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Social Media: Current Trends and Future Outlook
March 26, 2013
The Mobile Software Development SIG presents…
Matt Michelsen
Founder & CEO, Backplane
Matt Michelsen is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and scaled companies in finance, retail and media. As the CEO & Founder of Backplane, Matt is creating a new social web corridor to unite people around interests, affinities and movements. Backplane is powered, in part, by one of the largest digital footprints on the web, Lady Gaga’s social media community (www.littlemonsters.com). Over the last few years, Matt has been instrumental in several of the largest partnerships of Music and Tech, leveraging connections previously made as one of the most connected people on Wall Street. Having founded UNX, which provided advanced electronic trading technology solutions to buy-side institutions and broker-dealers through its open architecture platform, Catalyst® Portal. Matt is also Chairman of Gunnar Optiks. Proud to have served as an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army, Matt received a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island.Mark Fidelman
CEO, Evolve!, Author, Socialized! Forbes Columnist
Sean Devlin
Director of Support, Backplane
Sean Devlin is the Director of Support for Backplane, where he is responsible for the seeding, launch, and health of all Backplane communities. His experience is focused around the building and design of tools which allow simple and effective moderation of scaled communities on the web, has worked with massive social footprints of all affinities, and whose previous partners range from President Clinton to Lady Gaga.
MODERATOR:
Vincenzo Belpiede
Senior Manager, App Discovery Global Business Owner, Nokia
Vincenzo Belpiede is global business owner of App Discovery at Nokia, responsible for App Highlights which promotes some of the best 120,000 Windows Phone apps. Born in Italy as a true mobile fanatic he moved to cold but cool Helsinki in 2007 to join Nokia: at that point the largest and most profitable manufacturer of mobile phones. At Nokia he assumed numerous roles around the globe managing mobile devices ranging from feature phones to smartphones, services like search & maps and recently even planning future Nokia Windows Phones. When not travelling, Vincenzo resides in California since 2009 after relocating to 12 different cities across 8 countries: Mexico City, Switzerland, Belgrade, Germany, Beijing just to name a few. When not working, Vincenzo loves to speak at mobile tech events and organize hackathons for mobile app developers. http://about.me/vincenzobelpiede
Alex Shah, Chief Architect, TeamSOA, Inc. & CTO, CommerceTel Inc.
Vincenzo Belpiede, Senior Manager, App Discovery Global Business Owner, Nokia
Eric Otterson, SVP Business Development, Cooley LLP
Deepak Kundra, Principal Staff Software Engineer, Motorola
Jake Fields, Creative Director, Treeline Interactive
Devang Thakkar, Principal Consultant, DCM Consulting
Paul Johnson, Partner, Procopio
DATE:
March 26th, 2013
TIME:
5:30PM Registration/Networking/Refreshments
6:00PM Program Begins
7:30PM Program Ends
LOCATION:
12790 El Camino Real
San Diego, CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 3/25/13)
$10.00 – CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 – Non-Sponsor
FREE – Mentor Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 – CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 – Non-Sponsor
FREE – Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
Questions?
Contact Brittany Bjerke at bbjerke@commnexus.org