Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/07/2010 -- 2010 is being heralded as the year of the Mobile Developer, and what better way to celebrate than a dedicated summit for the Mobile Developer ecosystem. Mobile applications have become hugely popular with downloads predicted to reach 4 billion this year alone, rising to 21 billion by 2013. Topics range from the next big thing in app development to helping you make the right choices for open source mobile development to showing you how to think and hack out of the box. Learn how to approach the challenge of writing code for different devices, as well as techniques and tools that will help you gain a better understanding of how you can leverage emerging technologies in both native and mobile web development. The summit will be held Wednesday, November 10 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore. (http://www.mobiledevelopersummit.com)

Conference and Expo - Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010
09:30-10:00: Deliver Your Apps to the World with Nokia - Srikanth Raju
10:00-10:20: Apps in the Post-Converged World: Next Big Thing in App Development? - Tim Cloonan
10:40-11:20: Making the Right Choices for Open Source Mobile Development - Andrew Till - Main Hall
The BlackBerry Advantage: Leverage It For Your Commercial Success - Annie Mathew
10:40-12:05: Workshop: Taking Apps to the Next Level with the BlackBerry Platform - Alan Wong
11:25-12:05: User Experience Design for Mobile Development - Arabella David
Developing for success in the New App Store Economy - Scott Apeland
12:10-12:50: The Mobile Future - Thinking and Hacking Out of the Box - Wolfram Kriesing
Mobile Platform Wars: Repeat of PC Platform Battles of 80's? - Sridhar Ranganathan
Building Cool Android Mobile Applications - Part I - Rohit Bharadwaj
13:30-14:10: App Pitch Presentations - Suruk, Cricket Free, Grabbler, Indian Panchang, mtrader, GRE Math
14:15-14:55: HTML 5 Apps - The Mobile Web Is Taking Over! - Wolfram Kriesing
Economics of Your Ad Supported Application Business - Karthik Mahadevan
14:15-15:40: Workshop: Dual Display for Android Applications - Bhavya Siddappa
15:00-15:40: Creating a True Local OVI Store - Nisha Malhan
Is there a Mobile Apps Economy In India? - Bipin Preet Singh
15:45-16:05: Lightning Talk 1:: Alcatel-Lucent MODS Hackathon - Tim Cloonan
Lightning Talk 2: Prototyping SMS/Voice Services for Emerging Markets - Uday Shankar
Lightning Talk 3: Achieving Practical Pitch Detection on iPhone - Shreesh Ayachit
16:20-17:00: How Developers Can Take Advantage of Nokia's Series 40 Roadmap - Gregory Smiley
Adobe Flash to Develop Apps on Multiple Device Platforms - Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Building Cool Android Mobile Applications - Part II - Rohit Bharadwaj
17:05-17:45: Best Practices in Mobile Apps Cross Platform Development - Wolfram Kriesing
Developing Powerful Applications on bada - Aditya Bhide
Mobile Web Development: Technologies, Techniques and Tools - Shwetank Dixit

Sponsors of Mobile Developer Summit 2010 include: Platinum Sponsors: Forum Nokia, Esberi; Gold Sponsors: Research In Motion (Blackberry), Teleca, Alcatel-Lucent, ProgrammableWeb, OpenPlug, Intel, Inmobi, eMudhra (3i Infotech); Mobile App Champions: CIBER, SPAN Infotech, Opera, Tritone Tech, Softtrends, Y Media Labs, MarketSimplified, Divum.

To learn more about the 2010 Mobile Developer Summit or register visit: mobiledevelopersummit.com

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