Jud Bowman
President & CEO, PocketGear

Jud is the President & CEO of PocketGear and has helped grow the company into the largest cross platform, open app store and content marketplace with a catalog of more than 140,000 paid and free titles available for discovery and download. To date PocketGear has generated over $400 million in mobile content revenues for the more than 32,000 developers in the PocketGear Developer Program. Jud led the acquisition of PocketGear from Motricity in June 2008. Prior to PocketGear, Jud co-founded Motricity (Nasdaq: MOTR) in September 1999 and was instrumental in growing Motricity to more than $100 million in annual revenues and 500 employees globally. As Motricity's Chief Technology Officer, Jud was the chief architect of one of the industry's leading mobile content delivery platforms that has delivered more than $3 billion of content to mobile phones. Jud has been named one of the world's "Top 100 Young Innovators" by MIT's Technology Review and one of "Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek. He was also recognized as a winner of the Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in the Carolinas in both 2001 and 2010.

Dawson Roark
Founder, Decode Solutions

A technology evangelist, Dawson Roark is the founder of Decode Solutions, a technology integration and mobile application development firm. Decode Solutions was born in 2008 to consult on mobile technology solutions for the manufacturing industry. Before founding Decode Solutions, Dawson was the CTO for Industrial Power Sales and was operations manager for ChatterBox, a startup headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. Through Decode Solutions, he also directs PR and marketing for Open My Video, a video messaging tool.