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!

If you are thinking about registering for iPhoneDevCamp 3, but haven’t done so yet, this is the post to read…

Three weeks from today on Friday, July 31st, hundreds of iPhone developers, designers, and entrepreneurs will descend upon the Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, for 2 1/2 days of coding, sharing, learning, and having fun. iPhoneDevCamp, in its third year, is the second largest gathering of iPhone developers in the world – second only to Apple’s own Worldwide Developers Conference.

In the past two years, we’ve been able to rely solely upon sponsors for all of the costs to run the event. And boy, there are costs – from food to drinks to banners to badges to t-shirts to everything else that is needed to produce a conference. It’s not cheap, but we also don’t spend lavishly, either.

And here’s the thing… Do you know how much money ends up in the pockets of the organizers and volunteers? Zero. Everyone involved in the production of this event is 100% volunteer. All time, all resources, all effort put forth by the organizers and the volunteers is free. In fact, last year, some of the organizers ended up spending money out of pocket for certain expenses and never asked for reimbursement. We do this because we are passionate believers in the iPhone platform, our community, and this emerging (and exciting) new economy that is blossoming around Apple truly exceptional innovation with the iPhone.

So, as you contemplate the $50 registration fee this year, know that all of it, every single penny, is going to make the event a better event, and not into the pockets of any individuals involved in the production. And, should we by some fluke end up with money leftover from the event at the end – we’re going to ask the iPhoneDevCamp attendees to vote on where that money will go – be it a non-profit cause, micro-loans, or maybe even sponsoring students to attend WWDC next year. Who knows!

Think about the state of our economy in 2007 and 2008 and compare that to the state of the economy this year. Relying upon sponsors to cover 100% of the cost was a safe assumption the past two years, but not this year. We are attracting sponsors this year, and I expect a healthy number of them, but we simply cannot expect sponsors to cover all of the event costs in 2009. So, we made the decision to distribute the costs of running the event this year to roughly 50/50. Based on our estimated event costs and our desire for no more than 500 attendees, $50 was a nice, round number in that cost range. If we end up with more sponsors than expected, that means more amenities, more giveaways, and more prizes for the Hackathon than we has planned for.

The event is three weeks from today and we still have just over 300 tickets available. We had hoped that three weeks out (today), we’d have less than 200 remaining tickets. The primary purpose of this post is a call to action for all of you out there to help us fill this event in three weeks, and serve the needs of 500 members of our iPhone community.

What are you getting for that $50?

* All of your meals and drinks from Friday night until Sunday late afternoon. For most people, that’s more than $50.
* An iPhoneDevCamp badge.
* An iPhoneDevCamp t-shirt.
* Giveaways and prizes for the Hackathon.
* Knowing that your money helped to cover shared costs at the event, such as banners, equipment rental, etc.
* Whatever else we can afford based on attendance.

We hope to see you there. This is going to be a great event. Just think about all of the progress the iPhone platform has made since iPhoneDevCamp 2 last year. 60,000+ apps, iPhone OS 3.0, new powerful hardware. Imagine the possibilities at iPhoneDevCamp 3.

Register now.