DiscoveryBeat 2010 drumbeat continues with latest speaker additions

The list of great speakers for DiscoveryBeat 2010 keeps growing. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the “secret recipe” for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of the ecosystem for getting content noticed.

Due to its success in 2009, the conference has expanded to a full-day event and will be held on October 18th at The Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Get your tickets here.

For publishers or app developers, the promise of the mobile and social revolution is compelling. However, new players like Google’s Android are throwing out the early rules and creating new challenges in the ecosystem. How do you get discovered when there are 250,000 other publishers and applications fighting for users across diverse devices and interfaces, such as the PC, social networks, mobile phones, and tablets?

Here are our latest speakers:

Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton founded oneforty.com (@oneforty) to help people understand Twitter and the exploding ecosystem of applications and services built on it. Oneforty is a listing of thousands of tools built using the Twitter applications programming interface and is thus a guide to the bustling Twitter community. Fitton is also co-author of Twitter for Dummies (@dummies). Once dubbed the “Queen of Twitter,” she is credited with explaining Twitter’s value to Guy Kawasaki and dozens of other tech leaders. She founded the first Twitter for Business consultancy, Pistachio Consulting, in 2008. She will speak on our panel on App Discovery Tools.

Charles Hudson is currently working on a stealth mobile startup. Until February of this year, he was vice president of business development for Serious Business, a social game company that Zynga acquired. He is also producer of the Virtual Goods Summit, the Social Gaming Summit and the recent Smartphone Gaming Summit. He also co-produces research on virtual goods with Justin Smith, head of Inside Network. Prior to joining Serious Business, he was senior director of business development at Gaia Online, an online hangout for teens and young adults. He also worked at Google, IronPort Systems, and In-Q-Tel. Hudson will moderate a session at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Chris DeVore is the executive chairman of Mobilememe, which operates two mobile companies. The first is AppStoreHQ, a leader in smartphone discovery platforms; the second is iPhoneDevSDK, the largest independent community for iPhone app developers. DeVore is also an active investor as general partner and co-founder of Founders Co-op, a seed-stage investment fund in Seattle. He was previously co-founder of Judy’s Book, a venture-backed local search company; vice president of eBusiness at Sapient; vice president and partner at e-commerce firm Adjacency; and director of e-commerce at Patagonia, the outdoor retailer. He also held senior roles at McCaw Cellular. He will speak on our panel on App Discovery Tools.

Our previously announced speakers include Dave Castelnuovo, head of Bolt Creative and half the team behind the iPhone sensation Pocket God. Julian Farrior, CEO of BackFlip Studios; Ben Keighran, CEO and co-founder of Chomp; Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry; Alan Warms, CEO of Appolicious.com and AndroidApps.com; Vijay Chattha, founder and chief talker of VSC Consulting & AppLaunchPR; Brian Reynolds, chief game designer at Zynga; Norman Winarsky, head of SRI ventures; Tim O’Brien, vice president of business development for Disney Mobile; Arjun Sethi, chief executive of LOLapps. Sebastien DeHalleux, co-founder of Playfish and vice president of business development & strategic partnerships of EA Interactive; Si Shen, chief executive of Papaya Mobile; Marc Gumpinger, chief executive of Scoreloop; and Peter Relan, chairman of YouWeb.

Getting content noticed is a challenge for everyone making apps. We’ll cover the topic at DiscoveryBeat 2010. Startups and big companies alike should consider entering our Needle in the Haystack discovery business idea competition. VentureBeat would like to thank the industry leaders that are supporting DiscoveryBeat 2010, including co-host Flurry, AppLaunchPR, Herakles Data Center, Adobe, Offermobi, Appolicious, and appbackr. Unique sponsorships are still available. For more information contact sponsors@venturebeat.com. To buy tickets, click on this link.