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Sam Soffes
Age: 21
Location: Dallas, TX
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: YouVersion Bible (until version 1.8) used by 3 million people
Topic: Reuse Your Code with Static Libraries and Successful iPhone Applications
About Me: I write software and make music. On occasion, I pretend to be designer.
Blog: http://samsoff.es
Twitter: @samsoffes |
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Brendan Lim
Age: 25
Location: Atlanta, GA
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment:
- Created and sold a mobile-integrated micro-blogging network called Yappd.
- Created the augmented reality car finding application for iPhone, Car Finder.
- Developed widely used tools for mobile web development for Ruby on Rails.
Topic: Developing iPhone and Android Apps using HTML & JS with Titanium Mobile, Introduction to Palm webOS SDK, Introduction to Android Development
About Me: I love creating web and mobile products for Intridea (http://intridea.com). On my spare time, besides writing code, I enjoy taking photos and videos.
Blog: http://intridea.com/blog and http://brendanlim.com
Twitter: @brendanlim |
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Justin Raney
Age: 25
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Fanstream iPhone App, Hallway Feeds iPhone App
Topic: Beginning iPhone development
About Me: I like working for myself, because it allows me to do things my way. This allows for more creativity and innovation.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @jarane2 |
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Adam Winter
Age: 35
Location: Columbus, OH
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Co-Founder of JoeMetric, a company that is revolutionizing the way in which companies gather consumer opinions.
Topic: The business side of structuring, funding and launching a mobile app company.
* How to run a company efficiently.
* The role of cloud computing infrastructure.
* Critical elements of a business plan.
* How to bootstrap the finances.
* How to seek angel/venture investment.
* Understanding investment term sheets
* Key financial metrics, and how to act upon them
About Me: Adam is a web and mobile entrepreneur as well as an angel investor. He enjoys talking about the future and the role of cutting-edge technologies of all types, but particularly the mobile revolution.
Blog: http://twitter.com/AdamWinter
Twitter: @AdamWinter |
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Nick Holland
Age: 30
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Launch of gpsAssassin
Topic: If I had a time machine... Things I wish I knew before I started a mobile game company.
About me: I run an 20+ person Interactive Agency by day, spend time with my family at night, and build mobile applications while everyone else sleeps. I'll sleep when I'm dead 
Blog: http://www.sidehobby.com and http://blog.centresource.com
Twitter:
@nicholasholland
@gpsAssassin (for the game)
@sidehobby (for the mobile company)
@centresource (for the Interactive Agency)
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Krista Neher
Age: 30
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Work with brands like P&G and MobileCoupons.com on their mobile strategies and executions.
Topic:
Emerging Trends and Opportunities in Mobile
Mobile Marketing 101 - How Marketers can Play in Mobile
Marketing your Mobile App - Marketing is half the battle - how to market your app to drive downloads.
The Path to Monetization - Opportunities to monetize your mobile product
The State of the Mobile Industry - Key industry trends/projections and statistics
About Me: Coming Soon!
Blog:
www.themarketess.com
www.bootcampdigital.com
Twitter:
@kristaneher
@bootcampdigital |
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Rob Babcock
Age: 34
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Co-Host of the iPhone Applications Podcast 'The Appcast'
Topic: App Store Trends
About Me: I co-host a podcast that's all about iPhone applications, so I spend far too much time looking over the new ones that have come out and testing and comparing more specific genres for our weekly 'core topics'.
Blog: http://www.the-appcast.com
Twitter: @TheAppcast
@AppcastNow |
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Conrad R Carney II
Age: 46
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: CMSText is fast becoming the premier mobile marketing company to the restaurant, retail and medical industries. CMSText was recently awarded the contract as the national Sysco iCare partner for mobile marketing. Sysco is the largest food distributor to restaurants in the United States.
Topic: How social media can be adapted into the advertising budget of a company's business model. The pro's and con's of social media as a business tool.
About Me: Conrad R. Carney II, CEO of CMSText,started work at McCaw Communication in 1987. McCaw Communications, known then as Cellular One, was the world's largest telecommunications company. At age 23, Mr. Carney headed a sales division in Kentucky and was one of the youngest mangers at McCaw. Mr. Carney spent 15 years in the financial industry as President of a regional mortgage banking firm.
He re-entered the telecommunications industry after recognizing the potential applications and growth for a text messaging service. He was instrumental in developing a portfolio of Intelluctual Property Patents which support the SMS technology.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @N/A |
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Elizabeth Rounsavall
Age: 39
Location: Louisville, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Participated in a syndicate that bid successfully in the FCC 700 MHz spectrum auction - after 261 rounds over 2 months of bidding.
Invested in Open Kernel Labs, a Chicago-based developer of microkernel virtualization software for mobile devices.
Topic:
Investor Panel
Mobile Pitch Contest Judge
About Me: Louisville native, former New York-based management consultant, and research dweeb.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @N/A |
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Michael Mettler 
Age: 31
Location: San Francisco, CA
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Product Manager at AdMob, 2006-2009. Responsible for publisher and developer platform, led launch of iPhone and Android network.
Topic: Monetization and Social media
About me: Currently working on AdCru, an ad network for Twitter.
Blog: N/A
Twitter:@mettler
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Rick Coplin
Age: 47 years young
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: None, other than helping some companies get off the ground. No huge successes yet.
Topic: Investor Panel
About Me: Rick works with entrepreneurs and startup companies helping them to lay the foundations of success, calibrate expectations and prepare for growth and funding. He is also the Entrepreneurial Consultant with the City of Dublin, Ohio’s Economic Development Department and is one of the key people developing the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center with the City of Dublin’s economic development team.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickcoplin
Blog: www.columbusstartups.com OR www.rickcoplin.blogspot.com
Twitter: @RickCoplin |
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Bill Cunningham
Age: 54
Location: Highland Heights, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: iPhone
Topic: Raising capital
About Me:
* I am veteran of 5 startups
* I coached hundreds of companies at GCVA
* I taught entrepreneurship at Xavier and NKU
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @bcstartup |
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Uki Dominque Lucas
Age: 37
Location: Chicago, IL
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Organizer of Chicago Android and several Google Technology conferences. Project manager and developer for various mobile and Web projects.
Topic: Android 101 development: barcode scanner and SMS sending and receiving.
About Me: "I like climbing mountains, sailing and SCUBA diving way more than writing code!"
Uki Dominque Lucas, principal of "custom development" at The Revere Group, an NTT Company (biggest telecom in the world) is an Internet software entrepreneur and technology evangelist with a over a decade of experience in Agile management and focus on development of start-up companies. Uki has been a proud mentor to scores of very successful software engrineers while always staying hands-on with cutting edge technology.
Uki is a leader of Chicago's Android mobile phone development community, working closely with both Google Corporation and Motorola Mobile Devices / Android development (MotoDev) to organize conferences, events and workshops for over 800 participating Chicago developers. Uki is an Android developer himself and has been speaking and teaching on topics related to Google technology, Android platform and Social Media on numerous occasions.
Blog: http://ChicagoAndroid.com
Twitter: @UkiDLucas |
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Kakie Urch
Age: 46
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Digital Democracy Forum at Awesome Inc. with all four mayoral candidates
Mobile news strategy and training for Gannett newspaper in Calif.
Training reporters, students, professionals on mobile content production, strategy.
Multimedia presentation to Press Development Institute-Siberia (USAID sponsored) including Russian mobile advantage.
The Anna Nicole Smith thing.
Topic: Mobile Content: Platforms, Devices, Production
About Me: I had something to do with the punk rock on the radio in Lexington in the 1980s and an Internet reality show in Siberia in the 2010s. In between, I edited newspapers, Web sites, did motion picture pre-production and did a Master's in American Literature/Mass Culture at UK and doctoral work on rhetorical delivery systems from the pre-Socratics to the post-digital at Pennsylvania State University. I teach multimedia and Web publishing to journalism, telecommunications and integrated strategic communications students.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @profkakie |
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Brian Raney
Age: 28
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Published six iPhone apps through my custom mobile software company, APAX.
Topic: Mobile Entrepreneurs
About Me: I play soccer several times a week and am not bad at the piano. Ask me to play "Boston" on the piano - I'll rock it out. I also started a company called bookexchange.com that made ones and ones of dollars and was even more fun than it was financially successful...I know...hard to believe. Seriously though - true story.
Blog: http://takeitupalevel.com/
Twitter: @brianraney |
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Luke Murray
Age: 27
Location: Lexington, KY
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Hosted a mobile conference in Lexington and launched five conferences nation wide.
Topic: Funding a startup: What are your options
About Me: I like to skateboard and play keyboard when I am not talking about mobile apps.
Blog: http://lukemurray.com
Twitter: @lukemd |
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Jon Myers
Age: 37
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment:
1. First iPhone app to be censored by a government.
2. Wall-street journal coverage
Topic: App Launch Marketing
About Me: Nomadic contrarian with a passion for mobile, design, pattern detection and serendipity.
Blog: http://www.graphicconversation.com
Twitter: @jonmyers |
