Xamarin: Learn Mobile Development Best Practices at Xamarin Evolve 2016

Improve Your App with Best Practice Guidance from the Experts

The new year is fast approaching, so we wanted to give everyone a reminder about the end of Early Bird pricing for Xamarin Evolve 2016. Don’t miss out on an incredible opportunity to join with over 1,500 mobile developers, industry leaders, and Xamarin experts—including our newest round of speakers covering mobile quality and mobile development best practices.

Chris Williams and Kevin West, MixRadio: Test Automation in Practice with TestCloud at MixRadio

Chris has been developing desktop, web, and mobile applications for more than fifteen years, specializing in C# and .NET for companies including Nokia and Microsoft. He’s been leading agile development teams for the past seven years and currently utilizes the full range of Xamarin products to build MixRadio apps on Windows, Android, and iOS.

Kevin has played a key role in bringing the MixRadio music service to Android and iOS, specializing in delivering rich user experiences. He has over a decade of experience in creating mobile and web applications with companies such as Nokia and Microsoft and became a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer.

Matthew Soucoup: As Seen On TV … Bringing C# to the Living Room

Matthew is a Xamarin MVP and Certified Xamarin Developer from Madison, WI. He founded his company Code Mill Technologies and started the Madison Mobile .NET Developers Group. Matt regularly speaks on .NET and Xamarin development at user groups, code camps, and conferences throughout the Midwest. Matt gardens hot peppers, rides bikes, and loves Wisconsin micro-brews and cheese.

Jim Bennett: A New World of Possibilities for Contextual Awareness with iBeacons

Jim is an international C# geek who has spent time hanging around in financial institutions, software houses, and co-working spaces for the past 16 years across 4 different continents. When he’s not writing desktop WPF apps for large banking clients he builds mobile apps using Xamarin, blogs, talks at meetups, uses iBeacons to stop his daughter from losing her favorite toys, and consumes vast amounts of Thai food.

Rex Hansen: Building Cross-Platform Mapping Apps with ArcGIS Runtime

Rex Hansen is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs at Esri. He has over 20 years of experience in GIS, spatial analytics, and computer mapping.

Martijn van Dijk: Cross-Platform media in Xamarin

Martijn is a .NET Developer from The Netherlands. Working with Xamarin, Android, Windows(Phone) and iOS, has’s also a contributor to MvvmCross and creator of several Xamarin plugins.

Lori Lalonde: Extending Views and Adding Custom Attributes in Your Xamarin.Android App

Lori is an author, consultant, blogger, conference speaker, Microsoft MVP, Xamarin MVP, and Certified Mobile Developer. She’s a proud member of the Western Devs group, and serves as the User Group Leader of CTTDNUG, a .NET User Group in Kitchener, Ontario. You can follow her on Twitter @loriblalonde, check out her blog at solola.ca, and see what she’s been up to with the other Western Devs at westerndevs.com.

Alec Tucker: Addressing the OWASP Mobile Security Threats using Xamarin

Alec has been in the mobile space since the late 90s and through White Clarke he has enterprise apps deployed at financial institutions in the UK, Southern Africa, and Australia. He’s held a variety of roles over the years from programmer to Technical Director, runs the Sydney Mobile .NET Developers group, and is a regular speaker at various events and hack days.