The first Mobile Gaming USA event is gearing up ready to descend upon San Francisco from 9-10 May 2012, with an agenda packed with speakers announced.

The event claims to be the "first US-based conference devoted exclusively to the discussion of smartphone and tablet gaming," and will focus on a range of mobile gaming topics including cross-platform play, moving from console to mobile, and the ever present free-to-play debate.

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The first day of the event will kick off with Jason Loia, COO of Digital Chocolate, with a keynote entitled Bridging the Mobile Gaming Divide, with a focus on cross-platform play between tablets and smartphones.

Eyal Rabinovich, co-founder of MoMinis and Mitchell Weisman, CEO of LifeStreet Media will take on a debate of freemium business models, in their talk entitled Taking the Free out of Freemium: Discussing today's best practices for monetising FTP mobile games through in-game payments and virtual goods.

There will also be a talk from location-based gaming specialist PerBlue as CEO Justin Beck takes to the stage on the second day.

Other speakers include VP of Gamevil Kyu Lee, MocoSpace CTO Jamie Hall and CrowdStar's director of biz dev Randy Lee.

Executives from Atari, Playmatics, WildTangent and Arkadium will also be talking. 

Should you want to find out more about the event, then you can visit the Mobile Gaming USA website.