Fifteen
years ago Microsoft fought, and won, the battle to own the desktop.
Looking forward, where are the growth areas for IT spending?
May innovators and venture capitalists are looking toward mobile
applications as the next frontier.
Learn:
1) Examples
of investments being made in mobile applications
2) What
users expect as they justify mobile application budgets
3) What
is different about marketing mobile applications
4) Ways
to avoid pitfalls and costs in developing mobile applications
Panelists:
- Surya Jayaweera,
CEO of Wolfetech
- Roly Rogers,
Executive Director of ECONZ Wireless
- Rick Sterger
is the Director at Motorola
About
the Panel
Roly Rogers,
Executive Director of ECONZ Wireless
Roly
Rogers is the founder of Orange County-based wireless solution
company ECONZ Wireless, and has been at the forefront of wireless
communications for over twenty years. Roly has been responsible
for business application development over a wide range of technologies
during the constantly-changing network, hardware and software
platforms available, and has most recently been focusing on the
use of cell phones as the emerging business client platform of
choice.
ECONZ Wireless
currently sells two of its business applications on the Verizon
Wireless Get it Now catalogue. EService is a wireless job dispatch,
work flow solution while Timecard is a mobile timecard and tracking
product. Both use the internet for connectivity for the phones,
as well as visibility of the apps from the office and elsewhere.
ECONZ Wireless
products are available throughout the United States, Puerto Rico,
United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Surya Jayaweera,
CEO of Wolfetech
Surya Jayaweera is the founder and CEO of both WolfeTech Development
Corporation - which specializes in wireless consulting for companies
such as Avery Dennison, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, The National
Institutes of Health, and Nestle - and GXB Interactive, a company
providing educational and testing software for handheld gaming
systems. Prior to founding WolfeTech in 1997, Jayaweera was a
consultant with Andersen Consulting and worked with the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory as part of the Automated Intelligent
Mechatronics and Machine Vision Laboratory. He holds a B.S. in
Engineering from Harvey Mudd.
