"As a key Android partner and smartphone brand, HTC continues to bring new innovation to the platform, " said Andy Rubin, VP engineering at Google.

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"Our four-year engagement with ARM has shaped Ubuntu for mobile" said Rick Spencer, VP Ubuntu Engineering at Canonical.

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"We believe that haptics has the potential to fundamentally change and enhance the mobile user experience, " explains Rob Lacroix, VP of Engineering at Immersion.

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Andy is said to have recruited Joe Belfiore, VP of the phone program who was on stage to present Windows Phone 7, and Terry Meyerson also a VP of engineering on the phone side.

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At any rate, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer says Mozilla's peeps are actively engaging manufacturers and carriers around the world in an effort to get them engaged, interested, and at the very least, unopposed to the idea of allowing it to be used on their devices.

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"Residential air-conditioning is the peak load problem, and we're able to tackle the load-shifting in a very automated way, " says Matt Rogers, Nest's engineering VP.

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Vala Afshar, CMO and Chief Customer Officer of Enterasys Networks and Brad Martin, Enterasys VP of quality and engineering operations have written The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence.

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The presenter for this seminar will be Dr. Farsad Fotouhi , Corporate VP, Sustainability, Safety and Environmental Engineering at Pall Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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