Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Events at CES Sunday, January 6th 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Track III – ME4 - Mobile Entertainment 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. Dave Ulmer, Senior Director, Entertainment and Multimedia Products & Services, Mobile Devices business, Motorola, Inc. Bruce Gersh, Senior Vice President, Business Development, ABC Entertainment & ABC Studios John Najarian, SVP, New Media and Business Development, Comcast Entertainment Group Lisa Hsia, Senior Vice President, New Media, Bravo, NBC Universal Douglas Craig, Senior Vice President, New Media Operations, Discovery Communications Frank Chindamo, President and Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas, Moderator John Najarian, Senior Vice President, New Media and Business Development, Comcast Entertainment Group - As Senior Vice President, New Media and Business, Comcast Entertainment Group, John Najarian oversees the company's push into the areas of wireless, broadband and on-demand content for E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network and G4.  In his current role, he is responsible for driving the strategic direction of the networks’ digital media initiatives, seeking out new products and partnerships, as well as overseeing the operations of its we sites and digital video production unit. Mr. Najarian first joined E! in 2001, and most recently served as Vice President, Distribution and New Platforms. Before joining E!, he held a senior level position at AOL, negotiating and closing various new business partnerships including the company’s first paid search deal. Prior to this, he served as Vice President, Distribution Strategy for the Cable Network Group at Disney where he was a key member of the team responsible for the successful conversion of Disney Channel from a pay to a basic service. He also assisted with the launch of Toon Disney and SoapNet. Mr. Najarian holds a bachelor of science from Indiana University and an MBA from Wayne State University. Douglas Craig, Senior Vice President, New Media Operations, Discovery Communications - As senior vice president of new media operations, Douglas Craig is responsible for the content on Discovery Mobile and Discovery On Demand (Discovery’s VOD offering). He develops programming products and packages consisting of both originally produced content and content from Discovery’s portfolio of networks for the digital media landscape. In addition, Craig works across the company’s business units to develop multi-dimensional partnerships within the two platforms’ industries. In his role for Discovery Mobile, Craig has successfully populated Discovery’s offering with streaming video content using three strategic production models: original, pre-purposed and re-repurposed. As a result of his pioneering efforts, Discovery’s digital media products have achieved universal carriage among both cable affiliates and mobile carriers. On the VOD front, 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. On the mobile front, Craig was promoted from his role as vice president in August 2008. Having joined Discovery in 1997, shortly after the launch of Animal Planet, he began as manager of programming research for the fledging network. 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. He is based at Discovery Communications’ global headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. Dave Ulmer is Motorola’s Sr. Director of Entertainment Products, defining and promoting seamlessly mobile media devices and experiences. A digital media pioneer, Dave has held a variety of executive roles with wireless, hardware, and software companies, including running the world’s leading CD-Recording software company and initiating its spinout as the original founder of Roxio and Napster. Dave serves as board director and vice-chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum and has a long history of championing and chaperoning leading edge products into mainstream consumer markets. Bruce Gersh, Senior Vice President, Business Development, ABC Entertainment & ABC Studios: As Senior Vice President, Business Development, for ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios, Bruce Gersh has responsibility for all traditional and digital media business development programs across ABC Daytime, ABC Primetime and ABC Studios. Mr. Gersh was named to this position in April 2004. Mr. Gersh is charged with the development and management of new business initiatives including, merchandise licensing, book publishing, music soundtracks, home video, e-commerce, and product placement for such ABC programming as the hit primetime series "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty," which have spawned successful product lines ranging from DVDs and music soundtracks to apparel and computer video games. As part of the Disney-ABC Television Group's Digital Media team, he also manages ABC Entertainment's digital media efforts, including web-based, mobile; and broadband platforms. In 2006, Mr. Gersh and the ABC.com team received an Interactive Television Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: New Delivery Platforms for the website's Full Episode Streaming Broadband Player which features ad-supported, full-length episodes of four ABC primetime series online at www.ABC.com. Marking the first time a broadcast network made multiple series available for viewing online, free of charge to consumers when it launched in May 2006, ABC.com's broadband player continues to evolve and innovate in order to bring the highest quality viewing experience available to ABC's online users. More recently, he was instrumental in the development and launch of ABC Mobile, a newly-created linear mobile channel. Currently available to Sprint wireless customers, ABC Mobile features a variety of popular full-length and short-form news and entertainment content, including full-length episodes of “Desperate Housewives,” “Grey's Anatomy,” “Lost” and “Ugly Betty” as well as ABC News, “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” “This Week” and other ABC News Specials. Since joining ABC in 2000, Mr. Gersh has been involved in several groundbreaking business development initiatives for the online and traditional business units of the Network. Mr. Gersh developed the nation's first "premium-rate" Short Messaging Service campaign for ABC Daytime. Mr. Gersh also devised and manages, "Shop the Soaps" on ABC Daytime, which is considered to be the first fully integrated cross-media shopping program on network television and now has expanded across dayparts to include primetime products at ABC.com. Additionally, Mr. Gersh played an integral role in development of the recently announced "Lost Diaries," an upcoming original, short-form extension of "Lost" for wireless and broadband platforms. Before joining ABC, Mr. Gersh was a business development consultant for NBC Enterprises, where he identified and created new revenue generating programs. Mr. Gersh was instrumental in the creation and expansion of the NBC direct response business, which was measured as revolutionary in the network television world. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, and was named by the Hollywood Reporter in their Next Generation issue as one of the young executives poised to become an industry leader. Mr. Gersh holds a degree in Accounting Theory and Practice from California State University, Northridge. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Sharon, and their three children, Casey, Nicki and Hailey. LISA HSIA, Senior Vice President of New Media at BRAVO, NBC Universal - She oversees Bravo’s programming opportunities in new and emerging media, including wireless, digital, interactive TV, electronic sell-through and VOD. She is responsible for all aspects of the business, including technology alliances, content and marketing partnerships. In 2007, Bravo won the People’s Choice Webby Award for best news and information wireless website and is a finalist for a Prime Time Emmy Award for Interactive Television.Prior to Bravo, Ms. Hsia was a news executive at NBC News, supervising the TODAY show, Dateline and NBC News Productions. She has had a long career as a producer, both in feature films, documentaries and in news, where she is the recipient of six Emmy Awards.Ms. Hsia graduated from Harvard University and attended Beijing University and Stanford University on graduate fellowships. Frank Chindamo, President and Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies: Frank Chindamo is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Fun Little Movies. "FLM" specializes in producing original, live-action comedy films for its mobile channels of entertainment on Sprint-Nextel, Microsoft, Smart Video phones, in the US and many other countries around the world. They’re known as "Fun Funny Phone Films." Fun Little Movies has been the subject of cover stories in Forbes Magazine and the L.A. Times, and stories in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, CBS Radio, Wired Magazine, CBS TV’s Inside Edition, The Chicago Tribune, and several other outlets. Frank Chindamo holds the world's record for most short films made independently. His films have appeared on HBO, Showtime, CBS, PBS, A&E, Playboy, MTV and Comedy Central, etc. They’ve won 20 awards including The American Cine Golden Eagle, The American International Film Festival and a Finalist's Place for Best Short at the Cannes Film Festival. Frank is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. At USC, Frank teaches short screenplay writing. He also created the Student Script Database, the tool which will allow directors and writers to pool their talent and is intended to bring the best-written scripts at USC to the screen. As Executive Director of the Staged Screenplay Reading Series at the Lee Strasberg Theater, and as the Director of the Professional Screenwriting Workshops at SONY Studios, Chindamo developed fourteen feature films which have been produced for the screen. Frank also taught at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop and City University of New York. Frank was also a Vice President of Development at two production companies in LA and has worked as a script consultant on numerous projects. Frank Chindamo received his Film B.F.A. from N.Y.U. and his Screenwriting M.F.A. from Columbia University. 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.