With a bevy of web-enabled smart phones flooding the market, people are taking their social networks with them wherever they go. In addition to location-aware services like Four Square and Gowalla, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, companies are building mobile applications, mobile websites and mobile marketing campaigns that are proving to be rich in content with a high ROI.

Come learn how mobile social will effect your business, and how you can leverage it to boost your bottom line.

Morton's Steakhouse
300 South Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201 

SPEAKERS:

Vince Buscemi
Vince Buscemi is the VP of Operations, Mobile for Mindgrub Technologies, a Innovation Technology Agency located in Baltimore, Maryland.  Vince has been spearheading mobile application development for several years bringing a multitude of applications to market including iPhone apps for Baltimore’s Blue Sky Factory, 600 Block, UMBC and Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus. Vince leads the charge to engage local and national communities in the facilitation of Location Based Experiences (LBE) for Convention and Visitor’s Associations, College and Universities, and Museums. Vince Buscemi has been featured in several technical journals and shares his expertise regularly at various speaking engagements, including Digital Capital Week, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference, Society for Applied Learning Technology(SALT), and has been a guest speaker on NPR, WYPR and WEAA.

Pete Sweigard
Pete Sweigard manages The Baltimore Sun’s mobile products – including its mobile site (mobile.baltimoresun.com), app offerings (new iPhone app launched Sept. 14) and text alert campaigns (eight alert lists, from local breaking news to daily deals). As The Sun’s director of audience engagement, he oversees its social media strategy and user generated content initiatives. He previously served as The Sun’s deputy sports editor and senior sports producer, directing digital operations for the sports depa

rtment. Before coming to Baltimore, Pete worked as an editor for SportsFan Magazine, a now-defunct publication which was based in Bethesda, Md., and at Tailwind Sports, a sports marketing agency.

Eric D. Madison
Eric brings more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software,  application hosting and networking companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune Global 500 organizations.   He has a proven record of bringing both new companies and new products to market.

Before founding FraternalSoft, Eric was VP of Marketing and Co-Founder at Abrevity, an information security software company.   Prior to Abrevity, Eric was Director of Technical Marketing & Alliances at Fujitsu Softek,  the US storage software division of Fujitsu Limited.  While at Fujitsu Softek, Eric was a key part of the team that helped spin the division out of Fujitsu.  Prior to Fujitsu, Eric was a Solutions Marketing Manager at Brocade Communications where he was responsible for new OEM development and was an advisor to the CEO.  Prior to Brocade, Eric worked in the Application Service Provider (ASP) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) markets where he held various senior level engineering positions.

Eric attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville where he holds a BS in Computer Science.