:: iPhone Conference 2008

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Fabrice Delaye, Bilan
	Aged 44, Fabrice Delaye starts journalism in 1991 after graduating from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. After free lancing for various Swiss and French newspapers like L’Agefi, Le Figaro and Le Monde, he joined magazine L’Hebdo staff in 1994 and started focusing about economy, technology and science. From 1996 to 1999, he served as staff technology reporter for magazine Bilan in Switzerland. In 1999, he went back to University and graduate with a Master in Society, Science and Technology in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. He also joined daily Swiss economic newspaper L’agefi where he serves as a US correspondent in Boston from 2001 to 2004 and then as European correspondent in Paris. Since September 2006, Fabrice Delaye is the International correspondent of swiss magazine Bilan, based in Paris. He also writes regularly for Science Busines
Paul Shadwell, Freelance
	Paul Shadwell has had a long relationship with IT going back over 30 years. Working in companies with many diverse disciplines from electronic engineering through pharmaceutical and financial. Working with small start-up business to large global enterprises. mobile computing has been a passion and a challenge for many years and only now is it becoming possible to be truly mobile. Mr Shadwell has a deep knowledge of networking systems from the early days of Novell NetWare to the first small networks of bulletin boards and of course the Internet. He now specialises in virtual infrastructure solutions and is a keen advocate of cloud computing and mobilisation of the workforce. As an entrepreneur he is evangelising the use of small portable devices for use in day to day business and sees the iPhone as a major leap into an exciting future. Mr Shadwell is English and has been living and working in Switzerland for 13 years. He is also a web designer and graphic artist as well as a well known member of the Swiss Harley Owners Group
Adrian, CTO iPhone at Netinﬂuence
	Adrian Kosmaczewski has been writing software for the past 20 years. He started working professionally in 1996, riding the first and second waves of the web, right from the inside. He has written software for the web, as well as desktop applications for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Adrian started writing Cocoa applications for the Mac in 2002, and has been creating iPhone software since he returned from the last WWDC in June. When not writing software, Adrian keeps an eye on politics, economics, progressive rock and updates his blog as often as possible. Adrian has studied physics in Switzerland and economics in Buenos Aires, and holds a Master in Information Technology with a specialization in Software Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
Jonas Schnelli , Include7
	Jonas Schnelli co-Founded ARTACK WebLab GmbH, where he released over 50 webprojects. He has been teaching 3D programming, Lingo programming and webdesign (XHTML/ CSS) in diﬀerent computer schools (Digicom, SAE Zurich, Viscom) and recently founded include7 AG (focus: iphone and web software development)
Rodney Gaines, head of Competence Center Mobile CFF/SBB
	Rodney Gaines has been active in the telecommunications industry for over 17 years. His experience ranges from GSM system design, testing and business strategy in Sweden and Switzerland, to implementation and operation management in Malaysia. With a Bachelor of Science in Engineering combined with an MBA from the University of Chicago, Rodney has been able to effectively apply his analytical skills with a keen business mindedness. His achievements include installation and support responsibilities for the first digital cellular network in Malaysia as well as the founding and management of an international community committed to the creation and distribution of mobile applications for 3G networks. Rodney has cemented his expertise in the telecommunication industry with experience gained from management positions held at Ericsson and Swisscom. In his current role as Head of Innovation and Mobile Competence at the Swiss Federal Railway, Rodney is exploring innovative ways in which mobile technology can be used to simplify travel for passengers of the worlds leading public transportation system.
Michael Fuhrmann, DigiDNA
	Worked for Reuters in several european cities for a couple of years covering various aspects of Reuter's business, was the Co-founder of WindSolutions, active in iPod software and now the co-founder of DigiDNA, active in iPod, iPhone and Music related software.
Bruno Von Rotz, VP Strategy, Optaros
	Bruno von Rotz is Vice President for Strategy and Research for Optaros. He has more than 20 years of IT consulting and system integration experience. In his career he worked with financial institutions companies, transportation companies, retail organizations, but also in other industries. He also is a well known speaker and has published dozens of articles on a variety of topics, including content management, customer relationship management and knowledge management
Guillaume Menu, CISCO
	Guillaume works as a Unified Communications Specialist at Cisco for 8 years in the UC area
Nicolas Seriot, Sen:te
	Nicolas Seriot has been an enthusiastic Mac user since 1986. He is now working as a software engineer at Sen:te, a long time Cocoa/Objective-C specialized software company. Nicolas developed an iPhone application for a customer in the banking industry and an iPhone course for engineers. He also worked on several Mac OS X applications and embedded projects such as smart-card readers for digital TV. In his spare time, he likes writing free software. He is also very interested in world events, international relations and the new paradigms brought on by the data driven society. Nicolas Seriot holds an HES degree in software engineering. He attended Apple WWDC 2005 and 2008 in San Francisco. He is about to complete a postgraduate master's degree in Economic crime investigation in Neuchâtel.