Mobile Madness Motor City, Xconomy’s first mobile event in Detroit, will be packed with innovators, business leaders, technologists, and app developers. It will also have something you don’t often see: A live demo of how our mobile devices, from cell phones to laptops to cars, might be powered in the future—without wires.
Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, wowed the crowd at a Mobile Madness event in Boston in 2011, and he looks to do the same in Detroit. WiTricity is a Watertown, MA-based startup hoping to bring Nikola Tesla’s dream of widespread wireless electricity to fruition. In 2010, WiTricity partnered with the Troy, MI-based Delphi Automotive to work on wireless charging products for hybrid and electric vehicles, which they demoed at the SAE conference in 2011. Also in 2011, WiTricity announced a deal with Toyota that included investment reportedly worth a few million dollars. (See the video below for more on WiTricity.)
At Mobile Madness Motor City, a half-day event on Thursday at the Compuware Building in downtown Detroit, we’ll also have short panel discussions on connected cars, apps strategies, and enterprise mobile. We’ll hear from hot startups and established industry players. We hope you can join us; tickets are still available here. Check out the full agenda below.
Mobile Madness Motor City
Jan. 17, 2013
Compuware Building, Detroit
1:00 – 2:00 Registration
2:00 – 2:10 Welcome
Bob Buderi, Founder and Editor in Chief, Xconomy
2:10 – 2:30 Detroit and Mobile
Josh Linkner, CEO and Managing Partner, Detroit Venture Partners
2:30 – 2:40 Three Trends That Will Change the World
Sheryl Connelly, Manager, Global Trends and Futuring, Ford
2:40 – 3:15 Car Talk: Your Car Here, Now, and Soon
Daniel Newman, CEO, Roximity
Jake Sigal, CEO, Livio Connect
Greg Ross, Director, Business Development, General Motors
Joel Hoffmann (moderator), Automotive Strategist, Intel
3:15 – 3:45 Innovators Chat: Apps Strategy
Paul Glomski, Co-founder and CEO, Detroit Labs
Paul Jacobs, Vice President and General Manager, jacAPPS
Sagar Parvataneni, SVP, Product and Technology, ePrize
Tricia Cervenan, Mobile Product Manager, Quicken Loans
3:45 – 4:15 Networking Break
4:15 – 4:35 Live Demo: WiTricity—Charging Ahead, Without Wires
Eric Giler, CEO, WiTricity
4:35 – 4:40 Startup Profile: UpTo
Greg Schwartz, CEO, UpTo
4:35 – 4:45 Energy Storage for the Consumer Electronics Industry
Ann Marie Sastry, President and CEO, Sakti3
4:45 – 5:20 Why Enterprises Need to Go Mobile—Now
Bob Kennedy, Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Compuware
Dug Song, Co-founder and CEO, Duo Security
Kevin Lasser, CEO, JEMS Technology
Linda Daichendt (moderator), Executive Director/President, Mobile Technology Association of Michigan
5:20 – 5:27 Startup Profile: UpTo
Greg Schwartz, CEO, UpTo
5:30 – 5:45 Startup Showcase
Paul Czarnik (emcee), Chief Technology Officer, Compuware
Thiago Olson, Co-founder and CEO, Protean Payment
Jim Hankins, Founder and President, Safety Grid
Itai Ben-Gal, CEO, iRule
Andy Didorosi, Founder and CEO, Detroit Bus Company
5:45 – 6:45 Networking Reception
