"ARM TechCon offers attendees a first-hand look at these hot new technologies, providing a comprehensive view of the latest ARM and ARM Partner advancements that are helping engineering professionals and decision makers gain a competitive advantage in today's global technology market." The ARM TechCon program included more than 85 sessions led by 102 industry experts teaching the latest strategies and techniques for designing or developing with ARM, addressing areas such as developing for Android, open source platforms, low-power design, safety and security and the latest in human interface design. Highlights included: ARM CTO, Mike Muller 's keynote announcement of the ARMv8 instruction set; Applied Micro's (APM) announcement of its X-Gene product that will be based on this same ARMv8 instruction set; and the first technical deep dive on big.LITTLE processing using ARM Cortex-A15 & Cortex-A7.