Confirmed Speakers:

 Cha Li

Co-Founder and Managing General Partner

 

 

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Wen Chu,
CEO, Great Wall Club

文 厨 Wen Chu
长城会 CEO

As a serial entrepreneur in mobile Internet, Wenchu successfully sold his 1st company to a Nasdaq listed company in 2004. He founded Moabc in 2005, and made it as a leading mobile community with +10 million users. Great Wall Club was founded by Wenchu in Mar.2008. He speaks Chinese, and English.

文厨具有移动互联网行业多年从业经验，2004年其创立首家公司Clickcom被美国Nasdaq上市公司并购；2005年，其创立并打造了国内领先的手机社区网站摩网；2008年，其发起成立了移动互联网长城会。

 

 

Drew Ianni

Founder President, AppNation

 

 

Mihir Shah

President and CEO, Tapjoy

Mihir Shah is President and CEO of Tapjoy, Inc. He joined the company in December, 2009 as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing with him more than 17 years of online advertising and gaming industry experience as a top-level executive.
Prior to joining Tapjoy, Shah was Vice President, Ad Network for RockYou, a  leading provider of applications and widgets across the social media space, with application properties on major social networks including Facebook, MySpace and Hi5. In a short time, Shah grew the company’s revenue by more than 500% and more than quadrupled gross margin. He was responsible for the 15 billion monthly ad impressions, as well as sales, account management, performance marketing, analytics and publisher management. Mihir also founded CookEatShare.com, a vertical social network catering to home cooks and professional chefs. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and General manager for Direct Selling Solutions at QuinStreet, the largest performance marketing firm in the country. Earlier, Mihir was President and CEO of Liquid Software, a Sutter Hill Ventures backed enterprise application integrator. Mihir earned his BA in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University.

 

 

Dean Tang
CEO, ABBYY

Dean Tang is the founder and CEO of ABBYY USA, a fully-owned subsidiary of ABBYY Software House, Inc., and a 19-year veteran in the optical character recognition (OCR) industry. Tang developed the first OCR technology, and co-founded OCRON Inc, serving as key developer of Recore OCR SDK and Perceive Personal OCR software. Tang holds a master’s degree, Math/Computer Science from San Jose State University and a bachelor’s degree, Banking/Insurance from Feng Cha University, Taiwan.

Dean Tang是美国ABBYY公司的创始人和首席执行官. 并是一个有19年经验在光学字符识别（OCR）业的老将。唐第一个开发了OCR技术，并共同创办OCRON公司，是Recore的OCR SDK和感知个人的OCR软件的关键开发者。唐拥有从圣何塞州立大学数学/计算机科学硕士学位，和台湾Feng Cha University银行/保险的学士学位。

 

 

Trevor Cornwell
CEO, AppBackr

Trevor Cornwell is the founder and CEO of appbackr inc, the first and only digital market exchange for mobile applications that solves common funding and distribution problems in the growing app market.A veteran entrepreneur, Cornwell has founded multiple innovative companies which brought efficiency to existing markets. Among those, Skyjet was the first online reservation system for business jets and sold to Bombardier in 2000. Embarkons served as an idea marketplace which led to the genesis of appbackr as a formal wholesale marketplace.

特雷弗康威尔是appbackr公司的创始人和 总裁. 在移动应用交易市场中是解决了第一个共同筹资和分配问题. 作为一个老企业家, 康威尔已成立多个创新型企业，给现有市场带来效率。其中Skyjet是第一家商用飞机网上预订系统并在2000年出售给Bombardier。 Embarkons是一种思想交易市场, 也是appbackr成为一个正式的批发市场原因。

 

 

Joe Jasin
Managing Director,DNA Partners

Joe Jasin has built an international career within the wireless telecommunications and digital media distribution industries, establishing a cross-border depth of USA – Asia experience that includes: mobile internet, venture capital, and corporate development.
He currently serves as Managing Director of DNA Investment Partners, LLC an early stage venture investment firm.  DNA is investing in companies based in the USA and China, industries centric to IP Communications and Digital Media Distribution.
He recently served as Vice President of Corporate Development for SK Telecom, in Seoul Korea. Joe Jasin is also the founder of ICE Wireless, Wireless Blueprint.  Prior to those activities, he was at Sprint/Nextel as a Director of Product and Business Development. He is chair of the Software Development Forum’s Mobile internet group, formal advisor to the U.S. State Department’s – APEC Office of Commerce, and a founding member of CTIA’s Wireless Internet Caucus.

Joe Jasin已在无线通信和数字媒体分销行业内建立了国际职业生涯，深度积累了跨美国和亚洲的职业经验，其中包括：移动互联网，风险投资，企业发展。
他目前担任的DNA投资合伙人，一个初期创业投资公司董事总经理。DNA在美国和中国投资的公司以IP通信和数字媒体分发为中心。
他最近曾担任SK电信公司企业发展副总裁，在韩国首尔。Jasin也是 ICE Wireless, Wireless Blueprint的创始人。这些活动之前，他是在Sprint/ Nextel公司的产品及业务发展总监。他是移动互联网软件开发论坛的小组主席，前美国国务院 -亚太经合组织工商总局的正式顾问，和CTIA的无线互联网核心小组的创始成员。

 

 

Bin Hu

Senior Director of America Application and Software Division, Huawei

Bin Hu is an innovation thought-leader and technology executive with extensive experiences in mobile cloud computing. Being the Senior Director of Americas Software and Application Division at Huawei Technologies (USA), he is responsible for technology scouting and business incubation of innovative software, application and service in mobile cloud.

He is currently the Chairman of Cloud Computing Task Force of Open Mobile Alliance.

Before joining Huawei, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Motorola, focusing on technology innovation and business initiatives of mobile software solutions.

He was instrumental on Mobile Instant Messaging and Presence (IMPS), SCREEN3 / Dynamic Content Delivery (DCD), Mobile Advertising (MobAd), etc. during his tenure in Motorola.

Prior to Motorola, he was the Senior Manager of Technology in Walt Disney Internet Group, pioneering Disney’s mobile content technology, solution and business. His experience also includes the research engineer in NTT Multimedia Communication Lab.

 

 

Linda Jiang

VP Business Development, Umeng Technology Limited

 

 

Powen Ko

CTO LoopTek

Powen Ko is LoopTek CTO located in San Jose, CA ,USA. Focusing on the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Google Android mobile phone application development, Mr. Ko won for two consecutive years the Golden Disk Award of the game design competition since 1993, his game was awarded the Best Puzzle Game of the Year on the Game Monopoly 1998.
Mr. Ko is currently working as CTO at LoopTek , San Jose, USA , LoopTek has branches in Beijing and Taipei. LoopTek has nearly a hundred applications in iPhone AppStore and Google Android Market, a variety of which ranked in the Top 10 list, and also many embedded system software applications for IPTV, Android TV, Digital signature and eBook reader, Mr. Ko is also a professor and lecture at Beijing MIICEIC, Taipei Chinese Culture University and Taipei Institute of Information Industry, promoting Android, iPhone, J2ME smart phone techniques, Ko has published five books and over a hundred essays regarding to computer technologies, and  he had been speaking on China game developers conference, CSDN, Computex and Android conference  etc. His personal blog is http://www.powenko.com/en”

Powen Ko 是在位于美国加利福尼亚州圣何塞LoopTek的首席技术官。围绕苹果iPhone的iPad，和谷歌Android手机应用程序开发，自1993年以来 高先生赢得了两个年连续赢得游戏设计比赛，金盘奖. 他的游戏在1998年被评为年度最佳游戏益智游戏。
LoopTek已在北京和台北设有分支机构。 LoopTek有近百应用在iPhone AppStore的谷歌Android Market，也有很多嵌入式系统如Android电视，IPTV，数字签名和电子书阅读器软件应用程序，其中多个曾被排在前十位. 高先生还是一位教授曾在北京MIICEIC，台北中国文化大学及台北资讯工业信息大学讲课，推动的Android，iPhone手机，J2ME智能手机技 术. 他出版了五本书籍和计算机技术方面的百余文章，他还在CSDN，Computex和Android等会议中演讲.他的个人博客 http://www.powenko.com/en“

 

 

Eric Chan
CEO, MobileSlate

Eric Chan is an aspiring Renaissance Man and 100% Mobile Evangelist. He has built a Business Advisory Practice around mobile and wireless technology, focused on Business Strategy and product roadmaps. He regularly speaks at conferences and event around mobile content and services.

Eric Chan 是一个有抱负的全才和100％的移动传播者。他建立了移动和无线技术商业咨询, 专注于实践商业战略和产品路线图。他经常在会议和活动上做关于移动内容和服务的演说。

 

 

Nick Bhardwaj
BD Executive, W3i & Recharge Studios

Nick Bhardwaj, Business Development Executive, will share tips and techniques to drive distribution, monetization and engagement for mobile game apps and how to repurpose your game into a mobile app to capitalize on this huge gaming trend—turning you game into a virtual cash machine. Nick will be speaking at the conference in regards to Freemium Application/Game development on iOS and Android on “Why Freemium Game Apps are a No-Brainer”. Presentation will include case studies/demos of successful apps using this model.

尼克Bhardwaj，业务发展总监，将分享推动手机游戏的应用程序发布，盈利和参与的技巧 和技术，以及如何在一个巨大的游戏趋势中重新调整你的游戏, 将你的游戏变成一个虚拟的现金机器。尼克将在关于会议发言iOS和Android上免费增值“为什么免费增值游戏的应用程序是毫无质疑的”. 报告将包括案例研究/演示，及使用这种模式的成功应用.

 

 

Chua Zi Yong

Founder CodeAndroid

Zi Yong is the founder of MoVend (www.movend.com). He saw the potential and opportunity that lies ahead in Android, and founded “CodeAndroid“, the Android Developer Group for Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand in Jan 2009. As the most active developer group in this region, Zi Yong works closely with Google, Android manufacturers and other partners to promote Android-related development and launches (such as the Android Developer Lab World Tour 2010 in Singapore). He is also the Honorary Treasure of Mobile Alliance Singapore.

Zi Yong 是MoVend (www.movend.com)的创始人. 他看到了Android的潜力和机会，并在2009年1月成立了“CodeAndroid” 作为新加坡，马来西亚和泰国的Android开发社区。作为在这一地区最活跃的开发团队，Zi Yong与谷歌Android的制造商和其他合作伙伴紧密合作，以促进有关Android的发展，并启动（如Android开发实验室世界巡回2010年 在新加坡）。他也是新加坡的Honorary Treasure of Mobile Alliance。

Stephan Branczyk

Owner and Main Instructor at AndroidBootcamps.com

Stephan Branczyk is the owner and main instructor of androidbootcamps.com. He has been teaching android programming for the
last year, and developed for that platform for the last two. He also runs the Android Classes meetup in Alameda.

Bess Ho

Mobile Architect at Archimedes Ventures & Book Author

Bess Ho is the Mobile Architect at Archimedes Ventures. She guest lectures at well-established universities and teaches mobile design and development privately and online at Udemy.com. Bess has presented at major tech conferences and events in Web20 Expo SF, Where20 Conference, Plug and Play Mobile Play conference, Silicon Valley Code Camp (SVCC), Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon, Silicon Valley China Wireless Conference (SVCW) and local user groups. She served as the Technical Editor of the first Open Social developer book “Building OpenSocial Apps: A Field Guide to Working with MySpace Platform”, written by MySpace Chief Software Architect. She is the contributing book author of “Sam Teach Yourself the Twitter API in 24 Hours”.

Yahya Mirza

Aurora Borealis Software

Yahya Mirza’s original background was aeronautical engineering. Through his company, Aurora Borealis Software, Yahya has worked on system software projects for Microsoft, CatDaddy Games, Source Dynamics, Pixar Animation Studios and Small Machines Inc.  Recently Yahya has worked with the Clang / LLVM compilation system and an OS bring-up on the Tegra-2 SoC for an embedded computing system. Yahya has a deep interest in parallel compilation and runtime system technologies that leverage emerging heterogeneous SoCs.

Pierre Couteau
Vice President of Business Development at Catch.com

Catch.com is a fast growing start-up with mobile apps for capturing, discovering, and collaborating. He is a seasoned business development and marketing executive with 18 years of experience in high tech companies such as Philips, NXP, Neomagic and Rhomobile. Over the last 11 years he has focused on the mobile industry, taking to market innovations such as Wi-Fi, Ultra Wide Band and a mobile framework for smartphone applications. His specialties are in B2B marketing and business development in the cell phone industry including software, smartphone, application framework, semiconductors and system solutions. He has generated multi million dollars businesses by partnering with leading carriers and cell phone OEMs.

Pierre received his MBA from the Lyon Business School, France and his Electrical Engineering degree from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France.

David Cao

General Chair, App Planet China 2011 Conference

David is VP of Beyondsoft managing the Mobile Division for BeyondSoft, a leading global service company with offices in USA, China, India, Japan. He was founder and CEO of ExtendLogic, a Silicon Valley based smartphone end to end solution consulting company, which acquired by BeyondSoft in 2010.

David is a pioneer, believer, mover in smartphone space in Silicon Valley. He is President for Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs, an active App Entrepreneurs community, and Silicon Valley Android Developers, the largest Android F2F community word wide. Prior to ExtendLogic he was VP of Engineering for PlayPhone, a leading mobile entertainment in USA, and also Engineering lead for LightSurf, a leading MMS company acquired by VeriSign for 274M USD. He served as VP of Software Development for The Critical Thinking Company. He also staffed or consulted at Oracle ETravel, IBM Global Services, Sun Micro Systems and may others.

Vasily Salomatov

Co-founder, AppsGeyser

Vasily Salomatov is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of AppsGeyser, the fastest-growing app generating platform, which since launch in February 2011 has seen more than 70,000 apps created and over 9 million downloads. Prior to this, he bootstrapped Besttoolbars, which he grew to more than 7,000 customers, including 100 fortune 500 companies. Throughout the years he has also been known for successful product launches such as alert-software.com and desktopify.com, as well as his two service-based ventures.

Salomatov has been an invited speaker and panelist on topics such as the international mobile economy, the future of apps, tablet adoption in the enterprise, among others. His recent speaking engagements included CTIA, Android Open by O’Reilly. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University, where he also obtained his B.S. in Mathematics. He is fluent in English, Russian, and is slowly progressing from a beginner to an intermediate Mandarin speaker.

Oren Tversky
VP Business Development for Unity Technologies

With a background in the mobile and gaming industries, Oren Tversky is VP Business Development for Unity Technologies’ Union business unit.
Union is a business unit of Unity Technologies dedicated to distributing high quality 3D games on mobile phones, tablets, set-top boxes, connected TVs and other emerging platforms.  As VP of Business Development for Union, he is responsible for spearheading Unity Technologies’ content syndication efforts.  Prior to Unity Technologies, he served as Head of Business Development at mobile operating system vendor Symbian, where he launched and led Symbian’s Korean business.  Prior to receiving his MBA from UC Berkeley, he worked in the video games industry for The 3DO Company.  He is an adviser to several start-ups and active in the entrepreneurial community in the Bay Area.

Tech Reporter

Silicon Valley Representative, CBN Weekly

Thomas Luo is a senior writer at CBN Weekly while just moved to Silicon Valley as the publication’s US-based correspondent. He is a seasoned reporter/editor covering telecom, media and technology and has been following mobile Internet as well as social network closely. Previously with a editor and a member of editorial board for Global Entrepreneur Magazine, he has developed in-depth stories on well-known multinational companies, start-ups, venture capitals as well as Internet business in China.

CBN Weekly is now the most popular business magazine in China that tracks the development of hot MNCs and Chinese companies, latest technologies trends, career development and lives of white-collar people, and the commercial culture. CBN weekly is part of CHINA BUSINESS NETWORK (CBN), one of the largest cross-media, regions and industries financial media group in China. CBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group (SMG), who is one of the largest media groups in China.

Ragnar Kruse

CEO at Smaato Inc., CEO at Product Factory GmbH
As a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. He has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe.
At Intershop Communications, a leader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was VP of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN.
Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, he founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.

Bruce Jones

Developer Evangelist at HTC

Bruce is a developer, business leader and volunteer. He comes to HTC after being the Developer Evangelist for the app store GetJar, CEO and App Developer at EventRadar, Chief Gecko at Savage Geckos, a futurist at Ford Motor Company and a Bedouin C programmer in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Bruce has an MBA from the University of Chicago and volunteers for efforts in climate change education, a presenter in Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Winning Climate Project and for children’s charities supporting medical research.

James Cai, Attorney at Law
Schein & Cai LLP

Mr. Cai is licensed to practice in California, Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and
in front of US Patent and Trademark Office. He is dedicated to community service and
is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley Information
Business Alliance (www.SVIBA.org) and served as counsel to non-profit organizations
such as Ballet San Jose, SVC Wireless Association and Faria Educational Enrichment
Fund.

Zhongrui Xia
President of Huahong International & VP of Huahong Group

Mr. Zhongrui Xia has more than 30 years experience in IT area, from the beginning of being responsible for building of Shanghai governmental computer system and promoting information technologies in 1984.
He was responsible for planning of Shanghai Information Port, designing policies and implementing the construction of information application projects, as a Director of Information Office of Shanghai Municipal Government in 1995.
Mr. Xia was also responsible for supporting and coordinating Hua Hong NEC project, which was China’s first 8 inch semiconductor processing line, as Director of Shanghai 909 Project Office.
After being appointed as President of Shanghai Hua Hong Micro-Electronics Corporation in 1998, Mr. Xia started Hua Hong Design Corporation, acquired Beiling Semiconductor Company and Jitong Intelligent-Card Company. Mr. Xia was the first President of Hua Hong Group after he organized Hua Hong Group.

Siamak Ashrfi

Siamak Ashrafi of ylabz
A Bio-Computational Specialist at a biotech working on finding new cancer bio-markers, drug targets and contributing to publications in scientific journals.  He has produced elegant solutions to complex problems which resulted in several issued patents. He competes (and sometimes wins) in coding competitions using social, mobile, cloud and web technologies. He enjoys presenting this work at various events. In his spare time he attends UCSF medical and Stanford surgical seminars. He is very happy with all this, but what he would really like is to get a major surfing (water) sponsor.

Guangbin Fan
Co-Chair, Mobile China Forum

Dr. Guangbin Fan is a visionary technical leader entrepreneur in the wireless and mobile internet industry.

He is currently with Huawei Internet Business Unit and manages a team on mobile Internet product innovations. Before that, he had been working at Intel Research Center as a senior researcher and project manager. Before joining Huawei, He had cofounded a mobile social network startup company in Silicon Valley and managed the China division in 2007. He has extensive knowledge on mobile from both product and ecosystem perspective.

Guangbin received his Ph.D. from University of Alabama and had been an Assistant Professor at University of Mississippi in 2003 where he performed extensive research in the mobile and wireless arena.

David He

Developer Evangelist at HTC

David He has several years of working experiences on mobile application developments covering browser based applications, Windows Mobile applications and Android applications.Before joining HTC, he worked in the Mobile Application Development Group at Bloomberg LP, where he has involved in 3 Android applications published in Android Market. David has a master degree in computer science and a PhD degree in polymer physics.