App Developer Conference Partners
White label developer programs since 2001. For 10+ years, developerprogram.com has been running strategic developer programs that help our clients drive new revenue opportunities.
While we were busy creating industry best practices, we devoted a 50+ person-year effort to build the world’s only developer program software.
The world’s largest single concentration of developer program expertise is ready launch your developer program in as little as 45 days.
Don’t miss our event:
Monday, February 27, 2012: Developer Programs and Enterprise Applications featuring Cisco Systems at Mobile World Congress App Planet Application Developer Conferences.
developerprogram.com
IBM delivers a comprehensive end-to-end mobile solution with offerings that accelerate your capabilities for development, integration and management of rich mobile applications. Enable your organization and customers to quickly build mobile applications across multiple platforms, connect to backend systems, manage and secure mobile devices and apps while meeting the needs of the mobile business. Help your customers transform their business with mobile capabilities that enable delivery of personalized customer interaction and drive new sources of revenue. Learn more at www.ibm.com/mobile-enterprise.
www.ibm.com
Launched in 2004, the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) is an international competition for mobile games. Over the years more than 1500 games made in 52 different countries have entered the competition, made by the top 10 developers in the world, small studios, individuals and students.
The IMGA is now the mobile entertainment industry’s leading showcase for groundbreaking innovations and new trends in mobile entertainment. The competition is endorsed and supported by the entire mobile games ecosystem.
Since 2004, the IMGA awards ceremony has been taking place at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the support of the GSMA.
www.imgawards.com
Nokia is committed to connecting people to what matters to them by combining advanced mobile technology with personalized services. More than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia, from our most affordable voice-optimized mobile phones to advanced Internet-connected smartphones sold in virtually every market in the world. Through our services, people also enjoy access to maps and navigation on mobile, a rapidly expanding applications store, a growing catalog of digital music, and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, and Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the leading providers of telecommunications infrastructure hardware, software and professional services globally.
www.nokia.com
Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM).
For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.
For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) is an international company that builds mobile developer communities and amplifies the developer’s voice in the ecosystem. Our WIPJam events are popular around the world as fun, interactive unconferences that are serious about No PPT, No Panels and No Ties! Other events include: networking receptions, code fests and the Muther! of all Hackathons! Our on-line Developer Resources and Global Partnerships, connect developers and start ups to information, resources and tools that they need to reduce cycle times, increase innovation and get to market faster.
www.wipconnector.com
App Planet Media Partners
With more than 8.2 million registered members (and growing!), The Code Project is one of the world’s largest independent developer communities. Find what you’re looking for in more than 33,000 top-quality programming articles and tutorials—with hundreds of new articles each month—plus code snippets, discussions, news and the best bunch of developers on the net. Developers from all over the world come together to share source code, tutorials and knowledge for free—to help their fellow devs.
www.thecodeproject.com
Codersky is an advanced magazine including developers and technical managers devoted exclusively to in-depth information to the development community.
Each issue of Codersky Magazine contains technical and practical articles of current technologies and developer tools. It features articles by coding specialists and enthusiasts, experts in programming and management.
The magazine is available by paid subscription. Our 24 issues in the year. It’s an excellent opportunity to observe the latest trends on the market for the readers, and for companies �" to share their invaluable knowledge.
Join our project, either by subscribing, or by contributing. Contact us at en@software.com.pl or leputa.judyta@software.com.pl
www.codersky.com
Developer Tech serves a community of professional app developers with industry news and advice, providing a mixture of technical and business content. Partnering with leading industry bloggers and contributors, Developer Tech aims to equip developers with the tools they need to build great apps; the knowledge they need to make strategic decisions about the industry; and the business insight required to be confident in maximising earnings from their apps.
www.developer-tech.com
FierceDeveloper is the mobile developer guide to the latest trends and technologies driving mobile application development forward. Discover new devices, read about the latest mobile platforms and operating systems, and access developer profiles on our website or in our free, weekly email newsletter.
Our editors supplement our news coverage with in-depth features on technological advancements and industry trends. As a subscriber, keep track of market trends through our exclusive webinars and benefit from our vast whitepaper/eBook library as well as our jobs board. Join the FierceDeveloper community today!
http://www.FierceDeveloper.com
Gizmodo is a technology weblog published by NetMediaEurope Spain. Gizmodo publishes information about IT Sector with an informal style. Curiosities, news, digital lifestyle trends, testing the latest gadgets, mobile phones, science, application development... Without censorship, funny, critical and not always being politically correct, the Gizmodo editors digg into the technology sector to show the most interesting and entertaining Spanish blog of the technology sector, and also it is the most read, with more than three million page views per month.
Mobile Apps Briefing is the GSMA's new online service focused on the booming apps market. Launched in September 2010, it has already signed up 11,000 loyal readers globally and has established itself as essential reading for app platform vendors, developers and operators. The online service is complemented by a free twice-weekly eNewsletter, covering all the latest apps news, analysis, blogs and company profiles. Mobile Apps Briefing is proudly brought to you by the publishers of Mobile Business Briefing and the producers of App Planet. www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com twitter GSMA_MBB
For more information visit: www.mobileappsbriefing.com
MobiAD News is bi-monthly newsletter and an on-line information resource to focus exclusively on the fast growing area of Mobile marketing and Branded Apps around the world. Bringing together the most relevant news, VIP interviews, company profiles, market resources, and examples of mobile marketing campaigns and apps from around the world, MobiAD News provides marketing professionals and the mobile industry with a useful digest as well as a wealth of market information on the latest developments in mobile marketing and advertising each month.
Visit www.mobiadnews.com and subscribe for the free newsletter.
www.mobiadnews.com
Mobile Entertainment reports the latest news, views and analysis from the fast-moving mobile content industry, across a unique combination of online, email, apps, mobile and specialist industry events. Total unique monthly audience is approx. 85,000.
www.mobile-ent.biz
Looking for the global market’s leading b2b resource for the mobile games industry? PocketGamer.biz is it. Launched in 2008 by Steel Media and the highly experienced team behind renowned consumer site PocketGamer.co.uk, PG.biz is filled with fresh news, interviews, features and expert analysis every day to make it the first stop for developers, publishers, operators, manufacturers and more. As well as trusted editorial, additional elements such as the annual Mobile Games Trends Report, Top 50 Developer Awards, or the newly established Pocket Gamer Developer Network ensure that those in the mobile games business consider PG.biz as essential as their handset.
www.pocketgamer.biz
TechWeekEurope UK (www.techweekeurope.co.uk), is the new authoritative UK source for news, features and reviews of business technology. Drawing on a pool of UK tech journalists, and in association Ziff Davis Enterprise's eWEEK.com, its aim is to help IT decision makers enhance their business with technology.
The site provides insight on topics including mobility, security, cloud computing, public sector and sustainable IT to a rapidly growing audience that increasingly sees the issues as business-critical.
TechWeek Europe UK is published by NetMediaEurope, a leading B2B IT publisher owning a portfolio of more than 40 sites across Europe.
www.techweekeurope.co.uk
www.techweekeurope.es/
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mPowered Brands Theatre Partner
Converge Labs exists to:
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Provide thought leadership in the use and application of location technologies to the social and mobile marketplace
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Connect brands and agencies to location technologies in ways that spur increased marketing spend on social, local and mobile (SoLoMo) based services
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Be the meeting place for the people in the social-location industry
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Offer value added services to that community around deal flow, strategy, research and M&A
Since 2007 Exicon has helped deliver outsourced development as a strategic asset.
Without network of over 4,000 qualified development houses, a global advisory team and a suite of on-line products, Exicon has helped ecosystem players from operators, enterprise and OEMs to Appstores and brands move the dial in mobile apps and APIs.
www.exicon.mobi
McCann Worldgroup delivers marketing solutions that transform brands and grow businesses. The company is comprised of a collaborative roster of best-in-class agencies that emphasize creativity, innovation, and performance, including McCann Erickson Worldwide (the world’s largest advertising agency network); MRM Worldwide (digital marketing/relationship management); Momentum Worldwide (event marketing/promotion); McCann Healthcare Worldwide (professional/dtc communications); WGEXP (global production); UM (media management); Weber Shandwick (public relations) and FutureBrand (consulting/design).
www.mccannworldgroup.com/
Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
www.nielsen.com

The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), founded in 1993, is China’s only A-category international film festival accredited by the FIAPF. It is the best of its kind in scale, influential and vision in Far East.
SIFF devotes itself to building up an international platform and promoting the industry development and enhance cooperation with the rest of the world.
With its booming economy, Chinese film has been a great potential market to be discovered. The Shanghai International Film Festival is a must-see event in every June and enjoys a reputation for its influence to present a multicultural film fair.
SIFF had five areas of concentration: Competition, SIFF Mart, SIFFORUM, Film Panorama, and Mobile SIFF. The Mobile SIFF is launched in 2011 to bridge the fine art of motion pictures with the latest communication technology. Not only does it encourage and discover grass-root talent for film but also it presents a brand new media channel and business opportunities in this evolutionary platform.
www.siff.com
mPowered Brands Media Partners
GoMo News (www.gomonews.com) was the first mobile news site to focus on mobile marketing in 2006. Predicting the explosion in the area a few years on; GoMo News reaches over 1 million unique readers globally with several million page views. It adds value to the daily news by adding commentary to every story. In 2011, GoMo News got acquired by bNETTV.com and now has a global reach of nearly 3 million.
www.gomonews.com
M&M Global is the voice of international media, empowering brands and agencies with intelligence and tools to effectively compete in the global advertising marketplace. As channels continue to evolve and emerge we place digital media at its heart of our editorial strategy. Find us at www.mandmglobal.com and join the international debate.
www.mandmglobal.com
Mobile Marketing is the leading magazine dedicated to the mobile marketing industry. Launched online in November 2005, and now attracts over 30,000 unique visitors per month. The website is updated several times each business day, and the magazine also comes in mobile, iPad and print editions. Mobile Marketing also runs events and the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards program.
For more information and to register for news alerts, head for: www.mobilemarketingmagazine.com.
www.mobilemarketingmagazine.com
ScreenMedia Daily is a leading resource for news and information on location-based mobile marketing, digital signage, place-based digital out-of-home networks, digital transactions, and convergent technologies.
www.screenmediadaily.com
Research Partners
Analysys Mason is a telecoms consultancy and research company. With over 25 years of experience specialising in telecommunications, our blend of unique research methodologies, consulting expertise and global bandwidth produces impactful results for our clients.
Our expertise in mobile trends and topics is unsurpassed, backed by several senior consultants, a team of mobile analysts and a suite of mobile specific research programmes. To arrange a meeting with one of our analysts or consultants at Mobile World Congress, simply email us at research@analysysmason.com.
www.analysysmason.com
Berg Insight offers premier business intelligence to the telecom industry. We produce concise reports providing key facts and strategic insights about pivotal developments in our focus areas. Our vision is to be the most valuable source of intelligence for our customers. To date we have provided analytical services to hundreds of clients in 56 countries. Our customers range from many of the world's largest mobile operators, IT companies and telecom vendors, to venture capitalists, technology start-ups and specialist consultants. Our present focus areas are wireless M2M, location-based services and mobile VAS. Find out more at www.berginsight.com.
www.berginsight.com
Established in 1984, Business Monitor International is a leading print and online publisher of specialist business information on global emerging markets. Our range of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly services covers political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and the business operating environment. BMI also publishes directories and CD-ROMs profiling multinational companies active in emerging markets.
We also publish a number of reports specifically on the Telecoms sector, please see the following link for further information:
http://store.businessmonitor.com/industries/telecommunications/, or call Tel: +44 (0) 20 7246 1403.
http://store.businessmonitor.com/industries/telecommunications/
Eurasia Insights is a research firm focused on analysis, measurement and benchmarking of the emerging financial services industry of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Our firm has two core product ranges:
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Research reports, delivering industry wide insight and intelligence on a publication and subscription basis.
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Custom research, working with individual clients on specific issues where insight is needed and delivered as reports or industry briefings to senior management teams Eurasia Insights' research team is organised by financial services industry channels including, Retail Banking, Financial Institutions, Payments and Insurance.
Our research team produces research reports as well as regular updates on key developments in their specific areas of expertise through our PayWatch and BankWatch products available to subscribers.
www.eurasiainsights.com
Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com) is an independent research organization offering deep analysis of emerging telecom trends to network operators, technology suppliers, and investors. Its product portfolio includes in-depth reports that address critical next-generation technology and service issues, market trackers that focus on the telecom industry's most critical technology sectors, exclusive worldwide surveys of network operator decision-makers that identify future purchasing and deployment plans, and a rich array of custom and consulting services that give clients the market intelligence needed to compete successfully in the $4 trillion global telecom industry. As a telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lrcn.com), Heavy Reading contributes to the only integrated business information platform serving the global communications industry.
www.heavyreading.com
Juniper Research is a UK based analyst house specialising in the identification and appraisal of high growth opportunities across the telecoms and media sectors. We offer expertise in the areas of wireless and mobile as well as content, applications and device strategies, in the form of high quality analyst reports and bespoke projects. Recent studies include an mCommerce series focusing on mobile Payments, mobile Ticketing and mobile Finance, mobile Advertising and mobile Search reports, a mobile Web 2.0 study and a mobile entertainment series.
www.juniperresearch.com
Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research, custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service subscriptions. The company's expertise includes new media, digital entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services, digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, energy management, and home control systems and security.
www.parksassociates.com
Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the global communications industry. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for more than 100 countries - a distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 years. As a telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lrcn.com), Pyramid Research contributes to the only integrated business information platform serving the $4 trillion global communications industry.
www.pyr.com
Telco 2.0™ is a collection of research, brainstorming and consulting services designed to catalyse change in the Telecoms-Media-Technology sector and stimulate new ways of thinking about business models and growth. Created by analyst and consulting firm, STL Partners, in 2006, the Telco 2.0 Initiative is supported by the World Economic Forum, among other organisations around the world. It’s pioneering concept of the 'Two-Sided Telecoms Business Model' has now gained considerable traction with operators around the world, in mature and fast growth markets. www.telco2.net, email contact@telco2.net, or call +44 (0) 207 247 5003.
www.telco2.net
Wireless Intelligence is the leading market data and analysis service focused on the operational performance of mobile network operators worldwide. With over 2.4 million individual data points covering 1,700 networks in 200 countries it is the de facto industry tool for market intelligence with a subscriber base of over 600 of the world's mobile operators and leading equipment manufacturers.
www.wireless-intelligence.com
Association Partners
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) was established in December 1998 to evolve the GSM Standard for a 3G system. Radio access technologies such as EDGE, GPRS, W-CDMA, HSPA and LTE are all a part of the 3GPP family, as are the Core Network and Systems Architecture Evolution building blocks that support them. 3GPP is one of the most successful standards projects of the past 20 years and now looks to unite the Mobile industry around LTE and its future development (www.3gpp.org).
www.3gpp.org
AIB is the industry association for international TV, radio, online and mobile broadcasting. Its membership includes the world's leading international broadcasters. The AIB provides members with market intelligence briefings, publishes The Channel magazine and The Global Broadcasting Sourcebook. The annual AIBs celebrate and reward international success in TV, radio and cross platform broadcasting.
www.aib.org.uk
The Association for Interactive Media and Entertainment is the longest serving trade body in the interactive media business where customers engage, consume and pay for information and entertainment services. AIME promotes excellence in the world of Interactive Media and Entertainment. The purpose of AIME is to create an environment of consumer confidence and trust within which our Members' commerce can flourish within a framework of a strong Members' code of ethics. AIME has a membership that represents the entire value chain – from the providers of information and entertainment to the network operators and technical service providers that deliver and bill them to customers. No other organisation has such reach or representation.
www.aimelink.org
The NGN/IMS Forum is the only global telecommunications association devoted to Next Generation Network (NGN) service delivery and interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services architectures and solutions. The Forum accelerates the interoperability of IMS and NGN mobility and fixed services over wireline, cable, GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, fiber broadband and smart grid networks. www.IMSforum.org or www.NGNforum.org.
www.imsforum.com
The NGMN Alliance (www.ngmn.org) is an open group of the world-leading operators, technology vendors and research institutes. Its goal is to ensure that the standards for next generation network infrastructure, service platforms and devices will meet the requirements of operators and, ultimately, will satisfy end user demand and expectations. About 60 partners have committed to this objective and are developing requirements to shape the evolution of the mobile ecosystem. In 2012, the focus will be on operational efficiency, network heterogeneity, quality of service, backhaul evolution and centralized RAN. Achievements and future roadmap will be presented at MWC 2012 and NGMN's Industry Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco, June 2012.
www.ngmn.org
The NGN/IMS Forum is the only global telecommunications association devoted to Next Generation Network (NGN) service delivery and interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services architectures and solutions. The Forum accelerates the interoperability of IMS and NGN mobility and fixed services over wireline, cable, GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, fiber broadband and smart grid networks. www.IMSforum.org or www.NGNforum.org.
www.imsforum.com
NFC Solutions Summit 2012
Smart, Secure Mobile Payments and Non-Financial Apps
May 22-23 * Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport * Burlingame, California
A Joint Presentation by Smart Card Alliance and NFC Forum
www.smartcardalliance.org/nfcsolutions12
The Smart Card Alliance and NFC Forum are pleased to present NFC Solutions Summit--the first comprehensive American showcase for the burgeoning technology of Near Field Communications. The NFC Solutions Summit will cover the state of this promising technology, developments in new NFC devices and add-ons, the status of the growing NFC ecosystem, the promise of NFC-enabled payments and other popular applications, NFC implementation, and American and international market forecasts.
For registration, exhibit, or sponsorship information, call 212-866-2169.
www.smartcardalliance.org
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK's games industry. Our members include independent games developers, in-house publisher-owned developers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses, universities, individuals and students.
www.tiga.org
TM Forum is a global, non-profit industry association focused on simplifying the complexity of running a service provider's business. As an established industry thought-leader, the Forum serves as a unifying force, enabling more than 775 companies across 195 countries to solve critical business issues through access to a wealth of knowledge, intellectual capital and standards.
The Forum provides a unique, fair and safe environment for the entire value-chain to collaborate on pressing industry issues, helping companies of all sizes gain a competitive edge and the flexibility and speed they need to underpin future growth.
For more information about TM Forum, visit www.tmforum.org.
www.tmforum.org