Closing report of Nitrodroid 2013- Goa's Largest Android Developer Conference which was held in Hotel Fidalgo - 26th October 2013

1. AN OVERVIEW

2. ABOUT NITRODROID
• It is Goa’s only Android Developer Conference.
• Nitrodroid is an annual 1-day event which has had 2
editions in Goa so far – 2012 and 2013.
• Nitrodroid 2013 hosted 223 Android developers from all
over the state and also other parts of India.
• The sessions took place in two tracks.
• The speakers flew in from all over the country to take a
total of 8 sessions and 2 workshops.
• 12 companies were present at the event.

3. NITRODROID 2012

4. AUDIENCE PROFILE & DEMOGRAPHY IN 2013
• Majority of participants were developers and aspiring
student developers.
• This was followed by senior software engineers.
• A handful of audience consisted of corporate
management professionals.
5% 3%2%
Goa
Bangalore
20%
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Other
70%

5. AUDIENCE PROFILE & DEMOGRAPHY
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
2012
40%
2013
30%
20%
10%
0%
Students
Developers
SSE/SSD
Others

7. COMPANY PROFILES
Participants belonged to companies from various domains:
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Software Product Development
Mobile App Development
Cloud
CMS & Website Development
ecommerce
Digital Marketing & Advertising
Gaming

8. MODES OF OUTREACH
• Pre-Nitrodroid Hackathon to build Android ecosystem
• Radio Station broadcast once a day – Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM
• Partnership with leading tech & event blogs
• Press release and content publishing in newspapers, print
media
• Social Media presence ( Twitter HashTag #Nitrodroid trended
for entire day of the conference )
• Publicity on our own Android news portal – Androcid.com

9. Organizer’s interview with Prudent Media

10. NITRODROID 2013 CONTENT
SESSIONS:
• "The Evolution of Flyte" - Redesigning Flipkart's MP3 App by Rahul
Gonsalves and Gaurav Lochan, Little Eye Labs. The talk was on the crucial
role of design in app building.
• 'Infuse real time into your Android apps‘ by Aravind Krishnaswamy. It
focused on adding real time elements to your app, to make it more
elegant and powerful. He also demostrated a live chat app.
• 'How we built an app to simplify audio conference, in 24 hours‘ by
Anenth Guru, co-founder of Ideophone.
• 'Understand the guts of an android app through reverse engineering‘ by
Gaurav Lochan.
• 'Making sense of the sensors‘ by Mustafa Ali. He focused on various
sensors used in Android devices.

11. Rahul Gonsalves and Gaurav Lochan, Little Eye Labs ( Now part of Facebook)

12. NITRODROID 2013 CONTENT
• Android app monetization by Amarnath Bhandari, Manager of
Product & Marketing, Adiquity.
• 'An introduction to android system development‘ by Siji Sunny,
Director- ME Labs. It focused on the system level details of Android,
including a special focus on Dalvik VM.
• 'Being an AppEntrepreneur by following Right App Life Cycle‘ by
Ravi Vyas, Product Manager at Vserv.mobi.
• 'Android basics to Location API's‘ by Soham Mondal, Founder of
Triveous and creator of Sky Recorder app.
WORKSHOPS:
• Android Basics hands-on session by Soham Mondal
• Creating Android apps using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and
PhoneGap by Gaurav Singh

13. BENEFITS FOR SPONSORS AT NITRODROID
• Branding
• Opportunity to connect with
developers
• Platform to pitch products
and get feedback as well as
leads
• Great place for marketing
your products
Nityaa Labs launched their Android TV
at Nitrodroid

14. Sponsorship Standees placed at venue

15. OUR SPONSORS
Department of Information Technology
Government of Goa-India

16. OUR SPONSORS

17. MEDIA PARTNERS

18. UPCOMING EVENTS
An Android development and business conference