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SDC is where the present meets the future, and the Opening Keynote is where all the action begins. Hear directly from Samsung leadership about the newest technology advances and partnerships for the now — plus, the company’s vision for the next. You won’t want to miss these exciting announcements and insights.

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Join Dr. David Rhew, Chief Medical Officer as well as VP and GM of B2B Healthcare at Samsung Electronics America, as he moderates a panel session on the use of devices, data, and analytics in the healthcare world. He’ll be joined by key thought leaders from medical device companies and large health systems from Kaiser and UCSF to Medtronic, Dexcom and Insulet. Hear about how the industry is shifting towards the use of secure smartphones to manage medical implants as well as how medical device data, which traditionally has been “locked and silo’d” may now be analyzed in conjunction with other sources of data. Find out how wearables will play a larger role in managing one’s health. Additional topics of discussion include FDA and data security/privacy considerations.

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Samsung DeX has enabled users to work more efficiently on their mobile device by converting it into a light PC. In addition to sharing updates on how to optimize apps on the latest DeX, this session will include a demo of how Linux on DeX works for developers.

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This year, Samsung partnered with Disney to launch the first AR Emojis with a set of Disney’s magical characters. Through this collaboration, Samsung has refined the AR Emoji development process and created the AR Emoji Studio to enable streamlined creation of new AR Emoji characters. This session will cover the journey of creating Disney’s AR Emojis and the ecosystem created for Samsung AR Emoji Studio.

Are you experienced with the previous SmartThings model and interested in how the REST API platform works? This whirlwind session will introduce you to the key concepts in the platform, provide guidance on how the entities work together, and finally, show an example of how to get started.

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Samsung’s next generation Wearables Service Platform (WSP) makes it easier than ever to develop new experiences for the Galaxy Watch. In this session, we’ll preview the upcoming wearable cloud SDK developer features, demonstrate new flows for the wearable UX, and provide tutorials from sample wearable applications built using Samsung’s developer tools.

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The Ambient Mode feature for Samsung TVs was released in 2018. Ambient Mode can add a splash of color, personality, and style to your living space and eliminate the blank TV screen. Samsung is now creating a content ecosystem to add to the overall experience of using the Samsung TV for more than watching television.

We’ll provide and show developers tools based on Visual Studio, which developers and designers can use to create content to show when the TV is not showing TV programming.

Developers should know C# or OpenTK for content creation.

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In this session, you will hear from key business and technical leaders from the Bixby team, and get answers to your most important questions: What is Bixby? How is it different from other assistants? Is Bixby a good fit for my business or service? Why should I start now? How will I, as a developer, make money by integrating my services with Bixby? How does Bixby work and why is it such an important technical step forward? By the end of this session, you should understand Bixby’s vision for a new kind of open ecosystem for developers, and how and why to get involved.

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Bixby for Samsung Smart TV aims to remarkably improve the way you browse content and control your apps on eligible Samsung TVs. It will help you to quickly find and play your favorite shows, get answers and control your TV. Bixby on TV offers a rich user experience, that’s optimized for running apps on large screen devices, such as high-definition televisions.



This session will introduce how to extend Bixby for TV and how to support voice commands in your media applications.

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Learn about PlayFab, the back-end platform for building, launching, and growing cloud connected games. PlayFab can be used by game developers across all platforms, including console, PC, and mobile, and it features game services, real-time analytics for better understanding game players, and “LiveOps” to host events, run experiments, and reward game players. PlayFab aims to help studios of all sizes increase engagement, retention, and ultimately monetization.

Since its launch last year, the SmartThings ecosystem has been growing quickly. Find out what’s new in the SmartThings Platform and how SmartThings is supporting new services and devices on our IoT platform.

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The technologies of Industrial Revolution 4.0 consist of 5G, IoT, Big Data and AI, each of which will lead us to significant automation of programmable things. Hence, secure operating systems are becoming an important part of Industrial Revolution 4.0. In this session, you will learn how Samsung Secure OS and TEEGRIS can play a role in providing a trusted execution environment for Samsung smart devices.

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Learn step-by-step how to access the Developer Center and IDE, create a Bixby experience for your business, and prepare it for launch within the Bixby ecosystem. This session will teach you everything you need to know, including how to teach Bixby about your models, layouts, dialog, natural language training, and more.

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Introducing Samsung’s lightweight, powerful, open-source rendering engine, featuring a Java interface for developing mobile AR and VR applications for Android phones. Join us and learn about how you can kickstart your augmented reality journey with this simple, powerful and efficient framework.

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Samsung Pay is the most widely accepted mobile payment service available, and now there are even more features available to help merchants grow their online and offline businesses. Our Samsung Pay In-App and Web SDKs have enabled frictionless online payments at merchants around the world. We’ll unveil new, exciting implementations that afford unique and compelling ways for merchants to connect with consumers.

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Samsung’s flagship citizenship initiative, the Solve for Tomorrow contest, is designed to address the growing education gap and career readiness shortage in STEM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) skills in the U.S. The contest engages public middle and high schools in every state across the nation and encourages them to effectively use STEM education to create change in their local communities. At SDC, Santiago high School(CA), Kent Career Tech Center(MI), Cavallini Middle School(NJ) will present their content.

Building for an intelligent assistant is quite different than creating an app or a website. In this session, you’ll learn how to apply the Bixby design framework and UI Kit components to create experiences that meet Bixby’s design guidelines for an effective conversational experience that users will love.

We recommend attending the “Teaching Bixby Fundamentals: What You Need to Know” prior to attending other Bixby sessions. If you can’t attend, each Bixby Session will do an overview to level set the session.

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SmartThings is launching a enhanced Developer Workspace to integrate cloud-connected devices with SmartThings. New APIs and tools will streamline the development and go-to-market processes. Devices that are integrated with SmartThings will be controlled by Bixby and other voice assistants as well as a full ecosystem of automation and service integrations.

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The combination of AR and emojis has changed the way people communicate and express themselves digitally. This session will dive deep into the features and tools for our new Avatar Studio, including how to create and test an avatar with real tracking data. In addition, we will cover how to publish new 3D avatars in the Galaxy Apps Store.

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As the web continues to evolve, the boundaries of what’s possible with web applications are being pushed further than ever before. We will look at the latest web trends and explore some of the powerful new features that are enabling developers to make better apps that work across platforms like mobile and smart TVs. With an in-depth look at Progressive Web Apps, new web APIs and capabilities, and how new areas like IoT are taking advantage of the web, this session will be a great opportunity for developers to get up to speed on the latest developments on the web. We’ll also introduce the WebXR standard, which enables immersive, 360-degree experiences, bringing the possibility of compelling Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences to the web. We will include an overview of the latest Samsung Internet capabilities, providing you with everything you need to know to take your web applications to the next level.

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As new form factors are being explored, the user experience needs to be completely reimagined. In this session, you will learn about a new set of platform-level developer guidelines so that you can develop apps for display configurations of the future.

Samsung is launching the Galaxy Apps Best of 2018 Awards at SDC. We will Identify and reward top performing apps in the Galaxy Store in North America. The Best of 2018 Categories include Apps, Games, Themes, Watch Face, and Gear Apps. The inaugural awards event is launching in North America with plans to expand to other countries in 2019. We will host the Award Ceremony Session at SDC in the Theatre, including handing out the awards and hearing marketing insights from our award winners.

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Today’s enterprise relies on consistent, reliable access to information—anytime, anywhere. Samsung calls this the seamless workspace, and it’s creating an abundance of opportunities for application development that enable its efficiency and productivity. This talk will explore the global trends that are disrupting enterprises, how these are creating tremendous opportunity for growth and transformation, and how and why you should get involved. Take a look into Samsung’s unique mobile capabilities, including Samsung DeX, S Pen, and Knox Security Platform, combined with the new capabilities that 5G will bring to create a truly Seamless Workspace.

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It is estimated that by 2023, global revenue will exceed $155 billion in the home IoT market alone. IoT is still in its infancy and there are still huge untapped opportunities in this rapidly expanding marketplace. Join us as our SmartThings partners discuss how they think about business models and monetization strategies while building innovative and sustainable IoT solutions.

¹ Strategy Analytics, “2018 Global Smart Home Forecast,” May 2018

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Since Samsung announced Galaxy GameDev at SDC 2016, we have welcomed game studios and developers alike into this game developer support program, creating many successes along the way. This session will take a look at how we continue to optimize performance of mobile games with the GameDev partnership, including a summary of Samsung’s collaborations with Unity and Epic Games and specific case studies of our work with many mobile game developers. By the end of this session, you will have a greater understanding of how the Galaxy platform makes your game development efforts easier with the tools and engineering support of Galaxy GameDev.

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One of the most important parts of building a good user experience is training Bixby to understand the use cases you’ve built. This talk will focus on the best practices and mechanics of natural language training to help you efficiently and effectively train Bixby. You’ll also learn how to implement the conversational dialog with capabilities such as constraint relaxation, specifying sorts and filters for search results, how to prompt for missing inputs, and how to initialize them with default values.

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Looking for new ways to help users discover an app or brand content? Imagine character phone cases that instantly update a phone with matching wallpapers, or branded charging docks that automatically install your app and display updatable in-phone promos. Samsung’s Galaxy Friends consists of an SDK and content portal for developers to build and customize content (themes and wallpapers, ringtones, sounds, app installs, etc.) and deliver it directly to a user’s device through custom designed accessories (cases, chargers, joysticks, wireless speakers, etc.). This session will cover the service framework behind Galaxy Friends, how various brands have partnered with Galaxy Friends for marketing campaigns, and tips on how Galaxy Friends can drive new business growth.

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Tizen .NET was adapted to Samsung TV products last year and provided a convenient way to develop applications on Samsung TV devices. This year, the new Galaxy Watch products have also added Tizen .NET for a new application model. Developers can now benefit from the same productive development environment and useful APIs specially designed for Galaxy Watch devices. In this session, we will live update the Tizen .NET framework and SDK for the third-party application developers for Samsung Galaxy Watch and TVs.

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What’s next in the world of technology is often driven by a shift in consumer behavior, a new enabling technology, a new platform reaching critical mass, a new interface becoming intuitive, or a new distribution channel being found—amplified by the convergence of many of these scenarios. This results in an opportunity for new products and services to capture large value streams that didn’t exist before or were previously owned by seemingly impenetrable incumbents. At Samsung NEXT, we discover and back the founders, engineers, and builders who will help Samsung define the future of software and services for the world. Via corporate venture, product development, M&A and partnerships, we meet innovators wherever they are to build, grow, and scale their ideas.

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Deep Learning has taken the world by storm and has become something of a buzzword in recent years. Developers and companies all around the world are either pitching themselves as providing AI applications or planning to invest heavily in AI and deep learning to accelerate the growth of their businesses and transform every aspect of them. Let’s spend a half hour learning about the mechanics of deep learning, build an AI machine from scratch, and deploying it to production.

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Today, a camera can do more than make an image look beautiful. Bixby Vision has optimized the use of AI and neural modeling to create user-friendly use cases for real-time object detection, content extraction, and object tracking based on its camera integration. This session will cover how app developers can leverage the Bixby Vision APIs and software tools to build a wide range of intelligent image recognition-based experiences and directly integrate them into Bixby Vision.

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Over the past decade, Samsung has made a commitment to introducing new products and services that support an active, healthy lifestyle. From the Samsung Health app and Galaxy wearables lineup used by tens of millions of people around the world, to partnerships with health companies, to a fast-growing ecosystem of health and fitness app developers, Samsung has vastly increased its presence in the health space. Hear what Samsung has accomplished through collaboration with partners and learn more about Samsung’s vision for what’s next in the world of health and fitness. Additional topics include introducing how AI and IoT can transform the health experience as well as the tools and services available to ecosystem partners to promote their own services through the Samsung Health platform.

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This technical session will provide a detailed look at the tools available to developers through the Galaxy GameDev program to help you create high-performance gaming experiences with ease. As part of the session, we will invite Unity to talk about how Samsung and Unity work together to improve the performance of mobile games. Join us for this deep-dive discussion featuring technical tips and information to help your games perform better than ever.

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This session will offer numerous implementation tips and development practices from our Bixby engineers. Hear about incorporating machine learning to accelerate user tasks (preference and selection learning), find out how to get the most out of Bixby library capsules, and get tips for preparing your capsule for launch.

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This session will present the problem of hearing loss, sharing stories/testimonies and statistics from around the world. It will then provide an introduction to the uSound for Samsung app and the “uSound test” to measure hearing disability. The session will also detail the uSound for Samsung campaign, showing why and how Samsung promotes and actively participates in this partnership and how spreading uSound for Samsung around the world can contribute to the early detection of hearing loss.

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