[September 16, 2014]

Xamarin Draws Top Mobile Leaders at World's Largest Cross-Platform Mobile Development Event

Xamarin, the company behind the leading mobile development and testing platform that supports more than 700,000 developers delivering mission-critical apps, today announced the lineup of mobile experts scheduled to speak at the company's second annual user conference, Xamarin Evolve 2014. The event will bring together over a thousand top mobile developers in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency Hotel from October 6-10. Xamarin co-founders Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza will keynote and discuss future directions for both Xamarin and mobile app development, with a particular focus on emerging technologies.

Xamarin Evolve 2014 will feature more than 90 training and conference sessions across ten tracks on the most critical topics in mobile app development, including enterprise development, mobile testing and emerging devices. The conference begins with two days of world-class training from Xamarin University, followed by three days of conference sessions delivered by Xamarin and indutry experts from Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, GitHub, Dropbox, Couchbase, Forrester (News - Alert) and more.

Details on the event are as follows:

WHAT: Xamarin Evolve 2014, Xamarin's second annual worldwide developer conference
WHEN: Training--Monday, Oct. 6 - Tuesday Oct. 7; Conference--Wednesday, Oct. 8 - Friday, Oct. 10
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA

Notable speakers and topics include:

• Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and CTO of Xamarin, on taking advantage of the new features in iOS 8
• Developer visionary and renowned author Jon Skeet on his experience at the cutting edge of C# development
• Programming legend and renowned author Charles Petzold on getting the most with Xamarin.Forms
• Steve Marx, developer advocate at Dropbox (News - Alert), on cross-platform data sync with Dropbox
• Michael Facemire, Forrester Research analyst, on the future of the mobile enterprise
• David Isbitski of Amazon on using C# to build for Amazon's next-gen devices and Tara Walker of Amazon on integrating Xamarin apps with Amazon Web Services
• Mads Torgersen, Daniel Plaisted, and Paul Batum of Microsoft (News - Alert) on the future the C# programming language, cross-platform development patterns, and achieving app scale through Azure Mobile Services
• Xamarin's own Jon Pryor, Jérémie Laval and James Montemagno on what Android L, Android Wear, Android TV, Android Auto, Material Design, and ART mean for developers
• Daniel Cazzulio and Victor Garcia Aprea, co-founders of Clarius Consulting and now part of Xamarin, on getting the most out of Visual Studio

Xamarin will also be presenting the first annual Xammy Awards on stage at Xamarin Evolve 2014, with winners for Best Consumer App, Best Game, Best Enterprise App and Best Emerging Devices App, all built using Xamarin. There will also be a Grand Prize winner and Developers' Choice award. Additionally, in response to popular demand at the inaugural show, Xamarin Evolve 2014 will bring back Mini-Hacks for attendees to complete code challenges and win awesome prizes.

Xamarin is proud to announce Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Salesforce, Avanade, Mindtree, Couchbase, Kidozen, Neudesic and Twilio (News - Alert) as top sponsors at Xamarin Evolve 2014.

For more information about Evolve and to purchase tickets, visit Evolve.Xamarin.com.

About Xamarin:

Xamarin is the new standard for enterprise mobile development. No other platform enables businesses to reach 2.6 billion iOS, Android, Mac and Windows devices with 100 percent fully native apps from a single, shared code base. Xamarin is used by over 700,000 developers from more than 100 Fortune 500 companies to accelerate the creation of mission-critical consumer and enterprise apps. Xamarin's global customer base in 120 countries includes Dow Jones, Bosch, McKesson, Halliburton, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cognizant, GitHub, Rdio and WebMD. Xamarin is a Visionary in Gartner's (News - Alert) 2014 Magic Quadrant report for Mobile Application Development Platforms. For more information, please visit: xamarin.com or follow us @xamarinhq.

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