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Developers continue to be in hot demand as we enter 2012 with many events eager to cater to them - so many events it is becoming much harder to choose which to attend.  I see operators/carriers doing more and more to attract developers to their SDKs and APIs.  A couple of years ago, only a few were hosting developer events; now all are hosting at least one per year with many additional hackathons, seminars and workshops.

Much more emphasis will be placed on how developers can make money with their applications.  More events with this focus will be forthcoming in 2012 and beyond.  All conferences will include it as one of their conference streams if they are not dedicated the whole conference to it.  Other prominent areas include: Mobile Payments, NFC and Social Media and anything to do with Apps.

Mobile World Congress will continue to attract large numbers of mobile ecosystem members including developers.  GSMA really hit a home run with App Planet at MWC in 2010 and will...

The slides of my talk at Turing Festival are available on slideshare!

Have a look!

[Disclaimer : this slide pack was prepared on a broken Mac! where only the browser was working! The entire presentation was thus prepared on sliderocket who saved my bum, by allowing me to import exisitng presentations (albeit in image format most of the time. The fact that I didn't have access to a file browser (they call it finder on a Mac) did not really help ... I still curse Apple to this day! But hope you enjoy the presentation. This is a long winded way to say that some of the slides look awful and I apologize for that... and I'm working on an official apology from Apple too :D ]

2011 will bring many, many app conferences.  It started with App Planet at MWC in Feb of 2010 and took off from there.  App World, App Universe, Appcelerate, Planet of the Apps and so on – we will see them all plus more in the upcoming year.  Developer conferences of all kinds will continue to pop out of the woodwork.  Three years ago, when we started WIPJams, there were barely any!  In 2010, there were upwards of 30 in September alone.  In 2011, developers will have their choice of even more developer events, conferences & code camps.  Better start thinking of ways to weed through them to determine the best bang for your buck!   Not the buck to attend the events… many of those will continue to be free to developers ... but your travel/hotel costs and the most costly thing of all… your time!  

It is all about mobile!  The mobile trend will continue for the foreseeable future.  Conferences that traditionally catered to C-Level executives and telecoms suddenly want mobile...