International App Conference & AppJam

Rocking All Ovi The World

Dundee, Scotland, October 5th, 2010. The international AppConference is delighted to announce that Forum.Nokia, the group which enables the design, development and distribution of apps for Nokia's Ovi store, is the first keynote speaker to be confirmed for this year's inaugural event.

Forum.Nokia was founded to help content creators to Design, Develop and Distribute their apps to hundreds of millions of Nokia customers in over 190 countries worldwide.

In the first AppConference keynote, Forum.Nokia will be exploring the future of app development and the challenges facing app creators in the marketplaces of the mobile world.

Andy Mackenzie, Project Manager: Centre for Creative & Digital Industries for Dundee College, organisers of the AppConference and AppJam, said, “Nokia has sometimes been overlooked in the rapid evolution of the applications markets and slew of new consumer devices. Yet the company still has a colossal global user base and a huge amount of experience in the mobile market. Forum.Nokia is the company's programme to support and encourage developers to create their apps for the Ovi store and is perfectly aligned with what the AppConference aims to achieve. We're thrilled to welcome such a high profile partner to the programme.”

The international AppConference, which will run alongside the 48 hour development challenge AppJam, is part-funded by the Interreg 'Creative City Challenge' project ( www.creative-city-challenge.net ).

Created by Dundee College and supported by industry partners, the three day AppConference is an event looking at the creation and development of applications for new platforms such as the iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook. It promises to explore the issues facing the new generation of developers, creating applications for some of the world's largest and most rapidly evolving platforms.

Tickets for AppCon can be purchased at an early bird price of £99 (plus VAT) until 4 ^th October, available for £125 thereafter.

Tickets including the NeoN digital arts festival are also available at an early bird price of £150 (plus VAT), or £175 after 4 ^th October.

You can find out more about the events via www.appjam.eu or follow @AppJamDundee on Twitter.

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Notes to editors:

The International App Conference & AppJam ( www.appjam.eu ) are part-funded by the Interreg 'Creative City Challenge' project ( www.creative-city-challenge.net )

The AppCon has been created by Dundee College and is supported by partners including: Cobra Mobile, Denki, Digital Goldfish, Dynamo Games, Electric Tophat, Lynda.com, One Thumb Mobile, Sooper Double D, Tag Games, Waracle & YoYo Games.

Contact:

Andy Mackenzie

Dundee College

E: a.mackenzie@dundeecollege.ac.uk