Last week we brought you our top speakers appearing in the free tracks at Apps World Europe from 12-13 November at London’s Excel. This week it’s time to introduce you to some of the top speakers in our seven paid content tracks. They include HTML5 and Web Apps, Mobile Strategy and Marketing, Mobile Payment and Retail, TV and Multiscreen, API Strategies, Wearable Technologies and Connected Car.
1) Michel André, CTO, Saxo Bank
As the chief technology officer at Saxo Bank Michel André is at the forefront of APIs within the financial industry and his talk, within the API Strategies track, will look at how APIs in a financial institution can be used to take online trading to the next level. He will be discussing how a bank manages and ensures security of mobile APIs within the banking environment and the benefits and challenges Saxo Bank has faced in adopting an API strategy.
2) Brian McCallister, CTO of Platform, Groupon
How to case studies make great content in any conference so the chance to hear from McCallister about a recent project completed at Groupon is certainly not to be missed within the HTML5 and Web Apps track. The company recently completed a year-long project to migrate its U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a new multi-application stack with substantial results. In his afternoon keynote McCallister will explain the background, motivation and execution of the project and explain what it means for the multi-platform user.
3) Brendan O’Driscoll, CEO, Founder, Soundwave
You can’t get much better than an app that is voted as the Best Innovation in Music 2013 by Apple but that’s the accolade Brendan O’Driscoll has won as the founding CEO of Soundwave, the social music app that has grown to over 1 million users in 190 countries since its launch only a year ago. The app has been likened to a digital watercooler where users can collate all the songs they listen to on Spotify, YouTube and other channels and discuss with friends what they are listening to while they are listening. His presentation, within the Wearable Technologies track of day one will look the evolution of smartwatches and Soundwave’s journey to become one of the first apps to hit Android Wear.
4) Scott Chacon, CIO, GitHub
As cofounder and CIO of GitHub – the web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system – Chacon is undoubtedly an expert not to be missed. He is also the author of the Pro Git book by Apress (progit.org) and the maintainer of the Git homepage (git-scm.com). He will be presenting a keynote session looking at the power of the mobile web within the HTML5 and Web Apps track at Apps World Europe
5) Renaud Visage, Co-Founder & CTO, Eventbrite
In his role as the founding technical architect and CTO of leading online event ticketing company Eventbrite, which he helped to launch in 2006, Visage has changed the events industry. Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell tickets or manage registrations to any event and has sold nearly $3 billion worth of tickets to date. He will be speaking in the API Strategies track.
6) Paul Cutter, Chief Technology Officer, Betfair
Cutter is a relative newcomer to Betfair having only joined the company in February of this year, previous to which he was at BskyB and AOL Europe. But his short tenure makes him no less proud that his company uses the best of both worlds within his business with an API Strategy that makes use of both public and private APIs to innovate and grow . In his presentation he will be sharing how public APIs can help to create an ecosystem of applications to grow your customer base whilst private APIs can ensure faster and less wasteful development. See him speak in the API Strategies track.
7) Kai Gait, Global Marketing Director, GSK
At GlaxoSmithKline the integration of wearable and smart device technology has big potential for the business and is an area that Gait has focussed on extensively recently. He will share the possilbities and problems of wearable technology for marketeers as he sees it within the Mobile Strategy and Marketing track, examining the potential privacy issue, potential for customer insight and likely direction of the market.
8) Dean Fankhauser, Co-Founder, Nuji
The design and layout of an app is vital to making both the right first impression and to maintaining users in the future. In his presentation Fankhauser will look at how to do it, the differnces of mobile to desktop and how to maximise the display of content and tailor the experience for mobile. His business Nuji is a leading social commerce platform based in London for which he has successfully raised millions of pounds in VC funding. Find out more from him by attending the HTML5 and Web Apps track.
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