Amazon Appstore Developer Summit
Topics covered at #AmazonAppSummitJoin to see talks and workshops by developer guest speakers, from disruptive start-ups to established consumer brands, who are at the forefront of innovation in their market segments.
At the event, Amazon's technical representatives will also be on hand to provide support, answer your questions, and help you troubleshoot any issues. We’ll have extra devices on-hand for you to experience or for testing including the Amazon Echo.
Join us for the Amazon AppStore Developer Summit!
The Amazon Appstore Summit will provide you with a great opportunity to network with other leading brands, app developers and the wider Amazon Appstore team. The event aims to be fun, interactive and insightful with lots of great take-aways!
Here are some of the key items on the agenda:
- Get an overview of the Amazon Appstore eco-system, new device portfolio, and developer services
- Hear insights from top developers and innovative consumer brands
- Learn best practices for bringing your apps and games to the Living Room
- Get an introduction to using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences
- Learn about Amazon Underground: Where Apps Are Free and Developers Are Paid per Minute
- Understand Your Power-Users (and Foster More)
Registration
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About the Amazon Appstore
The Amazon Appstore allows developers to distribute and sell their Android and HTML5 web apps to millions of customers in 236 countries and territories. It is available on a multitude of devices, and is pre-loaded on Android phones on select carriers in the US and Europe. And now the Amazon Appstore has over 400,000 apps globally.
Amazon has tools and services that help you monetise your apps and keep users engaged. It’s easy to get started. You can test your app in under a minute and we’ve seen that most Android apps just work on Amazon devices, with no additional development required. Developers can get started in minutes from our developer portal.
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Day 1: Amazon Appstore Developer Summit
Day 1
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About the speaker...
Iain GavinIain has been a member of the management team since he joined Amazon in 2009. He setup and ran Amazon Web Services UK Ltd as Managing director for 6 years. He joined Amazon appstore as Director/GM in January 2015. Iain earned his honor’s degree in Computer Science. He lives in Hampshire and enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two children. He is an Advanced Motorcycle Emergency Rider Volunteer for SERV Wessex, who run out of hours inter-hospital transport service for blood, platelets, and other blood products for use in transfusions. He also enjoys music, film and following London Irish rugby club. |
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About the speaker...
Paul CutsingerPreviously, he ran engineering for Disney's Club Penguin. At Microsoft, he shipped HTML5 canvas in IE9 and the Windows user experience back when there was still a start menu. He can be found on twitter @PaulCutsinger or at www.PaulCutsinger.com |
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About the speaker...
David LowIn his role, David looks after external developer relations, working to grow the evangelist developer community around Skyscanner and the Skyscanner API. David began with Skyscanner nearly three years ago managing the company’s mobile products, including implementing a Best Practice standard. Prior to his Skyscanner life, David managed digital production at RBS and led product development at STV. David has worked on high-scale web sites and mobile apps for more than 15 years and has a particular passion for making digital products work 'anywhere’. |
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About the speaker...
Paul CutsingerPreviously, he ran engineering for Disney's Club Penguin. At Microsoft, he shipped HTML5 canvas in IE9 and the Windows user experience back when there was still a start menu. He can be found on twitter @PaulCutsinger or at www.PaulCutsinger.com |
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Peter HeinrichBefore Amazon, Peter was a full-time game developer for fifteen years, working on desktop and console titles before moving to online and mobile games. He co-founded indie game studios Smarterville and Zero Entertainment after working as an individual contributor for several large game makers. |
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Peter HeinrichBefore Amazon, Peter was a full-time game developer for fifteen years, working on desktop and console titles before moving to online and mobile games. He co-founded indie game studios Smarterville and Zero Entertainment after working as an individual contributor for several large game makers. |
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Building Curzon Home Cinema for Fire TV
Featuring Bill Scott and Philip Mordecai
How can a cinema chain deliver a big screen experience in a tiny London flat? Curzon, an 80-year old British independent cinema chain and content distribution group with its roots in London, will share their approach. Looking to engage customers outside its theatre locations, they launched Curzon...
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Alexa, Ask Skyscanner about Flights from London to…
Featuring David Low
Alexa, Ask Skyscanner about Flights from London to… Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site offering a comprehensive and free flight search service as well as online comparisons for hotels and car hire. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Skyscanner has been in the travel business for over 10...
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An Overview of the Amazon Devices and Services for Mobile Developers
Featuring Iain Gavin
We will start the day off with an overview of Amazon's current developer ecosystem. Learn how you can take advantage of Amazon’s Mobile App SDK, Amazon's Appstore and the new line of consumer Fire devices like Alexa, Echo, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick and Fire tablets, as well as...
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Bringing Apps and Games to the Living Room
Featuring Jesse Freeman
In this session, we cover what's needed to bring your Android app or game to Fire TV. We walk you through controller support for a game scenario (buttons and analog sticks), controller support for UI (selection, moving between menu items, invoking the keyboard), and how to account for the...
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An introduction to using the Alexa Skills Kit and Amazon Web Services to Build Voice Driven Experiences
Featuring Paul Cutsinger
Come learn firsthand how to build for Amazon Echo and Amazon Voice Service enabled devices using the Alexa Skills Kit and Amazon Web Services. This session will walk through using Amazon Echo and how to build your first Alexa Skill using both AWS Lamda and AWS Beanstalk. We'll also take a...
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Responsive Game Design
Featuring Jesse Freeman
Gone are the days where you can make a game and publish it to a single platform expecting a sure fire success. The best way to solve this problem is something I call “responsive game design” based on the same principles that work so well in responsive design for web apps. This framework includes...
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Two New Ways to Monetize – Underground and Merch
Featuring Paul Cutsinger
The average developer only monetizes 2-3% of their customers. What if you could monetize 100% of them? In this session you’ll learn about: 1) Amazon Underground where customers get premium apps and in-app items for free and developers get paid for all of the minutes used, and 2) Merch by Amazon a...
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Understanding Your Power-Users (and Fostering More)
Featuring Peter Heinrich
A relatively small group—tiny, really—of dedicated customers often generates an unexpectedly large percentage of total revenue for a mobile app or game. Who are the members of this group, and how can you better engage them? More importantly, how do you encourage others to join the ranks of these...
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Picking the Right Tool for the Job: HTML5 vs Unity
Featuring Jesse Freeman
Game developers have lots of options when it comes to picking platforms and frameworks to build their games with. If you are looking to build true cross platform games there are two great options, HTML5 and Unity, but choosing which one to start with can be difficult. In this talk we will discuss...
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Top 5 Tips for Porting Unity Games to Fire Devices
Featuring Jesse Freeman
In this talk we'll cover the five main tips you'll want to know when porting a Unity game over to Fire TV, Fire Tablet and Fire phone. Through code examples we'll demo how to support multiple resolutions for pixel perfect Orthographic and Perspective Cameras, abstracting player input...
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5 Best Practices of Top-Earning Mobile Apps
Featuring Mike Hines
Amazon is famously metrics-driven and obsessed with customer satisfaction. In its role as a mobile app publisher, it is perfectly positioned to analyze and interpret millions of mobile downloads and in-app purchases, leading to some surprising and intriguing insights into mobile app engagement...
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Improving Appstore Rank: Best Practices (& Tactics to Avoid)
Featuring Peter Heinrich
How far would you go to make your app successful? Everyone has a strategy, and as an app publisher, Amazon has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hear the tactics that will get you banned or blacklisted, along with best practices for actually achieving the results you want: more downloads,...
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No Metrics, No Marketing for Digital Start-ups
Featuring Edward Relf
No Metrics, No Marketing for Digital Start-ups” - a lean marketing methodology for disruptive digital start-ups. Ed will run through his framework for building a successful product development & marketing driven approach using real-world examples and lessons from Laundrapp.
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Amazon Appstore Developer Summit 2016
One day in London
This Summit has been designed to provide you, the developer, with lesson learned, unique insights and tools plus, to showcase new opportunities and future methodologies into how you can best connect with customers. The programme’s based on hard facts and experience gained, not only by Amazon...
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