Wednesday, Oct 8th:

MARC DAVIS Yahoo! – "World 2.0"

Marc Davis is Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Connected Life and Director of ESP. His work focuses on creating the technology and applications that will enable the billions of daily media consumers to become daily media producers. His research encompasses the theory, design, and development of sociotechnical systems that leverage contextual metadata and the power of community to enable people around the world to produce, describe, share, and remix media, and to connect to each other in new ways. As Chief Scientist for Connected Life and Director of ESP (Early Stage Products), Marc and his team invent and help realize the future of mobile, social, media, monetization, and platforms.

From 2002 to 2006, Marc Davis served as Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he directed Garage Cinema Research and co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. In 2005, Marc Davis worked with Yahoo! Inc. and UC Berkeley to create Yahoo! Research Berkeley where he served as Founding Director. At Garage Cinema Research and Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Marc Davis and his teams developed and deployed pioneering prototypes for context-aware mobile media tagging, sharing, and browsing, and technologies for video capture, tagging, and remixing. In 2006, Marc Davis joined Yahoo! to bring his vision of social media and mobile media to billions of people around the world. Marc Davis earned his B.A. in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Literary Theory and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory.

Personal Web Site: http://www.socialmediaguru.com

Yahoo! Research Berkeley: http://www.yahooresearchberkeley.com

Garage Cinema Research: http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu

AREND STÜHRMANN CCP Games

Arend Stührmann is an Associate Producer at CCP acting as the liaison between CCP's Shanghai and Reykjavik offices, coordinating the work on the EVE China project between various company departments. His other responsibilities include the project to bring EVE Online to the Mac and Linux operating systems, and to assist in the management of the Reykjavik game design and content development department. Moving to Iceland from Northern Ireland, where he was previously engaged in research in the field of interpersonal communication and developmental psychology, Arend Stührmann joined CCP in September 2006 becoming an Associate Producer in July 2007.

"Cyber Communities: Who's Out There And What Do They Want?"

TRISTAN NITOT Mozilla Europe

Tristan Nitot is the founder and current President of Mozilla Europe, the international affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation, home of the Firefox Web browser. He started contributing to the project in 2001 and with the help of Mozilla Europe, Firefox is now translated into 48 languages worldwide. Tristan formerly worked for Netscape from 1997 to 2003, heading up Product Marketing in Southern Europe and then became their Technology Evangelist, managing developer relations in Europe. Tristan has published on the Web since 1996 and began blogging in 2002 on Standblog.org. His blog reaches 12,000 readers daily on average.

Keeping the Web open - Building the Internet we want to have
1.2 billion Internet users, and counting. The Internet has become central to our lives, meanwhile, software has become an efficient way to track and influence what 1.2 billion people do. How do we ensure that we, as users, are in charge? Tristan Nitot, founder of Mozilla Europe, will discuss what governments, businesses and individuals can do, both today and tomorrow, to ensure the Internet develops in a way which benefits everyone. And why its critical the Web should remain an open, accessible and global public resource.
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Prof. Dr. PETER A. BRUCK Research Studios Austria & WSA

Peter A. Bruck is founder and General Manager of the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft. He is also the honorary President of the ICNM-International Center for New Media, Salzburg, the chairman of the Board of the European Academy of Digital Media-EADiM, Netherlands, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Summit Award.

Peter A. Bruck studied at the universities of Vienna, Iowa and at McGill, Montreal, and holds doctorates in law and communications, and master degrees in sociology and economics. He has taught at universities in Canada, US and Western Europe plus Israel and Poland and has over 25 years of experience in research and consulting in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada.

Bruck continues some teaching as Honorary Professor of Information Economy and New Technologies at the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Law, at the University of Salzburg and holds an appointment as Research Professor of Communication and Journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

He is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Media Diversity of the Council of Europe. Peter A. Bruck has initiated EUROPRIX, Europe’s leading multimedia award, the Prix MultiMediaAustria and a number of national best practice competitions and awards in Western and Eastern Europe. Within the framework of the UN World Summit on Information Society, Bruck has organised the World Summit Award in e-content and creativity as a global event and process.

Thursday, Oct 9th:

PEKKA POHJAKALLIO Nokia Ovi

Pekka Pohjakallio has 15 years’ experience in mobile communications and mobile services - he currently serves as Vice President, Suites Management and Marketing, Services and Software for Nokia. Pohjakallio is responsible for managing the overall services portfolio and product management, suites product marketing and Forum Nokia, the Nokia developer community.

Pohjakallio joined Nokia in 1991, and held various positions including Vice President, Nokia Nseries Computers, Multimedia, Director of the Nokia Music Service, Multimedia, Director of Product Marketing for Nokia’s Entertainment Business Unit, and Director of Mobile Internet Solutions in Nokia Networks.

At Nokia, Pohjakallio was instrumental in developing the mobile value added services business throughout the 90’s, heading the SMS, MMS, and WAP businesses in Nokia Networks. In Multimedia has has been creating Nokia’s music strategy in both the devices and services area. as well as building the N7x series category of the Nokia Nseries multimedia computers.

He has spoken at industry conferences, including the 3GSM World Congress, WAP Forum, and Nokia Internet Conference.

Pohjakallio earned a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Management in Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He holds three international patents in the area of GSM packet radio.

"The context sensitive Internet"
The next word of Internet is contex: the intenet is not static anymore but
people are participating and creating it on the go. The smart devices know
where we are and what we do. Mobile is the natural way of making this
happen.

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JIM SINK Microsoft Live, Software, and Studios

Jim Sink is a business development manager with Microsoft Live, Software, and Studios with a focus in digital distribution on the Xbox 360. He is also credited as either game or concept designer for Bomberman Live on XBLA, Sonic Rivals 1&2 on the PSP, Monster Lab on the Wii and DS, Shadowborne on the N-Gage, and Cosmic Chaos on the DS.

"The Trial - Your best marketing tool"
Best practices for optimizing the trial experience for console based downloadable games.

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