The schedule is published, and while we’re still tweaking and adding on to it, it’s there, and it kicks ass!

There’s so many awesome topics!

Chuck Smith talking about iTunes Connect,
Scott Michaels talking about Tips for marketing your app,
Jonathan Saggau showing us al how to connect the iPhone to Google App Engine

That doesn’t even begin to scrath the surface of our great content, Sunday (Free for all attendees) has some awesome Hands on training, and we’re working with an Apple Certified Training company to provide an all day, SDK 101 for those that are getting into iPhone development.

360|iDev is going to be THE conference to attend for iPhone developers. If you’re not sure, ask around about 360|Flex, we don’t mess around when it comes to offering the best developer focused events possible and 360|iDev is no exception!

Register now, the first tier $200 tickets are almost gone, then the price goes up to $360!

For those that know Tom and I from 360|Flex, in particular the first 360|Flex, you’ll know that it was very much a small scale, getting started feel. Our sponsors all paid the same price and all got the same thing.

We realized yesterday that we shoulda done that for 360|iDev. It’s a first event, and we want to make sure everyone that can/wants to come, does. Our sponsorship levels didn’t facilitate that at their previous levels.

So….

New sponsorship options! Way easier, and more affordable.

General sponsorship: $2000
USB drive – $1500
Lanyards – $1000
Community – $500

We think these new options make more sense, and will be easier for potential sponsors to get on board with.

Download the sponsor packet here

Don’t wait, register now, while there’s a few $200 tickets left!

I spent the weekend going over the submissions, and plugging sessions into slots. As you can see (download schedule here), AWESOME content, with some room for a little more.

If you’re an iPhone app developer or someone looking to talk about how your application came about, changed your business, etc. There’s room, sign up here! Sorry, we’re all booked up!  Save your topic for the next show!

Game devs? You out there? We need more game dev topics! I know you game devs are out there! I’ve played some of your work! Come talk about the game dev aspects of the iDevice!

Come hang out with the rest of the iPhone developer community! Learn, network, drink, and have fun!

Register now! the price goes up to $360 in the next 20 tickets!

Note: This post is for housekeeping purposes (i.e. mainly attendee cancellations), not a sign of impending doom. The show is going to happen in March, no doubt about it. We have waaaaay to much killer content to turn back now! :)

Cancellation Policy

In the unfortunate event that we cancel the conference, only the registration fee will be reimbursed. Hotel and airfare are the responsibility of the attendees.

Refund policy

Full refunds are available up until 3 weeks before the conference, no penalties. After that we’ve committed to those numbers for SWAG, etc.

We’re VERY excited to announce the first, of hopefully a few training sessions. For those not familiar with 360|Conferences, one thing we try to do is get some hands on sessions in during the conference. This way you can get your hands dirty with some great technologies while you’re at the show. We know that with our low price point (only $200 if you register now) we get tend to get those just moving to the technology. If that’s you, then keep reading for some exciting news!

Oh and just a reminder: These trainings are always free for registered attendees. Just another value-add that we at 360Conferences like to provide.

The PhoneGap Project: Designing for the Device Neutral Mobile Web

Designed at this year’s iPhoneDevCamp, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for bringing native device capabilities to mobile browsers. With PhoneGap, developers can author applications in HTML and Javascript while still taking advantage of native mobile device capabilities, such as geo location, camera, vibration, local storage, sound and more. PhoneGap runs on a variety of mobile platforms including iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

In this three-hour workshop, attendees will become familiar with the PhoneGap framework, and will learn how to build applications and contribute back to the PhoneGap project.

What you will learn:

• How to get started building PhoneGap applications
• An overview of Objective-C, Javascript API and XUI framework
• How to overcome barriers to cross-device development
• How to build applications for web-enabled devices with open standards
• How to test and deploy an application to a mobile device
• How to quickly and easily convert web applications to a native mobile app
• Differences in capabilities across devices
• How to retrofit existing web applications to utilize phone features

Join us to discover how you can use your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to take full advantage of the mobile web.

Brock Whitten is a software developer at Nitobi Inc. He is one of the brains behind PhoneGap and recently presented on PhoneGap at MobileCamp Vancouver. Brock wants to see developers get really creative now that the barrier of entry for developing on mobile devices is getting increasingly lower.

Rob Ellis is a developer at Nitobi Inc. As one of the PhoneGap creators, Rob is focused on trying to make mobile device app development easy and open. At Nitobi, Rob is part of a team that makes web applications easier to use by building software that allows both developers and end-users be more effective.

Brian LeRoux is a software architect at Nitobi Inc. where he focuses on building custom applications. He is an expert in Ajax, Ruby, Rails and a whole host of open source technologies.

Again this hands on training is free for registered attendees only! Register now.

The official hotel of 360|iDev will be the Holiday Inn!

1740 North First St.
San Jose, CA 95112
Hotel Front Desk: 1-408-793-3300
Hotel Fax: 1-408-453-0259
Group Code 1: FLE
Group Code 2: Three Sixty iDev

This is where we’ll be staying along with the speakers.

We have a room block with discounted pricing of $129 per night. The link above should automatically get you the $129 rate. If you book by phone, mention the group code of “FLE” or “Three Sixty iDev”.

If the HI doesn’t work for you, there’s a few other options;

Double Tree
Fairfield Inn
Homestead Studio Suites
Motel 6

Here’s a little background info for those interested in how this conference came to be.

http://www.chucksmith.de/?p=84

Thanks for the interview, Chuck.  It was a blast!

Don’t miss out on your chance to join us in San Jose at March.  Register now while it’s still only $200!

Anyone that knows us from our 360|Flex ventures, knows that we get our logos created by Doug McCune and Juan Sanchez, whomever is free at the time we ask :)

For 360|iDev, we started with something Juan created and I butchered it, then Doug swooped in to our rescue.

Here’s some of the images. I’ve made an archive of images that are 180 wide, for badges. I’ll be doing speaker ones, shortly (not tonight though).

We’ve also got some cool app icon sized ones to release as well!

Take a look!

 

  

  

It occured to me, that those not familiar with 360|Flex, don’t know what being a speaker means for an event we organize. So here’s a quick primer on what being a speaker is all about the 360|Conferences way.

What’s your session like? 
80 minutes. yes that’s longer than most, we’ve had more good than bad feedback on this. We think it allows for better discussion, most agree. You DO NOT have to talk for 80 minutes. for all we care, talk for 10 and have 70 minutes of discussion with the audience. They’re your 80 minutes, use them as you like.

Slide deck or code?
Most of our attendees prefer code. write it live or at least show some canned stuff. Slides are totally cool if your preso isn’t about code (duh). Feel free to mix it up, get multimedia on it, whatever you like. We try to provide a slide template, if you’re gonna have slides we like you to use it, but it’s not a requirement.

Deliver your preso.
Get it to us ASAP! It’s that simple. Attendees want it. You’re welcome to put it on your blog, but we tend to give out a USB drive to every attendee, and they like it when the preso and/or code is on the drive ahead of the preso.

Hotel: 
We cover your hotel. We cover Sunday night, through Tuesday night. 

Speaker Sponsor Dinner:
As a token of our appreciation for your being a speaker, we have a dinner for our awesome speakers and sponsors on Sunday night.

We like to say that being a speaker at a 360|Conferences, inc event is like being an attendee with a little more responsbility. We don’t want people who come only to speak, we want speakers who come to learn and enrich the community.

Wanna join us? Submit a topic (instructions here) or register. 360|iDev is THE place to be fore iPhone Developers.

We are now accepting sponsors for our next show!  Click below to get the sponsor packet.

http://www.360idev.com/downloads/SponsorPacket.pdf

The first show was an amazing experience, and this one will be even better.  Sign up now to be a part of this amazing conference and help us grow the iPhone development community.

Here are some of our past sponsors:

At Host Level, we had:

General Level:

USB Drives:

Receptions:

Community:

Media:

Partners: