Sponsor: Openstream
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Bill Clark, Raj Tumuluri, Rod Smith
Type: Video (25 minutes)
While delivering that first iPhone/blackberry application is a great accomplishment, it's also a stopgap solution. Effective capitalization of the mobile opportunity requires a carefully crafted mobile application strategy that takes advantage of delivery-context, user-experience, application portability, security and ease of maintenance.
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About Raj Tumuluri, CEO, Openstream
Raj leads the context-aware multimodal platform and Enterprise mobile applications development at Openstream. With over 17 years of experience in distributed computing, multimodal technology, international standards development, is a co-author of several Speech & Multimodal Interaction standards at the W3C. His current research focuses on human-centric-interfaces in context-aware distributed mobile applications using multimodality & OSGi technology
About Rod Smith, IBM fellow & VP - IBM Emerging Internet Technologies
Rodney (Rod) Smith is an IBM fellow and Vice President of the IBM Emerging Internet Technologies organization, where he leads a group of highly technical innovators who are developing solutions to help businesses realize the value of Web 2.0 to the enterprise. In his many years in the industry Rod has moved IBM – and the IT community to a rapid adoption of technologies such as Web services, enterprise mashups, XML, Linux, J2EE, rich internet applications, and various wireless standards. As an IBM Fellow, Rod is helping lead IBM’s strategic planning around Web 2.0 technologies and practices, with a focus on how these technologies can bring real business value to IBM’s customers.
Rod enjoys a sustained record of achievements in the software business and is the recipient of several prestigious awards and author of numerous invention patents and disclosures. He received the TJ Watson Design Excellence Award and several Leadership awards. Rod is a longtime member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
About Bill Clark, Research VP, Gartner
Bill Clark is a research vice president in Gartner Research. His research agenda includes mobile software development, context-aware computing, the effect of mobile on business processes and workforces, mobile enterprise application platforms, mobile consumer application platforms, all types of wireless networks, smartphones, ruggedized PDAs, and location technologies.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Clark worked at Ericsson for 10 years, where he served as both an architect and a product development manager for wireless communicators, GSM phones, and the infrastructure of public and private wireless networks. He also co-founded and served as CEO and CTO of a wireless startup company focused on WLAN applications, and he served as vice president of business development for a private firm focused on mobile field service management.
