DAY1
08:30 - 09:30
19:00 - 22:00
DAY2
08:30 - 10:00
09:30 - 13:00
*Tentative agenda. Subject to Change.
Inaugural Keynote : Importance of Open Source Ecosystem in Digital India
Digital India will require new technology paradigms and new ways to address problems spanning across energy, transportation, education, mobility, healthcare & governance. Open Source software and IoT platforms would play a crucial role in solving those problems.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the Joint Secretary in the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India where he is responsible for promotion of Electronic Hardware Industry, development of Human Resource for IT & Electronics, development of e-Infrastructure and e-Learning initiatives in the country. Previously he was the Principal Secretary for the Information Technology Department, Government of Kerala, where he grew IT investments and ramped up e-governance initiatives with in Government - by deploying mobile computing, cloud computing and open source computing. Dr. Kumar has received over 20 international and national awards for various e-governance initiatives. He has a PhD in Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA, a M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, USA and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Inaugural Keynote : Gearing Up for Tizen - The OS of Everything
Tizen brings developers & Samsung a great new opportunity to collaborate and Innovate together. Advanced Tizen SDK will cover Mobile, TV, Wearables and IoT opening up avenues for creativity and new connected experiences
Dr. Aloknath De is Corporate Vice President of Samsung Electronics and CTO at Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore India. Dr. De has more than twenty-five years of industrial and research experience including the most recent one in ST-Ericsson where he was Board Director and Country Manager. He is a recipient of 'Alexander Graham Bell Prize' in Canada for his research work and received IETE Memorial Awards in India for his outstanding contributions to the field of Electronics and Communication. He has previously served as Adjunct Professor at IIT-Delhi and also as AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Prof. with IIT-Roorkee.
Dr. De holds B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, M.E. from IISC and Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE, USA and Fellows of IE, IETE in India.
Industry Keynote : Reimagining Mobile Advertising
How advertising is changing in the mobile-first era. The need to reimagine advertising in a truly 'user-first' way to unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem and its impact on Tizen developers going forward.
Naveen is the founder of InMobi. His dream is to re-imagine advertising in a truly 'user-first' way to unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem.
Naveen's professional journey started with McKinsey & Company where he worked on developing the go-to-market strategy for a large Indian conglomerate, as it entered the telecom sector. Later, he joined Charles River Ventures (CRV), a top tier VC firm focusing on early stage investing in software and communications. Naveen worked with CRV on developing its India investment strategy. He also worked briefly with a mobile VoIP startup in Silicon Valley.
Naveen holds a Bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur and has a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Industry Keynote : NextGen TV viewing Experience
Airtel and Samsung have partnered to launch the first integrated DTV (iDTV) for the Indian ecosystem to address the challenge of rapidly increasing DTV viewership in India and their app demand complexity. iDTV platform will offer a plethora of innovative applications and new user experiences
Sanjeev is CTO and Head of Satellite Network Group taking care of DTH, IPTV, Teleport and VSAT at Bharti Telemedia.
Sanjeev played a pivotal role in launch of Airtel and Samsung's first Integrated Digital TV (iDTV) powered by Tizen. Prior to Airtel, Sanjeev was CTO at Wire & Wireless India Limited(WWIL), responsible for Digitization & implementation of Conditional Access Systems in Metro cities of India. Sanjeev's career spans design, engineering and manufacturing in the field of CATV equipment, HFC networks and others.
Sanjeev holds a BE from Nagpur University and a General Management degree from IIM Bangalore
Growing challenges and expectations are ever present from modern operating systems running on embedded and consumer devices. While users are expecting consistent user experience across devices, OEMs are looking at strong and scalable OS with short time to market. The answer to these challenges lies in Tizen OS. Tizen is a true open-source, standards-based, cross device category software platform supported by leading device manufacturers and silicon suppliers.
In this session, we will share our vision and goals of Tizen. We will discuss advantages, versatility and the technical architecture of Tizen. In addition, Tizen 3.0 features and concept of device profiles including smartphones, Smart TVs, Wearable, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), IoT and more will be introduced.
Mohan Rao GNS- Vice President, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore.
Mohan Rao brings 22+ years' of experience in leading Mobile Protocols & Platform Team at Samsung, Bangalore. His R&D team is responsible for bringing Tizen into a market of futuristic devices. Apart from leading the talent pool of Tizen, Mohan serves as a technical communication point for stakeholders including Operators, Senior Management and Suppliers
Sachin Dev Sharma - General Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi.
Sachin manages Tizen TV development team. He is involved in defining key features of Tizen TV profile and platform architecture. He has 16 years of professional experience in TV and Set-top box platform software development
Breakthrough Games with Tizen
There are about 1.5 Million Apps uploaded daily in two of the major app markets to date. Getting your application noticed would be a challenge. What kind of game can you develop that stands out? Why choose a saturated market where in you can get a head start with the Tizen Store?
Learn the best practices in Game Development with Tizen and get to know how to make your application be noticed.
Sungyul Choe- Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics, Korea.
Sungyul is a member of the Tizen R&D Graphics Team. He currently works on developing Tizen Graphics features and 3D Graphics; which includes OpenGl-ES and DALi (ED specialized widget system)
Dinesh Gopalakrishnan- Product Manager, Games2win
Dinesh has been in the Online and Mobile gaming industry since 9 years and is currently the Product Manager at Games2win. Being an avid cricket fan, he naturally managed to make 6 cricket games in the last one year. 2 of them being 'Power Cricket T20' with 4.5 Million downloads across all appstores, reaching #1 Spot and 'World Cricket Champs-2015' crossing 1.5 Million downloads overall in 3 months, reaching #2 Spot in the Top Free Sports category on the Android Play Store.
Dinesh has vast experience in production management and publishing online and mobile games. He has been with the 2win group working since last 16 years having managed a creative studio for many years
Taking TV to another level : Introducing the Tizen TV SDK and App Development
The TV still reigns as the Main Screen at home. The Tizen TV platform will give an overview of the Tizen SDK environment and provide a guide for those who would develop on this platform. The session will cover from using CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript on development to the guidelines for TV Application development. A demo of the Tizen Store is also included.
Avnish Jain- Deputy General Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi.
Avnish is Software Architect and currently leads Tizen TV team. He has an experience of more than 8 years in developing SDK, UI frameworks and applications for DTV. He has also contributed significantly in Connectivity, Graphics, Web, MVPD/PVOD and Convergence areas. Prior to joining Samsung, Avnish has spent over 8 years in developing solutions for broadcast and multimedia technology companies.
Ajit Kohir- Lead Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi.
Ajith's focus is on developing the Smart TV front-end application development for variety of content providers. He has a keen interest in front-end technology and tools, contributed in development of more than 50+ application for Tizen.
Panel Talk 1 - Then, Now, and Tomorrow with Tizen
Curious about why Tizen exists and where it's going? This panel discussion is for you. Four experts will provide a variety of perspectives on how we got to where we are, and what we believe the future holds for Tizen.
Brian Warner is Senior Open Source Strategist at Samsung Research America. Prior to joining Samsung he was Director of Client Services at The Linux Foundation, where he managed the Tizen Project and a variety of other Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects.
Ashiq is a Technical evangelist at the Tizen Experts website and has been Involved with evangelizing Tizen Operating System since its inception in 2011, attending all major Tizen events held globally since.
With a technical background of IT consultant, network Infrastructure and integration he is able to realize the opportunities that Tizen represents in the wearable / smart home and IoT space. Tizen Experts is the worlds largest independent resource for Tizen.
Joyce Law Joyce started her career in the food and beverage industry when a friend introduced her to the world of casual games. Jumping right into it, she has enjoyed the privilege of working in the games space in publishing (Oberon Media), content acquisition for a computer manufacturer (Lenovo) and focused on the potential of building a gaming hub in the region with a government agency (iDA Singapore).
Alok Kejriwal Digital Entrepreneur, likes to create companies to sell them later. Sold last Company to Disney. Currently builds games for a living. Has a love-love relationship with VCs. Lives on an airplane. Avid Art of Living follower & meditator. Spiritual Seeker. Blogs vigorously. Talks to Yoda in his sleep. Mentors entrepreneurs. Virtual address is therodinhoods.com. Increasingly getting to be known as Alok 'Rodinhood' Kejriwal.
Chandra Bajpai is the VP of Advanced Technologies at OpenMobile. A proven technology product management executive, Chandra brings 20+ years of experience in high tech engineering, marketing, presales, strategic planning and management. Cultivating a broad perspective on the high tech marketplace, he has run the gamut from early stage startups to billion dollar behemoths including SystemSoft, Metatomix, Charles River and Monster.com. At SystemSoft, Chandra conceived and developed two market defining products, CardWizard and SystemWizard, directly propelling the company towards market leadership and a highly successful IPO.
As a technology evangelist, Chandra has been a supporter of Samsung's Tizen platform from its earliest concepts. OpenMobile has delivered state of art solutions under his guidance that have expanded Tizen's
Heighten your App user experience with new TIZEN mobile UX - New style, controls and design patterns
An introduction to new Tizen mobile UX based on our design philosophy called 'AIR'. In this session get acquainted with the ramped-up visual style, core controls, design patterns and practices which you can follow to create compelling and enjoyable UX for your Tizen Apps. The 'AIR design philosophy inspires an open, flexible, and rich visual experience. All iconography, typography, colors and motion graphics have been redesigned, enabling you take Tizen user experience to the next level of enjoyment.
Samrat SN- Principal Designer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Samrat is currently leading a team for building UX for TIZEN mobile in India. In his 5 years with Samsung he has lead several user-focused UX innovation projects across platforms & product lines. Currently his responsibility extends to creating compelling mobile UX solutions for local & emerging markets. Prior to joining Samsung, Samrat, an NID alumnus, spent 9 years in industry working as an automobile designer and innovation consultant with leading design & product companies.
Wear Your Apps - A Tizen Wearable Overview
Tizen has proven to be solid platform for development on the wearable platform. And, the Samsung Gear devices are a testament to that. Get to understand the major features and capabilities that are available on Tizen devices. Developing on a Gear App is easy as long as you have a Basic Web technology background. API and Web UI Framework "TAU" code samples are included.
Piotr Karny- Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Poland
Starting his career from traditional Web applications, the passion to JavaScript-powered solutions brought Piotr to Tizen platform. He is a member of the team which develops Web UI Framework "TAU" and besides coding he is spreading the word about Tizen on global events.
Panel Talk 2 - Startup: Building Story & Getting funding
You are building your dream startup - how do you prepare yourself for fundraising? How to approach and pitch to investors? How do investors identify an unicorn startup? The do's and don't of fundraising and more.
Shradha Sharma- Founder & CEO, YourStory Media.
Shradha founded YourStory in 2008, on the premise of championing the spirit of entrepreneurship in India, YourStory has grown into India's leading digital media platform for entrepreneurs, innovators, leaders, founders and change makers.
Recently she was conferred with L'Oreal Paris Femina Award 2015 in Online Influencer category. In December 2014 she delivered a Ted talk at Tedx Bay Area, San Francisco that won her accolades from the world over. The Economic Times ranked her among the top five women entrepreneurs in the Indian startup ecosystem. In 2015, she was selected in the list of 500 LinkedIn Influencers across the world.
Rutvik Doshi - Director, Inventus (India) Advisors.
Rutvik joined Inventus after 12 years of successful technology industry operating roles. He has participated in India's fast emerging internet ecosystem since 2007, first with Google where he launched several products including Voice Search, Google Mobile App, SMS Channels and managed Google News globally, and most recently as the CEO of ecommerce startup Taggle in Bangalore. Before Google he spent 6 years in the U.S. building internet management software for CA Technologies and a startup.
Ravi Gururaj - Evangelist, NASSCOM Product & Executive Council
Ravi Gururaj is a serial entrepreneur with 5 ventures and 2 public exits, an angel investor, a mentor to numerous entrepreneurs, technology executive, and ecosystem evangelist. He is Chairman & Co-Founder of Frictionless Ventures where he is building and investing in innovative software products primarily in the cloud, mobile, and big data segments.
Over his 25-year career, Ravi has held wide ranging roles including promoting an STPI unit exporting software components out of India, product management at Intel, served as Managing Director of the Trilogy Software's India engineering center, and founded multiple successful software product ventures two of which were acquired by public NASDAQ listed US technology companies.
Ravi is a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council, chairs the NASSCOM Product Council and co-hosts the NASSCOM Product Conclave. He is Charter Member of TiE Bangalore where he launched the Cloud SIG, is Co-Chair/Founder of the Penn & Wharton Club of Bangalore, and is Co-Founder & Co-Chair of HBS Alumni Angels India chapter.
One Size Fits All : Building Apps for any platform with Tizen
Cross Platform is one of the key features for Tizen: The OS of Everything. Get to know more of the multi-platform development environments for Tizen Web, Native and Hybrid Apps. Also includes development profiles for Mobile, Wearables, and TV.
Praveen C- Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Praveen has good exposure to application development and has witnessed the application UI development using GTK and gradually evolved towards the adaptation of EFL in Tizen platform. He was a core member of Tizen Z1 commercialization team handling the Call application. Besides that he has been active in spreading the EFL development knowledge to the new joiners & other R&D engineers through internal training presentations.
Kaushik Das- Kaushik Das, Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore.
Kaushik is working with Samsung for more than 10 year that includes more than 5 years of experience of working in web domain. Prior to work in web domain he also worked in multimedia applications. Before joining Samsung he spent about 3 years working for multimedia and networking technologies. He is currently leading Web Runtime Framework team for Tizen.
Tools of the trade : New Tizen SDK & Tools
Easily create applications by using the Tizen Software Development Kit (SDK). Have fun learning the Tizen IDE, Web App development tools, and Building apps to name a few. This session would give you a walkthrough, tips and tricks whenever you develop any app or widget on the Tizen Platform.
Senthil Kumar Thangavelu- Group Engineering Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Senthil is part of Tizen team at the Software Center (SWC) Group, Bangalore Lab. He has 13+ years of working industry experience in embedded software development. Senthil has worked on multiple domains including Java micro edition VM porting, compilers, bootloaders, and kernel drivers. He is an avid fan of linux and open source. Senthil's interests are programming languages and virtual machines.
Building Next gen products for Indian Consumers
India is poised to become the world's largest middle class consumer market with a total consumer spend of nearly US$ 13 trillion by 2030, as per a report by Deloitte titled 'India matters: Winning in growth markets'. By 2020, an estimated 1 Billion Indians will be holding a internet connected mobile phone, as per GSMA's Mobile Economy India report.
Eminent panelists will deliberate on the emerging opportunities around building Next Generation Products for Indian Consumers leveraging the growth in middle class consumption and an even faster growth of mobile ownership in India
Bhanu Potta - Global Product Strategist, Board Advisor & Executive Coach at the Institute of Product Leadership.
Bhanu is a board advisor, global product leader, entrepreneur and development enthusiast. He is passionate about building purposeful Products which enhance human endeavor and development.
In a corporate career spanning 19 years, he set up and successfully led various global product programs for Nokia, Perot Systems, Informatics Group and NIIT helping them grow to hundreds of millions of users both in Developed Markets and Emerging Markets. Since 2013, Bhanu has been nurturing Product Leadership capacities across industry sectors. Sharing his time between India, Europe and USA, Bhanu advises corporate boards, CXOs, enterprise leaders and startup founders on strategy, capability and OD in building successful product organizations. As an angel investor and startup advisor, he saw through three startups in Europe and India from Idea to Market to Series A in the last two years. Bhanu is an invited Executive Coach and Professor of Practice at the Institute of Product Leadership.
Chitra Ravi is founder and CEO of EZ Vidya a premier education research and innovation organization focused on delivering quality holistic education in Indian schools. Chrysalis, the flagship product of EZ Vidya, focuses on 'transforming classrooms to Thinkrooms, in hundreds of schools. Recently a digital learning app called "Buzzle" was launched by EZ Vidya in over 12 cities in India. These along with awards like the 'Game Changer of the Year 2012' award by IndiaMart and ET Now, stand testimony to Chitra's work. More recently EZ Vidya was awarded the South Asian Education Summit award for "Innovation in school curriculum".
Chitra holds a Masters in English and an MBA. Apart from steering EZ Vidya as CEO, to constantly come up with innovative ideas; Chitra travels to various schools and actively participates in several national and international conferences in education
Saran Chatterjee has worked with Flipkart for close to 3 years as the VP of Product Management. He has played a key role in scaling Flipkart by shaping company strategy, setting up product management, design and operations org and heading the consumer experience and platforms teams. Prior to Flipkart, Saran worked with Yahoo! for six years across diverse functions - including product management for consumer search, search advertising, product marketing and operations. He has also held key product development and planning positions at Fujitsu Network Communications.
Saran holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio and BS in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. His interest lies in new technology, creating products that solve real consumer problems and in the process have significant impact on their lives.
Julian Philips is founder of Mobile Perspectives, a management consultancy advising businesses on mobile strategy. Julian has over 18 years of experience in the industry and has been the founding member of two US based mobile startups - Unimobile & July Systems. Most recently he was CEO of Matchify - a mobile dating company.
At July he was SVP Product Management & Marketing, and responsible for the vision of July's product and market strategy. As part of the July's customer success task force he has advised CXOs of Fortune 500 Media, Travel and Retail companies and helped various teams within their organization to navigate critical challenges in their mobile journey. Before joining July Systems, Julian was part of the founding team at Unimobile Inc. (acquired by VeriSign) where he managed Product User Experience and Marketing Communications. He was also the principal designer for the Unimobile Messenger, the world's first internet to mobile Instant Messenger.
Hiren Chandiramani is the Director of Product Management for the Enterprise Infrastructure and Solution Group (EISG) at Cisco, India. Hiren has over 16 years of experience in Product Management & Marketing, Technical Marketing, Go-To-Market Strategy and management. At Cisco, Hiren was responsible for building the first networking product targeted at Emerging markets that was completely designed and delivered from Cisco, India. He was also responsible for building a Product management and Technical Marketing organization from ground up that is responsible for all enterprise switching and routing products being delivered out of Cisco India.
Prior to moving back to India to join Cisco in 2011, Hiren was based in Silicon Valley where he held various leadership roles in Product Management and Marketing with companies such as Brocade, NetApp, VMware and HP. He started his career as a developer working for HP,s networking division before transitioning into Product Management. Hiren holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a BE in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bombay.
Building Exciting User Interfaces on new Tizen Platform with EFL/DALi
The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are one of the many components for Tizen's Native UI Libraries. These libraries cover things from rendering through to scene graph, opengl accelerated rendering, widget set, mainloop, thread helpers, layout handling and much more. In addition, new Tizen Platform adds up "Dynamic Animation Library (DALi), which is a cutting edge high performance 3D UI engine built on top of latest OpenGL ES rendering technology
Govindaraju SM - Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Govindaraju is currently leading the Tizen UI & Graphics team. He has spent over 15 years in Software design, development & standardization majorly in Mobile domain. His major focus areas are Mobile UI and Graphics middleware & drivers.
Get an Edge to your Web Apps with Core APIs & Tizen Advanced UI (TAU)
Tizen Web Device APIs based on JavaScript provide access to the device's advanced platform capabilities. Tizen Advanced UI (TAU) is the standalone customizable and easy to extend Web UI library for Tizen platform. TAU simplifies complicated UI design which makes application development faster also which is tweaked for maximum performance. TAU supports various profiles (mobile, wearable, and TV).
Kaushik Das, Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore.
Kaushik is working with Samsung for more than 10 year that includes more than 5 years of experience of working in web domain. Prior to work in web domain he also worked in multimedia applications. Before joining Samsung he spent about 3 years working for multimedia and networking technologies. He is currently leading Web Runtime Framework team for Tizen.
Suchin Chouta- Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Suchin works for Tizen web application team. He has 9 years of experience in Web Technologies and worked on end to end web solutions.
Opportunities for the Next Samsung Gear Smartwatch
Are wearables the next big thing? What about Smartwatches? In this session we take a look at these questions and look at what opportunities the wearable market can potentially hold for application and game developers. Samsung's Next Gear Smart watch, which is Tizen based, will launch soon and being part of a new app ecosystem has its own benefits. We will look at the wearable / smartwatch market and see how it has evolved over the last few years, and also look towards its potential future, answering the question of "Why a Smartwatch?" along the way. A quick history lesson of the Gear line-up and then there is some special insights into what the Next Gear Smartwatch will be like. Lastly we will look at Smart watches potential to connect to our Smart Home, Smart Car and the Internet of Things.
To participate in this session you need to sign-up at the following link for Pre-Access to Samsung's New Gear SDK http://developer.samsung.com/wearable/sub.html
Ashiq is a Technical evangelist at the Tizen Experts website and has been Involved with evangelizing Tizen Operating System since its inception in 2011, attending all major Tizen events held globally since.
With a technical background of IT consultant, network Infrastructure and integration he is able to realize the opportunities that Tizen represents in the wearable / smart home and IoT space. Tizen Experts is the worlds largest independent resource for Tizen.
Enriching and fulfilling experience to Eyes & Ears - Tizen Multimedia
Get more interactivity by further incorporating Visual and Auditory faculties with the Tizen Multimedia. Familiarize yourselves with the following:
-Playback, streaming & Recording Media Data
-Audio Behavior Management
-Media Utilities
-FM Radio Implementation
-Plugin Architecture of gStreamer
-and much more
Rajaram Naganur - Group Engineering Manager, Samsung R & D Institute, Bangalore
Rajaram Naganur is working with SAMSUNG from last 14 years with various responsibilities including Video Telephony, DVB-H, SHP Multimedia, bada Multimedia: development & productization. He currently leads Tizen Multimedia Framework & Multimedia Applications and Tizen teams.
Ruchika Saxena - Senior Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi
Ruchika Saxena is having 12+ years of experience in embedded software across Consumer Electronics (STB & DTV) and Automotive (IVI, Engine & Body control) products. Currently, she is leader of Tizen Multimedia Framework development at Samsung Research Lab in Delhi and actively developing Tizen Multimedia Audio framework, Camera & Screen Mirroring framework
Tizen TV - Video On Demand n App Development
Understanding IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) and PVOD Framework (Premium Video on Demand). Enables Content partners to develop applications on Tizen TV. Includes support coverage to integrate 3rd party IPTV modules and the PVOD SDK.
Understanding VOD Framework (Video on Demand). Enables Content partners to develop applications on Tizen TV. Includes support coverage to integrate 3rd party PVOD SDK.
Maneesh Kumar Shrivastava- Senior Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi.
Maneesh is one of the key developers of 'Premium Video on Demand (VoD)' framework for Tizen TV. He has more than 10 years of experience in developing secure multimedia and graphics system on TV.
Dalvinder Singh- Senior chief engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi.
Dalvinder is one of the key developers of MVPD/IPTV middleware for Tizen TV. He has long experience in multimedia middleware development, IPTV middleware, Flash player and web runtime technologies.
Under the Hood: Performance Tuning with Tizen
Tizen OS is highly optimized to make your Smart phone, Gear efficient for your everyday tasks, from opening apps to accessing your contacts. This session covers the optimizations done under the hood. It also covers tools and tips to fine tune your applications for performance and better battery life.
Ravi Sankar Guntur, Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Ravi started off his programming career with Linux/Tizen. He was associated with Tizen since its beginnings. he currently leads a team which focuses on improving Tizen performance. He has 11 years of Programming experience and his areas of interest include system programming and optimization techniques.
Creating Synergies on the Cloudbox
Used Cloud Storage recently? How many have you used? Any challenges when using it? Cloudbox is all about finding solutions for these kinds of questions. Discover answers, guides, and manage Contents of the Cloud more effectively than ever before. Knowing these features will enable you to use it onto your application without any changes to the code.
Go ahead and add your idea on the Cloudbox and take this first step for the Convergence Framework.
Mohan Sundar B- Group Engineering Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore.
Mohan is leading a team of developers working on Cloud and Intelligence domain. He has 14+ years of experience in software design and development. He is working in cloud & intelligence domain for last 4+ years. Before this he was leading a team which was responsible to develop DRM, System optimization solutions. His interest areas are cloud based service development and distributed computing platforms.
IoTivity - Connecting Things in IoT
Understand APIs introduced by IoTivity's base framework and the Common Services for Group Management of Things & Soft Sensor Management. Enables developers to write plugins to connect devices built on OIC standards to communicate with legacy devices using Protocol Manager Service.
IoTivity is an open source software framework as part of Linux Foundation, enabling seamless device-to-device connectivity to address the emerging needs of the Internet of Things. IoTivity's framework is backed by leading technology companies including Samsung and Intel to name a few.
Ashok Subash - Principal Engineer, Samsung R & D Institute, Bangalore
Ashok is a Software Architect for IoTivity Framework at the Software Center (SWC) Group. He was also involved in architecture, design and development of connectivity solutions in Samsung used in Smartphones and Wearable devices. Ashok spent his initial years at Samsung developing IPSec, Wireless Profiled TCP and was also involved in the research of porting Gecko based web engine for resource constrained Mobile and Camera platforms.
Team Up : Contributing to the Tizen Platform
The Tizen Open Source Project involves the cooperation of many talented people working in different roles and responsibilities in creating the platform. The session would include patch submission process, the major upstream components used in Tizen, tools used, and many more.
Narasimha Swamy Nelakuditi- Principal Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Swamy leads team of contributors to open source projects Blink, BlueZ, EFL & gStreamer which are used Tizen. The team is also responsible for ensuring healthy status of Tizen Open Source by reviewing the patches and answering technical queries. Prior to joining Samsung, Swamy has 14 years of experience with mobile and networking software development.
Sanjay Narasimha Murthy- Senior Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Sanjay is active gStreamer contributor and Multimedia expert. He provides guidelines regarding open source compliance and mentorship to those starting their open source journey. Apart from Tizen, Sanjay also had experience with Android & Bada mobile platforms
Connected Intelligence - driving the way for IoT fusion of industries
As Innovation in the industry is now shifting from mobiles and using them as gateways to connect appliances, cars, apparels and even our bodies to internet, the key challenge is to create a smart future using connected intelligence among the equipment. Connected Intelligence is becoming the backbone for IoT fusion among multiple industries to provide connections that are seamless, secure and create abundant opportunity for application developers to provide consumer services that are scalable across connected industries. This talk would address the emerging technological challenges and use cases for hardware and software platform providers and how tizen as a software platform need to scale for connected intelligence in the future, by benefiting the developers to maximize their investment through seamless migration of their services among various end equipment across industries
Veera Manikandan Raju- Senior Leader, Texas Instruments.
Veera drives System and Software strategy of TI's next generation embedded processing platforms. He is an accomplished leader in Wireless and Embedded industry with track record across strategy, planning, innovation, execution & production through various worldwide key roles like Senior Director of Visual Technologies, Director of Natural User Interfaces and other high impact roles in TI's wireless and embedded processing groups. He ramped over 100+ Wireless, Embedded and automotive products into market based on Android, Linux, Symbian and RTOS.
Veera is also a senior member technical staff which recognizes him as top 6% of the world wide distinguished technical population across Texas Instruments. He has been with Texas Instruments for over 14 years and has 5 granted patents and 16 filed patents in USPTO and many publications.
Guiding through the Tizen Ecosystem & Store
Be familiarized with the Tizen Ecosystem, Tizen Store, and Tizen Seller Office! Includes the major aspects of the Tizen Ecosystem, Developer Outreach Program, and Services. Learn to register Tizen Applications as well by knowing key features and guidelines.
Chandragouda Patil- Group Engineering Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore.
Chandu looks after developer outreach program. He works with brands, partners and developers to produce innovative mobile applications based on current and future technologies as well as evangelizing the Samsung platforms. At Samsung he also manages Solution/Service development for B2B verticals focused on Healthcare & Education
Tizen TV - App Development Workshop
TV gives us the most wonderful viewing experience. Being the fastest growing Operating System for Smart Devices, TIZEN facilitates Application (App) developer across the globe to bring idea into reality and change everyday life. App development is a challenging task as it requires unique thoughts and medium to reach its users. To expand the technical horizon and reduce the issues faced by the Tizen TV App developers, a workshop on App Architecture and Development life cycle is organized which includes App deployment process on the Emulator and Tizen TV. Attendees of the session are expected to be enriched by the various capabilities of Tizen TV platform and debugging methodologies required during App development phase. This session also offers an exciting walkthrough experience of real-life App development and its registration process on the Tizen App Store.
Amit Gauraw- Lead Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi
Amit Gauraw looks after the SmartTV App development Team in Samsung. He works with partners and developers to produce innovative Smart TV applications. He is having extensive experience of Smart TV Application Development.
Pardeep Kumar- Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Delhi
Pardeep works for Smart TV to produce innovative TV applications based on current and future technologies as well as evangelizing the Samsung platforms. He has 10 years of experience in Web application Development with large technology companies.
He manages and lead a application development team under his supervision, and developed most notable applications over the platform and recognized world-wide.
Architecting Games in Unity with Best Practices
Unity is a flexible game engine that can be used to develop any type of game. As a result it can sometimes be difficult to know how to architect your game in a way that's easy to iterate and build upon. This talk will cover a basic architecture structure for your game, point out some commonly overlooked details that can have a major impact on performance, and also discuss some of the related changes and additions in Unity 5.0. The talk is geared towards programmers at all skill levels, but will be most beneficial for beginner or intermediate programmers.
Rustum Scammell has been making games for more than 10 years. He owns Craft Colony, a game production & consulting company. He is a games technology generalist and takes a holistic approach to game development. He has been developing in Unity since 2009. Rus is an MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) winner. In 2012, he released Penyu the Turtle, a top down shooter for iOS. He also launched and managed Malaysia,s first online portal for game assets. Previously, he was Technical Art Director at Big Bad Robots and Senior 3D Artist at GameBrains. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tizen DevLab
Tizen DevLab events are intended for those who want to hone their app development skills on Tizen.
The Tizen Developer Lab is an in-depth, hands-on session on Tizen SDK to showcase various APIs available for application development. It also includes hands on sample app development during the session. Join us, and discover the rich development environment available for Tizen developers!
Kindly carry your own laptop for the event (Minimum 3GB RAM).
Install Tizen SDK from https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/tizen-sdk#2.3.
Prerequisites for installing Tizen SDK can be found at https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk/installing-sdk/prerequisites-tizen-sdk
For quick installation experience, try downloading both SDK image and installer. Installation instructions can be found at https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk/installing-sdk/upgrading-sdk -> 'Upgrading with the SDK Image File', which can be used for first installation as well.
Agenda & Schedule
14:30 - 15:00
Madhavi Akella- Technical Manager, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Madhavi currently works for Tizen Developer Outreach program. As part of Tizen DevLab program she organizes technical, interactive & hands-on sessions for app developers. Associated with Samsung since 8+ years, she has worked on telephony, messaging middleware and extensively contributed to communication APIs for bada and Tizen platforms.
Anvesh M- Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Anvesh currently works for Developer Outreach program. He has good understanding of web technologies & APIs for web app development. Working with Tizen since some time, he has been dedicatedly contributing to app development, porting and performance tuning of applications.
Suchin Chouta- Chief Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
Suchin works for Tizen web application team. He has 9 years of experience in Web Technologies and worked on end to end web solutions.