Andrew Keen

afterTV.com

Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Andrew Keen is the author of THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR which will be published by Currency books on June 5, 2007. He is also the host of afterTV.com, the Internet chat show about culture, media and technology.

Paul Martino

Aggregate Knowledge

Chief Executive Officer
Paul is a serial entrepreneur who was the founding CTO of early social networking website Tribe.net, early  and founding CEO of Ahpah Software, a Java security company. Prior to Ahpah Software, Paul led mergers and acquisitions for the leading digital rights management firm, Intertrust. Paul holds a C.Phil in computer science from Princeton University.

Craig Fanning

Alloy Media + Marketing

Vice President , Interactive Media
As Vice President, Interactive Media for Alloy Media + Marketing, one of the country's largest providers of nontraditional media and promotional marketing programs connecting with targeted consumer segments, Craig oversees interactive sales and strategy for the company's leading online suite. Alloy's dynamic interactive assets   reaching the young adult and urban market  include Alloy.com and Delias.com; community and commerce destinations for teen girls, CCS.com for teen boys, Sconex.com, a social networking community exclusively for high school students, and rising social media ventures; Blocksavvy.com, Habbo.com, Meez.com, and RockYou.com through its exclusive partnerships.

Dr. Timothy Tuttle

AOL Video

Vice President
Tim Tuttle is Vice President at AOL and is currently responsible for AOL's video search technology initiatives.  Tim joined AOL through its December 2005 acquisition of Truveo, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as chief executive officer. As CEO of Truveo, Tim managed the company's strategic and business direction as well as product development for Truveo's industry-leading video search engine.

Christopher Amenita

ASCAP Enterprise Group

Vice President
Christopher Amenita is the Senior Vice President of ASCAP's Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP. The Enterprises Group focuses on two main areas: The first is the society's internet activities, which includes ASCAP's licensing efforts as well as the evaluation of emerging technologies surrounding the digital delivery of music on the internet. The second area centers on investing and partnering in developing technologies and ventures. Chris was responsible for overseeing ASCAP's creation of Mediaguide, which is the largest Broadcast Monitoring and Data Information company utilizing audio fingerprinting technology.

Richard French

Avvenu, Inc.

Chief Executive Officer
Richard French is a "pragmatic visionary" -- combining technical expertise with seasoned business savvy. As an experienced leader and entrepreneur across a broad spectrum of multinational companies and startups, the primary driving force throughout his career has been to provide access for all people, to all information, all of the time. At Avvenu, French is leading the way for music executives, technology innovators, and consumers to enter into a new dialogue around music rights, digital rights, piracy, and the people. His pioneering days in the Open Source field, along with a deep technical background, make him uniquely qualified to bring new thinking into a traditional model. French believes that creative Internet technologies can free mobile consumers to enjoy and share music within the boundaries of fair use, while at the same time helping the music industry transform and prosper in the digital economy.  He is changing the way we think about accessing and sharing our music, photos and documents.

Peter Bradley

Azureus, Inc.

Vice President of Business Development
Peter Bradley is the Vice President of Business Development, Content Licensing, of Azureus, Inc. Prior to Azureus, he was the vice president of business development at PodBridge, where he licensed content from The Discovery Channel, A&E, the BBC and Fox. He also successfully licensed digital entertainment technology to companies such as Samsung, iRiver, SanDisc and RCA/Thomson. Previous to PodBridge, he was a founding team member and director of international sales for the pioneering digital entertainment company, Liquid Audio.  Bradley helped build the company from a small start-up to a 350-person, publicly traded firm with offices around the globe.

Paula Montondo

Blip TV

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Paula Montondo, Founder and CEO of Blip TV realized the potential market for high-end short films and video clips in the emerging mobile market. Montondo has taken Blip TV, a made-for-mobile channel, from concept to fruition and has secured contracts with Sprint, Mobi TV, ROK TV, and Cellfish, as well as created interest from many other mobile outlets. Montondo is broadening Blip TV's reach by expanding its programming to other platforms allowing viewers to access Blip TV on any medium, making Blip TV one of the new cross-platform channels. Before founding Blip TV, Montondo spent several years as Director of Content Acquisition for New Generation Films. Montondo was responsible for creating and closing content deals, establishing marketing strategies for each film, approving final encoding quality as well as speaking at major film markets and festivals such as LA Film Fest, AFM, Cannes and The NY Indie Film Festival.

Keith Richman

Break.com

Chief Executive Officer
Keith Richman is chief executive officer for Break.com (formerly Big-Boys.com). Keith is responsible for providing the company's overall strategic direction and leading the company in the areas of business development and marketing. Prior to co-founding Break.com, Keith was the Director of Business Development for Billpoint Inc. Keith was integral in developing the business plan and raising venture funding, which ultimately led to the company's successful acquisition by eBay in 1999. Since launching Break, Keith has grown the site to one of the world's most trafficked online entertainment destinations with more than 13 million unique visitors and 600 million page impressions each month. He was a pioneer in enabling the use of video content on user-generated sites and was also the first to develop the paid content model for the user-generated

Raghav Gupta

Brightcove

Vice President of Consumer Services and Partnerships

Raghav "Rags" Gupta is VP of Consumer Services & Partnerships at Brightcove, the Internet TV service, where he works on the Company's consumer-facing initiatives.  Prior to Brightcove, Rags consulted to a number of companies around their digital media strategy and fundraising, including NPR, Giant Step and kSolo, and currently works with digital media startups and entrepreneurs in an advisory capacity. Rags served as the COO of Live365, the leading internet radio network, building the company into a top user-created radio destination with thousands of channels and millions of users. At Live365, Rags drove the Company's strategy and overall vision in a general management capacity, shaping the Company's business development, label relations, advertising sales and development functions. Since becoming a member of the senior management team in late 2001, Rags helped to raise bridge funding and planned and executed a complete Company turnaround. He also served as a Board Member for DiMA, the Digital Media Association, from 2003 to 2005.

Rob Schonfeld

Buena Vista Television

Vice President, Pay Television and Interactive Media
Rob Schonfeld currently serves as vice president, Buena Vista Pay Television, which licenses its vast library of movie titles and broadcasting assets from The Walt Disney Company in pay television, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, mobile and digital media. Named to the newly created post in 2005, Schonfeld oversees the development of viable business strategies for the distribution of these products in all areas of digital media, and the execution of business partnerships and licensing agreements in fulfillment of those strategies. He has over nine years of experience in the entertainment industry and an expertise in the fields of digital technology and creative content. Schonfeld is based at the company's Burbank headquarters.

Jeffrey Segal

Cinea

Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Segal is a recognized leader in delivering anti-piracy solutions for the entertainment industry.  As CTO/VP Engineering for Cinea, Inc. a Dolby company, he leads a team of security specialists providing content protection solutions, including a forensic watermarking solution for consumer video devices.

Mike Fitzsimmons

Delivery Agent

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

As Delivery Agent's founder and CEO, Mike Fitzsimmons has developed and commercialized the only multi-media platform that connects viewers with products seen on and related to their favorite television shows, movies, sports, and music videos. Under his leadership, Delivery Agent has become the leader in shopping-enabled programming and measurement. Prior to founding Delivery Agent, Mr. Fitzsimmons led Product Marketing and Business Development for Something Now, Inc., which was acquired by CNET Networks in 2001. At Something Now, Mr. Fitzsimmons developed the industry's first synchronized e-commerce application that enabled real-time promotion of related consumer electronics products and services online.

Paul Yanover

Disney Online

Executive Vice President and Managing Director
Paul Yanover is executive vice president and managing director of Disney Online (DOL), the business unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) that produces the top entertainment destination for kids and families on the World Wide Web. He oversees all of DOL's strategic, creative, technical and marketing initiatives surrounding the presence of the Disney brand on the Internet, including: flagship site www.disney.com; DOL's acclaimed suite of premium broadband products including online games; a large portfolio of divisional Web sites for The Walt Disney Company (TWDC); and Web sites www.familyfun.com, www.go.com and www.movies.com.

Bruce Poole

EMC

Manager, Global Business Development
Bruce is currently a Global Business Development Manager for EMC's Broadcast Solutions. He is part of the Digital Media Group within the EMC Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Business Office. Mr. Poole has more than 30 years of experience in the IT and Media industries and has managed Media Partner relationships for EMC. As part of these efforts he was responsible for initiating a successful program with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to market the joint media industry efforts of both companies -- a partnership which was featured in EMC's 2005 annual report. Mr. Poole's articles on the media industry have appeared in Computerworld and Data Communications publications.

Gerry Philpott

E-Poll Market Research

President and Chief Executive Officer
Gerry Philpott formed E-Poll Market Research, in 1997 to enable providers and marketers of media and products to gather intelligent data over the Internet, broadband networks, interactive television, and mobile technologies. He is a senior executive with over 20 years experience in the research, development and distribution of television programming at the network, syndication and local levels. He is one of the early groups of entertainment executives to successfully cross over to new media. E-Poll now serves nine of the top 10 media companies and numerous Fortune 200 companies.

Yoav Tzruya

Exent Technologies

Chief Operating Officer
As the COO of Exent Technologies, Yoav Tzruya has more than 15 years of experience in software development, marketing, in-game advertising and digital distribution of entertainment content. He is responsible for evaluating potential markets for Exent, defining product strategy and roadmaps and bringing Exent's messages and products to the market. Tzruya has spoken at nearly every major industry event including CES, E3 and GlobalComm, and as a frequent speaker, Tzruya is a recognized expert in the field of broadband value-added services, digital distribution of games and in-game advertising.

Jim Kaskade

Eyespot Corp.

Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer

As co-founder of Eyespot, Jim Kaskade serves as the president and CEO. Kaskade brings more than eighteen years of experience of enterprise technology marketing and product development expertise, having created programs for some of the world's recognized leaders including Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Disney, Nike, Merrill and AT&T. Kaskade led these company's vision for editing software as a service, mobile community, and analytics. Kaskade brings a deep understanding of the life-cycle of a startup to Eyespot. Prior to Eyespot, he founded INCEP Technologies Inc., a semiconductor technology company servicing high-performance data-intensive applications, where drove the company from concept to successful sale to a Fortune 500 company.

Dan Rose

Facebook

Vice President, Business Development
Dan Rose is the Vice President of Business Development at Facebook where he leads the team that develops and oversees strategic partnerships for the company. Prior to Facebook, Dan was the Director of Digital Media at Amazon.com responsible for worldwide business development and product management for the company's digital text initiatives, including Search Inside the Book, e-books, digital documents and Amazon Shorts. During his tenure at Amazon.com, Dan was also Director of Category Management for Computers and Wireless. Prior to Amazon.com, Dan developed and managed strategic alliances for a privately-held financial services firm. He began his career as the President of a professional seminar company. Dan earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard University and studied business at the University of Michigan Business School.

Don Loeb

Feedburner

Vice President, Business Development
As Vice President of Partner Services overseeing Strategic Partnerships at FeedBurner, Don Loeb fosters relationships with the largest media companies in the world helping them to leverage the opportunities afforded by syndication. Previously, Don was director of business development for Yahoo!'s Network Products business unit where he helped drive the company's open content syndication and social media efforts. He has also held senior positions at YellowBrix, Inc. and iSyndicate, Inc. where he developed corporate strategy around syndication of audio/video content and assisted with corporate development initiatives and the sale of the company. Don heads up FeedBurner's branch office in San Francisco and, while based on the West Coast, he has often been spotted at opposite ends of the country and world - mysteriously - at the same time.

Brian Gruber

FORA.tv

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Gruber, founder and CEO of FORA.tv, has parlayed his twenty-year experience as a senior marketing executive for major media enterprises to build FORA.tv as the first company to deliver interactive media driven by video content focused on the world's great thinkers, leaders and writers. Recognizing the need to bring people together around the world to engage in discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, Mr. Gruber has brought together key public forum content partners including C-SPAN ; The Cato Institute ; the World Affairs Council ; Americans for an Informed Democracy ; and leading independent bookstores from across America such as San Francisco's Cody's , Books Inc . , Denver's Tattered Cover and Washington D.C.'s Politics & Prose.

Ronald Wheeler

Fox Entertainment Group

Senior Vice President, Content Protection
Ronald Wheeler is Senior Vice President, Content Protection, with Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) in Los Angeles . In this capacity, he supervises the negotiation of content protection technology licenses and the content security-related aspects of digital content licensing deals. and oversees the company's worldwide anti-piracy and copyright litigation activities. He also represents Fox at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and in a number of multi-industry standard-setting efforts, and is closely involved in domestic and international legislative and regulatory issues regarding content protection.

Edward Skolarus

Fox Reality Channel

Vice President, Business and Operations
Edward Skolarus serves as Vice President, Business & Operations for Fox Reality where he oversees business development and emerging media applications for the nearly two-year-old network including broadband, interactive and mobile ventures. He likewise manages Fox Reality's program licensing and content ventures, together with Fox Networks Group support teams. Skolarus serves as Fox Reality's primary representative on all telecast operations and distribution matters. Since joining Fox Reality in January 2006, Skolarus has spearheaded the digital distribution of the networks programming of original series including "Solitary," "American Idol Extra," "My Bare Lady," "Rob and Amber: Against the Odds," "Corkscrewed: The Wrath of Grapes" and "The Academy," along with daily Fox Reality Original "Reality Remix," hosted by Kennedy.

Aaron Barnes

Friendster

Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Aaron oversees domestic and international advertising sales and operations for Friendster, Inc. He is a seasoned industry executive with over 15 year of sales and marketing experience, with a decade in online media. Prior to Friendster, Mr. Barnes served in senior level sales capacities for Quote.com/Lycos Finance, Looksmart and WhenU. At Quote.com, he oversaw sales, marketing, ad operations and business development resulting in revenue growth of over 500% in his tenure. Mr. Barnes' efforts were instrumental in the successful acquisition of Quote.com by Lycos. Most recently at WhenU, he grew the SouthWest region to number #1 in domestic advertising sales and executed streaming video campaigns with ABC brands Desperate Housewives and Commander-In-Chief. At Friendster, Mr. Barnes is using video to meet advertising goals and protect the advertiser brand experience. Currently, Friendster is working with Grouper to develop advertising programs for leading consumer brands in the entertainment, automotive and financial services categories.

Josh Krane

G4 TV

Vice President, Interactive
Josh Krane is Vice President, New Media and Interactive at G4. In his current role, Krane guides the network's interactive strategy, which includes content creation and delivery on multiple platforms including the Web, VOD, mobile, broadband and podcasting. Prior to joining G4, Krane served as the Director of Internet Services for Pseudo Inc., an online television network. During his tenure at Pseudo, he was responsible for completely overhauling the company's content delivery system and Web properties while leading Pseudo's live internet broadcasting initiatives. Krane also conceived and produced a number of shows including "GameTime," a daily talk show and "AGN Hardware," a weekly show about computer trends and hardware.

Kara Welker

Generate

Founding Partner
A leading talent manager, Kara Welker oversees Generate Management's client roster of actors, comedians, writers, producers and directors along with Dave Rath and Jared Hoffman. For the past decade, Welker has been instrumental in shaping the careers of talented individuals influencing popular culture and is recognized for her ability to leverage opportunities afforded by multiple distribution avenues for talent to create and develop their own branded content. In 2006 Welker partnered with established media leaders Pete Aronson, Jordan Levin, Mike Karz and Dave Rath to launch Generate, the first production, talent management and media consultancy company focused on the development of properties for multi-platform distribution.

Mark Pascarella

Gotuit Media

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mark Pascarella is President and CEO of Gotuit Media Corp. As one of Gotuit's founding investors, Mark has been a member of the company's Board of Directors since inception and joined Gotuit full-time in 2001. Under Pascarella's direction, Gotuit has pioneered video search / navigation and has become the leading provider of on demand video products for multiple platforms including: cable, broadband and mobile. Before joining Gotuit Media, Pascarella teamed up with Sidney Topol, the former Chairman and CEO of Scientific-Atlanta (SFA), to found The Topol Group, an early-stage investment firm. In addition to Gotuit, The Topol Group's investments include broadband router manufacturer RiverDelta Networks (Motorola), cable services provider Navic Networks, VoIP switch maker Cedar Point Communications, and the multimedia semiconductor company Lumic, where Pascarella served on the Board of Directors. From 1992 to 1997, Pascarella worked in Business Development at Procter & Gamble.

Josh Felser

Grouper

President
Josh co-founded Grouper in 2004 and serves as its President. Previously, he was President and a co-founder of Spinner.com, acquired by AOL. At AOL, he served as VP and GM of its music brands. His prior career includes Qwest/U.S. West, Fox Inc., and British Sky Broadcasting LTD. He has a BA and MBA from Duke University .

Jeff Oscodar

Handheld Entertainment

Chief Executive Officer
Since 2004, Jeff Oscodar has served as director, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment, a company that specializes in providing great video content for us on both PCs and mobile devices. . Since November 2006, the company has acquired four Web properties (Dorks.com, FunMansion.com, YourDailyMedia.com and Putfile.com) making HandHeld Entertainment one of the largest online video networks in its market. Prior to joining HandHeld, Oscodar helped Raytheon turn many of its defense industry applications into valuable commercial operations though his consulting firm, Rule 168 Advisors.

Michael Grossi

Helio

Vice President, Business Development
As the vice president of business development at Helio, Michael Grossi is responsible for driving strategic relationships with the company's carriers, handset partners and content partners to ensure a differentiated brand experience in the marketplace.  Prior to joining Helio, Michael was a vice president/partner at Adventis, a leading management consultancy to the converging telecom, computing and media industries.  As the company's wireless practice leader for North America, Michael was an early architect of the MVNO movement in the United States , helping develop or advise more than a dozen brand entrants, including several existing MVNOs, such as VirginMobile, Boost and OnStar.

Andrew Wallenstein

Hollywood Reporter

Digital Media & TV Features Editor
Andrew Wallenstein is the digital media and TV features editor of The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles . In addition, he is co-host of the TV Guide Channel weekly series "Square Off" and critic for the National Public Radio program "Day to Day."

Carly Mayberry

Hollywood Reporter

Digital Media Reporter
Carly Mayberry is the digital media reporter for The Hollywood Reporter. Her coverage in the digital space ranges from mobile content and the creation of original programming for the Web to how digital technology has changed the overall entertainment landscape. Prior to her promotion to reporter, Carly worked on the copy desk at The Reporter for two years. Previous to that, she served as a journalist at the Whittier Daily News and for a weekly publication in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Her first job as a reporter was at a weekly paper outside Montana’s
Glacier National Park.

Michael Tezner

ICM

Co-Founder and Senior Business Development
Michael Tenzer is Senior Vice-President and Head of Television Business Affairs for International Creative Management.  In that capacity, he is responsible for the supervision and administration of all aspects of the agency's television and related media business affairs activities.  This includes negotiation of deals for the agency's roster of producer, writer, director, author and actor clients in the areas of network television, international television and digital media content.  Mr. Tenzer's primary area of focus is in the representation of production entities in scripted and non-scripted programming, including such international companies as Japan 's Nippon Television, and Britain 's All 3 Media.

Darren Herman

IGA Worldwide

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
A globally recognized entrepreneur in marketing, media and technology, Darren's successes first started roughly ten years ago when he launched his first start-up focusing on the technology world. Working closely with clients in the advertising, media, entertainment, and technology industries, Herman has handled clients ranging from public to private companies, as well, as global Fortune brands including Viacom, Intel, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, FortuneCity, MyPhotoAlbum, Sony/BMG, MTV, Atlantic Records, Sprint Nextel, Ralston Purina, Subway, Haystack Media, and No-Cal Soda to name a few.

Derrick Oien

Intercasting

Founder and President
Derrick Oien is a seasoned operations executive with an extensive background in entertainment, media and technology. As co-founder and president of Intercasting Corporation, Derrick oversees the company's overall strategic direction, managing product development and negotiating strategic partnerships. Prior to co-founding Intercasting Corporation in March 2004, Oien was President of Vivendi Universal Net USA, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal that operated MP3.com, Rollingstone.com, eMusic, and Trusonic from December 2001 until April 2003.

Shawn Ambwani

Intertrust

Vice President , Business Development
Shawn is a co-founder of Envivio, which was spun off from France Telecom in 1999 to develop MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets. At France Telecom, he conceived and led international teams in the development of Internet services in France and in the US.

Neil Strother

Jupiter Research

Wireless Analyst
As an analyst with JupiterResearch, Neil Strother focuses on mobile marketing and media, providing valuable strategic and tactical guidance to clients engaged in mobile advertising campaigns. His extensive experience in wireless research – both the technological trends and consumer behavior helps these companies target mobile consumers with relevant content and appropriate promotional messages. Strother is quoted often regarding the latest mobile trends and devices in leading industry trade publications and mainstream news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, The Economist, USA Today, BusinessWeek online, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle. Strother joined JupiterResearch in February 2007.

Keith Halper

Kuma Reality Games

Chief Executive Officer
Keith Halper is the Chief Executive Officer of Kuma Reality Games. Keith is a recognized leader in interactive gaming with dozens of industry awards and key successes with many of the world's most significant brands, including Shrek, Jerry Seinfeld, Tom Clancy and Star Trek. Over the past 3 years, Halper has helped lead Kuma Games to the forefront of the new market for Episodic Video Games - rich, 3D, immersive game experiences delivered to PCs and consoles in serialized "episodes" via the Internet. Episodic games are the game industry's analog for broadcast television. Using pioneering methodology and technology, Kuma develops and delivers games with unprecedented speed, making game episodes that can reflect just-released TV shows or films, real world events, or present standalone 'appointment gaming' experiences. These thoroughly unique user experiences present powerful advertiser opportunities with unique audience characteristics.

Jon Healey

Los Angeles Times

Editorial Writer
Jon Healey is a member of the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times, which means he is one of a nameless, faceless group writing screeds that, technically speaking, reflect the views of the publisher. His main contributions to the editorial page are pieces about intellectual property, technology, regulations, energy policy and general business issues. Prior to joining the board, he spent five years as a business reporter at the Times covering the convergence of entertainment and technology.

Joseph Menn

Los Angeles Times

Staff Writer
Joseph Menn wrote the definitive All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster , n amed by Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc. as a best book of the year . Writing for the L.A. Times since 1999, he has covered technology from San Francisco and more recently entertainment from L.A.

Bambi Francisco

MarketWatch.com

Internet Editor

Bambi Francisco , Internet editor for MarketWatch.com, writes the weekly Net Sense column and is an authority on how the Internet is shaping society and culture. A widely sought speaker and commentator on Internet trends, Ms. Francisco joined MarketWatch in 1999 in its New York bureau, covering the Internet and appearing in online video reports. She previously was a television producer at CNNfn.

Erik Smith

Metcafe

Vice President, Content and Programming
Erik Smith is vice president of content and programming at Metacafe. Smith brings considerable experience in emerging media platforms and youth media to the Metacafe executive team, where he is responsible for building new media partnerships and developing an engaging content mix for the Metacafe site. Before joining Metacafe, Smith served as senior director for business development and programming at MobiTV where he was responsible for developing and implementing the programming strategy and business models for MobiTV products on both mobile and broadband platforms.

Eric German

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp

Partner
Eric German, partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, and member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice, has successfully represented content owners in a number of high-profile cases, including anti-piracy litigation against Napster, Grokster and 321 Studios. He has also worked on infringement matters involving major recording artists, and recently secured a dismissal on First Amendment grounds on an action concerning the use of a trademark in a major video game. Eric is passionate about issues arising in the music industry in the face of new technologies. He currently serves on the legal committee of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), and is a member of both the California and New York Bar Associations. He holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University , where he also served as note editor for the Boston University Law Review. He attended Syracuse University as an undergraduate.

Rick Phillips

Microsoft

General Manager, Entertainment and Devices Division, Media and Entertainment Group
In his current position as General Manager of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division's Media and Entertainment Group, Rick is responsible for business development and video licensing for Microsoft's entertainment services, including Xbox Live Video Marketplace.  Rick is based at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters.

DouglasWarshaw

Motionbox

Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer
Mr. Warshaw is the Co-Founder & CMO of Motionbox ( www.motionbox.com ), a personal video sharing, community website in the forefront of the user-generated video revolution. Along with empowering individual users, Motionbox is partnering with major media companies, making it possible for them to leverage their assets to truly combine the power of social networking with the explosive growth of user-generated video on the web today. Be it for television, films, print or online media, Douglas Warshaw has been successfully creating, developing and selling programming over multiple media platforms for over twenty years. During his career, Warshaw has won 4 national Emmy awards and received 12 Emmy nominations for his producing, writing, and directing.

Sean Basser

Movielink

Vice President, Business Development
As the head of Business Development, Sean Besser is responsible for guiding the corporate growth of Movielink, including identifying, expanding and managing all of its strategic partnerships. Sean's current focus is on developing partnerships to boost the demand for legal video content over I/P, add value to Movielink's products, and improve the quality of the Movielink service. Sean brings to Movielink nearly 10 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and related services, including work at TiVo, Fox Sports, NBC, and most recently EchoStar (The DISH Network), where he managed the company's broadband business development activities.

Paul D. Smith

mPulse Media

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Paul D Smith is CEO and founder of mPulse Media. mPulse develops social networking and community software that runs on mobile phones. Recently, mPulse developed a plug-in to other publishers' Mobile Web sites, which allows them to add social networking to their site. This keeps visitors at the site longer and brings them back more often. Founded in 2001, mPulse is privately held and based in San Francisco. Previously, Paul co-founded and then sold bSource Inc. to Computer Associates in 2000. Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune and Forbes adopted the bSource platform. Earlier, Mr. Smith was Director of Technology and Production at Red Sky Interactive, a premier middleware and web design firm owned by Omnicom.

Tina Marie Tyler

MSN Entertainment Journalist

Tina Marie Tyler, President and CEO of Tina Marie Tyler Television & Media, continues to distinguish herself as a visionary television producer and tenacious broadcast reporter. A ten-year television and new media veteran, she has worked for such organizations as ABC News, Fox News, Fox Sports, MSN Entertainment and PBS. Tina Marie has served as a special entertainment correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, EXTRA!, the TV Guide Channel and a significant number of non-domestic outlets. Moreover, Tina Marie has interviewed some of the top entertainment, sports, and political figures of our generation. Her effervescent personality and passion for people exude in every project she accomplishes.

Shane Satterfield

MTV Networks/GameTrailers

Editor in Chief
Shane graduated from Temple University with a degree in journalism after spending several years publishing his own gaming Web site, Street-Level Gaming. Shortly thereafter he joined GameSpot, initially as Magazine Editor. Eventually he was promoted to Features Editor and then Platform Editor for the site. Shane moved into broadcast in 2002 when he became editorial coordinator and segment producer for TechTV's lone game-related show, Extended Play.

George Kliavkoff

NBC Universal

Chief Digital Officer
George Kliavkoff was named as NBC Universal's first Chief Digital Officer in August 2006. Kliavkoff is responsible for furthering the company's digital media strategy and developing new business models and markets. He also oversees the operations of new broadband and wireless efforts, as well as digital innovation and product development, portal and partner relationships, and the Digital Studios, which produces unique, original and interactive content for all digital platforms. Prior to joining NBC Universal, Kliavkoff was with Major League Baseball Advance Media (MLBAM). As Executive Vice President, Business, Kliavkoff was responsible for MLBAM's New Media licensing business and for all business development related to baseball's interactive media unit. His responsibilities included licensing all technology necessary to build and maintain the online and IP-delivered assets of MLB and its 30 baseball clubs. Kliavkoff also oversaw MLBAM's search strategy and its games (console, internet, mobile and fantasy) licensing programs. This past March, he was named as one of Sports Business Journal's "Forty Under 40," a list celebrating the 40 most influential sports executives under the age of 40. Prior to MLBAM, Kliavkoff ran the business development group for RealNetworks' consumer division and was responsible for developing partner relationships and exploiting revenue opportunities related to technology and content licensing. He was among the senior management group that created the company's online media subscription services, including RealOne SuperPass, generating more than a million retained, paying customers. In addition, Kliavkoff's team was responsible for negotiating all deals necessary to build and distribute RealNetworks' various consumer products and services.

Matthew Evans

NBC Universal

Vice President, Digital Media
Matthew Evans was named Vice President, Digital Media and head of NBC Universal Digital Studios in October 2006. He reports directly to George K liavkoff , Chief Digital Officer, NBC Universal. In this role, Evans is responsible for the creation of original, video-based engaging experiences across multiple platforms for major consumer brands and third party distributors, as well as producing cross-platform programming for internal businesses. Evans also manages relationships with NBC Universal's internal sales force and external agencies, as well as creative talent, to generate new digital advertising revenue for the Company.

Leonard Brody

NowPublic

Chief Executive Officer
Leonard is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist and best-selling author. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. Much critical acclaim has followed him in his endeavours. At Onvia Canada (where he was part of the initial executive) the company was voted Canada’s number one startup in 2000 and subsequently closed a $240 Million IPO on NASDAQ. In addition, at Marqui, where Leonard was Chief Advisor, the company was rated as the best new technology company in the country in 2003. Currently, Leonard is Co-Founder and a Director of NowPublic which is one of the pioneers in citizen journalism and quickly becoming one of the largest news agencies in the world with over 40,000 reporters in 135 countries. He is also a Venture Partner at Growthworks Capital, one of Canada’s largest national technology funds, and acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia. He is also a board member and/or advisor to several companies including Sonic Foundry, CanWest Global and Alliance Atlantis. Leonard is currently an advisor to the Canadian Ministry of International Trade and a Director of Canada’s largest technology association, CATA.

Maria Mandel

OgilvyInteractive

Partner, Executive Director of Digital Innovation
Maria is currently Partner, Executive Director of Digital Innovation at OgilvyInteractive. She consults across the Ogilvy group on emerging communication platforms such as broadband, wireless, gaming, digital out-of-home advertising and interactive TV. Prior to joining Ogilvy, Maria was VP - Director of Interactive Services at Draft where she oversaw clients such as Unilever, Jose Cuervo International, AARP/UHG and Johnson & Johnson. She joined Draft after they acquired the interactive group from Lowe Worldwide. At Lowe, Maria was a VP-Account Director and led interactive advertising initiatives for Unilever, Lego, RCN, DirectHit.com, and RCA. Her client-side experience includes brand management at Kraft where she worked on several brands under the Maxwell House portfolio. Previous to her experience at Kraft, she was also the Founder and President and of Market-Strat, a Philadelphia based advertising agency with clients that included AT&T, Dow Jones & Company, Kellogg's USA , and Citibank.

Brad Singer

PaymentOne

Executive Vice President

Brad Singer is Executive Vice President of PaymentOne, a leading online payment solutions provider connecting digital merchants and network operators. Brad leads the company's overall go to market strategy, new product initiatives, business development, client and partnership activities. Brad has over 18 years of business and general management experience in the media, payment and technology markets.

Chase Norlin

Pixsy

Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Norlin has spent the last 15 years in the emerging technologies and media distribution space. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as Senior Business Development Executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK). In this role he focused on publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick Media Ad Network and developed distribution opportunities for other divisions including Search and Comparison Shopping.

Mark Yoshimoto

Podshow L.A.

Director of Content Development

Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is a graduate from Boston's famed Berklee College of Music who went on to work in the studio with Major Label Grammy and Platinum recording acts before hanging his own shingle as a composer for TV, Film and Video Games. Shortly thereafter he was contributing music for the 1994 Winter Olympics on CBS and writing themes for several national cable network shows. In L.A. Mark would go onto running a pair of record labels for composer/recording artist Ben Vaughn while working on hit TV shows like "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "That 70s Show". At this point, Mark began creative writing again, something he hadn't taken seriously since his teens. A few well-honed spec scripts later and Mark was invited to be a member of the elite Warner Bros. Drama Writer's Workshop in Burbank . What would follow would be a number of writing assignments for film and television and suddenly a career as a screenwriter was born.

Quincy "QD3" Jones, III

QD3

Chief Creative Offiicer and Founder
For more than 20 years, QD3, a noted creative visionary, has been producing hits in music and film to celebrate, honor and magnify the hip-hop culture. His career turn into the world of business continues to reflect his forward-thinking ability to turn bling into gold. QD3 has amassed one of the largest independent libraries of Hip Hop content with over 1500 hours of programming, much of it rare, exclusive, and never before seen footage. In June 2006, he formed QD3 Digital, a division of QD3, to take advantage of the technology explosion of broadband video, user generated content, video on demand and mobile platforms. As the creative and driving force, QD3 is building the first urban oriented digital media entertainment company.

Elizabeth Sherman

Revver

Head of Mobile Distribution and Content
Elizabeth Sherman specializes in mobile content at Revver, extending the company's unique viral video sharing business model to the mobile platform. Prior to Revver, Ms. Sherman served as a consultant to Helio, where she was responsible for the mobile video launch strategy for the MVNO joint-venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink launched in May 2006. Ms. Sherman created the programming slate targeting Adults 18-34 in the key influencers category and closed deals with Rocketboom, StupidVideos.com, RipeTV, Comedy Central, Fox, ABC and MTV.

Albhy Galuten

Sony Corporation of America

Vice President, Digital Media Technology Strategy
Albhy Galuten is Vice President of Digital Media Technology Strategy for Sony Corporation of America (SCA). In addition to his technological achievements, Mr. Galuten is a Grammy award-winning record producer, songwriter and arranger. Mr. Galuten joined SCA in March 2005, and is responsible for the Media Technology Group. The Media Technology Group assists with technology strategy and due diligence, research & development, relationships with the content industry and the development of standards.

Donald Wong

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Vice President, Digital Media Initiative
Donald is Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Digital Media
Initiative (DMI). Created four years ago, DMI is charged with the
research, development and deployment of digital media technologies and
infrastructure servicing all SPE lines of business. With production,
marketing and distribution customers across Motion Pictures, Home
Entertainment, Television, Product Fulfillment and Digital groups, DMI is
also responsible for facilitating the repurposing and sharing of digital
assets across the company. Previously, Donald was Vice President of Sony Pictures' internal management consulting group, Change Management. Prior to joining Sony, he was a manager at Deloitte Consulting, and served on General Electric's highly respected Corporate Audit Staff. Donald holds a B.S. In Civil & Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Scott J. Kleper

SpotDJ

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Scott J. Kleper is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of SpotDJ, a social music discovery and information service that adds personality to music by bringing the voice of bands, DJs, and fans to digital music.  Prior to starting SpotDJ, Scott co-wrote Professional C++ (Wiley, 2005) which he adapted for a course at Stanford University . Scott is passionate about building unique Internet applications with compelling user-centered designs and has held leadership positions at several startups, including Bluedog, M-Factor, and Reactivity. Scott holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Ted Moon

Sprint-Nextel

Director of Digital Marketing

Mr. Moon joined Nextel in September 1999 initially to manage all direct marketing efforts of Nextel including direct mail and direct response print. However, it was an experiment with online marketing upon his arrival that launched a new direction and quickly changed his focus. For the last seven years, he has focused exclusively on online marketing, driving leads to various sales channels as well as spearheading the online branding efforts for Sprint Nextel.  Since the merger uniting Sprint with Nextel, Ted has added Media Innovations in addition to his online media responsibilities for the new company, exploring the emerging media world including gaming, viral campaigns, DVR/VOD, digital out of home, as well as original branded entertainment.

Michael Weiss

Streamcast Networks

Chief Executive Officer
Software industry veteran and home video pioneer Michael Weiss has spent three decades on the cutting edge of how, when and where people consume their entertainment. Currently Chief Executive Officer of StreamCast Networks, Inc., in Woodland Hills , California , Mr. Weiss created the company's wildly popular Morpheus peer-to-peer search and file-sharing application, overseeing its explosive growth going from inception to 20 million users within six months. To date, over 170 million copies of Morpheus have been downloaded making it one of the most adopted technology products in history.

Matijn Lopes Cardozo

Tandberg Television

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
As Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at TANDBERG Television, Martijn Lopes Cardozo oversees the Company's strategic partnerships - including ecosystem partners and resellers. He is also responsible for equity transactions and the Company's initial entry into new markets. Mr. Lopes Cardozo is particularly focused on TANDBERG Television's IPTV segment, which provides telecom operators market leading compression, on-demand, and interactive television solutions.

Greg Bauman

Television Week

Editor
Greg Baumann took over as editor at TelevisionWeek in March 2006 after having spent three years as the Los Angeles bureau chief for Bloomberg News. TelevisionWeek, the leading weekly news resource for TV professionals, has aggressively covered changes in the industry, including changing advertising patterns and the emergence of digital media. At Bloomberg, Greg led the
media team after earlier working as a legal editor. Greg came to Bloomberg from Legal Times in Washington, D.C., where he was assistant managing editor.

Ben Wagner

Texas Instruments

Director, Service Provider Strategic Marketing
Ben Wagner oversees worldwide IPTV and home gateway strategic marketing for TI's DSP Systems (DSPS) organization and works closely with European Service Providers to ensure TI develops solutions tailored to the new IPTV applications and services being planned and deployed throughout Europe. He develops worldwide relationships with key service providers, driving long term roadmap directions and investment strategies. Prior to this role, he served as the director of DSL marketing and business development for TI's DSL Business Unit within the company's Broadband Communications Group. Mr. Wagner has more than 24 years of experience in business development, strategic planning and marketing in the telecommunications industry. He has had extensive experience working with early stage and established telecom companies, developing their strategic plans, business models, marketing plans and guiding them through their life cycle. His functional involvements have spanned marketing, corporate and strategic marketing and planning, market development and product line management, corporate alliance and business development. He is a Professional Engineer and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Colin Dixon

The Diffusion Group
Senior Analyst and IPTV Practice Manager
Mr. Dixon brings a wealth of knowledge on the rich media, DTV, and
IPTV spaces to The Diffusion Group. He has held senior executive
positions at Microsoft/WebTV, Liberate and Oracle where he was
responsible for technology and business teams delivering to the Cable,
Satellite and IPTV industries. Over the last 15 years, he has led various
corporate departments including engineering, business development,
product and program management and marketing.
He is focused on enhanced TV applications including Guides, iTV, iAD
and Middleware in the cable, IPTV and satellite industries. He has also
authored the recent report on the evolution of the program guide.

Ian Blaine

thePlatform

Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President Content Publishing,
Comcast Interactive Media
Ian Blaine is a software industry veteran with experience at large software companies as well as successful start-ups. He has a strong background in product development, having spent over nine years at Aldus/Adobe Systems as a senior manager in the publishing division. In addition, he has proven entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded two successful start-up companies. In 1998, Ian founded an online personal information management company, Uniplanet, which he led as CEO from startup to acquisition by NBCi in 1999. In 2000, Ian co-founded thePlatform, and has successfully guided the company through two rounds of financing, and two mergers. He is a director of thePlatform and in addition to managing day-to-day activities; he sets long- term strategy for the company. Ian holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Washington.

Jian Zhao

Thomson

Chief Technical Officer, Thomson Content Security
As CTO of Thomson Content Security, Jian Zhao works with Hollywood studios, digital cinema equipment developers and broadcast entities to clarify their anti-piracy needs and oversees Thomson’s development of technology and business solutions to address them. One of the world’s foremost pioneers in content protection technologies, Zhao invented the first multimedia watermarking solution and combined encryption and watermarking technologies to develop the first system to safeguard broadcast, streaming media and IPTV content. Zhao holds more than 20 U.S. and international patents and has published more than 30 scientific papers on content security, digital rights management, facial recognition and e-commerce.

David Higley

UBS Investment Bank

Managing Director - Global Head of Digital Media
Dave is a Managing Director and Global Head of UBS' Digital Media Group, which includes Interactive Entertainment, Consumer Software and other Consumer Related Technologies. Since joining UBS, he successfully built this group into a leading global franchise - with clients throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Dave has over $20 billion dollars of transaction experience and has worked with many of the leading Interactive Entertainment companies during his career, including: About.com, Activision, aQuantive, Atari, Eidos, Foundation 9, Google, Infogrames, Jamdat, KongZhong, Midway, THQ, Turbine, among others. Prior to investment banking, Dave was an attorney at Thelen Reid & Priest (fna Thelen Marrin Johnson & Bridges), a national law firm based in San Francisco, where he focused on Corporate Finance and M&A. Dave has bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Dave splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Brent Weinstein

United Talent Agency

Head of Digital Media
Brent Weinstein is the Head of the Digital Media Dept. at United Talent Agency, a leading talent and literary agency based in Beverly Hills, CA. Weinstein bridges the gap between agency clients and various forms of new media including games, broadband, and mobile. Weinstein, along with a team of dedicated digital media agents, identifies and evaluates opportunities for the agency's actors, writers, directors, producers, and recording artists, in addition to numerous business-to-business and consumer-oriented technology and corporate clients. Prior to joining UTA in 2001, Weinstein practiced corporate law in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he earned a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, and also the University of San Diego School of Law.

Ben Fritz

Variety

Technology Reporter
Ben Fritz  is the technology reporter for Variety, covering video games, digital media, and other aspects of the convergence of entertainment and tech . Ben is also an editor of the satirical website Dateline Hollywood and co-author of the New York Times best seller "All the President's Spin."

Sean Downey

VeriSign

Global Client Director, News Corp VeriSign Joint Venture
Sean Downey is Global Client Director for the News Corp Verisign Joint Venture. Mr. Downey is responsible for managing all activities in the joint venture and the relationship between News Corp and VeriSign through other solutions. Mr. Downey has worked in the Internet branding market for the past six years. Prior to his current position, he was Vice President of Sales for VeriSign Information Services.

Bill Binford

Verizon Fios TV

Director of Programming
Bill Binford has worked in programming and marketing for two of the most celebrated mid-size cable operators - Bresnan Communications and Insight Communications. He is well respected in programming circles and has served on the board of the New York Chapter of the Cable and Telecommunicatioans Association of Marketers. Two years ago he joined the content acquisition team at Verizon FiOS TV and navigated carriage agreements with all of the major cable networks.

Joe Hurd

VideoEgg

Vice President, Business Development
Joe is currently the VP, Business Development for VideoEgg, Inc.
( www.videoegg.com ), a FirstRound Capital portfolio company that is focused on video sharing, advertising and content distribution for online social networks. At VideoEgg, Joe is responsible for all distribution, product, and revenue-generating deals. In 2006, his team closed 50 partnerships with leading online communities, such as Bebo, Hi5, Tagged, My Yearbook, Piczo and Military.com., increasing VideoEgg's traffic from 3 million to over 15 million daily streams. He is also the Managing Partner of The Katama Group, LLC, where he consults with Web 2.0 consumer-facing internet and mobile content companies on strategy and international business development. Some of his current and past clients include: Tagged (social networking), Jookster (social search), Renkoo (web-based invites) and Mobissimo (travel meta-search). Prior to founding Katama, Joe was VP, Business Development and General Manager, International for Friendster ( www.friendster.com ), a leading social networking web site. At Friendster, Joe grew the company's international revenues from zero to $3 million, added 5 million international users and launched the first mobile SMS/WAP-based social networking application.

Scott Swanson

ViTrue

Vice President of Network and Partner Development
Swanson brings to ViTrue nearly a decade of advertising network experience. He joins the company from Tribal Fusion, the web's third largest ad network, where he served as vice president of network development and was responsible for building the publisher network over the past five years by forming and maintaining partnerships with premium publishers. Swanson was instrumental in the development of the Tribal Fusion network which now reaches more than 109 million US users and 18 billion ad impressions monthly. Previously, he served as manager of publisher development at Engage Media and managed relationships with premium publishers at ad network, Flycast Communications.

Gary Armstrong

Wenner Media LLC.

Chief Marketing Officer
Gary Armstrong is Chief Marketing Officer of Wenner Media LLC and oversees all advertising and marketing efforts for Rolling Stone , Us Weekly and Men's Journal  magazines. In addition, Gary oversees all of Wenner Media's digital operations, including Usmagazine.com, RollingStone.com, Men's Journal.com, mobile initiatives and Usmagazine.com's entertainment channel partnership with Veoh Networks. At Wenner Media since 1999, Gary was on the launch team to convert Us magazine to Us Weekly as Associate Publisher, Marketing. Prior to Wenner, he spent 12 years at Conde Nast Publications in various design and marketing roles at Glamour , Details , Vanity Fair and Mademoiselle . He has been Chief Marketing Officer of Wenner Media since June 2003. A graduate of Marywood University , Gary resides in downtown Manhattan.

Alex Kanakaris

Wi-Fi TV Inc.

Founder and Chairman
Alex Kanakaris has revolutionized the world of television and movie delivery over the Internet. Mr. Kanakaris is the author of " Signs of Intelligent Life on the Internet and the creator of Wi-Fi TV.com which features over 450 live TV stations on many topics, Spanish language stations, Live Chat, the Wi-FiTVPhone, online parties for up to 25 participants, Personal Wi-Fi TV Channels, and a high level of interactivity.

Mike Cassidy

Xfire

CEO
Mike Cassidy has been the Founder and CEO of three star-ups, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Xfire (www.xfire.com) Helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an IM design just for gamers in over 100 countires. Viacom/MTV acquired Xfire for $110 Million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet seach engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 Million. Stylus Innovation's flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice.