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Digital Media
Wire Presents...
GAMES &
MOBILE FORUM
Games & Mobile Entertainment
Opportunities & Developments
technology
► transforming
►entertainment
April 28,
2003
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9:00AM - 7:00PM
The Metropolitan Pavilion
- Gallery
123 West 18th Street
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New
York, NY 10011
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Tel.
212-463-0071
EVENT SPONSORS
& EXHIBITORS
REGISTER HERE
AGENDA -
9:00am - 9:30am
Registration
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9:30am - 10:00am 1st
Keynote Address
Alex St. John
- CEO & Co-Founder, Wild
Tangent
10:00am – 11:15am 1st
Session
Advergames:
Recent Developments & Opportunities
What is the
current state of the advergames business?
Who are the major players?
What are typical project budgets?
Where are the opportunities today?
Learn what it takes to succeed in this developing business.
MODERATOR
Billy Pidgeon - Senior Analyst, Zelos Group
PANELISTS
Keith Ferrazzi - CEO, YaYa
Peter Mack - President, Templar Studios
Joseph Varet
- Vice President, 3dGroove
Charles Kilby -
Director of Product Marketing,
Terra Lycos
Jerry Spiegel - Partner,
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Eric Zimmerman - CEO, gameLab
Robb Lippitt,
COO & General Counsel, ePrize
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11:15am -
11:30am Refreshment
Break & Tech Demos
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11:30am - 12:00pm 2nd
Session Keynote Address
Doug Lowenstein
- President, Interactive Digital
Software Assoc. (IDSA)
12:00am
- 1:00pm 2nd
Session
Developing
Games Based on Film, TV & Music Properties and Visa-Versa
This session will examine what it
takes to develop successful games based on film, television, music &
sports properties, including a focus on licensing characters and
properties for game development. The panel will also look at case
studies concerning the development of film and television properties
based on games. Hear from the experts as they discuss how to position
your next project to reap the benefits of successful game, film or
television development.
MODERATOR
Tom Selz
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Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
PANELISTS
Jason Bell, SVP, Creative
Development, Infogrames
Ray Caldito - Head of Business Development, Warner Bros. Online
Edmond Sanctis - Former President & COO, Acclaim
Jason Schreiber - CEO, Powerhead Games
Rob Sebastian - Managing
Director, The Endeavor Agency
Larry Shapiro -
Motion Picture
Department,
Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
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1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch Break & Tech Demos in
Exhibit Hall
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2:00pm - 2:30pm 3rd
Session Keynote
Stephen Killeen -
CEO, WorldWinner
2:30pm - 3:30pm 3rd
Session
Online Games:
Strategies & Business Models
What is the
current state of online gaming?
Who are the major players?
What are the major barriers to market entry?
Which strategies and business models are succeeding?
MODERATOR
Robert Ferrari
- Managing Director, Convergence Ventures
PANELISTS
Vince Broady - SVP, Consumer Media, CNET,
Co-Founder, GameSpot
Matt Bromberg -
VP & General Manager, AOL Games
Mark Friedler - CEO, Gigex
Dan Hart
- General Manager, Yahoo! Games
Mark Jacobs -
CEO, President, & Co-Founder, Mythic Entertainment
John Welch - VP, Product & Technology, AtomShockwave
Corp.
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3:30pm -
3:45pm Refreshment Break &
Tech Demos in Exhibit Hall
3:45pm – 5:00pm
4th
Session
Mobile Games:
The Coming Wireless
Revolution
(Co-Produced by
Mobile Entertainment Forum)
The market for mobile
games is growing in the U.S. and abroad.
Who are the new players?
Which business models are succeeding?
What are the major legal and policy issues facing the industry?
Where are the opportunities?
MODERATOR
Dan Scherlis
- CEO, Etherplay
PANELISTS
Greg Costikyan -
Chief Creative Officer, Unplugged Games
Scott Pink -
Special Counsel,
Gray Cary
Eugene Evans -
President,
Infinite Ventures
Anders Evju - VP & General Manager,
Digital Bridges
Harry Kargman, CEO,
Kargo
Brad Zutaut
- Founder & CEO,
Xingtone
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6:30pm - 8:30pm
Post-Event Cocktail Reception
The post-event reception
- sponsored by WildTangent,
WorldWinner and web2zone, Inc.
(a division of Samsung) - will be held at web2zone's
Cyber and Gaming Center
located at 54
Cooper Square. The reception includes cocktails, appetizers and
unlimited access to PCs for games and instruction and advice from the
Center's gamer gurus.
REGISTER HERE
EVENT SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS




PRESS REGISTRATION
Please send email with
press credentials to
tinzar@digitalmediawire.com
(Deadline: April 18, 2003)
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Past Event Speakers Include: |
Lyor Cohen
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Chairman/CEO, Island Def Jam
Steve Rennie - Artist Manager, Incubus
John Gage -
Chief Researcher & Director of the Science Office,
Sun Microsystems
Chris Gorog
-CEO,
Roxio
John Perry Barlow - Co-Founder & Vice Chairman,
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Marc Schiller - CEO,
Electric
Artists
Jim Griffin - CEO, Cherry Lane Digital
Marybeth Peters -
Register of Copyrights,
U.S. Copyright Office
Ted Cohen - VP, New Media,
EMI Music
David Del Beccaro, CEO, Music Choice
Donald Katz, Chairman & CEO, Audible.com
John Jeffrey - EVP & Gen. Counsel, Live365
Scott Kauffman, Chairman & CEO, FullAudio
Bob Roback, General Manager, Music, Yahoo! Inc.
Dan Rayburn, Editor, Streaming Media, Inc.
Bill Rose, VP/ General Manager, Arbitron Webcast Services
Andrew Rasiej, CEO, Digital Club Network
Kurt Kurthanson, Publisher, RAIN (Radio & Internet Newsletter)
Whitney
Broussard,
Partner, Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz
Chris Amenita,
SVP, ASCAP
Richard
Conlon - VP, Marketing and
Business Development Media Licensing,
BMI
Tony Conrad - Partner,
Venture
Strategy Partners, Director,
FullAudio
Stacey Herron -
Analyst,
Jupiter Media
Jeff Liebenson - Partner, Entertainment & Media,
KMZ Rosenman
Sean Ryan
- President & CEO,
Listen.com
John Coletta - Director, Operations &
Business Affairs, New Media Licensing,
BMI
Philip Corwin - Partner,
Butera &
Andrews
(counsel to Kazaa)
David Leibowitz - Partner, CH Boston, Co-Founder & Director,
Verance
Mitch Glazier -
SVP Government,
Relations & Legislative Counsel,
RIAA
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director,
Digital Media Association
Jenny Toomey - Executive Director,
Future of Music
Coalition
Scott
Dinsdale, EVP, Digital Strategy, MPAA
Robin Gross, Attorney,
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jonathan Potter, Executive
Director,
Digital Media Association
Lee Shubert, Partner, Entertainment &
Media, KMZ
Rosenman
Noah
Stone, Executive Director,
Recording Artists Coalition
Michael Bracy, Director, Government Relations,
Coalition for the Future of Music
David Brudnicki -
Senior Director, Mobile Multimedia
Services,
AT&T Wireless
Anders Evju -
Vice President & General Manager,
Digital Bridges
Jon Vlassopulos, Senior Director,
Digital World Services
(Bertelsmann)
Gary Gintsling -
Senior Product Manager, Java Group,
Sun Microsystems
Fabrice Grinda - Founder & CEO,
Zingy
Nicholas Lehman
- Vice President,
MTV
McAdory
Lipscomb Jr. -
Marketing & Communications Lead,
Accenture
Alan
Friel, Attorney, Entertainment & Media,
KMZ Rosenman
Raviv Pablo -
Senior
Director, Products & Marketing,
Emblaze Systems
Patrick M. Walsh
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VP, Wireless Data Business Development,
iBiquity Digital
Tim Armstrong, VP Sales,
Google
Bruce Carlisle, CEO,
SF Interactive
Alan Friel, Special Counsel,
KMZ
Rosenman
Aaron Radin, VP
Advertising Sales & Marketing,
GoldPocket Interactive
Greg Stuart,
CEO,
Interactive Ad Bureau
Alan Ives,
Regional Sales Director,
MSN
Rudy Grahn,
Senior Analyst,
Jupiter Media
Orang Dialemeh
- President,
Eyematic
David
Baeza - Managing Director,
BoBo Wireless
Steve Barth - Editor,
Knowledge Management Magazine
Paul Carlander
- Director, Corporate Strategic Finance,
Qualcomm
Gerry Christensen - Director, Business Development,
Verisign
Dr. Rajit Gadh - Professor &
Director,
Wireless Enterprise Lab,
UCLA
Gary Gintsling - Senior Product
Manager, Java Group,
Sun Microsystems
Carl Gunell -
President,
Telemedia
Joe Jasin -
Partner,
Wireless Blueprint
Alex Lightman -
CEO,
Charmed Technology
Victor H. Sim - Of Counsel, Business and Technology,
Brobeck
Kelly Porter - Managing General
Partner,
ZAP Ventures
Eric Pulier - CEO,
Digital Evolution
Dr. Omar El Sawy -
Director,
Center for Telecom Management
Richard Siber
- Partner, Communications & High Tech,
Accenture
Paul Sherman, Co-Founder & Editor,
Potomac Tech Wire
Alice Taylor -
Director of
Advanced Programs,
Boeing
Michael Watson
- Vice President, Zoop International,
Harex InfoTech
Ravin Agrawal
-Partner
EastWest Ventures
Bryan
Biniak - EVP, Business Dev.,
Moviso
Kevin MacLellan - SVP, Intl,
E! Networks
Mark Kapczynski - Principal,
Media & Entertainment Group,
Microsoft
Dr. George T. Geis -
Professor,
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
James Hsu - Attorney,
Jones Day
Mark Kapczynski -
Principal, Media &
Entertainment Solutions Group,
Microsoft
David Nathanson -
VP,Broadband & Channel
Development, Fox Cable Networks Group
Steve Hoffman -
CEO,
Spiderdance
Ken Rutkowski -
CEO,
KenRadio.com
Scott Newmam - Chairman, President & CEO, Goldpocket Interactive
Stephen Condon-SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Intertainer
Ned Sherman - CEO, Digital Media Wire
Ben Mendelson - President, ITA
John Canning - Technical Evangelist, Microsoft eHome
Josh Warner,
Founder, Like Media
Michael Hausman, Co-Founder, United Musicians
Howie Kleinberg,
VP, Marketing, Electric Artists
Trey Bowles,
VP, Strategic Development, StreamCast Networks
Alex Luke, VP, Music Programming, Pressplay
Mark Ghuneim, SVP, Emerging Technologies, Columbia Records
Michelle Robertson, President, DMusic
Kevin Kiernan,
Head of New Media, Astralwerks/EMI
Tim Nilson, VP, Mobile Technology, Sony Music
Maureen S. Dorney, Partner, Gray Cary
Nicholas Lehman, VP, Interactive Business Development, MTV/VH1
David Brudnicki, Sr. Director, Mobile Multimedia,
AT&T Wireless
Ben
Mendelson -
President, ITA
John Canning - Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
eHome
Frank
Beacham
- Writer/Producer & Columnist, TV Technology Magazine
Jonathan Bokor - Director, Bus. Development, ABC Enhanced
Television
James Cantalini - CEO, Gist Communications
Art Cohen - SVP, Advertising, ACTV
Stephen Sprague - CEO, Wave Systems
Gordon Bechtel
- CTO, Spyglass Integration
Rosemary Danon - VP, Interactive Services, Liberty Livewire
Bill Sheppard - Bus. Development Manager, Digital TV, Sun
Microsystems
Jonathan Leess - EVP, Programming & Production, GoldPocket
Interactive
Gerrit Niemeijer - Chief Technology Officer, Visible World
Fritz Attaway - Washington General Counsel, MPAA
Manuel Trujillo - Senior Product Manager, Horizon, Motorola
Russell Frackman - Attorney & Lead Counsel to RIAA (Napster
litigation)
Ebrahim Keshavarz - EVP, Sales &
Marketing,
Digital World Services (Bertelsmann) |
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