Motorola Solutions RADIO APPFORUM 2015 – Engagement & Innovation
Now in its 6th year, APPFORUM 2015, the Motorola Solutions annual developer event attracted over 100 attendees when it took place last week in Reading, UK.
Peta Spinks, Director, Customer Engagement, Europe & Africa writes in a blog that the sessions were very busy and in many cases attracted lively interaction. New for this year were sessions on Intelligent Middleware and the Industrial Internet of Things (SCADA & M2M).
Peta spoke to both Motorolans and Motorola Solutions Application Developer Partners to find out what they thought about the event and why it has continued to be the annual place to meet.
Keynote speaker, Jeff Spaeth, Corporate VP - Systems & Software Enablement, presented on the MSI vision for the developer community. He said: "It's an exciting time for Motorola solutions and our developer partners. As we look to the future where workgroup solutions mix radios with smartphones, broadband and LMR networks it's clear that software is crucial to providing the solutions customers are looking for. When you also consider that the customer base for workgroup communications is huge - at least 63 different verticals, 190 nation states with different languages and different cultures, it's clear that one company can't do it all. So I really appreciate the opportunity to be here with our developer community in EA sharing our thoughts, plans and vision for how our partnership will strengthen over the forthcoming years”.
Peta also spoke to some of the Motorola Solutions application partners to get their view. One of therse partners is ATS Elektrotechnik Gmbh from Germany. Gerald Schroth said that it’s very important for their company to know what is happening and what technologies are in focus. sions with detailed ones is very good.”
Nick Vaas, from UK based Vaas Communications commented “to keep up to date with the latest developments in the portfolio and we can ask the team if we have any questions. It’s the only time that developers meet up. And for us it’s important to get the tools to develop specific applications that can form part of bespoke solutions for our customers.”
The event was opened by the leads of Motorola’s MOTOTRBOTM and TETRA application developer programs, Dietmar Kloss and Rob Nichols.
