Mobile advertising is resurgent among Boston-area tech startups. Games are driving mobile as much as mobile is driving games. Healthcare is a fertile ground for mobile innovators who dare to enter. And a little snow and sleet won’t stop Boston’s innovation community from turning out at one of our biggest events of the year.
Those are just some of the takeaways from this week’s Mobile Madness 2013 conference. In looking ahead to “the next revolution,” our esteemed speakers highlighted trends ranging from the exploding mobile-app economy and new forms of advertising to augmented reality, connected devices, and M2M (machine to machine) technologies.
Huge thanks to our event host, Microsoft BizSpark, for making its wonderful space available at NERD. And special thanks to our event sponsors: BDO, Fidelity Investments, Turnstone, and UK Trade & Investment. Thanks, as always, to our great network of partners, underwriters, and venture capital members. All of your support makes Xconomy’s work possible.
Now, onto the photos from the event. Big thanks to KeithSpiroPhoto courtesy of Kendall PRess, and Dan Bricklin (you can see many more of Dan’s photos from the conference on Flickr) for these shots.
Enjoy, and see you all again next year.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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