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The European Software Conference for the Independent Developer and the (Micro-) ISV-Industry
Blending web & mobile & desktop into one world of software

The ESWC (e.V.) thanks the following sponsors,
that make this event possible in 2010:

Superb Sponsors:

Digital River

Microsoft

Premiere Sponsors:

Asknet

Avangate

Gate2Shop

Supporting Sponsors:

AlwinHoogerdijk

ASP

deal united

Digium

DPDirectory

Feedforall

Infacta

Software Promotions

SIC

Wibu

Standard Sponsors:

AISIP

ESC

Emurasoft

TTS Company

Media Partners:

DSLteam.de

Java Magazin

jdk.de - Das ECM Portal

KaffeeKlatsch

Mittelstandswissen.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Web topic (WT) Mobile topic (MT) Desktop topic (DT)
Friday, November 6th, 2009*
07:30 pm

Welcome Pre-event Meeting*

at the:

Alt Berliner Biersalon
Kurfürstendamm 225
10771 Berlin

Please ask for the table for the ESWC.

* Everyone pays for his own food and drinks. Please send a short note to info<at>euroconference.info so that we can figure out the rough number of seats we need.

The conference and dining facilities of the ESWC 2009 can be viewed here:

The main conference room is the "Gartensaal", whereas the second track on Saturday will take place in the Bel Etage at the "Sanssouci". The networking dinners will be served at "Charlottenburg" and "Cecilienhof".

 

 

Saturday, November 7, 2009*
First track Second track
08:00 am
Registration
09:00 am
Welcome to Berlin 2009 by
Founder and President David Boventer
09:05 am

Keynote-Message by
Sam Ramji - President
Codeplex Foundation

The Codeplex Foundation provides a framework to facilitate the participation of corporate software developers in open source projects, either through intellectual property contributions to the foundation or through time volunteered under the auspices of the foundation to enable development work on open source projects.

09:45 am

Alwin Hoogerdijk
The Art of Ignoring

You’ve got your hands full, doing development and customer support.But then the experts tell you that you should:
Do SEO, run Adwords, split test your site design, fight piracy, fix your trial edition, send newsletters, write press releases, tweet on Twitter, create mac apps, register your trademarks, publish articles, find affiliates, track your sales, do retail, localize your software, create mobile apps, move to web apps, optimize your shopping cart, etc, etc….

Aston Fallen
President asknet Inc

Global reach and emerging markets – eCommerce in North America and Europe versus Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America

10:30 am -- Break -- -- Break --
11:00 am

The Symbian Foundation - Technical perspectives

Gilles Pardon
Softdatabase

Developing successful business in China

- Description of the Chinese economies in comparison to the rest of the world
- What precisely is the ICT and software market
- Precise quantification of the key account market, by sector of activity
- Important considerations about Chinese culture and history
- Behaviour and expectations of Chinese buyers
- Recommended business models - Do’s and Don’ts
- Example of Success stories
- Q/A

11:45 am

Andy Brice
Successfulsoftware.net

Marketing for microISVs - embracing the "dark" side?

Is marketing necessary? How can we market effectively as microISVs? Is it possible to market effectively without being evil? Marketing myths, positioning, brand, pricing, promotion...and as much else as I can fit into 45 minutes.


Laurentiu Ghenciu
VP of Global Sales & Marketing -
Avangate

5 Tried and tested ways to increase conversion rates

Nowadays, having a Smart High Conversion Strategy is essential for your online software business that’s why we have tried and tested multiple ways to help our vendors increase their shopping-cart conversion rates. Sometimes, small changes may boost your conversion rates dramatically. Adriana will present fresh eCommerce Best Practices which include: Usability, A/B testing and advanced Analytics elements, sustained by our software vendors’ case studies?

12:30 pm -- Lunch break - -- Lunch break --
01:15 pm

Juergen Weichert
deal united GmbH

Conversion 3.0 – the next level in creating incremental revenue

Adriana Iordan
Web Marketing Manager -
Avangate

How to Monitor and Protect Your Reputation Online

What is the effect of social media on your business reputation, how can you build an online reputation and how to "clean up" the bad publicity as needed when this occurs? Which tools to use for monitoring the buzz about you and your products, what are the best practices and how to cope with the negative reviews listed in the search engines. The presentation will examine the strategies and tactics software authors should employ to get a positive reputation and leverage it to foster customer loyalty.

02:00 pm

Dave Collins - SharewarePromotions

Advanced Google AdWords

Google AdWords has changed massively over the last
twelve months! This session will explore some of the more advanced techniques and tools, showing attendees how to get the most of their AdWords accounts while spending less money. The talk will mainly focus on average position issues, advanced keywords & ads, milking the content network, advanced positioning and tracking.

 

Johanna Buckentin Senior Director -
DR globalDirect

Site Testing: How to Optimize Your Site to Increase Your Sales

03:00 pm

Robert Martin
Infacta

Email Marketing - Engaging with your Audience

Tips, Advice & Best Practice

 

Alwin Hoogerdijk

Web-Apps: The End for Software Downloads?


03:45 pm

-- Break -- -- Break --
04:00 pm

Andrew Kazyrevich - Codevanced

Distributed Agile Development

Looking for flexibility and responsiveness intrinsic to agile approaches, distributed teams have to face a lot
of challenges unknown to colocated ones. Their success or failure in adopting to the environment is often a question
of success or failure of the project.

Bob Walsh - Startuptodo

Social Media for startups/microISVs

 

04:45 pm

Tetyana Franke- Business Unit Manager - share-it!
Digital River

How and Why Does an Email Campaign Work? - Top tips to effective email campaign

What is email marketing? What is its success rate? Which online marketing strategy works with all kind of products? All you need is an effective plan and right instruments!

Johanna Buckentin Senior Director -
DR globalDirect

Affiliate Systems: Using Coupons to Help Get You Through the Economic Slump

This presentation will provide stats on the industry trends in coupon use, traffic to coupon sites, and sales results associated with coupon usage, as it relates to software. It will also expand on how to effectively put marketing deals together for both affiliates and publishers.

05:30 pm

Rüdiger Kügler-
WIBU- SYSTEMS

Hacker Reverse Engineering Uncovered

- against reverse engineering
- against pirate copies

Marius Mailat - Fastlink2

100 SEO methods to optimize your software site

06:15 pm Session ends Session ends
07:30 pm Networking-Dinner by the ESWC at the Conference Hotel*
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
09:15 am

Raj Barman - President and CEO -
Acutrack Incorporated

Increase Revenue By Implementing a Backup CD/DVD Solution

In many cases, software manufactures can gain additional revenue from their e-commerce website. A Backup CD/DVD solution improves end-user satisfaction by giving the user peace of mind that they have a physical copy of the software in the event of a crash. When a user orders a physical copy, businesses can take advantage of branding the CD/DVD with additional software offerings and cross-sell new products. Marketing Directors and VPs are being asked to create new sources of revenue, easily; a Backup CD/DVD solution is the answer.

10:00 am

Dave Collins - SharewarePromotions

An A to Z of online marketing

A comprehensive guide to online marketing through the alphabet that guarantees to give even the most experienced of online marketers some new ideas!

10:45 am

Peter Kirchner - Program Manager ISV-
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Seamless
integration in Windows 7 - the path towards application compatibility

Seamless integration into the operating system and the faultless execution of applications are key factors for the satisfaction of customers using software. What do developers have to consider in the process of developing and updating their applications with the goal of executing applications on Windows 7 at the best? This presentation shows the key points you have to consider developing applications as well which new APIs of Windows 7 you can leverage. Restart & Recovery, the new taskbar, or the Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure are some topics you should know if you want to develop for Windows 7. Last but not least you can learn how to find compatibility issues and what solutions exist in terms of coding, configuration, or using tools.

11:45 am

Matthew ( Meir) Silverman - PayPro Global
Vice-President Marketing and Sales

The 3rd Generation of Order pages

-History of order pages
-Some numbers about conversion rates
-What is the look of the perfect Order Page? -What's new on the 3rd G?
-Demographic thinking
-a few words on our vision of e-commerce in the days after the crisis

12:30 am

-- Lunch break --

01:30 pm

Tetyana Franke - Digital River

State of the Global e-Commerce Software Sales

This presentation will provide stats on industry sales trends from a geographical perspective showing sales activity and trends in our current economical environment. This presentation will also layout which countries are producing the most software for end users and which markets that are making the most software purchases.

02:15 pm

Thomas Neudert
IBM
Software Group

IBM's Software Strategy - open services in a secure web environment

Web 2.0 forces companies to adapt products faster. This can happen only by using open development platforms and processes -> http://jazz.net . It is time to leave the way proprietary software has paved so long and head in the new direction of service oriented coding, giving customers more value -> http://www.open-services.net

Web 2.0 also forces companies to think about security in another way. Hackers are no longer attacking for pride and ego, but for profit and property. Software is now the most common target of exploitation, specifically Web applications --> http://www.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports/

03:00 pm

-- Break --

03:15 pm
Aleksey Savkin -
CEO of AKS-Labs

Managing team of remote developers
No money, but a lot of passion! How to
start growing your business from scratch.

-- how to prevent legal problems in future related to trademarks, patents and so on.
-- how to find and hire people (in "no money" situation finding and
managing remote developers it a great idea)
-- general business issues on different levels, including
optimization of operations, growth planning, financial planning

04:00 pm

Dmitry Starostenkov of Perpetuum Software

Merging of ISV and custom development companies: benefits of cross-selling

How to reach synergetic effects through smart combination of key ISVs and custom development competencies.How to organize cross-selling of services through products.

04:30 pm

Dirk Heidemann
Deutsche Telekom AG

Telco capability integration into web applications

Adding Telco capabilities such as voice functionality or location information into applications is an idea that leapfrogs conventional computing and opens new opportunities and value for telcos, developers and end-customers. Deutsche Telekom provides access to its capabilities through its developer portal

In this session we will share with you our ideas and would like to openly discuss your ideas and your future requirements.

05:30 pm

Olga Blazhevich & Vladislav Elizarov
Softkey

The Russian Software market

What is typical for the Russian market? How to enter Russian market? How is Softkey able to help entering Russian Market.

06:15 pm Wrap Up

07:00 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reception and celebration
by the ESWC e.V.

Epsilon Award Presentation

In the name of the Chief Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit the Epsilon Award will be presented to the winner.


Epsilon-Award© für extraordinary independent Software Developement

08:00 pm to 11 p.m.
Networking-Dinner by the ESWC at the Conference Hotel *
   
 

*/+Event- und Networking-Dinner-Conditions: At 07:30 pm on Saturday and at 08.:00 p.m. on Sunday until latest 11:00 p.m. there will be the networking dinner at the Kempinski Conference hotel. These two networking dinners (with one beverage) are included with the full conference registration. (140 or 165 Euro).

After this networking dinners there will possibly be additional events that are free to access for all participants.

These events are either planned and payed for in coordination with a sponsor or solely by the ESWC e.V. If planned by the ESWC e.V. you pay what you eat or drink (especially at the Friday Pre-Event). The relevant sponsor or the individual participant at events where you pay what you eat or drink is responsible for the event itself. No member of the ESWC e.V. or member of the board can be made responsible in any legal form. All legal claims towards the ESWC e.V. or any appointed representative of the ESWC e.V. concerning personal or injury or damage or loss of property or belongings, or due to natural catastrophies, accidents or terrorist actions - are excluded. By taking part in these events every individual participant and any company or business entity declares its consent to these conditions. Any registered participant may take part in these events. Additional persons (friends, spouses, partners, family etc.) receive - on written request - an access badge free of charge, that is exclusively valid only for the concerned event. Only through this written note the participation of additional persons is possible. Please register additional persons until October 15, 2009 by writing to event <at> euroconference.org. Please keep the confirmation by the ESWC in printed form with you. Thank you very much for your understanding.!

*The compilation of our schedule is an evolutionary process in its best sense, since it is open to suggestions and ideas of creative people like you. Therefore changes and alterations to this schedule may happen without further notice.

Current version as of November 2, 2009

 

 
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