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 - Hosted by The University Project Workshop Immersive Worlds in Entertainment, Communication & Education - The Next Wave in Person to Person Interaction Don L. Daglow, President and CEO, Stormfront Studios Inc. Larry Rosenthal, Owner, Cube3.com, Virtual Worlds and Experiences Michael Wilson, CEO, There.com Jamie Berger, VP of Consumer Products, IGN, Div. of Fox Interactive Media Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director, Masters of Digital Media, Center for Digital Media Jane Kagon, Director of UCLA Extension's Department of Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts Mike Dowdle, Vice President, Business Development, Kaneva David Traub, VP Business Development, Vidiva, Moderator Michael Wilson is the CEO of Makena Technologies, Inc., the parent company to There.com (http://www.there.com). As the largest single investor in There, Wilson joined the company in 2001 committed to bringing exciting new technologies to consumers and seeks to continue There’s position as the premiere 3D Virtual World. Michael Wilson began his career at the age of seventeen with Macy’s. There he helped launch their innovative (for the time) electronic point-of-sale systems. His leadership and technological vision drove him to become the youngest senior executive in the history of the company. Wilson’s next endeavor came as employee #75 at Oracle Corporation where he was a key developer of the Mainframe products. He was also responsible for bringing Oracles’ relational database to the Macintosh. After several years, he moved on to Neuron Data, where he focused on bringing artificial intelligence together with modern relational databases. Excited by the emergence of portable computing, he later worked for eShop (acquired by Microsoft in 1996), as the Chief Architect and Project Manager and helped create the world's first online shopping platform. Later he also worked at daVinci Time and Space on an ITV-based community product for kids, a harbinger of today’s virtual worlds. As VP of Product Development at The Well, he led development of its web-based community product, Well Engaged, which was used by many prominent institutions including the Wall Street Journal. In 1997, Wilson joined as eBay’s fourth employee where he built the engineering foundation and organization for what would become the world’s most successful e-commerce enterprise Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director, Masters of Digital Media, Center for Digital Media: Dr. Gerri Sinclair's cross-domain career includes more than 20 years' experience spanning the fields of internet and new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research, and government policy. Sinclair is currently the Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program at the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver which recently received a $40.5M government grant to establish a world-leading Graduate Degree Program in the field of Digital Entertainment. Last year she was the chair of The Telecom Policy Review, advising the Federal Government of Canada on the policy and regulatory environment required to support an advanced telecommunications framework. She was formerly the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet web content management company spun out of Simon Fraser University in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2001. A former IBM Consulting Scholar as well as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research in New York, Dr. Sinclair was also the first President of the British Columbia Government Premier's Technology Council, and the founding director of the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser University, the first new media technology R&D centre in Canada. Don L. Daglow has served as president and CEO of Stormfront Studios since founding the company in 1988. Stormfront's most recent best-seller is "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" for PS2 and Xbox from EA Games, based on the film from New Line Cinema. Don's work has earned recognition in publications ranging from Computer Gaming World to Inc., Upside, The Red Herring and the San Francisco Business Times. Electronic Games called him "one of the best-known and respected producers in the history of the field." Prior to founding Stormfront, Don served as director of Intellivision game development for Mattel, as a producer at Electronic Arts, and as head of the Entertainment and Education division at Broderbund. He developed the first-ever computer baseball game in 1971 (now recorded in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown), the first mainframe computer role-playing game (1976), the first sim game (Intellivision Utopia, 1982) and the first original play-by-email game (Quantum Space for AOL, 1989). Don co-designed Computer Game Hall of Fame title Earl Weaver Baseball (1987) and the first massively multiplayer online graphic adventure, Neverwinter Nights for AOL (1990). He holds a BA in Creative Writing from Pomona College and a M.Ed. from Claremont Graduate University. Michael Dowdle, Vice President of Business Development, Kaneva: As Vice President of Business Development for Kaneva, Michael Dowdle leads the company’s sponsorship, advertising and other strategic partnership initiatives – key to Kaneva’s revenue generation and company growth. Mike Dowdle is the founder of Circadian Group, LLC, a management and business development firm formed in 2002. In 2003, Mike co-founded and continues to advise CPO Commerce, Inc., a profitable online distributor for major consumer brands such as Bosch, Skil, Makita, Milwaukee Electric, Porter-Cable and Electrolux. Previously, Mike held several positions with iXL Enterprises, Inc., one of the largest global web development companies at that time. In 1999, he founded and was Managing Partner of iXL Ventures where he oversaw the funding and growth of numerous technology companies. Between 1996 and 1999, Mr. Dowdle served as a Regional Vice President of Business Development for iXL. From 1994 through 1996, Mike co-Founded and operated Webbed Feet, Inc., an Internet consulting company that was acquired by iXL. Before starting Webbed Feet, Mike worked in business development for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and Blair Television, Inc. In addition to his professional interests, Mike is also active in the community including serving on the Board of Trustees for the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. David Traub, VP Business Development, Vidiva: David earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University, while conducting simultaneous class-work in interactive cinema and AI-based narrative at the MIT Media Lab. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, concluding with an honor thesis focusing on the use of film and television in education. His primary focus: the aggregation and delivery of "social and emotional" and other learning-centric applications/content via mobile phones, thin clients/PCs, TVs and videogames. He is currently writing the book: "17 Questions to Why You Are Here" as an introduction to his proprietary "mythological evaluation tool" that will be an example of such "augmentative" interfaces. In the real world, David has 20-years of experience as a digital media-oriented business development executive, investor, venture catalyst, and/or board member to over 35 startups/private equity companies. He has co-raised and deployed nearly $30 million dollars in support of these ventures. David has created digital media as an co-founder executive and/or executive producer of digital products across a wide variety of clients such as EMI North America, MCA Records, Philips/Polydor, Microsoft/ MSN, Apple Computer and many others. He is also an author of nearly 50 articles and reports on the evolution of the digital domain for trade publications, professional books and institutional clients; and a speaker who has given nearly 50 forward-looking keynote and other speeches throughout the world for clients such as the EU, the Swedish and Canadian Governments, TV Globo (Brazil), the National Institute of Film in Denmark, Viacom, US West, Mercedes/Siebold, The Broadband Content Development Forum and numerous other economic development agencies and universities.