Speakers

David McLaughlin

David McLaughlin is a Global Programs Manager in Google Developer Relations team. His focus areas include encouraging worldwide developer communities and entrepreneurship, Android, open source, and open standards. David also enjoys traveling and exploring new cities around the world.

Andrew McGlinchey

Andrew is a Product Manager for Google Southeast Asia, who sole mission is to make Google products awesome across emerging markets.

Tony Chan

Tony is a Developer Advocate for Android. He joined Google in 2007 and has been helping developers with various Google products/APIs like Google Checkout, Apps and Android ever since. Prior joining Google, Tony was a senior application developer at the University of Michigan and a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCooper. He received his M.B.A and M.S.E. degrees from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Anna Chernova

Quantitative Analyst @ Google and world traveller.

Vinoaj Vijeyakumar

Vinny is Chief Consultant and Founder at Sparkline Analytics. Vinny‛s expertise is in helping businesses, large and small, improve their online performance. He specializes in web analytics (primarily Google Analytics), user experience design, A/B and multivariate testing, and search engine optimization. Vinny helps his clients increase their online traffic, conversion rates, and revenue, all leading towards positive ROI.

Prior to founding Sparkline Analytics, Vinny spent 5 years as a Senior Conversion Specialist at Google Southeast Asia. He provided strategic counsel to Google‛s top advertisers, agencies and partners on the use of free tools such as Google Analytics and Google‛s Website Optimizer in order to increase Web site traffic flow and revenue, all without spending a single cent.

Vinny comes from an engineering background, having worked at three startups in Australia as a web applications engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Information Systems (with Honours) degree and a Masters of International Business degree both from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Chua Zi Yong

Zi Yong is the founder and CEO of Stream Media. Stream Media‛s product, MoVend, is a global mobile in-app payment solution. It is a payment service which allowing mobile businesses to do business globally, collecting payments from users via local payment providers. It provides an end-to-end solution, providing connections for operator billing, prepaid cards and credit cards, DRM, product management and security solution. Apart from payments, Stream Media is also premium content publisher for iOS and Android apps/games in Asia.

Yap Wen Jiun

Currently pursuing a PhD in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle and strong interest in astronomy, RC plane, Weiqi, Chinese chess, web 2.0, social networking, UAV, world history, digital camera, mobile devices and many more. Wen Jiun is the go-to person from the CodeAndroid Malaysia developer community, training up and coming Android developers and guiding them.

Nazrul Kamaruddin

This ex-band manager now rocks the corporate world as a Product & Technology Manager for NSTP eMedia - a unit under Media Prima Digital and the digital arm of New Straits Times Press. He‛s a self taught developer with 13 years of experience in web and mobile design & development.

Nazrul was formerly Developer Evangelist for Chalkboard, a location based mobile advertising startup in Singapore and invovlved in many different startups for mobile, government and services industry.

Nazrul is also the founding community manager for GDG Kuala Lumpur (formerly GTUG Kuala Lumpur) and CodeAndroid Malaysia - both an independant developer group aiming to develop and cultivate the developer ecosystem locally.

His mission is to organize and cultivate talented young Malaysians making them valuable in the Internet economy.

He's always figuring out what's next at every level.

Mika Stahlberg

Mika Stahlberg is the CTO for F-Secure‛s security products. He is responsible for the protection technologies and services produced by F-Secure Labs across different operating systems and environments. He started at F-Secure as a researcher looking for ways to combat Windows rootkits. Since then he has been in various roles at F-Secure. Mika has two master‛s degrees and in his spare time he enjoys snowboarding and plays drums in a heavy metal band.

Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik is a web performance engineer and developer advocate on the Make The Web Fast team at Google, where he spends his days and nights on making the web fast and driving adoption of performance best practices.

Prior to focusing on web performance Ilya was the founder and CTO of PostRank, a social analytics company which was acquired by Google and became the core of social analytics reporting within Google Analytics. Whenever not thinking web performance, or analytics, Ilya can be found contributing to open-source projects, reading, or building fun projects like VimGolf, GitHub Archive and others.

Ditesh Kumar

Ditesh runs a development and engineering technology team at Air Asia. His team mission is to build and run kickass mobile and web products.