Richard Kerris VP, Global Head of Developer Relations
Qt in the Broader Nokia Strategy
Richard Kerris, VP, Global Head of Developer Relations provides insights to why the Nokia store and Qt opportunity with Nokia is growing - and why Qt is important to Nokia and its efforts with Symbian, Nokia N9 and as a core component to connect the next billion consumers with the web.
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Richard was previously VP, Worldwide Developer Relations for WebOS at HP, CTO at Lucasfilm, and senior director of Developer Relations at Apple.
In his role at Nokia, Richard is responsible for inspiring and enabling developers to design, develop, distribute and monetize App and content-driven consumer experiences across Nokia’s devices portfolio. In addition, he is responsible for generating contributions and technological feedback to improve Nokia’s developer offering.
Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager
Qt's brighter future on Ubuntu
Jono Bacon will discuss the exciting partnership in place today
between Qt and Ubuntu. He will specifically focus on some of the area
where Canonical and Ubuntu use Qt and QML in important applications
today. He'll show how well Ubuntu runs Qt apps, as well as how Ubuntu
make the perfect development platform for Qt and QML developers. Jono will show how the Ubuntu Software Center makes a great showcase for your
paid or free apps for attracting users. Jono will end on why he sees a
bright future for Qt/QML on Ubuntu.
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Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author. Currently he works as the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, leading a team to grow, inspire and enthuse the global Ubuntu community.
Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice, and wrote The Art of Community (O’Reilly), is the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit, and is a regular speaker at events about community management, leadership, and best practice.
George Staikos Vice President, RIM
Bringing Qt to QNX, Research In Motion
In this keynote George will discuss and examine why Qt was an ideal candidate for inclusion in the BlackBerry Open Source initiative, and an obvious choice as a basis for the upcoming BBX NDK on the QNX OS. Qt has been an important part of the QNX ecosystem for years. With the new port of Qt 4.8 for BBX, RIM will be bringing Qt on QNX to the next level.
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George Staikos was the founder and president of Torch Mobile Inc., a company that created embedded web browsers and related software solutions. Since the sale of Torch Mobile. in August 2009, George has worked at Research In Motion Ltd., where his current role is Vice President of Web Technologies. George is widely known for his substantial contributions to various open source initiatives, including the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and WebKit. This work greatly influenced the direction of Torch Mobile and provided a foundation for the web browsers embedded in many phones and other devices available today. George has been developing software with Qt since 1998.
Vigo Zhang Senior Director at Tencent Mobile
Integrating the Internet into Mobile Devices, Tencent QQ
Tencent with its legendary QQ services has pioneered the Chinese
Internet since 1998. With more than a billion registered accounts, QQ is
the Internet in China for many people. As China also has the largest
mobile phone subscription base in the world, with more than 800 million
subscribers, Tencent is extremely well positioned to create and drive
the Mobile Internet experience.
With the unique insight on how
chinese users access and leverage the Internet, Tencent is working with
several device manufacturers to make the best possible experience. The
talk will further dive into how using Qt, Tencent can develop superior
mobile internet applications and services on Nokia devices.
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Vigo Zhang, senior director of Wireless Business of Tencent, Vigo
joined Tencent in 2006, and was focused on business cooperation with
mobile devices manufactures. Since October 2009, Vigo has been
responsible for Wireless Cooperation Development Department, including
business development team, Tencent mobile services customization team
and the management of its regional markets in China. Vigo received his
Master of Computer System Degree in XI'AN JiaoTong University.
Lars Knoll Qt Chief Architect Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
Qt Roadmap, Open Governance and Qt 5
In his keynote, Lars will talk about where he sees Qt heading within
the next year. Open governance brings changes to how Qt will be
developed in the future by giving developers a greater ability to
influence where Qt, as a project, is heading in a more direct way than
ever before. In 2012, the next major Qt version, Qt 5, is planned to be
released under open governance. Qt 5 brings some larger changes in the
Qt architecture, while promising to keep backwards compatibility. Lars
will also cover the functionality which is being considered for the Qt
roadmap.
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Lars is the Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project. He previously worked
as the Chief Architect for ASF and led the Qt R&D organization with
teams in Oslo, Berlin and Brisbane in Nokia. Lars had had different
roles in former Trolltech's engineering organization, working his way up
from software engineer to leading the engineering team in Oslo as
Director before taking over the role as Director of Global R&D. Lars
has been an active member of the KDE community and the architect behind
KDE's html rendering library that formed the basis for the WebKit open
source project. Lars holds a PhD in physics from the University of
Heidelberg. A German national, he lives with his family in Oslo.
Munich
Marco Argenti SVP Nokia Developer Experience
Qt in the Broader Nokia Strategy
Marco Argenti, SVP, Nokia Developer Experience provides insights to why the Nokia store and Qt opportunity with Nokia is growing - and why Qt is important to Nokia and its efforts with Symbian, Nokia N9 and as a core component to connect the next billion consumers with the web.
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Marco is a technology industry veteran with more than 20 years experience and currently serves as Senior Vice President, Developer & Marketplace for Nokia. Argenti is globally responsible for Nokia's support and growth of its developer community and broader ecosystem across Nokia's entire product portfolio. In this role, Argenti also provides the strategy, delivery and support of Nokia's on-device application marketplace.
Argenti is a frequent speaker at industry conferences in Europe and North America and in 2008, 2009 and 2010 was named by Mobile Entertainment Magazine as one of the 50 Mobile Entertainment industry leaders worldwide.
Rick Spencer Director of Engineering, Canonical
Qt's brighter future on Ubuntu
Rick Spencer will discuss the exciting partnership in place today between Qt and Ubuntu. He will specifically focus on some of the area where Canonical and Ubuntu use Qt and QML in important applications today. He'll show how well Ubuntu runs Qt apps, as well as how Ubuntu make the perfect development platform for Qt and QML developers. Rick will show how the Ubuntu Software Center makes a great showcase for your paid or free apps for attracting users. Rick will end on why he sees a bright future for Qt/QML on Ubuntu.
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Rick Spencer is employed by Canonical, Inc. as the Director of Engineering for Ubuntu, one of the worlds most popular Linux Distributions on the Desktop and the Server. As Director, Rick is responsible for all the teams that create the Desktop and Server editions of Ubuntu. A programmer since childhood, Rick has a Master's Degree in Human Factors Engineering that included a specialization in the Psychology of Programming. Rick has applied this knowledge in diverse places such as managing a usability team for Microsoft's Visual Studio and other platforms within Microsoft. Some years back, a passion for Open Source software caused Rick to leave the proprietary software world to focus solely on Open Source projects. Since then, Rick has worked on diverse projects, though mostly related to Ubuntu. In his free time, Rick creates applications for Ubuntu as well projects to make application development easy and fun for new comers to Ubuntu application development.
Louis Gump Vice President CNN Mobile
Mobile News on a Global Scale, CNN
In this keynote, CNN's VP of Mobile Louis Gump will address changing consumer preferences for interaction with the news, and how CNN has expanded across platforms. As part of this overview, we will look behind the scenes at how CNN has used Qt and Symbian to expand its reach and relevance worldwide.
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Louis Gump is vice president of CNN Mobile, responsible for managing CNN's mobile business globally. Named to this position in Jully 2009, Gump is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta.
Recognized internationally as a seasoned leader in the mobile marketplace, Gump directs CNN's mobile strategy and development to meet consumer needs and grow overall reach, usage and revenue. In this capacity, Gump coordinates among divisions to deliver world-class content across multiple mobile platforms including mobile web, downloadable applications, video and messaging.
Before joining CNN, Gump worked at The Weather Channel, where he led their mobile business. Prior to joining The Weather Channel, Gump served as director of business development at ExpoExchange, business development manager at 3MC and consultant for the former Andersen Consulting.
Since 2003, Gump has served on the Board of Directors for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), where he is past global chairman as well as past global treasurer. Last year, he received MMA's first annual Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership.
Lars Knoll Qt Chief Architect Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
Qt Roadmap, Open Governance and Qt 5
In his keynote, Lars will talk about where he sees Qt heading within the next year. Open governance brings changes to how Qt will be developed in the future by giving developers a greater ability to influence where Qt, as a project, is heading in a more direct way than ever before. In 2012, the next major Qt version, Qt 5, is planned to be released under open governance. Qt 5 brings some larger changes in the Qt architecture, while promising to keep backwards compatibility. Lars will also cover the functionality which is being considered for the Qt roadmap.
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Lars is the Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project. He previously worked as the Chief Architect for ASF and led the Qt R&D organization with teams in Oslo, Berlin and Brisbane in Nokia. Lars had had different roles in former Trolltech's engineering organization, working his way up from software engineer to leading the engineering team in Oslo as Director before taking over the role as Director of Global R&D. Lars has been an active member of the KDE community and the architect behind KDE's html rendering library that formed the basis for the WebKit open source project. Lars holds a PhD in physics from the University of Heidelberg. A German national, he lives with his family in Oslo.
