App Shootout at Nokia World 2011: http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/ lead by Jussi Nevanlinna from Nokia featuring
John Waibochi from Virtual City
Orosz Bálint from Distinction
Loïc Le Meur from Seesmic
Pranay Chulet from Quikr
Renan Lima from MusiGames
Rabia Garib from ToffeeTV.com and
Marco Hauprich from HRS Hotel Reservation Service.
Nokia World is an annual conference and exhibition devoted to all things Nokia, that took place this year on the 26th and 27th October in London. The two days were packed with captivating talks, inspiring discussions, exciting surprises, fruitful networking. The event offered visitors to experience all new mobile products, services and innovations from Nokia and partners.
Jussi Nevanlinna leads Nokia's developer product marketing globally - across all markets and platforms. Previously Mr. Nevanlinna has held number of senior product marketing roles covering both consumer and business to business products.
John Waibochi is a Kenyan born technology entrepreneur who has been in the Tech industry for 11 years. He is the CEO at Virtual City who specializes in the development, customization & implementation of innovative mobility solutions. John has grown the Virtual Group into a multifaceted mobile enterprise solutions company and has won several accolades from various quarters over the years.
Bálint Orosz is the CEO and co-founder of Distinction, a mobile development company focusing on delivering highly interactive experiences on the Windows Phone 7 platform. As a designer by heart, and developer by education Bálint creates a perfect bridge between developers and designers which quickly made Distinction highly respected for the quality of their work. Their two most popular apps, Cocktail Flow, and AppFlow are both in the top 10 rated apps on the Windows Phone marketplace. Distinction has a strong commitment for the platform, and drives constant innovation on Windows Phone 7 and the Metro design language.
Loïc Le Meur is a serial entrepreneur based in San Francisco. Loïc is the founder of Seesmic a popular app that helps enterprise and individuals manage their internal and external social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce Chatter. Seesmic allows them to listen to and engage with their online communities more efficiently. Seesmic is available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone7 and other platforms.
Prior to moving to Mumbai to build Quikr, Pranay spent over 11 years in New York where his experience spanned across management consulting and entrepreneurship. As a Principal at Booz & Co. in New York, he helped media companies evaluate and launch new digital businesses. Subsequently, he founded Excellere, a company focused on the online education sector. Earlier in his career, he incubated an online venture focused on lead generation for small businesses at Walker Digital, Priceline's incubator. Pranay graduated from IIM Calcutta in India with a Gold Medal and earned a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi prior to that.
Renan began his career at Daccord Music Software as a music software developer. He graduated in computer science at UFPE (Recife, Brazil) in 2008, the same year when MusiGames Studio was founded. He joined MusiGames team, working as a game developer in several successful titles. In 2009 he was the technical lead of Drums Challenge project, MusiGames first mobile app. Drums Challenge became one of the worldwide bestselling music games across multiple platforms, including the Nokia Store.
Rabia Garib is the Editor-in Chief of CIO magazine in Pakistan and has been a Technology Trade journalist in the country since 1998. She has been working with various stakeholders across social communities to drive Social Media growth in the country, and led the team that curated the country's First Blog Awards. Her latest project is to use the power of web and mobile platforms to encourage the learning of languages through music and storytelling in an e-learning concept called ToffeeTV.com
Since April 2011 Mr. Hauprich is heading up the Business Unit "Mobile & New Media" at HRS, Europe's leading hotel portal. Born in 1965 in Bonn, Mr. Hauprich is an expert in mobile technology. After receiving his degree in Industrial Design, Mr. Hauprich was the owner and managing director of the multimedia company EigenArt. During his seven years as Senior Project Manager at Deutsche Telekom AG, he managed many innovative online applications that received renowned awards. From October 2007, he worked as Vice President Innovations at Deutsche Post AG where he was generating new digital and mobile products and services.
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