Sponsors and Partners


Hosted By

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
Variety.com is the premier content provider for the global entertainment community. In the tradition of centurion brands, Daily Variety and Weekly Variety, Variety.com delivers instantaneous coverage of news, events, festivals, comprehensive box office reports as well as original video content. With award-winning, seasoned editorial teams and the largest entertainment news-gathering staff in the world, Variety.com is committed to providing news and insight that is essential reading.

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

Sponsors


"My experience as participant in the iHollywood Forum has been exceptional. The events are packed with practical information and presentations."

Andres Jordan
Vice President
Innovation and Business Development
T-Deutsche Telekom