Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica Thursday, June 14th 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track II: Video Aggregators - Next Gen Broadband, UGM and Mobile Entertainment , Social Networking and Personal Communication As video reaches into all sectors of the media space, content, the technology, the devices, the infrastructure, the entire way that companies and groups, large and small approach their work will alter. What had been a web news group is now a video production unti. What had been a print publication with a website becomes an indie television network. What had been a blog becomes a vlog. The consumer is expecting to see all-video all the time and media companies, big and small, from giant magazine conglomerates to school newspapaers are going to have to think in terms of video 24/7 if they wish to break through the crowd and serve their customer base. All-video all the time is a challenge but it may also be the most exciting hurdle the technology industry has created yet. John Van Siclen, CEO, Adesso Systems Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble Don Kosak, Chief Technology Officer, Lycos Nicholas Butterworth, Founder and CEO, Diversion Media Troy Young, CMO, VideoEgg Mike Hudack, co-founder, blip.tv Mariana Danilovic, Vice President of Business Development, MediaZone, Moderator 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. John Van Siclen, CEO, Adesso Systems: John has successfully taken innovative young companies to market in a variety of ways and capacities. He has served as president and chief executive officer at both publicly traded and venture backed companies - Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) and Perspecta, Inc. (acquired by Excite@Home). At Interwoven, John was responsible for crafting the strategy behind the company's leadership position in the content management market, which included five acquisitions and numerous strategic partnerships. While at Perspecta, he refocused the MIT MediaLab start-up and orchestrated the eventual sale of the company to Excite@Home, providing Exite@Home a foundational technology for its visionary internet shopping network. John has built and managed worldwide sales, marketing and services organizations for software and system innovators such as Informix, SupportSoft and NetFRAME Systems. John holds an AB degree from Princeton University. Don Kosak, Chief Technology Officer, Lycos: Don Kosak is responsible for Lycos software engineering, integration, operation, and new product development. In 1995, as Director of Research and Development, Don was a co-founder of WiseWire, a collaborative community web site. After Lycos' acquisition of WiseWire in 1998, he ran Lycos' Search and Directories engineering teams. He led the integration of acquired technologies for sites including Tripod, Angelfire, Matchmaker, Quote.Com, Lycos Communities, and Gamesville. He also led the globalization of Lycos Search for Japan and Korea, and Tripod for Europe, Japan, and Korea. He spearheaded the launch of multiple innovative products for the company including HTMLGear.com, Tripod's subscription and Blogging services, Terra's Global Instant Messenger, and Lycos' Connections products. Don was appointed to the Chief Technology Officer position in 2005. Prior to joining Lycos, Don created information retrieval and expert system applications for Westinghouse, Alcoa, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Senate. He is a pioneer in information filtering and Internet communities, with several patents in the field. Additionally, he has served as a Director for the Berkshire Technology Council, and Director of Lycos Labs incubator. Mike Hudack is the co-founder and CEO of blip.tv. He is responsible for overseeing all business, site and software development, integration with private labels and community relations with the videoblogger community. Before blip.tv, Mike was a senior programmer and systems administrator for the National Hockey League. He managed the team responsible for one of the biggest IT projects in the history of the League: consolidating and re-developing the NHL’s internal applications, which serve hundreds of employees using dozens of technologies ranging from the IBM AS/400 to Sun’s J2EE to Lotus Notes to Perl. In addition, Mike created and developed the content management system for NHL.com, administered dozens of NHL.com servers spread across two data centers in New York City and coordinated the redesign and development of NHL.com’s real time statistics client. In 2001 Mike worked for AOL/Time Warner’s Parenting Group, where he helped to manage the Parenting.com Web site. He oversaw tens of thousands of individual Web pages across several re-branding and redesign cycles and designed and authored an Internet subscription system for TPG’s Parenting and BabyTalk properties. Before working at AOL/Time Warner, Mike was hired as the Chief Scientist for Knowledge Propulsion Laboratories, a computer security start-up in Norwalk, Connecticut. While at KPL, Mike designed the innovative LinearC privacy product and the Data Haven secure Internet storage service. Mike has spoken at SXSW, NYU and other forums as an expert on blogging and digital journalism. He has created and maintained more than a half dozen blogs, including warstories:cc and warblog:cc, which were covered by the Washington Post, USA Today, PBS Newshour, NPR and Forbes. Troy Young, Chief Marketing Officer, VideoEgg: Troy Young began his work in interactive media in 1992 when he worked on the launch and management of the first newspaper-owned online service in Canada. Prior to joining VideoEgg, Troy served as EVP, chief experience officer at Organic, one of the world's leading digital marketing agencies. Troy spent his first three years with the company building the Canada office. Prior to joining Organic, Troy was a co-founder and managing director of Vickers & Benson Direct, Interactive (now Arnold Worldwide). He is a graduate of the Queen's University Business School. Mariana Danilovic, Vice President of Business Development, MediaZone: Mariana Danilovic currently serves as the Vice President of Business Development for MediaZone, focusing on content acquisition, business development, and programming. Prior to joining MediaZone, Mariana was the founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, a developer, owner and operator of digital media companies. Mariana developed the Eco Your Life television show and digital media concept with Jane Sparango, former Producer of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as well as the Boom cable network, an entertainment channel for baby boomers. Previously, Ms. Danilovic was the Chief Executive Officer of Women in Technology International. Ms. Danilovic also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP. This group developed numerous entertainment and digital media companies, including CatchTV, Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), E-Poll, Enband, FirstLook.com, Market Wire, mySMART, QSTV, Tonos, Thirsty, WalkThisWay. The strategic investors in these ventures included Intel, Hewlett-Packard, LG Electronics and Cox. The group successfully facilitated the sale of the Well to the Salon prior to its initial public offering. The companies Ms. Danilovic developed at KPMG LLP received first round institutional funding from such well-known venture capital firms as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank and North Star Ventures. Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Entertainment. She also was part of the management team for the $60 million media fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment that made investments in media companies worldwide. Ms. Danilovic also worked with Michael Milken’s Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. Prior to attending business school, Mariana worked in Product Management as well as Mergers and Acquisitions for Transamerica and SunAmerica. Ms. Danilovic currently served on the Board of Directors of the VIC Network, the Board of Directors of Tim Draper’s Zone Club, California Culture Net, and was a member of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. She serves on the Board of Advisors of Pixsy, VoiceIndigo, and CosmoTV. Mariana earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from University of California, San Diego.