MobileBeat 2013, VentureBeat’s 6th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile — convenes the brightest minds and biggest names in the industry to explore the year’s hottest mobile trends. This year, the theme is “The Mobile Experience.”

We have come to expect our mobile devices to be intuitive and easy to use. But to make a device, service, app, or mobile site that is so intuitive that it virtually disappears is a deceptively difficult task. Hardware makers, developers, retailers, brands and many others are bringing new tools to bear on the problem, from app development suites to cloud services and beyond.

What’s more, the mobile device is now reshaping our expectations in the real world. The new orientation that every business must adopt is mobile-focused and experience centric: What is the customer’s experience of your brand, across all media and all devices?

Where design, technology and commerce converge, that’s what we call the new Mobile Experience.

MobileBeat attracts representatives from private and public companies in the following segments: major platforms, content/media, advertising, commerce, developers, device makers, carriers, retail, services, marketers, investors, press and more.

*Ticket are non-refundable within 30 days of the event.