Generating Revenue from Online, PC and Mobile Games

Thursday May 19, 9am-4pm

Located just steps from E3Expo at
LA Convention Center

Fox Sports SkyBox at Staples Center

Agenda                     Speakers

Courtney Jane Acuff

Starcom MediaVest Group

Wireless Marketing Specialist, Digits

Courtney maintains strong relationships with mobile back-end providers and a board seat with the U.S. Mobile Marketing Association. In 2004, she designed, executed and analyzed research for the first-ever domestic, consumer-centric wireless market analysis, providing insights into the media’s potential for relevant engagement.

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Kris Alexander

Akamai Technologies

Media and Entertainment Solutions Manager

Kris has an accomplished record as a marketing professional and business development entrepreneur in the high technology and media and entertainment industries. He oversees the creation of media on-demand solutions for media and entertainment businesses to digitally deliver music, movies, games, and syndicated content. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Alexander held positions with and provided consulting services to high tech and media and entertainment businesses including Microsoft, Cisco, Verizon, Level 3, HP, Parker Guitars, EB Games, Turbine Entertainment, nVIDIA, and ATI.  

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Christine Arrington

Acacia Research Group

Principal & Senior Analyst

Christine is a leading analyst in the entertainment technology market. She has extensive experience in market analysis of technologies including digital set-top boxes, game consoles, digital television, interactive television, DVD hardware, entertainment PCs and broadband consumer services. Ms. Arrington has worked for such prestigious research firms as Penton Digital Media Research where she managed the research division of Penton Media; International Data Corporation where she managed the US Quarterly PC Tracker and Emerging Technology Markets programs; Arrington Research Group and Paul Kagan Associates.

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Wilhelm Bielert

July Systems

Vice President, Europe Operations

Wilhelm has over 10 years experience in the wireless and content space. Previously, he was Managing Director of Sports.com, a pan-European sports portal owned by IMG and Viacom’s CBS Sportsline among others. During this time, Mr. Bielert also helped develop wireless content channels for T-Mobile and E-Plus, the German licensee of i-mode. Prior to this, Wilhelm acquired one of Germany's leading companies for plant automation and created offerings around remote maintenance including the use of mobile networks.

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Julian Hardy

Sennari Mobile

President, EMEA

Julian is well known in the European community as an expert in breakthrough forms of entertainment for new media. He is the former EMEA president of MFORMA, the world's leading wireless entertainment publisher. While at MFORMA, Mr. Hardy managed the growth of the EMEA as a stand alone business taking it from start-up to a multi-million dollar operation, with the most extensive market share across Europe. Prior to MFORMA, he was CEO of Scan Mobile, an SMS applications company building leading edge products for mobile carriers.

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Jill Braff

Sorrent

Vice President, Marketing

Jill leads Sorrent's corporate and consumer marketing initiatives, including co-marketing programs with licensors and carriers. She most recently consulted with Sega of America as interim vice president of marketing and as a creative director at Konami of America. Ms. Braff also worked with Sprint on its entry into 3G wireless gaming. Prior to that, she held senior marketing positions at Photopoint Corporation and MyFamily.com.

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Nolan Bushnell

Cheif Executive Officer and Founder

uWink, Inc.

Nolan is best known for bringing “PONG”, Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater to the masses, and is justifiably revered as the “Father of the Video Game Industry”.  Over the past 20 years, he has founded over 20 companies, including Catalyst Technologies, Etak, Androbot, Axlon, Irata, AAPPS and ByVideo.  Additionally, Mr. Bushnell has provided consulting services to numerous corporations, including Commodore International, IBM, Cisco Systems and US Digital Communications.  He sits on the Boards of Directors of WAVE Systems and Planetwide Games.

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Kevin Donovan

Planetwide Games

President

Kevin is President of Planetwide Games, a publisher and distributor of online video games and interactive entertainment. Planetwide Games’ first title is RYL: Path of the Emperor, a massively multiplayer online role playing game.  Previously, he was vice president, managing director of Marketing Headquarters, the promotional and marketing arm of publicly traded Fotoball USA, Inc. where he worked with all major sports and entertainment licensors and properties.  Prior to MHQ, he was President and CEO of the Smoothie King Franchises and the director of Brand image for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic organizing committee.  He is also a strategic advisor to the co-founder of Subway Restaurants, the world's largest franchise company.

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Mark Donovan

M:Metrics, Inc.

Vice President, Products and Senior Analyst

Mark spent most of the past decade developing and implementing strategies to use new technologies to transform communication. Working with mobile operators, handset manufacturers, and content providers in North America, Europe, and Asia, he helped define new business opportunities and bring mobile technology and services to market. He has more than a decade of experience in conducting survey research, data analysis and modeling. Donovan is a frequent speaker on new media and mobility, and a prolific author.

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William Erickson

M7 Networks

President and Chief Executive Officer

William joined the company in 2001 as a Co-Founder.  Before M7, he was an executive at IBM Global Services in Paris and Armonk, leading its carrier sales and network services businesses, and at MCI Telecommunications, the U.S.’s pioneering competitive carrier.  He has a JD Degree from New York University School of Law (Root-Tilden Scholar), and a B.A. degree from the University of Colorado at Denver.  When not on airplanes, Bill helps study (and subsidize) the industry by sharing the latest phones and apps with his three sons.  

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Anders Evju

I-play

Vice President of North American Operations

Anders has extensive market leadership experience in wireless data and Internet integration with more than twelve years of wireless telecommunications experience. Prior to joining I-play as Vice President for North America, Anders was with MobileSpring as a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development. He has U.S. wireless carrier background from Omnipoint Communications, where he was responsible for strategic planning of Wireless Internet Solutions. Anders gained extensive European telecom experience during his three years in Norway at NetCom GSM, where he was Director of Business Development and responsible for the initial planning, development and commercial launch of Mother, one of the world's first mobile portals, as well as the development of content based text messaging products.

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Eric Goldberg

Crossover Technologies

Managing Director

Eric is a board member of, advisor or consultant to Digital Chocolate, Kayak, (M)forma, Openwave, Unplugged, Vindigo, Warner Music Group, and an early-stage venture capital firm. He was most recently the President of Unplugged Games, for which he secured distribution with four of the five largest North American carriers. Previously, he served as Founder and President of Crossover Technologies, one of the first online game companies.

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Vishal Gondal

Indiagames

Director

Vishal started programming algorithms at the age of 14 - an age at which most kids were trying to figure out how to solve logarithms. Soon after finishing his schooling, Vishal started his own company, FACT, at the age of 16. During his college days, Vishal played volleyball at the state and national levels, and was a Rank holder of National Computer Problem Solving Contest in 'C' programming. He founded Indiagames in 1999 and has grown it from a five man team to a global operation with over 170 employees.

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Mike Goslin

Walt Disney Internet Group

Vice President, Virtual Reality

Mike is primarily focused on the development of the unit’s massively multiplayer online games including the highly-acclaimed Disney’s Toontown Online.  Currently, the VR studio is developing a new game based on the popular theme park attraction and franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean” which is slated to debut in summer 2006. 

Steve Hoffman

InfoSpace Mobile

Executive Producer of Mobile Games and Entertainment

Steven is a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group and sits on the Board of Governors for the Producers Guild’s New Media Council.  Hoffman was the Chairman and CEO of Spiderdance, one of Hollywood's leading interactive television studios.  He also owned and operated LavaMind, which developed games published by Microprose / Spectrum Holobyte, Seiko Epson, Magellan, Manaccom, McGraw-Hill.  Before this, Mr. Hoffman worked for Sega, generating new concepts for amusement gaming.

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Craig Holland

In-Fusio

Chief Executive Officer, North America

Craig is the former President of Thumbworks, which is best known for its games Jeep Off-road Jam, Suzuki Motocross Challenge and Etch-A-Sketch. In-Fusio acquired Thumbworks in January 2005 and he now heads up the company's U.S. operations.

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Josh Larson

GameSpot

Director of Industry Products

Josh oversees GameSpot's market intelligence products GameSpot Trax and GameSpot MobileDex, which are used by marketers, investors and retailers to analyze current and future trends in gaming.  In this role, Larson has been a leading analyst in the games industry, consulting top game publishers and developers on effective PR and marketing strategies since 2002.  Larson holds an MBA from the University of Virginia and a BA in economics from Dartmouth College.

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Kristin McDonnell

LimeLife

Chief Executive Officer

Kristin is a seasoned executive with over 15 years experience in building, growing, and operating software, media, and telecommunications companies. She has held VP and senior positions in General Management, Marketing, and Product Development for a number of Silicon Valley companies including HearMe/Mpath, AT&T's ImagiNation Network, and Electronic Arts. At Mpath, Kristin was part of the leadership team that grew the Mplayer online games service to 10 million registered members and $14 million in revenue. More recently she helped drive the launches of two online entertainment communities, Xfire and There.

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Derrick Morton

RealNetworks

General Manager, Mobile Games (Americas & Asia),

Derrick has been creating and marketing entertainment software since 1994. He spent 3 years at Graphix Zone, ultimately as Vice President of Development, publishers of the Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! CD-ROM Games among many others. In 1997 he joined Cimarron/Bacon/O’Brien, a top entertainment marketing design house in Los Angeles. At CBO Mr. Morton was the Senior Producer of a group which developed over 100 interactive projects servicing all of the major motion picture studios.

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Mikael Nerde

Sony Ericsson

Head of the Developer Program

Mikael was part of the founding management team of Sony Ericsson's Developer Program. and is one of the driving forces behind creating and designing the new application & content process for Sony Ericsson, responsible for delivering a solid applications and games portfolio for Sony Ericsson products moving into 2005 and beyond.

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Joe Sauer

Advanis

Partner

Joe works with senior client executives to drive strategic choice and action around the critical marketing issues facing their organizations.  His primary focus is on building competitive advantage based on an understanding of how customer value is defined, created, and delivered in environments of rapid technological and socio-demographic change.

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Roy Sehgal

July Systems

Vice President, Business Development,

Roy has served as Vice President of Mobile Commerce at InfoSpace, a leading global provider of cross-platform merchant and consumer infrastructure services on wireless, broadband and narrowband platforms. In this role, Roy managed strategic and business development efforts to position InfoSpace as the leading provider of mobile commerce services to domestic and international wireless carriers and device manufacturers. Roy has also served as Senior Director of Business Development in InfoSpace's Merchant Services division where he was responsible for establishing partnerships with leading online and offline retailers and merchant aggregators.

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Timothy Shey

Proteus

Co-founder and Executive Creative Director

Tim produced the first-ever North American interactive television broadcast using wireless phones, for FOX Sports' Super Bowl XXXVI, co-produced three seasons of interactive TV for FOX Sports (MLB, NFL, NASCAR), and developed numerous leading ITV and mobile entertainment projects, from the first-ever commercial WAP application in North America in 1999 to mobile content launches for the Olympics, The Sopranos and Sex and the City in 2004. In 2004, Proteus was acquired by European wireless leader Telitas AS and joined the For-Side Group, a global network of companies providing industry-leading wireless content and applications.
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Victor Siegel

MPP Ventures

Managing Partner

Victor brings over 20 years of experience spanning wireless content, television, marketing and mergers and acquisition efforts. Prior to founding MPP Ventures, Victor served as CEO for HelloNetwork.com; the global leader in JAVA based mobile wireless streaming.  HelloNetwork was a venture-backed, globally focused mobile streaming company, with offices in NY, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo. Under his direction, HelloNetwork led the industry in the streaming video and music sectors in the U.S., launching Warner Music’s successful music streaming service on Sprint as well as Real Networks’ news/sports/entertainment service. HelloNetwork was the first streaming service to create a global network, with partners across Europe, Japan, China, and Latin America.

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Michael Wang

GignoSystem America Inc.

Product Manager, Wireless Games

Michael is the Product Manager of Wireless Games at GignoSystem America, a wholly owned subsidiary of GignoSystem Japan, Inc. which operates more than 50 sites in 11 markets worldwide and delivers high quality mobile content services ranging from wallpapers, ringtones, realtones, photo applications, and games to more than 1.5 million customers worldwide.  Previously, he worked as a Network Analyst at the University of Washington Network Operations Center and as a Research Assistant at the Genomation Laboratory in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.  

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Leighton Webb

20th Century Fox

Vice President, Wireless Licensing

Leighton oversees mobile licensing for 20th Century Fox.  Prior to joining Fox, he was an Executive Director with Vivendi Universal Games where he contributed to the company’s endeavors in the online gaming space.  Prior to that, Webb was a General Manager and Executive Director with AOL where he oversaw all business and operational aspects of AOL Games.  Prior to AOL, Webb was Worldwide Product Manager with Ubisoft Entertainment where he oversaw product development and marketing for various entertainment properties. 

Konny Zsigo

WirelessDeveloper Agency

President

Konny is well-known in the industry as a wireless data pioneer. He founded a training company 13 years ago and has personally trained 32,000 wireless professionals. Mr. Zsigo is now the President of WirelessDeveloper.com, a company he founded to help drive wireless innovations into the marketplace. 

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