Category for 2010 Speakers

TweetALondonCab: Cabbies go mobile – what next?

Here is a chance to both show your love for London and use your knowledge of mobile to change a very basic part of living in in this city: getting a cab. This is an area that is ready for some real mobile innovation, and …

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Keynote Announcement: Sir Tim Berners-Lee to speak on Open Data

We’re extremely excited to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be delivering a keynote talk on Saturday at Over the Air. Tim has been a vociferous proponent of open data, especially in government, and will be talking about what open data means for mobile developers.
A graduate …

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Speaker Announcement: Imperial’s Brian Fuchs and Vasa Curcin on mHealth

Imperial College’s Social Computing Group (fka Internet Centre) has been one of the key supporters of Over the Air since our first event in 2008. This year Brian Fuchs and Vasa Curcin from the SCG are going to present a session on mobile health. Increasingly, …

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Speaker Announcement: Data.gov.uk’s Richard Stirling

We’re very excited to announce that, in line with our focus on open data and the possibilities it opens up for the mobile developers, Richard Stirling, Head of Making Public Data Public and data.gov.uk will be delivering a session at this year’s Over the Air.
Richard is …

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Speaker Announcement: Nokia’s Petro Soininen on JavaScript inside Nokia phones

Petro will be hosting a no-nonsense session on getting JavaScript to work on the very large portfolio of Nokia devices, touching on developing and distributing applications that also include Flash, and a peek into Nokia’s JavaScript future.
Petro’s Chief Engineer tasks at Forum Nokia include bridging …

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Keynote Announcement: Nokia’s Pawan Gandhi

We’re please announce our Saturday keynote for this year’s Over the Air: Nokia’s Pawan Gandhi.
Working with Nokia as Director, Business Operations for Ovi Life tools, Emerging Markets services, since 2008. This role has given Pawan an opportunity to get deep insights on the needs and …

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Speaker Announcement: Paul Coulton Returns to Over the Air

In 2008, Paul Coulton presented on Location-Aware Apps. In 2009, he returned to present on Mobile Games as Social Information Appliances. We’re very pleased to announced that Paul will be returning this year to “explore the far reaches of the mobile interaction continuum.”
Says Paul:
This talk …

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Speaker Announcement: O2′s Richard Spence on “Hacking with #Blue”

Richard Spence (@spugamola) will be running a technical session on an experimental service called #Blue, which is a place where users can automatically store all of their text messages sent and received. O2 have an API for this they would like to tempt developers to …

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Speaker Announcement: Ricardo Varela and Kasey Chappelle on Digital Privacy

We’re glad to be welcoming back Ricardo Varela, joining new face Kasey Chappelle to present about a key topic for today’s mobile developers: digital privacy.
Facebook, Google, Zynga, Flurry – companies that have made the news for lots of good reasons, and a few very bad …

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Richard Vahrman returns to Over the Air to present “Bombs Away”: A Location-Based Game that WILL Make You Run

Gone are the days when you can saunter around a GPS based treasure hunt. Locomatrix’s Richard Vahrman will present a team-based game where speed is critical – it’s Jack Bauer meets the Hurt Locker. Of interest to the attendees will be, how they came to create the …

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