Mobilex Nashville

Schedule

Overall Schedule

Time Description
9 - 10 Registration, Breakfast, iPhone SDK setups for iPhone beginner track
10 - 11 Opening Keynote - Mike Mettler (Admob) - Monetization & Social Media
11-11:45 Breakout 1 - see below for each track's sessions
11:45 - 12:30 Breakout 2 - see below for each track's sessions
12:30 - 1:15 Breakout 3 - see below for each track's sessions
1:15 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:15 Breakout 4 - see below for each track's sessions
3:15 - 4 Breakout 5 - see below for each track's sessions
4 - 5 mobileX pitch contest
5 - 6 Closing Keynote - Noah Kagan - Making Money in Mobile - It's not just the iPhone

Breakout Session Tracks & Schedules

The majority of the conference will be spent in breakout sessions. There will be different types of breakout sessions that we'll call 'Tracks'. The names and schedules of the individual tracks are as follows:

iPhone Beginner

For eager developers wanting to get their hands dirty with iPhone development. Please bring your macbook with the iPhone SDK already downloaded or show up during breakfast to get the SDK loaded on your machine. We will have several flash drives with the SDK on them and will help you get set up.

Time Speaker Topic
11-11:45 Justin Raney (APAX Software) Setup Development Environments, Getting to know XCode, Hello World App
11:45 - 12:30 Justin Raney (APAX Software) Learning the Basics Lecture
12:30 - 1:15 Justin Raney (APAX Software) Navigation Controls, Table Views
2:30 - 3:15 Justin Raney (APAX Software) Working with Basic Data Sources (XML)
3:15 - 4pm Justin Raney (APAX Software) Quick Introduction to WebViews, MapViews, GPS, Accelerometer

Entrepreneur/Investor

This track will cover problems that entrepreneurs face specifically in the mobile market as well as what trends are emerging that would make sense for an investor to invest their money in, and a future entrepreneur to invest their time.

Time Speaker Topic
11-11:45 James Ruffer & Chris Przybyszewski (Resolute Games) Spectacular Failures
11:45 - 12:30 PANEL: Vic Gatto (Solidus Company), Luke Murray (Awesome Inc Experience), Jeff Heeren (NumberGarage) Raising Money for A Mobile Startup: What Are the Options?
12:30 - 1:15 PANEL: Mike Mettler (AdCru), Nick Holland (Mobile Assassins), Noah Kagan (Gambit Payments), Jacques Woodcock (Kite Web) Business side of launching a mobile company
2:30 - 3:15 Sam Soffes (Tasteful Works) Successful iPhone Applications
3:15 - 4pm Nick Holland (Mobile Assassins) What I Wish I Knew Before I Started A Mobile Gaming Company

Technical

For attendees with an interest in the technical details of mobile platforms, and their applications. There will be iPhone specific sessions as well as sessions that explore and compare other platforms.

Time Speaker Topic
11-11:45 Brendan Lim (Intridea) Building Native iPhone and Android Apps with Javascript using Appcelerator Titanium
11:45 - 12:30 Resolute Games Game Development
12:30 - 1:15 Sam Soffes (Tasteful Works) Reuse Your Code with Static Libraries
2:30 - 3:15 PANEL: Brendan Lim (Intridea), Jackson Miller (Mobile Assassins), Sam Soffes (Tasteful Works) Native App vs. Mobile Web Development

Mobile Music

More and more of us discover, listen to, share, critique, and sometimes even record and create music with our phones every day. What do industry players and musicians alike need to be doing to take advantage of this inevitable shift to a world where CD's don't exist...This track will have sessions that explore how to leverage mobile phone technology to maximize exposure and revenue for artists and the record labels that support them.

Time Speaker Topic
11-11:45 PANEL - Drew Burchfield & Kurt Nelson (Aloompa), Kevin Brown (Rockhouse Partners), Pinky Gonzales (Belmont) How mobile will change the way you market & experience music
11:45 - 12:30 Drew Burchfield & Kurt Nelson (Aloompa) A Pastry Chef or Chocolatier; Artist apps, and the techniques it takes to make a great creation.
12:30 - 1:15 Pinky Gonzales (Belmont) How is mobile shaping the music industry today and tomorrow?