Speaker List


Adobe

Christophe Coenraets
Christophe Coenraets
Principal Evangelist
Christophe Coenraets is a Principal Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Mobile Applications and Enterprise Integration. In this role, Christophe has helped some of the largest financial services companies design, architect and implement some of their most mission critical applications. In previous roles at Adobe and Macromedia, Christophe was a member of the initial Flex team, and worked on JRun, the company’s J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Web Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years. He blogs at http://coenraets.org, tweets at @ccoenraets, and codes at https://github.com/ccoenraets.
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Apperian

Cimarron Buser
Cimarron Buser
VP Business Development
Cimarron Buser leads Apperian’s global business development efforts and is responsible for developing new partnerships and working with technology, ISV and OEM partners. He has worked in enterprise solutions for over 25 years, providing creative and visionary leadership for products and services in web and mobile.Prior to Apperian, Mr. Buser worked with Texterity, and launched the first iPhone digital magazine. He built a product, sales, and marketing organization that led the digital magazine industry by providing solutions to trade and consumer publications. Cimarron was also at FaxNet, later sold to Critical Path, and led the group responsible for internet messaging solutions for the telecom industry.
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appMobi

Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith
HTML5 Game Developer/Evangelist
Tyler Smith has led appMobis HTML5 game development and game developer evangelism since joining the company in 2010. Tyler developed his first computer game at age 11 and graduated from Penn State with an associates degree in Computer Aided Design for Mechanical Engineering in 2010. He has participated in numerous app and game development hackathons and trade shows, both as a speaker and as a facilitator.
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Appthority

Domingo Guerra
Domingo Guerra
President and co-founder
Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Domingo moved to the United States at age 18 to pursue his passion for technology. Domingo brings years of Lean Manufacturing and Stanfords Design Thinking experience to Appthority. These principles translate well into the Lean Startup mantra we embrace at the company.Domingo has Product Design & Development experience as well as New Product Introduction & Operations experience across multiple industries. As a Mechanical Engineer for Applied Materials (Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry), he led design and development projects in the Robotics space, securing two patents and winning multiple design awards. With Program & Project Management roles at Brocade Communications (Datacenter Networking Industry), Domingo led large cross-functional matrix teams in the introduction of both hardware and software enterprise products.Domingo holds a BS from The University of Texas at Austin, an MS from Stanford University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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Brightcove

Ashley Streb
Ashley Streb
Vice President
Ashley Streb is the Vice President of Technology at Brightcove. He is responsible for providing the technical vision and leadership for the Brightcove platform. As a member of the founding engineering team, Ashley has helped formulate and create an on-demand video platform that works across ‘three screens’.He holds a special place in his heart for mobile devices and thinks they are a wonderful platform to develop on. He has helped launch multiple applications into the app store and also has worked on developer focused SDKs.
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Crossfire Media

Carl Ford
Carl Ford
Partner and Community Developer
Carl has become known throughout the Communications community for his ability to connect people (and, thus, businesses); be it in formal conference settings or through the well-planned serendipitous encounter. Carl’s diverse experience in technology spans the areas of Costing, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. Carl’s technology experience along with his expertise in building a relevant, thought provoking conference program, makes him an invaluable asset to Crossfire Media. As CEO of the company, Carl directs the programs and services offered by Crossfire Media. As Community Developer he looks to facilitate discussions about advances in technology, market drivers and business obstacles.
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Crowdmob

Matthew Moore
Matthew Moore
Co Founder
Matt served as sales engineer at Google from 2005 to 2007 working with the product, engineering, and business development teams to ensure that Google’s products worked for its largest partners such as Macy’s, NY Times and Virgin America. He was also the Co-founder of PogoLinux and ThriveSmart.
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Embarcadero

John JT Thomas
John JT Thomas
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Enterproid

Andy Zmolek
Andy Zmolek
Director, Business Development
Andy leads business development at Google-funded startup Enterproid and their Divide BYOD solution. Blending a development background in unified communications, security and mobility with a direct IT operational experience, his focus on mobile identity and multi-persona mobility solutions for smartphones and tablets is informed by real-world deployment experience within leading global technology firms. Previously, Andy was responsible for dual-persona strategies at LG Electronics, working with every early technology partner in that space.

At Avaya, Andy drove product development and engineering activities to standardize security and identity functionality across unified communications product lines, represented Avaya at the IETF and W3C, and became an early advocate for SIP and XMPP-based, presence-driven communications architectures. Andy has received 11 patents to date for the communications-related security and presence technologies he helped develop at Avaya.

Andys career began in the defense industry, building real-time simulation networks for missile and satellite systems at Raytheon, including the Tomahawk program. He spent his dot-com years directing networking IT at an enterprise application integration startup now part of SAP. Andy holds a degree in Mathematics from Brigham Young University and currently lives in San Diego.
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entrepreneur and career CTO/architect

Tony Parisi
Tony Parisi
Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/architect. He hasdeveloped international standards and protocols, creatednoteworthy software products, and started and sold technologycompanies. Tony’s passion for innovating is exceeded only by hisdesire to bring coolness and fun to the broadest possible audience.Tony is perhaps best known for his work as a pioneer of 3Dstandards for the web. He is the co-creator of VRML and X3D, ISOstandards for networked 3D graphics. Tony continues to buildcommunity around innovations in 3D as the co-chair of the WebGLMeetup (www.meetup.com/WebGL-Developers-Meetup) and afounder of the Rest3D working group (http://www.rest3d.org/).Tony is also the author of WebGL Up and Running (O’Reilly Media,2012).Tony is currently a partner in a stealth online gaming startup andhas a consulting practice developing social games, virtual worldsand location-based services for San Francisco Bay Area clients.
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Exhilent

Joey Janischeck
Joey Janischeck
Founder
Joey began his love with computing when he got a Commodore Vic-20 (complete with audio cassette data recorder) as a child. He works as a front-end developer and senior user experience lead delivering interface design and open source software integration to his clients. Over the past 17 years, Joey has worked for startups in Austin, Dallas, Boston, San Antonio and New York City, and excels in bridging the gap between a business stakeholders vision and the development it takes to make that idea real.
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Frog

Jesse Cravens
Jesse Cravens
Senior Software Engineer
Jesse is a Sr. Software Engineer at Frog in Austin, focusing on rich internet applications, the mobile web, and HTML5.His first book, HTML5 Hacks: An exploration into the most exciting technologies for the modern web, is in pre sales through OReilly Media.He previously held Sr. Software and Technical Management positions at USAA, where he was responsible for providing technical leadership in the planning, designing, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of USAAs industry leading iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and mobile web applications for USAAs 8 million members worldwide.Prior to that, Jesse was a JavaScript Lead for numerous enterprise rich internet application projects that included investor dashboards and enterprise portals, and has done web work for Disney, The Kentucky Derby, Jackson Browne, CSNY, and actress Angie Ruiz.
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Google

Hugh Finnan
Hugh Finnan
Director of Product, Google Chrome
Hugh has been working on online commerce and user experiences with video and multimedia technologies for nearly a decade. As a Product Director at Google, he leads the strategic direction for Chrome Media including audio and video within the web platform. Prior to Google, Hugh lead multiple launches of Kindle and its key features at Amazon.com. Before Amazon, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years developing the multiplayer infrastructure for PC games as well as various enterprise and office products.
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HTML5.com

Charles Mason
Charles Mason
Charles Mason, Founder of HTML5.com has 17 years experience and a composite education in web, computer science, and marketing technologies. He understands that HTML5 can only be as successful as the developers behind it. He believes in investing in the future of HTML5 through these developers, for manufacturers and the consumer.
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IBM

Vijay 	 Dheap
Vijay Dheap
Mobile Security Solutions
Vijay Dheap currently leads Mobile Security Solutions for IBM. He started off his career as a researcher in the field of Pervasive Computing, and then evolved his technical expertise as a developer on IBM’s mobile portal product. He transitioned to an analyst role gaining experience formulating IBM’s technical and business strategy for emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, Big Data and Mobile as a member of IBM’s Emerging Technologies Team. He joined IBM’s newly formed Security Division as a Product/Solution Manager and earned the title of IBM Master Inventor. He has significant international experience having led several customer engagements on four continents. Vijay earned his Master’s in Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada and his International MBA from Duke Fuqua School of Business.
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Joyent

Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman
CTO, Founder
Jason is the founder and CTO at Joyent, where he is responsible for overseeing the engineering, operations and product groups’ development and implementation of Joyent’s Cloud Computing technology. He is also responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism, consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. His specialties include bioinformatics, grid computing, cloud computing, distributed systems, collaborative applications and deploying and scaling web applications.Jason earned a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine. Jasontaught at the university level for more than a decade, is a prolific speaker and author and a highly-regarded expert on scalable systems. He serves as the Outside Director of the WordPress Foundation, frequently blogs at Joyeur, and most often can be found on Twitter when not flying across an ocean in an aisle seat. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
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Kaazing

John Fallows
John Fallows
CTO & Co-Founder
John Fallows brings years of vast experience in technology development and software design to Kaazing, and is considered a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces. John is a co-founder of Kaazing Corporation, and as Chief Technology Officer, John formulates Kaazing Corporations vision of creating the best real-time Web solution based on industry standards. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.Prior to co-founding Kaazing, John served as Architect for Brane Corporation, a startup company based in Redwood City, California. Before joining Brane, John was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies. Originally from Northern Ireland, John received his MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than twelve years. John has written several articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developers Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, and JavaMagazine (DE), and is a popular speaker at international conferences. John is co-author of the best-selling book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress).
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LongTail Video

Pablo Schklowsky
Pablo Schklowsky
Technical Lead
Pablo Schklowsky is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable front- and back-end web technologies. As Tech Lead for LongTail Video, Pablo serves as the lead developer on the JW Player, a popular open-source video player. Over the past 2 years, Pablo has led the effort to incorporate a full-featured HTML5 mode into the player, making it the most popular Flash and HTML5 video player on the web.
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MassDigi

Monty Sharma
Monty Sharma
Director
Monty Sharma is a director at MassDigi an institute developed to foster a strong bond between academia and the games industry. He leads outreach and the development of innovative programs.

Sharma was formerly a Founder/General Manager of Vivox, a voice chat service provider in the games industry. He oversaw product and marketing for a company that servers over 60 million users around the world. With key relationships with EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Nexon, Big Point and many others, Vivox is the largest games communication provider and the second largest IP voice provider in the world.

Before joining Vivox, Sharma was vice president of business development at Jamcracker, Inc., where he developed partnerships and channel agreements that extended Jamcracker’s market share as a leading provider of IT management platforms. Prior to Jamcracker, Sharma served as vice president Novell Service Provider Network at Novell, Inc. and played a key role in creating an independent business unit and brand that provided software and professional services to carriers, ASPs and Novell’s extensive reseller channel.

Sharma also held management positions at Nova Scotia telecommunications service provider MT&T where he served as chief technology officer of Mpowered PC deploying leading edge DSL and ASP solutions. He began his career working for consulting organizations including BDI Business Development Information, Inc. and Software Experts.

Sharma earned a BA in History from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has held numerous positions on corporate and public boards and is the author of several trade press articles.
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Microsoft

Doris Chen
Doris Chen
HTML5 Technology Evangelist
Doris is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Winodws 8, Ajax, and Java). Doris has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, Java platform, .NET and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including HTML5 Dev Conference, O’Reilly, WebVisions, JavaOne, SD Forum, HTML5 and JavaScript meetups, and worldwide User Groups. Doris works very closely to create and foster the open source community around Java, NetBeans, Glassfish, and related technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. She loves to travel and she has visited 48 countries (out of 872) so far. In her spare time, she also enjoys music, movies and museums.
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Microsoft

Jeff Burtoft
Jeff Burtoft
HTML5 Evangelist
Jeff Burtoft is as an HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft where he has the pleasure of serving the HTML5 community every day. Jeff is co-author of “HTML5 Hacks” from O’Reilly Media and is a founding blogger at html5hacks.com. Being in the Web Development community for over 10 years, his work experience varies from positions like web master for the Department of Defense to Principal Front End Engineer for a fortune 200 company. Jeff is a huge proponent of web standards, and loves all programing languages, as long as they are JavaScript. Jeff lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and three children. In his free time, he enjoys writing Apps and playing video games with his kids.
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MocoSpace

Rich Denton
Rich Denton
Rich is the Senior Product Designer for the nations largest mobile social network, MocoSpace. Since joining the team, he has pushed the envelope on what is possible with CSS3 and HTML5 on the mobile web to help deliver a more streamlined, user-friendly product. With a focus on efficiency, Richs expertise in JavaScript has also been crucial in optimizing the products core features -- from HTML5 games to user communication -- for a large number of mobile devices. He and his team have proven that the future of mobile is HTML5 and it is bright.
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Mozilla

Jed Parsons
Jed Parsons
Engineer - Identity Team
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Mozilla Labs

Bill Walker
Bill Walker
Engineering Manager
Bill Walker is Engineering Manager at Mozilla Labs. While working at Apples research division, Xerox PARC, Reactivity, and Cisco, he became increasingly passionate about software process, automated testing, and helping prototypes turn into products. At Mozilla he manages teams working on PDF.js and the Mozilla Apps runtime. Bill holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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OWASP

Phil Purviance
Phil Purviance
Application Security Consultant for AppSec Consulting
Phil Purviance is an Application Security Consultant for AppSec Consulting where he researches application security vulnerabilities and performs penetration testing. Phil’s body of work includes the discovery and proof-of-concept exploitations of critical security vulnerabilities, design flaws, and system weaknesses in hundreds of custom web sites and web application frameworks. Purviance also consults with clients and recommends helpful countermeasures that are useful to mitigate serious security vulnerabilities. Phil’s recent exploit talks include cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Skype for iOS, and the revealing of flaws in the Ruby on Rails and Django Web Frameworks. Phil’s contributions to the security community have earned him an induction into both Google’s and Facebook’s Security Hall of Fame. Phil most recently presented at the Toorcon Security Conference in San Diego.
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P4RC, Inc.

Jas Dhillon
Jas Dhillon
Founder & Executive Chairman
Jas Dhillon is currently Chief Social Technology Officer at Ipsos (IPSOS.PA), one of the worlds top three research and marketing companies. At Ipsos Jas has overall responsibility for innovation-oriented technology initiatives related to Ipsoss social, collaboration, gamification, data visualization and mobile platforms. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who founded and scaled two successful Internet Companies. Jas also serves on the board of Pivotal Ventures, an early stage venture accelerator focusing on technologies at the intersection of the mobile and social web.
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PKE Consulting LLC & UC Strategies.com

Phil Edholm
Phil Edholm
President and Principal
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Pub Nub

Todd Greene
Todd Greene
CEO & Co-Founder
Todd is the co-founder and CEO of PubNub. As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procurement solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
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Relevens

Terry Ribb
Terry Ribb
CMO
Terry Ribb led the Research efforts for the Mobile Relevance Project, a research initiative to discover and share design innovations that improve the relevance of mobile brands. The Project’s findings will be unveiled at DevCon5. Terry is also co-founder and CMO of Relevens, a consulting firm that helps internal teams plan mobile 3.0 strategies, design 3.0 apps, and develop 3.0 platforms.

Previously with Deloitte Consulting, Terry led an innovation team to study the impact of the Internet on next generation consumers, and she served as a keynote speaker at universities, conferences, and Fortune 500 companies on the topic of Virtual Life. As a Marketing Leader, Terry has spent 15 years helping companies and ventures leverage the Internet to create new markets, develop online communities, and improve the relevance of brand relationships.
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RIM

Dave Balmer
Dave Balmer
Senior Developer Evangelist
Dave started programming at the age of six and has been a Web developer since 1995. As a Senior Developer Evangelist with Research in Motion, Dave is a JavaScript guru focused on mobile HTML5 development. Balmer is a Yahoo! alum, co-author of Mobile HTML5 (OReilly Press) and creator of the Jo mobile HTML5 app framework.
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SAP Mobile Product Marketing

Adam Stein
Adam Stein
Senior Director
Adam Stein leads the managed mobility and MDM marketing efforts at SAP. He joins SAP after leading WW Marketing at MobileIron and has 20+ years of marketing and category creation expertise focused primarily within the networking, mobility and security software markets. He previously led global marketing with teams at Fortinet, Broadcom and Cisco responsible for product marketing, content creation, lead generation and field marketing. Adam has a MA in marketing from Emerson College and BA in sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Talent Evangelist & UI/UX Developer

Marc Grabanski
Marc Grabanski
Marc Grabanskis background is in open source. He was the creator of the jQuery UI Datepicker project. Marc is now focused on connecting the worlds experts in order to create the highest quality education possible through workshops and events. Recent events he has created include Day of JavaScript on Mobile at Google HQ and Frontend Masters Workshop Series at the MJG Workshop Center.

Marcs deepest area of expertise is in building UI-intensive applications. He has built out countless diverse interfaces with the MJG International team by partnering with product leads who need their dreams built out. Lately hes been working on projects with SVG/RaphaelJS and separately on web applications built on top of jQuery mobile.
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VirtuOz

Pam  Kostka
Pam Kostka
CMO
Pamela is a proven marketing executive with 19+ years of experience in defining and executing successful product strategies and go-to-market plans for SaaS and enterprise software companies. As CMO of VirtuOz, she oversees all product management, product marketing, field marketing and partner development activities for the company. Pamela has an established track record growing early stage companies to a successful exit strategy. Prior to VirtuOz, she served as SVP, Marketing and Managed Tax Service Sales for Sabrix where she was instrumental in defining and launching the SaaS offering as well as driving over 300% bookings growth in 2 years. Prior to Sabrix, she served as VP, Marketing for Arena Solutions and CEO and founder of Visiline. She also held senior marketing positions with Extensity and Connect where she was a key contributor to successful IPOs for both companies. Pamela has a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Moderator List

Bess Ho (Moderator)

Bess Ho (Moderator)

Archimedes Lab
Architect

Bess Ho is Mobile Architect and Parter at Archimedes Labs, a seed-stage startup incubator with focus in mobile and consumer. She has been advising a string of mobile startup Demo God winner LumoBack, Award winning startup AfterShip, Y-Combinator Eligible and DermTap. She has spoken on major mobile conferences at Global Mobile Internet Conference, WITs Technology Summit, OReilly Android Open, Web 20 Expo SF, Mobile Congress in Asia, Silicon Valley Wireless Conference. She lectured mobile at Stanford University School of Engineering, Art Institute of California Design program, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) Computer Science and Hong Kong Polytechnic University Multimedia Design.
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