Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117 percent increase from an estimated 8.2 billion downloads in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. By the end of 2014, they forecast over 185 billion applications will have been downloaded from mobile app stores, since the launch of the first one in July 2008.

But what are mobile applications ? Do I need one ? How do I go about getting one ? What do I need to know about design and development ? How do I make money from one ?

Join them to find answers to these questions and more....

Agenda

12:30   Registration and Lunch
13:10   Welcome and Introduction
13:15   Keynote Address
           Andy Nagle, Regional Education Manager, Apple Inc.
           A supercomputer in every backpack
           Fraser Spiers, Head of Computing & IT, Cedars School of Excellence
13:45  To app or not to app (what do you really need an app to do?)

          Graham Grant, Principal Designer, c4di, Robert Gordon University
14:00  Step by step to make an app

          Gordon Eccleston, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Robert Gordon University
          Five surprising tips for app developers

          Gordon Murrison, Director, Open Planet Software
14:30  How to make your app stand out from the crowd

           Brian McNicoll, Managing Director, Dynamo Games
14:45  Developing and exploiting Apps - legal beartraps and how to avoid them

          Joanne Boag-Thomson, Partner, Media & Technology, Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
15:00  Coffee Break - Sponsored by Interface
15:20  Panel Session with Speakers | Moderator: Chris Moule
15:45  Closing Remarks
          Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Principal, Robert Gordon University
16:00  Finish