work on the deployment of Exchange infrastructures supporting the first Microsoft Activesync devices for mobile email. Having seen early the transformative effects of mobile email and applications on a smartphone, he was an immediate convert. Later in his Microsoft career he was responsible for market/competitive intelligence on the mobile platforms as well as helping to develop the intellectual property strategy for mobile devices. Michael left Microsoft in 2010 and is currently Senior Director for Business Development for Beyondsoft. In this role he is part of the team helping the company develop a broad set of services and capabilities around the mobile space.

More information regarding WWDC (from CNET)
• This year’s WWDC has 5,200 attendees from 57 countries.
• Apple has sold 2 million iPads in 59 days, and the device will be in 19 countries by the end of July
• To date, Apple has sold 100 million iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads combined.
• There are now 8,500 iPad-specific apps, plus 200,000 iPhone apps.
• The app store now sits at 225,000 apps.
• Apple gets 15,000 apps submitted every week, in 30 different languages. Of those, 95 percent are approved within seven days.
• Users of the iBooks app have downloaded 5 million books in 65 days
• Apple has paid $1 billion to developers (from their 70 percent cut of sales)