Platinum Sponsors
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
508.435.1000
www.emc.com
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage. We are a trusted provider of information infrastructure, helping organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the ten most-valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what's right and on putting our customers' best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. We say what we mean and do what we say. We are EMC, where information lives.
Sandisk Corporation
601 McCarthy Boulevard
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-801-1000
www.sandisk.com
Founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari, an internationally recognized authority on non-volatile memory technology, SanDisk has grown to become the world's largest supplier of innovative flash memory data storage products.
Serving both consumers (with more than 200,000 retail storefronts worldwide) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products for a wide variety of electronic systems and digital devices. SanDisk also licenses its technology to a number of other industry-leading companies.
Mobile DTV Alliance
2400 Camino Ramon, Suite 375
San Ramon , CA 94583
925.275.6635
www.mdtvalliance.org
The Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium that focuses on promoting the best practices and open standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television to mobile TV devices in North America. The alliance includes leading companies from across the mobile business system and entertainment value chain.
The Alliance is based on the cooperative and collaborative efforts of its members to help drive and promote the adoption of Mobile TV technology via DVB-H and to bring the mobile satellite TV consumer experience into the U.S. market. Its mission is to promote an open value chain offering the market more than one mobile DTV alternative.
Gold Sponsors
Vignette Corporation
1301 South MoPac Expressway
Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746
512.741.4300
www.vignette.com
For many enterprise organizations, the Web is the first and most important point of contact with customers and prospects. Vignette helps these organizations improve customer interactions by delivering highly personalized, participatory online experiences. Our Next-Generation Web solutions help Global 1000 organizations win and retain customers and grow revenue by delivering custom content anytime, anywhere, to any Internet-enabled device. Government agencies worldwide look to Vignette to increase efficiency and more effectively connect and interact with their constituents. Our Imaging and Workflow solutions enable organizations to digitize physical documents and manage and deliver that content to multiple online channels.
For more than ten years, we have played an integral role in the evolution of the Internet. Once a passive, search-and-consume platform, the Web is now a vibrant, collaborative and contribution-rich medium. Our early content management and delivery tools laid the groundwork for some of the Web’s most popular sites. Today, our award-winning solutions power some of the world’s most powerful online brands and enable organizations to have more meaningful interactions with their customers.
Vignette is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with operations worldwide.
Silver Sponsors
NeuStar Inc.
46000 Center Oak Plaza
Sterling, VA 20166
571.434.5400
www.neustar.biz
Founded to meet the new technical and operational challenges of the communications industry when the U.S. government mandated local number portability in 1996, NeuStar has evolved to create customer-responsive technologies that deliver a broad range of essential clearinghouse capabilities for service providers. Our clearinghouse enables delivery of traditional services more efficiently and deployment of new services more rapidly than ever before.
Today, NeuStar is an essential component of the operations of service providers globally. No matter what segment of communications you're in, we can help your company significantly reduce costs, speed up time to market for new services and grow your business in lasting ways.
Bronze Sponsors
Bango Inc.
303 Twin Dolphin Drive
6th Floor
Redwood City, CA 94065
650.632.4414
www.bango.com
Bango enables companies to market, sell and deliver their digital content and services directly to mobile phone users across all networks using the mobile web. This "direct-to-consumer" approach operates alongside the mobile operator’s mobile portal.
One-time integration with Bango enables you to sell mobile content and services directly to hundreds of millions of consumers across the world. With Bango’s browse-and-buy technology, you build a direct, interactive relationship with your consumers. We give you the tools to promote your content, give them the best user experience and maximize your revenue.
MyThum
355 King St. West
Suite 400 I Toronto, ON, M5V 1J6
416.848.4115
www.mythum.com
MyThum Interactive is a leading mobile media company, helping brands and media companies to build a direct relationship with consumers through their mobile phone. MyThum powers mobile strategies using a comprehensive toolkit that includes text messaging, interactive television (ITV), rich content, interactive voice response (IVR) and promotion through out-of-home digital media. MyThum’s partners include leading brands such as Molson, Best Buy, Nike, Warner Music, Nokia, Universal Music and Shoppers Drug Mart, as well as media companies such as CHUM Limited, CanWest Global Communications, Rogers Media, Corus Entertainment and Standard Broadcasting. MyThum is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada.
Coding Technologies USA, Inc.
539 Bryant Street Suite 306
San Francisco, CA 94107
888.289.4405
www.codingtechnologies.com
Coding Technologies is the industry's leading provider of audio compression technologies for the mobile, digital broadcasting and Internet markets worldwide. We license our SBR technology and SBR-enhanced codecs to product developers worldwide.
We are a group of exceptionally skilled audio and software engineers who fully understand the product needs of today's professional multimedia market. We combine the freedom of the creative spirit and imagination of our research unit with the disciplined management skills necessary for the development of professional software. We are fully committed both to the pursuit of excellence in the field of audio technology and to the philosophy that a company culture based on mutual respect and harmony is a firm foundation for a successful future.
Idean Enterprises, Inc.
Tekniikantie 12,
FI-02150 Espoo,
FINLAND
Phone +358 (0)9 2517 3462
www.idean.com
We used to be known as Idean Research and Idean Creative. We decided to make the sum more than it’s parts and combine to create something fantastic. Now we are Idean, the catalyst for Next Big Things.
We combine user and market research, innovation and design into a single seamless flow that creates desirable User Experiences. Headquartered in Finland, our team of 50+ individual professionals work with the leading companies operating in the digital domain. Our home is where digital products, services, media and interactions meet people - your customers.
We have been around since 1995, doing what we believe in. And we are switching to higher gear.
OpenBit
Hatanpään valtatie 24
33100 Tampere
Finland
+358 3 212 2894
www.openbit.com
OpenBit (a Finnish company) provide solutions that seamlessly integrate on-device payment and digital rights management for mobile applications. Openbit License Manager integrates seamlessly on-device payment and DRM (digital rights management) for mobile applications. Today our multi-platform solution covers Symbian, Windows Mobile and MIPD Java environment, and the client has been licensed to be embedded in millions of smart mobile handsets on monthly basis. Openbit can offer subscriber charging in nearly 90 operator networks and thru all major credit cards worldwide.
Blue Frog Media
520 Pike Street, 24th Floor
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-652-4481
www.bluefrogmedia.com
Blue Frog Media is the leading creator and distributor of promotionally driven TXTV channels and broadcast overlay services. BFM integrates music centric programming with prizing and highly innovative text-to-screen promotions, to create enhanced revenue opportunities for broadcasters and cable programmers alike. The company boasts an exciting portfolio of niche oriented TXTV channels, including, NOYZ™, Bulla™, NOYZ Country™ and UR NOYZ™; as well as Impulse, BFM’s recently introduced overlay service. Broadcasters that air BFM’s channels or utilize our overlay service with existing programs can instantly create new revenue steams and attract the coveted younger tech/text savvy viewers that advertisers covet.
Hands-On Mobile, Inc.
580 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 848 0400
www.HandsOn.com
Hands-On Mobile is a leading global publisher of mobile games, lifestyle applications, and personalization products targeting all market segments. With operations in four continents, Hands-On Mobile develops, publishes and distributes mobile content to more than 180 of the world's leading operators in 60 countries. Hands-On Mobile provides operators and their customers with the world's best entertainment brands and applications and provides brand owners with the shortest route to market. The Hands-On Mobile content catalogue is diverse, including top brands like Activision, Billboard, CBS, LEGO, NBA, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, and World Poker Tour.
mBlox
485 East Evelyn Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94086
408.617.3700
www.mblox.com
mBlox is the world's largest mobile transaction network . We are in the business of connecting companies with customers. The mBlox network enables businesses to deliver mobile services and content around the world and bill for them. We maintain connections to more than 500 mobile operators in 180 countries through our carrier-grade network. mBlox maintains a unique position in the mobile industry as the only company to focus its resources on the commercial and technical complexities of mobile billing and message delivery.
NDS
1 Heathrow Boulevard
286 Bath Road
West Drayton
Middlesex UB7 0DQ
UK
+44 (0)20 8476 8000
www.nds.com
NDS enables broadcasters, network TV operators and content providers to profit from the deployment of digital TV technologies including innovative solutions for digital video recorders, interactivity, secure broadband, home networks, and content on the go. Around the world, NDS VideoGuard® conditional access systems secure service revenues of approximately $32 billion, and are in use in over 72 million digital boxes. Headquartered in the UK, with offices worldwide, NDS employs over 3,400 people and continues to make a major commitment to R&D, with over 2,900 employees dedicated to pioneering development work at centers in Israel, France, Denmark, Korea, China, India, and the UK. NDS ('NNDS') is traded on the NASDAQ and Euronext Brussels stock exchanges. Its largest shareholder is News Corporation, the global media and entertainment company.
NeoMedia Technologies
www.neom.com
NeoMedia® Technologies, Inc. is the global leader in camera initiated transactions for mobile devices. From RFID and optically initiated wireless transactions to the digital processing of mobile financial and routing transactions, NeoMedia provides a robust high-performance infrastructure for the processing of universal optical codes. NeoMedia extends their mobile solutions with award winning mobile access technology developed by Gavitec AG- mobile digit, located in Germany. As a leader in development and distribution of mobile scanners and software, these access products offer client standardization or individual solutions for mobile marketing, couponing, ticketing and payment systems.
Exhibit Sponsor
mPulse Media LLC
160 Central Park South #3601
New York, NY 10019
800.510.4524
www.mpulsemedia.com
mPulse media LLC develops marketing programs and media content that run on mobile phones. Founded in 2001, mPulse is privately held and based in San Francisco. But it's the team that makes mPulse so unique.
Maysalward R&D (MRD)
Amman- Hasheminate Kingdom of Jordan .
Maysalward P.O.Box 941427
Phone No. : +962 6 5695525
www.maysalward.com
Founded in 2003, Maysalward is a Middle East-based mobile media and software company Headquarter in Amman Jordan. With a professional attention to detail, design, and user-friendliness, MRD develops cutting-edge games and applications for some of the leading companies in the entertainment and telecom industries. Additionally, MRD develops its own series of successful mobile games, which are enjoyed by thousands of players in the world. MRD developed many of region success titles such as Trix Multiplayer, Tarneeb, Balot and other interactive mobile games that marked the industry since 2003 in Middle East, Europe Australia and Mexico.
iclipx Television
www.iclipx.com
iClipx professionally produces live user generated content for distribution over a broad range of new media outlets, Live Webcast, VOD, Cell Phone and Video to iPod “Podcast”. Clipx was created in Jan. 06 by award winning extreme sports director and producer Skip Fredricks. Skip has been a video podcasting and mobile media pioneer since 2000 creating short form video for the Pocket PC platform. He has produced extreme sports programming and live events for Google, FOX, HBO, and Universal Pictures. His internationally syndicated programming can be seen in over 36 countries worldwide. iClipx is currently partnered with ShowBusiness.com.
Ontario Investment and Trade Services
161 Bay Street, BCE Place
Suite 4040, Canada Trust Tower
P.O. Box 706
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5J 2S1
1.800.819.8701
www.investandtradeontario.com
Ontario’s Investment and Trade Division is a powerful resource that can help companies grow – both locally and internationally. That means we connect businesses in Ontario and throughout the world with the people, products and ideas that make Ontario “Canada’s Economic Powerhouse”.
Contributing Sponsor
BMI
320 West 57th Street
New York , NY 10019-3790
212.586.2000
www.bmi.com
BMI is a performing rights organization: It licenses and collects public performing rights fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those BMI members whose works have been performed. As a performing rights organization, BMI issues licenses to various users of music, including television, cable, radio stations and networks; new media, including the Internet and mobile technologies such as ringtones and ringbacks; satellite audio services like XM and Sirius; nightclubs, discos, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues; digital jukeboxes; and live concerts. It then tracks public performances of its members' music, and collects and distributes licensing revenues for those performances as royalties to the more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers it represents, as well as the thousands of creators from around the world who have chosen BMI for representation in the U.S. BMI currently represents some 6.5 million compositions — a number that is constantly growing. As a result, BMI has, over the years, sought out and implemented a number of technological innovations in its continuing effort to gather the most accurate information available about where, when and how its members' compositions are used, as well as ensuring that payment to those whose works have been performed is made in as precise and timely a manner as possible.
Greystripe, Inc.
150 Executive Park Blvd., Suite 2300
San Francisco, CA 94134
415.651.2650
www.greystripe.com
Greystripe operates the world's first mobile in-game advertising network in association with our best of breed, ad-supported mobile distribution platform. Greystripe's vision is to make downloading the best mobile games in the world easy and free for consumers and enhance their mobile experience with enjoyable interactions with brands and sponsors. Greystripe's flagship product, the AdWRAP system, is protected by a broad array of patents pending. Currently we serve ads into more than 800 game titles from over 70 publishers, while supporting over 1,000 handset models. Greystripe reaches millions of mobile game players through its online portal GameJump.com, through the mobile Web at wap.gamejump.com and through its AdWRAP Catalog Program.
3430 West Bayshore Road,
Suite 201 Palo Alto,
CA 94303, USA.
Phone: 1.650.352.1322
www.multiven.com
Multiven provides premium multivendor IP network services that maximize network infrastructure investments for businesses of all sizes. Our customers enjoy vendor-neutral Trusted-Advisor consultations, increased network availability and a reduced network maintenance and capital expenditure.
Multiven Global Services provides a complete portfolio of services tailored to your unique business and networking needs -today and in the future. We work closely with you to help your company plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize an adaptive IP network system that lets you effectively respond to changes in your business.
Supporting Sponsor
BASSETT Executive Search Solutions
Manhattan Beach, CA
310.984.6810
www.bassettsearch.com
BASSETT Executive Search Solutions is a retained executive search firm serving emerging growth companies in new media, entertainment, technology and consumer industries. Our search experience includes: Chief Executive Management, Senior Level Marketing, Sales, Operations, Human Resources, Technical, Financial and Professional Services leaders. “CONVERGENCE” EXPERTS… When start-up companies create brand new industries/markets by merging two or more disciplines; we help them bring in unique talent with multi-industry/disciplinary experience who will best serve the business goals.
EMERGING-GROWTH CONSULTANTS… Often clients aren’t sure exactly which position to create/hire first, so we help them identify unique profiles and career paths, recommend multi-industry target companies, and develop strategic hiring plans that will ensure the talent pool fits the company’s growth stage and business objectives.
Media Sponsors
ABI Research
501 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10018
516.624.2500
www.abiresearch.com
ABI Research was founded in 1990 to assist manufacturers of wireless semiconductor components in understanding and entering new markets. As tech-driven emerging markets proliferated during the 90's, ABI Research expanded its analytical coverage to a broader base of manufacturers and service companies participating in the technology market revolution. ABI Research is committed to reinvestment in research infrastructure, enhancing knowledge sharing and speeding the flow of information between our research teams and the industries we cover.
Business Wire
44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415.986.4422
888.381.WIRE (9473)
www.businesswire.com
Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals. In fact, Business Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around the globe.
Ipsos
111 North Canal Street, Suite 405
Chicago, IL 60606
415.986.4422
312.665.0600
www.ipsosinsight.com
Founded in 1975, Ipsos is the only independent, publicly-listed company in its field that is managed by research professionals. We have grown beyond our French roots, and achieved continuous improvement, through organic growth and an aggressive strategy of acquiring companies who share our worldview of inquiry and multiple points-ofview. Since 1990, we have created or acquired more than 40 companies worldwide. This growth has been built with both internal and external funding, including the stock market. Ipsos debuted on the Paris Stock Exchange on July 1, 1999. In 2003, Ipsos Group revenues reached $570 million.
MPEG Industry Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
510.492.4028
www.mpegif.com
The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users." The activities of MPEGIF generally start where MPEG stops. This includes issues that MPEG cannot deal with, e.g. because of ISO rules, such as clearance of patents.
Rogers & Cowan
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310.854.8124
www.rogersandcowan.com
Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty practice, has been meeting the public relations needs of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer technologies and lifestyles, and related programming, hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides public relations and strategic marketing counsel services to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums and Mobile Entertainment Forums.
Storage Visions
www.storagevisions.com
The pre-CES 2008 Storage Visions Conference brings together technologists, vendors, retailers and users to explore the pod-, web-, life-casting consumer revolution and how you will preserve, protect, and search your life on Digital Storage. Conference sessions explore key storage technologies, privacy protection, home and mobile storage, next generation user needs and business opportunities.
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Keynote Salil Dalvi General Manager, Wireless NBC Universal |
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Keynote Jeff Danley GM, Streaming Multimedia & Mobile TV Sprint |
| Keynote R.J. Taylor Strategist ExactTarget |
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| Keynote Donald Wong Vice President, CTO, Rich Digital Media EMC |
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Michael Arrieta Senior Vice President Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing |
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Michael Bates CEO IQzone |
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Bob Bilbruck VP, Mobile Strategy US Modular |
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Todd Board Senior Vice President Ipsos Insight Technology & Communications |
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Anthony Borquez VP, Online & Mobile Business Development Konami |
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Jon Michael Bukosky Managing Partner BFD.media.group |
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Michael Carter President & CEO MyThum Interactive |
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Erica Chriss VP of Strategy and Business Development Greystripe |
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Terrence Coles Digital Advertising Competency Co-Lead EMC |
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Kyle Crawford Director, Mobile Products NeuStar Inc. |
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Brent Friedman Creator, Writer, Producer Afterworld |
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Avi Greengart Principal Analyst, Mobile Devices Current Analysis |
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Mikko-Pekka Hanski iDean |
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Hans Hanspal EMC |
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William J. Hoffman CEO NeoMedia Technologies |
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Ryan Hughes Vice President of Digital Media Verizon |
Roy Isacowitz Marketing Director, IP and Mobile TV NDS |
Debra Kaufman Editor Mobi-lize |
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Dr. Muzibul Khan VP, Product Management, Engineering Samsung |
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Peter Laurin VP Multimedia, System Integration and Hosting Ericsson |
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Michele Law Principal Greylock |
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Tom Lee Senior Manager, New Product Development U.S. Cellular |
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Arto Lehtonen CEO OpenBit |
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Steve Livingston Chief Marketing Officer mBlox |
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Maarten Noyons Managing Director IMGA |
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Mikko-Pekka Hanski iDean |
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Conleth O'Connell CTO Vignette Corporation |
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Jeff Oscodar CEO Handheld Entertainment |
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Chris Petrovic Vice President, Digital Media Playboy |
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Alexander Pigeon VP, International MLB Advanced Media, LP |
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Gerard Power Sr Director Strategic Marketing Alcatel-Lucent USA |
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Mark Renshaw Digital Strategist Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide |
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Tammy Robinson Manager, Games Verizon Wireless |
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Michael Romero Director, Global Retail Marketing Sandisk |
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John Rosso SVP Citadel Interactive |
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Bill Sanders VP Mobile Networks Sony Pictures Television International |
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Paul Scanlan President, Co-Founder MobiTV |
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Victor Siegel CEO & President Blue Frog |
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Rick Sizemore Co-Founder, Chief Strategy & Development Officer MultiMedia Intelligence |
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Paul D. Smith CEO and Founder mPulse Media |
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Rolf Schmitz VP Business Development - Mobile, PC Internet Coding Technologies |
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Angela Steele Director Starcom USA |
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Jeffrey L. Straughn Vice President, Strategic Marketing Island, Def Jam |
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Neil Strother Analyst JupiterResearch |
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Michael Temkin CTO & SVP Product Development Hands-On Mobile |
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Daniel Tibbets Studio Chief GoTV Networks |
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Daren Tsui Chief Executive Officer mSpot |
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Paul Whitaker Games Manager, North America Nokia |
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