SPEAKERS

Tiffany Shlain, CEO, The Moxie Institute and Founder of the Webby Awards

Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Her films have been selected at over 100 film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam, have won over 22 awards including Audience and Grand Jury Prizes. Shlain's films include "Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness," about reproductive rights and "The Tribe," about American Jewish identity, which became the first documentary to become the #1 downloaded short film on iTunes. As a director for both theater and film, she has worked with Peter Coyote, Harrison Ford, and Alan Cumming and was recently an Artist-in-Residence at the Headland Center for the Arts. Shlain's films and discussion programs have been used in many diverse settings to spark a dialogues about social issues. She has been singled out by The New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Sundance for her cutting-edge work using documentaries and internet distribution in unique ways to engage audiences. Shlain lectures worldwide on filmmaking and the Internet's influence on society. She founded The Webby Awards in 1996 and was creative director and CEO for nearly a decade transforming it into a global organization honoring the best of the Internet. She co-founded The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, today a 550-person organization and served as the on-air Internet expert for Good Morning America.

Shlain is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and the director of The Moxie Institute, an organization that creates films, books, discussion programs and theater experiences around social issues using emerging technologies. She has received 30 awards and distinctions for her career and her work has been profiled on ABC, MTV, CNN and NPR and in all major media publications. She is now working on a new feature-length documentary, "Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence."

www.tiffanyshlain.com

Speakers include the following:



Jeff Allen,

CEO, RallyPoint Systems


Jim Baldwin,

Product Unit Manager , Microsoft TV Division


Rich Begert,

President and CEO, SinglePoint


Mitchell Berman,

CEO, ZillionTV


Bryan Biniak,

CEO, Jacked


Jonathan Boltax,

Senior Director, ITV, Programming, Oberon Media


Jeff Bonin,

VP and General Manager, Alticast


Brian Bos,

SVP, Convergence Director, Mindshare - Team Detroit


Bill Bradford,

SVP Content Strategy, Fox Broadcasting


Richard Bullwinkle,

Chief Evangelist, Macrovision


Sean Bunner,

Operating VP, Advanced Services, HSN


Paula Byrne,

Managing Director, Pushbutton


Laurent Chemla,

CEO, Ivy.TV


Christopher Curtin,

Vice President, Global New Media, Disney Parks & Resorts


Sanjay Desai,

Vice President, Product Marketing, Brightcove


Donald P. Dulchinos,

SVP, Advanced Platforms and Services, CableLabs®


Matthew Emans,

VP of Product Management, Navic TV


Peter M. Fannon,

VP, Technology Policy, Government & Regulation Panasonic


Jay Fehnel,

VP, TMS Entertainment Products


Hans Fischmann,

General Manager, Charter Advanced Media


Meredith Flynn-Ripley,

CEO, Integra5


Joe Franzetta,

EVP and General Manager, Broadband, Tandberg Television


Jason George,

Chairman, Telescope


Robert Gonsalves,

SVP and General Manager, Advanced Media Group, ICTV


Morgan Guenther,

CEO and Chairman of the Board, AirPlay


John Ham,

Founder, Ustream.TV


Max Haot,

CEO, Mogulus


Todd Holmes,

President, CEO, Liquidus


David Housman,

VP Strategic Initiatives, Vidiom Systems


Lisa Hsia,

SVP, New Media, Bravo


Ed Humphrey,

President, Softel-USA


Shaun Illingworth

- VP Business Development, Americas


Matt Johnston,

CEO, Zodigo


James Joyce,

EVP, Business Development, 2waytraffic


Chris Kollas,

VP, Wetpaint


Kshitij Kumar,

CEO and Founder, TellyTopia


Erez Lahav,

VP Business Development & Marketing, PUFF TV


Dominic Laval,

Director of Emerging Markets, emuse technologies


John Lindquist,

John Lindquist, Software Developer, Schematic


Jim Louderback

CEO, Revision3


Sharon Mandell,

SVP and CTO, BlackArrow


Babak Maghfourian,

CEO, VideoClix


Gary Marenzi,

Co-President Worldwide Television, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.


Simon McGrath,

CMO, SeaChange International


Jodie McAfee,

SVP, The Band


Jeff Miller,

CEO, ICTV


Negar Moshiri,

Vice President of User Experience and Application Design, Hillcrest Labs


Robert Murdock,

VP of Design, Method


Ashwin Navin,

Co-Founder and President of BitTorrent


Bill Niemeyer,

Chief of Analysis and Research, BlackArrow


Nate Pagel,

CEO, Podaddies


Sam Pemberton,

CEO, The Softel Group


David Preisman,

VP, Interactive Television, Showtime Networks


Dewey Reid,

Founder and Creative Director, Eat.TV


Jeff Richards

VeriSign Bio


Robert Riopelle,

Co-Founder & VP, Business Development, LiveHive Systems Inc.


John P. Roberts,

Steven F. Roberts,

SVP, New Media and Business Development, DIRECTV


Brian Rogers

is the Founder and CEO, evenhere, Inc.


Steve Rosenbaum,

Founder and CEO, Magnify.net


Scott Rosenberg,

VP, Product Management, Cross-Platform Advertising, Gemstar-TV Guide


George H. Ruiz,

SVP of Business Affiars and Co-Head of the New Media Group, International Creative Managament (ICM)


Gary Schanman,

VP, Advertising and Interactive Commerce Product Development, Comcast


Lori Schwartz,

SVP, Director of The Interpublic Emerging Media Lab


Bill Sheppard,

EVP & General Manager, Product Development, Gemstar-TV Guide


Steve Shannon,

Chief Digital Media Officer, Client Software Group, Sun Microsystems.


Phil Simpson,

Director of On Demand Solutions, SeaChange International, Inc.


Tiffany Shlain,

CEO, The Moxie Institute and Founder of the Webby Awards


Seth Shostak,

Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute


Gary Sohmers,

CEO, Interactive Meet And Greet Entertainment LLC


Andrew Solmssen,

EVP, Schematic


Stuart Spiegel,

SVP Merchandising, Delivery Agent


Stuart Spiegel,

SVP Merchandising, Delivery Agent


Suzanne Stefanac,

Director of the AFI Digital Content Lab


Martin J. Stein,

Senior Director, Marketing IP Video Solutions, Home and Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.


Doug Sylvester,

COO, TVN Entertainment


Allan C. Thygesen,

Managing Director, The Carlyle Group


Stephen Trainor,

VP, Strategy, Content Markets Group, Level3


Steve Tranter,

VP, Interactive and Broadband, NDS Americas


Dr. Ofer Weintraub,

CTO, Orca Interactive


Richard Yen

Principal, Blueprint Ventures


Chris Yewdall

President and CEO, DDD Group plc


Anthony Yi,

VP Business Development, Narrowstep


Evan Young,

Director of Broadband Services, TiVo Inc.


Rachelle Zoffer,

Director, Interactive TV, Verizon FiOS TV