APPNATION Pulls in More Powerful Speakers Representing the Exploding App Economy -- Candace Locklear

Aug. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- San Francisco, CA – August 26, 2010 ⎯ APPNATION today unveiled the final agenda and conference schedule of the first global conference to focus on social and mobile apps across all devices and platforms including PCs, smartphones, tablets, Internet-enabled televisions, portable gamers, peripherals and a range of other current and emerging connected devices. Registration can be accessed by visiting www.appnationconference.com.

High level sessions include a VC keynote roundtable with Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz as well as a Gamer Nation keynote panel featuring Zynga, gWallet, and hi5.

The inaugural APPNATION conference and exposition will take place September 13-14, 2010 in Downtown San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. The event will include an executive-level conference and a dynamic, cutting-edge exposition featuring companies from across the apps value chain.

APPNATION has assembled a spectacular roster of more than 100 titans of the app economy, including:
• Bob Bowman, CEO, Major League Baseball Advanced Media
• Ilja Laurs, Founder and CEO, GetJar
• Mark Kvamme, Partner, Sequoia Capital
• Jonathan Carson, CEO, Nielsen Telecom
• Matt Freeman, CEO, Mediabrands Ventures (Interpublic)
• Simon Khalaf, CEO, Flurry
• Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO, gWallet
• Alex St. John, President, hi5
• Michael Gutkowski, President, LMK, Hearst
• Albert Cheng, EVP, Digital Media, Disney-ABC Television Group
• Jessica Steel, SVP, Business Development, Pandora
• John Kosner, SVP & GM, New Media, ESPN
• Igor Pusenjak, Founder, Lima Sky Studios (Doodle Jump)
• Matt Murphy, Manager, iFund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Gina Bianchini, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Andreessen Horowitz
• Ed Ruth, VP, Business Development, Verizon Wireless

A full list of speakers may be found at http://www.appnationconference.com/csch.php

Participating companies include:
AKQA, Ansible Mobile (Interpublic), Clearspring, Playhaven, Mobclix, Factory Design Labs, Appssavvy, Skyfire, TheBroth, Zumobi, Mashery, ad.ly, Layar, Kaltura, Placecast, VSC Consulting, Appcelerator, Geodelic, skyrockit, Greystripe, Carrot Creative, Basement, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, LMK (Hearst), Conduit, Ubergizmo, 148Apps.com, TalkAndroid.com, Engauge, Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Agency.com, Symbian Foundation, Blackberry Partners Fund, Shasta Ventures, Blue Run Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Nielsen Online, Publicis Modem, Comcast Entertainment, eBuddy, American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), Dropbox, Fox Broadcasting Company, Starcom, Nielsen, MTV Networks, JiWire, UBS, Nimbuzz, GetJar, Sterling Group, NPD Group, Mobile Marketing Association, JP Morgan Chase, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Stern, Zynga, Agency.com, Distimo, BBDO, Wieden + Kennedy, oneforty.com, Boxee, Open Feint, Groundtruth, The North Face, Intel, The Weather Channel, Verizon Wireless, PayPal, Landor, Orange, Media Mind, Google TV, and Audi.

Breakout Sessions for Developers
APPNATION will dedicate a significant amount of focus and onsite resource to give developers of all sizes an opportunity to learn how to further monetize their content, products, and services. Tailored tracks will offer a unique and affordable opportunity to showcase developer’s work in front of industry luminaries, investors, advertising agencies, media companies, the technology press and peers. Developers will also be invited to participate in cool contests including APPNATION’s exclusive “Pimp My App!” contest which is generating major excitement in the developer community.

About APPNATION
APPNATION is a new executive conference and exposition focusing on the burgeoning consumer applications industry. APPNATION is a unit of M2 Events, LLC, a new conference and thought leadership production company founded by Drew Ianni, a 15-year digital media and marketing industry veteran and former Programming Chairman and Senior Global Analyst for ad:tech, a leading digital media and marketing conference and exposition. Mr. Ianni has also held senior analyst and executive positions at firms such as Jupiter Communications, Lazard Freres & Co, and BBDO.

APPNATION Contact:
Drew Ianni
Founder / Event Chairman
drewianni@appnationconference.com
646-425-7029

PRESS Contact:
Candace Locklear for Spark PR
candace@sparkpr.com
415-321-1876

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APPNATION is an ambitious and bold new thought leadership conference and exposition focusing exclusively on the burgeoning consumer applications revolution and global app economy.

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