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 One Wednesday, November 29th 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Track II: Citizen Media – Blogs, Podcasts, Activist Media & Personalized News Tim Faircliff, General Manager, Consumer Media UK and EMEA, Reuters Art Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC Neil Macintosh, Assistant Editor, The Guardian Alfie Dennen, - Co-Founder, MoBlog UK Gigi Johnson, Principal, Maremel Partners; Lecturer, Entertainment and Media Management Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management Karl Schneider, Editorial Development Director, Reed Business Information, Moderator Neil McIntosh is a British journalist working for Guardian Unlimited, The Guardian newspaper's website. He is assistant editor of the site, and has led its introduction of weblogs and podcasts in recent years. He speaks regularly on innovation in journalism in Europe and the US. He has been called "the godfather of British commercial weblogging" http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/07/06/interview-with-ashley-norris-shiny-media/ for his promotion of weblogging, and its commercial possibilities, while in his previous job as deputy editor of the Guardian newspaper's technology section, Online, between 1999 and 2004. It was in this job that he, with Victor Keegan, became one of Britain's first mainstream journalists to blog regularly. Their site, Onlineblog, was started in 2001, and was the forerunner of the Guardian's current network of weblogs, including Comment is free. McIntosh was educated at Dunoon Grammar School, Argyll and Napier University, Edinburgh, and lives in London. Alfie Dennen, - Co-Founder, MoBlog UK: Alfie Dennen is a web developer working in both mobile and user generated content arenas. Socially motivated and user created sites such as moblogUK (www.moblog.co.uk) and We're Not Afraid (www.werenotafraid.com) show his interest in the power of the web and mobile to create social space and meaning. Alfie heads up business development at moblogUK. Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC, a media and entertainment advisory firm that helps creative managers and entrepreneurs make bet-the-company decisions on issues such as starting-up, financing, and buy-vs-sell decisions, particularly for companies where technology and the Internet play a significant role in determining success or failure. Tipping Point Partners also incubates new companies that will make investments in media and entertainment. Art hw firm, with the largest and the only international entertainment law practice in the U.S. Art joined Gas over 20 years of experience in start-up company settings, including a Chinese-language e-commerce company; an international television distribution business; and a $2.3 billion public real estate development. Prior to Tipping Point Partners, Art was Chief Operating Officer of GT Advisory Co., LLC, where he formed and managed software and services businesses that leveraged the law firm's capabilities. GT Advisory is a subsidiary of Greenberg Traurig, the fourth largest U.S. laT Advisory from the New York City Investment Fund, a $100 million venture capital fund organized by Henry Kravis and Jerry Speyer, where he provided advice on investments in distributed computing, enterprise software, and digital media. Prior to that, Art was an investment banker with experience on over $1 billion of diverse private equity and M&A transactions in power generation, real estate, equipment lease finance, biotech and technology. In 1997, Art co-founded Venture Downtown, the annual venture capital conference in New York City. Art began his career in architecture and real estate development, where he worked on over 50 residential, commercial and public projects totaling over $350 million in construction, including a $100 million project for I.M. Pei. Art volunteers on the Board of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation, the supporting organization for the fourth largest public library system in the U.S. and on Yale's Alumni Schools Committee, where he interviews undergraduate applicants to Yale University. Art received his M.B.A. in finance from New York University and his B.A. in women's studies with a concentration in art history from Yale. Art lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Allison Thrush, a private equity professional, and their two boys. Tim Faircliff is General Manager of Reuters consumer media business in the UK and EMEA. In this role, he leads the Sales, Marketing and Development of the company’s multimedia news and information products available on digital media platforms including Reuters.co.uk, mobile applications, and internet delivered television. The products are targeted at consumers in the areas of news, business information and financial investments. He joined Reuters from the Telegraph Group where he worked for seven years in a number of digital media roles, most recently as General Manager of Telegraph.co.uk managing all programming, development and marketing aspects of the site. An active member of the online industry, he is on the boards of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and of the IDM/IAB Digital Marketing Council. He has a degree from the London School of Economics in Monetary Economics. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two children, follows Crystal Palace enthusiastically and plays the drums loudly. Gigi Johnson, Principal, Maremel Partners; Lecturer, Entertainment and Media Management Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management: President, Maremel Media LLC; Lecturer, Entertainment and Media Management Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management; Producer, How2Kids.com: Gigi Johnson enjoys an interesting combination of adventures. She educates the next generation of new media executives -- from graduate management students, undergrad students, and current media executives -- at UCLA Anderson School. Through Maremel, she consults for new and old media companies in business development and related issues. And she practices what she preaches as a "new media producer" through Maremel Media with destinctively missionary zeal. Since January 2006, she has been hip-deep in creating and distributing "How2Kids," a cable and broadband TV show featuring kids teaching other kids how to use technology to expand their lives. Until August 2005, she was Executive Director for UCLA Anderson&Mac226;s Entertainment and Media Management Institute. Ms. Johnson was responsible for all elements of this 27-year-old endeavor, running all of the Institute's activities in new business model research, graduate education, and industry relations and events. She joined UCLA Anderson in 1999 as Director of its renowned Applied Management Research/Field Study Program, working with more than 300 organizations on strategic consulting engagements with over 1,000 students. In addition, she had helped launch UCLA Anderson’s Center for Management in the Information Economy as its acting Associate Director. Prior to UCLA Anderson, Ms. Johnson had been Managing Director at Bank of America, where she had financed major entertainment and media companies&Mac226; mergers and acquisitions for most of a decade. Ms. Johnson received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds a Bachelor’s degree from USC’s School of Cinema-Television in Production.