Yoon C. Lee, Samsung Electronics
Marc Mathieu, Samsung Electronics
Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global
Stan Lee, Marvel Comics

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: David McIntosh – Tenor

Mobile messaging dominates personal communication, with people now relying heavily on visuals to express their thoughts and feelings. Thirty years after its creation, the GIF is exploding as a primary way people communicate – and as a valuable marketing medium for content creators and brand advertisers. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on the power of visual expression – including data insights from the Tenor Emotional Graph and real-world expertise from top marketers activating consumer engagement using GIFs.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Alban Donoyel – Sketchfab, Laszlo Gombos, Damon Hernandez – Samsung

Excited about web based virtual and augmented reality? This talk will feature invited experts from various sectors of the immersive web community that will introduce frameworks for creating WebVR/AR experiences, showcase content partners using the technology today, cover the evolution of Samsung Internet on GearVR devices, and take a look at upcoming trends defining the future of this medium.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Kevin Hawkins – Qualcomm

Maximizing the gaming experience for VR requires more than innovative technology and gameplay. The gaming experience is equally affected by a game’s ability to manage power consumption and avoid device heat ups. These factors can impact a games success by limiting game performance and creating an unplayable mobile experience. In this session, you’ll learn how to improve power and thermal efficiency while achieving maximum performance for your VR game or app.

Analyze and optimize your VR games and applications by exposing detailed CPU, GPU, and system data to reveal your game’s power and performance characteristics. In addition, you can understand how other apps or background processes may be impacting performance, giving you a complete picture of system performance.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Dushyant Vipradas

This session presents a comprehensive overview of how different Knox services and device features can be used to offer enterprise mobility solutions to customers. In the enterprise space, Samsung devices are used for corporate liable, BYOD, and special purpose work. The solutions presented will highlight the security requirements along with deployment details.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Joey Verbeke – Harman

Exploring hacking from a holistic and experiential design viewpoint to enable the creation of better, more useful, and worthwhile hacks. Technologies that allow open source development enable the creation of experiences that connect dots others might have never thought of connecting. If you cant hear the world around you while in VR without taking off your headphones, leverage a pair of headphones with an SDK to create a better experience. Come find out what is possible to create with Harmans JBL Everest Elite SDK.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Ronnie Sternberg – SafeDK, Mada Seghete – Branch, Patrick Chang – Samsung NEXT Ventures

In this two-part series, Samsung NEXT presents two portfolio companies, Branch and SafeDK. In the first session session, Branch Co-Founder, Mada Seghete, will take the audience through major developments in app discovery, analyze key trends driving the evolution of mobile search, and look into the future of app discovery through the lens of mobile device manufacture, app. The second session will feature SafeDK’s Co-Founder, Ronnie Sternberg. Ronnie will dive into the two major domains of risk introduced when using SDKs, and spice it up with real-life examples and what can be done to reduce the risk.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Lisa Fetterman – Nomiku, Redg Snodgrass – Wearable IOT World, Amanda Coolong – Women in Tech Int’l

Since the launch of Wearable IoT World, Redg Snodgrass has supported over 100 startups that have raised over $140M through Wearable IoT World labs and hosted innumerable conferences in the wearables and IoT space across 4 continents. Lisa Fetterman is the founder and CEO of Nomiku and has been featured in Wired, Make, and Forbes, and was named on Inc, Forbes, and Zagat Survey’s 30 Under 30 lists for her pioneering work in the food space. Technology journalist Amanda Coolong will moderate this panel as Lisa and Redg discuss all things IoT, including where it is today, and how IoT will impact our everyday lives.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Anne A. Ward – CircleClick Media, Carlos Rodriguez – Bubbly

Meet the power marketing duo that’s sold millions of dollars in products together. Attend this session to learn about how they’ve grown and scaled numerous startups in Silicon Valley from infancy to IPO.