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The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco

Check out the podcasts, presentations and coverage from The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco, November 2-4 2011.

Open Mobile Summit and Appcelerate '11 San Francisco Nov 2-4

Presentations and Audio Recordings

The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco '11 took place 2-4th November 2011. You can access many of the presentations and audio recordings from the sessions here – look for the and symbols in the agenda below.

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Open Mobile Summit Day 1: Wednesday November 2nd

Open Mobile Summit Day 2: Thursday November 3rd

Appcelerate: Friday November 4th


Open Mobile Summit Day One: Wednesday November 2nd

8:30am Chairman's introduction and opening address

8:45-9:15am Keynote: Beyond digital

9:15-9:45am Keynote: Connecting everything: The 4G future

9:45 - 10:30am BREAK

10:30 - 11:30am Keynote Panel: Monetizing the 4G Internet (and who pays for mobile video)

4G mobile broadband will enable a new generation of apps and services on a variety of connected devices. This session explores the business dynamics and monetization models for the entire value chain.

  • Where's the value in today's mobile Internet ecosystem? How is that likely to change with the introduction of 4G?
  • From flat rate to data caps and beyond: How will networks price and package 4G services?
  • What's the likely impact on the apps world?
  • How will video and rich media be distributed, packaged and sold in a multi-screen, hyper connected era
  • How will content and networks be monetized in a 5+ screen world? Subscription, advertising, commerce, pay per app?

Moderator:
Speakers:

11:30am Plenary: The industry time forgot

  • Matt Freeman, Chief Innovation Officer, McCann Erickson Worldwide  pdf podcast

12:00 - 1:15pm Lunch

Track A:

1:15-1:55pm Panel: Operators and innovation

From app stores to open APIs, what's the operator's role in the app economy?

  • Beyond shipping bits: What are the viable services in billing, location, advertising, cloud?
  • How can carriers leverage network assets and their customer relationships to innovate in service delivery?
  • What is the role of carriers in app discovery?
Moderator:
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Track B:

1:15-2:15pm Panel: Wallet wars: The race to contactless mobile payments

  • Market leaders from across the global ecosystem explore the future of mobile payments, NFC and the mobile wallet.
  • Which of the various different approaches have longevity? Who will get scale first and how?
  • Banks, operators, credit cards and authentication: Who does what in the new world order?
  • How big is the market opportunity?
  • Will standardization occur and how will this facilitate the market?
  • How important is global reach?
Moderator:
Speakers:

1:55 - 2:15pm Pricing and packaging mobile broadband

  • Pricing and packaging mobile broadband: What are the options for new customer propositions, that also make good business sense?
  • The mobile data business case: What's the role of network sharing and partnerships?
  • What's the role of the application community? Revenue sharing models, and network friendly app development
  • What's the business case for 4G?
Speakers:
  • Dr Kim Larsen, SVP Technology Economics, Deutsche Telekom  pdf podcast

2:15 - 2:35pm Fireside Chat: Connected Car

Interviewer:
  • Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, FierceWireless  podcast
Speakers:

2:35 - 2:55pm Next generation carrier: Thoughts on operator of the future

Speakers:

2:55-3:15pm Evolution of the mobile experience: All your devices are belong to us

Scott explores the transition to third wave of computing. We have advanced from workstations to mobile devices and now emerge into a phase where modern computing experiences are progressively being driven by dynamic compositions of sensors, monitors, devices, data, and services.

Speakers:

2:15-3:15pm Panel: Video everywhere and the future of TV

  • Multi-screen media models TV Everywhere, Internet TV, live streaming to tablets – which look set to dominate (in the multi-screen media era)
  • Connected TV: How (and when) will Internet-connected TV's change the game? The end of the set top box?
  • TV gets social – and interactive. How?
  • The second screen: Where the smartphone meets the tablet and the connected TV
  • Monetization: How can we monetize the multi-screen world? Changing business dynamics, rights and windowing strategies across the connected devices.
Moderator:
Speakers:

3:15-3:25pm Monetizing the cloud: The next generation multi VAS

3:15-3:25pm WiFi offload: The key to mobile content delivery

3:25-4:00pm BREAK

4:00–4:50pm Panel: Taking the connected home to market

  • What are the applications that can drive consumer adoption? From energy monitoring and home security to healthcare and wellbeing
  • Where are the revenue opportunities and what's the business case? Service bundles, maintenance contracts and more
  • Who does what? How is the relationship between the operator and the consumer products company evolving? What might the successful partnering strategies be?
  • What are the implications of a networked open eco-system of devices in terms of data revenues?
  • Once devices are connected, what are the opportunities for open APIs for 3rd party app development?
  • What's the significance of the trend to mobile as remote control for the connected home? How about the home hub?
  • Who will own the home? Electronics company, operator, utility provider? What's Apple's plan?
Moderator:
  • Harry Wang, Director of Research, Parks Associates  podcast
Speakers:

4:00–4:50pm Panel: Mobile advertising

  • How do we make mobile advertising a real business? Lessons from the front line
  • What are the latest innovations in mobile advertising? From cookies and data-mining through to new techniques for yield management
  • Innovations in ad formats:  Offers, incentivized installs, ad retargeting  - and dealing with deal fatigue
  • How is the market for video advertising evolving?
  • What are advertisers buying today and where are they seeing the returns?
Moderator:
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4:50-5:00pm Apps on SIMs: Bringing Facebook to the global mass market

4:50-5:00pm Spotlight presentation

5:00-5:50pm Panel: Mobile video: Innovations in delivery and monetization

Exploring the opportunities to improve mobile video delivery in next generation networks, including:

  • How can we leverage innovations in mobile video delivery to turn the challenge into an opportunity for mobile operators?
  • What are the latest innovations that will improve the management of mobile video?
  • What's the business model?  How can content providers and carriers collaborate to monetize mobile video?
  • What can content and app publishers do to create services that will enhance the customer experience while being network efficient?
Moderator:
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5:00-5:50pm Panel: mCommerce and the future of shopping

Leading online and physical retailers share their experiences leveraging the mobile channel to enhance shopping. What's delivering results today, and where is the growth moving forward?

Moderator:
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5:50-8:00pm Opening Reception


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Open Mobile Summit Day Two: Thursday November 3rd

8:45am Chairman's introduction and opening address

9:00-9:30am Keynote: Mobile shopping: The future of retail

9:30-10:30am Keynote Panel: mCommerce and big business

How big is the mCommerce market opportunity?

  • Consumers, mobilized: How is consumer behaviour changing in a multi-screen media world?
  • From mobile advertising to mobile commerce – how are the mobile strategies of major retailers, dotcoms and big brands evolving?
  • Competitive landscape: Who's best placed to dominate the mcommerce marketplace –Internet and ecommerce giants (eBay, Amazon, Google), social juggernaughts like Facebook or SoLoMoCo start-ups like Foursquare?
  • How will social commerce evolve? Does the social graph inform the commerce purchase, or will commerce activities take place within the social networks?
Moderator:
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10:30-11:15am BREAK

11:15-12:15pm Keynote panel: The future of devices

  • Where’s the value in hardware in a software-centric world?
  • What are the capabilites driving the next generation of smartphones, tablets and connected devices
  • Where is the future growth: High end superphones, or the sub $100 smartphone?
  • Will there be a tablet market, beyond the iPad? Is a tablet offering a strategic imperative for every OS?
  • Future of the OS: Does Microsoft stand a chance to catch Apple and Android?
  • Patent wars: How are patent holdings reshaping the device market landscape?
Moderator:
Speakers:

12:15 - 1:15pm Lunch & Networking

Track A:

1:15-2:05pm Panel: Apps, tablets and the open mobile enterprise

With smartphones and tablets arriving in enterprises through both direct and consumer channels, we explore how enterprise CIOs can leverage open mobile platforms and apps for enterprise IT:

  • Which apps are driving productivity gains today? From mail, calendar and contacts – to video, cloud collaboration and beyond
  • Where is the innovation happening? What are the opportunities for large software houses, for independent app shops – and for in-house development?
  • Tablets: Which tablets have the edge for enterprise users today? Which features do CIOs want?
  • The latest in security, enterprise management features, enterprise app stores and built-for-tablet apps
  • Will open platforms drive a rethink in enterprise IT concepts of control, and how we manage the boundary between personal and corporate device usage?
  • What do CIOs want from the next generation of carrier services?
Moderator:
Speakers:

Track B:

1:15-2:05pm Panel: Take your tablets: Future of publishing

This session explores the new business models emerging as news, magazines and books/ more extend to smartphones and tablets.

  • Is mobile a business, or a brand builder for publishers?
  • Business models: How do advertising, subscription and fremium models stack up today? Is 30% fair and how can we change it?
  • The new frontier: Are tablets the killer device for print?
  • Where’s the growth, and what’s the stickiest? Mobile and tablet titles, supporting apps or non-editorial apps?  
  • From writers, paper and ink to aggregators, platforms and developers: What are the new economics of the publishing business?
 
Moderator:
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2:05-2:55pm Panel: Apps, movies and merchandising: The future of entertainment brands

  • How do you monetize brands in a multi-screen world? From long tail to premium content, advertising, apps, merchandise, virtual goods and more
  • Entertainment apps: Where's the money? App as marketing channel, or real business in its own right?
  • Live streaming and music / movies on demand – will more iTunes-like channels emerge from the tablet manufactures – or will they be usurped by a more open web–like distribution system?
  • How can mobile be net additive to TV , film and music brands?
  • Made for mobile vs mainstream media brands to mobile. Will Angry Birds ever be as big Super Mario or Mickey Mouse? Could the TV and film studios create mobile first brands?
  • Where are the partnership opportunities between big media and the apps worlds?
Moderator:
Speakers:

2:05-2:55pm Panel: Roadmaps for the open mobile web: html5, monetization and discovery

As more publishers look for alternatives to the walled gardens of app stores, the industry is looking to html5 and the open mobile web for answers. This session explores what it takes to make the mobile web a viable publishing platform, what are the keys to success in this environment and who's making it happen today.

  • Publishing to html5: Which kind of content, services and experiences work well today, for which markets?
  • Which new monetization models become viable in the mobile web environment? Advertising, freemium, subscriptions and more
  • App store 2.0: Which of the other app stores can offer significant additional revenue, beyond Apple?
  • Discovery beyond the app store: Which online marketing tactics translate well?
  • Will social platforms be the next major discovery platform after the app store?
  • How do the economics stack up: Cost structures, scalability across platforms…and what is the addressable market size for html5 apps on feature phones?
Moderator:
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2:55-3:05pm Multi-modal UX: Apps you can feel

2:55-3:05pm A new dimension in app discovery

3:05-3:25pm Patent wars: The value of IP in a dynamic mobile world

  • Why now – what has changed to make patents of such high interest to smartphone players?
  • What is in dispute – which types of patents are the community attempting to assert against Android (kernel vs. API vs. UI/UX)
  • What's the status of various disputes – Apple vs. tablets, Oracle vs. Android, etc.
Speakers:
  • Rod Hall, Senior Analyst, JP Morgan  pdf podcast

3:05-3:25pm Fireside chat: Changing user behaviour in a multi-screen world

Interviewer:
Speakers:

3:25-4:05pm Silicon wars and the future of devices

Moderator:
  • Rod Hall, Senior Analyst, JP Morgan  podcast
Speakers:

3:25-4:05pm Location, social and the context in the cloud

We know who you know, where you've been and what you like. How can we help you? This panel explores the trifector at the intersection of social, local and deals, and how the context provided by social data, location data and algorithmic recommendation engines can drive new apps and services, and better discovery of both digital and physical goods and services.

Moderator:
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4:05-4:25pm BREAK

4:25-5:15pm Closing plenary panel: App Store 2.0: Lessons in discovery and monetization

  • What’s beyond the iTunes garden wall?  More app stores? Social platforms for discovery?
  • App stores in the cloud: As personal media moves to the cloud, will we be developing to Apple, Amazon etc clouds?
  • More tools for discovery: analytics, recommendation and curation
  • Monetization: What’s working today and why – from app sales, freemium, virtual goods, subscription and more.
Moderator:
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5:15pm - 6:45pm Champagne and chocolate reception

Appcelerate: Friday November 4 – meet the leaders of the mobile app economy  

A full day dedicated to the business of building, marketing and monetizing apps

08:30 - 08:35 Opening Remarks

Chairman:
  • Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund podcast

08:35 - 09:00 Keynote Fireside Chat: The challenges in building a mobile development team. Milk, the first 6-months.

Speakers:

09:00 - 09:50 Opening Panel: The app market opportunity: From killer app to killer business

  • How big is the app market opportunity, and are we in a bubble?
  • What do the most successful apps have in common?
  • How can app publishers build sustainable businesses? Which business models have longevity?
  • Which segments are most profitable: From location, gaming and commerce through to enterprise and productivity apps
  • Html 5 as a disruptive force – what are the inhibitors and who's trying to break the roadblocks.
Moderator:
  • Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund podcast  
Speakers:

9:50 - 10:40 App Idols on "Building killer apps"

09:50 - 10:00 Building in html5: What you need to know  
App Idol: Rob Grimshaw, MD, FT.com pdf podcast

Learn how you can use HTML5 to build, market and monetize apps. When do you decide to build in HTML5? What can be done well in HTML5 today and which features should be left for native apps? Lessons learnt in the development process of the FT HTML5 app

    

10:00 - 10:10 Building with agility: Getting great apps to market fast and cost effectively
App Idol: Sam Altman, CEO, Loopt pdf podcast

Learn why – and how - Loopt has transitioned to the "rapid" approach to development and lessons learned in the process, including advice on release-ready iteration cycles, testing, hiring & organizational strategies.

10:10 - 10:20 Building for the iPad: Making the iPad Hall of fame
App Idol: Calvin Carter, CEO, BottleRocket pdf podcast

The story of 3 apps that made it into the top 66 in the iPad hall of fame. What do all 3 iPad apps have in common? Which unique features of the tablet format do they leverage? Which lessons were learnt in the development process?

10:20 - 11:00Break and Expo     

11:00 - 11:10 Building for 3 screens
App Idol: Mike Putnam, Head of Mobile Product, Trip Advisor pdf podcast  

How to create fluid experiences across 3 screens – PC, smartphone and tablet.

11:10 - 11:20 Building apps for the Enterprise
App Idol: Quinton Alsbury, President and Co-founder, MeLLmo  podcast  

Why companies struggle to build apps for the enterprise, why the opportunity is too large to ignore, and little known secrets & strategies for enterprise development, from Roambi's creators at MeLLmo

11:20 - 12:10pmBreakout Sessions: Building killer apps      

11:20 - 12:10pm Building for the web: Should you be building in HTML5 now?
Leader: Demian Perry, Snr Product Manager, NPR

Is it time to start building in HTML5? How to build web apps that feel like native apps today..

11:20 - 12:10pm Building for the iPad
Leader: Calvin Carter, CEO, BottleRocket

A tablet is not a large phone. Are you wanting to leverage the iPad and other tablets to produce amazing brand experiences? Tablets will lead the post-PC era. Learn and share best practices and proven processes that have produced some of the best iPad apps on the market.

11:20 - 12:10pm Building for the Enterprise
Leader: Amanda Whaley, Cisco

How to make and monetize apps that enterprise buyers need now.

11:20 - 12:10pm Strategies for Success in the tablet market
Leader: Chris LaSala, Director Mobile Partnerships, Google

Discover what makes a great tablet app, how to think differently about tablets versus mobile, and get insights on how to create innovative experiences for this high value audience

11:20 - 12:10pm Breaking the mold: Innovating in today's apps market
Leader: Mike Rowehl, 16th level hacker, Churn Labs

Explore how to move beyond yet another in-app purchase monetized 'social game' and drive more diversity in the mobile apps market.

11:20 - 12:10pm Getting personal: Enhancing the individual app experience
Leader: Bob Morgan, SVP, Evri, Inc.

What options are available to publishers to create a more personalized experience? Best techniques for creating the most compelling and engaging user experiences including content discovery and recommendations, social integrations and latest techniques to detect user preferences from mobile devices.

12:10pm - 1:10pm Lunch and Expo
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1:10pm - 1:50pmApp idols on "Levers of discovery and engagement"      

1:10pm - 1:20pmChanging the rules of engagement: Community discovery for 'free-to-play' apps
App Idol: Jeff Smith, CEO, Smule pdf podcast  

Why incentivised installs are not a sustainable model for free to play app distribution, and what you can do about it. How to focus on creative strategies to leverage your own community to drive further growth.

1:20pm - 1:30pm The levers of engagement: Social hooks to drive engagement and discovery  
App Idol: Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora pdf   

1:30pm - 1:40pm Engagement and your brand franchise: How to stop your app from getting old
App Idol: Bart Decrem, VP and GM, Disney Mobile podcast

The story of the Tap Tap Revenge brand from formation to present day. How they built the brand franchise, and how app editions, features and brand extensions have continued to engage users 3 years on.

1:40pm - 1:50pm App rankings and monetization: iOS vs. Android
App Idol: Riz Virk, CEO, Gameview Studios pdf podcast

1:50pm - 2:40pm Breakout sessions: Discovery and Engagement

1:50pm - 2:40pm Getting featured
Leader: Brandon Lucas, VP and GM Mobile, BET

Worried about drowning in a sea of apps? Come learn from others who've managed to penetrate the veil and secure coveted featured positioning by the Apple and Google editorial teams.

1:50pm - 2:40pm New tactics for app distribution
Leader: Rob Coneybeer, Co-founder, Shasta Ventures

Explore the latest tactics and techniques for discovery, moving beyond CPI and incetivized installs, towards social discovery, and how to use analytics and web marketing tactics as a distribution platform.

1:50pm - 2:40pm Increasing engagment with social hooks
Leader: Scott Lahman, CEO, Gogii

1:50pm - 2:40pm Engagement: How to build sticky apps
Leader: Leslie Grandy, VP, Gerson Lehrman Group

Consumption patterns may be shifting to smartphones and other mobile devices, but that won't be enough to get customers to actively and regularly engage with your app. We'll investigate the elements of a "sticky" mobile experience, and explore the best practices for designing experiences that drive the behaviors required to build a successful app business.

1:50pm - 2:40pm Are there 'rules' for discovery on Android?
Leader: Charles Hudson, CEO, Bionic Panda

1:50pm - 2:40pm The new virtuous cycle: Building & monetizing app audiences
Leader: Peter Farago, VP, Flurry

Explore best-practices to first acquire and measure users, then update an app while targeting campaigns to re-engage users. Find out how using the power of data and segmentation, mobile social games can build a better audiences, faster, and earn more revenue.

2:40pm - 3:10pmBreak and Expo     

3:10pm - 3:50pm App Idols on "Making money with apps"

3:10pm - 3:20pmMaking money through advertising in the local mobile space
App Idol: Brian Cho, Head of Business Development, BooYah pdf 

With more than 5MM users, MyTown works with over 100 partners and brands and derivs 2/3 of its revenue from advertisers across retail, CPG, and media. The talk will share how you can maximize advertising revenue through both ad networks and direct brand sponsorships.

3:20pm - 3:30pmMaking money with Android
App Idol: Charles Hudson, CEO, Bionic Panda  pdf 

How to drive revenues on the Android platform – through ads, in app purchases and virtual goods. Design tricks to increase ARPU by improving user flow and ad placement. How much do you need to make the top grossing charts on Android?

3:30pm - 3:40pmMaking money with virtual goods
App Idol: Suli Ali, CEO, Tiny Co pdf 

Analysis of what it takes to make successful and profitable free-to-play games with virtual goods. Discover the lessons learned by Tiny Co after launching 5 top grossing games.What are the analytics and tools that are needed, and what are the key metrics that Tiny Co tracks. Plus thoughts on how the freemium/virtual goods landscape is changing.

3:40pm - 3:50pmMaking money with game mechanics: How GREE achieves an ARPU of 8x Zynga
App Idol: Eiji Araki, SVP Product, GREE US

3:50pm - 4:40pm Breakout Sessions: Making money with apps

3:50pm - 4:40pm Best kept secrets of mobile monetization
Leader: Orr Orenstein, CTO, Mobile Theory

This session will reveal and discuss the realities and best practices for mobile monetization. Relevant to audiences of publishers, advertisers and everyone in between.

3:50pm - 4:40pm Mobile Games Monetization: What's the Problem?
Leader: Stewart Putney, CEO, Moblyng

3:50pm - 4:40pm Mobile app design: Best and worst
Leader: Patrick Chung, SK Telecom

Explore which design elements are evolving, how many features are too much, the need for speed, the race to LBS, single touch / no touch, client vs server and much more. Is design the key to app success?

3:50pm - 4:40pm Monetizing via Advertising: How to generate and grow ad revenues
Leader: Dhana Pawar, Director Mobile Product, Coupons.com

3:50pm - 4:40pm Money and Privacy: How to acquire customers, make money and not get sued
Leader: Karen Neuman, St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson, LLP

4:40pm Closing Remarks

  • Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

4:50pm - 5:50pm Join us for drinks and informal networking at the conference close!



Very well organised with a great line up of speakers. A must attend event to keep mobile development current and in a rapidly changing market."
Rob Goehring, VP, Contigo

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