DiscoveryBeat is an event focused on uncovering the step-by-step mechanics of application discovery, and providing a rare opportunity to forge the relationships you need in a crowded, competitive market.
Don’t fool yourself. Getting your app discovered has little to do with luck, and everything to do with strategy. From mobile to social, we’ve watched developers go from startup to stardom, while the vast majority of apps sit in a store somewhere, unknown and undiscovered.
Given the variety of platforms, complexity of guidelines, and need for constant agility, today’s entrepreneus must be equipped with bullet-proof strategies and real-world tactics from the get-go. DiscoveryBeat will break through the typical conference-speak and give attendees the chance to look under the hood of today’s hottest, most successful apps.
You’ll learn:
- • Starting from Scratch: Crafting a Killer Playbook to Get Discovered in an Age of Noise
- • Discovery 2.0: Avoiding a One-Hit Wonder and Building a High-Growth Company
- • Discovery 3.0: How Gaming and Entertainment Giants can Leverage App Startups
Speakers
Sebastien de Halleux
President, PlayfishJulian Farrior
CEO, Backflip StudiosRoy Sehgal
GM, ZyngaGe Wang
CTO & COO, SmuleJohn Pleasants
CEO, PlaydomJon Vlassopulos
CEO, ModeratiRandy Breen
COO, SGNAgenda
Discovery 1.0: Starting from scratch
With 75,000 apps in the Apple AppStore, discovery is a huge problem. Facebook is just as tough. And to make it worse, you’re at a disadvantage because large networks have the upper hand of experience in platform strategy and a louder voice to get their products heard.
• If you’re a two-person garage development shop and starting from scratch, how do you create an app that can go viral?
• How do you exploit your newness and focus, using the key ingredients of success?
• How can the smaller developers team up with bigger brands that have name recognition? When should they go it alone?
• How do they build a company that bigger investors will notice?Discovery 2.0: Moving to the next level
The social app companies, those successful application companies that came of age on Facebook and the iPhone, have created their own ecosystems with successful titles that feed on each other. Now what do they do?
• How many different types of monetization schemes do they need? What can they learn from the bigger companies?
• Should they recruit executives from the “old world” companies, to help with partnering or organizational discipline?
• What sort of analytics process should they have in place?
• Can anyone catch up with them?Discovery 3.0: Bringing in the big guys
Established video game companies and entertainment giants are eyeing the social networking and mobile platforms as a source of future growth. For success, the big guys need to apply the secret ingredients in different proportions.
• How much should they invest in these areas, and how should they do it?
• Which kinds of partners should they recruit? Which business models are the best?
• Who has made the transition already?
• What’s the right mix of social networking, marketing, analytical measurement, advertising and web design ingredients they should apply?2:30pm - 3:00pm | Registration
3:00pm - 3:10pm | Welcome
3:10pm - 4:00pm | Presentations
4:00pm - 4:30pm | Panel on Discovery 1.0: Starting from scratch
4:30pm - 4:45pm | Fast Pitch
4:45pm - 5:15pm | Panel on Discovery 2.0: Moving to the next level
5:15pm - 5:30pm | Break
5:30pm - 6:00pm | Panel on Discovery 3.0: Bringing in the big guys
6:00pm - 7:30pm | ReceptionAttendees
150-200 mobile and gaming applications developers and entrepreneurs, VCs, top executives from telecom and technology infrastructure companies, content and social media executives, marketers and media. The open invitation will be promoted on VentureBeat.com and through our partners.
Sponsors
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