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 Tuesday, January 8th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Session B - DH15 Widgets as a Platform: Content, Commerce, Communications Now there is a new expression, The Widget Economy. For the uninitiated, the widget is miniature application or website that resides as a component element on a user’s desktop, social media page or mobile device. A button on a user desktop may open multiple widgets, so that in a flash, mini-apps open on the desktop to reveal up-to-the minute stocks, the weather, airline arrivals, a dictionary, your photo album – virtually anything, any data type - can be formatted into a widget and placed on your desktop. Once the user gets the hang of it, life without widgets is impossible. Widgets are as addictive as email. Widgets are your mini-obsessions managed and delivered as desired. Add in a layer of commerce and you have a fully featured platform. Watch out! Widgets are coming! Jia Shen, CTO and Co-founder, RockYou! Konstantin Guericke, CEO, jaxtr, Inc., Gary Baker, founder and CEO of ClipBlast! Video Search Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Ventures Hooman Radfar, CEO & co-founder, Clearspring A. Barry Schiffman, Chief Operations Officer, Viewdle Tim Bridges, Media & Entertainment Practice Lead, Capgemini, Moderator Tim Bridges, Media & Entertainment Practice Lead, Capgemini: Tim Bridges is a vice president and the Media & Entertainment practice leader for Capgemini in North America. Bridges has 23 years of experience in the deployment of leading edge technology to solve unique business challenges. This includes the early adoption of Computer Aided 3D Design by a leading aerospace manufacturer in the early 80s through the use and refinement of B2B and B2C technologies to enable marketing, distribution and monetization of digital content for media–based companies in the last 6 years. Tim worked at Northrup Corporation from 1983 to 1989 before he joined Ernst & Young, and he was named partner at Ernst & Young in 1996. Bridges has a bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois and an MBA from Pepperdine. Based in Los Angeles, Bridges is available for comment in his focused areas of expertise including digital media supply chain, global distribution and next generation rights/contract management and technology convergence and its impact on media companies, telecoms, cable companies and large retailers. Gary Baker, CEO, ClipBlast! - has focused his 20-year career at the intersection of television, interactive media, and the Internet. He previously served as a management consultant for IBM Interactive Media, leading Internet strategy, live webcasts and web application development for clients including Hertz, Toyota, the Grammys, PGA Tour, and CompUSA. Independently, he consulted and provided strategic direction to CinemaNow, Inc., the first website to offer video-on-demand. He also has directed and produced children’s television programs, music video and sports programming for the Walt Disney Company, Dick Clark Productions, and ABC. Baker has previously spoken at several media conferences, including the DMA conference, Digital Hollywood and Digital Coast. His speaking topics focused on interactive media, convergence and bridge between creative, technology and entertainment. ClipBlast!, founded in 2004, has provided web users the most comprehensive, continually updated directory of video clips, featuring instantly viewable content from the world's top media brands and other high-quality providers. With a focus on broadband, the web and multimedia, Baker oversees the company’s video search and distribution strategies, business development and operations. Konstantin Guericke, CEO, jaxtr, Inc.- Jaxtr, a social media VoIP company that is bringing voice to social networks and blogs, after launching in March, jaxtr is making waves in the VoIP industry as it is experiencing explosive growth, doubling its userbase every month since its launch . Last week jaxtr announced it had reached over 5,000,000 registered users worldwide, growing 10-fold from 500,000 users in just 140 days. Jaxtr has raised a significant Series A of $10 million from tier one VC August Capital, and existing seed-stage investors like Mayfield, DFJ, Draper Richards, and some of the Silicon Valley's most prominent angels- Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman, among others. Konstantin joined jaxtr from LinkedIn, where as a co-founder, he led marketing from pre-product to profitability. With a small team, Konstantin created a strong brand, and LinkedIn went from one of more than 30 business networks to the clear leader in social networking for business. Prior to LinkedIn, Konstantin served as VP of marketing at Presenter.com, VP sales and marketing at Black Sun Interactive and EVP at Caligari. Konstantin's expertise covers marketing, sales, product management, business development and international expansion. Konstantin has lived, worked and studied in Europe and Asia in addition to the U.S. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University. Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners: Jeremy Liew joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2006 as a Partner. Previously Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape. He joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks) where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there he was responsible for acquisitions and investments in TV Networks, consumer internet companies and online travel companies. Jeremy started working in the consumer internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996 where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc(Hons) from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics. Hooman Radfar, CEO & co-founder, Clearspring: Hooman Radfar actively drives platform marketing and strategy initiatives at Clearspring. He was recently named one of Tech's Best Entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek and was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. When he is not busy building a better Web, you can find him writing his blog <http://www.widgify.com/>Widgify. Radfar graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Economics and Computer Science. He holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University where he researched Social Networking Theory. Jia Shen, CTO and Founder, RockYou!: Jia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and has focused extensively on graphic design and usability throughout his professional web development career spanning over 10 years. Prior to RockYou, Jia has held management roles leading the user interface and technical solutions teams at Open Harbor, and managing the majority of engineering at Iconix. Jia started working on scalable consumer applications at shopping tools internet provider Bluedog, a Stanford based startup, and was part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. In addition, Jia's experience has spanned enterprise sales and professional services functions, as he closed transactions and integrated with large multi-national corporation customers like Mitsubishi, Tyco, Flextronics, and DHL. Jia has a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. A. Barry Schiffman is Chief Operations Officer for Viewdle. Barry also serves on the Company's Board of Directors and as General Counsel. His responsibilities at Viewdle entail establishing strategic alliances and partnerships, developing and implementing a strategy for global market penetration, structuring client and investor relationships, and managing legal issues. Prior to Viewdle, Barry was an Associate at Bracewell and Giuliani LLP and helped co-found Next Frontier Capital, an emerging markets private equity and investment advisory firm. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, Magna Cum Laude, and Georgetown University Law Center. Barry is a member of the State Bar of New York.