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September 17th, 2009 10:00am-8:00pm

Location: Plug and Play Sunnyvale -- 440 N. Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Please join us as mobile industry leaders gather to discuss monetization strategies, location based services, mobile payment mobile application analytics, gaming, and mobile device impact on the market. The conference will include a demo session featuring the hottest applications in mobile today!

Plug and Play is teaming up with Qualcomm to host the Semi-finals of the QPrize™ Competition at MobilePlay! Join us to see the hottest mobile startups compete for $500,000 is prize cash!

Register here for VIP entry: http://mobileplay.eventbrite.com/?discount=mpvip

Plug and Play Tech Center
MobilePlay Agenda: September 17th

10:00-10:30am Registration

10:30-10:45am Opening Keynote: Sriram Viswanathan, , Vice President Intel Capital, Director Mobility Sector, Intel

10:45-11:30am Panel 1: Business Model-- Revenue Generation, Monetization, Ads, Analytics, Virtual Goods, Mobile Payments

Moderator: Juha Christiensen, Partner, Progressive Partners

Panelists: Vishal Gurbuxani, CEO Mobclix

Michael Chang, CEO Greystripe

Fabio Sissini, Director of Business Development PayPal

Anand Chandrasekaran, Director of Product Management, Openwave Systems

11:30-11:45am Startups pitch (Virtual Goods, Mobile Payments, Ad-based apps)

11:45-1:15pm Lunch/Networking/Demo

1:15-2:00pm Panel 2: Mobile Applications Discussion on Gaming, LBS, Media Applications,

Moderator: Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners

Panelists: Braxton Woodham, CTO Zannel

Tobias Kemper, VP Business Development, Nimbuzz

Anand Iyer, Sr. Product Manager Mobile, Microsoft

Doug Bewsher, Mig33

Professor Knud Erik Skouby, Copenhagen Institute of Technology

2:00-2:15pm Startups pitching (Mobile applications)

2:15-2:30pm Break

2:30-4:35pm Qualcomm QPrize Semi-Finals

Introduction by Nagraj Kashyap, Head of Qualcomm Ventures and VP Qualcomm

à 10 minutes/5 min Q&A per QPrize semi-finalist (8 companies presenting)

4:35-5:00 pm Break/Demo Session

5:00-5:30pm Panel 3: What is the best road to market for application developers?

à Carriers and handset/chip manufactures discuss

Moderator: Jonathan Atkin, Head of Telecom, RBC Capital Markets

Panelists: Will Lowry, Marketing Account Director, AT&T

Matthew Fix, Principal at Vodafone Ventures

Aditya Khurjekar, Director of Business Development, Verizon

Satya Mallya, Director of Mobile, Orange

Eric Chen, Blogger Mobile Slate, Mobile Evangelist

John Ellis, Director of Business Development Motorola

5:30-5:45pm Startups pitch—Enterprise Applications, Telecom infrastructure technology

5:45-6:00pm QPrize Semi-Finalist Award Ceremony

6:00-8:00pm Networking/Cocktail

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Candace Denton
Corporate Development Manager
Plug and Play Tech Center
Office: 408-524-1403
Cell: 408-499-8930
Fax: 408-773-8462
Candace@Plugandplaytechcenter.com

Greetings Web Series members,

The layout of the iPhone event will be - Sunday 7th of June 3 to 7pm at Plug & Play Tech Center (Sunnyvale) http://iphoneplay.eventbrite.com/:

3:00 - 4:00pm - Registration

4:00 - 4:15pm - Keynote speech - Vishal Gurbaxani - Founder and CEO of Mobclix

4:15 - 5:15pm - 20 iPhone App - presentations

5:15 - 5:30pm - Keynote speech - Winston Choe - Executive in Residence at Plug and Play Tech Center
5:30 - 5:45pm - Jeff Weiser - Social Game Network

5:45 - 6:00pm - Keyvan Mohajer - Founder and CEO of Melodis

6:00 - 6:15pm - Q & A panel with keynote speakers

6:15 - 7:00pm - Networking and cocktail reception

Please RSVP at http://iphoneplay.eventbrite.com/ as soon as possible because spaces will be limited

Sincerely,

Shobeir Shobeiri
President
Plug and Play Web Series

WebPlay Conference is an annual showcase of industry leaders, market trends, innovation, and the people are changing the world. There will be an occumulation of panels, startup demo, and keynote speeches.

12:00 – 1:00pm – Lunch

1:00 – 1:45pm – Online Ad Trends panel
Moderator – David Scacco – Angel Investor
Rooly – founder of Gigya
Ofer Ronen – founder and CEO of Sendori
Anand Jagannathan – founder and CEO of iStorez
Ty Levine - VP of Marketing of NeoEdge

2:00 – 3:00pm – 10 Startup presentations

3:00 – 4:00pm – Media panel
Moderator – Eyal Hertzog – Founder of Metacafe
Jeremy Riney – Founder and CEO of Playlist
Brad Jefferson – Founder and CEO of Animoto
Bambi Francisco - Founder and CEO of Vator.tv

4:00 – 5:00pm – Growing Viral panel
Moderator – Akash Garg – Founder and CTO of Hi5
Shervin Pishaver – Founder and CEO of SGN
Alex Mehr – Founder and CEO of Zoosk
Lance Tokuda - Founder and CEO of RockYou

5:00 – 6:00pm – Keynote speakers
Seth Sternberg – Founder and CEO of Meebo

6:00 – 8:00pm – Canaan Partners coktail party

Greetings Web 2.0 members,

It is official! Loïc Le Meur will be speaking at our monthly Web series event next Thursday in Plug and Play. WOW I am excited!

Loïc is a well-known serial French entrepreneur who created and sold 4 Internet startups, also blogger and vlogger. Loic's blog is #1 in France, read by more than 250 000 unique visitors per month, he made hundreds of video podcasts including the only podcast with President Nicolas Sarkozy). Working on his next venture, Loïc is also honorary Chairman at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and investor in tens of startups such as LinkedIn or Technorati.

RSVP as soon as possible because we will have all 150 seats filled fast. This will be a lot of fun.

Sincerely,

Shobeir Shobeiri
President
Plug and Play Web Series