mdevcon 2013

Session (March 15): iOS and Android Security Mechanisms and Exploit Mitigations Tutorial (March 14, Morning): iOS and Android Security Mike Arpaia is a Software Engineer on the security team at Etsy, the world's handmade marketplace. Before working at Etsy, Mike worked at iSEC Partners, a leading information security consulting firm where he specialized in mobile application and mobile operating system security. Before working at iSEC, Mike worked at another leading information security consulting firm and co-founded the Stevens Cyber Defense Team at Stevens Institute of Technology where he remains an advisor to the group. Mike has previously presented at over a dozen security conferences in 7 US states and 3 countries including Black Hat Europe, Source Boston, DEFCON and Nordic Security Conference on topics such as secure mobile development, mobile exploit intelligence, mobile operating system security and information security education.

Session: Social & Mobile: What We've Learned With Google+ Ian Barber works as a Senior Developer Advocate for Google+, and is based in Google's London office, where he helps a variety of developers and brands to make best use of the Google+ platform. Ian has been working with the web as a developer, consultant and technical manager since 2002. Among various open source interests, Ian is the author of the PHP Support Vector Machine extension and a contributor to the brokerless messaging library ZeroMQ.

Session (March 15): Building Apps For Google TV Wiebe Elsinga is technical Lead at ItudeMobile. He has a long experience in software development but is mainly focused on the development of mobile applications, and is continuously seeking quality improvements within the development process of mobile applications.

Session (March 15): Automated Acceptance Tests For Mobile Tutorial (March 14, Afternoon): Automated Acceptance Tests For Mobile Pete Hodgson is a consultant at ThoughtWorks specializing in mobile dev. He's been helping teams build awesome mobile apps for the last 3 years, primarily on native iOS and web technologies. Pete is also the maintainer of Frank (testingwithfrank.com), the most established and popular framework for automated acceptance testing for native iOS apps. Peter is a regular speaker at conferences, in the past he's spoken at the Mobile Test Summit and CocoaConf.

Tutorial (March 14, Full day): Introduction to iOS Bolot (@bolot) is a software engineer and instructor. He came to Amsterdam on Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) in 2012 to help establish the European branch of Big Nerd Ranch (@bignerdranch). He develops mobile apps for iOS and Android and teaches the Big Nerd Ranch Beginning iOS courses in the Netherlands. He also likes tango, taido, toasts, and tortillas.

Session (March 15): Custom Components: Easier Than You Think Paul is CTO and co-founder of Pixplicity, Holland's leading Android-specific consulting and app-building company. He applies his knowledge of Java, Android and Linux in Pixplicity to develop high-quality apps and provide technical solutions for customers such as C1000, Nestlé, De Telegraaf, AGIS and De Consumentenbond.

Tutorial (March 14, Afternoon): Animate Your Users Jeroen Leenarts is working for Xebia Netherlands as a mobile engineer. The last year he has been involved with the Dutch bank ING working on their iOS mobile application. Jeroen is an expert in the field of animated user interfaces; he added a lot of subtle animation features to the popular ING home banking app. Quoting Jeroen: "Do note that I am standing on the shoulders of a lot of colleagues, I just tried to take their great work to the next level."

Session (March 15): Mobile Musical Instruments Emil Loer is a developer, entrepreneur and jazz musician. He is the co-owner and technical visionary of BarTune, a company that delivers interactive music players to pubs and restaurants. Emil has deep knowledge on software synthesis, signal processing and real-time computing on mobile devices.

Session (March 15): Core Data Secrets Kris Markel is a Senior iOS Developer for Black Pixel where he works on a wide variety of client iOS projects, most of which he can't even tell you about. He's been involved in mobile development since 2007 and has been using the iOS SDK since it was released. Kris used to teach an iPhone development class at University of Washington's Professional & Continuing Education program.

Session (March 15): Autolayout? Oh Boy! Cesare Rocchi is a speaker, writer, UX designer and developer specializing in web and mobile applications. He began working on interactive applications while he was a researcher in the academia. He runs Studio Magnolia, an interactive studio that creates compelling web and mobile applications. When off duty he enjoys snowboard and beach tennis.

Session (March 15): Effective iOS Network Programming Ben Scheirman is a software developer from Houston, Texas with more than 15 years of experience. As Director of Development at ChaiONE, Ben leads a team of developers writing apps on iOS & Ruby on Rails. Ben also runs NSScreencast.com, where he produces short videos on iOS development, published each week. When not programming, Ben enjoys playing guitar, geeking out about beer, and spending time with his wife and five wonderful children.

Session (March 15): Designing Accessible Android Applications Sonia works in Android team at Google as a Technical Account Manager. Prior to this she has worked on mobile and web domains in Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and a few start-ups, in various capacities, both technical and business centric. She has worked on Android since 2009 and has a few Android applications in Google Play. She mentors students creating Android applications at Technovation Challenge and also regularly participates in hackathons.

Session (March 15): A Primer To SyncAdapters Kiana is a software engineer at Manheim, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been working in the software industry and developing web and mobile applications alongside some amazing developers since 2005. She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science, and has experience using Java, Ruby/Rails, Android, and iOS, among other tools. When she’s not working, she's skydiving, playing the piano, or walking her dog.

Session (March 15): Objective-C's Dark Arts Mikey teaches Beginning Cocoa, Beginning iOS, and Advanced iOS courses for the Big Nerd Ranch in Atlanta and around the world. When he's not on the road, he's working on iOS and Mac consulting projects with his team, writing content for Big Nerd Ranch's books, or convening the Atlanta chapter of CocoaHeads.

Tutorial (March 14, Morning): Under the Cocos2D tree Maxim Zaks is a passionate software developer, who tried him self in different disciplines of software development. He worked on java enterprise projects, rich web applications, developer tools and mobile applications. Now he is working as iOS game developer for Wooga.