Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Building Blocks 2008 Wednesday, August 6th 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Special Presentation: Investment & Change: Media, Entertainment & Technology Demos at Building Blocks – Transformative and Disruptive Technology Hosted by: Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Partners Dan Henderson, VP of Marketing, FastSoft Michael Hoydich, co-founder, uvLayer, division of unknown vector Dave Balter, CEO/Founder, BzzAgent Sangita Verma, CEO, TAG Networks Brian O'Malley, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures Torrey Loomis, President & CEO, Silverado Systems, Inc. Art Chang is the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Partners, an angel-stage venture capital firm. Tipping Point Partners is an active partner with the founders of companies that enable the relationship between audiences and their passions, via the Internet and mobile. Tipping Point Partners advises, invests in, and serves in management roles for startup companies and new divisions of established companies. Tipping Point Partners also makes connections to business partners and capital. And Tipping Point Partners helps accelerate expansion of U.S. Internet and mobile companies in Asia. Current portfolio companies include Haystack Media, the web-based service that facilitates the creation and syndication of personalized, branded music channels for music industry professionals and avid amateurs; Mobile Commons, a mobile information services company that allows customers to design, manage and launch SMS-based marketing, information, and interactive game applications; I Do Now I Don’t, a community/auction site for the 53% of Americans whose marriages have ended; PlaySpan, a communications and P2P trading platform for MMORPGs; Casebook, an enterprise social network for social services agencies; and Unzippd, a real estate social network built around a comprehensive listings service. Art also currently serves as the CEO of haystack.com. Dave Balter, CEO/Founder, BzzAgent: Dave Balter is the founder and CEO of BzzAgent, Inc., the advertising industry’s only cross-continental word-of-mouth media channel. Since launching the company in 2002, Balter has been featured everywhere from the CBS Evening News to the BBC to The New York Times Sunday Magazine.  Balter co-founded the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), and he currently serves as Chair of the Association’s International Committee. In 2008, Balter was named a “Future Legend” by the AdClub, and the year prior Harvard Business School dubbed him one of Boston’s “Hottest Technology CEOs.” He was named to the “40 under 40” list by The Boston Business Journal and Advertising Specialty Institute. Women’s Wear Daily named Balter one of the “Top 7 Individuals Changing the Face of Beauty.” His second book, The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II will appear this spring, followed closely by the paperback edition of his first title, Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. Sangita Verma, CEO, TAG Networks: As Chief Executive Officer of TVHead, Sangita Verma leveraged 16 years of executive experience in the videogame industry to found the world’s preeminent interactive games-on-demand network in May 2003. A comprehensive turn-key content offering, TVHead delivers important new revenue streams, as well as builds customer loyalty for its network operator customers. In her role as CEO, Verma has secured Series A and B rounds of funding from private equity investors, established exclusive content agreements with leading game suppliers and global brands, and has filed seven patents covering key proprietary technologies for delivering interactive content under the TVHead brand. A strategic planner, veteran marketer and business visionary, she taps skills gleaned from a varied yet focused career to lead TVHead’s management team of seasoned game, licensing, video-on-demand, interactive television, technology and consumer entertainment product specialists. Prior to founding TVHead, Verma worked with Midway Games, starting with the company in 2000 as director of worldwide syndication. In this post, she developed her strategic vision for emerging businesses as a result of being charged with the financial analysis and due diligence reviews of new business opportunities. Structuring, negotiating and securing distribution agreements for Midway Games on wireless, iTV, handheld and Internet platforms, including with such providers as Sprint, Verizon, Qualcomm, AT&T, and Motorola, she was promoted to general manager of Midway Games' handheld business unit in 2002. This promotion added the responsibility of managing the GameBoy division for the company, while continuing to grow its businesses on the Internet, wireless, iTV and handheld platforms. Just prior to leaving Midway Games, Verma negotiated a million dollar OEM deal with Motorola to supply two games for Motorola wireless handsets. Verma came to Midway Games from Craig New Media, her own online marketing company, where, for two years, she developed online marketing, promotion and merchandising campaigns, as well as provide web statistics and trend analysis to such game industry clients as Psygnosis and Panasonic Interactive Media. In fact, Verma first began working with Panasonic in 1996 as a consultant, handling marketing for its PC games and children’s educational titles software. Charged with organizing the online infrastructure, Verma is credited with creating the first online store for Matsushita Electric Corp. (Panasonic). She also developed a public relations campaign for the Baldies PC game, securing millions of dollars worth of television time through media coverage that included over 50 local stations' news programs as well as national broadcast coverage on NBC’s Today morning news program and a six-minute segment on CNN. In recognition of her accomplishments, Verma was named group marketing director for Panasonic Interactive Media Co. in 1997, with responsibility for all entertainment marketing activities. She helped established the Ripcord Games brand for the company, and launched its flagship product – Postal, a highly controversial game which won the 1998 SPA Award in Excellence for Software Packaging. She also devised Postal Online Beta Test Contest, the first contest of its kind, which yielded over half a million downloads, forty thousand registered participants within the first four weeks and tremendous media coverage - including CNN. Before working with Panasonic, Verma provided marketing support to I-Motion Inc (now Atari Corp.)., creating and managing an online contest for the Knight's Chase PC game that increased its website traffic by 1600%, overseeing two product launches and providing management stability during the company's merger with Ocean of America; and the creative execution of various marketing challenges for Velocity Inc. From 1992 through 1994, Verma lived and worked in London as general manager for Data East Europe Ltd., responsible for establishing the company's European office, as well as all of the marketing, media relations, sales and licensing of Data East's Nintendo and Sega product lines in Europe. She joined Data East USA in 1990 as a marketing manager, launching over 15 Nintendo and Sega titles, as well as five PC titles over a two year period. A graduate of UC Davis with a Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communications and Economics, Verma began her career in investor relations with Stoorza, Ziegus & Metzger before making her move into the game industry. Dan Henderson, VP of Marketing, FastSoft, Dan Henderson spearheads FastSoft’s business and marketing strategy. He brings 13 years of technology venture experience to the Company. Prior to FastSoft, Dan co-founded two companies, including i-Vantage, Inc., a global outsourcing firm, where he ran the global teleservices practice. He has also helped a number of start-up and early-stage companies revamp operations, market focus, and business strategy. Before founding his own companies, he designed and analyzed network architectures at strategy consulting firm Mainspring, Inc. Dan also consulted in Deloitte & Touche?s e-Business, Technology and Security practice, where he helped design network architectures for large financial institutions. Dan holds an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.A. from Oberlin College. About FastSoft: FastSoft (www.fastsoft.com) was founded in 2005 to bring the benefits of Internet acceleration technology to the media and entertainment industry and other enterprises that depend on the transfer of large files. FastSoft accelerates video up to 15x for long-distance production collaboration, digital delivery to customers, and superior broadband viewing in the home. Large files - including CAD, imaging, business information, and software ? can see an improvement of up to 30x faster. Unlike other acceleration solutions, FastSoft’s products are single-box solutions that require no hardware or software on the receiving end. The company?s core technology, FastTCP?, is based on research originally developed by FastSoft’s founders at the California Institute of Technology?s Networking Laboratory (Netlab). Brian O'Malley, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures: Brian joined Battery in 2004 and focuses on investments in consumer Internet, digital media and enterprise software. He is on the board of Donnerwood Media, TradeKing, and World Golf Tour, and is actively involved with Bazaarvoice, Insitu, and Peerflix. Prior to Battery, Brian was an Associate with Pequot Ventures, where he invested in software and services, including applications, middleware and vertical solutions. Earlier in his career, Brian spent several years at Bowstreet, Inc. (acquired by NYSE: IBM), as Director of West Coast Technical Sales and the Business Development team's Technical Evangelist. Earlier in his career, Brian assisted founding teams at Matrics, Inc. (acquired by NYSE: SBL) and Compoze Software (acquired by NASD: BEAS) with go-to-market strategy and initial fundraising activities. He also worked for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation and was a web developer for Motorola Computer Group. Brian mentors students in UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship Studies, and is a judge in Wharton's Business Plan Competition. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics. Torrey Loomis, President & CEO, Silverado Systems, Inc.: Owner of RED ONE Digital Cinema camera's #20 and #21. Apple certified Pro Video VAR (value-added reseller) focusing on solving problems for the creative Apple users. We act as outfitters to the world's foremost Apple professionals Expert in custom-crafting workflows for production and post-production personnel--including broadcasters, filmmakers and TV. Torrey Loomis’s Specialties: High definition video production and post-production, workflow design and implementation for broadcast and post-production professionals, installation and support of SAN-based video editing systems, HD-based digital signage.