Prior to his role with Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks, Sebastian was Director of Technology Strategy at Nokia. He was responsible for strategy topics on technology with business impact across devices and services. Recently he has lead business and technology strategy projects in the areas of wireless broadband access, software platforms and digital rights management. Sebastian has also responsible for leading new and innovative early stage technology projects within Nokia. In this role he was responsible for a wide range of activities ranging early stage technology selection and market making to standardization and commercialization. Sebastian joined Nokia in 2003 from McKinsey & Company, a management consultancy, where he was leading strategy projects. Sebastian holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Helsinki University of Technology. Keynote held during Qt Developer Days 2009. http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/elearning

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Sebastian Nyström
Vice President of Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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Welcome to our biggest Developer Days ever

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Big changes in 2009
09

5. Qt – what happened in 2009?
• Qt 4.5
• Qt Creator
• Qt Mobility Project
• Qt for QNX, vxWorks
• Qt port to Maemo 5
• Qt 4.6 beta

6. Qt LGPL: 250% Increased Demand for Qt
• New licensing
• Support offering for LGPL users
Qt Downloads from qt.nokia.com
Qt
Qt
Q3 - 2008 Q3 - 2009

7. Contributing to Qt
• Over 450 contributions, so far
• qt.gitorious.org

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Qt Everywhere

9. Big plans for Qt
• Qt to become the preferred choice for UI and application creation
• Qt to be part of billions of devices
• Advanced framework for desktop, device and web development
• Hybrid web/native tools

10. Qt: Important for Nokia
Symbian Maemo Desktop

11. Qt: Important to you
• 70 industries
• Big community - Growing fast
• Thousands of leading applications developed using Qt

12. Listening to you – Thanks!
Q1 - Annual customer survey
Q2 - Learning survey
Q3 – Validation tour
Q4 – Qt Developer Days
You want a stable, high-performance open
platform with an active ecosystem that spans
across many market segments.

13. Your needs are important to us
• Qt will work cross-platform
• Qt will speed up run-time performance
• Qt will integrate with the web in a very powerful way
• Qt will be stable

14. What we are doing to meet your needs
• Recruiting more Qt developers and support engineers
• Roadmap will focus on your needs – primarily stability and robustness
• Engage partners to help you be more successful
• Better docs, shared roadmaps and open repositories
• Increasing the development budget
Developing Qt together

15. Thank you 13/10/
09

17. Increasing need to follow news from Qt?
• Follow us on twitter.com/
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• Read the Qt blog
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