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 2010 Wednesday, January 6th 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Track III – ME2 - Mobile Entertainment The Smartphone - Platform Strategies: Apps - Entertainment, News, Music, Games, Location-Based, Communication and Community The Smartphone – the perfect personalized experience – is unique in that it is so modern and today. Why? Don’t ask, it just is. The Smartphone provides the perfect platform for social networks, broadband or video, more and more is how a consumer relates to the total communications experience. All Smartphone content and applications conform to this understanding of how the entertainment, information and communications experience is defined. Apps are being sold and downloaded by the hundreds of millions each month, each providing a simple and elegant purpose – and some almost no purpose at all, just fun. We are in a new world of Apps for all seasons and whims. Ravi Belwal, Senior Project Consultant, Forum Nokia Clayton Rose, SVP of Digital Properties, AETN Jeffrey Litvack, GM of Mobile and Emerging Products, Associated Press Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix Brandon Lucas, Vice-President and General Manager, Mobile, Black Entertainment Television Adil Lalani, Co-Founder & CTO, TwitVid.com Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners Jim Black, Technical Consultant, Maendeleo Ventures, Moderator Ravi Belwal, Senior Project Consultant, Forum Nokia: Ravi Belwal is an experienced mobile software engineering professional. Ravi currently works as a Senior Project Consultant at Forum Nokia. Ravi has seventeen years of experience in the telecom industry. He has been focusing specifically on mobile and its enabling technologies for the last several years. In his current role, Ravi consults for key branded developers for operators, tier-1 ISVs, etc. Ravi represents Forum Nokia in developer conferences around the world and is passionate about working closely with the top innovators in the mobile developer community. Ravi's passion is to work closely with the developer community on mobile technologies, location, mobile TV, and enabling technologies. Jeffrey Litvack, GM of Mobile and Emerging Products, Associated Press: Jeff is highly regarded for his visionary knowledge of converging media platforms and channels and has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including the keynote at JupiterMedia Mobile Marketing & Content, Nokia Developer Summit and as a panelist for Digital Hollywood, CTIA, IPTV World Forum, DigitalMedia Wire, Mobile Advertising 2008, and the IAB Leadership Forum on Mobile. He is also the author of several published works.. Clayton Rose, Senior Vice President, Digital Properties, AETN Digital: Clayton Rose is SVP Digital Properties for AETN Digital, a division of A&E Television Networks, and has responsibility for business operations across the digital assets of History.com, myLifetime.com, AETV.com and Biography.com. In addition to overseeing mobile, business development, audience development and social media, Clayton also supports AETN’s new media initiatives. Recently, Clayton started the LifetimeMoms.com website, featuring a premier group of high-quality voices, inspiring honest, real, and thought-provoking conversations by moms and for moms. As an adjunct, The Lifetime Moms Affiliate ad network provides revenue opportunity for participating mom bloggers. In the gaming space, Clayton oversees business operations for Roiworld.com, a leading online dress-up site focusing on fashion and celebrity. Clayton also sits on the board of Lifetime Game Studios Korea, the Seoul-based studio responsible for building and maintaining Roiworld.com. Prior to Lifetime, Clayton ran business development for Internet Broadcasting, the largest producer of local online TV sites. Clayton graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School. Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners: Sharon Wienbar invests in mobile, internet, and enterprise software companies at Scale Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001. Sharon sits on the boards of Bellamax, Biz360, Facetime Communications, Glu Mobile, Merchant Circle, PlayPhone and Reply.com. Prior to Scale VP, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path, Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and operations, integrated product and service businesses following acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property licenses. Sharon holds a BA and MA in Engineering from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sharon also serves on the board of the non-profit Myelin Repair Foundation. Brandon Lucas, Vice-President and General Manager, Mobile, Black Entertainment Television: Brandon Lucas is responsible for driving mobile strategy and operations for one of Viacom's largest media properties. Responsibilities include mobile product development and distribution, monetization and mobile marketing. I previously worked for MySpace, Disney and U.S. Cellular, all in the area of mobile business development. I live in the beautiful neighborhood of Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles. Adil Lalani, Co-Founder & CTO, TwitVid.com: Adil is the co-founder and CTO of EatLime, Inc., the consumer video technology platform, where he and his co-founder, Mo Adham are responsible for the planning, development and strategic direction of the company. Adil and Mo developed EatLime’s unique Instant Media Engine technology in 2007 with the goal to provide the fastest and easiest way for people to share videos. In 2009, they launched TwitVid.com and their app for the iPhone 3GS. While in high school, Adil began working on a web-based School Management System that offered a platform for students, teachers and parents to communicate and collaborate outside of the Classroom. When Adil when a freshman at the University of Waterloo, he launched SurfYourWork.com. In 2005, with more than 450 schools using the service, he sold SurfYourWork to Jasmine Tech. Adil, a self-taught web programmer since high school, sees the internet as a way to change the world, and every project he works on as a way to help facilitate positive change. Adil was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and is pursuing a Bachelor of Math and Computer Science degree. He currently lives in San Francisco. Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix: Chris came to Topix from Spoke Software, a business social networking company, where he was a co-founder and VP of marketing. Before Spoke, Chris was a Director of Marketing at AOL/Netscape for AOL Music, Netscape Search and Directory Products. Chris was a co-founder and VP of Marketing at NewHoo, and led the sale of the company to Netscape. After the acquisition, NewHoo was relaunched as the Open Directory Project at Netscape and became the world's largest human edited directory of the web, and is still used by companies like Google, Alexa and AOL. Previous to NewHoo, Chris held a variety of sales, marketing and management positions at Sun Microsystems. Chris graduated from the University of California at San Diego with degrees in Computer Science and Economics, where he was awarded the Michael J. Addison award for his senior thesis about the online information industry. Jim Black, Technical Consultant, Maendeleo Ventures,: Jim Black is a Technical Consultant with Maendeleo Ventures using video, Social Networking and mobile devices to improve the treatment of chronic-care patients. Prior to that he worked in the Digital Media Innovation Group, Sprint-Nextel: leading the DMI Multimedia and Social Networking Team with focus on the convergence of the mobile web, Hollywood 2.0 and social networking. He was responsible for identifying innovative applications on mobile broadband Internet (3G and 4G). He explores new opportunities that can create a strong and innovative value proposition to Sprint. Recently he has focused on streaming media, user generated content (including gaming) and personalized, mash-up and rich-media messaging areas of Social Networking. Prior to this he led the video codec R&D work within Sprint, focusing on High Definition Video over IP and multimedia services over mobile broadband networks and 3D content. Jim is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has held positions at Sprint in the domestic, Asia-Pacific and European arenas. He has been a speaker at a wide range of industry conferences and symposiums including Digital Hollywood 2008, the IBC Conference in Amsterdam and the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting in Las Vegas.