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July 27-28, 2005

Hilton Universal City

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Details     Agenda      Speakers      Sponsors      Registration

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Sponsors

As a participant at Mobile Mobile Entertainment Summit and Marketplace, you will benefit from branding, profile building and lead generation through:

* A prominent speaking opportunity at the leading business executive and developer conference devoted to the deployment of wireless entertainment. [Speaking opportunities are widely recognized as the most affordable method to draw interest to your companies expertise.]
* Featured Demo/Presentations of your technology or services to a captive audience of industry decision-makers.
* Showcase exhibition during our dedicated networking breaks and cocktail reception.
* Marketing with our extensive reach when advertising the event in trade publications, direct mail, email, and industry association endorsements.
* Public relations with our press releases sent on major wire services, and receiving the full contact list of hundreds of journalists covering the event.

For complete sponsor package information, contact:
If your Company name begins with:

A - L Contact:
John Grosfeld: john@iHollywoodForum.com or (650)759-8728
M - Z Contact:
Mike Navarre: mikenavarre@ihollywoodforum.com or (310) 566-7744

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SPONSOR TABLE LOCATIONS

Company Table#
Tira Wireless 1a
Idetic / MobiTV 1b
Nokia 2-3
SmartPhones Technologies 4
BMI 5
Pangolin 6
Sennari 7
ClearMode 8
mBlox 9
Versaly Entertainment 10
UK Trade & Investment 11
thePlatform 12
Bango 13
Mobinex 14
Idealwave Solutions 15
Silverbox Mobile 16
Promotional Currency 17
Cinema Electric 18
Wireless Innovation Network of British Columbia 19
Producer's Guild 22
Media (Wireless Week, Mobile Entertainment, RCR Wireless, LAPTOP, etc) 23
Two Minute Television 24
Loudeye 25
Octane Technologies 26
Qpass 27
GoTV Networks 28

 

Participating Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on four major exchanges.

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Gold Sponsor

GoTV Networks is a mobile television network that is changing the way people use their wireless phones. We create on-demand television programming customized to the mobile experience. We believe that the mobile customer demands programming that fits today's busy schedules and time-crunched lifestyles. Our on-demand model lets the consumer select and watch up-to-the-minute news, sports, entertainment, and other compelling content.

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Silver Sponsors

Versaly Entertainment is the leading Mobile Brand ManagementT company with universal appeal. Its depth of relationships and breadth of knowledge of the wireless and entertainment industries enable Versaly to innovate and deliver top-quality mobile phone content to a rapidly expanding market. Versaly crafts strategic and specialized Mobile Brand ManagementT solutions with the ideal mobile products and services to advance each brand and its business objectives.

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mBlox is the premier service provider of mobile messaging infrastructure in Europe and the United States. Focused exclusively on the commercial and technical complexities of mobile payment and messaging infrastructure, mBlox is in the business of connecting companies with customers. The result of this dedicated attention to infrastructure is that mBlox delivers comprehensive and dependable SMS transport and financial settlement services. With an international network of offices and mature carrier relationships, mBlox is the sensible choice for managing SMS.
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Qpass software powers the marketplace for digital media and services by efficiently managing the entire digital supply chain over any network and any type of device. The Qpass product line includes the Content Delivery Platform, Service Management Platform, Payment Server, and MultiMedia Album. Today this infrastructure powers a digital services marketplace for operators reaching more than 140 million subscribers globally, generating hundreds of millions in revenues.

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UK Trade & Investment is the British Government's international business development agency, supporting companies in the UK doing business internationally and overseas enterprises seeking to establish a market footprint in the UK. The agency is uniquely positioned to offer expanding mobile entertainment companies access to a growing network of global business advisors and bespoke market entry intelligence and guidance on operational issues. Join the world's most successful businesses and visit us at www.uktradeinvestusa.com or call (310) 996 3022.

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Bronze Sponsors

Bango has created the only open, global platform that allows content providers fast and easy access to the huge opportunity presented by the mobile internet. Bango's innovation was to develop a globally accessible, cross-operator platform that would make mobile internet content easily accessible to everyone with a phone. The platform collects micro-payments from users using the best available billing methods, identifies users, and applies mobile operator content controls so that content providers don't have to worry about how to meet operator requirements.

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Loudeye is a worldwide leader in digital media solutions and the outsourcing provider of choice for companies looking to maximize their return on a digital media investment. Loudeye's digital media services platform brings together leading technologies into one end-to-end solution for the major challenges companies face in launching a compelling digital media experience - from initial application development, content acquisition, production, retrieval and archiving to fulfillment, distribution, content protection and reporting.
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thePlatform, Inc. is an industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions. The company's flagship product, thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS), is the most comprehensive solution for media, entertainment and enterprise customers. With MPS, customers can publish digital media anywhere - over any network, to any device. Custom feature enhancements and seamless systems integration are simple using the Web services-based MPS-SDK.

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Freever is a place - a safe and exciting place that allows people to forge and nurture interpersonal relationships. The process of provoking the creation of social networks relies on the notion of simple communications services. Freever provides services over a wide range of technologies from Voice, SMS, MMS, Wap-GPRS to 3G.

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Dwango Wireless provides an end-to-end solution for all mobile branding needs. Our customized platform delivers media to mobile devices, connects to wireless carriers, automates billing, tracks content licensing, and integrates with marketing promotions and website operations.

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BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939, collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire of more than 6.5 million compositions - including radio airplay, broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded performances by all other users of music - are then distributed as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it represents.

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Tira Wireless is the premier provider of technology for the mobile content market. Tira's proprietary technology - the Tira Jump Product Suite - enables mobile publishers, operators and developers to quickly and cost effectively bring quality mobile content to market. Tira Jump enables the deployment of mobile Java applications across a broad range of handsets, languages and mobile operator requirements. Tira's customers and partners include Disney Mobile, Sony Pictures Mobile, THQ Wireless, T-Mobile, TELUS Mobility, Sony Ericsson, and Nokia. Tira has been recognized as one of "10 Emerging Wireless Players to Watch" by IDC; named one of the "Fierce 15 Top Wireless Startups" by Fierce Wireless; and awarded the 2004 CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Innovative Entertainment Technology Development.

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2 Minute Television

http://www.twominutes.tv/

 

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Wmode develops and operates ClearMode®, a Mobile Content Distribution Network that facilitates the management, control, delivery and payment of wireless Internet media. Wmode offers a suite of technologies and services on a managed service basis that enable mobile operators, content providers and media and brand companies to deliver a broad range of wireless Internet content and services to valued consumers. ClearMode enables rapid deployment of new and innovative revenue-generating services using a secure distribution network through which mobile operators, media and brand companies work in partnership with content providers.

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Smartphones Technologies is a mobile content company specializing in graphics, animations, audiotones and video clips on mobile phones. We have exclusive licensing agreements with more than 80 artists, photographers and design studios around the world, and licensed major entertainment properties like 7th Heaven , JAG , Dead Zone and Without a Paddle . .......................................................................................

Silverbox Mobile, Inc. is a North American provider of Premium Rate Services, SMS, Mobile Entertainment and Mobile Marketing Solutions to the B2B and B2C marketplace. Silverbox offers an extensive range of services including Billing and Delivery Solutions,   Mobile Content and Mobile Games.      .......................................................................................

CinemaElectric Inc., is a leading producer of mobile multimedia applications and content, including mobile video called PocketCinema™. The company produces four lifestyle categories of daily refreshed multimedia product, customized for popular mobile terminals via it's Dense Media Format™ production process. CinemaElectric multimedia allows network operators to increase data sales via 2.5G and 3G networks, and allows manufacturers to create value for new imaging and multimedia mobile phones by offering a depth and range of global content for their products.

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Octane is a worldwide sourcing firm that was founded on the belief that successful companies benefit from solutions that transcend national boundaries, conventional practices, and traditional thinking. Leveraging its global customer service, software, and business processing operations, Octane delivers all the benefits of global sourcing while removing the pain of managing teams around the world. The company has been featured in leading wireless publications including RCR Wireless, Wireless Week, CNET's Wireless Gaming Review, iMedia Connection, Wireless Developer's Network, The Hollywood Reporter, and others.

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Pangolin is an Orlando-based software company. Pangolin's SMS software, IMU and VMU , was introduced at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) 2003 conference in Las Vegas, after a year of development and testing. Pangolin is the world leader software for laser display applications. Pangolin software has won numerous international awards for technical excellence and innovation. The 15-year-old company initially developed IMU for laser applications, and then broadened its usefulness with the VMU video software.

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Sennari is the industry's first Mobile Loyalty and Community Service (MLCS) that provides mobile carriers, game publishers, music and video publishers as well as content based entertainment companies with solutions for maintaining customer loyalty, reducing churn and creating new revenue streams.

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Since 2001, The Cielo Group, Inc. has been developing and deploying wireless streaming media solutions in the sports and entertainment market. Cielo executes on the convergence of two trends: rapid evolution of wireless technology and the need by content publishers to enable discovery and distribution of their wireless offering. Cielo is establishing end-to-end solutions that offer our clients the advantage of maintaining ownership of their wireless presence while reducing the risk of investing in wireless opportunities.

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Promotional Currency

MobiNex develops, operates and markets applications utilizing "Human Expression Analysis and Rendering" proprietary technology. Our product suites put people into contents and seamlessly enable people to connect with other people over mobile, broadcast TV and online.

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MobiTV is based on Idetic's groundbreaking technology that enables the fast and efficient delivery of rich media to mobile handsets. MobiTV is the first Global Television Network targeting the 1.3 billion cellular phone and handset users worldwide. The service delivers live television feeds to subscribers in real-time over existing cellular networks. MobiTV is compatible with most Java- or BREW-enabled phones with color displays. Viewers do not need extra equipment beyond a subscription to MobiTV and their carrier's data package.
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  Recruiting Partner

IdealWave is a full service search agency for the global wireless markets, helping business leaders in the global mobile markets hire the best talent for their specific challenges. We specialize in high impact, results oriented search engagements throughout the mobile industry. Our research and strategic expertise is the strength behind our effective search practices - we provide permanent and consultancy search solutions at the Board, Executive, Director, Manager, and individual contributor levels.

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  Research Partners
iSuppli understands the interdependent nature of the electronics industry and they believe that successful analysis of any part of the electronics supply chain requires comprehension of its entirety. In contrast to many other electronics research firms that focus on just one portion of the chain - such as semiconductors, chip manufacturing, or end markets - the iSuppli staff of market experts cover every segment of the electronics industry, from raw materials to retail channels for finished products. The scope of iSuppli research encompasses: component and application markets, emerging technologies, inventory, component pricing and manufacturing.
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Digital Tech Consulting is a market research firm providing strategic information and analysis to help companies succeed in the consumer digital marketplace. Their research centers around primary market intelligence, as well as quantitative and qualitative information on a variety of consumer digital products and services. Specifically, they provide market intelligence reports, product and services forecasts, analysis of industry business models and market conditions, and in-depth profiles of significant players in the industries we study.

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  Media & Supporting Partners

For nearly 75 years, The Hollywood Reporter has been the entertainment industry's most revealing information source. From motion pictures to television, home video to the cutting edge of digital media, The Hollywood Reporter shows you the industry from its best angle: the inside looking out.

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Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty practice, has been meeting the public relations needs of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer technologies and lifestyles, and related programming, hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides public relations and strategic marketing counsel services to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums and Mobile Entertainment Forums.

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RCR Wireless News is the only weekly newspaper covering wireless, offering a mix of breaking news and in-depth analysis into the issues that mold today's wireless telecommunications environment. RCR Wireless News' first priority is, always has been and always will be, its high-quality editorial content. Their knowledgeable and experienced editorial team delivers the news you need to know week in and week out, with beat reporters covering the industry from all perspectives including the Washington, D.C., regulatory front.

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cellular-news is a leading wireless telecoms online publisher that focuses on the mobile/cellular market.

Formed in July 1998, they have published over 13,000 news articles which are read daily by industry leaders. Their daily newsletter is sent out each morning to over 30,000 subscribers. The publication specialises in publishing the leading news articles from around the globe, offering a truely international perspective on the industry.

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LAPTOP is the leading mobile technology magazine, each month LAPTOP brings you in-depth reviews of the hottest mobile products, including notebooks, cell phones, handhelds, Wi-Fi, digital cameras, projectors, and accessories. We also deliver the how-to info you need now to get more out of your equipment, plus exclusive insights into what's next from our experienced editors and industry leaders in the know.

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Mobile Entertainment is the magazine the emerging wireless content industry has been waiting for. The mobile telecoms industry is moving beyond voice and text into entertainment - now it has a trade publication which will deliver the news, analyse the issues and provide essential reference material on this exciting new market.

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SymbianOne is the complete resource for keeping an eye on the Symbian market place with regular news and a weekly newsletter for up to date coverage of developments. This is complemented by in depth coverage of market sectors, such as games, development tools, usage case studies, and market analysis and employment opportunities. A joint venture with offices in Canada and New Zealand SymbianOne provides a unique global view of the Symbian economy.

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Mobile Enterprise Media is the industry leader in providing information on how the latest mobile technology is implemented within the enterprise. Through various media outlets, they provide marketing executives with an exclusive, targeted audience to which they can showcase their products and services, maximizing the effectiveness of marketing dollars through an integrated marketing campaign.

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British Columbia is home to the wireless industry's leading players. BC's wireless cluster encompasses all areas of the wireless technology value chain, from infrastructure and devices to enabling software and peer-to-peer solutions. The Wireless Innovation Network society of BC is home to established world leaders, such as Sierra Wireless, MDSI and Glentel to up and coming innovators, such as Colligo, TELOS, WebTech Wireless, Contec and Microsage Wireless. Representing more than 150 member companies, WINBC, is the focal point for wireless in BC. The organization brings this diverse sector closer together by fostering collaboration among early-stage wireless companies in BC.

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Wireless Week is produced by the most experienced editorial staff in the business. With more than 100 years of total experience in wireless and many more in business reporting, our reporters bring unique perspective and depth of knowledge to every story assignment. Our staff includes award-winning reporters and the industry's top editors. With this background, we can cover the turbulent and rapidly changing wireless industry with a depth unmatched by any other publication.

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The World DAB Forum is an international non-governmental organisation. Their objective is to co-ordinate the implementation of DAB Digital Radio services based on the Eureka 147 DAB system.

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The Producers Guild of America represents, protects, and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team. Its primary goals are combating credit proliferation, expanding health benefits and representing the entire producing team. As a unit, the producing team is responsible for the art, craft and science of production in the entertainment industry.

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Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals. In fact, Business Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around the globe.

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The Mobile Entertainment Forum is a global trade association representing all participants in the mobile entertainment value chain interested in driving the industry's evolution and commercial potential through collaboration, consultation and promotional activities. MEF is committed to reducing the barriers to entry into the innovative mobile entertainment market, thereby encouraging entry by new businesses and increasing competition and growth to the benefit of all industry players and consumers.


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