7 new experts who will share their app secrets at DiscoveryBeat 2010

We’re entering the home stretch in preparations for DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference about how to get apps noticed. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the secret recipes for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speakers represent vital parts of the ecosystem, from investors to app creators and experts who cover the space. Due to its success in 2009, the conference has expanded to a full-day event and will be held on October 18 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? We summed up what we’ve learned so far about discovery techniques so far in a new VentureBeat feature, the Discovery Directory.

Here are our latest speakers:

Travis Boatman (right), vice president of worldwide studios for EA Mobile at Electronic Arts. Boatman oversees the production of mobile games made by EA’s mobile game developers. He has been involved in the video game industry in publishing and developing jobs for almost two decades. Before joining EA, he was vice president of studio development at Jamdat Mobile, an executive producer at Mattel, and producer at PF.Magic. Boatman will be part of the Big Media Gets Moving panel at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Simon Khalaf (left), chief executive of mobile analytics and monetization firm Flurry. Khalaf has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in consumer and enterprise markets. Prior to Flurry, Khalaf was president and CEO of Vernier Networks, a network security company; president and CEO of Volera, the content and video distribution company; vice president and general manager at Novell; founder, president and CEO of JustOn, the internet file-sharing service; and founder, vice president of marketing at Worldtalk, an e-mail and content security company. He will give a solo talk at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

James de Jesus (right), director of creative development at AKQA. He oversees the Adobe Flash, Silverlight, and rich media development for a variety of clients at the San Francisco-based creative agency which specializes in interactive marketing. The clients include Gap, Visa, Xbox, Nike Autodesk and Target. De Jesus has a background in design and specializes in Flash and JavaScript development which allows him to bridge gaps between design, motion and technology. He has been with AKQA and previous worked at EVB. De Jesus will be part of the Big Media Gets Moving panel at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Lee Linden (left), co-founder of Tapjoy. Linden helped pioneer Tapjoy’s platform for developers to help improve their mobile apps and make them more profitable. Lee previously worked in product development at Microsoft, helping engineer both enterprise and consumer offerings. He also co-founded ContestMachine.com, a self-service online promotional marketing service with thousands of small business customers. Linden’s company was acquired in March by Offerpal Media. But Tapjoy’s business was growing so fast that Offerpal just renamed itself Tapjoy. He will be part of the monetization panel, Show Me the Money, at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Savinay Berry, vice president at Granite Ventures. Berry focuses on investments in software and advanced mobile services. He is an observer on the boards of HyTrust, Crowd Science, Bunchball and Skytide. He joined Granite Ventures in August, 2008. Prior to that, he held associate positions at JK&B Capital and MK Capital. He also worked at Dell in various product and business development roles, including senior global commodity manager for enterprise and consumer mobile products. Prior to that, he was with Instrumented Sensors Technology, a data recording equipment startup. Berry will speak on the panel about Investing in Discovery.

Eric Eldon, (left), is co-editor of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games, websites published by Inside Network. Eldon covers the Facebook and social games universe religiously and supervises a team of writers. Prior to Inside Network, Eldon was hired as the first employee at VentureBeat in 2007. There, he became an editor and the lead writer for social networking. Prior to VentureBeat, Eldon cofounded WriteWith, a writing software startup. He will moderate a panel on media apps, “Big Media Gets Moving,” at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Kabir Kasargod (right) is founder and business development lead of the Vive service at Qualcomm Services Labs, A division of Qualcomm, Kasargod’s service helps users discover and share apps across different phone platforms. Prior to Qualcomm, Kasargod worked as a product manager at Verizon and at Ericsson. Kasargod will be on the Virality on Viagra panel about mobile discovery platforms at DiscoveryBeat 2010.

Our previously announced speakers include mobile startup chief and Virtual Goods Summit organizer Charles Hudson; Chris DeVore of Mobilememe; Laura Fitton, founder of oneforty.com; 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. Join us at DiscoveryBeat 2010 and hear secrets from top industry executives about how to break through and profit in the new cross-platform app ecosystem. From metrics to monetization, we’ll take an in-depth look at the best discovery strategies and why they’re working. See the full agenda here. The conference takes place on October 18 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Sponsors include Flurry, Appolicious, appbackr, Adobe, Herakles Data Center, AppLaunchPr, and Offermobi. For sponsor info, send an email to sponsors@venturebeat.com. To register, click here. Hurry though. Tickets are limited, and going fast.