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Event at-a-Glance
Solutions developed by eBay Developers Program members drive over 25% of all eBay listings. Join us at the eBay Developers Conference and learn how to get your share of the other 75%.
Who Should Attend:
The eBay Developers Conference is for any savvy developer or company who has great ideas for making e-commerce better with tools, widgets, solutions, or services. Only eBay can offer the APIs you need to plug directly into millions of potential customers worldwide who are waiting for your ideas to come to life.
Learn how to master the latest technologies and you could be creating "the next big thing." This year our educational sessions are organized into four targeted tracks:
- Business and Entrepreneurship—get the low down on how to monetize your solutions and really leverage the eBay Community to grow your business. eBay also shares its latest sales data giving you valuable insights about what buyers want.
- Affiliate and Buyer Tools—learn how developers are making money as affiliates. Hear from subject matter experts about building great buyer tools that provide engaging shopping experiences.
- Seller, Merchant, and Payment Tools—get the basics or go deep on checkout, payment, shipping, fraud prevention, marketing, eBay development best practices, SOA—and integrating it all together.
- Web 2.0 and Web Development—a brand new track—find out what Web 2.0 elements are most important to sellers, what's hot in "buying experiences", what should you be building, what's working and what isn't, what's after Web 2.0 and lots more futuristic topics.
Conference Highlights:
- Hear expert-led educational sessions designed to both inspire you and help you gain the skills you need to tap into the eBay ecosystem and make money with your code.
- Have fun while engaging in valuable networking opportunities throughout the conference including the ever-popular Beer Bash!
- Gain unique insights from senior eBay executives and other industry leaders, including a Keynote Address by James Barrese, Vice President of Systems and Architecture at eBay.
- Talk with dozens of on-site Technical Support Engineers who'll be on hand to personally answer your questions and help you be more efficient and productive.
Plus:
- FREE PayPal training and certification exam (a $150 value!)
- FREE admission to eBay Live! (a $120 value)—our annual eBay Community conference—which lets you interact with thousands of potential customers, float new ideas by them, and show off your newest products
Don't miss this chance to get the latest in the e-commerce industry and grow your business. Register Today!
Keynotes:
Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist for Mozilla Corporation will discuss the benefits of building products and businesses that scale for an open Web.
Adam Gross, Vice President, Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com will share his thoughts on the importance of platform-as-a-service to the e-commerce industry.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com will present his vision of a service-oriented culture for online business.
John Donahoe, CEO and President of eBay Inc., and Rajiv Dutta, President of eBay Marketplaces, will share their thoughts on the importance of the eBay developer community to the future of the global eBay marketplace
Max Mancini, Senior Director of Platform and Disruptive Innovation at eBay will demo Project Echo and new Web services for the eBay platform
Speaker Bios:
 Mike Shaver
Chief Evangelist, Mozilla
Mike Shaver is a founding member of the Mozilla project, and has been involved since its inception in aspects ranging from software development and architecture to governance and licensing. As Chief Evangelist, Mike leads a team working to help developers, users, and everyone else better understand Mozilla and how they can benefit from and participate in Mozilla's work to improve the Web for everyone.
In addition to his decade of work on Mozilla, Mike has worked on the Linux kernel, high-performance filesystems, privacy technology, electronic cash prototypes, and large-scale web applications. He is a frequent speaker and advisor to open source projects and companies, and a passionate advocate for the Open Web.
Mike lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter. He speaks marginal French, likes to cook and play video games, and hopes to live long enough to see the Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup.
 Adam Gross
Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing, salesforce.com
Adam Gross is Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing at salesforce.com. At the company, Gross focuses on bringing platform, integration and development technologies to developers, ISVs and companies around the world to build on-demand applications on the Force.com platform and deliver them through the AppExchange marketplace. This work includes launching the company's first Web services API, which has grown to become one of the most popular business Web services available, accounting for over 50 percent of all of salesforce.com's traffic.
Prior to salesforce.com, Adam was an early innovator in the Web services market, serving as Vice President of Product Marketing at GrandCentral Communications (now acquired by Google). Prior to GrandCentral, Gross co-founded Personify, a San Francisco-based software company that provided personalization and analytics systems for some of the largest sites on the Web, and served as a technology analyst in Stanford Research Institute's Media Futures Program. Gross holds a B.S. in New Media Systems and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
 Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos.com
Tony originally got involved with Zappos as an advisor and investor in 1999, about 2 months after the company was founded. Over time, Tony ended up spending more and more time with the company because it was both the most fun and the most promising out of all the companies that he was involved with. He eventually joined Zappos full time in 2000. Under his leadership, Zappos has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to $840M in 2007 by focusing relentlessly on customer service.
Tony focuses on continuing to grow the business at a rapid pace while maintaining the culture and feel of a small company. Prior to joining Zappos, Tony co-founded Venture Frogs with Alfred Lin. Tony met Alfred Lin (COO/CFO) in college, when Tony was running a pizza business and Alfred was his #1 customer. Venture Frogs is an incubator and investment firm that invested in Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, Tellme Networks, and of course, Zappos.com. Prior to Venture Frogs, Tony co-founded LinkExchange, an advertising network that was successfully sold to Microsoft for $265M in 1998.
 John Donahoe
President and CEO, eBay Inc.
John Donahoe became President and CEO of eBay Inc. on March 31, 2008. In this role, John has global responsibility for growing each of the company's business units, which include eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype.
John came to eBay in February 2005 as President of eBay Marketplaces, responsible for all elements of eBay's global ecommerce businesses. In this role, he focused on expanding eBay's core business, which accounts for a large percentage of the company's revenues. John also oversaw a number of strategic acquisitions, including Shopping.com and StubHub, and classifieds sites, such as Gumtree and LoQUo.
During the three years he served as President of Marketplaces, revenues and profits for this division doubled.
Prior to eBay, John spent more than 20 years at Bain & Company, a worldwide consulting firm based in Boston. Starting as an Associate Consultant, John rose to become the firm's CEO, where he oversaw Bain's 30 offices and 3,000 employees.
In addition to serving on eBay's Inc.'s Board of Directors, John is also on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.
John received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 Rajiv Dutta
Executive Vice President, eBay Inc.; President eBay Marketplaces
Rajiv Dutta is the President of eBay Marketplaces and Executive Vice President of eBay Inc. with overall responsibility for eBay Marketplaces, a global business unit that contributed about 70-percent of eBay Inc.'s total 2007 revenue of nearly $7.7 billion. Rajiv is also a member of eBay's Board of Directors.
Since joining eBay in 1998, Rajiv has held a number of leadership roles within the company. Immediately prior to becoming President of the eBay Marketplaces unit in 2008, Rajiv was President of PayPal overseeing a period of rapid growth and expansion, particularly in the company's merchant services segment. Rajiv was also President of Skype, and previously Chief Financial Officer of eBay. During his tenure as CFO, eBay's market capitalization increased six-fold, revenue grew from $750 million to $4.5 billion, and the employee base grew from just under 2,000 to nearly 12,000 employees. Additionally, Rajiv served as Chief Strategy Officer and led the New Ventures Group, which oversaw eBay's entry into the global classifieds market and the acquisition of Shopping.com.
Prior to eBay, Rajiv was the worldwide sales controller for KLA-Tencor, and previously spent 10 years at Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Rajiv received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with honors from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in India, and a Master of Business Administration from the Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate School, California.
 Max Mancini
Senior Director of Platform and Disruptive Innovation, eBay
In his innovation leadership role, Max drives idea creation across the business, and directs innovation projects, new business strategies and product investment. For the eBay Developers Program, Max and his team enable third-party developers to extend the eBay marketplace by creating solutions that make it faster, easier and safer to buy and sell on eBay.
In his previous roles at eBay, Max led an engineering team of 70+ developers responsible for development on eBay Stores, merchandising, registration, sign-in, trust & safety, and customer support tools. He also led the product and technology teams for Kijiji, eBay's local community classifieds websites, as well as eBay's New Business Ventures.
Agenda Planner
There will be so many informative sessions and networking events that you'll want to plan ahead so you won't miss what's most important to you. Please view the Agenda Planner which will let you quickly and easily see dates, times and locations for Registration, Sessions, Meals and Events. Printing out these 3 pages will help you plan where you want to be during your 3 days at the eBay Developers Conference!
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