Jani describes it as:

Want to develop for something new? Try Windows Phone 7!

Windows Phone 7 devices started appearing in Finland in November 2010, and during these brief months, there has been a lot of interest in developing applications for this new platform. I’ve been working with different mobile platforms and their development tools, but find the tools Windows Phone 7 platform uses to be well integrated. Shortly put, the experience is smooth.

As an additional benefit, I can directly utilize the .NET based code – for instance written with C# – written for other solutions in my mobile applications. For many different application types, the main technology for Windows Phone 7 applications is Silverlight. You might have heard the name when it comes to web technologies, too.

If you are focusing on game development, try XNA. XNA is Microsoft’s .NET based game development framework that is suitable for writing games for not only the Windows Phone 7 platform, but also the PC and the Xbox 360. You can share your C# code between all these platforms, and develop to all these three pieces of hardware simultaneously.

If you are interested in Windows Phone 7 development with .NET and Visual Studio + Expression Blend, be sure to visit Microsoft’s workshop space, especially since this is the first time you can try the phones hands-on.

If you are ready for a new technical challenge, be sure to try Windows Phone 7 development!

Please sign-up for the facebook event so we have some idea of how many people are going to attend the session.

Tomi is internet famous for his blog posts of almost biblical length which are frequently an analysis of market number announcements and also his semi-frequent twitter storms

Actually, we chatted with Tomi when we met at MindTrek and asked him what he thought he could do for a more technical/developer focused audience, and he was very excited for the opportunity to talk about real examples of how developers/small enterprises had made money in recent years (not just iApps )

bada: The Next Wave

This talk introduces bada and gives an overview over the technical platform as well as the whole ecosystem to publish, sell and promote bada apps. Important release milestones and achievements are highlighted and a pre-view to the new bada 2.0 version together with developer opportunities are presented.

This talk will be given by Manfred Bortenschlager, you can get more information about Manfred here

As Manfred’s office is in Staines, we should probably not ask him to many questions about Ali G

Cross platform development is one of the key drivers when developing mobile services in the future. With the iPhone we have seen the number of mobile applications explode. Will the future of mobile internet be inside the browser or applications?

Come listen and talk about these subjects in Mobile Dev Camp Helsinki 2010. Event for startups and technology companies, developers and business people.

Main Stage

We have gone all retro and stuff and are applying the BETA label to our agenda, as there is still possibilities of changes even though we are only 7 days away from THE mobile event of the year (at least for Developers )

Agenda
10.30-11.15 Registration and Breakfast, sponsored by Ericsson
11.15-11.30 Welcome
11.30-12.15 Nokia feat. Qt – Cross-platform application and UI framework (Sami Viitanen)
12:15-12:45 Microsoft Phone 7 Series demo (Vesku Paananen)
12:45-13:00 Break
13.00-13.30 Creative Mobile app design with Python (Jürgen Scheible)
13:30-14:30 Panel: Cross platform development (Moderator: Peter Vesterbacka Panelists: Paul Houghton, Miika Virtanen, Jouni Mannonen)
14:30-15:30 Lunch, sponsored by Nokia + networking
15:30-16:00 Engineering success in the App Store (Jouni Mannonen)
16.00-16.45 Browser as first class app environment- trends and vision (HTML5, JS) (Göran AP Eriksson, Vladimir Katardiev)
16:45-17.00 Break
17.00-18.00 Panel: Is the future of mobile internet in the browser or native applications (Moderator Vesku Paananen, Panelists: Vladimir Katardiev, Teemu Kurppa, Juha Kaunisto, Lauri Piispanen)
18.00-18.30 Announce winner of Mobile Dev Challenge + sum up + Thank you!
18.30-> Party and networking

Workshop Rooms

The workshop rooms give you a chance to dig deeper into the latest mobile technologies. The rooms are manned with different platform experts ready to show you the cool things you can do.

This is also an excellent opportunity for you to connect with other developers. You can show what you, your company or your student projects is building at the moment. Honking your own horn is perfectly ok. We all want to see cool stuff.

Android

Comeks is in charge of the Android workshop room. Come and learn from Finland’s topmost Android experts how to get started on Android development. This is also the place to show your awesome Android projects or to find co-developers for your start-up. Anyone is free to do presentations.

The Android workshop room is the best place for Android competition coding as well. Whether you are just starting out or are doing advanced stuff, the Comeks guys can help you. Grab the SDK from here beforehand.

Ericsson

Ericsson Research will show You prototypes for real time push to Android browser, and extensions
allowing the web app to run even if U close the browser. We have been implementing html5-ish stuff
like Websockets and run-the-web-app in the background and are using our own web push prototype.
(have a look at https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-connectivity/).

We will share experiences about the work and the details about the realisation.

For those curious about such matters, You will have some Ericsson guys there with experience from
W3C and IETF work with HTML5 stuff and even operator widget runtime initiatives like BONDI and JIL.

iPhone

Grey Area and Huikea man the iPhone workshop room. Come and listen to short presentations on location based services, game coding on iPhone and user experience or do a presentation yourself. No pre-registration is required, just pick a topic you know about and do it.

If you want to learn about iPhone coding or just need a chill-out space to develop your iPhone competition application, this is the place to be. We have experts on standby during the day ready to help you get started or to assist you if you get stuck. Please download the SDK from Apple beforehand so we don’t kill the network.

Microsoft

It will be worth visiting this workshop space as Microsoft will be bringing along a whole bunch of different technology toys for everyone to play with.
First off, there will be a number of different Windows Mobile 6.5 devices that you can experiment with. Following on from the announcement at MWC of the new Windows Phone 7 Series you will be able to experiment with it on an touch enabled laptop (not quite a handset, but as close as you are likely to get for the next few months)
In addition to this, Microsoft will bring along an Xbox and a Zune hd live to allow you to play with these other parts of the Microsoft stack.

Vesku plans to run some extra competitions in the room for those visiting. Oh and he has convinced one of his friends from Samsung to help out on the day as well.

Nokia

People from Maemo Devices and Forum Nokia will be present in the Nokia workshop room during the entire event. Come around to ask questions, chat, ask for demonstrations and discuss about topics around the development environment. There won’t be a fixed schedule, but everything around your questions. Showing how to set-up the environment, small code-snippets, how to start developing for Nokia devices etc. The goal is to get the hands on Qt-development for mobile devices and have some fun. For the people who are working on applications for the competition, there will be support for all your questions.
Get the definitive low-down from the Wiki page

• Should you concentrate on a single platform?
• How many platforms can I realistically support with a native application?
• Is it easier to provide cross platform via a web interface?
• What more could I do with native application Vs a browser based one?
• Is the future cloud based or fat native client?

With all of these in mind we are building this years event based around two themes:

Cross Platform Development

and

Native Applications Vs Web Client

Like last year, we are working on securing as interesting and broad a range of speakers as possible, to ensure that the keynotes on the main stage are worth attending in person. As we get final confirmation of attendance and title we will be announcing them here.
New for this year, we will also be running panels. The idea is to provide answers to the challenges raised by the day’s two themes.

In addition to the main stage, there will also be workshop and hacking areas.
The idea of the workshop areas is that you can get more hands-on with the tools and talk with other developers who actually use the tools in anger as part of their day-to-day lives, rather than the typical marketing folks you often see at events.
As the various orgnaisations confirm their attendance and plans for what will happen in the workshop spaces, we will also update it here.

As noted here, we have not forgotten that one of the more popular ideas from last year was the competition. We are working hard to improve on what happened last year, and think are getting close to something that will be both fun and challenging for everyone (note, that means your iFart app is unlikely to win ).
We are again thinking of a “sprint” type of competition, so there is still plenty of time to dust off those half forgotten projects, ready for the day.

So overall, a full day is planned.
Reserve space in your calendar for it now!

Most importantly, we will be starting a little later this time (no-one wants to get up early on a Saturday ).
We will also be running workshop rooms during the whole day, in parallel with the main stage activities. This is to allow you to get real hands on experience with the technology and talk with developers who are actually making their living doing this.

As one of the more exciting things that happened at the last event was the Hackathon (a competition to build a working application on the day), we will be once again running a competition, but this time with a couple of twists, which we think will make it more exciting for everyone involved.
Listen out for more updates on this during the next few weeks.

This will allow you to continue an interesting conversation, catch up with those you did not manage to talk to during the day or just chill out and collect your thoughts.

What ever happens everyone is welcome to come and find me to talk about beer if you feel the need for a change of subject

We are taking one of the main ideas of BarCamp (that the participants create the agenda), and using that to drive the second half of the day.
The filling/planning/allocation of the slots will run for the first half of the day during breaks as well as before we start the day for those who are desperate that their session be included. Depending on how this initial “slotting” goes, we will be able to decide how many con-current sessions to run.
The current plan is to have between one and three tracks running in parallel, with 20 minute sessions and 10 minute breaks in between sessions.

This post by Emma Persky, who seems to be a semi-professional bar camp attendee, gives some good tips for first time attendee of a BarCamp.

One important thing I think should be pointed out, or rather, clarified about Emma’s post is around the concept of “hi-jacking” a session.
If you are finding a particular session boring, or it is not covering the thing you thought it would, then consider just leaving that session to take part in the Hackathon and get some code written or tested instead.
Of course, if you hear something that is just plain wrong, or have an idea how to make the session better, then feel free to attempt to alter the session, but be nice.

One idea we came up with, is that if you want help/assistance, or are willing to offer help, consider putting a note on the lid of you laptop while in the Hackathon area to let people know (funny badges/signs (in either Finnish, Swedish or English) may win a prize)
We would suggest you put things like; platform (iPhone, Android, Symbian, Maemo, OpenMoko, Qt, Plam Pre) language or technology (Mobile Python, GPS, Java etc) and if you are looking for help with a specific thing, or offering help with something (or a combination of both).