Day 1: Tuesday 9th November
10:00 – 10:15
Tim Holbrow, Executive Director, Symbian FoundationYou may not have heard of Tim before, but he was a co-founder of the Symbian Foundation, leading its operational launch during 2008 and early 2009 and a key figure behind the business aspects of Symbian for the previous eight years. Expect to hear more on SYMBEOSE and statements of support and intent for the current Symbian ecosystem, including the strong portfolio of Nokia in particular.
10:15 – 11:00
Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President, Symbian Devices, NokiaDon't expect any new device announcements, but there will be reports of Nokia's Symbian success stories of the last few years, plus early numbers from the new Symbian(^3) range. Hopefully we'll get a feel for Nokia's intended plans for form factors and platform going into 2011 and 2012. I suspect MeeGo may get a few (complementary) name checks too.
11:00 – 11:30
Offering what should be a thought-provoking talk to round up day one's keynotes, Mike is a designer, researcher and entrepreneur, and the writer of the 2010 book, “Smart Things: ubiquitous computing user experience design”, a guide to the user-centred design of digital consumer electronics, appliances, and environments.
Day 2: Wednesday 10th November
10:30 – 11:00
Jouni Ylitalo, Open OS Strategy Manager, ST-EricssonJouni is the Open OS Strategy Manager for ST-Ericsson‘s Software Ecosystem and Strategy team and has been involved with the Symbian Foundation since its inception, including acting as the primary representative for Symbian’s Architecture Council, and he has also recently become involved in the Features and Roadmap Council. Note that ST-Ericsson is, confusingly, not the same as Sony Ericsson, and is mainly concerned with staying behind the scenes, using smartphone technology to help others build phones, plus working on its own enterprise and embedded devices.
11:00 – 11:30
David Sallis, Programme Director, Symbian FoundationDavid is Programme Director and was responsible for SYMBEOSE: the successful €22M EC-funded bid, led by the Symbian Foundation in a 24-organisation consortium. Expect to hear more details of the plans for SYMBEOSE.
11:30 – 12:00
Aidan Quilligan, Managing Director, Accenture Embedded Software ServicesIn October 2009, Aidan led the acquisition of the Symbian Professional Services unit from Nokia, accelerating Accenture‘s existing embedded software, product-development and testing skills. Expect to hear more of Accenture's role in the Symbian ecosystem, plus look out for David Wood in the wings, one of the architects of Symbian OS itself and who now works for Accenture.