How to get involved
Attend:
Keep your eyes peeled, by the end of July we'll be launching registration.
Contribute:
Our session suggestion form is now live. If you'd like to lead a session at Over the Air 2010. If you want to run a session covering any aspect of mobile technology, development, design / art or user experience, please visit the form and let us know by answering a few simple questions.
Sponsor:
The generous financial support of our sponsors is the key to keeping this great event free to attend, and there are levels for everybody - from Premium Sponsorship all the way to competition prizes. Drop us a note if you'd like to help us make it all happen!
About Over the Air
September 10th & 11th, 2010 - Imperial College London
Over the Air is a grass-roots mobile developer event that is completely unique in the mobile industry events calendar – it is free to attend, is hands-on in the style of hack-days and bar-camps, covers the cutting edge of current mobile development (as opposed to glossy future-speak or sales-pitches), and features bean bags, a big party and an overnight sleep-over.
There will also be a competition at the end of the event for the best categories of applications created during the event, with many great prizes to be won.
Venue Info
Over the Air is once again being held at Imperial College London. We've got full details on how you can get there on the Directions page.
The event will take place at the Imperial College's South Kensington Campus -
- Registration is in the ground floor of the Sherfield Building in the 'Tower Room
- Latecomers can register at the information desk on the 2nd floor of Sherfield
- Opening ceremonies are in the Great Hall in Sherfield
- Workshops are in neighbouring Huxley
Go to the Directions page for the map.
Sponsorship Info
On September 10th & 11th, 2010 we will be holding the third annual Over the Air mobile developer event.
Over the Air is a grass-roots hack-day style event that features workshops where attendees can roll up their sleeves to tinker with new platforms, operating systems, APIs and SDKs and tutorial sessions that feature real business cases and hands-on experience. Attendees are invited to stay overnight so that they can work on ideas, apps and widgets on the fly, to be entered into various competition categories and demo’ed on the second day. It’s a great vibe of bean bags, knowledge sharing, and heads-put together around circles of laptops and devices.
The audience are usually about 80% from the UK, 15% EU and 5% North America. The mix is largely mobile developers, designers and entrepreneurs but we also attract a large number of people from the web and software worlds who are starting to branch out into mobile.
Over the Air is an important antidote to the suit-stuffed formal mobile industry events calendar, which usually requires a hefty budget to be able to attend, and rarely gets down to the actual 'how to build it' or 'how to make it happen' level of detail. We rely entirely on the generosity of our sponsors to cover the costs of running the event, and in return, we do our best to provide a great opportunity to really engage with the mobile developer community and have collaborative conversations.
There are a lot of great opportunities to have a strong presence at the event, including physical space for branded conversation corners / lounges, hands-on time with attendees on the workshop programme, the setting of a challenge and prize for one of the competition categories, and much more on top for the Premium Sponsor.
If you'd like to be a key part of making such a great event possible, please contact anyone on the organising team (Dan, Matthew, Jo, Helen, & Margaret = @overtheair.org)
Lead a Session at Over the Air 2010!
Our session suggestion form is now live. If you'd like to lead a session at Over the Air 2010. If you want to run a session covering any aspect of mobile technology, development, design / art or user experience, please visit the form and let us know by answering a few simple questions.
Over the Air 2010 is Coming
Save the dates:
September 10-11, 2010
More transmissions to follow
A big thanks to all!
Over the Air is over, and it's time to decompress and resume life as normal (as normal as it ever was, that is).
We had an amazing two days, and hope you did as well! A big thanks go to all the competition participants, the Holodeck team, the workshop givers and presenters, our Keynote speakers, and of course all of those behind the scenes who helped make the whole event happen. You rock!
We'd love to get your suggestions for next year, so please ping us @ota09 or comment here. We'll also be posting various informative links (slides, photos, SDKs, competition apps, etc) so please send us whatever you've got!
There's a competing ota09 flikr stream of a cartoon conference, so please either use overtheair09 as your tag, or add your photos to the Over the Air Flikr Group
Speaker Announcement: Rick Fant
We're proud to announce that Rick Fant, Vodafone's "head of Internet Discovery," will deliver a keynote at Over the Air. Rick Fant as Head of Internet Discovery leads the marketing, development and deployment of consumer and developer services associated with internet access and internet enabled applications. Prior to Vodafone, Rick had a long career at Microsoft starting in application development and deployment; growing to server product development and marketing and evolving into managing product teams in the delivery of mobile applications and services. Rick gained an extensive background in software development and organization management with Tandem computers and US West communications.
Rick has been working to not only increase awareness around internet enabled applications, but he has also been driving the utilisation of standardised technologies and revenue opportunities for developers. By using initiatives such as the Joint Innovation Lab which brings together some of the largest operators in the world, it will make it easier for the ecosystem to develop, test and distribute their applications globally.
Surf the Mobile Internet – for real – and win a prize
We are very pleased to announce that there will be a Sega "Soul Surfer" game on site courteousy of our premium sponsor, OMTP-BONDI. Feel free throughout Friday and Saturday morning, during breaks and the party to show your surfing skills. A great prize is available to the surfer with the highest score during the two days. While you are there make sure you spend some time finding out about BONDI and how to create a great widget.
Premium Sponsorship Announcement – OMTP-BONDI
We are excited to confirm OMTP-BONDI as the Premium Sponsor of Over the Air!
With the support of its membership and in association with Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 Litmus and Perfecto Mobile, the BONDI initiative from OMTP will be brought to life during Over the Air.
BONDI is all about providing developers with a consistent set of interfaces which allow the development of web applications and widgets which can make use of mobile features such as messaging, contacts, and calendar. BONDI is designed to work across different platforms and the current Reference Implementation for Windows Mobile enables BONDI widgets to be created with ease.
With specific competition prizes for the best BONDI widgets including the great new Android G2 phone, do you have a BONDI widget to submit?
It is thanks to the financial support of our sponsors, that we are able to make this event completely free to attend.
Find out more: http://bondi.omtp.org
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