• Joe Terry
• Website: 
  airealmobile.com
• Position: 
  Co-Founder
  Aireal Mobile 
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Topic - There's an App for That: The Business of Going Mobile

Moderator: Brian Smith
Panelists: Royce Haynes, Co-Founder of Jiffy Card; Tony Caudill, Airreal Mobile; Joe Terry, Airreal Mobile; Chris Puglisi, Mellow Militia

Angry Birds. FaceTime. Instragram. What app will they think of next? Mobile apps have become so popular within the last couple of years that there seems to be an app for everything...even for small businesses and startups.

But why are apps such a big deal? How do you go about designing your own app? What team should you form in order to produce a successful mobile app? And most importantly, does your business even need one?

Learn from a handful of mobile app experts at There's an App for That: The Business of Going Mobile. During this session, you will learn what strategies to incorporate when developing an app and the importance of apps on today's digital and mobile world.

In this session, participants will learn:

• How to determine whether or not a business should develop an app
• The challenges and benefits of developing mobile apps
• How to find the right team to build an app

Bio

Joe Terry is the co-founder of Aireal Mobile, a company focused on opening the powerful doors of mobile applications to everyone, no matter what their IT experience or budget may be. Aireal's chief product, the Aireal Mobile Platform, provides a framework to launch applications in minutes instead of months–and for a fraction of the cost of custom development. The Aireal Mobile Platform gives the owner full control over its content, look and feel in real-time. Aireal Mobile has launched several successful apps for well-known brands in and around the Kansas City area including Kansas City Restaurant Week, The Cashew, Harpos, KC Repertory Theater, Missouri Restaurant Association, Woods Chapel Church, Jiggle Jam, and many more.

At the age of 16, instead of sacking groceries, Joe was knee-deep into his first business venture, specializing in all aspects of small-business computer infrastructure, from building servers to writing software. Focusing on web development, he successfully launched several products over the next few years, including a text-messaging service that has served nearly a hundred thousand messages since its inception.

After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2007, Joe focused on consulting Fortune 500 companies in the communications industry and founded Aireal Mobile in the spring of 2010. Joe's clients have included Sprint, Embarq and Comcast, among others.