Conference: Developing Applications for Mobile Devices Track

In 2007, Agam Singh joined Slifter, a mobile marketing company that uses wireless and LBS technologies to connect consumers with local retail stores, as VP of Product Management. Drawing upon an eleven year career, Singh is responsible for all aspects of Slifter's product development and manages a highly trained and experienced development team. Previously, Singh acted as a strategy and technology consultant for Fortune 500 companies at Computer Sciences Corporation, where he focused on end-to-end solution development. Additionally, Singh spent a year at Bloomberg LP as a Senior Java Developer where he architected and developed modules for Bloomberg Law, enabling access to extensive research. Singh received his MBA from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelor of Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engg. and Tech.

As CEO of Cascada Mobile, Alan Lysne guides the company's growth and strategic direction with responsibility for identifying new opportunities and markets. Alan has over 13 years of experience in the communications and mobile software industry both in start ups and large companies. Prior to joining Cascada Mobile, Alan was a VP at Comverse where he ran the Toronto office and oversaw the self service and CRM software groups. Previously, Alan was the co-founder and CTO of Davinci Technologies which was acquired by CSG Systems and subsequently Comverse. Before starting Davinci, Alan was a management consultant at Accenture serving telecommunications clients across North America. Alan holds an Honors Electrical Engineering degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Mr. Birnbach is an industry expert on the topic of "Mobility in the Enterprise," and his firm - Vaultus Mobile Technologies is a pioneer in the wireless/mobility software arena. He has 25 years experience in the software industry in both software development and sales and marketing. Prior to joining Vaultus, he served as an executive with Marketsoft, where he led the sales organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has also held management and executive positions with Onyx Software and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Birnbach holds an M.S. in Management of Technology from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Jeanne Kolesnik is Business Development Director of Paragon Software Group's mobility division, encompassing mobile productivity applications for Enterprise, SMB and consumer markets worldwide. The division's initial goal was focused on localizing mobile software development for the Russian and Eastern European markets, and later, the development of hand-writing recognition applications along with a new and universal focus in Education, Security and Time Management. Currently, Paragon Software Group is a leading developer of innovative software for the PDA and smartphone software market. The company employs more than 200 IT professionals worldwide, and has offices in Germany, Russia, Switzerland, United States and Japan. With a decade of experience, Kolesnik has been involved in building stable partnerships with key telecom industry players all over the world, including platform enablers, mobile devices manufacturers, operators, distributors, publishers, online sales channels, and linguistic companies. As the director of Paragon's developer programs, she gained extensive experience creating value-added projects for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, Vodafone, Orange, Merriam-Webster, Oxford, DUDEN, PONS, and Intellicast. She also oversees the development of new markets (iPhone & iPod software) and new regions (e.g. MEA, India, APAC). Additionally, she represents the company at industry events including Mobile World Congress, CeBIT, Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia Application Summits in EMEA, India and APAC and a number of other special events organized by Nokia, UIQ, and Symbian. Kolesnik is the company's branch director in the Netherlands and oversees all international business development activity and initiatives. Kolesnik became Business Development Director after holding a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, PR and quality assurance.

Rana Puri is a Sr. Marketing Manager of the Developer Platform at Research In Motion, where he conducts product marketing activities for North America. Rana manages programs that promote the value of developing applications for BlackBerry to both customers and partners. Rana joined RIM in January 2007, and worked initially with the BlackBerry Alliance team helping partners mobilize Enterprise systems onto BlackBerry using various development approaches. He has extensive J2EE architecture and development experience which includes web services, application servers, and security. Prior to joining RIM, Rana held various positions at Symcor where he acted as an implementation architect helping major customers integrate with highly available web infrastructure which received in excess of 3M requests daily.