SME Circle Training: iPhone Apps Developers Mingle

Event details as follow:

Date: September 4, 2009 (Friday)
Time: 12:30- 14:00
Venue: Solution LabUnits 518, Level 5, Cyberport 3 (Core F), 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong
Fee: HK$40 (for non-IncuTrain incubatees)
HK$10 (for IncuTrain incubatees with 75% reimbursed)
** Sandwich lunch and drinks will be provided

Organizer: Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
Supporting organization: CocoaHeads Hong Kong

To register:
Please send your name, company name, tel and email with subject "SME Circle Training: iPhone Apps Developers Mingle" to training@cyberport.hk by 12:00nn, September 2, 2009

Target audiences:
For those who want to start their iPhone application development, or to look for iPhone game developers, or to network with iPhone application developers community.

Seminar Topics and Speaker Bio:

Topic: Introduction to CocoaHeads
Speaker: Mr. Bill So
Bill So is a local Mac indie. Bill mainly focuses on developing his own Mac and iPhone product lineup in recent years. His recent work includes - Finger (a Chinese handwriting tablet for iPhone (thisfinger.com). He takes project but tend to be picky in selecting clients. Bill So is also the host of CocoaHeads Hong Kong - a local Mac/iPhone developer community - cocoahk.com

Topic: iPhone development process overview - a business perspective
Speaker: Mr. Gordon Ho
Gordon has been creating software with usability in mind - intuitive software that helps users complete their tasks, generates buzz and drives in revenue. To date, GoGoalSoft has completed more than 40 iPhone applications for clients worldwide. Gordon is multi-talented and his experience includes photo processing, games, content retrieval and delivery, utilities, language, media streaming, social networking and web services integration.Gordon focuses on creating software that is easy to use and mission oriented. Gordon founded GoGoalSoft Limited, a company that specializes in Mac OS X (and now iPhone) software development, back in 2006.

Topic: iPhone game market overview
Speaker: Mr. Franky Fu
Franky Fu,* *– Franky is a veteran high-tech executive with over 10 years experience at the executive level. His solid track record of success spans over 25 years in commercial software development, Internet technologies, and information systems, for international and US-based companies such as Adobe and Apple Computer. He specializes in product development, strategic alliances, business development and the creation of go-to-market strategies.Franky is currently a Director of Celestial Digital Entertainment Limited, Hong Kong and oversee the company's daily operation and the direction of the company. CDE had released over 30 titles on the Apple's App Store and a few of these titles had been on the Top 100 Apps.

Topic: Location-based social media application
Speaker: Mr. Chris Chan
Chris Chan is an iPhone and web applications developer. He has extensive experience on large scale web application deployment. He also has strong belief on mobile internet and has built a series of applications on iPhone with different partners. IGPSD is the consultancy firm that Chris has started in 2008 focusing on LBS on iPhone and Web2.0 application development. By sharing the same vision, IGPSD has partnered with Fon and New Media Publication Group to deploy LBS on its Walkamap platform. Walkamap is the foundation platform developed by IGPSD to provide the point of interest searching, users' reviews sharing and an extendable interface to different content providers. With this platform, different content providers can easily integrate their existing data to Walkamap database and the user reviews can also store back to the content partner’s server through Walkamap.