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Speakers 
Ms Valerie Accary,
Managing Director,
BBDO
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 Mr Ray Anderson,
CEO,
Bango
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Mr John Batter,
Vice President and General Manager,
EA Mobile
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 Mr Matthew Bellows,
Vice President Marketing,
Floodgate
Matthew is responsible for the operations, sales and marketing of Floodgate Entertainment, a top mobile games developer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Before joining Floodgate, Matthew led Gamespot.com's mobile entertainment initiatives. He arrived at Gamespot (a division of CNET Networks) through that company's acquisition of Wireless Gaming Review. Matthew was the co-founder, editor and publisher of WGR (WGamer.com), the leading publication for mobile entertainment consumers. While leading WGR, he grew revenues to $1.5 million, distributed content through Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and Ziff-Davis. Matthew received his MBA with high honors from the Olin School at Babson College.
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Mr Jonathan Bill,
Head of Content Category Management, Vodafone UK,
Vodafone
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Stefan Blom,
Head of Products and Services,
3 Scandinavia
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Ms Alisa Bowen,
Head of Reuters.co.uk,
Reuters
Alisa manages Reuters European Online publishing business - www.reuters.co.uk (and country editions in France, Germany, Italy) - overseeing all product development, sales and marketing activities. In her current role, she has also been instrumental in developing Reuters’ multi-media strategy, with particular focus on the global development of Reuters’ award winning online TV service - Reuters Television. Prior to her current role, Alisa was responsible for Reuters’ book publishing programme and oversaw the production of 15 books in seven languages covering photojournalism, training and current affairs titles. She joined Reuters in 2001, with initial roles in content strategy and television marketing. Before joining Reuters, Alisa was a public relations and communications consultant and specialised in major corporate change programmes. Alisa has a degree in public relations, and also holds an MBA with distinction from London Business School.
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Mr Jud Bowman,
CTO,
Motricity
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 Mr Mark Boyd,
Director of Content,
BBH
After a brief detour via the civil service, Mark has worked to find new roles for brands beyond traditional advertising, working for all of the key stakeholders: agency, media owner and client side.
Starting at Virgin Media, Mark joined Drum PHD and worked on a number of advertiser funded projects on different media.
Moving to Hutchison 3g to head up young adult marketing, he moved back to London via TBWA and joined BBH as Director of Content in June 2003. As a leading creative agency BBH has been quick in developing new opportunities in Branded Content across different media.
Mark has worked on a range of brands including HSBC, Sainsbury's, Orange, Lynx, Bertolli and Audi.
Mark is also Chairman of the Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA), bringing together people interested in branded content from film, music, TV, mobile and gaming industries.
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 Mr. John Brimacombe,
President,
MFORMA
John Brimacombe is a pioneer and visionary of the wireless entertainment market. In 1999 he foresaw the emergence of the mobile phone as a major new platform for entertainment content and responded to the opportunity by founding UK start-up nGame, where he served as CEO. nGame launched some of the very first wireless games in North America in mid-2000, and went on to secure distribution with 25 leading mobile operators in Europe, North America and Asia and pioneer the concept of brand licensing for mobile entertainment, particularly with the license for the major mobile hit, Top Gun. In 2001, Brimacombe focused the nGame team on the next generation of Java-capable devices and thereby positioned the company as a key player as mobile entertainment became a mass medium. In 2002 he negotiated the sale of nGame to MFORMA and was appointed president and chief operating officer of the combined company. Since April 2005, following the appointment of former AOL Interactive President, Jonathan Sacks to the role of Mforma President, he has served the company in the role of Chief Strategist. Prior to founding nGame, Brimacombe founded a successful specialist financial services sector software company, Jobstream Group plc, on whose board he continues to serve as a non-executive director. Brimacombe holds an MA in Law and a Diploma in Computer Science from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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 Dr. Willms Buhse,
Director Products & Marketing,
CoreMedia AG
Willms Buhse joined CoreMedia, with Deutsche Telekom as lead investor, in November 2003, where he is a member of the executive board and heads the product and marketing division. His responsibility ies include global marketing and communication as well as product management for CoreMedia’s Smart Content Technology, that is used by over 100 customers such as Bertelsmann, Continental, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom, Debitel, O2, EPCOS, NEC/Mitsubishi, Nokia, SEAT, T-Mobile, T-Online, Wincor Nixdorf, and the German government.
Mr. Buhse is author and editor of two books and has been speaking at about 80 conferences on the subject digital distribution in the media industry. As interview partner for journalists and analysts, he has been quoted in Billboard, Computerweek, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Herald Tribune, Musicweek, Music&Copyright, N-TV, Reuters, Spiegel, VDI Nachrichten and numerous research studies. In addition he advised the European Commission and several parliaments in the field of copyright legislation.
In early 2003, Willms Buhse was elected as Vice Chair for the Open Mobile Alliance Download and DRM Group (OMA DLDRM). This group released the first open DRM Standard, that is currently being implemented in many hand sets and in operator networks (OMA DRM v1.0).
Prior of joining CoreMedia, Willms Buhse worked for over five years at Bertelsmann’s world-wide headquarter in Gütersloh, Germany, in Hamburg and in New York. At Bertelsmann's New Technologies Group he began in 1998 as a technology consultant and was quickly promoted to assistant director of new technologies and strategy. During a four-year-long stay at BMG’s headquarter in New York he was co-founder of Bertelsmann Digital World Services, a pioneer in the field of digital rights management (DRM). In various positions, including Senior Director of Marketing and Head of Consulting, he has worked with clients like 3, ATT, BMG, HP, Lycos, Matsushita, Napster, Orange, Universal and others.
Before joining Bertelsmann, Mr. Buhse was a consultant in technology and strategy projects at the German top-management consultancy group, Roland Berger & Partner and advised companies like Volkswagen and Deutsche Bahn. During a European Union Scholarship at the University of Madrid / Alcala de Henares, Mr. Buhse spent his time working in the field of information management in the Spanish airport industry.
Mr. Buhse holds degrees in industrial engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) and in management sciences (Dipl.-Oec.) from the University of Hannover , Germany and a Ph.D. in economics from the Technical Universit Munich. His research thesis is titled: Digital Rights Management vs. the DarkNet – Competitive Strategies and Business Models for the Music Industry.
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Mr John Burman,
International General Manager and Executive Director,
The Hollywood Reporter
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Mr John Cahill,
Director , Games Operations,
Yahoo! Games
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 Mr Rio Caraeff,
Vice President,
Universal Music
Rio D. Caraeff is Vice President and General Manager of Universal Music Mobile – US (UMM-US), the newly established domestic division of Universal Music Group (UMG) created to complement Universal Music Mobile International (UMMI), the global leader in mobile music. Mr. Caraeff oversees all areas of UMM-US, liaising closely with UMG’s broad array of labels as well as the company’s eLabs division to coordinate mobile music and non-music related initiatives with current and emerging wireless technologies and platforms. He leads all UMM-US initiatives, working with wireless carriers, device manufacturers and infrastructure providers to maximize mobile opportunities, create new products and enable new distribution channels for UMG content.
Mr. Caraeff’s background is concentrated, yet diverse, having worked in new technologies in virtually all areas of entertainment including film, television, music and games. He was most recently Vice President, Wireless Services for Sony Pictures Digital, where he established and operated the worldwide mobile entertainment publishing & licensing division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Prior to that, Mr. Caraeff was Vice President of Business Development and Investments at Sony 550 Digital Media Ventures, having begun his tenure at the company as Senior Director, New Technology Business Development.
In between his stints at Sony, Mr. Caraeff served as Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Fabric, a consultancy firm whose client roster included Sony, Miller Brewing Company and Music Match. His 11 years in the industry also include positions at Capitol Records Group, Propaganda Films/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Generator Digital Post, and Crunch Media Group.
Mr. Caraeff was featured in Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation: Class of 2003,” as one of the top 35 executives under 35 in Hollywood.
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Mr Graham Carey,
Director of Product Marketing,
Portal
Dr. Graham Carey is Director of Product Marketing for Portal Software and is responsible for ensuring that Portal’s Revenue Management solutions properly address the needs and requirements of global telecommunication, media and content service providers.
Graham has a wealth of experience in the industry having previously worked with Amdocs, Solect Technology Group and British Telecom. He brings over 18 years of telecommunications industry experience, including the design and delivery of some of the early ISP services. Most recently, he has focused on the mobile communications sector as it prepares to move to next generation service delivery. Graham has travelled widely throughout EMEA visiting communication service providers, running workshops, attending and speaking at conferences.
Graham works extensively with numerous thought leaders in the billing sector including analysts, clients and the press. He is the current president of The Global Billing Association (The GBA), a non-profit organisation that delivers knowledge, networking and benchmarking to the global billing community. As president, Graham serves as spokesperson for the GBA and contributes to the organizations planning and strategy development.
Graham holds an engineering degree from Leeds University, England and a Ph.D. in Computer-Aided Manufacturing.
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 Mr Ted Cohen,
Senior Vice President Digital Development and Distribution,
EMI
As Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this “big five” record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.
In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide digital policies, which have provided EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena.
Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year.
Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and various other entertainment, technology and new media organizations. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.
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Mr Shawn Conahan,
CEO,
Intercasting
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 Mr James Cridland,
Head of New Media Strategic Development,
Virgin Radio
James is Head of New Media Strategic Development at Virgin Radio, the nationwide rock/pop commercial radio station. James manages the team responsible for the award-winning streams and website at virginradio.co.uk, which was recognised as Online Radio Station of the Year at the Digital Music Awards 2003 and again in 2004. In 2005, the station won the Radio category in the Webby Awards, scooping both judged and people’s choice awards.
James’s team also produces an Electronic Programme Guide used on six platforms, LiveText for DAB and RDS, and the Visual Radio service to compatible Nokia mobile phones. A policy of continual innovation has resulted in a large number of awards and firsts for the station; it was the first to broadcast online in Europe, and the first station to broadcast on Sky satellite television. In 2005, Virgin Radio became the first station to produce a 3G Radio Player, and produce a daily podcast.
James has worked in radio since 1989 as a copywriter, presenter, and internet advisor. After working at the Metro Radio Group and Emap Radio, he joined Virgin Radio in 2001 after a short spell successfully running his own dot-com company.
James lives in North London with a big black cat, and is a committed member of the Campaign for Real Ale.
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Del Dias,
Head of Mobile,
Ministry of Sound
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Mr Matt Dicks,
Head of Media,
Ministry of Sound
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 Mr Brad Duea,
President,
Napster
As President of Napster (NASDAQ: NAPS), Mr. Duea is responsible for overseeing the business operations and defining the strategic direction of the Napster service. Mr. Duea took on this position after serving as Vice President, Worldwide Business Development for Roxio, Inc., where he was responsible for all business development efforts for Roxio and its Napster subsidiary. He reports directly to Napster’s CEO and Chairman, Chris Gorog.
During his 12 months as VP, Worldwide Business Development, Mr. Duea focused on Napster’s international expansion effort and the formulation of strategic partnerships, including those with Samsung Electronics, Intel, and Gateway. He was an integral member of the transaction team for the acquisition and integration of pressplay (a music subscription joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group) and certain assets from VUNet Tech.
During his tenure at Roxio, Mr. Duea also served as Vice President Worldwide OEM Sales and Vice President of Business Development. His success in these positions has earned him a reputation as a leader in the initiation and development of global OEM and strategic partnerships. Mr. Duea was instrumental in securing and managing Roxio’s strategic partnerships with, among others, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Intel, EMI, pressplay, YesVideo and Audible.com. Mr. Duea also led the acquisition and integration of MGI Software, which brought the #1 consumer photo and video editing products into Roxio’s digital media portfolio.
Prior to joining Roxio, Mr. Duea served as the Vice President, Corporate Development for PeopleSupport, Inc., a leading provider of integrated e-customer relationship management solutions, where he raised over $50 million in venture financing, and closed strategic partnerships with industry leaders, such as Hewlett Packard and Siebel Systems, Inc.
Mr. Duea, a member of the State Bar of California, acquired significant merger and acquisition experience while serving as a corporate lawyer with the law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP. He was instrumental in many deals, including the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Fox, a transaction recognized as the “Deal of the Year” by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Mr. Duea holds a B.A. in Law and Society, High Honors, from University of California at Santa Barbara, a M.B.A. in Finance and International Business, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of Southern California, and a J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from the University of San Diego.
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Vladimir Edelman,
Director, ESPN Wireless,
ESPN
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65 Javier Ferreira,
Vice President Marketing,
JAMDAT
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 Mr Adam Flick,
Chief Marketing Officer,
Airborne Entertainment
Adam brings over 12 years of new media management experience with a focus on successfully bridging branded media properties with new distribution platforms - spanning video game development to mobile entertainment distribution. Most recently, Adam was the Director of Marketing at Sony Pictures Mobile, where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing Sony Pictures' mobile products and services; including consumer, partner and product marketing. Prior to Sony Pictures, Adam was a senior producer and manager at AT&T Wireless, responsible for the promotions and user experience on their consumer data service, mMode. Prior to that he served as Vice President of New Platforms for AtomShockwave, a leading online entertainment company comprised of AtomFilms and Shockwave.com, where he successfully managed the company's mobile entertainment and new platform strategy, distribution and marketing. Adam has also held positions at Getty Images, where he was the Director of Product Development and Strategic Alliances. Prior to that, Adam was a games producer for Hal America, a Nintendo licensee.
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Mr Scott Foe,
Senior Producer,
Nokia Games
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 Ms Angel Gambino,
Vice President Commercial Strategy and Digital Media,
MTV Networks Europe
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 Mr Gunnar Garfors,
Director of Mobile Services,
Norwegian Broadcast Company - NRK
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Steven Gaydos,
Executive Editor,
Variety
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Mr Mark Ghuneim,
CEO,
Wiredset
Mark Ghuneim launched the online and mobile company WiredSet in 2004 after 16 years with Sony Music USA, where he was most
recently Senior Vice President for Online Services. In that role, he created and implemented online marketing campaigns and was responsible for Sony Music's online sales.
As Senior Vice President of Online & Emerging Technologies for Sony's Columbia Records Group, Ghuneim was instrumental in the
careers of artists such as Destiny's Child, Jeff Buckley, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel.
Ghuneim has been at the cutting edge as the music industry has evolved during the past three decades. Before joining Sony, Ghuneim was Director of Press and Video Promotion for the
legendary independent label Beggars Banquet Records. He was program director and production manager the New York City video
nightclub, Private Eyes, in the nascent days of music video.
Ghuneim has moderated numerous panels at industry gatherings and guest lectured at universities in Los Angeles and New York. He
has worked as as a mentor with New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Ghuneim photographs have appeared in publications such as New Musical Express, the British music weekly. Ghuneim is represented by the WireImage photographic press agency.
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 Mr Alistair Gosling,
CEO,
Extreme Group
"Al Gosling, CEO and founder of Extreme Group, developed a passion for extreme sports during his early teens and following a number of jobs went on to found a successful and growing international business and brand based upon that early passion. An entrepreneur from the very start Al’s first business venture included selling board shorts out of the back of his old battered red Renault 5 while studying for his exams!
1995, Aged 24, having just return from travelling and unable to find a job, Al decided he wanted to establish a company that would mix his passion for Extreme Sports with business and so Extreme International was established, which specialised in the acquisition and distribution of extreme and adventure sports TV programmes to broadcasters all over the world, four years later this business was to grow into the Extreme Group of companies. On a shoestring budget with his office in a small converted barn more akin to a mountain hut or surf-shack than the headquarters of a growing media business, the company rapidly grew to become the worldwide market leader in Extreme Sports TV.
In April 1998 Al came up with the idea to create and launch the world’s first TV channel dedicated to extreme sports. Unsurprisingly entitled The Extreme Sports Channel, its main influences were a mixture of MTV and traditional sports channel. The Channel started broadcasting from Amsterdam on 1st May 1999 to 400,000 viewers throughout Holland. Featuring events, movies and magazine shows about the sports such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, skiing, Moto-X and the music, fashion and lifestyle that surrounds them. The channel’s coverage grew rapidly and it is now broadcasting to 55 countries in twelve languages.
Today Al and the team are focused on taking Extreme into new areas driving all of the group companies forward and launching the channel into new countries and regions. The Extreme Group employs 247 people and is made up of Extreme Sports Channel, Extreme Retail which includes Extremepie.com Europe’s leading online extreme sports retailer, Ex Stores a chain of 22 surf skate and snow shops, Ex Gear the clothing range, Extreme Drinks, delivering a range of natural functional soft drinks to consumers world wide, the events business Ex Events and is on target to launch ExtremeMob Europe’s only youth focused (MVNO) Mobile operator during 2005 and Extreme Travel coming soon. Al is still completely passionate about the sports that give him his drive and passion for the business and when not in the office you will find him either windsurfing, kite surfing, flying, ice climbing or skiing somewhere in the world."
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Mr Gerard Grech,
Head of Music and Video,
Orange
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Mr Julian Hardy,
Executive Vice President,
Sennari
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Mr Matt Harris,
CEO,
Volantis
Prior to taking the CEO position at Volantis, Matt was President and CEO of Metrowerks Corporation, a 600+ person Austin-based provider of embedded software and related tools. Matt's prior experience includes roles as President, Metrowerks EMEA, President and CEO of Lineo, Inc., various other senior management positions, and five years as a systems engineer with EDS. Matt also practiced technology law for ten years, representing a variety of clients in matters ranging from securities litigation to licensing disputes and antitrust litigation.
Matt holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Washington and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan, USA.
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Mr John Ingham,
Head of Content Acquisition,
O2
As Head Of Content Development for O2, the UK’s biggest mobile Internet portal, John is responsible for developing consumer content and applications. He has been involved in interactive media since 1989, when he produced interactive LaserDiscs for Pioneer Japan. He has worked in the music, film and advertising industries in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, entering the World Wide Web while working with Peter Gabriel at Real World. In 2000, as Content Director for the music portal Worldpop, he realised that the future was mobile, not PC, and in Ibiza organised Europe's first commercial SMS service.
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Franz Jachim,
VP Content Services,
QPASS
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 Mr Ian James,
Managing Director,
Chrysalis Mobile Solutions
March 2004 Ian was appointed Managing Director of Chrysalis Mobile, with a brief to establish the business as the leading independent aggregator and distributer of mobile music content in the UK, through partnerships with Media, Retail and Mobile Network Operators. Ian is tasked with building and driving forward a team made up of talent from the Music, Broadcast and Mobile telephony arena, with a view to creating a mobile content service that exceeds customer expectations in quality and real value. He is spearheading the development of Chrysalis Mobile with Nick Gregg with whom he jointly devoped the Group mobile content strategy from October 2003.
Prior to his new appointment Ian was Interactive and Digital Director for Chrysalis Radio group. During his time in this role Ian was responsible for developing new channels of communication for listeners and advertisers across the group, using mobile telephony and the Internet.
Ian headed up one of the most innovative and creative teams within the radio group achieving a number of Radio firsts and was instrumental in establishing Chrysalis Radio Group as the industry leader in interactive programming and promotions. With previous experience as Sales Controller at Chrysalis Radio’s Galaxy 101 in Bristol, Ian has over seven years experience in radio
As head of the Interactive team, Ian is responsible for the creation of mobile interaction using SMS, IVR and the web, allowing advertisers with Chrysalis Radio new routes to reach listeners whilst also improving listener loyalty to the all Chrysalis Radio stations.
Ian is also responsible for the creation and execution of Chrysalis Radio's digital commercial strategy - focusing on new ways to educate both potential advertisers and listeners of the benefits digital channels can offer.
Starting his career working as a Sales Manager for the Bristol Evening Post, Ian joined Chrysalis Radio in 1997 as Sales Manager, and was soon promoted to Chrysalis Radio Sales Controller 1998 where he oversaw the Sales strategy for all of Chrysalis Radio.
Born in Bristol, Ian, 28, studied History at Leeds University and lives in Chiswick, West London, with his wife.
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Matt Jerwood,
Head of Mobile & iDTV,
lastminute.com
Matt joined Lastminute.com’s UK Lifestyle team in December 2000, after having worked in the media writing for titles such as The Sunday Times Magazine since 1998. Since 2002 Matt has been working at a Group level, focusing on Lastminute.com's alternative distribution channel activities. In 2003 he was promoted to Manager - Global Multi Channel Development and this year became Head of Mobile & iDTV. Matt manages all Lastminute.com's relationships and strategy with its mobile and digital TV partners including Orange, Vodafone, 3, O2 and Sky, with the specific remit of maximising the potential of non-web channels to expand Lastminute.com's brand reach and sales potential.
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Mr Manish Jha,
Senior Vice President,
ESPN Mobile
Manish Jha was named senior vice president, ESPN Mobile, in September 2004. In this position, Jha is charged with leading ESPN’s growing wireless business worldwide, including licensing and ESPN Mobile, the first national U.S. wireless phone (MVNO) service specifically targeted at sports fans (to launch in early 2006). ESPN currently features licensing agreements with every major domestic carrier, including up-to-the-minute scores, news and headlines; ring tones, games, photo galleries, Spanish-language content and more.
Previously, Jha served as senior vice president and general manager, emerging media and data services, since March 2003. In this role, Jha was responsible for overseeing development of ESPN’s broadband initiatives, ESPN Wireless, the editorial operations of SportsTicker and interactive and on demand television.
Jha also served as senior vice president, sales strategy and new media in the ESPN Affiliate Sales and Marketing group. In that capacity he spearheaded ESPN’s distribution efforts for advanced interactive services, syndication sales, special markets distribution, affiliate sales strategy and affiliate operations. In addition to growing ESPN’s video on demand and pay-per-view businesses, in 2002, he led ESPN’s launches of ESPN Broadband, a service designed for high speed internet networks, and ESPN Today, a sports virtual channel with extensive on demand audio and video features.
While overseeing ESPN’s syndication sales efforts, Jha drove sales and business development efforts by leveraging ESPN’s extensive live and archival content to regional sports networks and cable affiliates around the US, and coordinated development of original and proprietary programming for ESPN’s regional partners. Through the special markets division, Jha expanded ESPN’s television reach by millions of incremental viewers per week. He was also responsible for managing non-linear (interactive TV, ESPN Braodband,VOD, etc.) content distribution to hotels, bars, airplanes, college campuses, retail stores and other non-traditional market segments.
Jha joined ESPN in January 1991 as a commercial sales analyst in the ad sales department and has held numerous positions throughout the company, before being named director, affiliate operations and planning in ESPN’s affiliate sales and marketing group. In 1999, he was elevated to the position of vice president of affiliate sales development and operations, overseeing affiliate operations, managing national accounts and contributing to growing ESPN’s affiliate businesses. In 2001, he was promoted to lead ESPN’s new media distribution initiatives as vice president, broadband and interactive television sales.
In September 2004, Jha was elected president of NAMIC, National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications, for a two-year term. Jha received his bachelor’s of arts degree in philosophy and religion from Colgate University in 1990.
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Mr Danny Kalish,
CTO,
Unipier
Danny Kalish is the CTO of Unipier, the pioneer of Intelligent Policy Management. Danny is Unipier’s technological visionary and thought leader. He is an expert in mobile content presentation and management.
Before joining Unipier Danny founded Niragongo in 1999 and served as the company President and CTO until 2004. Prior to this, Danny founded Interbit T&C Ltd., a leading hi-tech training and consulting company, where he was co-managing director for four years. He is a seasoned Internet veteran and Java Guru, as well as a known consultant and instructor in this area.
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Francis Keeling,
Country Manager UK,
Universal Music Mobile
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Stuart Kemp,
UK Bureau Chief,
Hollywood Reporter
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Mr Matthew Kershaw,
Head Of Interactive, Interactive,
MTV Networks UK & Ireland
Matthew is the general manager of all new media businesses for MTV Networks UK & Ireland which has a portfolio of 9 channels including MTV, MTV Hits, MTV Base, MTV2, MTV Dance, VH1, VH2, VH1 Classic and TMF. Matthew has over 13 years experience across youth and music consumer media, working for brands such as MTV, Kiss FM, The Guardian, BBC and Channel 4. In his current role, he is responsible for all of MTV Networks UK's non-linear business including iTV, mobile, online and other new platforms. His department is the centre of excellence for MTV Europe's mobile video content, creating the first video programming commissioned specifically for 3G phones in early 2003.
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 Mr Eric Korte,
Vice President Music Director,
Saatchi & Saatchi
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Mark Krendel,
Head of New Media,
Polydor
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Stuart Lambert,
Head of Mobile,
Graphico New Media - Ann Summers
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 Mr Olivier Laury,
Director of Content, Services, Mobile Multimedia & i-mode,
Bouygues Telecom
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 Mr Ross Levinsohn,
Senior Vice President and General Manager,
FOX Sports Interactive
As Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ross Levinsohn is responsible for the overall interactive business unit of Fox Sports and Fox Sports Net. In this role, Levinsohn’s responsibilities include oversight of all aspects of the interactive businesses including internet, wireless, broadband and interactive television for Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net, Fox Sports World and Fuel, the extreme sports channel.
Prior to joining Fox, Levinsohn served as Vice President and Executive Producer of the AltaVista Network. In this role, he was responsible for the overall development and implementation of the AltaVista Network, which included all search, directory and content areas within the site.
Previously, Levinsohn served as Vice President, Programming and Executive Producer of CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw all programming, content and development for the top rated sports site.
Prior to making the leap to the interactive world, Levinsohn spent 7 years at HBO where he served as Director of Production Enterprises for HBO Sports. In that role, he developed programming, video, licensing, merchandising and new media opportunities for the pay cable network. He previous jobs included time at sports marketing agency ProServ, ad agency Saatchi and Saatchi and publicity and marketing firm, Lapin and Rose.
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 Mr Shlomo Liran,
CEO,
3 Scandinavia
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Mr Christian Lutz,
Vice President Media Product Unit and GM Europe,
Qpass
Christian brings to Qpass a solid background in the media, technology and wireless industries. Christian joins Qpass as VP Media Product Unit and GM, Europe as a result of the acquisition of ucp morgen which he co-founded in 1999 and served as CEO. During his six year tenure at ucp morgen, Christian was responsible for several rounds of financing and establishing the company as one of Europe's top tier mobile service providers to operators and media companies. Prior to ucp morgen, Christian was the CEO of Austria Online and Vienna Online, Austria's leading online service of regional newspapers, access-provider and advertising network. Before Austria Online Christian co-founded in 1993 CMB, a software company providing digital archiving systems for museums and galleries, which he sold in 1996. Christian holds an Industrial Engineering degree from the Technical Secondary School Bregenz / Technical University Vienna.
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Mr David MacQueen,
Analyst, Mobile,
Screen Digest
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Steve Mayall,
Director,
MusicAlly
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 Mr Terry McBride,
CEO (Manager of Avril Lavigne, Dido, The Stereophonics),
Nettwerk Productions
Terry McBride is one of the three founding owners of Canada's Largest Independent Record Label, Nettwerk Productions. Started in Terry's small apartment in 1984, with partners Mark Jowett and Ric Arboit, Nettwerk Productions has grown rapidly and today has major corporate offices in Vancouver, New York, London and Los Angeles.
Terry McBride is the CEO of Nettwerk Productions which includes Nettwerk Records (Record Label), Nettwerk Management (Artist, DJ and Producer management), Music Publishing, Nettmedia (Web and DVD design), and Artwerks (Graphic and Fashion design).
In 1996, Terry McBride, with partners Sarah McLachlan, Dan Fraser and Marty Diamond founded one of the most prolific and eclectic concert tours of the 1990's; "Lilith Fair". The concept of an all female headline traveling concert tour was unheard of, but from 1997 to 1999 "Lilith Fair" changed the music business forever. Not only was "Lilith Fair" the dominant tour of its time, it changed the radio business, launched musical careers and in the process "Lilith Fair" raised over 10 million dollars for various woman's charities. Lilith Fair was a 3year plan from the start. True to its original concept, it wrapped up in 1999, and its impact is still being felt today.
Nettwerk Management exclusive clients include such multi-million selling artists as, Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Sarah McLachlan and Sum 41. In the year 2000, Nettwerk Management expanded it's roster to include Producers/Mixers and DJS and now has a client list of over 40 world renowned professionals including Howard Benson (POD), Cliff Magnus (Avril Lavigne), Randy Staub (Nickelback, Metallica) and Mark Trombino (Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World)
Since its inception Nettwerk Productions has been responsible for the release of over 400 different albums that have amassed worldwide sales in excess of 100 million albums. With multiple #1 albums and singles throughout the world, Nettwerk has grown from a small Vancouver Record Label into an International Musical powerhouse.
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Mr Doug Melbourne,
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
Orange Multimedia Operations
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 Mr Eric Mika,
Managing Director,
Variety
As managing director of Variety International, Mr. Mika oversees Variety business operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East and South America. In 1989 Mr. Mika joined the international media newspaper, Variety and was part of the key team, which contributed to the global success of Variety. Mr Mika successfully exploited the Variety brand throughout Europe and beyond, creating publishing partnerships and new business initiatives that expanded the brand's reach and profitability.
Prior to Mr. Mika current position he held the post as senior vice-president, of a Vivendi Universal company. Based in Paris and employed by Vivendi to create the first international multi-access (PDA, telephone, PC, mobile) direct marketing, advertising sales and content company for Vivendi Universal's affiliate companies and its competitors. He successfully launched five VU digital sales and marketing companies throughout Europe.
In 2002 Mr. Mika developed the Advertising Content market in Cannes, a market dedicated to bringing together the traditional content providers, advertisers/brands and mobile operators.
Mr. Mika continues to be dedicated to contect global content providers, distributors, and the world of mobile devices and Variety is uniquely positioned to create such global bridges.
Mr. Mika grew up throughout Europe. With his family he has lived in France, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands. Professionally Mr. Mika has worked in Rome, London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris. A graduate from New York University, Mr. Mika and his wife, Cinzia have three children.
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 Mr Tim Mitchell,
Vice President,
Independent Online Distribution Alliance
Tim's current role is managing all music licensing for IODA's 600+ independent labels, and he drives product development and strategy in marketing, promotion, and core technologies.
Recently Tim re-launched MP3.com at CNET Networks as the site Director in May 2004. There, he was responsible for managing MP3.com, its business strategy and technologies. He played a key role in the re-launch, providing a new brand, focus, strategy and directive.
In 1996, Tim started his internet career at Wired Magazine and soon moved to Hotwired, the first commercial media website. In 1998 he founded grassroots web-casting site Nineup.com to showcase local San Francisco artists using the then new power of streaming media before "streaming media" was even a buzzword. He held product management roles at Lycos Music, while also hosting the Wired News online radio show "Music Spin" and acting as a member of the Board of the Popular Noise Foundation, a San Francisco based non-profit whose goal was promoting local independent musicians. Later, he held a strategic product development role as Terra/Lycos in their Global Product Development group where he worked heavily in the realms of music, streaming media, and media player software.
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Steve Nuttall,
Director of Business Development,
BSkyB
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 Ms Charmaine Oak,
Principal Designer, Charging & billing,
Orange
Charmaine is Principal Designer of Charging & Billing in Orange UK. Her technical responsibilities include Content Billing. Charmaine was earlier a Technical Architect in LogicaCMG and a Design Authority for the Customer Care and Recharge Management products for Mobile Operators for which she introduced and architected a .NET solution. Being one of the earliest to complete the MCSD.NET qualification, she provided critical expertise on Web development, XML Web Sevices and Security.
After obtaining her MBA, Charmaine worked for a number of years with Wipro Information Technology where she coordinated Customer Support and developed application solutions for Wipro’s extensive customer base. She then founded Visionix, a software consultancy where her major achievement was the launch of Talent, a cross platform, function rich and versatile application generator, based upon a high level specification script. In addition to telecommunications, she has extensive experience in developing and implementing a variety of applications in Airlines, Banking, Manufacturing, Export, Insurance, Market Research and Messaging and Reconciliation.
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Mr Stuart O'Brien,
Special Projects Editor,
Mobile Entertainment
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 Mr Victor Penev,
Vice President Playboy Online,
Playboy Enterprises International
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Jean Marc Perera,
Vice President New Media Business Development,
Alcatel
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 Mr Cedric Ponsot,
CEO,
Universal Mobile
As Chief Marketing Officer at SFR from 1997-2000, Cedric was instrumental in the incredible development and growth of the company, notably by launching the first content services on cell phones. In 2000, he participated in the expansion of the Vivendi Universal group in the new technologies domain and was appointed Executive Vice-President Marketing International of Vivendi Universal Net. In 2002 he founded Vivendi Universal Net for Mobile (acquired by Universal Music International in February 2003 and subsequently renamed). In 2003, he was named President of Universal Music Mobile International, which produces and distributes personalization and content services for cell phone users across Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
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Miss Tanya Price,
Head of Business Development,
BBC Broadcast Ltd
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 Mr Arne Rees,
Head of Strategy and Partnerships,
UEFA
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Giles Richter,
CEO,
Mowave - Maxim Mobile
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 Mr Scott Robinson,
General Manager,
Alcatel
Alcatel offers a range of turnkey solutions for enabling the monetization of content on new media consisting of Alcatel’s own best-in-class hosting platforms, enabling technology and partner products.
In his role as General Manager, New Media Projects, Scott is responsible for helping content owners create new value through new media by leveraging Alcatel’s turnkey solution approach, global reach, Operator and partner relationships and innovative deal structuring.
Scott’s current focus is leading Alcatel’s America’s Cup new media project.
Scott's background is in marketing, business economics and technology management. He has also worked extensively in the development and profitable introduction of content-rich mobile and broadband services.
Scott is a regular presenter at international telecommunications conferences and regularly contributes to telecommunications trade publications. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and an Honors degree in Communications Engineering.
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Richard Sedgewick,
Managing Director, EMEA,
Motricity
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John Smelzer,
Senior Vice President,
FOX Interactive
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Graham Thomas,
Vice President, Content Services,
T-Mobile
Graham Thomas is Vice-President of Content Services for T-Mobile International. In this role he is responsible for the European consumer marketing of all entertainment and infotainment services within t-zones, T-Mobile’s multimedia service offering. This includes in particular Music, Games and Sports. Recent service launches include Caller Tunes, Mobile Jukebox and Euro 2004.
Previous to T-Mobile, Graham was Vice-President of Strategic Marketing and Content at Cash-U Mobile Technologies Ltd. In this role he was responsible for Cash-U’s marketing activity as well as bringing quality content to the market through relationships in the mobile entertainment industry.
Previous to Cash-U, Graham spent eight years at Nokia Mobile Phones where he was General Manager for Games globally. He founded and managed the games activity for over five years, bringing brands such as Snake and Space Impact to the market on Nokia phones. His team was also responsible for providing the game services in Club Nokia.
Graham was one of the founders and chairman of the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum, which is now the Games Services Working Group in OMA.
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Chris Thomas,
CEO,
Proximity
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 Mr Jérôme Traisnel,
CEO,
Freever
Prior to founding Freever in 1999, Jérôme was Managing Director of the Spanish subsidiary of Schlumberger Test & Transactions, where he was in charge of the sales and production of smart cards for Southern Europe and the Middle East. Between 1994 and 1997, he managed Schlumberger's global Marketing Management Department for smart card applications, and in particular those relating to mobile phones. In 1995, he was jointly responsible for Schlumberger's success in introducing a Java virtual machine (JVM) into a smart card (Javacard); a project that received many distinctions for innovation from around the world. From 1992 to 1994, he was a product manager for the development of the emerging mobile phone sector. Jérôme began his career as a Telecom sales engineer at Texas Instruments, in charge of selling DSP solutions for mobile phones. He holds an engineering graduate degree from ENSIEG (Grenoble-France) and a Masters in Marketing from ESSEC (Paris-France).
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Mr Steven Trew,
Head of Mobile,
Financial Times
Steven was appointed Head of Mobile Services worldwide for FT.com in January 2003. In his first year Steven redeveloped and relaunched the direct mobile services and signed licensing deals with Vodafone, Orange, T Mobile, O2, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Outercurve (Blackberry) amongst others. Steven joined the Financial Times in January 2002, prior to the launch of premium content on FT.com to establish corporate subscriptions sales teams and systems. Previously, Steven worked as the EMEA Major Accounts Director for Equifax PLC and National Sales Director for the Infocheck Group Ltd.
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Mr Richard Trumble,
Director,
Dow Jones
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Mr David Warga,
Executive Producer,
Naked News
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 Mr Leighton Webb,
Vice President, Wireless Entertainment,
Fox Mobile Entertainment
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 Mr Nick Wheeler,
Managing Director Multimedia Content,
ITN
Nicholas Wheeler has a dual role as Managing Director of ITN’s Multimedia Content division responsible for developing ITN’s interests in news on mobile phones and in broadband as well as Chief Editor, ITN Radio, a position he took up in March 1996, six months after joining ITN as Editor of Independent Radio News (IRN). For some year’s Nick has been widely renowned as one of the radio industry’s leading figures in news programming, and is now adding earning a reputation in mobile news content as well.
In his first year since appointment he has established ITN mobile video news on a number of platforms but especially on Vodafone live!, O2 Active, developed its position on 3 and broadened its content offering beyond hard news to include more fun and entertainment packages.
Nicholas began his journalistic career in local newspapers in 1972 and moved into radio in 1979 as a news producer at BBC Radio Solent. In 1984 he worked as a news producer for Radio One’s ‘Newsbeat’ and the following year joined Capital Radio to help start the highly successful and popular news programme ‘The Way It Is’.
Two years later in 1987 Nicholas took control of Capital’s News and Talks Department, pioneering a new style of radio news presentation. In 1994 he was appointed Programme Controller to oversee the running of Capital FM and Capital Gold and, in the same year, he beat Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme to win the prestigious Sony Award for Best News Programme.
He sees his role in mobile phones as a logical development of his radio career creating new content for a new medium but bringing to it the same attributes of speed and presentation.
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Mr Simon Wheeler,
Head of New Media,
Beggars Group
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Mr Gerard Wiener,
Director & General Manager Nokia Games Business Program,
Nokia
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Mr Chris Windebank,
Director Product Development & Mobile,
Disney
Chris Windebank is Head of Product Development at Walt Disney Internet Group, responsible for defining and delivering new media products across fixed line & mobile platforms across Europe. He has been with Disney since 2001 and in this time has launched Disney Mobile with operators, aggregators and direct to consumers across most of the markets in Europe. Chris has a long track record in product development, first with shrink-wrap software, then telecommunications and finally internet video before arriving at Disney. Currently he is working on a next generation of video centric products that bring new Disney properties to mobile consumers.
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Mr Philip Wu,
Director, Content Strategy and Marketing,
Singtel
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Mr Henry Yeh,
CTO,
Com2Us
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