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Noah Kagan
Age: 27
Location: San Francisco, CA
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Creating Facebook Mobile and Gambit Payments for mobile.
Topic: Making money on mobile. It's not just the iPhone.
About Me: I love building web products, burritos and watching movies. Please check out my latest passion at http://getgambit.com. I also like to rappel off of 300 foot bridges.
Blog: http://getgambit.com
Twitter: @noahkagan |
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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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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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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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Jackson Miller
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Blog: Coming Soon
Twitter: @Coming Soon |
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Vic Gatto
Age: 39
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Early investor (2002) in Motricity.
Topic: Start-up investment trends in mobile
About Me: I’m looking to invest in big concepts that will drive important societal change AND create an obscenely large pile of cash.
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Jacques Woodcock
Age: 30
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Avid consumer of all mobile technologies and strategies and organized education classes for Digital Nashville on mobile and development.
Topic: Predictions of mobile's future and or current trends.
About Me: Jacques is a strategic consulting in Nashville with over 10 years experience in a wide gambit of disciplines.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @N/A |
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James F Ruffer III
Age: 32
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: RESOLUTE's biggest mobile accomplishment so far has been the development of Appanda, an online tool that allows anyone to create their own iPhone and Android app in less than an hour and for less than $500 a year. The goal was to build an intuitive interface design that allows flexibility and control for the user. We created this technology from scratch with no guidelines, and we now have a solid software platform that we will grow in a number of cool directions. Our next steps include making Appanda capabale of supporing all mobile platforms, as well as to deepen the tool set, allowing users even further freedom to create their apps. This is a new world and mobile devices are changing everything. Just ten years ago, businesses that had their own website were considered edgy. Now, every business is almost required to host its own website. Mobile apps are going to be the same sort of tool that businesses can use to reach their customers. Appanda helps them create that tool.
Topic: Spectacular Failures
About Me: James F. Ruffer, III, is a co-founder and CTO of RESOLUTE, a company that creates software platforms for mobile devices. James comes from a diverse entrepreneurial background, with deep experience in IT security, server-based technologies, and SaaS solutions. When he is not geeking out, he is playing/coaching/reffing volleyball and eating really fine cuisine.
Blog: http://Resolutegames.com
Twitter: @appandaapps |
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Chris Przybyszewski
Age: 34
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: I am lucky to be part of RESOLUTE, a terrific team of engineers, artists, and marketing specialists who have put together an array of tools that customers can use to meet and exceed their mobile device needs. Along the way, we've discovered new technologies, opened doors for every small business to build their own app, and have had a terrific time.
Topic: We're going to talk about the concept of a 'Spectacular Failure.' That is, what are those 'failures' of an organization that can create fundamental changes in the way a company works and grows. We've made our share while entering the mobile device space, and we're happy to share what's happening.
About Me: I'm a serial entrepreneur, having been a part of four successful start-ups (and some not as successful). I started RESOLUTE to make video games, actually, because it was such a passion for me, and I'm really excited about our evolution.
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @N/A |
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Kevin Brown
Age: 30
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment:
* Lollapalooza mobile program for AT&T with 30% audience participation; program became the model for all national AT&T activations
* Merchandise pre-sale via mobile for Keith Urban resulting in $280,000 in sales in just one day
* Launching Lance Armstrong's mobile blog that morphed into his "mobile addiction" on Twitter; currently 2.5 million followers
Topic: Mobile in the Entertainment Industry
About Me:
* Has seen the jam-band Phish live 61 times, and counting
* Completed a full Ironman triathlon (that’s 140.6 miles)
* Wears lucky purple sneakers every LSU football game-day
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @rhpartners |
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Pinky Gonzales
Age: 33
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment:
eCommerce integration into a groundbreaking app with Aloompa, a Nashville-based mobile design and innovation firm. Also have been developing mobile and/or WAP sites for artists and entertainers since 2005.
Topic: How is mobile shaping the music industry today, and tomorrow, and so what?
About Me:
Pinky Gonzales is a brand developer, digital marketer and adjunct professor at Belmont University. He has founded multiple companies in the digital entertainment space, including echomusic, which sold to Ticketmaster in 2007 for $25m. He is an active angel investor and a founding member of JumpStart Foundry, a Nashville-based accelerator investment fund.
Blog: http://pinkygonzales.com
Twitter: @pinkygonzales |
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Drew Burchfield
Age: 27
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: We've developed the official iPhone apps for the Bonnaroo, Rothbury, and Outside Lands music festivals
Topic: A Pastry Chef or Chocolatier; Artist apps, and the techniques it takes to make a great creation.
About Me: Currently overseeing operations and business development, working to create strategic partnerships and finding new opportunities for growth in the mobile marketplace.
Blog: http://www.aloompa.com/
Twitter: @drewburchfield |
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Kurt Nelson
Age: 25
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: The festival application platform, and an advanced music artist application.
Topic: A Pastry Chef or Chocolatier; Artist apps, and the techniques it takes to make a great creation.
About Me: I care about all things UI. I always take into account how would I want something to act and look. To me, it isn't great unless my parents and grandparents can navigate through it easily.
Blog: http://www.aloompa.com/
Twitter: @N/A |
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Jeff Heeren
Age: N/A
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: Founding NumberGarage.com
Topic: PANEL Raising money for mobile startups
About Me: Coming Soon!
Blog: N/A
Twitter: @jeffheeren |
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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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Chad Schultz
Age: 42
Location: Nashville, TN
Biggest Mobile Accomplishment: We were among the first companies to do "Text to Screen" campaigns on major tours, where we enhanced the in venue experience of the fans attending the shows, while also allowing them to build an affinity list (or database) of those fans mobile numbers to extend the artists reach long after the tour.
-We helped Keith Urban win a Billboard award for one of the "top 10 Wireless Artists of 2009 in any genre" for a campaign we helped put together with a brand (Clorox - KC Masterpiece and Kingsford Charcoal) that sponsored his tour.
-We played a part in helping Rascal Flatts win a fan voted award at the AMAs a year or so ago. They beat their next closest competition by more than 8 times the votes.
Topic: Mobile and Music - how music marketing is changing
About Me: I'm on the board of a non profit that works with young adults (18-35) dealing with cancer (http://planetcancer.org), and I'm really excited about a partnership I'm helping our company put together to allow our clients to set up mobile giving campaigns to benefit non-profits they work with; or if the client is the non profit, to open a new channel of communication with their supporters and to help them facilitate mobile giving campaigns as well.
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