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 Three Friday, December 1 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track IV: Breakthroughs in User Generated Video and Social Networking: The Personalized Broadband and Mobile Music and Video Experience Gregg Hale, Partner/Co- Creative Director, Campfire Media Tim Morgan, Commercial Director, Bloombox TV Julian Swallow, CEO, Mobrio Federico Grosso, VP of Business Development, Blinkx Geoff Lowe, CEO and founder of Filmserve Chris McLellan, New Media Manager, 4D Interactive Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ, co-founder & CEO, vpod.tv, Moderator Tim Morgan is Commercial Director at Mint Digital. Tim is responsible for helping television and other media clients harness the power and benefits of the web to create valuable online properties that genuinely engage with their audience. This unique approach, fusing web expertise with creative flair has led to web hits such as Islandoo. Islandoo is an online audition site for the popular TV show 'Shipwrecked'. It uses Mint's proprietary BloomBox software to create a social network of hopefuls who upload photos and video to demonstrate that they wish to audition for the show. It is believed to be the first site of its kind anywhere in the world. It launched in September 2006 and has rocketed ever since. Gregg Hale, Partner/Co- Creative Director, Campfire Media: Gregg Hale: Partner/Co- Creative Director Gregg Hale's humble beginnings as a set dresser and prop guy on feature film and television shows from coast to coast lasted ten years. In 1999, he teamed up with Eduardo Sanchez, Dan Myrick Robin Crowe, and Michael Monello to create Haxan Films and signed on as producer for what started as a little known independent horror film called "The Blair Witch Project". Because of its innovative and unique production quality, which encaptured the myth of the Blair Witch and toyed with reality, the movie was a sheer success and Hale collected the Nova Award for Outstanding New Producer by the Producer's Guild of America. Hale went on to create the television series "Freakylinks" for Fox television and produced the show's website. An unprecedented breakthrough in online narrative, the website was and still is one of the most extensive works of e-fiction on the internet. After the success of "freakylinks" Hale made the move to Chelsea Pictures, where he is credited as director of over a dozen regional and national television commercials. His feature film directorial debut "Say Yes Quickly" has been playing in film festivals nationwide to sold out screenings and solid reviews. Currently, he is producing "Altered", a feature-length horror film for Focus/Rogue Pictures and is also a partner in Campfire Media. Julian Swallow, Founder & CEO, Mobrio Limited: Mobrio is an online social networking and user-generated content services company. The company designs, builds, manages and moderates online communities built around user-generated content for third party brands for the fixed and mobile webs. Julian is a pioneer of the mobile entertainment industry. He co-founded Purple Software, one of the world's first mobile games companies, in 1995 where he led the development of licensing and strategic partner relationships with companies such as 3, Microsoft, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Psion, Sony Ericsson, Symbian and Texas Instruments. Julian has thirty years international business management experience gained predominantly in high-technology firms. He has had operational involvement in numerous hardware and software technology projects in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. A recognized expert on issues surrounding the development, licensing and adoption of interactive entertainment, Julian speaks regularly at industry conferences and events. He is the former chairman of iomo Limited, the UK's leading independent mobile games development studio, acquired by InfoSpace Mobile and a former board member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, the mobile entertainment industry's global trade association. Julian holds an M.Sc. in Management from the University of London and is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School. Federico Grosso, Global VP Business Development, Blinkx: Federico Grosso has more than 9 years international experience in digital media. From December 1997 to August 2004 he held several positions within Yahoo!, including the start-up of Yahoo! Italia and the European Commercial Team. After 7 successful years Federico went on join the start-up of Blinkx in December 2004, leading the Business Development strategy throughout North America and Europe. In this role, Federico has created long-term partnerships with global media companies such as Reuters, MTV Networks, Sky News and Lycos. In 1996, Federico received his BA in Political Sciences form the University of Torino, Italy, specialising in Communication and Digital Media Publishing. He also completed the Emerging Leaders Programme in General Management at the London Business School during 2004. blinkx is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with over 60 leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together and even use our download feature to automatically download content to mobile devices. blinkx is a privately-held firm, based in San Francisco and London and was founded in early 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake. Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, 35, is the co-founder and CEO of vpod.tv, an innovative Video Publishing On Demand service, aiming to simplify the technical barriers to working with video online and to enable consumers and corporations to create their personal online and mobile TV channels. He has just raised a $5.1m series A from Innovacom, the investment arm affiliated with FT Group Orange. Recent awards for his company include being named among the 12 top innovators at Supernova 2006 in San Francisco, a global Innovator at Innovate!Europe ’06 in Zaragoza, earning the 2nd place in the best B2C mobile application at the Global Mobile Monday Summit in Helsinki, and winning the Best Demo award at Capital-IT in Paris. He is also a sought-after speaker at media events such as the recent DigitalHollywood conference in San José, or the Monaco Media Forum. Previously, he was the co-founder and managing partner of RISC Partners, a seed-stage investment boutique, where he was instrumental in the successful launch of glowria.fr, a leading online DVD rental and VOD service, serving as a board member for two years and later as interim CEO where he helped raise the first $12m in financing. In 2004, he also led the mobile strategy team for AOL Europe, redefining the group’s online and mobile presence. Previously, Rodrigo was a principal with Gemini Consulting, and a manager (founder of the e-business practice) at KPMG Consulting France, leading large scale European e-commerce and media projects. He started his career as a consultant to the European operations of Intel and Novell. Rodrigo is a Computer Science Engineer from EPITA, a graduate from the Sorbonne MBA (IAE de Paris), and holds an MBA from INSEAD, including an exchange term at the MBA program of the Wharton School in Philadelphia. He is a Chilean national, and settled in France almost 20 years ago. His tongue-in-cheek video blog http://sepulveda.net entered the top global 500 blogs list on Feedster in November 2005, and is among the top 100 bloggers in France (source Edelman / Technorati). He can be reached at rodrigo@vpod.tv. Geoff Lowe, CEO and founder of Filmserve: Geoff Lowe has a 20+ year career in film and television production and has spent the last nine years working in digital media. He is CEO and founder of Filmserve, a UK digital media company specializing in interactive & cross platform content and technologies. Filmserve has developed the Avalon interactive platform for digital cinemas and other digital venues. Avalon allows audiences to use their mobile phones, pda’s and other wireless devices to engage with next generation content such as interactive dramas, games, documentaries and digital hybrids. Having started his career as a writer in British television, Geoff believes that digital media and interactivity are key drivers for next generation entertainment across all platforms but traditional creative skills such as writing and directing are equally important. Besides launching the Avalon system, Filmserve is currently developing a range of cross platform and interactive properties for entertainment and consumer markets with partners in the UK and around the world. Geoff has spoken and mentored at digital media events in UK, Australia, Europe and Canada. Chris McLellan, New Media Manager, 4D Interactive: Chris has spent over 15 years creating and promoting products in the communications and media sectors in both Canada and the UK. Immediately prior to joining 4D Interactive, Chris was Marketing Manager at interactive agency YooMedia where he was responsible for the launch of the UK’s first ever 3G Social Networking service (Dateline 3G), as well as the branding and marketing of their dating, gaming and B2B services for web, TV and mobile. 4D is a London-based interactive communications agency that delivers interactive content services across both mobile and landline phones, specifically in the form of 3G content hosting, user-generated content and social networking services, including voice, text, photo & video messaging. Formerly known as 4D Telecom, 4D has a strong heritage in fixed line services but has recently expanded its offering to include 3G services, recognising the importance of mobile and rich media channels and strongly believing that the trends for UGC and social networking that we’ve seen online will migrate to mobile very soon.