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DigiBC is excited to have Conquer Mobile present: In a world dominated by KPIs and analytics, User Experience (UX) must prove its worth. But how do you measure an experience? It is notoriously hard to pin down the value of UX. We’ll look at a wide range of metrics and techniques for gauging mobile app UX. At one end of the spectrum there are the traditional measures of ‘money saved’ through task efficiency and ‘money earned’ through increased loyalty and referrals. At the other extreme, we’ll preview some cutting edge ideas for measuring user emotion and stress. Presenters: Angela Robert, …

One of the hottest topics is Digital Marketing. It’s the way in which companies are competeing now. There is a big shift to companies in cross industry using digital marketing to reach users and there are new digital marketing techniques transforming ways in which comapnies deliver information to their users, mobile first. This is an opportunity to see what’s happening in the Digital Marketing, Mobile First space. What is mobile first? What are some benefits and challenges facing this type of marketing? Come hear from the best-of-the-best of Vancouver’s executives! Please Register in Advance Here. AGENDA: 6:00-6:30: Registration, beer & …

Can Disruptive Technologies Enable Better Healthcare? Monday, May 6th, 2013 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oceanic Plaza 1035 West Pender St, Vancouver Register in Advance Here Moderator: Michael Bidu – Founder & CEO, SANOTRON Michael is the CEO & Founder of SANOTRON – Canada’s Centre for Wireless & Digital Health Innovation is a specialized non-profit technology accelerator focused on identifying, growing and marketing digital health companies while accelerating the adoption of customer-centric solutions by patients, healthcare providers and consumers anytime, anywhere on any device, reducing the cost of healthcare delivery, improving the user experience and quality of life and making …

Back by Popular Demand.. DigiBC Presents: Mobile Monday Vancouver How Mobile Games Connect Consumers and Brands Mobile games are an emerging media channel similar to tv, radio and the Internet. With 65% of smartphone users playing games, this new media is a place brands need to be. Furthermore with only 1% of the total marketing spend on mobile currently, there is significant room for growth in mobile marketing spending, and with mobile games being a significant category of use, new takes on advertising and sponsorship will fuel this spending growth. Monday, February 4th, 2013 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm …

Meet John Boxall, co-founder of Mobify. Are you looking to increase your revenue and ROI from customers on mobile devices? Gartner estimates that social and mobile presence will generate 50 per cent of Web sales by 2015. John will share his success from developing mobile web e-commerce best practices for marque customers such as Starbucks, Threadless and Siemens. Mobify produces a positive ROI for its customers in less than 100 days. Speaker: John Boxall John Boxall, Igor Faletski & Peter McLachlan founded Mobify in 2007 with a vision to extend the web to mobile devices. Mobify now powers more than …

AirG, a Vancouver based company, has built a social mobile platform reaching 55 million, active, monthly users. Dejan Mirkovic, VP of Corporate development and Mobile Marketing, will provide insight on how AirG uses mobile advertising, demographic information and social media to target and reach global users. He will also provide a general industry overview and Q&A. Dejan Mirkovic, VP of Corporate Development and Mobile Marketing at airG Dejan currently serves as the Vice President of Corporate Development and Mobile Marketing at airG, a global mobile social networking and entertainment provider. He has over 15 years of wireless start up experience and …

Get updated on Microsoft’s new Platform Strategies and new relationship with Nokia? Microsoft is changing the GAME and providing new opportunities for partners and developers! Meet Ryan Storgaard, Director of Technical Evangelism, Microsoft Canada. His business acumen, drive and enticing optimism earned him the prestigious Microsoft Chairman’s Award, presented by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He also earned the highly regarded Microsoft Circle of Excellence Award. Ryan Storgaard will talk about Microsoft’s strategy and approach to Windows Phone and the opportunity it offers to app and game developers. Windows Phone 7.5 is Microsoft’s latest release and it continues to gamer …

Smile it’s Monday! From a record 149 entries for the New Ventures 2011 competition, MoMoVan brings you the wireless companies from the top 10 finalists to share their success stories and experiences. With $335,000 in awards and a chance to be the number one start-up company as motivation, see what their wireless companies did differently to make it to the finals. Register for your chance to see Rewardloop who placed second, as well as two other finalists. For those of you who don’t know, each year the New Ventures BC Society provides the opportunity for people to turn their ideas …

Smile it’s Monday – Register now for MoMoVan Fall Season Opener! Meet CEO Kosta ChatziSpiros from LinguaComm and hear how they secured $693,225 from the Canada Media Fund’s Experimental Stream to fund the smartphone language app Supiki Inspired by the belief that the personal computer was a “game changer”, Kosta’s career in technology marketing began at college in 1987. Since then, he has consistently taken on challenges involving successfully brining innovative products or services to market. He is recognized for executing winning business strategies, rapidly building multi-disciplinary teams and achieving breakthrough results. Kosta received an MBA from Royal Roads University …

Meet Scott Michaels from Atimi and hear his view on industry trends, publishing, Apple store and best practices Scott Michaels is Vice President, Client Services at Atimi Software, Inc., one of the largest independent Macintosh development houses. Atimi focuses their technology insight on the quickly changing Apple market. Scott has worked with many Fortune 500 companies to bring their products to the mobile space and has assisted in restructuring their marketing plan to include mobile. He is a vital force behind the Atimi team that has developed more than 35 applications currently on the market for some of the leading …