HTML5 ARTICLE

July 17, 2012

DevCon5 Heads to New York with Hands-on HTML5 Experiences

Premier two-day HTML5 and Mobile App Developer’s Conference starts July 23

NORWALK, Conn.—July 17, 2012—DevCon5 – the premiere hands-on conference for HTML5 and Mobile App Developers – kicks off on Monday, July 23, 2012, at the Kimmel Center in New York, TMC (News – Alert) and CrossFire Media announced. Held over two days, DevCon5 allows developers to dig into the code, see applications come to life on the screen, and network with experts and colleagues.

Wayne Lee, director of engineering at Qualcomm (News – Alert), will present the luncheon keynote session on “The Future of Mobile Computing” on Monday, July 23. Lee has been working on mobile OS platform software for the past 10 years: BREW, Windows Mobile, Linux, Android (News – Alert), ChromeOS, WebOS. He now works on developer outreach and provides tools to help mobile developers create more powerful and compelling applications on mobile platforms like Android, Windows RT, and HTML5.

On Tuesday, July 24, David Kaneda, creative Web technologist, will deliver the luncheon keynote on “Designing for Mobile.” Kaneda is a designer, developer, and consultant based in San Francisco. He was previously the creative director at Sencha, where he worked on the company’s brand and HTML5 framework, Sencha Touch, and created jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile development, before that.

In all, more than 25 industry pundits will be speaking at the event, representing companies such as 8bitrocket.com, Adobe, appMobi, Kaazing (News – Alert), ListYourself.net, LongTail Video, MassDiGI, Mobiquity, MocoSpace, Mozilla Labs, Relevens, RIM, Sencha, and more. Sessions will delve into dozens of HTML5 and mobile app topics, including:

Abstracting CSS for Complex Theming Systems
Alice.js Animating HTML5 User Experiences
Creating Massively Cross-Platform Games with One HTML5 Code Base
Designing Cross-Platform Mobile Web Apps
GameJam WebGL
Innovation 3.0
Moving to Mobility
The Mozilla App Ecosystem
The Power of Canvas
Using PhoneGap to build cross platform mobile applications in HTML5, CSS and Javascript
WebSocket 101
WebWorks Maximizing HTML5

The event is sponsored by Kaazing, the company enabling the Living Web – the dynamic, interactive online world populated by applications that are always on, always connected and always real-time. appMobi and Viewbiquity (News – Alert) are Gold sponsors for the event.

The full DevCon5 agenda is now online, and registration is now open. For exhibitor and sponsorship information, contact Joe Fabiano at [email protected] or 203-852-6800 x132. For media registration, contact Ashley Baster at [email protected].

About Crossfire Media:
Crossfire Media is an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology. We service communities of interest with conferences, tradeshows, webinars, and newsletters and provide community websites with the latest information in our industries.

About TMC:
TMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the Cloud Computing ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events including: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; SUITS (Synopsis Under IP/Patents Telecom Sourcing); Video World Conference & Expo and more!, Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, and Next Gen Mobility magazines. TMC is the producer of