The market for mobile applications is one of the fastest growing in the country. At the same time, there are a great number of barriers that innovators face in either getting their products to market or keeping them online.
Public Knowledge, which in 2007 asked the Federal Communications Commission to protect text messaging, and the Mobile Internet Content Coalition (MICC), will sponsor a half-day conference on June 11, 2010, to explore those issues with the people who every day see the challenge and frustrations of the mobile market.
Here’s the agenda. We hope you can join us.
Date: Friday, June 11, 2010
Place: Arent Fox LLP 1050 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Seventh Floor Washington, D.C. 20036
AGENDA
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Networking Welcome, Introduction, and Overview – Mike Hazzard, Arent Fox
8:40 Panel I – Meet the Mobile Innovators
Innovative organizations are deploying a wide-array of mobile strategies to communicate with consumers. Panelists will discuss the ways in which their organizations are using SMS messaging and the mobile Internet to engage the public. The panel will discuss emerging, real-world mobile offerings and the pioneering private and public sector organizations that are bringing them to the mainstream.
Zaw Thet, CEO, 4INFO
Jared Reitzin, CEO, mobileStorm
Jeff Sass, Vice President, Myxer
Jed Alpert, CEO, Mobile Commons
9:30 Break
9:45 Panel II – Unleashing the Mobile Economy – Harold Feld, Public Knowledge
As the mobile Internet develops, consumers are finding that access is not as free or unfettered as on the traditional Internet. The panel will discuss practices that limit consumer choice and access to content over the mobile Internet, including access to SMS “short codes,” and practical solutions freeing the mobile economy by empowering consumers.
Zaw Thet, CEO, 4INFO
Jared Reitzin, CEO, mobileStorm
Jeff Sass, Vice President, Myxer
Jed Alpert, CEO, Mobile Commons
Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge
11:00 Adjourn
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