Praveen is the developer evangelist for the PayPal X Developer Network (x.com), which helps developers convert their cool new ideas into successful applications and services using the PayPal's Global Payments Platform. Praveen usually plays with a lot of technologies and tries to connect dots across them relating to Online Identity, Mobile Technologies and Payments.

Suzanne is an Android Technology Evangelist at Motorola Mobility. Once a software developer and technology author, she decided to have fun with user experience design, and one day, had a usability invention. She now travels and speaks on Android usability design and development for smartphones, tablets, and other cool new platforms.

David is a senior mobile engineer for Serve, American Express’ new digital payment and commerce platform. In this role, he is responsible for leading a team of offshore and onshore developers to develop and create opportunities around Serve’s API through the use of new and emerging technology.

David began his career by working on video game programming in his spare time. While at the University of South Florida, he got his first shot at a programming internship at Boson Software. After fine tuning his skills in imaging and repository software coding, David founded his own mobile development shop, engineering language apps for Android devices.

A Florida native, David proudly sports his Marlins t-shirt in Yankee territory.

Lee is the creator of the QuickConnectFamily framework for JavaScript-based, cross-platform hybrid applications and a professor in the Computer Information Technology Department at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He served as CIO and CTO of @HomeSoftware, a company that produced Web-based mobile data and scheduling applications for the home health care industry. He is also the author of "Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone."

Skyler serves as the Engineering Manager of Glu Mobile’s Android team, where he is responsible for Android development and engineer support. Recently, he’s worked on some top performing Android titles, including Gun Bros, Bug Village and Eternity Warriors. Skyler has been working with Glu, a global publisher of social mobile games for smartphone and tablet devices, for over five years, starting as a porting engineer in J2ME. Skyler graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona.

Paul is the Principal at Mobile Developer Solutions. MDS' initial product is an Eclipse plugin that enables easy Web application programming for Android. Web app project creation and configuration with PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch takes only a few clicks.

Paul is now developing an Android extension to the Cloud9 web IDE to provide Android developers a rich IDE experience that is more streamlined, focused and usable than the alternatives.

Before MDS, Paul led development tools for Wind River Systems and Symbian Foundation. Paul has spoken about mobile development topics at Android Dev Camp, Mobile 2.0 Developer Day, Eclipse Day at the Googleplex, OSCON, and several Bay Area meetups.

Eric leads the Android team at Square where he helped create the Square and Card Case applications. Prior to Square, he was a consultant specializing primarily in client-side Java development. He authored three O'Reilly books, taught Java for many years, and recently presented at the Android Open and Strange Loop conferences.

Michael is the Lead Android Developer at Groupon. Prior to joining Groupon, he built Android applications for some of the industry's leading mobile companies, including TripIt, OpenTable and Digg. Mike is passionate about clean code, shipping on time, and leveraging frameworks to make apps simpler. In his spare time, he rides motorcycles and is active in the Boston and San Francisco startup communities.

Stephen is a technical expert in client UI technologies, and Chief Agile Methodologist at GXS. He is lead author of the "Pro Android Flash" title and coauthored the Apress "Pro JavaFX Platform" title, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens of thousands of online viewers, and also is co-organizer for the Flash on Devices User Group.

Stephen is a Java Champion, chair of the OSCON Java conference, and an internationally recognized speaker featured at Devoxx, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he received a Rock Star Award.

Keith is currently the Technical Director at WIMM Labs, making wearable devices based on the Android platform. A 22-year veteran of the software industry, he has spent the last 12 years focused on designing and building a broad range of consumer devices from pocket-sized to set-tops, including the Sirius Stiletto, SanDisk Sansa Connect, Microsoft UltimateTV and IPTV, Dell Streak, and Amazon Kindle.

In addition to his experience as a software architect and leader of development teams, Keith is also a mobile application developer, and has been a developer conference speaker and software design consultant. An avid hockey player, Keith has trouble focusing on anything outside of consumer electronics and the San Jose Sharks.

Anton brings to Apsalar over 15 years of experience in the software, Internet and mobile sectors spanning product strategy, sales, business development, marketing and operations. As a founding member of Mint.com’s executive team, he helped the service become the world’s leading personal financial management web service until its acquisition by Intuit. As Director, Revenue & Business Development at Intuit’s Consumer Group, Anton drove strategies to build Mint to obtain millions of additional users while increasing revenue per user.

Prior to Mint, Anton was VP of Business Development at Right Hemisphere, (acquired by SAP AG), the leader in visual enterprise solutions, and Director of Business Development at Spotlife.com, (acquired by Logitech in 2002), a pioneer in Web consumer video broadcasting. He began his career as an attorney working in London and Paris, and then in Palo Alto, California at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He holds law degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the University of Montpellier, France.

Karl-Johan is Head of Developer Relations at Sony Ericsson. His work includes daily contact with external developers. He has a broad background working with both Developer Partners and Operator Customers since 2002. Above all, he is responsible for the Sony Ericsson Developer Program outreach and architecture for supporting external developers.

Ashok is a Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation working on Android IA enabling efforts. He is currently working on Intel Atom-based tablets, doing Android apps performance and functionality analysis. Ashok spoke at Intel Developer Forum on Android x86 NDK usage and conducted lab sessions for porting NDK-based Android Apps to IA. His previous experience includes Virtualization/Cloud frameworks, Performance/Benchmarking, Storage IO technologies and embedded software development.

Tom is a digital media expert with over seven years in the industry. His knowledge and experience in consulting, and realizing mobile and tablet solutions with core platforms such as SMS, QR, mCommerce, web and applications, has brought success to start-ups, carriers, media companies and brands within North America.

He has a demonstrated capacity to create a world within a company that is necessary to actualize and support a strategic vision - complete with the processes and tools required to make things happen.

Tom's passion for mobile, tablet and emerging platforms is both professional and personal, which further drives him to strive to make history as it happens within this fast changing space.

Leon is a senior product manager at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), where he is responsible for Snapdragon Mobile Development Platforms, a platform that provides mobile content developers with early access to leading edge APIs and next-generation multimedia features.

He has more than 10 years of experience in various design engineering and product management roles in the computing industry. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he spent six years at NVIDIA corporation, where he was most recently a senior product manager in charge of graphics processor platforms.

Leon holds a bachelors of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a masters degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Donn is the founder of Agilevent, an agile and innovative software development company that focuses on agile techniques and mobile development. He is also a partner in two startups–Qonqr and Agile Medicine. He has over 11 years of professional experience in various markets, including entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial and real estate.

Donn is the author of the best-selling "Android Application Development for Dummies," "Android Tablet Application Development" and the "Introduction to Android Development" video series on TekPub.com. He is an Android seeding developer awardee as well as an accomplished application author with over 3.2 million installs in the Android Market. He is also a Microsoft ASP Insider, an MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET and is a certified ScrumMaster.

Donn presents and consultants on various topics ranging from architecture, development in general, agile practices and patterns and of course, mobile. Read Donn's blog here: http://blog.donnfelker.com.

An expert in mobile services, digital content delivery, and IP licensing, David is President of Media Tuners, a company that provides cloud-based monetization services for Internet radio and strategic consulting for consumer electronics and Web media companies.

Previously, as EVP at SRS Labs, David initiated the company’s expansion from television into mobile. At Coding Technologies, he crafted the company's mobile success in Japan, Korea, and USA. Strong adoption of MPEG-4 HE AAC audio in these markets played its part in the eventual acquisition of Coding Technologies by Dolby Laboratories in 2007.

David taught his first programming class in 1982 (in 8th grade) and more recently has held seminars and classes on various Web technologies. He has also been a featured speaker and panelist at CTIA, NAB, CES, Digital Hollywood, SIGGRAPH and on CNN. He holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the Univ. of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign.

As Apkudo CTO, Nicholas’ job is to get inside the heads of mobile application developers (and also get out again). Before becoming Apkudo's CTO, Nicholas spent the last several years working with the ERTOS group at the prestigious National ICT Australia (NICTA), researching software component optimization. He also worked at NICTA as a developer, and at Open Kernel Labs working on microkernel-based mobile virtualization. Previously, Nicholas worked in software development at financial software company CommSecure.

His earliest and perhaps most controversial work occurred at the tender age of five when he engineered a cardboard robot replete with blinking eyes and a cassette recorder hidden within the robot’s head, blowing the minds of the neighborhood children.

Nicholas holds bachelors degrees in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science from University of New South Wales, Australia.

Michael is an Android developer at Bump Technologies in Mountain View, CA. Prior to working at Bump, he worked at eBay for four years where he worked on eBay Mobile for Android. He is also the author of "Android in Practice." Michael spoke at first AnDevCon and at other technical conferences such as JavaOne, EclipseCon, Silicon Valley Code Camp and the Strange Loop Conference.

Aleksandar (Saša) is the technology brains at Marakana. Always on top of the latest in software, Aleksandar is the company's radar for technology that matters. His latest ventures are perfecting Marakana's Android Internals and Security courses.

In his spare time, Aleksandar runs the San Francisco Java, Android, and HTML5 User Groups with over 3,000 members across the three groups. Aleksandar holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He is also a father, photographer, hiker, and a race-car driver. As an Android and Java expert, Aleksandar is the author of Marakana's Java, Advanced Java, Android Internals, Android Security, Spring/Hibernate, JBoss, Apache, XML/XSL, and JUnit/TestNG training courses.

Sam is a principal engineer at Amazon.com in Seattle, working on all things Kindle, including the recently announced Kindle Fire and Amazon Silk browser. Over the past 20 years, he’s enjoyed helping technology impact the manufacturing, television, music, video, and publishing industries.

Robert is an independent video game developer from Portland who publishes mobile games under the brand Battery Powered Games.  He has developed six mobile games for Android in the last two years, which include overhead 2D action games, a word puzzle game and a 3D OTS/FPS shooter in a custom engine.  

Before diving full time into indie video game development and publishing, Robert worked for software companies in Minneapolis and Chicago, including IBM Interactive.  Robert's current focus is on cross-platform game development and high-performance mobile gaming.

Kirill has been doing professional client-side development over the last decade or so, in a variety of UI toolkits and libraries that spanned Motif, MFC, VB, Ada, Delphi, Swing and SWT. Recently, Kirill joined the Android team at Google. He has a particular interest in creating polished, responsive and well-behaving user-facing applications that help the end users achieve their goals quickly and painlessly.

Romain is a software engineer at Google. After spending years having fun with large UIs on the desktop and talking about them at conferences, in blogs, magazines and books, Romain decided to go for the small screen and joined the Android project, an Open Source operating system for mobile phones. He's now trying to make mobile phone UIs as fun and exciting as desktop ones.

Chet works on the Android team at Google, specifically on animation, graphics and other elements of the UI toolkit. Previously, he worked on animations on the Flex team at Adobe, and on the Java client team at Sun. He’s had years of speaking experience at conferences, such as the past dozen years at JavaOne (including getting "Rock Star" speaker status the past three years), the past two years at Adobe MAX, and the past 5+ years at Devoxx/JavaPolis.

Ruth, vice president of software product management at Motorola Mobility, is responsible for driving the core applications, user experience and platform across the company’s portfolio of tablets and smartphones. Prior to Motorola, Ruth served as vice president at eBay, responsible for program management, software quality, product planning and process engineering across eBay.com.

Ruth took a hiatus from technology for several years and owned two fine wine and cheese shops. Prior to her foray into the retail wine business, Ruth was the vice president of software engineering at Palm. She also led the software development efforts at several startups, and served as general manager of the Java team at Sun when Java was in its early stages.

Ruth began her career as a software engineer at Bell Northern Research/Nortel and moved from there into software development and management roles at Apple. Ruth has a Bachelor of Science (honors) in computer science from Acadia University in Nova Scotia.

Designer and artist Rachel Lyra Hospodar has a checkered past, having worked on everything from managing theatre construction projects to running an independent garment reconstruction business. She first tried to cram LEDs into a garment in 2001, and has been daydreaming of wearable interfaces ever since. Her lifelong twin passions for the arts and the sciences continue to inform each other in her work, merging organic and data-driven worlds.

Bruce is a Developer Evangelist, business leader and volunteer. He comes to HTC after being the Developer Evangelist for the app store GetJar, a 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, children’s charities supporting medical research and was a presenter in Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Winning Climate Project.

Stephen’s passion for crafting digital content creation tools for artists and developers began at Anark Corporation over 10 years ago. Stephen brought this passion to NVIDIA where he oversees the Product Management of Software Developer Tools. Focused on customer experiences, Stephen’s background in technology and intuitive grasp on artist and developers' needs brings a unique spin to product management. Stephen holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee.

Don is senior manager of Telecom Research and Insights at The Nielsen Company, where he helps those in the mobile ecosystem understand trends in consumer adoption and usage of mobile apps, advanced network technologies, and mobile operating systems. Don's research has been featured in the Economist, the New York Times, International Business Times and The Harvard Business Review.

The Nielsen Company is a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and buy. Don is a founding member of the board of the Museum of Art & Digital Entertainment, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the artistry, craftsmanship and inspiration that go into the creation of video games and other digital works of art

Steve joined Immersion in 2007 as the Director of Product Management for the Touch Interface Products. Having worked with touch systems for many years in industrial and commercial applications at both startups and large companies, he has brought his expertise to managing the development of new products for Immersion’s industrial, commercial and mobile handset business. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Economics, both from the University of Waterloo. Steve has spoken at several industry events, including AnDevCon in March 2011.

Christian is Developer Advocate for Google TV. He is also an open source enthusiast, committer in the Eclipse Foundation and has been working at the intersection of Linux and Java since the early 90s. Prior to Google, Christian worked in Motorola's Mobile Phone and Set-Top Box divisions. Before that, Christian was at SUN working on Java for Embedded Systems. He holds a Dipl. Inf. degree from University Erlangen, Germany, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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.

Michael is a business-savvy hacker who works with bleeding-edge Java development, including Android, component-oriented programming, entity systems, graphics and audio development, and game/real-time app development.

Mike is the creator of TyphonRT, which is a modern component-oriented platform and SDK for cross-platform development of real-time apps and games for Java, spanning the J2SE and Android environments.

In the past, Mike has held various contract-oriented software architect positions, including crucial GUI and client development at DeviceAnywhere early on, and more recently working on Amazon MP3 Android app adding Cloud Drive download support. Michael has presented at the following conferences over the years: JavaOne, AES, ICMC, FooCamp and CodeCon.

Joseph is the chief web architect at Sandia National Laboratories, where his activities include research and development of semantic web, social media, and mobile technologies for scientific collaboration and national security applications. Joseph has been a speaker at conferences nationwide and is often asked to share his expertise in web standards and mobile development techniques as a consultant and advisor across the DOE’s National Laboratory network.

Joseph is also an author of "Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript" and "AdvancED CSS." Joseph is a graduate of Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music and an accomplished and formerly professional double bassist and guitarist who still teaches a few students in his spare time.

John has more than two decades of software design and development experience using everything from assembly to C/C++ to Java and .NET. For the last two years he's been developing both Android apps and Android interfaces as part of the Mobile Edition of the SOSCOE middleware being used by DoD, DoE, DHS and International customers. Apps he's worked on include an augmented reality app and force tracking.

Simon is an Advisory Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Simon has over 15 years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects, including object-oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging.

His current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable developers to create cross-platform mobile applications using Web technologies. Simon has been building Web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts, and he still has nightmares about those dark days.

With Jason at the helm, Gravity Switch continues to be the leader in New England at Web and mobile applications development. In addition to software design, Jason has written and collaborated on a handful of children books (both for himself and clients). He has also created ePub books, some of which are currently available in Apple's iBook store. Always passionate about teaching, Jason was one of the first professors of website design in the country. He even had students who commuted to Massachusetts from California to take his classes!

Wallace (Wally) graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in the same field in 1991. Since that time, he has done consulting and development for the United States Dept. of Education, Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron and Lucent Technologies, among others. Wally has written books on architecture, ADO.NET & SQL Server, AJAX and iPhone programming with Mono/MonoTouch, and he is in the final stages of a book tentatively titled “Professional Android Development with MonoDroid.” Wally specializes in mobile applications, application scalability and application user interfaces. He is a Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, and a partner in Scalable Development Inc.

Amanda guides the design aesthetic of Mutual Mobile, an Austin-based mobile solutions company. At Mutual Mobile she has driven the design behind products, including Google Boutiques, Audi's A8 Experience and StumbleUpon for iPad. She is an evangelist for simplicity in visual design and user experience.

Recently, Amanda and her team of designers worked to publish the Android Design Guidelines, an intimate look into the best practices of designing for Android. The document went on to be published on MobileCrunch, Smashing Magazine and GigaOm, and has garnered the attention of thousands of mobile designers and developers.

Amanda has a Bachelors of Science in Advertising: Creative Sequence and a Bachelors of Arts in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas. She also has more than eight years of professional visual design and user interface experience.

Jim is a veteran software developer, community activist, podcaster, blogger and conference presenter with 20 years of experience. He is developer evangelist for RemObjects Software where he travels the globe teaching and inspiring developers to achieve new levels of success in their development efforts. Jim’s belief that training should be fun and informative is evident by his creative style.

Jim presents at conferences all across North America and Europe. In addition to traditional conference sessions, he also trains full-day and multiday workshops. Currently he is planning a tour across the United States with his family so he can visit as many software developer groups as possible.

Bill, executive vice president of products and strategy at Black Duck Software, has 20 years of technology experience and executive leadership, spanning engineering, product management, marketing and business development. He comes to Black Duck after spending 10 years with RSA Security during which time the company experienced rapid growth. RSA Security was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006. He most recently served as a Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Solutions Group and Corporate Development.

Bill’s previous experience includes four years at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the Product Management and Channel Development teams for the company’s Technical Systems Division. In prior positions, Bill worked for Data General, Stardent Computer and Apollo Computer, where he was instrumental in defining and launching successful hardware and software products.

Nathan is the CEO and chief developer at CritterMap Software. He is the author of BackCountry Navigator, the best-selling outdoor GPS application for Android, which has recently been featured as the number-one paid app in the Travel and Local category.

Back when he had a day job, Nathan worked for Hewlett-Packard as a software engineer for 12 years. When that job ended, Nathan decided to build an online business through Android apps instead of contracting or getting a “real” job.

Nathan holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. In 2010, Nathan earned a Certification in Internet Marketing from the University of San Francisco Online, including Advanced Certification in Web Analytics, and Advanced Certification in Mobile Marketing.

Manfred is an experienced Android developer with a long history of developing software in the Internet, enterprise and mobile space. With a past as senior developer, consultant and mentor, he is providing services with his own little company, Simpligility Technologies.

Manfred is the founder of the Vancouver Island Java User Group and a committer on various open-source projects. With an engineering background and teaching experience, Manfred has been presenting about various technologies at user group meetings and conferences around the world. He has a passion for agile and lean methodologies, and an interest in tools and infrastructure that helps other developers and development teams. He loves mentoring others and sharing his experience and knowledge.

Mark is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of "The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development," among other books on Android application development. 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. Mark teaches Android application development worldwide for the public and for corporate customers.

Michael has over 10 years of experience in the behavioral targeting industry. A serial entrepreneur, Michael founded his first company, Kefta, a SaaS provider of behavioral targeting services for large Web entities. Eventually selling the company in 2007 to Acxiom Corp., Michael is now leveraging his deep knowledge of analytics and behavioral targeting and applying them to the mobile app ecosystem. He is currently CEO and cofounder of Apsalar, a Mobile Engagement Management (MEM) platform for mobile apps.

James is Head of Developer Advocacy at Facebook. He's a developer and writer with a special passion for mobile and exploring its untapped potential. James' mobile projects include confess.js, WhitherApps, tinySrc, ready.mobi, Device Atlas, and mobiForge. Previously at Sencha, dotMobi, Argogroup and Ernst & Young, he has also written books on the mobile Web for Wrox & Wiley. He's easy to find on tripleodeon.com.

Chris studied electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, and has spent most of his career bridging between technical and marketing teams as an intrapranuer, helping start new businesses in large companies. He began his career at Hewlett Packard where he helped start businesses in communications testing, video servers, consumer PCs, handheld devices and digital entertainment products and services.

He has also founded startup businesses, worked as an industry analyst and professional photographer. Today, Chris is the Marking Development Manager at NVIDIA and works with ISVs to develop compelling mobile applications that run on NVIDIA Tegra-powered devices.

As head of advanced services, Andrew is responsible for new technologies for Serve, American Express’ new digital payment and commerce platform.  Through mobile devices and emerging technologies, he looks to change the way the world initiates and manages payments. Earlier this year, Andrew's team introduced Serve's first Android application in the Android Marketplace.

Prior to his current position, Andrew engineered and architected a wide range of software solutions for start-ups and corporations.  In 2006, Andrew engineered his first mobile solution for the health care industry and has been intrigued by mobile technology ever since.  In 2007, he continued his plunge into mobility by engineering hand-held shipping solutions for Home Shopping Network. 

Andrew is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Business and currently resides in Manhattan.

Joe is the cofounder of Push IO LLC and the founder of Metafy LLC, a Boulder, Colo.-based software boutique currently developing a suite of prototype iPhone applications for a Fortune 100 financial services company. In addition to pioneering work in Internet radio and managing several startups, Joe spent three years as a researcher at the Apple Electronic Media Lab in the mid 90s.

Rekha has been with Intel since 2005. Prior to that she worked for over 10 years at Motorola, architecting next-generation two-way radio dispatch systems. At Intel, she worked on enabling IBM DB2 products to run the best on Intel platforms. She has wide expertise in Virtualization, and last year she drove the Intel Cloud strategy and execution of Intel Cloud Builders Program. Her current focus is driving Android App Enabling strategies for Intel. Rekha has a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Chris is a Product Manager for Developer Tools at Google. Before joining Google, Chris worked with several start-ups that focused on mobile app development, tools and platforms.

Steve brings over 30 years experience in the software industry to Apsalar as co-founder and VP Engineering & Developer Support. With his knowledge in all aspects of delivering behavioral targeting, as well as enterprise-class Web, e-commerce and expert system applications, Steve brings depth to product development and strategy. Before driving product strategy at Apsalar, Steve held the position of VP of Engineering at Kefta, Inc. and at Acxiom post-acquisition. Currently, he is the

Steve holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Riverside and an MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine. Throughout his career, Steve has held senior level positions in the areas of software engineering, product management, and product marketing at multiple companies including Informix Software, SGI, Kana Software, and Intuit.

Ken has almost 20 years’ experience managing technology products and services, including eight years designing and supporting high-availability web services for developers. He currently manages the YP Developer Program for AT&T Interactive, the digital local advertising division of AT&T. The Developer Program enables app developers to build world-class local apps powered by free local content APIs.

Terry is a Worldwide Developer Evangelist for Adobe. The job basically entails helping developers using Adobe technologies to be successful. His focus is on Web and mobile technologies, including expertise in both Flash and HTML. Previous to that, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Terry is also the author of "Driving Technical Change, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title," which is about convincing reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and ideas. You can find his blog at http://terrenceryan.com/blog

Anna is a Developer Advocate with Motorola Mobility. She helps third-party developers create great applications for Android devices. Anna began her career as a software engineer at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been involved in the mobile space for the past 10 years, beginning at Palm, where she participated in creating programs and content to help developers create applications for Palm OS. Her work at Motorola continues that role with support for developer programs and services on Android. Anna holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Tyler is a Senior Researcher for Veracode, Inc. whose responsibilities include understanding and examining interesting and relevant security and attack methods for integration into the Veracode product offerings. In the past, Tyler has worked as a consultant for both @Stake and Symantec, delivering security assessments to fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, institutions of higher education, and the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Tyler has presented at major industry conferences including Blackhat, H.O.P.E , Shmoocon, and SOURCE Boston, and released numerous security advisories. He also frequently contributes to major media outlets as a security subject matter expert.

Michael is cofounder and CEO of mobile software developer Flexibits. Michael has been marketing, business developing, and product managing Apple and mobile-related wares for over 15 years. He’s worked at Apple, Prosoft Engineering, Ambrosia Software and Cultured Code, helping to launch, market and maintain many successful apps.

With expertise in business development and a strong passion for development, Michael sees the big picture of how an apps design and marketing need to work together to provide the most successful and effective products.

Michael also likes to talk. A lot. Which is a good thing, because he has a great deal of success and experience he wants to share.

With a serious passion for Android and mobile technology, Andrew works daily with developers helping to optimize and bring new apps to market for cutting edge devices on the Verizon 4GLTE network. As developer evangelist for Verizon Wireless at the Application Innovation Center in San Francisco, he works across many areas including advanced graphics and gaming.

Andrew comes from a background in development for art and industry. Before realizing that the future was in mobile, he was extending software and process for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of large scale objects. He holds a BFA from Sonoma State University.

David is a Custom Applications Engineer in the Cisco Developer Network group. With two decades of software development experience across multiple systems and platforms, his CDN Developer Services team is dedicated to enabling developers of all kinds to succeed with writing to Cisco open APIs and protocols. Since joining Cisco in 2001, he has supported over 35 APIs in the Voice Technology and Collaboration spaces, with current focus on the Cisco Cius tablet and Android developers.

David holds a BA degree from George Mason University in Virginia, and currently resides in Oklahoma.

James was doing post-doctoral work in physics at MIT when he decided to join a startup in Silicon Valley. Fifteen years later he continues to innovate, bringing research projects to production in both the consumer and mobile market. He actively presents and participates in various Silicon Valley new technology groups. Jim is also co-author of the "Android Developer's Cookbook.”

Moe is a senior Mobile Technologist and Strategist with extensive international involvement. He is also a key influencer of several leading-edge mobile technologies and their evolution from both a technical and business perspective. 

In the past, Moe worked for the wireless division of Nortel as a lead architect, for CDMA and UMTS infrastructure products and Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting firm assisting Telecoms clients. Currently, he is the development lead for Amazon Appstore for Android at a2z Research and Development center in Irvine, California.

Moe is a frequent speaker at major industry events and is often quoted by the media on the evolution of wireless technologies, smartphones and Android in particular. He holds a Masters degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and an MBA from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Moe is a senior member of the IEEE.

Aaron is a constant learner, enthusiastic teacher, skier, cyclist, runner, chef, fly caster, volunteer, Orangeman, investor, media junkie and techno geek. He also manages the Intel Software Network Developer Program & Community Team.

Prior to that, Aaron spent three years as the Intel Parallel Programming Community Manager. His focus was parallel software development evangelism, talk show host, forum moderator, technical editor, developer and geek blogger.

Aaron started as a mechanical engineer (oil pump design didn't do it for him), before moving on to Information Resource Management. He also worked as a Business Process Consultant, Fortune 500 Webmaster, Web Application Development VP of Sales and Marketing, Data Center Product Management and now Software Development.

His wife likes to tell people at parties that he blogs for a living, but it is much more than that. What he does lets Aaron share his ideas and hear what developers have to say.

Peter is the author of some best-selling programming books, including "Just Java" and "Expert C Programming." He has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for the past 24 years for a startup, a Fortune 100 company, and everything in between. Peter is Motorola's Android Technology Evangelist, and he enjoys explaining technical things - whether he has an audience in front of him or not!

Mike is a passionate mobile designer/developer working out of Phoenix. He has been working in the software field for over 15 years, and with Android since it's introduction. Currently, he develops Android applications for Choice Hotels International. He has a few successful apps in the Market, and is an active contributor to the tech community, including organizing the local GTUG. 

Mike has spoken about Android and mobile development at a variety of conferences and user groups. When he is not geeking out about phones, he enjoys the outdoors (snowboarding, hiking, scuba diving), collecting PEZ dispensers, and chasing his young (but quick) daughter.

Karim is CEO of Opersys, which specializes in Android and Embedded Linux training and development, and best defines himself as part serial entrepreneur, part unrepentant geek. He is most widely known for having written “Building Embedded Linux Systems,” which sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and has been translated into several different languages.

Karim pioneered the world of Linux tracing by introducing the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) in the late 1990s. He continued maintaining LTT through 2005, and was joined in this effort by developers from several companies, including IBM, HP, and Intel. LTT users have included Google, IBM, HP, Oracle, Alcatel, Nortel, Ericsson, Qualcomm, NASA, Boeing, Airbus, Sony, Samsung, NEC, Fujitsu, SGI, RedHat, Thales, Oerlikon, Bull, Motorola, ARM, and ST Micro. Other contributions include relayfs and Adeos.

Karim has presented and published as part of a number of peer-reviewed scientific conferences, magazines and online publications, including Usenix, the Linux Kernel Summit, the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Linux Journal, the O'Reilly Network and the Real-Time Linux Workshop.

Gary is CEO and founder of App-Promo, a full-service mobile consultancy focusing on the strategy, discovery and distribution of mobile applications. He has more than 15 years experience managing strategy sales, marketing, operations, and technology for established entertainment, new media and technology companies. Gary focuses on mobile technologies, including content development and distribution, having worked for m-Qube (now Verisign) in the capacity of Vice President. Most recently, Gary has spent the last five years in mobile advertising, mobile application discovery and distribution, having worked in executive roles with Admob, Enpocket, Nokia, Quattro Wireless and Jumptap.

Zi Yong is one of the pioneers of the Android developer scene in Southeast Asia, and is the CEO of Stream Media, a company focused on mobile content distribution, whose key interest is helping mobile developers earn money through micro-transactions. Zi Yong has extensive experience in engaging developers to assist them in dealing with different layers of the mobile ecosystem, from mobile operators and handset manufacturers to distributors in Asia. Zi Yong also founded CodeAndroid back in 2009, to better engage developers from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.