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 Tuesday, June 12th 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Track II Movies, TV and Video for Mobile - Original Entertainment & Information Programming Jumpstarts the Revolution To be present at the start of a new creative industry is to be a member of a graduate class of a great and fantastic new university. While the unknowns in the mobile TV & video universe may not be as daunting and experimental as was the first generation of TV in the 1950s, the challenge of creating and producing for mobile TV and video is still to be present at the beginning of a new frontier. As hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide begin tuning into a Mobile video universe, the task of reaching them with new ideas, new creative forms, new services – some that will be rewarded with millions of viewers and dollars and some that will fail – will make for one of the greatest and challenging experiences of our lives. Mobile TV, video and film programming will be at the heart of a transforming communications world and we welcome you to being at the start of a new medium. Bernard Gershon, Senior Vice President/General Manager, ABC News Digital Media Group Maureen Fitzpatrick, VP Mobile Development, FremantleMedia Doug Craig, VP, Programming, New Media Operations, Discovery Communications Alice Kim, Vice President of Carrier Relations and Distribution, MTVN Matthew Feldman, President and CEO, Versaly Entertainment Henri Linde, President Americas, Actimagine Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas, Moderator Henri LINDE, Actimagine Corp., President, Americas, Henri joined Actimagine Corp. as President Americas in April 2007 to set up and manage Actimagine’s operations in the Americas. His mission is to define long term strategy to establish Mobiclip™, the company’s software video codec, as de facto video standard for mobile consumer electronics products. Before joining Actimagine, Henri Linde was Vice President, Intellectual Property & Licensing for France-based Thomson, which serves as the exclusive licensing representative of mp3 patents and software of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. Responsible for the Thomson licensing and business development programs, Henri played an instrumental role in helping make mp3 the de facto standard and the recognized leader in audio compression technology. Throughout his tenure with Thomson, Henri helped fuel mp3's rapid expansion through agreements with well over 400 companies across the Internet and dedicated player-recorder industries. Recognized for his experience and skills in marketing and negotiations, Henri began his association with Thomson in 1994 with an extensive background in Banking, Finance and Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Thomson, he worked for Pierre Fabre Médicament (Castres, France) and Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland (Rotterdam, Netherlands). Maureen FitzPatrick, VP, Mobile Development, FremantleMedia: As someone with a lifelong love of comedy, Maureen was thrilled with the opportunity to launch the Atomic Wedgie channel for the mobile market. Having grown up as the youngest of eight children, Maureen knows something about comedy, and has had firsthand experience with wedgies. Before joining Fremantle, she managed a wide variety of television, theater, and live performance productions, all of which share the common element of humor. Recent projects include producing talk show, late night, and game show series for GSN, Fox Television Studios, King World and Buena Vista, and consulting for the WE Network and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Previous credits include Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Gong Show, Alright Already, $100,000 Pyramid, and Donny & Marie. Maureen has produced pilots with Bill Maher, Carol Leifer, John Henson, Bob Saget, and Chicago’s Second City. Before moving into television full-time, she served as executive producer of the award-winning Illegitimate Players theater company in Chicago. Maureen lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Doug, who writes flatulence jokes for a living. Douglas Craig, Vice President, Programming, New Media Operations, Discovery Communications: As vice president of programming for Discovery’s new media division, Douglas Craig is responsible for the content on Discovery On Demand (Discovery’s VOD offering), as well as mobile content offerings. He develops programming products and packages of Discovery Networks content for the new media landscape, and works across the company’s business units to develop multi-dimensional partnerships. In his role for Discovery On Demand, Craig oversees programming strategy and the use of the more than 100,000 hours of Discovery Networks content. Craig also supervises the creation of added-value VOD programming elements, develops Discovery On Demand packages for advertisers and affiliates, and coordinates with Discovery Networks’ on-air marketing department to use VOD to promote Discovery’s linear networks. Craig joined Discovery Networks in 1997 as manager of programming research for Animal Planet following the network’s launch. Shortly thereafter he transitioned into the Animal Planet programming department, reaching the level of vice president of programming and scheduling. Prior to joining Animal Planet, Craig served as manager of research at MTV Networks in Los Angeles and as a client service executive at Nielsen Media Research in New York. Craig holds a bachelor’s degree from Bryant College and a master’s degree from the City University of New York. Matthew Feldman, co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, founded Versaly in 2000 and helped launch Paramount into the mobile entertainment world with Star Trek and Endemol USA with Fear Factor. Continuing as an industry leader, Versaly ignited the mastertone remix market with Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back Remix hitting Gold in its first 6 weeks. Versaly’s current focus is Vmbc.tv (Versaly Mobile Broadcasting Company), a mobile video operator that currently operates 6 mobile video-on-demand channels in the USA, including Vmbc.tv’s flagship channel, Fast Lane. In addition to his corporate duties, Mr. Feldman works directly with Versaly’s major brand partners. Prior to Versaly Entertainment, he previously founded, managed and successfully sold two companies. Feldman holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. Ralph Simon, Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas: Ralph Simon is recognized as one of the founders of the modern mobile music and entertainment business in the USA and Europe. He is chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas, the leading advocate for the Mobile Entertainment industry and principal global trade association established to represent the commercial interests of content, application and service providers, and telco operators. Prior to his involvement in the global mobile entertainment and content business, where he has taken a leading role since its inception, he had a distinguished career in music, music publishing and mobile technology industries. Mr. Simon has proven expertise in strategic company development, content & copyright usage, mobile rights architecture, super-distribution, mobile platforms, copyright usage and mobile business development. He is in a unique position of being able to apply vast knowledge and experience to a nascent industry that is daily expanding existing business paradigms and creating new frontiers. Currently, he advises prominent companies, entertainment properties and artists (including U2) in the US and internationally, on ways to maximize and develop their mobile businesses and create opportunities globally. Last year, he conceived the mobile strategy and organized the mobile messaging layer for the Live 8 world concert event that took place during 11 hours and across 10 cities on July 2, 2005. Over 3bn people attended or watched/listened to the global television, radio and cyber-simulcast that integrated interactive mobile messaging as part of its own content. The overwhelming mobile response from live audiences and distance participants established the validity of cross-platform mobile strategies, which contributed heavily toward convincing the G8 governments to commit $50bn to reduce global poverty. In December 2005, he was named as one of the world’s Top 50 Mobile Executives by the influential Mobile Entertainment Magazine, alongside thought-leaders from companies as diverse as Apple, Nokia, Google, China Mobile, Cingular, Verizon and News Corporation. In 1998, he co-founded and funded the USA & UK’s first ring tone company, Yourmobile/Moviso (today known as Infospace Mobile – the US market leader in mobile aggregation). Before starting the mobile entertainment revolution, he co-founded the Zomba Group and Jive Records – which grew to become the world’s most successful independent record and music publishing company. In the mid-1990s as Executive Vice President of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records, , EMI’s New Media business. Ralph Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the USA. He maintains offices in Los Angeles, London and Berlin.