Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here CES 2007, Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall Digital Hollywood at CES The Agenda - Day Two Tuesday, January 9th Noon - 1:00 PM Session C – DH14 Vlogs - Broadband and Mobile Video Blogging: Next Gen Entertainment and Journalism, Social Networking and Personal Communication As sure as the soapbox turned into the blog, the web blog is opening the door to the Vlogs, the video blogs. As next generation broadband increases and as the technologies that make the video blog accessible and easy to produce and manage, the world of Vlogs is about to explode. If bloggers have made journalists groan, then the coming of Vlogs will make the world of TV news and TV entertainment howl. The ability for the individual to reach out to the world through video is about to become as ordinary as text messaging is today. Video as a primary communications and entertainment tool for the individual is an idea that has yet to arrive, but is only around the corner. What is means to the content, communications, technology and advertising industries is anyone’s guess. It may be the next revolution! Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble Dina Kaplan, co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, blip.tv Kevin Sladek, co-founder, VideoEgg Josh Felser, CEO, Grouper Networks Michael Folgner, CEO, Jumpcut Dave Toole, co-founder and CEO, Outhink Media Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC., Moderator Mike Folgner – CEO and Co-founder, Jumpcut. Mike has extensive experience in marketing, sales and business development in interactive video technologies. Mike was Director of Business Development at OpenTV Inc., a leading provider of interactive television software and consumer video products, where he helped build the company’s consumer interactive applications business. Mike has experience in sales and partnership development and has managed projects to build consumer facing interactive television products. Mike also worked in business and competitive strategy for Hewlett-Packard. Mike has an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he developed the business plan for Jumpcut. Kevin Sladek, co-founder & Chief Opportunity Officer (COO), VideoEgg: As co-founder and COO of VideoEgg, Kevin identifies and leads key development and partnership efforts and drives the Company’s overall growth strategy. Prior to VideoEgg, he co-founded MediaLiquid, a network of more than 5,000 independent filmmakers producing Public Service Announcements for non-profit organizations. MediaLiquid PSAs run on a variety of national broadcast and cable outlets, and have earned coveted primetime placements in Fox Television’s That 70’s Show and The OC. Kevin received a BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University, despite the persistent distraction of an intense interest in digital filmmaking. Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of blip.tv, overseeing all business operations for the company. This includes facilitating media partnerships, distribution deals, public relations, marketing, site and channel sponsorships and investor relations. Before blip.tv, Dina was a news reporter with WNBC and WAVE3 News, the NBC affiliates in New York City and Louisville, Kentucky. She also reported for News12 Long Island and News12 New Jersey. Dina won an Emmy for Spot News last summer and in prior years has won Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Deadline Reporting, Service Reporting and Feature Reporting and Associated Press Awards for Best Feature and for Breaking Spot News. Before reporting, Dina spent four years at MTV News as a producer and helped coordinate MTV's Choose or Lose coverage of the 1996 Presidential Election, helping to register more than 50,000 college students around the country to vote. After graduating from college, Dina worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel's Office and later as Special Assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel. Dina graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics, Government, Philosophy and History. She sits on the National Board of Wesleyan University and is a Founding Board Member of the Women’s Media Center. Mary Hodder is CEO of Dabble, a recently launched company aiming to be 'the most comprehensive search and social search site on the planet', by helping users organize, search, tag, describe and promote video. An information architect and 'live web' search expert, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and search services. She blogs at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and was an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy). She has a Masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information, researching digital media and information technology, with it's attendant issues of traditional journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. Dave Toole is the co-founder and CEO of Outhink Media, the developer of technologies and services that power Media 2.0, the major social networking phenomenon propelling individuals to create and produce Web-based media. In March, Outhink Media launched the first of its network affiliates, TowerPod, a podcasting property for Tower Records. Mr. Toole founded Outhink Media in 2001 to fuse his expertise in technology and business with his love of music and creative expression, as he is a serious garage band musician. Mr. Toole and Outhink Media have spent the last five years developing one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet - personal media production, podcasting and the development of right-cleared file sharing. Currently, Outhink Media’s network includes: TowerPod, OurMedia, 49 Media, MVP Performance, and SpinXpress. Prior to founding Outhink Media, Mr. Toole spent 30 years in the semiconductor industry. He was Chairman/CEO of GaSonics International (Nasdaq;GSNX), a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer that was acquired by Novellus Systems in 2001. During Mr. Toole’s tenure, GaSonics was recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the 90’s by Forbes and Fortune magazines, and one of the most profitable in its industry segment. During his leadership, shareholder value increased more than 10-fold. He spearheaded several product initiatives which lead the company to a global industry leadership position and led several acquisitions, highlighted by being one of the first American companies to purchase a Japanese semiconductor company. Prior to GaSonics, Mr. Toole held management positions at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Toole was first introduced to the ARPANET during his college years at the University of California Santa Barbara where he earned a degree in Business. Mr. Toole lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family. Mariana Danilovic is the founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, an accelerator, developer, advisor and operator of digital media companies. Ms. Danilovic was the CEO of WITI, an international media and events company. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG, which developed numerous cross-platform entertainment companies. She headed business development for Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment and was part of the management team for the $60 million media fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Ms. Danilovic worked with Michael Milken's Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. Mariana earned an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA