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 Noon - 1:00 PM Session C – DH10 Video Aggregators - Next Gen Broadband, UGM and Mobile Entertainment , Social Networking and Personal Communication This session is about personal video. While video on TV will never lose it’s popularity, great comedies and dramas will be with us forever, the phenomenon of the personal video, from truly amateur videos to the highly produced personal videos that are the overnight national sensations, are not only important, they are impacting the national social and political conversation. In this session, we will bring together executives from companies that make these video streams and downloads available via the web and mobile platforms. How will this segment of the industry develop and what will it mean? This session will help to begin the conversation. Richard M. Anderson, President & CEO, Zip.tv Pallavi Shah, Digital Media Strategist, Hewlett-Packard David Clarke, VP Business Development, FUSA Capital Brian McCarthy, SVP of Business Development, Revver Paul Kontonis, Chief Executive & co-founder, For Your Imagination Dina Kaplan, co-founder, blip.tv Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble Antonette Goroch, Senior Analyst, Digital Tech Consulting, Moderator Rick Anderson is President and CEO of Zip.tv, Canada’s online video service. Rick has been directing projects, campaigns and companies, and providing strategic advice and counsel to clients, for over 20 years. He has served as an adviser to the Momentous.ca Group of Companies for five years, and has directed Zip.tv's potential and opportunity since its launch. Rick serves on several corporate and community boards of directors, including as president of his own advisory company ASCI Anderson Strategic Consulting Inc, as a director of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, as director and chairman of publicly-traded Nuvo Network Management Inc., and as a director of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation. Prior to launching his own executive consultancy, Rick spent fifteen in years in senior executive positions with Hill & Knowlton, in Canada, the United States and Europe, advising major corporations, governments and organizations around the world, and directing H&K's advanced technology practice. Rick has been actively involved in numerous Canadian political campaigns and worked on Parliament Hill. He is director of the Fireweed Democracy Project, a member of the boards of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and Fair Vote Canada, and a frequent public affairs commentator in national media such as CBC TV and CBC Newsworld, CBC Radio, the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen and the Edmonton Journal. Pallavi Shah, Digital Media Strategist, Hewlett-Packard: Pallavi Shah is industry recognized thought leader, spokesperson and champion in digital media and rights management. She has directed global teams through multi-company alliances to bring several digital media products to market. At HP, she is responsible for Digital Media Intellectual Property strategy and alliances for their Imaging and Printing business. Prior to HP, Pallavi was Sr. Market Development Manager for Sun Microsystems and was responsible for revenue generation through partnerships in digital media. She also chaired many standards bodies including ISO's MPEG4-Java. Prior to Sun, Ms Shah was with the Sarnoff Corporation (RCA research lab), where she pioneered the world's first E-Commerce application of interactive HDTV. She has served as a speaker at over 50 industry conferences and published several papers. She holds multiple patents in the architecture of interactive digital video. Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and COO of blip.tv. Dina oversees business operations for the company, including media partnerships, distribution deals, PR, marketing, site and channel sponsorships and investor relations. Blip.tv is the double Webby-award winning video sharing site focused on shows. It enables independent producers to create their own TV shows for the Internet, from scripted sitcoms and dramas to journalists covering the war in Baghdad. In writing about online video sites, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “My favorite is blip.tv.” Before blip.tv, Dina was a television reporter with several local NBC affiliates. As a news reporter, Dina won an Emmy and numerous Society of Professional Journalists Awards and Associated Press Awards. Before reporting, Dina produced stories for MTV News about politics, technology and a range of musical acts. She also helped coordinate MTV's political Choose or Lose coverage. After graduating from college, Dina worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel's Office and then as Special Assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel. During college, Dina worked at Rock The Vote, setting up a volunteer network of representatives registering college students to vote. Dina graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics, Government, Philosophy and History. She sits on the National Board of Wesleyan University and is a Founding Board Member of the Women’s Media Center and a member of the Producer’s Guild of America. Dina is a judge for the Webbies and the Interactive Media Awards and sits on the advisory board of the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute. Dina also started the New York Founders Club, a gathering of Internet founders designed to promote entrepreneurship in New York City. 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. David Clarke, Vice President, Business Development, SearchForVideo: David is responsible for Searchformedia's content acquisition, partnerships & new business initiatives as well as liaising with film, television, new-media companies, content producers and aggregators wishing to build out their online multimedia search strategies. The last 7 years has seen him working with Rocketinfo a leading RSS company providing aggregated news & weblog content search. Previously he has held senior positions with imaging & internet technology companies in the roles of Sales, Brand Management and Business Development. Searchformedia is a leading video search company, powering one of the Internet's most comprehensive video search experiences available through a network of portals including searchforvideo.com. The company's proprietary "learning" technology enables consumers to quickly find premium video content by removing search result links to files that are static, incomplete or broken. Its unique search results are the only type of its kind that direct consumers back to the content owner's website before playing the content, enabling providers and media creators to build their own traffic and better monetize content. The company's proprietary technology has five patents pending and draws upon millions of video clips from more than 10,000 independent sources. The growing popularity of Searchforvideo.com, part of the Searchformedia Network, is driving ever-larger numbers of international users to the online video search, intent on providing the user community with the best possible experience Searchforvideo has enabled Spanish and German users to search and discover video in their native language. Spanish and German language users will now be able to access freely available video links from over 10,000 English, Spanish and German language public video sources for a unified search experience. In addition to the inclusion of Spanish and German language online video sources, the site features a dedicated language channel page for each language that showcases timely video from a selection of popular sources. Content is available from popular mainstream English, Spanish and German video publishers as well as emerging user generated online video sources. Paul Kontonis, Chief Executive and a co-founder of For Your Imagination. As an interactive media veteran, Paul helps build brandcasts and marketing campaigns that reach out and engage an audience. Paul was the General Manager of Educational Marketing and Corporate Sales for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the leading test preparation provider. Prior to joing Kaplan, Paul was the Chief Marketing Officer of btldesign, a 25-year-old marketing communications agency, specializing in business-to-business marketing communications for Fortune 100 global brands like MasterCard, Samsung, Pfizer, Major League Baseball and the FIFA World Cup. Paul's interactive experience began as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SenseNet, a Web application development agency, and as the Director of Business Development for Silver Shock, a boutique interactive agency. He appears in a number of marketing publications, digital media books including the Documentary Filmmakers Handbook, and is a speaker at several industry conferences and seminars annually. Brian McCarthy, SVP, Business Development, Revver: Born and raised in tiny Saint Paul, Oregon, Brian is the youngest of nine children and, as his siblings tell the story, grew up on jelly donuts and TANG. Brian is responsible for seeing that advertisers and video watchers meet and become friends at Revver. Brian was most recently at Search123, the pay-per-click search advertising network where he was instrumental in the sale to ValueClick Inc. in 2003. Brian has filled the majority of the last three years building out the product suite, integrating it into the other ValueClick product lines and expanding it into Europe. Prior to that Brian spent the 90's earning his chops in the world of business at Bugle Boy Industries. He held several positions in the offline area but finished his stint running BugleBoy.com, the e-commerce store, for the clothing giant. It was at Bugle Boy that he realized the power of the Internet as a medium for commerce as well as social change. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Oregon in Eugene. He lives with his wife and three children in Santa Monica, CA where they swim, bike and fly kites on the beach.