Henry Balanon is the founder and lead iPhone/iPad app developer at Bickbot, and is a well-known speaker about mobile technologies. Prior to Bickbot, Henry held software developer positions at Cynergy and Lockheed-Martin. Henry received a degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and lives in the metro Detroit area of Michigan.

Lee S. Barney is the creator of the QuickConnectFamily framework for JavaScript-based cross-platform hybrid applications and a professor in the Computer Information Technology Department at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He served as CIO/CTO of @HomeSoftware, a company that produced Web-based, mobile data and scheduling applications for the home health care industry. He is the author of Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone.

John Basile is the founder of Numerics software in Santa Monica, Calif. He has been creating software for the Mac platform since 1985, and today writes in-house iPhone and iPad apps for companies in Southern California. Since starting on IOS development 3 years ago, he has worked on Augmented Reality UI for Getfugu, created the iPad application for Fandango, and built his own set of iOS apps called Geek Logik. You can see his portfolio at www.numericsmobile.com..

Jeff Biggus is the founder of HyperJeff, Inc. and cofounder of Big Stone Phone, producing Unix, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps, and custom in-house software for companies specializing in physics and math software. He has been an independent programming consultant for more than 15 years. Jeff cut his teeth on programming back in the early 1980s on the Apple ][+ and by creating the HyperJeff Network in 1994, a site serving the Mac OS X community since Rhapsody in 1999. While a sys admin for a WebObjects-based company, Jeff first experienced the joys of Objective-C. The HyperJeff site serves up an ad-free list of Mac apps and the largest database of Cocoa articles on the Web. Current hobbies include mathematical physics, an original innovative Web framework system, and esoteric uses of the Cocoa frameworks for Web serving.

Jonathan Blocksom is a Computer Vision and 3D graphics specialist based in Northern VA. As the founder of GollyGee Software, he developed an award winning 3D modeler for children and more recently has been creating iOS apps for kids. Having previously worked at such notable companies as Silicon Graphics and Google, he now develops UAV software for SET Corp, the advanced research arm of SAIC.

Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile. Formerly the Senior Director of Engineering at Good Technology, he led the Server Engineering efforts, including the development of GoodAccess, the first offline and asynchronous-oriented Web browser for mobile devices. Adam's experience at Good Technology demonstrated to him the need for a framework that would help enterprises build mobile applications easily and cost-effectively, without having to develop applications from scratch for multiple platforms.

Matthew Botos is a Technical Architect at Mavens Consulting and a former rocket scientist with clients ranging from Lockheed Martin to Merck to Heinz. Fluent in a Java, .NET, and Objective C, he currently leads development of 2nd Opinion, an iPhone app that connects doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers using Salesforce.com. As an experienced scrum master and agile methodology mentor, he enjoys teaching in both one-on-one & classroom settings and regularly trains large user groups on new software.

Dan Burcaw, Founder and CEO of Double Encore, has led the development of over 40 iPhone/iPad applications, grown his team from 1 to 20, and courted some of the finest brands on the planet in just 2.5 years. Double Encore is responsible for some of the most well-known sports and entertainment applications for professional sports leagues and broadcasters who insist on building killer apps. Prior to Double Encore, Burcaw has worked in the technology industry from the rise of the early Internet, the Open Source movement, and witnessed Apple's powerful corporate culture from the inside.

Andrew Conrad is a partner with Simon-Kucher & Partners, the world’s largest pricing consultancy, and specializes in pricing and marketing strategy for technology companies. In addition to his work in pricing and marketing strategy, Drew has over 17 years of experience in key account negotiations, customer segmentation, and customer relationship management for telecommunications, internet services, and software companies. He has conducted pricing and marketing projects for a wide variety of clients including Intel, Cisco, Intuit, Network Solutions, and the technology divisions of MasterCard and McKesson. Recently, he published an article entitled “Turning Free Apps into Cash” and moderated a panel on phone app monetization strategies at Kicklabs in San Francisco. Drew holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA from Princeton University.

Nathan Eror loves helping other developers hone their skills and solve problems. As principal instructor at Free Time Studios, an iOS training and consulting firm, Nathan spends his days coding, teaching and writing, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Nathan is responsible for the curriculum at Free Time Studios, and he is the creator and principal author of all course materials. He teaches independent developers as well as private industry and government organizations such as NASA and the U.S. Army.

An Apple fan since the turn of the century, Nathan has been a dedicated member of the iOS developer community from the day the SDK was released. He is a regular speaker at iOS developer conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is co-author of the upcoming 2nd edition of “Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone” (for The Pragmatic Bookshelf) and he is the co-organizer of the Houston iPhone Developer Meetup group and iPhoneDevCamp Houston.

Tom Frost is President of Frost Data Systems and is an accomplished, hands-on software development professional with extensive knowledge of software architecture design principles, hardware platforms and proven methodologies and solutions.  

Tom led the original development team of Staples.com and served in several leadership capacities at Staples for over ten years.  In 2004, Tom left Staples to start his own software consulting service and has been providing professional software consulting services as an independent software professional ever since, adding  iPhone application development to the mix in 2009 when he created several games currently available in Apple’s App Store. Tom has experience teaching various introductory level classes on C# and SQL Server and on website security.

Kendall Gelner has been a professional software developer for over two decades, dabbling in Mac development for a number of years before moving to iPhone development full time with the release of the iPhone SDK in 2006. He has worked on a number of independent projects but primarily works on iPhone consulting projects through Double Encore, an iPhone exclusive consulting firm based in Denver. In the process of building applications for clients, Kendall has made use of almost every framework in the iPhone SDK and built a wide range of fantastic applications. Kendall has also appeared at a number of iPhone development conferences in the U.S. and internationally to speak about both Xcode and advanced debugging techniques/tools.

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux System Administration by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM DeveloperWorks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, MacTech and Manning. His consulting company, Giftcs LLC, provides solutions for Python development and systems engineering. He is currently co-authoring a book on Google App Engine and writing a large Google App Engine exercise and nutrition tracking application. Most recently, he worked as a Python programmer for Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has one of the world's largest render farms. Noah is also the former organizer for PyAtl, which is the Python User Group for Atlanta. He has given presentations at PyCon and PyAtl.

Jen Gordon Jen Gordon is a mobile UI designer and founder of Tapptics, an online training site for people who want to make their apps pretty. When she's not busy pushing pixels, Jen writes about design for Smashing Magazine and MobileTUTS.

Shivani Khanna is the Software Development Manager at W3i based in Sartell, Minn. At W3i, her team helps intelligently connect people with desktop, Web and mobile applications by building cool software. Shivani oversees the development of Microsoft web projects developed using ASP.NET, C# and MS SQL as well as C++ windows based development and most recently, iOS development.
 
Shivani is also the co-founder of the Mobile St. Cloud user group which started in October 2010. The vision of our user group is to develop a mobile developer community in our small Minnesotan town to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, ability to conceive ideas and create wonderful, amazing, beautiful and elegant technologies for the mobile platforms. Shivani has a Masters in Computer Science.

Mike Lee, the world's toughest programmer, is the founder and CEO of United Lemur, a philanthropic revolution disguised as a software company. Mike also cofounded Tapulous, whose best-selling titles include Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle. Prior to the iPhone, Mike cut his teeth and won an Apple Design Award at Seattle-based Delicious Monster Software. His last-known day job was as a Senior Engineer at a very large company in Cupertino marketing magical products.

Joseph R. Lewis is the chief web architect at Sandia National Laboratories, where his activities include research and development of semantic web, social media, and mobile technologies for scientific collaboration and national security applications. Mr. Lewis has been a speaker at conferences nationwide, and is often asked to share his expertise in web standards and mobile development techniques as a consultant and advisor across the DOE’s National Laboratory network. Mr. Lewis is an author of two books on web development: Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript (2008) and AdvancED CSS (2009). We should also mention that Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music and an accomplished and formerly professional double bassist and guitarist who still teaches a few students in his spare time.

Jason Mark is the author of the upcoming book from Manning Publishing, "Mobile - A Guide To Making Your Mobile Applications Easier to Use and More Visually Appealing.” Jason was one of the first dozen professors of website design in the country with students that commuted from as far away as California to take his class.

Edward Marks is the co-founder of Inedible Software, a company that has self-published 8 iOS applications with over 10 million downloads between them. They have done projects with Ubisoft, Guitar Hero and the Magnolia Pictures movie Mutant Chronicles. Edward has spoken on and hosted several panels, mostly around iOS advertising. He has also co-taught taught two iPhone Bootcamps.

Jim McKeeth is a veteran software developer, community activist, podcaster, blogger and conference presenter with 20 years of experience. He is the Developer Evangelist for RemObjects Software, and he travels the globe teaching and inspiring developers to achieve new levels of success in their development efforts.

Mike Oliver is the Senior Development Lead of iOS for Pyxis Mobile. He began working in the mobile industry five years ago with Blackberry and Windows Mobile, and has been working with iOS for the past two years. Mike has experience working with customers in delivering a wide range of consumer and enterprise cross platform apps in finance, higher education, insurance, field service and other industries.

James Pearce is a technologist, writer, developer and entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox. James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, andWhitherApps. He has declared every year since 1997 to be "The Year of the Mobile Web" - and finally seems to be right.

Joe Pezzillo is the cofounder of Push IO LLC and the founder of Metafy LLC, a Boulder, Colo.-based software boutique currently developing a suite of prototype iPhone applications for a Fortune 100 financial services company. In addition to pioneering work in Internet radio and managing several startups, Joe spent three years as a researcher at the Apple Electronic Media Lab in the mid 90s.

Mark Pospesel began programming in BASIC on an Atari 800 while in junior high. With a diverse academic background in mathematics, biology, marine biology, and teaching English as a second language, he has 12 years experience as a professional programmer on 3 continents. The majority of Mark’s career has been spent in the Microsoft world of Visual Studio, C++, MFC, C#, .NET, WPF, SQL Server and Windows Mobile, but in the past year he have transitioned into iPhone and iPad development. In Mark’s current role as development manager for Odyssey Computing, he has been supervising and mentoring other programmers for a decade.

Kyle Richter is CEO and Founder of Dragon Forged Software LLC, based out of Denver, Colo. He first started writing code using BASIC on a Commodore 64 in the early '90s. Kyle has been writing shareware for the Mac since early 2004. Dragon Forged Software was an early adapter to the App Store, releasing the first trivia game for the iPhone. Kyle has also worked on the hit iPhone titles Handshake and Transactions. He now runs a full time consulting business, working on market-leading software for iDevices and Macs.

Jonathan Saggau is the founder and CEO of Sounds Broken Inc., a growing Mac OS X and iPhone software contracting shop as well as a technical and business process consultancy. When he's not flying airplanes or reverse-engineering hardware and software, he works with clients such as Fileblaze, topsOrtho, Vertitron, Equity Audio and the Big Nerd Ranch to develop outstanding products, services and processes. Jonathan he has written on software development for Apress and IBM DeveloperWorks. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Composition. He blogs at jonathansaggau.com/blog and can be followed on twitter @jonmarimba.

Ben Scheirman is a developer from Houston.  As Director of Development at ChaiONE, Ben oversees development of iPhone projects as well as web applications in Ruby on Rails and .NET. Ben is a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and Certified ScrumMaster.
 
Ben has spoken at numerous user groups and conferences for .NET and Ruby, and has co-authored 2 books for ASP.NET MVC.  His first iPhone application was featured in the New & Noteworthy section of the iTunes App Store and has been enjoying iPhone programming ever since.  You can find Ben on his blog or on Twitter.

Michael Schneider, at the beginning of 2009, left Silicon Valley technology law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to found HiveBrain Software. HiveBrain publishes a variety of applications on the iTunes App Store, the most notable of which, TouchType, peaked at #13 in the U.S. App Store. HiveBrain most recently has been focused on the Andrew Johnson series of self-help applications, which are published in a variety of categories on the iPhone and Android app stores. Michael continues to practice law under the name Bitwise Legal, focusing on software and interactive media clients. Michael is also co-author of the book The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed, published by Apress.

Michael Simmons, is co-founder and CEO of Flexibits, a Mac and iOS software developer. A veteran Apple guy, Michael has been marketing, business developing, and product managing Apple-related wares for over 15 years. He’s worked at Apple, Prosoft Engineering, Ambrosia Software and Cultured Code, helping to launch, market, and maintain many successful apps .With expertise in business development and a strong passion for development, Michael sees the big picture of how an app's design and marketing should work together providing the most successful and effective products. He also likes to talk. A lot. Which is a good thing, because he has a great deal of success and experience he wants to share.

Daniel Steinberg has spent the last three decades programming the iPad. OK, he hasn't. But he's been programming the iPhone and the iPad since the SDK's first appeared in beta and is co-author of the book "iPad Programming" from the Pragmatic Programmers and author of their book "Cocoa Programming." Daniel presents iPhone and Cocoa training for the Pragmatic Studio and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking or hanging out with his wife and daughter.

Stu Stern is the founder and lead developer of the FoneMonkey open source project. He is also President and CEO of Gorilla Logic, a software development firm that helps companies create complex mobile and web applications. Prior to founding Gorilla Logic in 2002, Stu was Vice President in charge of Java consulting services worldwide at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). While at Sun, Stu spoke frequently about Java and Internet application architecture at conferences around the globe, conducting small workshops as well as speaking to audiences sometimes numbering in the thousands. Prior to Sun, Stu was Vice President of Equity Trading Systems at PaineWebber (now UBS). In addition to FoneMonkey, Stu is the open source project founder and lead developer of FlexMonkey, a functional testing tool for Adobe Flex applications.

Rob Weber co-founded W3i in 2000. As CEO, from inception through November 2007, and as VP of Business Development thereafter, Rob grew W3i into a leading distributor of consumer applications. Since establishing his first website in 1995, Rob has co-founded other interactive media businesses, including a free application review site and a display ad network. In 2006, Rob shared the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award with the other co-founders of W3i, Aaron Weber and Ryan Weber. Rob was also named to the 2007 Inc. 5,000—CEOs Under 30 list.Rob received his B.S. in Entrepreneurship from St. Cloud State University. Rob shares his passion for apps, Internet marketing and entrepreneurship by serving on the board of advisors for Minne, the 3,000+ member community of Minnesota tech enthusiasts, as well as through his monthly “app marketing” column for top digital media blog ClickZ.

Dave Wiskus, Chief Creative Officer for Black Pixel, has experience designing hot sports-industry products like the official app of Major League Soccer, a free app with an impossible five-star rating on the App Store. When he's not designing the favorite apps of sports fans, Dave speaks at conferences around the world, including the launch of Macworld in Hong Kong.