The Mobile Stack's Cloud Layer

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Moderated by:

Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)

Panelists:

Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo), Scott Kveton (Urban Airship, Inc.), Henri Moissinac (Facebook)

2:35pm Tuesday, 05/04/2010

Focus on Mobile
Location: 2010

Few mobile apps are useful without the web. There’s a new layer in the cloud aimed specifically at mobile developers. Sometimes built on top of AWS these web services are designed specifically to make an mobile app scale. These companies handle the new CRUD of dealing with location data, notifications, user connections and let mobile devs focus on the client.

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Jason Grigsby

Cloud Four

Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal’s Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.

Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at CloudFour.com and provides a frequent updates about mobile on Twitter.

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Matt Galligan

SimpleGeo

Matt Galligan, 25, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of Boulder, CO that provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure for app developers. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Socialthing.com went into private beta in March, 2008 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The company was acquired five months later by AOL. Socialthing was later rebranded as AOL Lifestream.

Matt currently resides in Boulder, CO and is an active member of the startup community there.

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Scott Kveton

Urban Airship, Inc.

Scott brings 15 years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies like Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and now Urban Airship. Urban Airship works with thousands of brands using their leading mobile messaging and monetization platform. Scott was the co-founder of the Open Source Lab helping open source projects like Mozilla, Linux, Apache, Drupal grow into mainstream usage. Scott was an active supporter of open web standards having co-founded the OpenID and Open Web Foundations. He currently lives in Portland, OR.

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Henri Moissinac

Facebook

Henri Moissinac is Head of Mobile Business at Facebook and oversees the company’s mobile strategy and operations. Henri joined Facebook from eBay, where he led mobile and product strategy. Before eBay, he was the co-founder and CTO of iBazar, a leading online auction company which was acquired by eBay. Previously, Henri worked in venture capital with Atlas Venture and began his career at Orange. Henri holds a PhD from Telecom Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure, France.