Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Hollywood Europe in London, ExCeL London, The Docklands November 29 - December 1, 2006 The Agenda - Day Two Thursday, November 30th 3:50 PM – 5:00 PM Track IV: Social Networking on Mobile & the Web: Content, Communications and Monetizing Social Networks and User generated content is having a disruptive effect upon advertisers, media companies, brand marketers and content owners around the world. While the media industry scrambles to execute legitimate digital media business strategies that drive revenue, sites like Youtube are propagating worldwide distribution of viral video content. Increasingly, content owners are caught in the middle, unwilling to allow unauthorized distribution of content but at the same time, realizing the strategic opportunity of using these sites – even going into business with these sites or even creating their own in-house version of these social networks and user generated media sites - to reach target audiences. On one hand, content owners and marketers need to monitor, understand and work with the world of social networks, while at the same time the need to find a way to syndicate, control and monetize their content on these sites as well as to find ways to build out their own networks and compete in the world of social networks and user generated sites. This panel will explore how content owners and technology companies are leveraging these new channels in unique ways to reach audiences and creative technology solutions for controlling this type of content distribution. Sean Kane, Vice President , Intercasting Corporation Gilles Babinet, Chairman & Co-Founder, eYeka Vassil Mladjov, founder and ceo, Blogtronix Samir Addamine, co-founder, Head Sales & Marketing, Clicmobile Nimrod Kozlovsk, Strategy and Legal Affairs, Oversi Chris Seth, MD Europe, Piczo Inc. Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch UK, Moderator Gilles Babinet, Co-Founder and Chairman of Eyeka: Gilles Babinet successfully created and managed various successful businesses as CEO. At the age of 24, he set up Absolut, a consultancy firm specializing in product design and marketing that became, under his management, a major consultancy group in its field in France. Through Absolut, Gilles was involved in the emerging Entertainment mobile market from the very beginning and sold Absolut at the beginning of 2000 to Euro-RSCG, a worldwide communications group, in order to fully dedicate himself to the creation of Musiwave. In 5 years, Musiwave has become the leading European provider of mobile music and entertainment services to telecommunication operators and media (presence in more than 17 countries throughout the world along with 30 mobile operators). Musiwave has been sold to Openwave a public American company for $121M in Jan 2006. Since then, Gilles has launch Eyaka, a company that provide mobile video services. Eyeka just finalised a fundraise of $5M with Ventech and DN capital. Along with this, Gilles serves as non executive director in the Mobile Entertainment Forum as well as in the company Digicompanion. Sean Kane, Vice President , Intercasting Corporation: Sean Kane is Vice President of Intercasting Corporation, which provides a leading solution for mobile user-generated community to customers around the world. Sean’s focus is ensuring that Intercasting Corp.’s applications are globally available and compelling for community members to interact with mobile media and commerce content. Sean is a serial entrepreneur in large and small organizations, having successfully delivered consumer and technology product revenues over the last fifteen years in the United States, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Vassil Mladjov, founder and ceo, Blogtronix: Vassil is a novel entrepreneur with over 10 years of executive and technical startup experience focusing on business collaboration with the latest web technologies. Vassil started working with computers and software development in the early 1980’s. While still in high-school, he developed a number of applications including calendars, information directory service and computer-based text advertising systems. Most recently, Vassil Mladjov founded Blogtronix with George Athannassov. Blogtronix is a Web 2.0 startup focusing on enterprise community blogging, wikis and social networking. In early 2002, Mladjov founded StreamingMarketplace.com, an on-line exchange focusing on streaming media technology and services. Over the years he has created new business models for the digital media industry and has worked closely with Microsoft, Apple, Akamai, Speedera, PBS, Charles Schwab, Sun Microsystems and Wells Fargo. Vassil Mladjov has also worked as a CTO for AlwaysOn Network, VP and director of technology for corporate communications at ABN AMRO Bank, VP and CIO for ITN where he was in charge of media streaming operations, media hosting and biz development, and as technology consultant with UB Group, Preferred Technology, and Sage Clearing. After graduating from SFSU with Finance in 1999, Vassil worked on a startup with Sun Microsystems’ executives for offering business software over the Internet as a service (today know as SaaS) via Web terminals. Samir Addamine, Head business development and marketing, Co-founder CLICMOBILE: Samir Addamine brings over 10 years of experience in business development and marketing to ClicMobile. He is responsible for the company’s corporate development, business strategy, finance, and product marketing. Prior to founding ClicMobile in 2003, Samir was business development director for the Swedish e-business Framfab, one of Europe’s most distinguished Internet consulting firms. Prior to being promoted to business development director, Samir was a consultant and analyst, responsible for their key clients such as Orange, 3M Europe, and buildonline. In 2003, Samir was recruited by the European Union IST (Information Society Technology) as a consultant for its Medressa II program, which aims at increasing IT activities in Mediterranean countries. Samir has a track record in helping leading organizations to market and deliver bottom line results in CRM/ecommerce interactive solutions. He began his career as a consultant and account coordinator for Absolut Media, where he worked with key clients Gaz de France, Groupe Moniteur and Sofinco. He continues to advise people on LBS MoSoSo as an editor and is regularly invited as expert speaker in conferences about convergent social networking and user generated content services (MEM Mobile entertainment market London, MMA Mobile marketing and advertising conferences Paris, Mobile communities and user generated content conference London, MLS Mobile location services Europe…)Samir holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Belfort Technological University (France), and a master degree in marketing and sales from Negocia Business School (Paris). Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski, Strategy and Legal Affairs, Oversi: Oversi is a leading company in content distribution and traffic optimization on Peep to Peer (P2P) infrastructure. It provides a comprehensive grid-based platform for to the ISP for content distribution, caching and online storage solutions. Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski is a Senior Internet Specialist at Oversi, handling strategy and legal affairs. With Oversi, Kozlovski specializes in P2P Content Distribution Platforms and implementation of P2P-based solutions for the ISPs. He is also a consultant to start-up companies, researcher and lecturer in the fields of Internet and Information law and Information Security, managing <http://www.internetlaws.co.il>www.internetlaws.co.il He received his Doctor degree in law (J.S.D) from Yale Law School and conducted is Post-Doc research in computer science as an associate in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. He teaches and consults in the fields of digital media and Internet law. He is the author of the book "The Computer and the Legal Process" (Israeli Bar Association), co-editor of the forthcoming book on Computer Crime (NYU Press, ed: Jack Balkin et el.) and numerous articles on internet, copyright, privacy law and information security. He was an Adjunct Professor for CyberCrime at New York Law School and is currently a lecturer in Cyberlaw and E-Commerce at Tel Aviv University. He clerked for the Supreme Court's Vice President Dr. Michael Cheshin. Kozlovski is also a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and an Editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy.