Category for 2009 Speakers

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 …

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Speaker Announcement: Ricardo Varela

Also reprising his role from last year will be Yahoo!’s Ricardo Varela. Ricardo, who joined Yahoo! in 2007, and his team are responsible for Yahoo!’s mobile product development, working to provide Yahoo!s community of users with the best possible mobile first experience.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, …

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Speaker Announcement: Henny Swan

We’re pleased to announce that Henny Swan of Opera will be joining us at Over the Air, speking on “Universal access across devices: can the mobile Web be made accessible?”
Henny has focused on accessibility and usability since the late 90’s when she started out working for …

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Speaker Announcement: Scott Weiss

Mobile Usability expert Scott Weiss will be presenting a session at Over the Air entitled “Open Source User Experience?” Scott is passionate about mobile user experience. He looks after the user interface of the Symbian operating system. He chairs the UI Council and provides vision …

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Speaker Announcement: François Daoust

Are you spending precious time testing your content on mobile devices? Juggling between Nokia, Apple, Google’s APIs? Playing with PhoneGap? Tiptoeing to application stores?
Standards do not always look good… but they are here to help! Learn how the online W3C mobileOK Checker service may help …

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Speaker Announcement: Tom Hume

Tom Hume will be leading an interactive session titled “Many Paths up the Mobile Mountain.”
Says Tom: “It’s an exploration of an iterative design process. Working in small teams, you’ll go through two rounds of designing, testing, and evolving a real-world application for mobile phones. The …

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Speaker Announcement: Phil Archer

Representing the W3C, Phil Archer will present a session for web designers who will learn how to transfer their desktop skills to mobile.
Phil Archer joined the W3C team working on the Mobile Web Initiative in February 2009, specifically to work on developing and delivering training …

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Speaker Announcement: Stefana Broadbent

We’re excited to announce that Stefana Broadbent will present a session at Over the Air on “How private communication is transforming the workplace.”
Stefana Broadbent is a digital ethnographer. In the last 20 years she has been investigating the evolution of digital activities both at  home …

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Speaker Announcement: Younghee Jung

Over the Air is pleased to announce that Nokia design researcher Younghee Jung will be leading a session entitled “In search for natural interaction: design research for mobile gestural interaction.”
As sensor technology becomes more advanced and affordable, there is an increasing interest in incorporating ‘natural’ ways …

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