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Keynote Speakers
The Evans Data Developer Relations Conference will feature professionals from industry leading companies. Here is a sample of what you will learn from our stellar keynote presenters:
John Andrews (View Bio)
President & CEO
Evans Data Corporation
Developer Programs: **Understanding the ROI Balancing Act
John will present key findings from recent research which examines the key performance metrics being used by the top developer program professionals and how these may be applied to your organization.
Bio:
John F. Andrews is the President and CEO of Evans Data Corporation. Andrews has spent over 25 years in market research and IT-related businesses, and was the CEO of both public and private companies. Previously, as CIO and President of CSX Corporation, he was nominated "CIO of the Year" by InformationWeek and was the recipient of InternetWeek's Visionary Award. Prior to CSX, Andrews held positions at GTE as VP and GM of its Health, Government and Telecommunications Systems business units. He was the CEO of Giga Information Group (GIGA) up to and during its acquisition by Forrester Research (FORR) in 2002. Andrews received his MBA from the University of Puget Sound and a BA in finance from Whitworth College.
Prior to CSX, Andrews held a number of executive positions at the telecommunications giant GTE where he was vice president and general manager of its Health Systems, Government Systems and Telecommunications Systems business units. Additionally, he held senior management positions in information technology, finance, marketing and field operations.
James Reinders (View Bio)
Director of Marketing and Sales
Intel Software Development Products
Intel
How to appeal to software developers in the multicore era
Staying current is a critical element in having effective developer programs. Multicore and the upcoming manycore processors represent significant change for our industry. Learn what you can and should be doing to help software developers with this transition. You will come away with a better understanding of this trend and it implications. You will be able to draw your own conclusions about what has been called the 'biggest sea of change' for software in decades. Learn what it means when some say that 'scaling' is the next free lunch. James will highlight Intel's use of community forums, customer loyalty programs, and channel programs to increase returns while staying relevant during this shift. Don't miss the chance to get a very current view of where we are, where we are going, and what you can do to better appeal and satisfy software developers seeking solutions.
Bio:
James Reinders is the Director of Marketing and Sales for Intel Software Development Products. James has played an instrumental role in the rise of Intel to a recognized leader in software development products. James is also the author of some popular technical books including the Threading Building Blocks Nutshell book from O'Reilly Press. James has decades of experience with parallel systems including having worked on groundbreaking compilers, innovative architectures such as the systolic arrays WARP and iWarp, and the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red).
Patrick Chanezon (View Bio)
API Evangelist
Google
Google Opening Up to Developers: From 3 to 40 APIs in 2 years
In the past 2 years Google has gone from offering 3 SOAP APIs to its core services, Ads and Search, to more than 40 APIs using various technologies (REST, Ajax, Java) and covering a wide array of developer needs, with two main themes: giving developers programmatic access to Google services, and making the web better through standards and open source offerings (GWT, Gears). In 2007 Google started cooperating with other industry players to create new standard platforms in areas where they were needed: OpenSocial for social applications and Android for Mobile. During these 2 years Google has grown a team dedicated to developer relations.
Bio:
Patrick Chanezon has been an API Evangelist at Google since 2005. These, days his main interests are the OpenSocial API and social software, Google APIs, REST and Ajax, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP, and Python. Previously he had been working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of the ROME - Atom and RSS utilities in java open source project. More information can be found on his blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com. Patrick is French, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguette and stinky cheese while wearing a beret. Apart from programming and reading books his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.
Mark Yolton (View Bio)
Senior Vice President, SAP Community Network
SAP
Developer Networks: Danger and Opportunity in Times of Crisis and Prosperity
Whether your company is thriving or struggling in the current economic
environment, an active developer network should be part of your
comprehensive business strategy. And in times of feast and of famine,
active developer communities can pose opportunities if orchestrated well
and dangers if mishandled. Using the experience of SAP - which has a
thriving developer network of 1.5 million members in 200 countries and
territories - learn how might you execute programs, policies, and
practices to maximize the upside benefits of loyal collaborators and
minimize the risks of a vocal and active core of technologists.
Bio:
Mark Yolton brings more than 20 years of experience to his current role of Senior Vice President for SAP's Community Network. In this role, Mr. Yolton leads the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and Business Process Expert (BPX) communities, which he is charged with strengthening in order to deepen and accelerate adoption of the SAP platform, products, and services for the benefit of SAP and its ecosystem of customers and partners. More than one million community members from more than 200 countries and territories engage very actively online and at community events worldwide.
Prior to joining SAP, Mr. Yolton worked at PeopleSoft managing PeopleSoft.com and the core aspects of its customer and partner portals. Following PeopleSoft's merger with Oracle, he served as Senior Director of Oracle's Web-based marketing activities, where he was responsible for managing Oracle.com, the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), and the employee portal MyOracle (MyO). Previously, Mr Yolton served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Sun Microsystems, and at various roles with Unisys Corporation and The Prudential.
Srikanth Raju (View Bio)
Director of Marketing, Forum Nokia
Nokia
Activating the Long Tail in the Era of Mobile Services
The developer community's importance as a source of innovation and value has never been greater. As mobile devices become more powerful, developing for mobile platforms means more than just developing for a device. Some of today's most popular platforms offer compelling opportunities in web and Internet services, as well.
In this keynote, Srikanth will discuss key "game changers" that are helping to usher in a new era of innovation in mobile services and what it means for cross platform development (hint: it's more important than ever).
The keynote will end with specific case studies from the field that show that these services aren't just for a select few. They are being built for and used by people all over the world, in emerging and emerged markets alike.
Bio:
Srikanth Raju is the Director of Product Marketing in Nokia's developer organization - Forum Nokia. In this role, Srikanth's team is responsible for driving preference for Nokia's technologies and platforms amongst a global developer audience producing compelling 3rd party services and software resulting in unparalleled consumer experience across Nokia devices. Prior to this role, Srikanth was managing Forum Nokia's regional technical services operations leading technical services teams in Americas, APAC, China and EMEA.
Prior to joining Nokia, Srikanth worked as Java and Wireless Technology evangelist at Sun's developer evangelism and market development organization, where he played a key role in developer strategy and market development in the emerging wireless developer space to drive developer adoption of the wireless java platforms. Prior to joining Sun, Srikanth was at Oracle and Borland in various management, engineering and product management roles.
Jean Elliott (View Bio)
Senior Director, Cloud Computing
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Back to School
What does it take to make the grade with the academic community as part of your developer relations program? And why should you bother?
Bio:
Jean Elliott is the Senior Product Director for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She has held a variety of leadership roles in product marketing, business planning and strategic analysis during more than a decade with the company. For the past year she has led a global initiative focused on attracting developers to Sun and its technologies. During that time she has also played an active role in Sun's developer programs for academia.
Previously, Jean managed Sun's product marketing for the core Java Platform and its open source development practices, Java Card, and the emerging Real-Time and Embedded Java businesses. Prior to Sun, Jean founded and managed the Quality Assurance Group for Gensym Corporation, a company whose software is used to automate mission-critical decisions in real time.
Jean holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a BA in Philosophy and French from Trinity College.
Christy Wyatt (View Bio)
Vice President, Software Applications and Ecosystem
Motorola
Beyond a Buzzword: How the Industry Is Embracing Open Source with Android
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