In an event similar to our SF App Pitch during WWDC, we’re hosting the App Faceoff.

Developers will get 5 mins to show off their app to the crowd and the group of judges. The judges will provide feedback to developers and select the top apps.

Our judges:
Amit K. Gupta, founder, inMobi
Anthony Ha, Assitant Editor, VentureBeat
John Malloy, BlueRun Ventures
Tom Montgomery, IDG Ventures
Shobeir Shobeiri, MobClix
Eddie Marks, Inedible Apps

We have thousands of dollars in prizes for the top apps, as named by the judges, and some great schwag to give out to attendees. Prizes include $500 of in network spending from inMobi, targeted survey taking, and more.

Drinks (beer and pariSoma’s famous sangria), snacks, and networking will happen between 6:30 and 7:30. At 7:30, we’ll have developers present, judges judge, and prizes given. Following the formal event we’ll have more drinks, snacks, and great networking.

Currently, we are looking for developers who want to pitch their app! Fill out the form here to be considered.

Pitching apps will include:

Bee.TV is a smart navigation guide for content that’s available on the 3 screens: TV, the web and mobile. With over 10 million TV show and movie options available monthly (that’s right, 10 million choices per month across TV, online and mobile), Bee.TV helps you find great shows to watch by generating personalized recommendations based on your tastes and preferences. So if you’ve ever wondered “What’s On TV?” – Bee.TV can help. Launching in September 2010: online at http://www.bee.tv and on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.

BreezyPrint provides mobile printing that Just Works. The software is incredibly easy to use, takes about 2 minutes to set up, works with practically every printer ever made and lets you print anything from your mobile device in just a few clicks. Over 1,200 BlackBerry users have printed over 3,200 documents with BreezyPrint since April, and we’re now launching an iOS beta with an Android version coming soon.

DataTap™ is a mobile application that captures your GPS/location data using the handset’s internal GPS. High-level features include:
– Turns on internal GPS automatically when application is open
– Automatically uploads location/position and media using AptoTrak
– Data-logging of Continuous and Point GPS data
– Uses the handset’s GPS or an external GPS device
– Geo-tag pictures and videos
– Compass that provides “true north” direction, bearing in degrees, and speed
– Social networking features: Car/Find Car (car’s location), and I’m Here (your location)
– Units in both English or Metric systems
– Selectable interval/frequency to save logged data

CameraSafe lets you easily protect your valuable and secret photos from prying eyes and data thieves. Even if your iPhone is lost or stolen, your photos remain private and cannot be viewed by anybody. CameraSafe uses military grade encryption, and is a vital tool for activists, celebrities, corporations, journalists, law enforcement, whistle-blowers… anybody who values their privacy. Find out more about CameraSafe and what’s coming soon in future updates, exclusively at App Faceoff!

Learn more at http://www.camerasafeapp.com

Footfeed is the first location-based checkin aggregation platform and multi checkin app. With Footfeed, users can check in to Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook and Twitter simultaneously, while still earning points, badges and rewards. Footfeed is powered by an advanced location matching algorithm and crowdsourced system that matches locations across the different networks. Using our public API and white label service, Footfeed also helps companies multi checkin enable their existing apps.

Mayor Maker allows you to choose your favorite venues to automatically check-in on Foursquare. The app optimizes battery life on the iPhone through use of Geofencing Powered by Location-Labs, http://location-labs.com. Users can broadcast their checkins through Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the app introduces the concept of checkouts, allowing users to make automatic shoutouts when leaving a venue. Use Mayor Maker, and you’ll become the mayor in no time!

Liberate your media with Pixelpipe and get your media off of your iPhone and out to your favorite social network, micro-blog, photo/video and blog services. With over 110 supported destinations from around the world to choose from the choice is really yours. Free your media and share your life.

Tilt HD gives players the experience of how they can make a difference just by changing their perspective through a beautiful and fun game. As easy as choosing between paper and plastic players clean up the environment of Shady Glen. Then through the power of tiny actions player’s TiltPoints add up with thousands of players on a world wide score board to fight back the Blight on a global scale. For example Tilt, a #1 free app, players tilted together across the globe earned 350,000 TiltPoints for our Earth Day TiltMOB challenge. The game takes this one step further where players can take a picture of how they Tilt the Real World, then tweet about it with a link to a photo and a tag for the game. Other players vote whether they think it is Mighty or Blighty.

Available on the iPad, iPhone version coming soon. See it in action on http://TiltWorld.com

WTFAY is the fastest way to find your friend.

With WTFAY, you grab your phone, ping the other person, and in seconds, you are both looking at your two locations on a map. Either of you can get driving directions to the other person and avoid making a series of calls or texts asking “Which direction do I go?”, “How long will you take?”, and of course, “Where The F*** Are You?”. But if you do need to call or text, it’s just a click away. WTFAY’s location sharing is fast and easy, but also private and temporary. Only a telephone number is needed to locate your friend, and you two are only sharing your location with each other, not the world. WTFAY works on lots of other phones so you can use it with all your friends and family. If your friend doesn’t have our app on their phone already, they can use the mobile web page to get the same information.

WTFAY is powered by Huddle Mobile, a platform to create and manage private, temporary, mobile huddles using only your phone number.

About our judges:

Amit K Gupta co-founded InMobi and has been the Head of Global Business Development since the beginning. He spearheads InMobi’s growth efforts by focusing on strategic alliances as well as managing publisher relationships. He has also played a key role in developing the company’s business strategies and entry into various geographies.

Prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company focused on business intelligence and which he brought to profitability before starting InMobi. Amit has also worked in a Bay area startup, Andale, where he successfully contributed in developing the business strategies and processes of the startup. He worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company. Amit also gained deep insight about how to leverage technology to enable business during his early professional years.

Amit completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT). Amit loves explaining any complicated topic to a novice by articulating relevant real life examples. The growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the globally successful internet product companies emerging out of India.

Anthony Ha is VentureBeat’s assistant editor, as well as its reporter on enterprise technology, cloud computing, and advertising. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.

John Malloy, Partner, co-founded BlueRun Ventures and is based in Menlo Park. John has successfully invested in a broad spectrum of technologies and services. John focuses on software and services opportunities across Internet, Media and Mobile. Prior to starting the firm, John spent more than 15 years in management and executive roles at Nokia, MCI and a communications services start-up. He holds a J.D. from George Mason School of Law and a B.A. from Boston College.

Eddie Marks, cofounder of Inedible Software. Founded in January of 2009, Inedible Software focuses on the design and development of iPhone applications. Its 7 self-published titles have amassed over 8.5 million downloads between them. These apps have been featured by Apple as well as top blogs such as TechCrunch, Gizmodo and IGN. Inedible Software itself has been featured in publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

Tom Montgomery joined IDG Ventures in 2009. At IDG Ventures, Tom takes on various roles which include: executing due diligence on potential investments, working with current portfolio companies to assist with their growth, performing various market analyses to guide investment theses, and finding cool and interesting new companies to review for investment. He came to IDG Ventures from Bay Area media start-up Cooliris, where he worked in advertising operations and recruitment. Prior to Cooliris, he served as a summer analyst in the M&A Group of investment bank Gleacher Partners, New York. A Pac-10 First Team All-Academic honoree and a member of the men’s soccer team, Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Shobeir Shobeiri is Business Development at Mobclix. Shobeir focuses on app developer and publisher community.

Prior to Mobclix, Shobeir was Director of Plug and Play Startup Camp and founding member of Plug & Play Technology Center. He focused on early stage web, mobile, and gaming startups with funding and business development. His portfolio consists of – Zoosk, Twitvid, Sendori (sold to IAC), and CourseHero.

Shobeir received his BS in International Business at San Jose State University.

Sponsors:

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InMobi is the world’s largest independent global mobile advertising network. InMobi provides advertisers, developers, and publishers with a uniquely global mobile advertising solution. InMobi, who doubled its network size quarter-over-quarter, delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 179 million consumers in over 100 countries through over 14 billion mobile ad impressions monthly. InMobi is a venture-backed with marquee investors including: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. The company has offices in London, San Francisco, Bangalore, Tokyo, Mumbai and Singapore. To learn more, please visit: www.inmobi.com

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Mobclix is the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange network via its sophisticated open marketplace platform and comprehensive account management solution for iPhone application developers, advertisers, ad networks, and agencies. The Mobclix ad exchange provides complete transparency and visibility for developers to maximize revenues and advertisers to increase performance.

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