We are pleased to announce that Chi-Hua Chien will be our Friday night keynote speaker. Chi-Hua is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is actively involved in the iFund, KPCB’s $100 million iPhone investment fund. Chi-Hua will give a short talk followed by open Q&A with the audience on Friday at 6:30pm.

In addition, the KPCB iFund is sponsoring a contest during the Hackathon this year. The two winners of the Highest Potential Startup Idea contest will each have a lunch+pitch with KPCB at their office in Menlo Park, CA.

Bio:

Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. At KPCB he focuses on investments in the iFund (mobile applications), consumer internet, and digital media infrastructure. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a Venture Advisor and Associate focusing on software as a service, consumer Internet, and online advertising infrastructure. Chi-Hua was instrumental in Accel’s investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm’s investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.

Previously, Chi-Hua was the Director of Marketing at hosted software provider Coremetrics, where he led the marketing and inside sales teams as the company grew from 20 to more than 200 customers. He also served as the company’s interim CFO through two rounds of venture funding. Chi-Hua’s prior roles include corporate development at Google, business development at start-up eCoverage, and investment banking with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group.

Chi-Hua has an MS in Industrial Engineering, BS in Industrial Engineering, and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University where he was named a Mayfield Fellow and President’s Scholar. He also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Follow Chi-Hua on Twitter here.

31 Sponsors. Pretty exciting. This year exceeded our expectations. Then again, I think everything iPhone-related has been about exceeding expectations. Since my first sponsor post, “Meet our Sponsors (part one)“, we’ve had ten additional sponsors sign up before the sponsor deadline last Friday. That means we have event money for t-shirts (which are doing this year now!), and additional giveaways for the Hackathon.

Thank you iPhoneDevCamp 3 sponsors, both old and new. Here’s a list of the additional iPhoneDevCamp 3 Sponsors:

iPhone in Action by Manning

http://www.manning.com/callen/

Appcelerator

http://www.appcelerator.com

FastMac

http://www.fastmac.com

Belkin

http://www.belkin.com

SiK

http://www.sik.com

AdMob

http://www.admob.com

Tapulous

http://www.tapulous.com

Tapjoy

http://www.tapjoy.com

Macworld

http://www.macworld.com

Hands-On Mobile

http://developer.handson.com/

BREAKING NEWS: Nettwerk recording artist BT will perform at Yahoo! for the attendees of iPhoneDevCamp 3 on Friday, July 31st. This outdoor performance is a special treat for on-site attendees only, brought to you by our good friends at Medialets.

Brian “@BT” Transeau, known as a pioneer in the trance genre, has just shipped an iPhone App of his own called Sonifi. This app allows the user to control BT’s signature “stutter edit” technique and remix his latest single, Rose of Jericho.

We hope you’ll join us in Sunnyvale for this exclusive performance.

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Email press@iphonedevcamp.org for Press attendance.

iPhoneDevCamp is made possible every year by a group of volunteers (including a few organizers), a bunch of great attendees, and of course, our amazing sponsors. In the past few years, sponsors have been responsible for 100% of the costs of running the event. This year, we’ve split the costs of running the event roughly equally between attendees and the sponsors, due to the current economic climate that we’re all operating in, and an overall reduction in marketing budgets for sponsorships.

That said, I am pleased to say that we have some awesome (and generous) sponsors this year. The sponsor deadline is Friday, July 24th – only a few days from now. As we’re likely to get a second batch of sponsors this upcoming week, I’ll be doing a second sponsor post later, updating you on the new additions.

I invite you to visit our sponsors:

Yahoo!

http://developer.yahoo.com/

Medialets

http://www.medialets.com/

DollarApp

http://www.dollarapp.com/

Small Society

http://smallsociety.com/

PayPal

http://www.paypal.com

AppSpace by ZAGG

http://www.appspace.com/

Twittelator Pro

http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/

Mobclix

http://www.mobclix.com/

Blinksale

http://www.blinksale.com/

iPhone Life

http://www.iphonelife.com/

Pinch Media

http://www.pinchmedia.com/

Wirefly

http://www.wirefly.com/att

Urban Airship

http://www.urbanairship.com/

Sugarcube

http://www.sugarcubesw.com/

iLime

http://www.ilime.com/

Greystripe

http://www.greystripe.com/

Tadow!

http://www.tadow.com/

EZ-Tracks

http://www.ez-tracks.com/

Offerpal Media

http://www.offerpalmedia.com/

DeviceAnywhere

http://www.deviceanywhere.com/

Push.IO

http://www.push.io

Our Agenda is really shaping up. On Sunday, August 2nd, we have two independent iPhone Developers whom I personally consider heroes. First, the “Godfather of the Indies” Andrew Stone (creator of Twittelator) will speak on “How the NeXT Computer Became the iPhone”.

Andrew has been living by his wits for 21 years as a solo developer, and has some great stories to tell. He’ll also be demonstrating a few items for us on stage, starting at 10am.

Next up is the “Poster Child of iPhone Development” Steve Demeter (creator of Trism). Steve says, “I really owe it to Raven for encouraging me to quit my day job and go full time by myself at last year’s iPhoneDevCamp.”

Starting at 10:30am, Steve will be debuting his speech “Doing It Yourself”, in which he tells the tale of going live with the initial launch of the iTunes App Store. The lessons learned, as well as the experience of riding the coat-tail of Apple’s marketing machine, should make for an inspiring presentation.

If you haven’t already, please Register at Eventbrite. This is just the first in a series of announcements guaranteed to sell out the venue at Yahoo!