Speakers

Keynote speakers

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    Neil Hand
    VP of Personal Computing Products
    Dell

    Our opening keynote, Hand will be one of the top managers directly responsible for the success of its Windows 8 tablets, the new offerings the company hopes will help it capture market share in the changing laptop-to-tablets landscape. One of four manufacturers out of the gate with a Windows RT device, the company is looking to Hand, with his background in enterprise systems and product management, to help it generate industry buzz again with its tablet program. Neil Hand will discuss the rapidly evolving tablet market and how Dell hopes to gain some newfound success in the post PC-era.


  • Milind Gadekar
    CEO & Co-founder
    CloudOn

    Milind Gadekar is the CEO and Co-founder of CloudOn, a hot cloud-based mobile workspace that enables workers to use Microsoft Office applications on tablets. Its innovative app makes life easier for users to access files on Box and Dropbox, two of the largest cloud storage services. One day after its release earlier this year, CloudOn was the number one app in the App Store. And just this summer it went international, launching in 60 countries.

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    Santiago Becerra
    Chairman, CEO & Co-founder
    MeLLmo (Roambi)

    Santiago Becerra is the Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of Roambi by MeLLmo. Roambi is a BI app that transforms data into dashboard-style mobile analytics for the iPad. CNN Money calls its one of the 5 best apps for business. No wonder. When it hit the market, it dazzled users with its gorgeous graphics, which finally made it exciting to look at data. The company jolted Silicon Valley last fall when esteemed VC Sequoia Capital led its first round of international funding of $30 million.


  • Seth Harris
    GM of Breadcrumb, POS
    Groupon

    Publicly-held Groupon recently announced its move to offer a commerce platform with an iPad-based POS for merchants. And who better to heading up that effort than Seth Harris. He founded Breadcrumb, a sales, order management and reporting system for hospitality businesses—including restaurants, bars and cafes. After Groupon bought his business in May, Harris was charged with leading the largest global deal company’s effort to become a major player in the POS market using iPad as the critical component.

Speakers



  • Ben Bajarin
    Principal Analyst
    Creative Strategies

    Ben Bajarin is a Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, a strategy consulting firm in Silicon Valley.

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    Carl Howe
    Vice President
    Yankee Group

    Carl Howe is Vice President of Yankee Group’s Data Sciences group and also leads its research into mobile devices.

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    Gautham Pandiyan
    Director, Sales & Marketing
    Mi-Co

    Gautham Pandiyan is the Director of Sales & Marketing efforts at Mi-Co, which creates scalable data capture forms for tablets.


  • Jason Richelson
    CEO and Founder
    ShopKeep POS

    Jason Richelson is CEO and Founder of a cloud-based iPad point of sale service for retailers.

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    Jordan Stolper
    CEO
    StoryDesk

    Jordan Stolper is CEO of StoryDesk, which is the leading provider of iPad presentation apps to sales and marketing teams in industries ranging from Financial Services to Fashion.


  • Mark Emery
    Mobile Subject Matter Expert
    Definition 6

    In his role as Mobile Subject Matter Expert, Mark is responsible for creating mobile strategies for Definition 6 clients and shaping the agency’s burgeoning mobile practice.


  • Andy Thompson
    Director
    Apperian

    Andy Thompson is a Director at Apperian, a cloud-based Mobile App Management company that helps organizations with the spectrum of IT challenges in supporting users and their business applications.


  • Damien Bracken
    Dean of Admissions
    Berklee College of Music

    Damien and his team of college recruiters created a customized audition and interview FileMaker Go app for iPad, using the FileMaker Platform, which has assisted the college to vet over 7000 students annually.


  • Jerry Raymond
    President
    Datamation Systems

    Datamation Systems are an innovator in iPad and tablet security, storage, charging and syncing, as well as one of the largest suppliers in the US of physical security devices that prevent the theft of computers and other office equipment.


  • Josh Koppel
    Founder & CCO
    ScrollMotion

    Josh Koppel, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of ScrollMotion, one of the leading providers of mobile applications for the iPad and iphone, is responsible for the creative direction of the company.


  • Michael Caralis
    Associate Director Strategic Sales
    Verizon Wireless

    Michael Caralis is the Associate Director of National Strategic Sales at Verizon. His organization is focused on strategy development, sales, operations and delivering services and solutions required by enterprise & government entities.


  • Kyp Walls
    Director, Product Management
    Panasonic

    Kyp is Director, Product Management, for Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, manufacturer of Panasonic Toughbook and Toughpad mobile computers.


  • Ravi Bhatt
    CEO & Co-founder
    Branchfire

    Ravi Bhatt is CEO and Co-Founder of Branchfire, the developer of iAnnotate PDF, a robust PDF productivity solution for tablets.


  • Mark Holleran
    President & COO
    Xplore Technologies

    Mark Holleran is President of Xplore Technologies, a company that manufactures rugged tablet PCs.


  • Tristan Louis
    Co-founder & CEO
    Keepskor

    Tristan Louis is a mobile veteran who has helped companies like Microsoft, Nokia, and others with their mobile strategies. The analyst helps shape the market for both hardware manufacturers and mobile software developers.


  • Aaron Freimark
    CTO
    Tekserve

    Tekserve has architected and supported Apple solutions for NBC Olympics, Cablevision, Showtime, LaGuardia and Minneapolis/St. Paul airports, and hundreds of other enterprises big and small. Aaron is also the founder of Xsanity.com and EnterpriseiOS.com.


  • Bruce Porter
    Director of Marketing Communications
    Hayward Pool Products

    In his current role Bruce is responsible for all Global Branding efforts as well as marketing programs, social media, web architecture, Totally Hayward Rewards Program, Coop Program and trade shows.


  • Prasant Varghese
    Product Manager
    Icreon Tech

    While at Icreon Tech, Prasant’s management of app development has garnered national attention from the press as well as from platform creators like Google and Apple. Under his leadership, these mobile applications have seen a 2,000% adoption rate growth.


  • Indrajit Sabharwal
    Chairman & Managing Director
    Simmtronics Semiconductors Ltd

    Indrajit is Chairman & Managing Director of Simmtronics, one of the largest manufacturers of tablets in the world with a capacity of 400,000 tablets per month and five manufacturing facilities worldwide. The Simmtronics XPAD has been called the “Worlds Most Affordable Tablet.”


  • Michael Rothrock
    Founder & VP of Product
    ionGrid

    Michael is founder and VP of Product of ionGrid, a leader in Mobile Information Management, providing access to business applications, documents, and email/PIM securely on mobile devices.


  • Juan Rodriguez
    Senior Product Marketing Manager
    Kensington

    Juan is responsible for the company’s global media tablet and smartphone accessory business.


  • Derek Owen
    Business Development
    Zenprise

    Zenprise is a leader in mobile device management with true end-to-end mobile security and data leakage prevention that protects mobile enterprises


  • Paul Fisher
    Associate CIO
    Seton Hall University

    Paul Fisher enables his employer to deploy tablets to its students.