Presenting Companies


ZING's platform of software and services enables the next generation of mobile entertainment to be always connected and ready to play. By partnering with leading brands, ZING is mobilizing digital media devices that combine live, always-on wireless and digital streams with integrated playback and playlist management. Once you’ve experienced always-on-connectivity, the way you listen, manage, and play music and entertainment will never be the same.

Billing Revolution enables merchants to quickly and easily conduct low-cost direct to consumer (D2C) mobile transactions. Billing Revolution's mobile commerce platform provides all the tools necessary for merchants to conduct credit card transactions directly with mobile customers; providing substantial savings over mobile operator systems, complete ownership of the mobile customer and quick payouts.

Microsite Mobile is an innovator in mobile computing and strives to put the power of computing in people’s hands so they can access and share their most important information. The company’s products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Microsite Mobile SMP3™ Mobile Technology smart multimedia phones with Integrated Mobile Video Conference Technology, Scientific Expandable handheld computers and PDA's as well as software, for mobile device management.

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YouMail is a free cell phone voicemail that provides a new, highly personalized voicemail experience. Users can express themselves with a different greeting for different callers, choose whether to access their voicemail by phone or online, and control who can leave them voicemails.

MovieSet™ brings behind-the-scenes movie-making to the web. Fans can track the filmmaking process daily from green-light to delivery - live, from set - increasing loyalty, community and market intelligence. Fans may purchase film-related products, including prop auctions, product placement, swag, digital and mobile downloads. Producers get an easy to use tool-kit for efficient integration of online marketing with the actual production process. Designed by film-makers, MovieSet™ provides the key to targeting and building core audiences. Advertisers gain a new premium destination for reaching each film’s targeted demographic with superior data analytics and brand loyalty. MovieSet™ is emblematic of the new breed of content aggregators.

GoTV Networks (www.4gotv.com) is the first and largest made-for-mobile television network. GoTV’s team of Emmy® award-winning producers and mobile technology experts produce a wide array of digital and licensed on-demand programming that connects consumers to what interests them the most. GoTV’s channel offerings include music: Hip Hop Official and Altitude; sports: Fantasy Sports Edge and College All Access; and GoTV Superchannel, which combines a variety of news, entertainment and comedy. GoTV programming is accessible on a broad range of wireless devices via monthly subscription through the new AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Helio, and Boost Mobile.

Endtone is a mobile content technology company and licenses unique products to wireless carriers, aggregators, device manufacturers and content owners. Endtone’s patent pending “disconnect tones” transform the end of calls into multimedia, entertaining and public events. Similar in many ways to popular ringtones, disconnect tones are heard and seen when wireless users end calls or when calls are accidentally dropped. For about the same price as ringtones, music, voice, sound and video disconnect tones enhance the once mundane act of ending calls, provide users with unique handset personalization options and minimize the disruptive nature of dropped calls. For additional information please contact Brock Muir (brock.muir@endtone.com – 202.498.9222)

IP Network Systems offers a wide variety of digital media related services. Among these services are several packaged solutions, including: Digital Dailies (Review and Approve), Digital Asset Management, and Digital Rights Management. IP Network Systems provides streaming media services , which is designed to deliver high quality content delivery services in the most cost efficient manner. Building the tools, applications and services that maximize the value of a client's digital media investment is an essential part of IP Network Systems business. The company's digital media solutions are scalable, reliable, and offer integration with disparate systems.

Moobol.com encourages Chinese people use their cell phone cameras or digital cameras to report what they witnessed. As a subsidiary of China Daily, Moobol's citizen journalism greatly influenced Chinese society and main stream media many times in the past 10 months. Currently, Moobol.com is the largest citizen photo journalism website in China and began to make money from selling photos to media.

Triveni Digital, Inc., an LG Electronics company, is a market-leading provider of content distribution and monitoring platforms and applications in the broadcast and broadband digital television segments. In its latest venture, Triveni Digital is leveraging its expertise with content distribution, interactive application development, and harnessing the power of broadcast digital TV to target the unmet timely and rich information and entertainment needs of an in-car environment. This system is based upon Triveni Digital’s widely deployed SkyScraper platform that already covers 54% of US population.

Hovr is a mobile media company that marries the needs of advertisers seeking to reach the growing mobile demographic with the desires of mobile users wanting entertaining content and applications on their mobile phones. Hovr provides free ad-supported mobile content such as high-quality, fun-to-play mobile games. Hovr’s MobileSpace social network lets users connect, compete and interact with friends and other players in a compelling community environment. Hovr’s AdLogic Platform allows for the delivery of dynamic, targeted, interactive advertisements into mobile content. The ability to embed advertising into games and applications allows Hovr to deliver subsidized mobile content without compromising the user experience.

Broadcast International serves businesses by providing video-powered communication and learning networks utilizing satellite and alternative technologies.
The people of Broadcast International are committed to providing exceptional service and performing with integrity, innovation and industry. We believe that helping our customers become more successful will enable our company to profitably grow, thereby creating greater opportunity for the growth, development and esteem of each individual.

Allegro Multimedia is a Florida-based corporation founded in August 2001, doing business as Allegro Rainbow™. Allegro video games teach even very young children how to play the piano in just minutes. Allegro believes that music literacy should be a universal birthright. We offer constructive alternatives for parents and educators concerned about the mindless violence typical of most video games. Our target market is toy-buying parents and grandparents of children ages three and up, and teens and adults who dream of becoming a musician. Allegro’s game engine easily adapts to multiple instruments and platforms. Allegro product extensions include: Piano Wizard®, Guitar Wizard™ , Composer Wizard™ , Drum Wizard™ , and Band Wizard™ . WizardTunes™ MIDI music downloads (think iTunes) make the games infinitely extendable, and the WizardTunes Music Club provides ongoing customer continuity and sales revenue.

FoneMine is the first company to launch a next generation interactive mobile services platform. This platform is designed around the fundamental belief that mobile must be treated as a “first class citizen” and is neither just an extension of earlier computing models nor only for youth. FoneMine enables customers to offer mobile services in whatever way they want: to any demographic, building their offerings based on their own strategies. FoneMine’s interactive mobile services platform is unique because it is the only company with an offering that is fully integrated (voice, data, messaging, social networking, etc.), real time publishing, and completely interactive between groups and individuals. It offers customers the ability to choose any starting point for their mobile strategy and develop and evolve their services easily in real time.
FoneMine is based in Sunnyvale, CA and was founded by repeat entrepreneurs who have built several successful companies already.

With 26,000 members on its beta site and 460,000 downloads in six months, Splice is clearly a leader in Music-based Social Networking, music creation, collaboration and downloading. Splice is now the only pro-quality, web-based, music creation, remixing and sharing site with a vibrant social networking community and content library. The power and capabilities of the new Splice On-Line Sequencer, being launched on July 17 at VCDemo, make it a working tool for serious musicians and an easy to use music remixer and editor for the casual creator who wants to personalize their music and share it on their MySpace page, their Facebook space, their YouTube videos and any of thousands of other social, networking and blog/podcast and Vlog sites.

From iPods to cell phones - Ad Infuse delivers highly personalized ad experiences to consumers across all mobile devices. By dynamically inserting targeted ads at the moment of content delivery, Ad Infuse ensures optimal relevancy for the end user. With the utmost respect for consumer data protection, Ad Infuse unlocks new revenue streams for channel owners by dismantling limitations of the current mobile advertising sponsorship model. Evangelizing the growth of mobile media consumption, Ad Infuse is committed to helping mobile operators and content owners reach sustainable efficiency while providing advertisers with ultimate ad effectiveness.

PlayMotion™ is an interactive entertainment and gaming company specializing in providing immersive experiences that allow users to engage visually, auditorially and physically. PlayMotion-enabled images and games are projected onto any large surface, creating interactive, virtual worlds where people are rewarded for their play. These virtual worlds empower users to react using their heads, hands and feet, creating their own unique and personalized interactive experiences - no interactive wands, gloves or goggles required.

Your Truman Show, Inc. is a privately-held San Francisco-based company committed to helping great storytellers to share their stories on video. Your Truman Show provides a free platform that enables anyone to create their own on-demand channel, share their lives and and watch, rate and review other people's lives. Your Truman Show extends the fiction of life on camera into a network of tomorrowÕs online reality stars, migrating user generated content from single videos to online series. By submitting their ratings, viewers vote for the best content in each category, collectively selecting the most compelling stories to be highlighted on online and traditional media networks. The company was founded in 2006 by Arturo Artom and Luca Ferrero and has assembled a global team of technology and media experts in Silicon Valley and Europe.

Advestigo is a technology leader in the fast growing digital asset management market. Advestigo's unique patented "Theraography" technology analyses digital content to generate content-based "fingerprints" which allow the detection of total or partial copying, independently of file and data formats, sampling rates, encapsulations and other typical "masking" techniques. Theraography can be applied to text, audio, graphics, video, simulations, source code and other data. Because it is based on powerful content analysis techniques, source documents are not altered in any way: no encapsulations, no "watermarking".

MobileGates MobileStudio™ offers the only complete mobile advertising system that arms local businesses and publishers with a new marketing approach that optimizes local store visits & drives purchases. MobileGates API and MobileStudio provides co-branded applications on the carrier deck portals such as Verizon StoreFinder, Sprint Nextel FuelFinder and Alltel Local powered by MobileGates with integrated advertisement-based local search technologies.

IWR’s eWalletfone turns almost any mobile phone into a proprietary personal retail purchasing and coupon system (Couponfone). With mobile and prepaid products currently sold through over 40,000 retail stores across the nation, and point-of-sale activation services provided in 21countries worldwide.

Vintage Studios is a consumer data management and marketing company, which redefines mobile content as “access into the mind of the consumer.” Going beyond customer acquisition and retention, Vintage Studios is dedicated to creating additional revenue streams for content providers by managing, monitizing and - most importantly - tracking the consumer through our unique Aggregate Profiling SystemTM.

Rallypoint operates a service platform for delivering Web 2.0 widgets for use in full-screen video on all platforms, including “inside televisions”, allowing consumers to personalize their viewing experience with “TV widgets”, and stay connected with friends while watching TV. With Rallypoint’s patent pending technology, broadcasters, IPTV video owners, and third parties can add Web 2.0 community features to all forms of video from web video to live broadcast, while tracking viewership and enhancing advertising messages.

Speakers

Keynote
Amy Friedlander
Senior Vice President,
Programming
AT&T Operations
Advisor
Sebastian Blum
Representative
Deutsche Telekom & T-Venture
Advisor
Claas Heise
Partner
Innovature Capital Partners
Stephen D. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Partner
Fenwick & West LLP.
Gus Tai
General Partner
Trinity Ventures
Brent Weinstein
CEO
60 Frames Entertainment
Arturo_artom
Arturo Artom
President and CEO
Your Truman Show
Tim Bucher
Tim Bucher
CEO and Founder
ZING
Timothy Chang
Principal
Norwest Venture Partners
Clint Chao
General Partner
Formative Ventures
Alex Gove
Principal
Walden Venture Capital
Nagraj Kashyap
Director, North America Operations
QUALCOMM Ventures
Gary Little
Morgenthaler Ventures
Partner
Mark Mangiola
Venture Partner
Cannan Partners
Alexander K. Marquez
Director, Strategic Investments
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation
Chris McKay
Principal
Granite Ventures
Alex Quilici
Alex Quilici
CEO
YouMail
Brock Muir
Rod Tiede
President/CEO
Broadcast International
Brock Muir
Brock Muir
Endtone
President and Founder
Nasim Waqar
Waqar Nasim
SVP - Finance and Operations, CFO
Triveni Digital
Cynthia Ringo
Director/Co-Head, Communications & Systems Practice
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Harshul Sanghi
Invesment Manager
Motorola Ventures
Jim Smith
Jim Smith, Ph.D.
Partner
Mohr, Davidow Ventures
Daniel Tibbet
Daniel Tibbets
Studio Chief
GoTV Networks
Robert Yamashita
Robert Yamashita
VP Strategy and Business Development
THX Ltd.
Joseph Tzeng
Joseph Tzeng
Director and Co-founder
Crystal Ventures
Greg Ruff
Greg Ruff
Chairman and CEO
Splice, Inc.
Eric Zhang
Eric Zhang
CEO and founder
Moobol.com
Greg Roberts
Greg Roberts
Founder
Playmotion
Colleen Nystedt
Colleen Nystedt
President and CEO
Movieset
Vipul Sawhney
Vipul Sawhney
President
Hovr
Tim Bucher
Tim Bucher
CEO and Founder
ZING
Chris Salter
Chris Salter
CEO
Allegro Multimedia, Inc.
Anthony Meador
Anthony Meador
Founder
MobileGates
Phil Prouty
Phil Prouty
Co-founder
IWR
Rene Reyes
Rene Reyes
CEO
Microsite Mobile
Jagadish
Jagadish Bandhole
Founder, CEO and Chairman
Fonemine, Inc.
Brian Cowley
Brian Cowley
President and CEO
Adinfuse
Rami Hajar
Rami Hajar
CEO
IP Networking Systems
Andy Kleitsch
Andy Kleitsch
Founder and CEO
Billing Revolution
Michel Roux
Michel Roux
President and CEO
Advestigo
Andres Jordan
Andres Jordan
VP, Innovation and Business Development
Deutsche Telekom
David Adams
David Adams
Founder and VP of Business Development
RallyPoint Systems
Saad Khan
Saad Khan
Partner
CMEA Ventures

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