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Smartphones powered by Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platforms are transforming the business landscape. Now, more than ever, people on the go can carry their offices in their pockets and be more productive. With small pieces of software known as "apps," smartphones do so much more than send and receive calls and e-mail and text messages. With more than 100,000 apps on Apple's platform, there's an app for just about everything. With the touch of a button, someone on the go can manage client relationships and sales leads, find a nearby shipping center, comparison shop, and much more.

During this session we will discuss some of the best business apps for the iPhone, including several from Mobomo. We will also explore where the mobile industry is heading.

Speaker: Barg Upender is the founder and CEO of Mobomo, a mobile development company focused on building “Smart Apps for Smartphones.” As a technologist with 20 years of experience in commercial software product development, he has helped launch successful products for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and government agencies including AARP, NIH, Comcast, GEICO, and United Technologies. In 2009 Washingtonian magazine named Barg one of its "Top 100 Tech Titans."

As a serial entrepreneur, Barg Upender founded and sold Concentric Methods, a biomedical informatics company. He also was a founding member of NeoDiagnostix Inc., a biomarker-based cancer diagnostic company. In addition, he was a founding partner of Intridea, a Web development company. Products developed at Intridea are funded for launch.

Barg Upender has been covered by many publications including BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Business Journal. He earned a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is an alumnus of the MindShare CEO Network.

Mobomo provides end-to-end mobile strategy, design, and development for businesses and organizations that want to acquire, retain, and engage mobile customers. Combining mobile expertise with disciplines in business strategy, interactive marketing, Web development, and systems engineering, Mobomo creates mobile applications for the Apple iPhone, Google Android, Palm Pre, and other smartphone platforms.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open noon Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

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Next Meeting: 
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Topic: To Be Announced

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