San Francisco, California | September 8 - 9, 2012
AT&T, a premier communications company, delivers a comprehensive and globally consistent portfolio of business services which includes advanced network management and network-based security tools, enterprise mobility solutions and applications, content management and delivery services, web hosting and application services.
Ford Motor Company knows that Smartphones are becoming the connected device of choice, and growing numbers of owners use their devices while in the car. Therefore, Ford is embracing this union between the app-loaded smartphone and car with SYNC AppLink, the voice-activated software application that makes controlling apps easier and safer by simply using your voice.
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
Locu’s APIs give developers access to the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of local business offerings data, such as restaurant menus. The data comes directly from merchants and Locu’s platform that digitizes and structures real-world content. Locu is backed by General Catalyst, Lowercase, Lightbank, SV Angel and angel investors and has offices in San Francisco and Cambridge.
Microsoft® BizSpark® is a global program helping software startups succeed, with access to software development tools and a network of 2,500 partners – comprising leading incubators, accelerators, investors, advisors, industry events, and more. Over 50,000 startups joined BizSpark, which offers technical support, business training and marketing visibility. The program includes access to Windows Azure, a flexible, comprehensive, and powerful cloud platform.
New Relic is on a mission to create a better web and mobile experience for everyone by making apps faster and more reliable. With over 35,000 customers and 90 billion metrics captured each day, they help make the web a faster place.
Nokia will present a sponsored Disruptor Award for Innovation in Mobile Technology. Eligibility for the award will include all Battlefield Contestants and Startup Alley exhibitors alike. The AppCampus program is a joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft that has each company investing up to nine million euros over the next three years to foster the creation of innovative mobile applications for the Windows Phone ecosystem.
PCH International creates, develops, and delivers the world’s best technology products for the world’s best brands. We offer transparent, sustainable product development and supply chain management services to a diverse range of clients, from Fortune 500s to innovative start-ups though our PCH Accelerator program. Headquartered in Ireland since 1996, with a significant presence in San Francisco and operations in China, we believe geography is history.
AllJoyn™ is an open-source software framework developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc that makes it easy to add ad-hoc, proximity -based P2P into your apps without the need to connect to cellular networks. New classes of connected apps including multi-player gaming, social media sharing and multi-user productivity tools can be created. The Snapdragon Developer Program gives developers next-generation technologies to optimize apps and create extraordinary experiences.
The Gimbal™ Solution is a context awareness Solution developed by Qualcomm Labs for Android and iOS that enables application providers to deliver timely, personalized, and relevant content to mobile audiences. Developers can choose to include software libraries from the Solution in their apps. This Solution includes: Gimbal Geofence, Gimbal Interest Sensing, Gimbal Image Recognition, Gimbal Communicate, Gimbal Manager, Gimbal Privacy.
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 176,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a diverse customer portfolio from Web startups to global enterprises.
Twilio is powering the future of communications software by enabling voice, VoIP, and messaging to be easily embedded into applications whether existing or built new on Twilio.
Pioneer® Corporation has developed Zypr™: a new voice-powered, unified Web API that bridges the disparate worlds of iOS & Android mobile devices, HTML 5 Web apps, consumer electronics and automotive telematics. Zypr enables normalized Web service mashups for all of these platforms, with the added functionality of unique, conversational voice-control and a business model that pays developers to integrate the API into their applications.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services, as your business demands them. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments.
With more than 100 million global visitors a month, Ask.com has spent the last 15 years committed to its mission of helping people find the answers to their questions.
DocuSign® is the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign accelerates transactions to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight customers with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud. DocuSign helps companies securely collect information, automate data workflows, and sign anything, anywhere, anytime.
dotCloud makes it incredibly easy for developers to deploy and scale their web applications by combining powerful, ready-to-use cloud services. Develop faster, scale instantly. Never worry about servers again. Experiment for free. Elastic pricing for live apps starts at $4.32/month.
ArcGIS Online for Organizations is designed to empower you to build geospatial services into your products. Create responsive mapping applications consuming basemaps, geosearch, feature storage, routing, geocoding and geometry services. Get started with your own account at https://www.arcgis.com/about/trial.html.
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas, and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders – and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
GREE is a mobile social gaming company that recently launched GREE Platform, a global platform that brings together developers and players. In 2011 GREE opened a social games studio in San Francisco, and in May 2012, acquired Funzio, a mid-core mobile game developer.
NEC BIGLOBE is a member of the NEC group, one of Japan’s leading IT companies. The company makes its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt, gathering input on their recently developed facial recognition app set to launch October 2012.
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Palantir’s software is deployed at public institutions, private enterprises, and in the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex, diverse data.
Storm8, the creator of the #1 RPG and the parent company of the #1 Mobile Social Game Developer, TeamLava on the iOS/Android platforms. Our network of Games makes us one of the most popular game developers on the mobile platform.
Connect is Getty Images’ industry-leading API that provides direct access to Getty Images’ content, metadata and search technologies for integration directly within publishing tools, products and services.
Mashery’s API management technology and strategic services help companies connect with customers and partners in a changing digital world by extending reach across devices, industries and the Web.
Pearson, the world’s leading education company, and the company behind Penguin Books and the Financial Times, also has a developer platform where you can build your own applications. Head over to our site to explore our exciting content and test our APIs.
OpenTok by TokBox is a flexible cloud-based API that makes it easy to add face-to-face video communications to your web or mobile application.
