Backend as a Service Blog events

The mobile landscape is changing at a pace that can seem breakneck to outsiders. In the early days of mobile development, a few select players could create mobile applications. As the tools of development became democratized, creative agencies and development studios could enter a massive market and reach consumers on personal devices like never before.

This week, Kinvey will be attending, exhibiting and speaking at Apps World North America. Apps World is two days of engagement, high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries – mobile apps. Which, needless to say, is right up our alley. We can’t wait to meet developers and innovators with a shared passion for mobile apps and technology. Check out the top reasons we’re pumped to attend Apps World.

This upcoming Monday, October 1st, Kinvey is proud to be a sponsor of Mobile Monday Boston’s Demo Night. The evening will feature rapid fire presentations by six mobile companies in Boston: TalkTo, SessionM, SummerCamp, Owlchemy Labs, Timbre, and Ubersense. The event will take place at Ned Devine’s in Faneuil Hall beginning at 7, with doors at 6 PM.

Join us at TAPPED next month: The NFC (near field communication) hackathon series, hosted in New York City, San Francisco and Boston all in the month of October.

TAPPED, an NFC hackathon series, is shaping up to be an exciting event over three different weekends in different cities in October, where developers can strut their own NFC Android applications. Featured sponsors include Verizon, Facebook, Samsung, Kinvey, GitHub, Rackspace, Cellotape (NFC tags), Women 2.0, and MIT Enterprise Forum / NFC Cluster Boston.

 
I lived in Austin for 12 years, and not only is SXSW my favorite thing that happens in Austin… it’s my favorite thing that happens period.  If I were to somehow win a trip around the world on Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy, and it was scheduled during SXSW, I’d have to say “naw, I’m good.”

The only year that there was any question if I was going to go or not was my Freshman year in college.  I went to college at The University of Texas at Austin – just blocks away from the epicenter of SXSW.  The organizers of the festival have wisely timed SXSW to coincide with the Texas colleges’ spring breaks, so I was left with the decision between South Padre Island and its infamous college kid debauchery – or a Multimedia/Film/Music festival I knew little about. (SXSW interactive was called “multimedia” at the time). I took a chance and decided to stay in Austin, even though it meant I’d have to sleep on a friend’s couch as the dorms were closed during spring break.

Calling all Android developers in Boston this weekend! Tomorrow, February 18th at 11AM at WorkBar, we will be co-hosting a hackathon with Viximo. The Vixivey Hackathon (Viximo + Kinvey = Viximo!) is your chance to hang out with other cool developers, coding away and building awesome mobile apps. Try out some brand new mobile dev tools that are not yet publicly available and bring your mobile app to the next level by adding social network and cloud service hooks.

As a semi-recent transplant to the Boston area (I moved here in March for the Techstars program) I’m somewhat accustomed to causing shocked faces when I say “what’s that?”  Example: “we’re going to go eat at Top of the Hub, wanna come?”  Me: “What’s that?” – response: “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?”  A similar thing happened when I asked my good buddy Tuan Pham of SVB what this “Unconference” was after reading a tweet that said something along the lines of: “If you only go to one tech event in Boston, make it the Unconference” – It was like I told him I’d never heard of Radiohead.  He gave me a quick rundown of the event and echoed the sentiment of the previously paraphrased Tweet- he said it was not to be missed under any circumstances.