Sponsors and Partners
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Fenwick & West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, California 94041
650.988.8500
www.fenwik.com
Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. We have over 250 attorneys, with offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.
Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.
Bronze Sponsors
Imagination Technologies Inc.
16870 West Bernardo Drive Suite 407
San Diego, CA 92127
858.674.6644
www.imgtec.com
Imagination Technologies [LSE: IMG] creates unique, patented intellectual property (IP) cores to enable multimedia, communications and broadcast devices; these enable next-generation consumer products like mobile TV or mobile multimedia phones.
Imagination’s technologies are used by the world leading semiconduictor companies and products from NOKIA, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, PURE, Roberts, Sony, SHARP, Pioneer and Intel amongst many others.
The R&D that enables Imagination’s range of advanced technologies is the product of a highly-skilled workforce of over 400 people, 80% of whom are engineers.
This engineering workforce operates from headquarters in Kings Langley, UK, as well as from centres in Chepstow and Leeds in the UK. Imagination also has offices in key world territories: Japan, USA, India, China, Taiwan and Korea.
MyST Technology Partners, Inc.
155 Snowberry Way
Keystone, Colorado 80435
866.260.2959
myst-technology.com
MyST Technology Partners, Inc. provides premium blogsite and content syndication services to marketing organizations that require comprehensive, out-sourced solutions. MyST Blogsite™ delivers exceptional reach to highly targeted audiences by combining original and syndicated content that builds brand equity and improves brand reputation. MyST Blogsite enables businesses of all sizes to develop a trusted and knowledgeable voice within their industry while extending the reach of their marketing messages to parts of the Internet where web sites don't reach. A turnkey solution for a variety of industries, including entertainment, financial services, and real estate, MyST Blogsite yields superior search engine visibility and high-level participation in the blogosphere in a very easy to use system. For more information, visit blogsite.com or call (866) 260-2959.
Contributing Sponsor
Mozes, Inc.
235 Alma Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
www.mozes.com
People matter most
The world around us is changing fast and technology is making a big difference in how we live. We want to be thoughtful about how our technology can help people connect with each other and the things they love. We will explore ways to use our technology beyond commercial uses and make a meaningful difference in the lives of people around the world.
Supporting Partner
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 Partners
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.
Content Agenda
5700 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 120
Los Angeles , CA 90036
323.965.2402
www.contentagenda.com
ContentAgenda.com is the only business-to-business brand dedicated to the nexus of content, technology and business. In addition to blogs and commentary by some of the most distinguished reporters and analysts covering the digital entertainment industry, the ContentAgenda.com community is comprised of leading executives from the media and entertainment, hardware, technology, government and policy making, financial and retail communities. Designed to be the one-stop source for the most up-to-date conversation and news, ContentAgenda.com features handpicked, targeted articles from over 5,000 global news sources powered by LexisNexis, the leading name in the information aggregation business, as well as user-configurable newsletters and alerts, and whitepaper brokerage.
MPEG Industry Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
510.492.4028
www.mpegif.org
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.
The Producers Guild of America, Inc.
8530 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 450
Beverly Hills , CA 90211
310.358.9020
www.pganewmedia.org
The Producers Guild of America – New Media Council is composed of highly qualified experts in every aspect of new media production -- including Mobile , DVD, Broadband, Interactive Television, Videogames, Digital Visual Effects and Digital Animation. PGA-NMC provides leadership, serves as a much-needed resource to the community, and offers educational, advisory, and networking opportunities for all members of the Producers Guild, including Television and Motion Pictures producers.
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.
SNL Kagan
One SNL Plaza
P.O. Box 2124
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
434.951.7715
www.snl.com
SNL Financial is the premier multisector-focused information and research firm in the financial information marketplace. SNL Financial collects, standardizes and disseminates all relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A data - plus news and analysis - for the industries we cover: banking, specialized financial services, insurance, real estate, energy and media/communications. Since our founding in 1987, SNL Financial has continuously expanded the scope and depth of our coverage and products without compromising the standards of quality and customer service that drive our success.
Variety
5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 120
Los Angeles , CA 90036
323.857.6600
www.Variety.com

Amy Friedlander
Senior Vice President,
Programming
AT&T Operations

Sebastian Blum
Representative
Deutsche Telekom & T-Venture

Claas Heise
Partner
Innovature Capital Partners

Partner
Fenwick & West LLP.

General Partner
Trinity Ventures

CEO
60 Frames Entertainment

President and CEO
Your Truman Show

CEO and Founder
ZING

Principal
Norwest Venture Partners

General Partner
Formative Ventures

Principal
Walden Venture Capital

Director, North America Operations
QUALCOMM Ventures

Morgenthaler Ventures
Partner

Venture Partner
Cannan Partners

Director, Strategic Investments
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation

Principal
Granite Ventures

CEO
YouMail

President/CEO
Broadcast International

Endtone
President and Founder

SVP - Finance and Operations, CFO
Triveni Digital

Director/Co-Head, Communications & Systems Practice
VantagePoint Venture Partners

Invesment Manager
Motorola Ventures

Partner
Mohr, Davidow Ventures

Studio Chief
GoTV Networks

VP Strategy and Business Development
THX Ltd.

Director and Co-founder
Crystal Ventures

Chairman and CEO
Splice, Inc.

CEO and founder
Moobol.com

Founder
Playmotion

President and CEO
Movieset

President
Hovr

CEO and Founder
ZING

CEO
Allegro Multimedia, Inc.

Founder
MobileGates

Co-founder
IWR

CEO
Microsite Mobile

Founder, CEO and Chairman
Fonemine, Inc.

President and CEO
Adinfuse

CEO
IP Networking Systems

Founder and CEO
Billing Revolution

President and CEO
Advestigo

VP, Innovation and Business Development
Deutsche Telekom

Founder and VP of Business Development
RallyPoint Systems

Partner
CMEA Ventures
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Innovation and Business Development
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