ACCESS is once again a Platinum Sponsor for the 7th Orange Partner Camp located in beautiful Faro, Portugal April 14-16.

To learn more about the event and to register, visit the Orange Partner Website.

The philosophy is simple - 3 days of interactive presentations, workshops, sessions, coding, 1-2-1 chats, speed dating and contests… helping you and Orange to drive innovation forward, and into the hands of mobile, broadband, fixed and IPTV customers.

Innovate, learn and network amongst your peers:

• Business and consumer downloadable mobile application providers
• Service enablers and platform providers
• Converged solution providers
• Publishers and aggregators
• Systems integrators and ISVs

As a Platinum Sponsor, ACCESS will have a booth with the latest demos from ADN including:

• What’s new in the ALP SDK 2.4
• Running the ALP SDK in Windows using VMWare
• Syncing your device with Outlook using HotSync
• Preview of ALP running on hardware with the Orange Home Screen
• NetFront Browser Widgets

ACCESS will also be hosting 5 technical and business related sessions:

Monday, April 14 - Room 1
16:15 - 16:45 (30 min)

“An Insight Into Charting a New Course With Mobile Linux”

Didier Diaz - Senior Vice President; Product Strategy Management, ACCESS

This session provides an overview of the Mobile Linux landscape and market opportunity. We will discuss industry consortiums, the role that ACCESS and Orange have played in LiPS and LIMO, the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) and the Orange i800 ALP phone. We will also look at the role that Open Source and Linux play in accelerating converged device innovation.

Monday, April 14 - Room 1
17:00 - 17:30 (30 min)

“Getting Existing Java Apps Running on the Orange i800 ALP Device”

Bill Lee - Developer Relations Engineer, ACCESS
Ewa Matejska - Sr Engineer Dev Tools Group, ACCESS

Learn how to get your existing Java application running on the first Linux-based phone from Orange. Test it for compatibility with the ALP Dev Suite. In this session you will hear about the supported Java and Garnet OS features in ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). Learn how to get your application into the platform Simulator and launch it. It worked!

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 6
11:15 - 11:45 (30 min)

“Funding Mobile Application Development: A Venture Capital Perspective”

Moderator:
Larry Berkin - Developer Ecosystem & Technology Acquisition, ACCESS
Panelists:
Rakesh Sood - Venture Advisor, DoCoMo Capital, DoCoMo’s N. American Venture Group
Denis Barrier - General Partner, Innovacom, France Telecom’s Venture Group
Martin Duval - Director of the Orange Start-Up Program, and CEO of bluenove

Venture capital investors need a vehicle for discovering breakthrough technologies in the telecom landscape. They have a mission to fund startups that will improve the ability of carriers to deliver services. Buoyed by the opening of the IPO window, acquisitions and innovative services by entrepreneurs, the venture industry in 2007 had its biggest investment year since 2001. Will the dollars continue to flow to start-ups in 2008? If so, where? Listen as our panel of leading VCs gives its views of the industry and where it is headed.

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 1
12:00 - 12:30 (30 min)

“Tales from the Trenches… Developing for ALP” (30 mins)

Wouter Brink - VP Engineering, Elements Interactive

A presentation on the ins & outs of developing mobile applications for the ACCESS LINUX Platform from a leading European mobile application developer that has been through it.

Tuesday, April 15 - Room 3
16:00 - 17:15 (75 min)

“Creating Next-Gen Mobile Applications for ACCESS Linux Platform”

Bill Lee - Developer Relations Engineer, ACCESS
Ewa Matejska - Sr Engineer Dev Tools Group ACCESS

This session provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the ACCESS Linux Platform architecture and components. This session does not require a technical background but touches on technical elements involved in developing applications for the ACCESS Linux Platform.

We hope to see you there!