ConnectTech

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Workshop Moderated by: Dan Woolley, Co-Founder, W&R Studios

8:30 am – 9:15 am
Mobile App Development for Real Estate
Three technologists with hands-on experience developing mobile real estate applications, give their view of the small screen opportunity and share tips, tricks and lessons learned.

Sasha Aickin, Engineering Manager, Search Team, Redfin
Eric Blumberg, Founder/President & CTO, SmarterAgent
Jim Secord, President & COO, Kurio

9:15 am – 10:00 am
APIs:
Building Them, Maintaining Them, Integrating Them
Two publishers share the process behind the development of their API's and weigh the benefits of in-house development or outsourcing, while the leader in API management shares best practices.

Matt Lerner, CTO, Front Seat
Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery
Steve Edwards, Senior Engineer, Education.com (not pictured)

10:00 am – 10:45 am
MLS Hell: Coping with Data Normalization in an Abnormal Industry
Three veterans of real estate data management share advice for application development in a fragmented industry—and a vision for more open, standardized data environment.

Chris Freeman, CTO, WolfNet
David Harris, Director of Data Management, eNeighborhoods
Mark Tepper, Vice President of Business Development & Sales, Homefinder.com

10:45 am – 11:30 am
Pushing the Boundaries of User Experience: Working Effectively with Flex, Silverlight and Ajax
Get practical advice for creating rich user experiences that meet your goals without sacrificing SEO.

Ben Galbraith, Founder, Ajaxian.com
Gregory Cosmo Haun, Chief Programmer, ForeclosureRadar.com

11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Ruby on Real Estate: How to Apply Agile Development Principles to Your Project
New development paradigms are challenging real estate development teams to deliver applications quicker than ever. Three developers share their processes and practices.

Mike Mangino, Owner & President, Elevated Rails
Zach Scott, Chief Operating Officer, Point2 Technologies
Galen Ward, Co-Founder & CEO, Estately Inc.