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Speaking Engagements in 2011
Speaking Engagements in 2010
Speaking Engagements in 2008
Speaking Engagements in 2007

Speaking Engagements in 2011 - Completed

Date/Location	Conference	Abstract
Dec 6, 2011 – San Diego - California	Comm Nexus – San Diego – LBS SIG	Panel on Near Field Communication Near Field Communications (NFC) technology is one of the newest technologies designed to add additional utility to our cellular phones. In essence, it uses your phone’s short-range wireless technology to send and receive personal data to other devices. Its many capabilities will make our lives easier by consolidating many of the items that we carry with us every day. is coming at you in 2012 and our panel of experts will provide a glimpse of how NFC technology will change your lives.
Nov 8, 2011 – Dallas – Texas	LTE Americas Conference, Dallas	Examining the Entire Ecosystem of LTE Devices: What will the Future Device Landscape Look Like? Moving on from ‘LTE as dongles’ Need for visually rich, bandwidth-intense multimedia interfaces Movement from first handsets to mass market handsets Exploring the breadth of devices available What can we expect to see with device growth?
Oct 11, 2011 – Dallas – Texas	CTIA Enterprise & Applications Conference	Open Mobile Solutions - Developer Pitch and Round Tables
May 19, 2011 – Los Angeles, California.	Display Week– eBook and Tablets Market Evolution Conference.	Presentation - Innovation in the Tablet Market.
April 25-26, 2011 – San Francisco, California	Venture Beat 2011 – Mobile Summit	Panel - Superphone Platform: The emergence of HTML5 and modern web browsers promise a future beyond fragmented native app platforms. What developments over the next twelve months will make the mobile web more viable (and how is this affected by LTE, advances in chips, and OS’s like Android Honeycomb)? Is the battle between HTML5 and native apps a non-issue?
Mar 23, 2011 – Orlando, Florida	CTIA Wireless 2011 - Tablets Event	Presentation on - The Future of Tablets
Mar 23, 2011 – Orlando, Florida	CTIA Wireless 2011	Panel -- App Developer Pitch Sessions
Mar 1-2, 2011 – San Diego, CA	2011 DisplaySearch US FPD Conference	Mobility Driven by the allure of “apps” the mobile market has become a key platform for in computing, communications, and entertainment hardware. New “tablet” form factors are carving out an new segment between traditional notebooks and smartphones, while eReaders continue to hold onto the single-purpose niche. How does display technology enable these devices, and what are the implications of these fast-developing applications for displays? DisplaySearch and a panel of industry participants will dig into the issues.
Jan 25, 2011, San Francisco, CA	Inside SocialApps 2011	Panel - Growth and Monetization on Mobile Social Platforms With the growth of the Apple iOS and Android ecosystems over the last year, is 2011 the year that mobile social platforms finally take off in US? Join us as we look at what 2011 holds for social application developers with executives from leading platforms and publishers pioneering social and monetization on mobile. Click here to View the Video of the Panel online

Speaking Engagements in 2010 - Completed

Date/Location	Conference	Abstract
Nov 16, 2010 – Mountain View, CA, USA	Intuit – Technology Days	Key Note
Nov 9, 2010 – Dallas, Texas, USA	RCR Wireless Event	Panel - Mobile Broadband: Innovation and Opportunity
Oct 28, 2010 – Sunnyvale, California, USA	Plug and Play Tech Center	Samsung Showcase of Breakthrough Technology: Samsung Mobile
Oct 7, 2010 San Francisco, USA	CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2010	Panelist - Gaining Distribution Presenters will connect with a panel of experts representing key mobile app distribution channels. Key Questions: Are you wondering what platforms to target? What about feature phones vs. smartphones? How do you build an effective distribution portfolio leveraging carrier, OEM, aggregator and appstore distribution channels? How do you ensure that your application gets traffic once your application has been submitted and approved? What makes a successful mobile application?
Oct 5, 2010 San Francisco, USA	Mobile Apps Conference	Moderator - Discovery of Apps, Generating Revenue, Creating Profit Learn how content owners and developers have made money from apps in an open mobile environment. We consider the comparative merits of ad-supported, free and freemium and strategies for creating a mobile “value add” for profitable cloud computing applications. How can you get your app discovered in a market where thousands are consumer attention?
Oct 5, 2010 San Francisco, USA	Mobile Apps Conference	Panelist - Social Networks Informa estimates 50 million people, or 2.5% of the world’s mobile phone users, already are involved in mobile social networks. That number will skyrocket over the next year. What does the future hold and why are investors actively seeking ventures into mobile social networks? What are the hot apps to watch in this market?
Oct 4, 2010 Los Angeles, USA	4G Wireless Evolution	Panelist - 4G Devices: Perspective from the Operator, Device Manufacturer and Component vendor. 4G networks are rolling out globally. WiMAX networks are in commercial deployment and LTE is just over the horizon with trials happening now. This panel will explore the state of deployment of 4G devices and the new capabilities they bring to consumers and business. Key questions on 4G Devices: • State of deployment? Future predictions? • New features and capabilities? • New business models & opportunities?
Sep 21, 2010– Las Vegas, NV, USA	Verizon Developer Conference 2010	Panel – Opening Session: Making Verizon Work for you. Ashok’s comments on the Fragmentation Issue – Picked up by the press here.
Jul 12, 2010 San Francisco, USA	MobileBeat 2010 Conference	Panelist – Who Owns the User ? Who Owns the User? Wireless carriers used to control the relationship with mobile users. But now Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook and others have emerged as new gatekeepers to the mobile experience. How is this changing the industry? Review by the Press – Link for Photograph Twitter’s director of mobile: AT&T has guts
Jul 1, 2010 San Diego, USA	Qualcomm Uplinq Conference	Panelist – Where Will Mobile Apps & Devices Be 5 Years from Now? Come learn what key content publishers and device makers think mobile apps and devices will look like by the middle of the decade. This panel will address the changing mobile device and application landscape as new form factors, device and OS capabilities, and consumer preferences drive the market. This guided conversation will provide key insights that will affect your business strategies today and tomorrow.
April 20, 2010 Santa Clara, USA	Wireless Communication Alliance – Mobile SIG	Panelist - Mobile OS – 2010 and beyond The year 2009 was the battleground among the Mobile operating system platforms fueled up by the emergence of Google’s Android, Palm's webOS, and other Linux based OSes competing against the renewed touch-based Windows Mobile 6.5 and Blackberry OS 4.6, as well as incumbent Apple’s iPhone and Symbian OS. With the exponential growth of the smartphones that is projected to take up over 30% of the entire mobile phone demand by 2013 and OS fragmentation becoming an increasing industry concern, the Mobile OS war in 2010 will only intensify. So, the question is who will be the winners and losers in 2010 and beyond? How effectively will open source based platforms compete vs. proprietary ones? Can one platform ultimately rule both the consumer and the enterprise markets? How successful will Android and other open source OS platforms be in expanding into non-handset device categories? These questions are equally important to answer for the OEMs, operators, and applications developers who are all faced with increasing challenges of cross-platform development.
Mar 23, 2010 Las Vegas, USA	International CTIA Wireless 2010	Panelist - OMS Developer Pitch Sessions - Gaining Distribution
Mar 23, 2010 Las Vegas, USA	Mobile Entertainment Forum - International CTIA Wireless 2010	Panelist - Holy Grail or Holy Fail : The Straight Talk on Mobile The news media is always pushing the latest, bright, shiny mobile idea from advertising sponsored content, to subscription services, to competing technologies, while it¹s up to the mobile ecosystem to figure out what works, or not. Join a broad panel of experts that represent different vantage points in the mobile value chain to hear their open and candid observations as we rapid fire today¹s hottest topics at them for their review. Will it be Holy Grail or Holy Fail!
Mar 24, 2010 Las Vegas, USA	International CTIA Wireless 2010	Panelist - OMS Developer Pitch Sessions - Gaining Distribution

Speaking Engagements in 2008

Date/Location	Conference	Abstract
Jan 16-18, 2008 Vancouver, Canada	Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit	Moderator - Gaining broader access to world-wide markets Panelist - Mobile Trends, Insights, Underserved Vertical Markets Presenter - Understand Mobile Asia
Mar 31, 2008 Las Vegas, USA	Mobile JAM Session, CTIA	Improv Session – Open Source in Handsets
May 14, 2008 Bangalore, India	Motodev Summit	Technology Trends Driving Mobile Application Innovation In this session, a panel of market development experts offers their insights into the latest technology trends and the associated opportunities they present for mobile application developers. We will also discuss Motorola's platforms strategy for mobile applications and present exciting innovative mobile applications. Porting Applications for Motorola Handsets across Different Markets Motorola creates quality handsets for markets around the world, using a variety of operating systems and application platforms. This session will help you create applications that run across handset models and markets, and tell you what to be aware of when porting your application to different carriers. Open Source, Motorola and You Open-source development is enabling a new generation of mobile innovation. This session will describe Motorola's participation in the open-source community, our future plans and how developers can get involved. There will be a brief overview of opensource.motorola.com, as well as information on other open-source projects in which Motorola is participating. Additionally, there will be a discussion of how members of the community can begin to partner with Motorola on future open-source efforts.
Sep 10, 2008 San Francisco, USA	Location 2.0 Summit	Consumer Panel: Location and the Wireless Ecosystem Photographs
Sep 12, 2008 San Francisco, USA	Mobile JAM Session, CTIA IT	Improv Session, Its all about the Phone !
Sep 17-18, 2008 Berlin, Germany	Open Source In Mobile	Uncovering the Changing Face of the Developer How to engage the modern developer The new generation of developers being brought up ‘The Open Source Way’ Understanding what appeals Removing the developer stereotype How the modern developer can contribute to the bottom line
Oct 6-7, 2008 London, UK	Widget Web Expo 2008	Mobile Phones, Web2.0, Motorola’s MOTOMAGX ad the Future click here to access the PowerPoint Presentation
Oct 21-22, 2008 London, UK	Symbian SmartPhone Show 2008	Moving from Innovation to Market: Top 10 Tips for Mobile Application Development Description of the growing mobile developer ecosystem Importance of business and technological advancements in the mobile application developer process Top 10 tips for mobile application development
Oct 29-30, 2008 San Diego, USA	Handsets Forum USA 2008	Why is Software Flexibility so Vital to the Development of Forthcoming Handset Devices? Fulfilling consumer expectations on software flexibility and compatibility Ensuring adaptation post manufacture Why is software flexibility particularly important to mass market phones? Industry Benefits: Reducing Time to Market Developer Benefits: The importance of tool familiarisation AND Moderate this one or present on this one. click here to access the Video Presentation. Panel Discussion - Ban Open Source! What About Everyone Else? How important is Open Source to the modern day handsets industry? What are the consequences of the rise of Android and LiMo to the industry as a whole? Can Open and Proprietary work together? Should the consumer care if it’s open or closed?
Dec 08, 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Motodev Summit	Technology Trends Driving Mobile Application Innovation In this session, a panel of market development experts offers their insights into the latest technology trends and the associated opportunities they present for mobile application developers. We will also discuss Motorola's platforms strategy for mobile applications and present exciting innovative mobile applications. Porting Applications for Motorola Handsets across Different Markets Motorola creates quality handsets for markets around the world, using a variety of operating systems and application platforms. This session will help you create applications that run across handset models and markets, and tell you what to be aware of when porting your application to different carriers. Open Source, Motorola and You Open-source development is enabling a new generation of mobile innovation. This session will describe Motorola's participation in the open-source community, our future plans and how developers can get involved. There will be a brief overview of opensource.motorola.com, as well as information on other open-source projects in which Motorola is participating. Additionally, there will be a discussion of how members of the community can begin to partner with Motorola on future open-source efforts.

Speaking Engagements in 2007

Date/Location	Conference	Abstract
Sep 18-20, 2007 Madrid, Spain	Open Source in Mobile, 2007	Making it as Easy as PC: Overcoming the Barriers to Mobile Linux Development What is currently available to the mobile Linux developer? How great is the availability problem of devices/environments on which to develop Linux for mobile? Examining the developer devices released in 06/07 - what are the advantages? What are the challenges? What must a software development kit (SDK) offer to facilitate innovation and improve development cycles? How can mobile SDKs be improved?
October 17, 2007 London, UK	Symbian SmartPhone Show 2007	Developing Cool New Applications for Motorola Handsets Motorola and UIQ Technology have launched a unique portfolio of handsets, beginning with the showcase MOTO Z8. In this session, you will learn all about key new features and find out all you need to kick off your MOTO Z8 development and create the best new applications that leverage the powerful UIQ platform for Motorola handsets and speed your market success.
Nov 9, 2007 London, UK	Motodev Summit	The Evolution of Java™ ME across Motorola Products Motorola continues to add functionality through the implementation of standards-based Java™ ME packages and new APIs. This session will review how Java™ ME is evolving and is currently being deployed across a wide variety of Motorola product portfolios. Roadmaps and new feature implementations will also be covered.
Nov 12, 2007 Beijing, China	Motodev Summit	Technology Trends Driving Mobile Application Innovation In this session, a panel of market development experts offers their insights into the latest technology trends and the associated opportunities they present for mobile application developers. We will also discuss Motorola's platforms strategy for mobile applications and present exciting innovative mobile applications.
Nov 28-30, 2007 San Diego, USA	Handsets Forum USA 2007	Evaluating the Benefits of Moving Towards Open Source in an Increasingly Fragmented Mobile Software Marketplace Harnessing the potential of open source to reduce cost and time to market of new mobile device development Defining the open nature of open source: Striking the balance between openness and the development of a commercial product Cultivating the open source developer community to support the forward strategies of carriers and handset manufacturers Evaluating the case of Linux as the mobile platform to power the next generation of mobile handsets
Dec 5, 2007 London, UK	Mobile Application Platforms and Operating Systems	Equipping the Developer Community for Innovation – Listening, Learning and Adapting - Motorola Case Study Successfully interacting with the developer community and responding to their challenges Adjusting the business to accommodate and support – Real life experience A view of Motorola’s activities Analysing the drivers for success so far and reaping the rewards What are the emerging trends? What the future holds

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Speaking Engagements in 2011 - Completed

Speaking Engagements in 2010 - Completed

Speaking Engagements in 2008

Speaking Engagements in 2007