Speakers 2012
Judd Apatow
Award Winning Writer-Director-Producer
Considered one of the most sought-after comedy minds in the business, Judd Apatow has been closely associated with many of the biggest comedy films in recent years. Judd Apatow is multi-hyphenated writer, producer and director. His most notable works include, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Tallaedga...
Irving Azoff
Executive Chairman, Live Nation Entertainment
Irving Azoff is Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading concert promoter, and parent of Ticketmaster. He also serves on the boards of both CC Media Holdings, Inc. and Clear Channel Communications, and the board of IMG, the world’s leading...
John Batter
CEO, M-Go
John Batter, CEO of M-GO, is redefining the way people find, purchase and enjoy digital entertainment. With content deals from Hollywood’s top studios and preloads on Intel, Samsung, and Vizio electronics, M-GO – available in Q4 of 2012 – changes how viewers connect with top movies and TV on the...
Brian Bedol
Founder & CEO, Bedrocket Media Ventures
Brian Bedol is the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, a next generation media company that creates pioneering content distributed through cross-platform networks. Bedrocket this year launched four YouTube channels: Official Comedy, Network A (action sports), Kick (soccer), and Look TV...
Gilles BianRosa
Co-Founder and CEO of Fanhattan
Internet and digital media entrepreneur Gilles BianRosa founded Fanhattan in 2010 together with a team of veteran executives across Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Fanhattan is widely recognized as the first and leading entertainment discovery app for the connected world. Fanhattan received a CES...
Vincent Bruzzese
President, Ipsos MPG
Vincent Bruzzese is President of the Worldwide Motion Picture Group (MPG) at Ipsos where he heads up an experienced team of researchers and marketing consultants, and oversees all theatrical ad testing/marketing strategy-assessment, script/content evaluation, screenings and qualitative projects...
Maggie Finch
CEO & Founder, King of the Web, Inc.
Maggie is a media and advertising executive who has spent the bulk of her career building digital marketing firms and technologies. In 1995, Maggie built one of the first online media buying shops and pioneered many other industry "firsts". For more than a decade, Maggie served as General...
Nicola Foti
Celebrity Video Blogger
Nicola Foti is a 27 year old celebrity video blogger with over 315,000 subscribers and 57 million views across his 4 YouTube channels. He created his first YouTube account, soundlyawake, in February of 2006 and started regularly posting videos in 2008. He has made close to a thousand videos...
Rob Grady
COO, Wetpaint Entertainment
Under Rob’s leadership, Wetpaint Entertainment has become one of the leading entertainment properties on the web, growing from zero to 12MM unique users in its first 18 months of existence. This rapid growth is due in large part to Wetpaint’s proprietary Social Distribution System, a technology-...
Mindy Grossman
Chief Executive Officer & Director, HSNi
Mindy Grossman is Chief Executive Officer of HSN, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSNI) and a member of the company's Board of Directors. In this capacity, she oversees a retail portfolio which generates more than $3.2 billion in revenue and encompasses HSN, a leading interactive multichannel retailer that offers...
Jeff Jordan
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff Jordan is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where some of his board seats include Airbnb, Fab, OpenTable, and Pinterest. Prior to joining a16z, Jeff was executive chairman and CEO of OpenTable.
Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was president of PayPal. Prior to PayPal, he was SVP and...
Brent Lang
Reporter, TheWrap.com
Brent Lang is a Reporter at TheWrap.com, where he covers film, home entertainment, new media, and other offshoots of the entertainment business. Recently, he has reported on the impact of digital conversion on independent movie theaters, the dominance of television profits at major media...
Nicholas Lehman
President, Digital, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media
As President of Digital for NBCUniversal’s Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division (E&DN/IM), Nicholas Lehman oversees the digital businesses across the portfolio, including iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl and Fandango. In this role, he drives growth across the...
Seth MacFarlane
Emmy-winning writer-director-actor, TED and FAMILY GUY
Seth MacFarlane is one of the most daring voices in American comedy today, an Emmy-winning writer-director-actor who is the creative force behind television’s FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD, THE CLEVELAND SHOW, and the summer hit movie, TED. A fearless innovator, MacFarlane pushes boundaries in his...
Chris Sacca
Founder, Lowercase Capital
Chris Sacca is an accomplished venture investor, technology adviser and entrepreneur who now manages a portfolio of more than 50 consumer web, mobile and technology start-ups as well as several more mature companies through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. Lowercase has invested in such...
Jennifer Salke
President of NBC Entertainment and Universal Television
Jennifer Salke was named President of NBC Entertainment in July 2011. Salke is responsible for NBC's primetime and daytime programming, which includes all drama and comedy development, current programming, and casting. She also oversees the Universal Television studio.
Ted Sarandos
Chief Content Officer, Netflix
Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With more than 20 years' experience in home entertainment, Ted is recognized in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution.
Before Netflix, Ted was an executive at video distributor ETD and Video City...
John Skipper
President, ESPN
In his 14 years with the company prior to becoming president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks on January 1, 2012, John Skipper was a key architect of ESPN’s explosive growth. He played leadership roles overseeing the company’s television, digital, print and advertising sales...
Yancey Strickler
Co-Founder, Kickstarter
Yancey Strickler is cofounder of Kickstarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. His writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Spin, and the Village Voice, among other publications. He lives in New York City and has personally backed more than 650 Kickstarter...
Kara Swisher
Co-Executive Editor, All Things Digital
Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital,” with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering (...
Paul Telegdy
President of Alternative and Late-Night Programming for NBC Entertainment
Paul Telegdy was promoted to President, Alternative and Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment, in September 2011. He previously was Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Television, since December 2008.
Telegdy oversees NBC’s unscripted series and...
Carlos Watson, Jr.
Moderator - Journalist, Entrepreneur, Investment Banker
Carlos Watson, Jr. is Managing Director and Global Head of Education in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs. His career spans politics, education, entrepreneurship, television, and finance. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2010, focusing on media and education companies. Prior to this, he...
Sharon Waxman
CEO & Founder, The Wrap News Inc.
As an award-winning journalist, author and founder of TheWrap.com, Sharon Waxman represents one of the most influential voices in news media and popular culture. Since Waxman's launch of TheWrap.com in 2009, the premiere news organization covering the business of entertainment and media, she has...
Chris Williams
Chief Development Officer, Maker Studios
Chris M. Williams oversees creative development, production, network development, programming and marketing across Maker’s YouTube channel networks. Williams has pioneered cutting-edge entertainment for more than 15 years. After working at Yahoo, he founded My2Centences LLC, an entertainment...
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