iHollywood Forum, Inc. today announced the lineup for its 12th Mobile Entertainment Summit (www.ihollywoodforum.com), focusing on the hottest topics in mobile entertainment, including: video, advertising and marketing, games, digital rights management, multimedia messaging and investment. MES is the world's longest-running and largest mobile entertainment summit. It's the only event that provides personal access to the industry's visionaries and business leaders as well as the newest technologies propelling the mobile world today.
MES brings together the mobile Internet's visionaries. We examine the exploding off-deck market, mobile streaming, and downloaded music, games, video and other rich media. We also explore the implications of convergence technologies such as WiFi and Wimax.
"With more than a billion entertainment-enabled cell phones in the world today, mobile entertainment has the potential to dwarf all other forms of digital content in the years ahead," said Michael Stroud, iHollywood Forum Co-Founder and CEO, "At Mobile Entertainment Summit, we plan to showcase the latest and greatest in mobile video, music, games, social networking, search and countless other applications that are transforming the air waves."
Panels include:
- Hollywood Unwired
- Mobile Video Business Models Demystified
- From Phone to YouTube to Phone Again
- Mobile Advertising
- Mobile Messaging
- Mobile Music: New Ways of Searching & Listening
- The Quest for Console-Level Mobile Gaming
- Social Networks Go Mobile
- Selling To The Americas
- Bollywood, Kpop and the World Cup
- Redefining Search for a Mobile World
- Live Mobile Focus Group
- Defining Convergence
- Cell Phones for the IM Generation
Current keynotes are:
- FOX Interactive Media, John Smelzer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile
- MediaFLO USA Inc., Dan Novak, Vice President of Programming and Advertising
- Verizon Wireless, Tammy Robinson, Manager, Games Content and Programming
New this year to MES is the AT&T Developer Workshop, a one hour interactive workshop open to all MES ticket holders. This workshop will offer marketing strategies, product roadmap, SDKs, and technical information to help developers test, build, launch and market their applications and services. For more information about the workshop please visit, http://www.ihollywoodforum.com/MES_developer_2007.htm
Developer Workshop Hosts
- AT&T, Deanna Garcia, Director, Developer Program
- AT&T, Madeline Herdich, Director, Business Development
Featured speakers and panelists at the Mobile Entertainment Summit include:
- Accel Partners, Richard P. Wong, Partner
- AOL, Marcien Jenckes, Senior Vice President, Messaging and Social Media
- AT&T, Gregg Brown, Senior Manager, Music
- Discovery, Doug Craig, Vice President, Programming, New Media Operations
- Endemol, Jon Vlassopulous, Vice President, Business Development, Strategic Planning and New Media
- Ericsson, Peter Laurin, Vice President, Multimedia, System Integration and Hosting Market Unit North America
- Fox Interactive Media, Chandra Hill, Executive Director, Mobile Business Operations
- go2, Lee Hancock, Chief Executive Officer and Founder
- Handango, Inc., Shawn Freeman, Chief Technology Officer
- Handheld Entertainment, Jeff Oscodar, Chief Executive Officer
- Helio, Doug Britt, Senior Director of Products/Services
- ICM, Michael Kernan, Vice President
- Intermedia Film Equities, Linda Benjamin, Executive Vice President, Business Affairs
- Ipsos Insight, Matt Kleinschmit, Vice President
- Iqzone, Inc., Michael Bates, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Javien, Leslie Poole, Chief Executive Officer
- Kajeet, Marc Zachary, Vice President, Content and Partnerships
- Konami, Joe Morris, Vice President, Mobile Content
- Metacafe, Erik Smith, Vice President of Content and Programming
- Mozes, Dorrian Porter, Chief Executive Officer
- Napster, Brad Duea, President
- Navteq, Robert Gourdine, Director of Marketing and Business Development, North American Consumer Business Unit
- Neustar, Steve Granek, Vice President, IP Services Business Development
- Newegg, Bob Bilbruck, Director Business Development Emerging Technologies
- News Over Wireless, Sam Matheny, General Manager
- Daniel Offner, Partner, Interactive Entertainment and Media Team Leader
- Oxy Systems, Michael Krasner, President and Chief Executive Officer
- PacketVideo, Joel Espelien, Chief Business Officer
- QUALCOMM Internet Services, Mike Yuen, Senior Director, BREW Gaming Group
- Reality Digital, Cynthia Francis, Chief Executive Officer
- SafeNet, Dr. Simon Blake-Wilson, Managing Director, DRM
- Shozu, Mark Bole, Chief Executive Officer
- Streamezzo, Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven, Chief Marketing Office
- Televisa Digital, Eugenio Velasco, Mobile Services Director
- TeliaSonera AB, Kelly Odell, Senior Vice President, Group Marketing
- Universal Mobile Music-US, Julie Lee, Vice President, Sales and Licensing
- Univision Communications, Christopher Brunner, Vice President, Mobile Content & Services
- Virgin Mobile USA, Saj Cherian, Director of New Data Services
- Walt Disney Internet Group, Stan Liu, Vice President, Mobile Content Development, North American Mobile, mDisney/Starwave Mobile
- Warner Bros Records, Jeremy Welt, Vice President, New Media
- WiFi TV, Alex Kanakaris, Founder and Chairman
- Yahoo!, Michael Bayle, General Manager, Global Monetization
Sponsors and Partners at MES 2007 include:
Silver Sponsor: iqzone
Bronze Sponsors: Ericsson, NeuStar, News Over Wireless, Streamezzo, PacketVideo, Javien, Handheld Entertainment, LocationFree, Safenet, Wi-Fi TV, Reality Digital, Agilyst, Myst Technologies.
Exhibiting Sponsor: mBlox
Contributing Sponsor: Nixon Peabody
Media and Association Partners: ABI Research, Business Wire, Chetan Sharma Consulting, Conference Guru, D&A-High Tech Information, Daily IPTV, DailyWireless, Digdia, Ipsos, iProng, IPTV Industry, iSuppli, JuniperResearch, mpeg Industry Forum, Newtonstrand, Octane, Parks Associates, RCR Wireless News, Rogers & Cowan, SNL Kagan, TelecomView, Television Week, The Diffusion Group, Triple Play News, VOIP-News, WiMax Industry.
To register for the May 2007 Mobile Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles, please visit http://www.ihollywoodforum.com/mes_may2007_register.htm.
About iHollywood Forum, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Los Angeles-based iHollywood Forum, Inc. produces next-gen roundtables and business summits about digital entertainment and mobile technology. The summits attract a diverse mix of Hollywood and technology executives, entrepreneurs, attorneys and others to learn and make deals in an intimate environment. Sessions are typically moderated by top journalists and analysts.
Press Information:
Press Credentials to attend Mobile Entertainment Summit:
Complimentary admission for qualified editorial media is available through pre-registration ONLY for Mobile Entertainment Summit. Journalists are encouraged to submit their press credentials by sending an email to jay@ihollywoodforum.com with press outlet in advance as space and luncheon capacity is limited. Priority admission will be given to pre-registered press.
iHollywood Forum Press Contact:Jay Aguila iHollywood Forum, Inc. 310-566-7743 jay@ihollywoodforum.comTo Arrange Speaker Interviews or Registration Information:Zahava Stroud Contact@iHollywoodForum.com 310-566-7745
