Join us at Nokia Developer Day in San Francisco on October 5, 2010 to learn more about Ovi Store as a new mobile distribution channel and opportunity in North America and how to take advantage of it and connect to millions of Nokia consumers in the US and around the world.

Get the inside track on the world-class Nokia Qt and Web SDK’s, exciting new incentives for developers and content owners to become Ovi Publishers, and to understand the scope of the opportunity in North America in 2011 on the new Symbian^3 devices, like the Nokia N8, and MeeGo devices.

Speaker: Purnima Kochikar, VP Forum Nokia

Speakers:
Anand Chandrasekhar, SVP and GM, Ultra Mobility Group, Intel
Hakan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson
Eric Klein, VP Technology Planning, Nokia

Moderator:
Don Clark, San Francisco Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

From geolocation services and supercomputers in your pocket, from the apps boom to augmented reality, it seems like the Internet isn’t about the desktop, it’s about carrying nearly infinite access to data, communications, and computation with you at all times. Right now we see that in the boom in smartphones, the silicon equivalent of the Swiss Army knife–combining the functions of phones, PCs, cameras, satellite navigation devices, game consoles, remote controls, e-readers, MP3 players and portable TVs and radios.

Will this be the key piece of technology in our lives and economy? What will that do to existing businesses? What solutions might emerge to overcome screen and keyboard size limitations? Will new interfaces and voice recognition dramatically evolve user interaction? How will new research into augmented reality and connected human networks add to mobile awareness? What does all this mean to the future of the computer?

Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

Nokia Speaker: Mike Manos, VP Hosting Operations Production

Nokia Speaker: Rob Taylor, Director, Forum Nokia

Theme: What are the development platforms available and what are the development and business considerations, market characteristics of Consumer and Enterprise mobile apps?

Nokia Speaker: Samir Agarwal, Head of MeeGo Operations

1:00pm – 1:45pm [Panel] Who Owns the User? With mobile computing moving to the cloud, a host of new mobile winners like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple and cool app developers such as Pandora and Yelp are benefiting from mobile payments. Can device makers and carriers, who used to own the user through the SIM card, remain relevant? You can bet they’ll find a way…

Panelists:
» Kevin Thau, Twitter, Director of Mobile
» Samir Agarwal, Nokia, Head of MeeGo Operations

June 11, Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf, 9:00am to 5pm

During the Qt Training day we will have a technical look on few Qt features that make the development of mobile Qt applications effective and help you in generating the “WOW!” effect. The event is an excellent opportunity for a developer to hear about the latest Qt tools and features – Nokia Qt SDK and the new Qt Mobility APIs. Participants can also try the features personally with hands-on sessions.

Additional information can be found at the registration page.

May 12, St Regis Hotel, San Francisco

Nokia Speaker: John Gardner, Nokia Growth Partners

2:15 to 2:55
VC Panel: Getting Funded in the new Mobile Economy
The art of securing funding has become more of a challenge in this post-recession economy. Business models around mobile entertainment content, apps, and content platforms have evolved over the past 5 years, thanks to the exploding growth of smartphone use and mobile application development. This panel will have an open discussion with our attendees about what business models work, what investors are looking for, new exit strategies, and what kind of funding options are available for mobile app developers, entertainment content producers and mobile tech firms.
Speakers:
David Zilberman – Comcast Interactive Digital
Hamet Watt – True Ventures/WV Labs
Toby Nuber – RBC Capital
John Malloy – Blue Run Ventures
John Gardner – Nokia Growth Partners

Speaker: Dr Ora Lassila, Principal Technologist, Nokia Services & Member of the Nokia CEO Technology Council

To meet with Dr Lassila, please contact karen lachtanski at nokia dot com.

June 2-3, Santa Clara Convention Center

June 2, 4:00 – 4:45
AR For Life and Beyond, Business Track – Ballroom H
How AR can save the Planet, Sean White – Nokia Research Center

June 2, 4:00 – 4:45
AR Goes to Hollywood, Production Track – Room 209-210
Ins and Outs of Implementing AR applications on Nokia Mobile Phones, Dave Murphy, Nokia Research Center

To speak to Nokia representatives please contact karen lachtanski at nokia dot com.