SVAndroid charges only $20 but food cost for three days will be around $40. So we are calling for sponsors! See form bellow for contact details.

Few notes on speakers:

1 We welcome presentation on advanced features on Android 4.0, including but not limited to technical presentation, best practices, etc. Sponsorship is not required to present. You must have prior technical presentation experience.

2 For any non standard or proprietary API, presenter must be sponsor.

3 Product demo is only for App/Product produced by the DevCamp attendees.

Sorry, to the people who sent us email request for demo at AnDevCamp: no external product demo. However, you are encourage to attend the Mobile Demo Day by SVEntrepreneurs:

http://www.sventrepreneurs.net/events/38751272/

Contact the organize with “sponsorship” in the subject time for more detail!

Or use this form (For both sponsorship and speakers)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZXYWJGQzJVTGpNRVBibnE4aERNTVE6MA

For more details, see the full listing:
http://www.svandroid.org/events/41534612/

When: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:00 P

Developers Choice Awards:
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A 3-way tie between the following teams -

Team 13 Game on Google TV,

Thanks for the 170 people who register to this event before we confirm the details! We are finalized the venue right now and at this point, we are pretty sure we can get a venue and several sponsors.  So we are going to lower the price to $20 from $40.

The AnDevCamp 2012 structure will be similar to 2011 as well as Google TV Hackathon but with more technical sessions.

We are looking for sponsors and partners now! Contact by:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZXYWJGQzJVTGpNRVBibnE4aERNTVE6MA

Twitter: #andevcamp

Current registration is pre-registration. We will start to collect money after few more details are confirmed.

For more details, see the full listing:
http://www.svandroid.org/events/41534612/

https://sites.google.com/site/gtvhackathon/

• Judge Panel (Selected by a group of great VC/Entreprenerus)
  • New Google TV Apps
  • Port existing Web or  Tablet/Phone Android Apps to GoogleTV Android Apps
  • Multi Screen Apps
• People’s Choice

People’s choice is organized by SVAndroid using voting by all the attendees. The cash prize will be all the ticket sales minus all the direct expense we have.

Did I mention we will have full testing environment setup for each team?  So join us! I promise it will worth your effort!

http://www.svandroid.org/events/51143042/

Event Updates

A limited number of tickets to Google I/O will be made available to some winners (Not all winners can win this). Google TV team will confirm the numbers later.

Two of the judges have been selected and announced:

Blake Krikorian (@blakekrik), co-founder and former CEO of Sling Media

Mark Mangiola, Venture Partner at Canaan Partners

Coordination with a linked event in London should add some “virtual flair” to both venues. Facility space will be limited, and a sell-out seems likly. You must register to attend. I am sure it will worth your effort for the 2 days and one night! I told yah!! 

Here are some details:

Agenda (Formal draft)

Friday, April 20, 2012 Kick-Off

19:00:00 Happy Hour

Team ideas announced in screen. Social time.

19:30:00 “Orientation(Live Stream to Global event)” “Google TV Overview(Live Stream to Global event)”

20:30:00 Team Pitches ~ 1 hour

Saturday, April 21, 2012 Hacking

8:00:00 Breakfast

8:30:00 Short kick-off

9:00:00 Hack Lunch  (on your own) Hack organize demo schedule (teams sign up)

9:30 – Noon: 4-5 Google TV Tech Sessions and Hangout with Google Engineers

17:00:00 midway hacking demo session  (happy hour) Q&A for rules and qualification or the contest late-night snack

20:00:00 Developer Hangout

Sunday, April 22, 2012 Hacking & Demos

8:00:00 Breakfast

8:30:00 Short kick-off – schedule review

9:00:00 Hack Lunch  (on your own) Hack

15:00:00 snacks – organize for demos apk delivered

16:30:00 “Final Presentations – Panel /drinks&snacks(Live Stream to Global event)”

19:00:00 Award Ceremony
We also plan to make this event a global event using YT Live Streaming and Hangouts, and invite other GTUGs and ADGs to organize event at same time.
Content:

• 3 tracks:
  • New Google TV Apps
  • Port existing Web or  Tablet/Phone Android Apps to Google TV Android Apps
  • Multi Screen Apps
• Office Hours

Prizes:

• Winners:
• from Judge Panel (3)
  • New
  • Migrated
  • multiscreen
• from popular vote (1): Organized by SVAndroid, cash prize (all the income generated by the ticket sales minus the any direct cost)

Judges:

Blake Krikorian

Blake Krikorian is a co-founder and the former CEO of Sling Media, a consumer electronics company that builds the highly acclaimed Slingbox.

The company was founded in 2004. It was purchased in 2007 by Echostar Communications for $380 million dollars.

Krikorian started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace (pre-Internet). At General Magic, Krikorian assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies such as NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI and Matsushita/Panasonic in creating and defining new products and partnerships.

In 1994, Krikorian co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line.

Mark Mangiola

Venture Partner, Canaan Partners Ventures 

Mark Mangiola joined Canaan in 2001 after over 20 years in operational leadership roles in the cable and broadband industry. Mark invests in communications companies that are transforming the delivery of digital media, as well as new consumer content companies that meld entertainment with interactivity. An advisor to YouTube, Mark has a visionary outlook about how consumers will watch and interact with content in the future, having participated first hand in the early emergence of both cable TV and the Internet.

A super-connected industry veteran, Mark leverages his network to fill key executive positions at Canaan’s portfolio companies and helps them spearhead strategic relationships with industry-leading corporations. Prior to Canaan, Mark served as CEO of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home. He was previously the President and CEO of Positive Communications and an Executive VP at KBLCOM/Time Warner.

When Mark is not thinking about how consumer-generated video will change the world, he is sprinting around a track. A passionate athlete, Mark coaches high-school and college track athletes and never misses a Meet of Champions track meet.

This event is not for profit.  All the income goes to the event cost (Anything our Sponsor Google cannot cover) and prizes for People’s Choice (Well, this is another reason you should attend).

Online Participation:

Google+:

https://plus.google.com/100213579863051357900

Twitter: #gtvhackathon

Our team still working on the details of the official rules and details which will be announced soon.

To be a volunteer, contact the organizer with subject “Google TV Volunteer”. We do need one Google Site expert.

For more details, see the full listing:

http://www.svandroid.org/events/51143042/

Westin St Francis

St Francis Suite (12^th floor) 
335 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

36Kr (36Kr.com) is the most popular blog focusing on internet startup in China. Since its start in Dec. 2010, it has been reporting over 200 well-recognized early-stage internet products in China. For the past year, it has grown from a tech blog to a multi-functional platform providing comprehensive service to startups in all of the internet related sectors.

Currently, 36Kr has been working extremely hard to create more values for their readers, entrepreneurs and investors. And now they want to connect their indigenous knowledge and experience of everything China to the Silicon Valley so that people will better understand the chinese tech environment.

In order to communicate with 36kr readers in US, co-hosted with the Great Wall Club US,  this event will focus very much on Chinese mobile gaming industry and the general startups. The panel discussion will highlight mobile gaming monetization, addressing how to make REAL money in China and US. We hope this can pave ways for opportunities on both sides.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm   Registration
6:30 – 6:45pm   Opening & Introduction
6:50 – 7:50pm   Brief Keynotes

• Thomas Luo - Typical misunderstandings between startup entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China
• Andy Parng - How to build a self-expanding O2O platform without burning money
• Bin She - Differences between successful web/social games from East and West, and how to make a successful social game in China market
• Victor Tong
• Antonio Tomarchio
• Si Shen

7:50 – 8:20pm Panel Discussion
Topic: Tactics for Mobile Gaming Monetization in China
8:20 – 8:30pm Q & A

Confirmed Speakers:

• Bin She: Bin is CEO and Co-founder of Firevale, a new social gaming startup based in Beijing. Firevale is travelling to attend Game Developer Conference in March.
• Thomas Luo: Thomas is the chief writer at CBN Weekly, the most popular business magazine in China. He moved to Silicon Valley as the publication’s US-based correspondent. He is a seasoned reporter/editor covering technology, mobile and new media and has been following the most cutting edge tech products and trends closely.
• Victor Tong: Victor is the founding Managing General Partner of Webplus Ventures, the founder of Webplus, and a “lean” angel investor. He invested in Webplus and many other companies in Internet and wireless Internet, e-commerce, online games, social networking, gaming/lottery, outsourcing, and healthcare in China and USA.
• Antonio Tomarchio: Antonio Tomarchio is the founder, President and CEO of Beintoo, based in Milan, Italy and Silicon Valley in California. Beintoo is a mobile gamification platform provider with non-intrusive mechanics that deepens player’s achievement experiences by bringing real rewards. Beintoo was awarded the top winner of the pan-Europe conference Le Web 2011 Startup Competition last December.
• Andy Parng: Andy is the founder and CEO of Specialdeals.com and Yikuair.com. As a new startup in Beijing and San Jose, Yikuair aims to build a self-expanding platform connecting online users and offline businesses without burning money. It added the “micro payment” improvement to the one-to-one traction requiring the buyer to pay only a small service to secure the discount first and then pay merchants directly the discounted price.
• Si Shen: Si is the CEO and Co-founder of PapayaMobile.

About 36Kr 

36Kr (36氪) is a tech blog focusing on internet startup, whose name comes from the 36th element “Krypton”(chemical symbol “Kr”) in Periodic Table. It’s said Krypton Planet is where Supermen come from.

Currently, 36Kr.com has boasted as one of the most popular blogs in Chinese internet entrepreneurship. It releases the most recent news and analysis about internet startup and technology.

Meanwhile, 36Kr opens up “Seeking for report” channel, exposing excellent startups and products in China. Besides reporting startups for free, 36Kr has constructed “36Kr Open Day(Oday)” as the press conference of new product for early-stage internet startups, which has been held around the big cities all over the country on a monthly basis.

36Kr has also built a platform for ”Seeking for funding” and “Seeking for talents”(To be released soon) for early internet startups, to provide more comprehensive service for Chinese entrepreneurs.

About Great Wall Club
The Great Wall Club (GWC) connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

About AngelHere

Angelhere is a social network for innovative start-ups and investors in China and U.S.. We help start-ups connect with the right investors, strategic and business partners in China.

Registration

Register at gwcus-36kr.eventbrite.com
General public $10. On-site $20. Seats are limited.
For event related inquiries, please contact Mia, mia@greatwallclub.com.

36Kr (36Kr.com) is the most popular blog focusing on internet startup in China. Since its start in Dec. 2010, it has been reporting over 200 well-recognized early-stage internet products in China. For the past year, it has grown from a tech blog to a multi-functional platform providing comprehensive service to startups in all of the internet related sectors.

Currently, 36Kr has been working extremely hard to create more values for their readers, entrepreneurs and investors. And now they want to connect their indigenous knowledge and experience of everything China to the Silicon Valley so that people will better understand the chinese tech environment.

In order to communicate with 36kr readers in US, co-hosted with the Great Wall Club US,  this event will focus very much on Chinese mobile gaming industry and the general startups. The panel discussion will highlight mobile gaming monetization, addressing how to make REAL money in China and US. We hope this can pave ways for opportunities on both sides.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm   Registration
6:30 – 6:45pm   Opening & Introduction
6:50 – 7:50pm   Brief Keynotes

• Thomas Luo - Typical misunderstandings between startup entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China
• Andy Parng - How to build a self-expanding O2O platform without burning money
• Bin She - Differences between successful web/social games from East and West, and how to make a successful social game in China market
• Victor Tong
• Antonio Tomarchio
• Si Shen

7:50 – 8:20pm Panel Discussion
Topic: Tactics for Mobile Gaming Monetization in China
8:20 – 8:30pm Q & A

Confirmed Speakers:

• Bin She: Bin is CEO and Co-founder of Firevale, a new social gaming startup based in Beijing. Firevale is travelling to attend Game Developer Conference in March.
• Thomas Luo: Thomas is the chief writer at CBN Weekly, the most popular business magazine in China. He moved to Silicon Valley as the publication’s US-based correspondent. He is a seasoned reporter/editor covering technology, mobile and new media and has been following the most cutting edge tech products and trends closely.
• Victor Tong: Victor is the founding Managing General Partner of Webplus Ventures, the founder of Webplus, and a “lean” angel investor. He invested in Webplus and many other companies in Internet and wireless Internet, e-commerce, online games, social networking, gaming/lottery, outsourcing, and healthcare in China and USA.
• Antonio Tomarchio: Antonio Tomarchio is the founder, President and CEO of Beintoo, based in Milan, Italy and Silicon Valley in California. Beintoo is a mobile gamification platform provider with non-intrusive mechanics that deepens player’s achievement experiences by bringing real rewards. Beintoo was awarded the top winner of the pan-Europe conference Le Web 2011 Startup Competition last December.
• Andy Parng: Andy is the founder and CEO of Specialdeals.com and Yikuair.com. As a new startup in Beijing and San Jose, Yikuair aims to build a self-expanding platform connecting online users and offline businesses without burning money. It added the “micro payment” improvement to the one-to-one traction requiring the buyer to pay only a small service to secure the discount first and then pay merchants directly the discounted price.

About 36Kr 

36Kr (36氪) is a tech blog focusing on internet startup, whose name comes from the 36th element “Krypton”(chemical symbol “Kr”) in Periodic Table. It’s said Krypton Planet is where Supermen come from.

Currently, 36Kr.com has boasted as one of the most popular blogs in Chinese internet entrepreneurship. It releases the most recent news and analysis about internet startup and technology.

Meanwhile, 36Kr opens up “Seeking for report” channel, exposing excellent startups and products in China. Besides reporting startups for free, 36Kr has constructed “36Kr Open Day(Oday)” as the press conference of new product for early-stage internet startups, which has been held around the big cities all over the country on a monthly basis.

36Kr has also built a platform for ”Seeking for funding” and “Seeking for talents”(To be released soon) for early internet startups, to provide more comprehensive service for Chinese entrepreneurs.

About Great Wall Club
The Great Wall Club (GWC) connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

About AngelHere

Angelhere is a social network for innovative start-ups and investors in China and U.S.. We help start-ups connect with the right investors, strategic and business partners in China.

Registration

Register at gwcus-36kr.eventbrite.com
General public $10. On-site $20. Seats are limited.
For event related inquiries, please contact Mia, mia@greatwallclub.com.

1. Mobile Internet Ethics

•       Intellectual property protection
•       Data security and privacy
•       Copycats and clones

2. Mobile Internet Impact

•       Charities and good causes
•       Women in mobile
•       Education
•       Cultural impact of Weibo and Twitter

3. Mobile Advertising and Monetization

•       Ad Networks
•       Virtual Good sales
•       Freemium is the future?
•       Alternative business models

4. Future of Mobile

•       Next generation (4G/LTE)
•       Cloud computing
•       Mobile Apps for Business
•       Internet of Things (M2M)
•       Augmented Reality (AR)

5. App Distribution 

•       Android, iOS, Windows Phone, RIM
•       HTML5
•       Independent app stores
•       Carrier involvement
•       Handsets

6. Globalization 

•       How to target developing world? (SMS, Feature phones)
•       How can foreign companies be successful in China?
•       How can Chinese companies grow globally?
•       Should your startup go global or stay local

7. Entrepreneurship and Startups

•       Getting funded
•       Idea generation
•       User acquisition
•       Revenue models
•       Team motivation

8. Entertainment

•       Games
•       Mobile Audio
•       Mobile Animation

9. E-commerce goes to Mobile

•       Social Local Mobile Commerce (SOLOMOCO)
•       Mobile payment (NFC etc.)
•       Online to Offline

10. Investment 

•         Chinese IPOs
•         VIE Structures
•         Venture Capital
•         Angel investing and incubators

Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)| May 10-11^th| Beijing, China
GMIC is Asia’s largest and most elite mobile Internet conference. It is specifically designed for mobile Internet leaders to connect with each other, learn from top industry influencers and promote their initiatives.

2011, GMIC drew over 3200 tech leaders from 26 countries. The GMIC should be the one that definitely worth going, especially for those who want to get connected with influential guys in mobile industry. The theme for GMIC 2012 is “Crossing, Merging, Changing” and will highlight all the latest trends in mobile Internet in China and across the globe.

The conference consists of 3 stages: the Executive stage, appSpace developer stage and the G-Startup stage. Combined, these stages cover the full spectrum of the mobile ecosystem making GMIC the preeminent platform to promote mobile technologies and initiatives in China.

Here are some confirmed top speakers:

Charles CHAO 

CEO Sina.com

LEI Jun 

Angel Investor, CEO Xiaomi

LIU Chengmin 

Senior Executive Vice President Tencent

Takeshi Natsuno
Inventor  Imode

Shainiel DEO

CEO Halfbrick Studios (Fruit Ninja)

Manzi XUE
Angle investor

Joe Hu
CEO NetDragon Boyuan

Previous speakers include:  Tecent CEO, Gree CEO, Lenovo CEO, Rovio CEO, Kaifu Li, Renren CEO, Opera CEO, Sohu CEO, Google China CEO, Skype Founder, DeNA COO, Motorola VP, Nokia VP Dave McClure, Softbank EVP

Previous media coverage includes: Techcrunch, CNN, CCTV, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Venturebeat, ReadWriteWeb

Mark your calendars and head over to HERE to grab your tickets.  See you there!

Top Sponsors

About GWC

GWC connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

If you are a big fan of social media, especially Twitter, join our Twitter contest to win the free tickets to Beijing! More information here