Randi Zuckerberg, ex-Marketing Director Facebook, CEO R to Z Studios, Inc.
Randi Zuckerberg is the founder and creative director of R to Z Studios, Inc. As one of the early employees at Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer’s marketing program. She led the company’s U.S. elimhoection and international politics strategy and created Facebook’s livestreaming capability through media partnerships during the 2008 Presidential Inauguration. Randi was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011 for her innovative coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections that integrated online and TV coverage in unique formats.
Since starting R to Z, she has hosted social productions and led the development of projects for BeachMint, the Clinton Global Initiative, Cirque du Soleil, The Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the UN Foundation. Randi has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, the Today show, Bloomberg News, and ABC’s World News. She was also a correspondent for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and for the World Economic Forum in Davos. She regularly speaks about the future of social media at conferences worldwide. Randi was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Social Media and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation.
Randi holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University and lives in Palo Alto with her husband and son.
Philip Bourchier O’Ferrall, Senior VP Digital, Viacom International Media Networks
O’Ferrall is responsible for VIMN’s Digital media business for all multi-platform properties outside of the USA, reporting to Robert Bakish, President of Viacom Media Networks International (VIMN) and David Lynn, EVP, MTV Networks UK & Ireland and Australia and New Zealand. Read More…
Allen DeBevoise, CEO and Co-Founder, Machinima
Allen DeBevoise is the Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Machinima, the dominant video entertainment network for serious gamers around the world. Machinima’s global content network features official publisher content, fan-created gameplay videos and original content, including over 20 original weekly shows, all aimed at the coveted 18–34 year old male demographic. The number one entertainment channel on YouTube, Machinima reaches over 166 million gamers monthly, and delivers over 1.4 billion video views a month, and growing. Read More…
Mark Beeching, Worldwide Chief Creative & Strategy Officer, Digitas
As Chief Creative Officer, Mark leads Digitas creative work throughout the agency’s network in the USA, Europe, and Asia. He brings to the role a background that spans children’s theater, Cold War broadcasting to the former Eastern bloc, general advertising, film production and digital media. Read More…
Amina Belghiti, Head of Platform Partnerships for New Markets, Facebook
Amina Belghiti is Facebook’s Head of Platform Partnerships for New Markets. Her team is tasked with increasing the use and engagement of the Facebook Platform across CEEMEEA markets through the establishment of partnerships with media, commerce and gaming companies and innovative start-ups. Read More…
Deborah Drisdell, Director of General Accessibility and Digital Enterprises, NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
Deborah is responsible for all marketing, distribution and digital initiatives at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). A veteran of over 25 years in the Canadian film and television industry, with extensive experience in distribution, international co-production and strategic business development, she has been responsible for pushing the agency into the digital era of distribution, with its award winning NFB.ca platform and mobile expansion. Read More…
Christophe Muller, Senior Director, YouTube Partnerships – SEEMA, Google
Christophe is responsible for managing and developing YouTube partnerships activies in Southern/Eartern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joined Google in London in 2003. Read More…
Gwen Bethel Riley, Head of Business Affairs, Disney Mobile
Gwen has worked for 15 years in music and entertainment, combining creative and business opportunities for artists, labels, publishers, and developers. At Disney she handles partner relationships, content strategy and digital deals for gaming including Tap Tap Revenge, the #1 most popular music app franchise. Read More…
Gary Woolf,VP of Business Development & Digital, BBC Worldwide
Leading the business development and digital activity across all regions, Gary works closely with all regional heads to combine their local expertise with wider industry research to develop new business in the short and medium term. Read More…
Dominique Musset, Worldwide Advertising Director, Renault
James Cowdery, Innovation Manager, Universal Music Group
As Innovation Manager, James seeks to make Universal Music better connected to the web. That means linking company’s data to the best content online and building amazing, scalable digital products which delight music fans.
Richard Clarke, Managing Editor, Arsenal Media Group
Doug Scott, President & Senior Partner, Ogilvy Entertainment
Since June 2006, Doug has been developing and producing brand funded entertainment for clients, including The Business of Innovation for IBM, Digital Cribs for Cisco, The Invested Life for TD Ameritrade, and an animated series for Capri Sun. Before Ogilvy, Doug was co-founder of MATTER, where he developed and produced high visibility integrated marketing programs. Read More…
Denis Ladegaillerie, Founder and President, Believe Digital
Denis has been working in the new media business for ten years, in Europe and the United States.
Before he founded Believe in December 2004, he was leading the new media and Internet department at Vivendi Universal in the United States as the Strategy and Operations Finance Manager. At the same time, he took part in the reorganization and development of the first download music service (eMusic), the first music community website (MP3.com), and of the first distributor of ringtones and logos (Moviso/Infospace Mobile). He also participated in the development of Rollingstone.com. Read More…
Louis-Pierre Pharand, Head of Ubisoft Transmedia Group
Louis-Pierre Pharand Heads the Ubisoft Transmedia Group based in Montreal named Ubiworkshop, the team develops persistent narrative products with hugely successful brands such as Assassin’s Creed. Pharand also holds the position of Brand Creative Director at Ubisoft Montreal developing new brands and seeking new markets & business opportunities. Read More…
Sean Knapp, CTO, OOYALA
Sean Knapp is a co-founder of Ooyala. As CTO and President of Technology, he oversees all engineering and helps define and execute Ooyala’s product strategies. Before founding Ooyala, Sean worked at Google, where he developed and launched iGoogle, the company’s popular, customizable home page. Read More…
Jean-Francois Rodriguez, Head of Gaming & Transmedia, Orange
Jean-François Rodriguez, Head of Gaming and Transmedia at Orange, has a wealth of experience spanning 15 years in the telecoms and media sector. He began his career with Alcatel, winning new markets in Europe and South America. Read More…
Tal Siach, Co-Founder / CMO, Visual.ly
Tal is one of the Web’s leading social media marketers and is backed by his strong track record of driving traffic through the creation and promotion of viral content. He is also the creator of Walyou, a leading gadget and geek culture site. As co-founder and CMO of the infographic tools & community, Visual.ly, his focus is now on bringing enthusiasts, designers and publishers together to create a thriving world of data visualization.
Bringing more than 15 years of sales management, business and market development experience, Keith Zubchevich is Conviva’s vice president of market development and operations, and is responsible for driving the company’s global sales efforts and securing key customers and strategic partnerships.Read More…
Dominique Delport, CEO, Havas Media France
Dominique Delport, with a degree from ESC Lyon and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, began his career in 1994 as Assistant Editor-in-Chief for M6 Lyon and then as Editor-in-Chief for M6 Lille. In 1996 he was hired as Editor-in-Chief for M6 National and from 1996 to 2000 managed its “6 Minutes†program and news magazines. Read More…
Roberto Mauro, Director, Strategy & Business Development Samsung Electronics
Brian Eoff, Data Scientist, Bit.ly
Brian David Eoff is a data scientist working for Bitly. He is on leave from Texas A&M University, where he is pursuing his Ph.D under the advisement of James Caverlee. Brian holds bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a masters degree in Computer Science from Auburn University. Read More…
Eric Klinker, CEO, BitTorrent
Eric Klinker is CEO at BitTorrent Inc., a San Francisco-based technology company focused on pushing advanced content delivery technologies forward in a way that makes sense for content creators and consumers alike. As CEO, Klinker is responsible for an ecosystem of software, devices and protocols that moves between 20% and 40% of the world’s Internet traffic on a daily basis, and has more than 160mm monthly users worldwide. Read More…
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.tv
Andy began his love affair with film making in high school when he directed films about teenage life. After studying film making in college, he became an Associate Producer at CBS TV. Following his work in television, he entered the public relations field and formed his own business in 1992. Read More…
James Booth, Co-Founder, Rockabox Media
James founded Rockabox Media in 2008 with Torie Chilcott. Prior to this, he was co-founder and CEO of Tangozebra, the leading provider of digital marketing solutions in Europe, with a UK market share of 70% for its rich media solutions. Tangozebra was sold to DoubleClick/Google in 2007. Read More…
Vivian Rosenthal, Founder, Goldrun
Rosenthal is the founder and CEO of Goldrun, an augmented reality platform that enables users to locate, interact with and take photos of GPS-linked virtual objects positioned in the real world to offer real world rewards. Previously, Rosenthal co-founded Tronic Studio, a digital media and experiential design company. Read More…
Fabienne Fourquet, Director of New Contents, Canal +
Fabienne Fourquet has been Director of Digital Content at Canal+ since July 2011. Holding a MBA from ESSEC Business School in France, she started her career in New York at A+E Networks, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television Group and NBC-Universal. Read More…
Cédric Mangaud, VP of Value Added Service, HTC
As a serial international entrepreneur, Cedric has over ten years business experience with Telecommunications and Internet companies. He is Vice President of Value Added Services at HTC since Abaxia, the company he founded, was acquired by HTC in June 2010. Read More…
Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Trendrr
An emerging media futurist with expertise in the convergence of television and second screen engagement, technology and behavioral trending, Mark Ghuneim has spent over 20 years in executive ranks of the entertainment industry. His pioneer spirit, coupled with an extensive knowledge of music, television and brand marketing, led him to found Wiredset in 2004. Read More…
Roberto Schmidt, Director of Product Development, Globo TV
Globo TV is currently the largest commercial television network of Latin America and one of the largest in the world, being viewed by aproximately 100 million people daily. With almost 90% of its network’s programming created in-house, Globo TV produces nearly 2,500 annual hours of telenovelas and TV programs, which is a world record in teledramaturgy. Read More…
Gaël Solignac-Erlong, Head of creation, entertainment, content production, innovation and social media, Moxie
“Branded entertainment” expert for 20 years.
Author (series for the french television channels M6 and TF1), presenter on the radio (skyrock) and event producer independent for music shows in the 90′s (artistic director of the “what’s up”, line-up from Daft Punk to Ben Harper, and from the Beastie Boys, Jeff Miles, Salik Keita, Doc Gyneco to David Bowie’s aftershow, or the Cure, etc..). He joined world’s big agencies in the noughties. Read More…
Alexandre Callay, Worldwide Director, Eurodata TV
Alexandre Callay has been Eurodata TV Worldwide’s Director for 6 years. His strong experience in development and management within market research companies internationally allows him to have a broad over view of different TV market. Read More…
Michael Sid, CEO and co-founder, Media Morph
Michael is an acknowledged thought leader in the Media & Entertainment Industry having a long track record of helping these companies anticipate and manage the change from traditional to new forms of content distribution. Read More…
Olivier Gers, CEO, Endemol Worldwide
Olivier Gers is CEO of Endemol Worldwide Brands (EWB) a global division within world leading entertainment company Endemol. EWB focuses on extending Endemol’s IP across multiple platforms, including licensing and merchandising, investment in product development, music publishing and the creation of games applications, branded entertainment and digital media content. Read More…
Damien Marchi, Vice President, Production, FMX, FremantleMedia
Emmy Award winner and twice Banff Award winner, Damien has over a decade experience in bridging the digital media, broadcast media and branded content worlds. As Vice President, Production Damien is part of the management team of FMX, FremantleMedia’s central digital hub in London. His role consists of turning ideas into tangible brand funded digital shows and experiences, exploring new grounds and scouting new talent. Read More…
Marco Ferrari, CEO, Zodiak Active
Zodiak Active, a global division dedicated to the creation, development and production of digital and branded content across all platforms. Zodiak Active will partner with brands, media owners, mobile carriers and broadcasters to deliver content and multimedia services based on original concepts, as well as draw up on existing hit TV formats and entertainment brands within Zodiak Media’s global network of 45 production companies. Read More…
Ammar Bakkar, former New Media Director MBC Group, CEO Yes2Digital (Dubaï)
Ammar is the CEO of Yes2Digital, a digital media start-up in Dubai that has received some major funding to launch several web portals and mobile products. Ammar has been, since 2005, the Director of New Media at MBC Group, which is regarded as the largest media organization in the Middle East. Read More…
Bruce Kirkland, President, Tsunami Entertainment
Tsunami Entertainment is a digital-era entertainment company specializing in marketing and media consultation, artist and producer management, product and brand development, and strategic marketing. 30 years in the entertainment industry, including President/CEO of EMI – Capitol Entertainment Properties, the largest company in the EMI Music Group, and responsible for sales in excess of 250 million. Read More…
Piotr Ostaszewski, Head of New Media, Telewizja Polsat
Stanley Yang, CEO, NeuroSky
As Chief Executive Officer of NeuroSky, Inc., Stanley Yang is the visionary behind the bio-sensor company that has quickly become the global leader in mass market Brain-Computer Interface technology. NeuroSky has developed a revolutionary non-invasive neural communication sensor that converts brainwaves and other bio-signals into digital electronic signals. Read More…
Ashley Swartz, Founder, Furious-Minds
Ashley’s career has included manufacturing of components, electronics, entrepreneurial start-ups, and running a media practice, all coupled with over 10 years living and working in Europe, Asia and Central America. With a background in finance, she has landed in digital advertising due to her love of technology and ability to navigate and scale new channels to market. Read More…
Nicolas Gaume, CEO Mimesis Republic, President SNJV
Nicolas Gaume is the CEO of Mimesis Republic. Founded in 2007, Mimesis Republic develops and operates Mamba Nation (www.mambanation.com), the next generation social virtual world for teenagers and young adults. Currently in open beta in France, Mamba Nation has over 340 000 registered users. Read More…
Maarten Verschuere, Senior Director Brand Marketing Analytics, Catalina
As Sr Director of Brand Marketing Analytics at Catalina, I am an expert in the creation of actionable consumer insights from transactional data. I am based in Cincinnati, Ohio, responsible for all the analytics Catalina provides to support P&G. Pantene, Tide, Crest, Gillette and many more world class brands have all benefited from the insight my team provides to engage with their consumers. Read More…
Bill Scott, CEO,easeltv
Bill Scott is one of the founders of easeltv and its Chief Operating and Commercial Officer. The company’s vision is to enable broadcasters, content owners and brands to build high quality TV experiences using low-cost web components, fast. easeltvis helping its clients to exploit broadband connected TVs and in doing so is shaping the future of television. Read More…
Justus Verkerk, Producer and Co-Founder ‘Entertainment Experience’ and CCO, FCCE
Bruno Pereira, Co-Founder, TV App Agency
Bruno is co-founder of TV App Agency, which launched in 2011 to provide TV app development and app store submission, to enable brands, production houses, agencies and broadcasters to get onto connected TV.
Raphaël Aflalo, Co-Founder of My Love Affair
In 1999, Raphaël started his own Digital Agency Pure Player,working for the Majors and international brands. In 2007, Digitas (Publicis Group) bought his company. Between 2007 & 2009, he became Digitas France & Performic France’s Managing Director. From 2009 to 2011, Raphaël was Omnicom Media Group France’s Managing Director in charge of Digital. In 2011 he launched with Cathy Guetta an Advertising Major, My Love Affair.
Cathy Guetta, Co-Founder of My Love Affair
Cathy started her career as a barmaid in 1989 and, only a few months later, started running the PR of the famous Parisian club Les Bains Douches. She ended up owning it in 1997. She then became the Artistic Director for The Palace, one of Paris’s most well-known clubs. Read More…
Celine Saint Remy, CEO, ZAM+
Celine Saint-Remy is a founding partner of ZAM+, a leading micro-endorsement agency in France since 2011.Celine has 18 years of experience in the media industry and has developed an extensive expertise in communication strategies online and offline. Read More…
Allan McLennan, President, The PADEM Group
The PADEM Group is a global digital-media company specializing in strategic marketing, technical innovation and problem solving, product and brand development, and corporate management/packaging. Focused on advanced TV, media/entertainment technology and advertising for over 19 years, McLennan is a pioneer in the development of next generation technology offerings in digital media. Read More…
Conrad Fritzsch, CEO, TapeTV
Conrad Fritzsch was born on october, 16 1969 in berlin. After finishing his directorial studies at the babelsberg film academy, Fritzsch founded the ad agency “fritzsch & mackat†in 1993. In 2008, he founded tape.tv gmbh – an online music video station. As a managing partner, Fritzsch is accountable for the marketing and sales department. When tape.tv turned into a public company in 2010, Conrad Fritzsch became CEO. Read More…
Chris Seth, EVP General Manager, Stardoll Media at Stardoll
Chris Seth is EVP & General Manager for Stardoll Media. With over 170 million registered users worldwide, Stardoll Media is the leading group of websites devoted to young women and teens. Launched in early 2009, Stardoll Media includes: Stardoll.com – the entertainment destination for young women focused on fame, fashion and friends; Piczo.com – the original platform devoted to self expression and visual blogging; and PaperDollHeaven.com – a simpler game-play environment for the younger, female demographic. Read More…
Christoph Lange, CMO, Simfy
Christoph Lange is co-founder and managing director of simfy. He studied at the University of Mannheim, where he majored in marketing, information systems, and English studies.
In the course of his studies, Christoph interned at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Montblanc. In 2006, he was awarded the DAAD GoEast scholarship to spend part of his studies at the renowned Corvinus University in Budapest. Read More…
Tiffany Saint James, Founder, Stimulation Ltd
Tiffany is a social media strategist helping TV broadcasters, commissioners and researchers use social data smartly. She organises Social TV Hacks for prototype development and R&D internationally, she sits on the Strategy Board of the Festival of Code, the philanthropic support for young coders in the UK and Rewired State. Read More…
David Amselem, CEO, TvTak
David is the CEO of TvTak, an innovative startup that allows smartphone apps to instantly recognize TV shows and commercials as they are being broadcast. TvTak offers new types of direct engagement between viewers and advertisers. A viewer points his smartphone to the TV screen, and TvTak detects the show or the commercial within ONE SECOND. It works on any television set. Read More…
Edouard Lambelet,
Founder, Paper. li
Edouard is Chairman and CEO of SmallRivers, a spontaneous social networking and shared portable microblogging web service, and Co-Founder of Paper.li, the curation service that enables individuals to turn their favorite social media into an easy to read online newspaper. Read More…
Dennis Lee, CEO, PlayUp
Dorothee Imhoff, Managing Director, 7Digital Europe
Since joining 7digital in 2006, Dorothée has extended the company’s direct-to-consumer offering beyond the UK to the rest of Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, building a talented and successful team in the process. Dorothée is also the MD of 7digital Europe sarl. Read More…
Alicia Navarro, CEO & Co-Founder, Skimlinks
Alicia Navarro is CEO and co-founder of Skimlinks, a leading content monetization technology, helping thousands of online publishers all over the world to earn money from their content in a seamless, simple way. Alicia has worked in internet applications for over a dozen years, designing and launching mobile and internet-based applications in Australia and the United Kingdom. Read More…
Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO, Radionomy
He is a radio enthusiast who has succeeded in telematics applications (MagicPhone, sold to Tellme-Microsoft), now heads MusicMatic (company specializing in in-store media), Radionomy (platform for online radio stations) and Jamendo (platform for royalty-free music) Read More…
Brandon White, Director of Marketing & Business Development, Funimation
Brandon White is Director of Business Development at FUNimation Entertainment, the leading Anime brand-management company in North America. Since joining FUNimation in 2001, Brandon has been instrumental in the successful monetization and distribution of digital video content. His efforts have resulted in distribution deals with some of the largest companies in the world, including Google, YouTube, and HULU. Read More…
Eamonn Carey, EMEA Director, Kiip.me
Eamonn Carey is the Kiip’s EMEA Director – responsible for the roll-out of their service throughout the region and beyond. Kiip is a mobile rewards network which which allows brands to reward people for their achievements in games and apps. Already working with people like Pepsi, Best Buy, Disney and many others in the US, Kiip is now rolling out in Europe. Read More…
Clement Cezard has been working in the internet & Telecommunications Industry for more than 10 years as Marketing Director or Business Development Director. Read More…
Lucas Tieleman, Owner, Repudo
Chantal Rickards, Head of Programming/Branded Content, MEC
Chantal Rickards is Head of Programming& Branded Content at MEC in London for the EMEA region. She arrived in June ’07 from UKTV, a network of channels owned by BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media. She had spent nearly six years in commissioning and channel management for the BBC, concentrating on their lifestyle channels: UKTV Style, UKTV Food and UKTV Gardens. Her programmes ranged in style from serious documentaries to practical ‘how to’ lifestyle series. While there she had responsibility for commissioning and executive producing up to 16 television series a year. She was also responsible for acquisitions and scheduling during her time there.Read More…
Michael Bayler, Founder / Managing Director, Bayler & Associates
Mike is a strategist and author, specialising in innovation in media and marketing.
After an international career in the music industry, including 7 years in
the US, Mike was an early entrant into new media 20 years ago. Read More…
Tom McDonnell, Director, Monterosa Production
As one of the founders of Monterosa, Tom has grown the company into the UK’s leader in second screen entertainment and technology. As Commercial Director he’s responsible for commercial strategy, operations and as an ex-games developer he maintains a creative steering role. Read More…
Michael Swierczynski, Head of New Media, INA
Jérôme Bichot, Director Business Development France, Wildfire Interactive Inc
Jérôme has over a decade experience in business development for internet and IT services providers. His role consists of developing the presence of Wildfire on the French market with Premium Brands and Digital Agencies. Prior to joining Wildfire Interactive Inc., Jérôme was Sales Director at Reverso-Softissimo – who designs and integrates language technologies for large corporations, institutions, education and the consumer market. Read More…
Oke Göttlich, General Manager, FineTune
Oke Göttlich is Co-founder and MD of finetunes, a specialist for encoding, hosting, distributing, promoting and marketing all kind of media content in the digital market. Whether you want to market your earbooks or music videos, mp3 or ebook finetunes can help you to make your product visible in the vast of digital releases, get the best placements in all relevant retail stores, and keep the digital sales transparent for you.Read More…
David Courtier-Dutton, CEO, Soundout
David started out as a lawyer and then as a technology focused corporate financier. He went on to join the board of a B2B web business in 1997 – going on to lead its IPO on the UK Stock Exchange in spring 2000. In 2006, hefounded Slicethepie, the web’s first fan financing platform for independent artists. Read More
Pasa Mustafa, MD, East London Productions
Pasa is a digital executive with over 10 years experience producing, distributing and strategising around digital content including branded entertainment, mobile, web series. Having spent over 8 years running the Digital Studios for Endemol UK and as Global Head of Digital for Endemol International, Pasa has picked up many awards for his work. Read More
