CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
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Brian Fling
Brian Fling is the conference chair for Future of Mobile. Brian has worked in the web for over 10 years. He began his web career producing the first animated series distributed through the Internet. Over the years he has worked in every facet of interactive design and development, managing both enterprise web projects as well as small web teams.
Brian has also been a leader in the field of mobile experience for over five years. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help design and develop their mobile experiences. Brian is a frequent speaker and author on the issues of mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience.
He has recently authored the dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide, the first free publication to cover mobile web design and development from start to finish. Brian also runs mobiledesign.org one of the largest online communities focused on mobile design
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Tony Fish
Tony Fish is an experienced and professionally qualified executive. Tony has worked with numerous organizations on strategy and implications of market change. He has particular expertise in the development of innovation through partnership which has enabled him to build an enviable professional reputation, with a wide and diverse professional network.
Tony Fish is known for delivery, probing questioning, clear decision making, simple no-nonsense attitude, robust financial views and governance controls. He has an excellent grasp of strategic and economic issues relating to growth businesses, their patterns for survival and brings an innovative flare to delivery, deal execution and fund raising.
Mobile Web 2.0 is the second book Tony has written and provides a detailed strategic analysis of the changing relationships between the mobile, TV, Web and print markets as the balance of power changes.
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Matt Millar
Matt Millar is Director of Mobile and Devices EMEA at Adobe. In his current role he is working to create new business ecosystems around Flash with Operators, Handset manufacturers and content providers in the EMEA market.
Matt began this role after Adobe acquired Mobile Innovation, the company he co-founded in 2002 and of which he was CTO. Mobile Innovation was a leading designer, developer and integrator of user interface, user experience and software application platforms for mobile devices.
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Simon Rockman
Simon Rockman is the head of requirements and applications for the entry platform in Sony Ericsson. This means he looks at what people and networks want (and what they say they want which might not be the same things). He’s always on the look out for new ideas, applications and use cases.
Before that he was “Creative Experience Director” at Motorola. And before Motorola Simon founded What Mobile magazine. His time on the magazine enabled him to use hundreds of phones and meet many of the best, worst and smartest people in the mobile phone industry. He’s proud to call a lot of them friends and he’s very well connected. His areas of particular interest are consumer trends, user interface and gaming.
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Luca Passani
Luca Passani is an Italian software engineer with many years experience in Web and Mobile Internet development. Prior to joining AdMob, where he currently works, Luca has spent seven years with Openwave Systems and taken part in projects for Telecoms in the US and Europe. Luca is known to the community of developers for creating popular software tools such as WURFL and WALL. In addition to that, Luca has authored articles and co-authored books on Mobile development. Recently, Luca published the so-called GAP guidelines, Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web, which helps developers create mobile sites with minimal effort.
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Andrea Trasatti
Andrea started developing the first WAP sites in late 1999 when the first WAP phone was about to be released. Since then he has been developing some of the most innovative services for mobile devices.
From 2002 until very recently, Andrea has been maintainer and co-owner of the WURFL project, the de-facto standard for device databases. He is now Director for Device Initiatives at dotMobi. Andrea is also an active member of the W3C and author of one of the documents that will be published in the next year by the Device Descriptions Working Group.
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Steve Page
Recognising the potential of the mobile phone as a distribution channel, Steve Page founded Mobile Commerce in 1999. The original vision is now a profitable business and the company provides search services to Vodafone, O2, Orange and T-Mobile over SMS, WAP & 3G. In addition the company has live services in the USA.Mobile Commerce works with an ever expanding list of branded content partners (e.g. Yahoo!, MSN, The AA, Lastminute.com).
The company has a Monetised Search Box solution that allows any mobile destination to monetise their users and this solution is live with Vodafone, Orange and O2 making the company is now a major player in the Mobile Search arena. Steve has worked with mobile data since 1997.
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Julie Strawson
Monotype Imaging’s ESQ® Mobile brand of fonts includes more than 200 new designs engineered for exceptional display quality on mobile phones. ESQ Mobile fonts feature designs from the Monotype®, Linotype® and ITC® typeface libraries. Julie has held director-level posts with a diverse range of international technology companies and has been centrally involved in bringing exciting new technologies to the European market including speech recognition, machine translation and business to business e-commerce. Working for Monotype Imaging, a global leader in text imaging solutions for almost 6 years, she has a love of design which she believes is vital to the success of any technology.
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Tom Hume
Tom is MD of Future Platforms, a small but perfectly formed Brighton-based software company specialising in delightful mobile experiences. Their work runs from design consultancy through to full mobile product development: mobile community services, location-based gaming, and participation TV are what get us excited at the moment. In the last 6 months FP have carried out projects for Nokia, the BBC, BAA, 3, Robbie Williams, and a number of startups you haven't heard of... yet.
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Charles McCathieNevile
Charles McCathieNevile is the Chief Standards Officer at Opera Software. Before starting at Opera in 2005 he worked for about six years as a member of the W3C Staff Team, where he specialized in Semantic Web and in Accessibility. He has also worked extensively on internationalization of the web and on how to develop web content and applications for the wide range of devices which can access it. He has worked with hypertext systems since the early 1980s, is interested in learning languages and seeing new places, and has a degree in medieval history.
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Daniel Appelquist
Daniel K. Appelquist is a senior technology strategist at Vodafone Group, where he works on Web and Internet projects and industry activities. He helped to create dotMobi and the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, where he chairs the Mobile Web Best Practices working group. He is also the founder of Mobile Monday London and the Mobile 2.0 conferences, and has spoken on the mobile Web at numerous conferences and events, including Web 2.0 Summit, South by Southwest Interactive and the Future of Web Apps (London).
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Guillaume Peersman
Guillaume is CTO at Dialogue and has been involved with mobile messaging since 1996. Dialogue was established in 1994 and is solely focused on mobile, having wealth of experience in the mobile arena and a clear vision of the future of mobile content in both entertainment and business sector. Guillaume was awarded a PhD in 2003 for the design of Dialogue’s core gateway architecture and has since been involved with both commercial and technical aspects of Dialogue which is now a leading mobile services provider with offices in Sheffield, London and Sydney.
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Marek Pawlowski
Marek leads the development of PMN's conferences and research services. Since founding PMN in 1995, Marek has focused the company's activities on helping the mobile telecoms industry to improve its understanding of customers and translate that understanding into better user experience and increased profitability. In addition to his extensive research portfolio for PMN, he is widely published in print and digital media, a frequent speaker at international conferences and provides commentary for leading broadcast channels such as the BBC and CNN.
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Dave Burke
Dave Burke is an engineering manager within Google's mobile team where he leads efforts across a wide range of application, infrastructure, and platform initiatives. Prior to Google, Dave was a pioneer in driving the technology behind next generation interactive speech and video systems for the telecoms industry. Dave is editor of VoiceXML and related W3C and IETF standards and has authored a book on speech processing published by Wiley. Previously, Dave was the CTO and cofounder of Voxpilot. Dave holds a PhD, MEngSc and BE from University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Prashant Agarwal
Prashant is VP of Product Management at Refresh Mobile. He has over 10 years' experience in web and mobile products. Prior to joining Refresh Mobile, he held a number of senior positions with Yahoo! including European Product Manager for Mail and Messenger. He also launched Yahoo!'s first official Series 60 IM application and its official FIFA World Cup 2006 mobile application. Previous experience also includes roles with Dow Jones, CNET and Beyond.com as well as launching Techdirt Wireless - a popular daily wireless industry news blog - and co-founding the early mobile multimedia innovator Stick Networks.
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Barbara Ballard
Barbara Ballard has been working on mobile services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998, helping Sprint launch such sites as MapQuest, AOL, and Yahoo! She contends that mobile user experience goes beyond simply designing for the small screen, and regularly talks at Mobile Monday events to help industry developers and marketers improve their usability. She has recently published "Designing the Mobile User Experience" to help user experience professionals make the transition to mobile.
