Ann Arbor

Start: 11/15/2010 6:00 pm End: 11/15/2010 7:30 pm Leaders from local companies will talk about building their companies in Southeast Michigan and the Southeast Michigan business climate in general. This event will be held at the University of Michigan and is intended to engage local area students in the Michigan mobile field. There will also be a mini-career fair where local mobile companies can come and talk with students and other job seekers. Food and drinks will be provided. We are still nailing down the date and time, so this is tentative. More information will be posted soon.

Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM Leaders from local companies will talk about building their companies in Southeast Michigan and the Southeast Michigan business climate for mobile companies in general. Panelist: Jon Oberheide – CTO/Co-Founder, Scio Security – Jon Oberheide is the CTO of Scio Security, an Ann Arbor-based startup. He previously attended the University of Michigan for a BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science and has held positions at Merit Networks and Arbor Networks. Jon has presented at numerous security conferences, both in academia (USENIX Security, WOOT, HotSec, etc) as well as the industry (BlackHat, SOURCE Boston, …

Why develop on one platform when you can develop on all of them with the same set of code? This is the promise of Titanium and similar types of applications, which allows you to code apps one time with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and then port then to iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and others. This has huge implications for your mobile business, whether you are doing the development or managing the business. But does it live up to the promise, or fall short and actually cause more complexity than it is worth? We will try to address this all-important question with …

Professor Soloway will be speaking to us on the use of mobile learning technology, now and in the future, and the benefits it can provide for the children of the world. His prediction: within 5 years, every child in every grade in every classroom in America will be using a mobile learning device (MLD); even though 99.9% of schools today ban cellphones! In his presentation he will describe how MLDs are used in schools and speculate about the technology (hardware and software) that needs to be created in order to make “mobile learning” that much more effective – for the …

The focus of the August meeting of Mobile Monday Michigan will be Location-based Services and Local Targeted Marketing Using Mobile Technology. The featured speaker will be Melih Oztalay, CEO of SmartFinds Marketing who will be presenting “Why Geo-Marketing is Becoming Increasingly Important for Marketing Your Business, and How Mobile Helps You Achieve It”. SmartFinds Marketing, located in Birmingham, MI, was recognized as one of the 2009 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch”. CEO Oztalay has been an expert presenter to Detroit’s Automation Alley, the Certified Public Accountants Mega Conference, and the 2010 Microsoft Dynamics Conference and Expo. Additional information presented at …

Quick Schedule(attendance is free, dinner is optional but available): 6:30pm – networking, get in your dinner order (not required) 6:55pm – sitting down, meeting welcome and kick off 7:00pm – Ilium Software 7:15pm – Mathew Bower – Legal Issues in Mobile 7:45pm – Keith Bourne – Appcelerator Mobile Developer Survey Overview and meeting wrap up. 8:00pm – Meeting adjourns, stick around for discussion and networking over at the main bar in the Connor’s restaurant area. Featured Company: Ilium Software – Hear Ilium Software talk about their award winning mobile apps and their 12+ years of experience in this field (since …

Local mobile companies present the innovative apps they are developing and talk about growing their mobile business in Ann Arbor. Mobiata – http://www.mobiata.co… – Mobiata creates best-selling mobile travel applications. Scio Security – http://www.sciosecuri… – Leverages consumers’ existing mobile devices for strong, usable, risk-adaptive secondary authentication, backed by a secure cloud-hosted service. Arbormoon – http://arbormoon.com/… – Will talk about the Ann Arbor Chamber of commerce iPhone app. Shepherd Intelligent Systems – http://www.shepherdis… – Shepherd Intelligent Systems offers the Magic Bus suite of easy to use, dependable software tools to provide real time vehicle locations, predicted arrival times and route management …