Facebook Developer Garage

Facebook tomorrow (March 25) is holding its regular Developer Garage in San Francisco. Relevant event on Facebook .
Venue - Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel at the 5 Embarcadero Center. The “Garage” will start at 18:30.

Online broadcast will be available at this link (do not forget that the difference with Moscow in time now is 10 hours).

This Facebook Developer Garage, co-organized by Kontagent Analytics, will be the first of its kind - it is dedicated to fbConnect, social games and professional social application metrics. We will open to you some part of the process of developing and measuring the success of top multi-million social games. Our lineup of professional professionals includes experts on metrics (Dr. Andreas Weigend / Stanford, Erics Ries / Kleiner Perkins, Justin Smith / InsideFacebook, Jeffery Tseng / Kontagent, Vikas Gupta / Jambool, etc.) and successful game developers who will share their skills in how to use metrics to grow, attract and monetize traffic in social games and applications under Facebook.
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The event is open to all developers (we are especially pleased to see social game developers), marketing professionals and all Facebook enthusiasts. Presentations will be rich and informative. Every developer should learn something that can change their way of developing applications.

You will also receive prizes, including a drawing of premium passes to Web 2.0 Expo, as well as other exclusive prizes, which we will announce at the event.

Speakers and topics

* Albert Lai (Kontagent, co-founder / CEO), Introduction

* Andreas Weigend (Scientist Data Formers at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) - Key Points

* Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkers, co-founder IMVU) - Social Attraction Metrics

* Jia Shen (co-founder / CTO RockYou) - Notifications Metrics

* Jeffrey Tseng and Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder / CTO and VP engineering) - Viral tuning after conversion

* Josh Elman (Facebook) - fbConnect on the Web and iPhone and other platforms

* Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Former Head of Products at Watercooler) - Trends in Social Games

* Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) - Casual game metrics applicable to social games

* Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) - Optimization of the virtual economy

* Michael Hart (Netflix) - Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics