TOPICS: Metrics, Social Gaming and fbConnect!
***CAPACITY: 500 (UPDATED)

Confirmed Speakers and Topics

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

* Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) - Keynote

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

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

* Jeffrey Tseng & Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder/CTO & VP engineering) - Viral tuning beyond conversion + insights across applications

* Josh Elman (Facebook) - fbConnect on Web & iPhone and others

* Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Former Head of Products at Watercooler) - Social Gaming trends

* Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) - Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming

* Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) - Virtual Economy Optimization

* Michael Hart (Netflix) - Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics

Overview

This Facebook Developer Garage, co-hosted by Kontagent Ananlytics, will be the first to event of its type to exclusively cover fbConnect, social games and advanced social app metrics. We will reveal some of the development processes and metrics that are behind top multi-million dollar social games. Our lineup of expert speakers include a number of experts in metrics (Dr. Andreas Weigend/Stanford, Erics Ries/Kleiner Perkins, Justin Smith/InsideFacebook, Jeffery Tseng/Kontagent, Vikas Gupta/Jambool, etc.) and successful game developers sharing their insights on how to utilize metrics to increase growth, engagement and monetization of Facebook applications and social games.

This event is open to all developers (social game developers are encouraged to participate), marketing professional and all Facebook enthusiasts. The presentations will be data driven and very actionable. Every developer should be take away something that can be used to change the way they're developing applications.

There will also for thousands of dollars in prizes, including a draw for premimum passes to web 2.0 expo, and other exclusive prizes to be announced at the event.


Live Stream Here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kontagent-facebook-dev-garage-sf--powered-by-intel

Presentations available here:

http://www.kontagent.com/blog/2009/03/26/kontagent-facebook-developer-garage-sf-recap/