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Schedule: Open Mobile Exchange sessions

Monday, July 21

Future signals and current opportunities at the nexus of the open source and mobile communities

OMX, the first-ever O’Reilly Open Mobile Exchange, is for everyone involved in building out the open source mobile space, including platforms, standards, applications, hardware, integration, browsers, location, and services.

This full day of insightful conversations, demos, technical presentations, and panel discussions brings together innovators from a broad swath of perspectives and backgrounds to share ideas and foster new thinking across technologies. As the Web becomes one of the most crucial components of extending the mobile opportunity, this event explicitly seeks to bridge web apps and mobile functions.

To submit ideas for speakers, topics or suggestions that will help shape OMX at OSCON, please send them to: omx-idea@oreilly.com

The Open Mobile Exchange is an interactive meeting ground for:

  • Programmers and developers
  • Business developers
  • Product managers
  • Technologists and hackers
  • Enthusiasts and implementers
  • Entrepreneurs

Moderated by GigaOM’s Surj Patel, OMX happens on Monday, July 21, in conjunction with the first day of the tenth anniversary OSCON. Be the signal—join us for a many-to-many conversation at the intersection of business, technology, the Web, and open source at the O’Reilly Open Mobile Exchange.

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8:30am - 8:35am Monday, 07/21/2008
Welcome
Location: F150/151
Surj Patel (GigaOM), Raven Zachary (The 451 Group)
This opening talk frames the opportunities, challenges, and unexpected directions mobile is going--and where it's taking us as a society. Read more.
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8:35am - 9:00am Monday, 07/21/2008
Open is the Present and the Future
Location: F150/151
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
Jim Zemlin the chair of the Linux Foundation shares some insight on the future of the open mobile platform and its benefits to business and the FOSS community. Read more.
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9:00am - 9:30am Monday, 07/21/2008
New Networks, New Usability and Low cost devices:The Mobile Web Explosion
Location: F150/151
Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)
More often than not FOSS software is used to create code for commercial projects. Gaining recognition as a ground breaking and eye opening analyst, Jason talks about the new explosion of opportunity in the "Mobile Web" and how FOSS advocates out here can help to support and profit from them new boom. Read more.
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9:30am - 10:00am Monday, 07/21/2008
Leveraging Mobile Open Source for New Wireless Apps and Services
Location: F150/151
This presentation discusses how we have entered a new golden era of mobile apps and how mobile open source enables developers to rapidly deliver compelling new mobile services for the mass market. Read more.
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10:30am - 11:00am Monday, 07/21/2008
Handwave to Hardware: A Product Story Bit by Bit
Location: F150/151
Jennifer Minor (Vernier Software & Technology)
Jenny Minor takes through a case study of developing a mobile data product from concept, to initial hardware and tool chains to final product. The pain points, the learnings and the outcomes are all explained for your learning and future application. Read more.
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11:00am - 11:30am Monday, 07/21/2008
Zembly: An Open Platform for iPhone and Mobile Browser Widgets
Location: F150/151
Prakash Narayan (Sun Microsystems)
This short and practical talk will lead you through the Zembly platform and how you can quickly create, share widgets. Zembly is an online IDE, platform and open code library all rolled in to one. Read more.
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11:30am - 12:00pm Monday, 07/21/2008
LiMo Practicals: Pointers for Developers
Location: F150/151
David "Lefty" Schlesinger (ACCESS Co. Ltd. )
LiMo announced they are joining forces with LiPs to create a global body to promote Linux. Very often these groups overlook the practicalities and realities of programming the platforms. Not this time. Renowned Open Mobile developer "Lefty" Schlesinger will go through a practical session on developing for platforms that adhere to the LiMo and LiPs specification. Read more.
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1:30pm - 2:00pm Monday, 07/21/2008
Mobile Linux, QT and the Desktop
Location: F150/151
Benoit Schillings (Trolltech, a Nokia Company)
Nokia acquired mobile linux pioneer Trolltech. Benoit a founder and CTO of Trolltech talks about the future of Mobile Linux and more importantly Nokia's plans for QT , the desktop , the mobile and how you can access the tools and code to start your own projects. Read more.
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2:00pm - 2:30pm Monday, 07/21/2008
The Browser is the New Open Mobile Platform
Location: F150/151
Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation)
With the boom in mobile internet, the new Mobile Platform may be the mobile browser. Mobile Browser expert and developer Chris Blizzard takes us on a journey through the mobile browser landscape, covering all major players and focusing a few more details on Mozilla and their proposition within the mobile landscape. Read more.
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2:30pm - 3:00pm Monday, 07/21/2008
Platform Showdown
Location: F150/151
Ben Leslie (Open Kernel Labs)
From Android, GNOME Mobile (and friends such as Maemo, Moblin, OpenMoko), and OKL4 (including Linux on L4) to ACCESS Linux Platform and LiMo, expert practitioners will take the stage to compare and contrast the growing number of platforms crowding the mobile field. Read more.
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4:00pm - 4:30pm Monday, 07/21/2008
Voice Services and Mobility Through Asterisk
Location: F150/151
John Todd (Digium Inc. )
Many of the open platforms for mobile are making a serious ommission. The Voice Channel. The phone is very good at handling voice and users are comfortable with it as a communication channel. In this Session John Todd, the lead tech evangelist for Asterisk looks at how you can develop for voice services off the handset and on the network using Asterisk and similar platforms. Read more.
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