I had a fun evening tonight at the FB Dev Garage in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero. You know you’re in the right place when a Ukrainian sits down in the seat next to you and you happen to sell Ukrainian Folk Music! It’s true!
Overall, it was a great event and networking opportunity. I’m really excited about Facebook Connect now that I now what it’s all about and I’m going to start using social analytic service Kontagent first thing tomorrow at work! Here’s a full list of speakers from the night. It would be interesting to take a class with Andreas Weigend in the future. He “gets it”.
- 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
