APPNATION III Adds Keynote Interviews with Early Siri Investor and CEO of Nuance Communications
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 22, 2011
APPNATION (http://www.appnationconference.com/appnation3/), the leading executive conference and exposition focused on the burgeoning consumer applications economy will take place November 30 December 1, 2011 at The Concourse at the San Francisco Design Center. The third, international executive-level conference and dynamic, cutting-edge expo will feature companies from across the apps value chain and will focus on social and mobile apps across all devices and platforms including PCs, smartphones, tablets, Internet-enabled televisions, portable games, peripherals and a range of other current and emerging connected devices.
APPNATION announced today that it has added a keynote interview with Gary Morgenthaler, partner at Morgenthaler Ventures and Paul Ricci, CEO at Nuance Communications, a seven-billion dollar publicly traded company that provides speech-recognition software. Morgenthaler and Ricci will discuss how artificial-intelligence systems like Siri and voice-recognition software like Nuance will usher in a new generation of applications, and how these technologies will impact mobile devices across platforms in the keynote interview session titled, Why Artificial Intelligence and Voice-Enabled Apps Will Change Man-Machine Interaction Forever.
A conversational user interface consisting of artificial intelligence and speech-recognition represents the cutting edge of human-machine interaction, said Gary Morgenthaler, Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, and an early investor in Siri and Nuance. We are witnessing a pivotal point in the history of technology, and I predict application developers will amaze us with what they will dream up to enrich our lives.
APPNATION kicks off with a keynote presentation by Facebooks Head of Developer Relations Doug Purdy on day one, and Walmarts SVP, Mobile and Digital, Gibu Thomas on day two. Additional keynote interviews with Andy Miller, General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, and Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Developer Experience at Microsoft Windows Phone are also planned.
APPNATION will also showcase mobile gaming companies of all sizes to give developers an opportunity to learn how to further monetize their content, products, and services, and to offer them a unique and affordable opportunity to interact with industry luminaries, investors, advertising agencies, media companies, the technology press and peers. A big announcement by IDGA is also planned.
Confirmed gaming speakers to date include among others: