Digital Media Summit

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KEYNOTE
	Thomas Gewecke President Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Thomas Gewecke was named President, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution in December 2007. In this position, Gewecke works to extend Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group’s digital strategy and reach across current and emerging platforms. Charged with global responsibility for the strategic growth initiatives around all of WBHEG’s assets, Gewecke guides development and execution of activities in the wireless, online, transactional video-on-demand/pay-per-view and electronic-sell-through sectors. He is also responsible for identifying strategic partnerships and next generation distribution channels to open new revenue streams. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is part of the Studio’s Home Entertainment Group, which brings together all of its businesses involved in the digital delivery of entertainment content to consumers, including home video, online, wireless and games, and is focused on protecting and maximizing the value of the Studio’s content, while fully harnessing the benefits of emerging technologies. Gewecke joined WBDD from Sony BMG Music Entertainment, where as Executive Vice President, Global Digital Business, he was responsible for worldwide digital business development efforts and oversaw the creation of new digital ventures. In addition, Gewecke oversaw the company’s online advertising, digital long-form video and direct-to-consumer commerce businesses, and led its expansion into the US off-deck mobile market.
	Karin Gilford General Manager Yahoo! Entertainment and Lifestyle Yahoo!, Inc. As Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Entertainment, Karin Gilford oversees all programming, content and overall business strategies for Yahoo! Entertainment's consumer Web sites, including Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Television, Yahoo! Games, omg! Since assuming the role of General Manager, Gilford has elevated Yahoo! Entertainment to a number one position by executing against a vision to be the partner of choice with the entertainment industry, while consistently delivering compelling content to a broad and diverse consumer base. Recent successes include a strategic partnership with Hulu, providing consumers with free access to full-length episodes of their favorite TV shows; taking a commanding lead with Yahoo! Movies in providing the highest quality streaming video content and exclusives on the Internet (such as the recent “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” trailer); and the launch of celebrity news and gossip site omg!, which has risen to number one in only six months. By erasing the barriers between categories of entertainment, Yahoo! Entertainment is consumers' starting point for their entertainment interests. It now reaches a larger daily audience than most other forms of media combined. Gilford has a deep understanding of the convergence of entertainment, the Internet and the digital space through her prior role as Director of On-Demand Services for Yahoo! Music. In that position, Gilford was charged with overseeing the strategy and development of digital music services and products to provide Yahoo! consumers the most comprehensive music experience on the Web. Gilford spearheaded the successful launch of the Yahoo! Music Jukebox application. Gilford helped guide the development of Yahoo! Music’s on-demand services across various distribution channels, including digital living room, mobile and access partners.
	Marshall Herskovitz President, Producers Guild of America and Founder of Quarterlife.com Marshall Herskovitz is the co-creator, producer, director and writer of NBC’s new drama series “quarterlife.” First made as an Internet series, "quarterlife" explores the lives of six creative twentysomethings trying to find their way in the world. Herskovitz has enjoyed a distinguished career in the worlds of both film and television. A native of Philadelphia, he attended Brandeis University and then the American Film Institute (AFI), where he and “quarterlife” co-creator Edward Zwick met in 1975 and formed a long and successful creative partnership. Herskovitz started his career as a writer and director for several television series, until he teamed up with Zwick to create the breakthrough television movie “Special Bulletin” in 1983, for which Herskovitz won two Emmys, a Writers Guild Award, and the Humanitas Award. In 1985, Herskovitz and Zwick created The Bedford Falls Company, named for the town in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The company’s first project was the acclaimed television series “thirtysomething,” for which Herskovitz received two more Emmy Awards, two Directors Guild Awards, a Writers Guild Award, a Humanitas award, the Golden Globe Award, the People’s Choice Award, the Peabody Award, and several others. In 1991, Herskovitz directed his first feature film, “Jack the Bear,” starring Danny DeVito, then two years later produced “Legends of the Fall,” starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. The following year Herskovitz and Zwick teamed up to produce the groundbreaking series “My So-Called Life,” starring a then-unknown Claire Danes, followed by “relativity” in 1995. The next year Herskovitz spent six months in Rome, producing and directing the historical epic “Dangerous Beauty.” In 1999, Herskovitz and Zwick created and executive produced the award-winning series “Once and Again” for ABC. During the show’s three year run, he and Zwick produced “Traffic,” winner of two Golden Globe Awards and four Academy Awards, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benicio Del Toro; and “I Am Sam,” starring Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer. In 2003, Herskovitz co-wrote and produced “The Last Samurai,” directed by Zwick and starring Tom Cruise. He and Zwick most recently produced “Blood Diamond,” which Herskovitz also co-wrote. Herskovitz lives with his two daughters in Los Angeles. An active environmentalist, he has served on the board of several organizations committed to preserving America’s precious natural resources. He is currently serving as President of the Producers Guild of America.
	Charlene Li Principal Analyst Forrester Research and co-author of Groundswell Charlene primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Interactive Marketing professional. She is one of the driving forces behind Forrester's Social Computing and Web 2.0 research, and examines how companies can use technologies like blogs, social networking, RSS, tagging, and widgets for marketing purposes. During her eight years at Forrester, Charlene has also led the marketing and media research team, and ran the San Francisco office. In her research, Charlene covers such marketing-related topics as consumer portals, search, and media site design. She also leverages her background in newspaper publishing and looks at online local media and online classifieds. In the past, she has also written about online advertising, online gaming, and media content strategies. She also contributes to her Groundswell blog and plans to publish a book by the same name in spring 2008.
	Chris Stephenson General Manager of Global Marketing Zune, Microsoft Corp. Chris Stephenson, general manager of Global Marketing for the Entertainment Business, joined Microsoft Corp. in March 2006 and helped to launch Zune®, Microsoft's digital music and entertainment brand. His involvement has brought a depth of music experience to Microsoft, and he has applied his extensive knowledge of music and entertainment marketing, international brand development, and artist promotion specifically to Zune and the brand's marketing programs.
SPEAKERS
	York Baur Executive Vice President of Corporate Development Zango York Baur is responsible for developing strategic partnerships among popular Internet content providers and implementing programs intended to increase Zango's distribution base. York's previous experience in sales and marketing include rebuilding the search and directory business at InfoSpace to its position as one of the largest independent search networks, and leading the company's acquisition of Excite. He also spearheaded acquisition strategies, channel development and product management at InterVu and Netpodium. York has played key management roles at Microsoft and held executive positions at Attachmate for more than 10 years, developing technical marketing strategies. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
	Michael Berkley Chief Executive Officer SplashCast Media Michael Berkley is the CEO of SplashCast, a company that is leading an emerging field known as social advertising – strategies and solutions specifically designed to reach users of MySpace, Facebook and other social network sites. Berkley’s pioneering efforts have led to the development of the splashcast, a popular marketing technology used to create online communities of target customers. Today there are more than 300 million splashcasts being supplied with content from some of the biggest brands in the world including Sony Music, Converse, MTV, Universal Music, PBS, Warner Brothers and others.
	Keith Bernstein Chief Executive Officer Royalty Review Council In his current position as President and CEO of Royalty Review Council, Mr. Bernstein has built the company into the leading provider of international compliance audits of Digital Content Providers. Audits have been conducted on behalf of all the major record labels, as well as music publishers, book and game publishers, film studios, and SoundExchange. Originally founded in 1999, Royalty Review Council pioneered the procedures to audit new media distributors, including mobile carriers. Royalty Review Council is also one of the largest independent music royalty accounting and administration firms, providing a turnkey solution for the royalty accounting necessary for the licensed distribution or broadcast of musical works. In addition, the firm provides litigation and consulting services in music, film, and licensing related matters.
	Gerardo Capiel CEO and Founder Gydget Bio coming soon...
	Patrick Cossen Vice president of Marketing VUDU Patrick Cosson is VUDU' s Vice President of Marketing. Patrick is responsible for all aspects of VUDU's marketing execution including product marketing, branding, user experience, consumer education, channel marketing, and public relations. (more...)Prior to joining VUDU, Patrick was Vice President of Marketing at Slim Devices, maker of the Squeezebox and Transporter digital media adapters. In this role, Patrick led continuous sales growth and positive market response to Slim Devices products, culminating in the sale of the company to Logitech in 2006. Prior to Slim Devices, Patrick served as Executive Director of Product Strategy at AOL Music, where he drove product development and branding strategy for Spinner and Winamp music products. Previously, Patrick had a successful tenure at Creative Labs, where he was responsible for marketing communications and internet marketing.Patrick holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
	Brad Duea President Napster As president of Napster, Brad oversees all of the company’s international business endeavors as well as all business development activities worldwide, including the development of Napster’s position in the mobile market. Brad also helps define the strategic direction of the Napster service. Brad has a passion for music and values the Internet’s ability to connect fans with both large and small artists. Brad made the transition into digital music as Vice President of Worldwide Business Development and Worldwide OEM Sales for Roxio, Inc., where he was responsible for all business development efforts for the company, including international expansion, the acquisition and integration of Pressplay, a music subscription joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, and MGI Software, which brought the #1 consumer photo and editing products into Roxio’s digital media portfolio. He has also played an integral role in the development of strategic partnerships, including those with Samsung Electronics, Intel, Best Buy, Gateway and Dell.
	Brian Dunn CEO Brickfish, Inc. As CEO of Brickfish™, Brian Dunn oversees all aspects of strategy, finance, sales, and operations for the company. Dunn previously served as executive vice president, corporate development and chief strategy officer for Macrovision Corporation, the leader in copyright protection for the entertainment and video games industries where he was responsible for corporate strategy, intellectual property, corporate venturing and acquisitions. Dunn was also general manager of Macrovision’s digital cinema and video games businesses.
	Michele Edelman VP of Marketing VOD & PPV Warner Home Video Bio coming soon...
	Matt Fitz-Henry Director, New Media Walt Disney Records Bio coming soon...
	Colin Gillis Internet Equity Research Analyst Canaccord Adams Colin has been in the financial services industry since 2000 and has worked on the sell-side at RBC. Prior, he worked at Ricoh, a multi-national conglomerate based in Japan, where he gained excellent exposure to global business and appeared at multiple public speaking events. Colin also gained experience with Brooktrout Technology, where he designed and coded the first-ever fax-over-IP system and was present for Brooktrout's move from a private to a public company.
	David Hyman Founder and CEO MOG.com David Hyman is the CEO and Founder of MOG (www.MOG.com). Introduced June 2006, MOG is a network of thousands of music blogs powered by industry leading music discovery technology. Prior to MOG, Hyman held various roles (CEO, Executive VP, and Chief Strategy Officer) at Gracenote, the world's largest music database and music identification service. His successes included raising venture capital from Sequoia Ventures and bringing the company from $50,000 in annual booked revenue to over $20 million in four years. He was responsible for all aspects of the business, including the creation and development of Gracenote's formidable consumer electronics business, which is now responsible for approximately 50% of the company's revenue. Hyman played an integral role in the build-out of Gracenote's international business, including the creation of Gracenote Japan KK, and established sales offices in China, Korea, and Europe. Hyman created new businesses for Gracenote including song identification and state-of-the-art playlist management services.
	Anu Kirk General Manager Rhapsody Music Service Real Networks Anu Kirk cannot escape music. First a (bad) drummer, then a (slightly less awful) classical oboe player, he succumbed to rock & roll and synthesizers during his teenage years. After nearly a decade in Los Angeles playing in bands, producing, and dabbling in film and TV scoring, he moved to San Francisco. Anu was among the first employees at pioneering Internet start-up TuneTo.com where the service now known as Rhapsody was conceived. He worked at Liquid Digital media developing many of Wal-Mart’s digital music initiatives. He is currently General Manager of Product at Rhapsody.
	Leslie Kues Senior Director Fast, A Microsoft® Subsidiary At FAST, Ms. Kues works with customers in media and publishing to drive business value through search solutions. She joined FAST with ten years of experience with Gartner and PricewaterhouseCoopers where she delivered consulting engagements in the areas of business and go-to-market strategies, marketing, and technology implementation. She also held an internal strategy position in the CEO’s office at PricewaterhouseCoopers and worked for an analytic software startup focused on online media and content. Ms. Kues received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.
	Jarvis Mak VP, US Director of Research & Insight Media Contacts Jarvis Mak is VP, US Director of Research and Insight, at Media Contacts. Based in San Francisco, Jarvis is responsible for company research as it relates to digital, direct, and relationship-based media, and works with Media Contacts' clients in the US to help guide communication strategy. He also collaborates closely with industry consortia to promote the efficacy of new media.
	Ziv Navoth VP, Marketing and Business Development Bebo Bio Coming soon...
	Chase Norlin CEO Pixsy Bio coming soon.
	Ken Papagan President & Chief Strategy Officer Rentrak Corp. Prior to joining Rentrak in November 2002, Mr. Papagan held the position as president for Delmar Media.Net, a digital media consulting services firm. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Papagan held several positions at iXL Inc., an internet consulting firm, including Global General Manager of the firm’s fastest growing practice groups; Digital Media and Broadband Solutions. Mr. Papagan’s 30-year career in media and entertainment includes having been a founding executive of several television networks including Qube, Nickelodeon, MTV, The Movie Channel, ON TV, The Fashion Channel and The JCPenney Shopping Channel.
	Chris Petrovic Vice President Digital Media Playboy Media Group Petrovic currently serves as Vice President, Digital Media for Playboy Enterprises. In this role, he is responsible for developing, executing and managing digital-focused strategic, business and product development initiatives for the company. In this role, his responsibilities include finding the next generation products and services and developing launch strategies for their successful global execution. This position places him at the leading-edge of new and future ideas and technologies as well as and new-media business models.
	Bill Sanders President Pervasive Media As Vice President, Mobile Programming and Digital Product Development for Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Pictures Television International, Bill developed programming, acquisition, business and production models for the Animax Mobile channel (Sony’s global animé/manga network) from inception through sale and carriage on 22 operators in 15 countries in 8 languages. Sanders developed the first on-demand feature full-length movie channel for mobile with pause-and-resume functionality (for Hutchison 3 Italy in 2005), and oversaw the creation of two 200-clip video packages for Sony/Columbia TV’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not! series (in 6 languages) and the 20-film James Bond library, which introduced a daily subscription model for clips (the mobile equivalent of the original Ripley’s syndicated newspaper comic strip).
	Jamie Shortill Senior Director - Corporate William Morris Agency Jamie Shortill is a Senior Director in the Corporate Division at The William Morris Agency where he focuses on branded entertainment, content strategies and digital initiatives across all platforms within the entertainment sector for WMA's roster of corporate clients. Prior to WMA, Mr. Shortill was a Principal in the Media & Entertainment practice of a publicly-traded management consulting firm engaged in strategy work, business modeling and technology solutions for several of the world's largest media conglomerates. Mr. Shortill holds an MBA from Thunderbird – The American Graduate School of International Management and an Honors B.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
	Andrew Wallenstein Deputy Editor The Hollywood Reporter Andrew Wallenstein is the deputy editor at The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles, where he covers digital media and television. He is also a critic for NPR's nationally syndicated radio program "Day to Day" and former host of the TV Guide Channel series "Square Off." In addition, he has contributed to The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Business Week. He has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
	Lance Ware Chief Technology Officer Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services Lance Ware serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Technicolor’s Electronic Distribution Services group and has over a decade of digital media space experience. As CTO, Ware is responsible for Technicolor’s digital supply chain platform that supports content ingest, hosting, security, delivery, and fulfillment. Prior to joining Technicolor, Ware was the co-founder and CEO of SyncCast, a leading digital media fulfillment company specializing in encoding and transcoding, digital rights management, delivery and distribution, as well as content management services. The technologies and services developed under Ware’s tutelage power solutions for such distinguished companies as Microsoft, Billboard, Warner Music Group, The Motion Picture Association of America, Lionsgate Entertainment, NBC Universal, EMI Music Group, DirecTV and many others. One crowning achievement of Ware’s career is the role that he and SyncCast played in launching Microsoft’s Xbox Video Market Place. Ware brought the end-to-end electronic fulfillment assets of SyncCast to bear what enabled Microsoft Xbox to successfully capture the second highest market share in the video download space - within a matter of months. The success of this accomplishment caught the attention of Technicolor which fully acquired SyncCast in July of 2007 and appointed Ware as CTO.
	Hamet Watt Founder & Chairman NextMedium Hamet A. Watt is the Founder and Chairman of NextMedium, Inc., developer of the first turn-key platform to buy, sell and measure brand integration in entertainment content. NextMedium is working closely with the industry to establish brand integration as a new standardized ad unit – to help advertisers connect with increasingly harder-to-reach audiences in a TiVo-enabled environment, while helping entertainment companies generate new revenue and offset rising production costs. NextMedium has partnered with Nielsen Media Research to develop analytics that help the industry measure the effectiveness and value of brand integration. An authority on advertising innovation, Watt is frequently asked to educate media companies on the changing entertainment landscape and the need for new approaches to revenue generation. He is also regularly a part of the public discussion on new advertising media, and has been quoted in Fortune Magazine, USA Today, Red Herring, Business 2.0, Advertising Age, AdWeek, MediaWeek, Television Week, Hollywood Reporter and Variety, among others. Prior to NextMedium, Watt was a general partner and vice president of business development at an international private equity investment firm managing capital in excess of $120 million.
	Henry Wong CEO and Founder Zipidee As Chief Zipidee Officer, Henry manages the executive team and oversees the execution of Zipidee’s strategic vision and direction. He has experience building and exiting companies as a legal advisor, operations executive, and principal investor. As a Partner with Novus Ventures and Artemis Ventures, Henry helped build and raise over $200 million in corporate and venture financing for companies. He also serves on the Board of Directors for AdECN, Inc. (NASDQ: MSFT), the world's first exchange marketplace for online display advertising. Previously, he was a co-Founder of WeWin.com, a video sharing website. Henry holds a J.D. and MBA from American University in Washington, D.C.