TheGrill 2012 Program

Opening Night Speakers, Monday, Oct 1: ‘Where Tech & Content Investment Is Headed’
Jeff Jordan, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Chris Sacca, Founder, Lowercase Capital
Tuesday, Oct 2
Face Off: Five Questions for Silicon Valley / Hollywood
Kara Swisher, Executive Editor, AllThingsD
Sharon Waxman, Editor, TheWrap
Building a Sports Media Juggernaut in the Digital Age
John Skipper, President, ESPN
Building the Stream: The Next Stage for Netflix
Ted Sarandos,Chief Content Officer, Netflix
Media Meets Retail Meets Entertainment: HSN’s Wraparound Strategy
Mindy Grossman, CEO, HSNi
A Family Guy? Interview With a Demented Genius
Keynote: Seth MacFarlane, Actor-Writer-Director-Executive Producer

12:30 pm - Lunch and Roundtables:
Ipsos MPG: Script Assessment, The Line Between Art & Commerce; Wetpaint: Leveraging Facebook For Explosive Audience & Revenue Growth; King of the Web: America's Got User-Generated Talent; Fanhattan: Discovery in the Fragmented World of Entertainment
Sponsored by Ipsos MPG

NBC and the Path to a Future of Broadcast Television
Jennifer Salke, President of NBC Entertainment and Universal Television
Paul Telegdy, NBC President of Alternative and Late-Night Programming
Special: New Product Presentation
John Batter, CEO, M-GO
Where Social Media Gets Movies Wrong - and How to Read the Cues
Exclusive Research: Vincent Bruzzese, President of Ipsos Worldwide Motion Picture Group
Kickstarter: The Future of Film Financing
Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder, Kickstarter
The Explosion in Online Video: Growing a Business Model
Nicholas Lehman, President, Digital, NBCUniversal
Brian Bedol, CEO/Founder, Bedrocket Media Ventures
Chris Williams, Chief Development Officer, Maker Studios
The New Music Business – Idol, Voice and the Long Tail of Concerts
Irving Azoff, CEO, LiveNation Entertainment interviewed by
Judd Apatow, writer-director-producer