Commercialize your knowledge into an app (WUR Bleiswijk)

Commercialize your

knowledge into an app!

Today’s program

Who are we? What's an app and how can you use it?

App examples Break How to make an app? Pitch your idea! Follow up

Who we are..

MOVIE

Community: whitepapers, blogs App store: >100 horti & agri apps Webstore: Hardware & Software Collaborating with Wageningen UR:

The World of Apps challengePizza workshops

What’s an app?

[An application (or app) is a type of software that allows you to perform specific tasks.]

[Applications for desktop or laptop computers are sometimes called desktop applications,]

[and those for mobile devices are called mobile apps.]

What’s an app?

Simple / easy to use

Specific > Task > User

Popularity smartphones

Popularity

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5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

40.00% 37.40%

27.60%

21.60% 22.40%

Poultry Farmers Pig Farmers Crop Farmers Dairy Farmers0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

29.30%

22.10%

13.70%16.00%

Smartphone Tablet

In horticulture about 25% of the growers have a smartphone and/or tablet.

How can you USE it?

Commercialize knowledge

Marketing

Combining knowledge

Whitepapers Apps

App examples

WhatsApp – Mobile all platforms300 million global users

PsychroCalc – 24green – Web apphttps://psychrocalc.24green.com (including whitepaper!)

Graph app – Sense-OS – Web apphttps://common.sense-os.nl/login.html

And now.. The real interesting part!

How can you build an app?

Data usage: > Use own formulas > External data

And now.. The real interesting part!

Sense-OS zorgtoepassing

Pitch & BreakDuring the break think about an idea YOU have for an app right now.

You can pitch this later!

Let’s start building an app!Options!

Category OptionsPlatform Web, Android, iOS, Smart TV, …?Tools Appmachine, Phonegap, …?Techniques HTML, Java, Objective C, Python, …?Data Google, Yahoo, Sense-OS, …?

Collaboration with Wageningen students

WorkshopsGoogle Maps app

More workshops on the way

World of apps challengeA contest to challenge students to build great apps

Coding

Google Maps app

http://24green.com/workshop-google-maps-api/

A few apps we made ouself

BlueViewClimateViewMeteoMashPsychroCalc

Pitch your idea!

Follow up & evaluate! World of Apps Challenge; win prizes!

“Pizza” workshops?

The Perfection Game

Thank you for your time!

Questions?