Mary-Ellen Anderson
Executive Producer
MSN Canada

Mary-Ellen Anderson is the Executive Producer for MSN Canada where she is part of a global media team, striving to make MSN's portals the number one destination for users around the world.

Mary-Ellen comes to Sympatico/ MSN from CTV.ca where she was a Senior Producer leading news and entertainment teams in the creation of daily and special content across multiple platforms including Web, Broadband and Mobile. As well, she produced CTV.ca's inaugural Enhanced TV offerings for the Oscar and Juno Awards. Mary-Ellen began her online career as one of the original writers/producers for CBC.ca. Prior to that she worked on a variety of programs in both television and radio for private and public broadcasters.

Andrew Ayre
Executive Director
Foundation 9 Entertainment

Andrew Ayre co-founded and currently serves as Executive Director of Foundation 9 Entertainment, with 11 studios and 750 employees, the largest independent video game developer in North America. Andrew has played a key role in M&A and corporate development for Foundation 9 and is also responsible for a number of key relationships and strategic projects. His previous roles included responsibility for business development across the entire company. He also co-founded and served as President of Backbone Entertainment. In 1992, he co-founded Digital Eclipse, where he served as President from January 1995 until it's merger with Backbone Entertainment in 2003. Andrew grew up in Newfoundland and has a B.A. degree in Government from Harvard University.

Barbara Bailie
Director of Interactive
Astral Media

As Director, Interactive for Astral Television Networks, Barbara Bailie is responsible for the strategic direction and production of interactive properties for seven television networks - Family, The Movie Network, Mpix, Super Écran, Viewers Choice, Canal Indigo and Cinépop. These networks serve a variety of audiences ranging from children to adults in both the English and French markets in Canada.

Ms. Bailie was responsible for launching Astral Media’s first website, family.ca, in May 1997. Under her guidance, family.ca has now grown to become one of the most popular Canadian kids’ online destinations. All of the websites under her direction have won numerous awards over the years which include five Gold and seven Silver BDA Awards in a variety of categories such as best consumer site, best game, best micro-site and best viral marketing campaign. Aside from the online initiatives for each network, Ms. Bailie has recently developed and launched numerous SMS promotions and campaigns, as well as the launch of video podcasts for Family. She has also been one of the driving forces behind a number of innovative online projects which include two seasons of the ReGenesis Extended Reality Game, as well as streaming online the first full episode of a Canadian television live-action series, Life with Derek, in March 2006.

York Baur
Executive VP of Business Development
Zango

York Baur is responsible for developing strategic partnerships among popular Internet content providers and implementing programs intended to increase Zango's distribution base. York's previous experience in sales and marketing include rebuilding the search and directory business at InfoSpace to its position as one of the largest independent search networks, and leading the company's acquisition of Excite. He also spearheaded acquisition strategies, channel development and product management at InterVu and Netpodium. York has played key management roles at Microsoft and held executive positions at Attachmate for more than 10 years, developing technical marketing strategies. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Steve Billinger
Executive Director, Digital Programming & Business
cbc.ca

Steve has experience at the executive level in both traditional and new media, and extensive media experience in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Steve oversees the growth and development of the CBC's digital programming and services, while fostering business development opportunities on all CBC platforms. He is also responsible for the strategic planning, production and delivery of all CBC’s online presence, as well as managing digital partnerships and the international sales of all programming and archival material.

Steve has worked with such leading corporations as Microsoft, Bell Expressvu and News Corp International (BSkyB). He has also provided strategic planning consultation to BCE, PBS, CBC, the BBC and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Steve has launched and run content services on every current digital platform, including digital specialty networks, enhanced television, VBI text services, gaming, CD-ROM, broadband, SMS, wireless, narrowband and walled garden "virtual channel" services.

Most recently, Steve was senior vice president of Cookie Jar Broadcast, where he was responsible for developing and launching new edutainment "channels" for all platform distribution. He has also won a number of awards, both for his work as a director, producer and writer of television series, and as an innovator in animated production for television.

In addition, Steve has provided master classes on digital production to the American Film Institute, PBS, the BBC and the Director's Guild of Canada. He also wrote a regular column on the future of television for New Media Age in the United Kingdom and Variety, as well as features on technology for children for Today's Parent magazine.

Kevin Bracken
Newmindspace

Kevin Bracken is originally from Long Island, New York and moved to Toronto, Canada in September of 2004 to study political science at the University of Toronto. Involved in such projects as The TRIP! Project and the Toronto Public Space Committee, Kevin has clearly defined his role as devoted to the fun and freedom of the public.

He delights in late-night techno dance parties, blowing large volumes of bubbles with brightly-colored machines, website design and technology, public infrastructure and transit, tall buildings, big cities, boardwalks, jungle music, the earth, beauty, and adventures of all kinds.

Aaron Brown
Director Product Management
Services Product Marketing
Research In Motion

Aaron leads the global Product Management and Product Marketing efforts for the Services element of RIM’s product portfolio. His team is focused on crafting market, product and pricing strategy for BlackBerry, focused on individual customer (ie prosumer) and SMB/SOHO segments. The team is responsible for all life-cycle phases, including product strategy, development, launch, and in-market management. It also drives product revenue and P+L targets, defines core market segments, and leads product-marketing responsibilities for the offer. He is also responsible for developing RIM’s strategy for partnering with consumer application and content developers.

Previous to this position, Aaron held several Product Management and marketing roles at RIM, including Product Management of multiple BlackBerry handhelds, including 6710, 6230, and 7230. Prior to working at RIM, Aaron was Director of Marketing/Product Management for a Canadian Educational Software Development company. He grew up in Eastern Canada.

Sara Bustoz
Member
girlz 0f destruction

Sara Bustoz is a current member of the PC gaming team girlz 0f destruction. She started her video gaming ventures back in 1999 when a boyfriend she had at the time was into PC video games. After becoming involved with the 'g0d' team, life has never been the same. Sara, also known as 'RocketQueen' has since attended numerous events throughout the years with her team, including 2 'Quakecons' in Dallas, Texas, 'Dreamhack' in Jonkoping, Sweden, World Cyber Games in San Francisco, and multiple E3's in Los Angeles just to name a few. Even tho she works a full time job, she always finds the time to play on the PC and commmunicate with her teammates and friends.
www.myspace.com/rq_sara

Didi Cardoso
Managing Editor & PR of Grrlgamer.com

Michael Carter
President and CEO
MyThumb Interactive

In his leadership role at MyThum, Michael draws on more than a decade of wireless, e-commerce, interactive entertainment and management consulting experience. With direct connections to all Canadian wireless operators and access to all major US carriers, MyThum enables brands and media companies to build relationships with more than 220 million consumers through their mobile phones. Since 2002, Michael and his team have launched hundreds of initiatives, many being the first of their kind in North America. MyThum powers the direct-to-consumer mobile content storefronts for Warner Music Canada, Universal Music Canada and Best Buy USA and interactive television solutions for broadcasters such as MuchMusic, MTV Canada, Global Television and Rogers Sportsnet. MyThum is also the mobile marketing partner for leading brands such as Molson, Nike, Nissan and Shoppers Drug Mart.

Sebastien Chorney
Co-founder
Podzapper Inc.

Sebastien is a seasoned interactive media strategist with an ahead-of-the-curve knowledge of digital distribution strategies, web applications, and a long history in the production and development of best-of-class digital media.
 
Sebastien runs Podzapper inc., an interactive media consultancy, with business partner Ron Proulx, where he helps content owners promote and extend their properties onto different platforms. In addition to his work promoting television programming through mobile and online content, he has also helped develop and produce branded digital media projects in sectors as diverse as B2B event promotion and ecotourism.
 
He is also responsible for exploring strategic partnerships with content and marketing partners, particularly in the areas of branded interactive content development and innovative distribution strategies.Previously, Sebastien operated his own recording studio, where he produced and developed a variety of musical projects, as well as corporate and instructional material.
 
Sebastien plays guitar and bass, and holds a degree in translation from Concordia University.

Tony Chapman
Founder & CEO
Capital C

How they Wigged Out the World in Six Days

How did a $3,000 viral campaign titled 'Bride has a Massive Wig Out' became one of Youtube's most popular and shared videos, and in turn become the talk and focus of mass media across the world?

Tony Chapman, the Founder and CEO of Capital C, Marketing Magazines 2006 Agency of the Year, will share their story that includes a cast of characters, including a phenomenal client in Unilever, Capital C's Big Ideas Group, and an eclectic team including a Director, Producer, and four talented but under-employed actresses.

A great case study on the intersection between new media and mass media, and the lessons we need to learn.

Wayne Clarkson
Executive Director
Telefilm Canada

Wayne Clarkson has dedicated his career to increasing the profile of Canadian filmmakers and their films. After graduating from Carleton University (where he later taught film), Clarkson worked for the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa. In 1974, he completed graduate studies in film at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England and returned to Ottawa to serve as director of the National Film Theatre.

In 1978, he was appointed Director of Toronto's two-year-old Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival). Under his directorship, the Festival developed into one of the most successful in the world. Clarkson accepted the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the newly created Ontario Film Development Corporation in 1986. Under his stewardship, the OFDC came to play an integral role in the development and production of quality, Canadian film and television.

In 1988, Clarkson took a leave of absence to join his wife in Bogotá, Columbia, travelling throughout South and Central America. Prior to joining Telefilm Canada as Executive Director in January 2005, he was the Executive Director of the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) since 1991. Under his leadership, the Film Centre became the country's premier training and production centre for film, television and new media with 16 feature films produced, 115 short films, 30 new media prototypes and more than 700 graduate.

Neil Closner
President
Cascada Mobile

As President of Cascada Mobile, Neil Closner guides the company's strategic direction and is responsible for identifying new opportunities and markets for Cascada Mobile's technologies.

Neil joined Cascada Mobile following his role as a principal of GSI Advisors, a strategic management consultancy firm. At GSI he applied his extensive expertise in new media, entertainment, financial services, software and technology. Prior to founding GSI, Neil was Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of Baby Universe, Inc., (NASDAQ: POSH) an industry leading online retailer of juvenile products. Neil previously worked in New York City as an associate with a private equity investment boutique and as an investment banker at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney.

Neil holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with Distinction in Economics and Commerce from McGill University and The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jennifer Cristani
VP, New Business
Splashworks

Jennifer Crisanti has been working in the interactive media industry since 1992. She is a founding partner of Splashworks.com and has been instrumental in growing the company from a small Toronto developer into a top-level game developer in the international marketplace.

Splashworks.com is Canada's leading advergame developer; it has been delivering top-quality, cutting edge online games since 1997.

A key component of Splashwork.com's business strategy is an extensive library of games that are both Splashworks created and owned. Currently this library includes over eighty titles that clients can license and brand to suit a particular campaign. The games incorporate the same elements found in commercial stand alone products; intelligent gameplay, intuitive interface, graphically immersive environments, tension and competition.

Since 1997, the company has launched over 300 games for over 55 leading consumer based companies and ad agencies. Client's include: Atom Entertainment, Arnold Interactive, Time Warner, MacLaren McCann, Coor's Brewing Company, CHUM, Mattel, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Nestle USA, Proctor and Gamble, LG Electronics and CanWest media Works.

In 2004, Splashworks launched it's first downloadable product, Pipsoh! that targeted consumers. This was followed by Bang On Blitz in 2005. Downloadable games are an important part of the company's future. Splashworks is about to launch it's third title on Real Arcade, Mariposa. Splashworks now has over 100 game titles in it's library.

Claudette Critchley
Studio Manager
Big Blue Bubble

Claudette graduated at the top of her class in university and obtained both her Computer Science and Education degrees. After university, she taught Computer Science at a private college and quickly advanced to the position of Regional Education Manager. Although she had a great passion for education, she found that she was missing the extra challenge that programming gave her. In 2000, she left her teaching career to pursue a career in video game development at Sandbox Studios ( now a division of Electronic Arts ). During her time at Sandbox, her knowledge of gaming and the industry grew as she took on the role of programmer/lead programmer on several hit titles ( including: Disney's Emperor's New Groove for GameBoy, Shrek for Xbox, Pryzm for PS2, and The Land Before Time for PC/PS1 ). Her versatility and continued drive for excellence led her to co-found Big Blue Bubble in 2004. As Studio Manager, she has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of the company.

Stéphane D'Astous
General Manager
Eidos Montreal



With over 15 years in the technology sector. Stéphane D’Astous has made a name for himself in the gaming industry with his expertise in strategic and operational management, recruitment and mentoring. His management skills have contributed to the growth of several companies. Stéphane began his career in project management in the aeronautics industry, working for companies like Bombardier and CAE. Over the last few years, he held important positions at Montreal video game companies, allowing him to combine his passion for video games with his career.

Alex DeBold
Co-Founder
ChickAdvisor.com

Alex is a serial entrepreneur who has been building online communities since 1995. His first, ProfessorJones was Canada's most successful online student portal.

Alex has continued building online communities and integrated CRM solutions for leading North American companies such as Labatt (beer.com) and, Butterfield & Robinson.

Recently, he co-founded and launched ChickAdvisor.com, a social shopping website for women. He also enjoys helping startups. Some have included RedFlagDeals, Bubbleshare and AmbientVector.

Kevin DeWalt
CEO
Canadian-based Minds Eye Entertainment

Kevin DeWalt is CEO of Canadian-based Minds Eye Entertainment, which he founded in 1986. Minds Eye is an internationally-recognized, vertically-integrated organization which includes subsidiaries in new media and distribution. Kevin has produced over 40 film, television and web-based projects that have been sold to over 200 territories around the world. His recent production, Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, was recently (Jan. 2007) purchased by The Hallmark Channel and will be broadcast in 146 territories in 18 languages. His current production, The Englishman’s Boy, a four-hour TV event mini-series starring Bob Hoskins and Nick Campbell, will air on CBC Television in September 2007 and be released internationally as both a mini-series and feature film. Kevin is a board member of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA). He is currently President of the International Quorum of Film and Television Producers (IQ). Kevin is married with three teenagers aged 16, 14 and 12 and makes his home in Regina, Canada.

Scott Dyer
Executive VP, General Manager
Corus Kids

Scott Dyer is Executive Vice President, General Manager, Corus Kids for the Canadian-based media and entertainment company Corus Entertainment Inc. In this role, Dyer is responsible for overseeing the specialty services YTV, Treehouse and Discovery Kids Canada as well as Nelvana Studios.
Prior to this position, Dyer was Executive Vice President, Production and Development, Nelvana, which produces globally renowned and award-winning children’s animated content such as Babar and Franklin. In this role, Dyer was responsible for guiding the creative vision and technological development of Nelvana’s high-calibre team of animators, developers and producers. Dyer joined Nelvana in 1997, after the studio acquired the Dyer-produced pilot of Emmy Award-winning CGI series Rolie Polie Olie. 

Trained as a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University, Dyer entered the animation business after spending three years in Utah working on visual systems for flight simulators. His first industry career saw him producing commercial effects for television at Cranston/Csuri Productions--one of the original computer animation companies.

Expertise in that field led Dyer to a professorship at Ohio State University, where he spent four years running a research group that applied computer animation to the science at The Ohio Supercomputer Center. Dyer hung his own production shingle with a group of partners in 1993, serving as president of Windlight Studios.

Trevor Doerksen
CEO & Co-Founder
MoboVivo

Trevor has been at the intersection of media and technology for nearly 20 years. He has investigated and developed large-scale implementations of streaming video and Internet TV for government and industry. His graduate research into flexible e-content and content repurposing has lead to a $2 million research project, a chapter in the 2002 Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training, and the creation of MoboVivo. MoboVivo is the first company in Canada to sell television programming online. He earned a B.Ed and M.Sc from the University of Calgary. On participating in ICE 2007: "It may be obvious that the media, new media, web, mobile, and gaming industries are colliding, but which direction, at what speed, and what vehicle will take off is not so obvious. The ICE conference brings various industries together to reflect and contemplate where we go from here and this is key for our company."

Stuart Duncan
CEO
Bight Games

As C.E.O. of Bight Games, Stuart Duncan utilizes his decade long experience in advanced multimedia production to oversee operations for one of the industries' most innovative mobile game developers. Under his direction Bight's strong R&D focus has propelled them into a leadership position in 3D mobile game development. Spearheading the bightCode^TM game engine and the bightSize^TM personalization platform, Duncan has significantly expanded Bights' technological IP while maintaining a strong commitment to the creation and development of world class mobile games. Bight Interactive's Games are being distributed worldwide through its agreements with aggregators and master publishers such as THQ Wireless, Skyzone Entertainment and Telcogames.

Prior to founding Bight Interactive, Duncan was the President and C.E.O of Smashplay inc., a pioneering producer of advanced Flash based B2B Solutions for the Enterprise. With a roster of clients such as Xerox, Smashplay provided cutting edge creative applications maximally utilizing automation and production efficiencies.

Daniel Eayrs
42media.ca

Daniel Eayrs has worked for such companies as Electronic Arts, BBC Media Arc & lotusmedia during his international career.  Mr. Eayrs has worked in motion capture, digital animation, Synthespian development, avid “Mac Head”, software developer, shipped in over 30 video game titles and worked in over a dozen film and television projects throughout his ~ 20 year career.

Jeffrey Elliott
Founder, President & CEO
BiteTV

Jeffrey Elliott brings twenty-five years of strategic and creative experience in broadcasting, production, Internet, radio and print to his latest venture, Bite TV, the 2006 Canadian New Media Award winner for Excellence in Cross-Platform.

BITE is a cross-platform entertainment universe and television network designed specifically for the techno- generation and media hungry 18-34 year old demographic. BITE offers short, edgy and comedic programming delivered in a unique, fast-paced style across all media markets.

A visionary in the industry, Jeffrey was Senior Vice President of Alliance Atlantis and Managing Director at TSN.ca and Discoverychannel.ca where he established a unique internet programming philosophy that maximized interactive/convergent opportunities between the network and its audience.

A highly sought after public speaker and member of the Interactive Peer Group for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Jeffrey has his finger on the pulse of the multi-media industry.

Mark Evans
VP Operations
b5media

Mark Evans is VP, Operations with Toronto-based b5media Inc., the world's third-largest blog network. Before joining b5media, Mark was a technology reporter - most recently at the National Post where he wrote about the Internet and the telecom sector. In 2001, Mark co-founded Blanketware Corp., which developed natural language navigation technology for online services. His technology blog can be found at markevanstech.com

Faustine Faubert
3D Media Designer and Producer

Faustine Faubert is a 3d media designer and producer based out of Toronto. Trained as a 3d computer animator and video artist, she started loneLocust.tv, freelancing high end still, motion and interactive graphics for use in web, print, film and broadcast. Her interest in combining and using different genres and media to implement imagination brought her to the Canadian Film Centre's New Media Lab where she co-produced Shanghai Gallery. This episodic interactive pilot involved Faustine using a video game as a production tool to animate and film virtual marionette puppets in real time. Her current preoccupation is in real time interactive 3d graphics for web.

Chris Feges
Co-Founder
Vegas Wireless Entertainment

Chris Feges is the co-founder of Vegas Wireless Entertainment which commenced operations in 2004. With more than 10 years of industry experience, Feges has a diverse background in design, manufacturing, operations and business strategy.

Prior to founding Vegas Wireless Entertainment, Feges was Director of Business Development for TruCash Rewards, a loyalty rewards and payment processing program. He was responsible for not only developing key accounts for the firm, but was instrumental in securing funding for the company.

In the late 90s, Feges was in charge of business development for Allusion, a subsidiary of Cymat Corp., which distributed specialty building products to designers and architects. His leadership contributed to the growth of Cymat which achieved a market capitalization of $150 million dollars. During his tenure, Feges played an integral part in the marketing and business strategy of the product.

Luigi Ferrara OAA, MRAIC, Hon. ACID O,
President ICSID,
Director, School of Design,
George Brown College, Toronto

Luigi Ferrara is an architect designer and urban planner and has served as President of ICSID the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design. He was Vice President of Design Exchange, Canada’s center for Design and innovation and President of DxNet Canada’s Broadband network for design. Currently he is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College and academic leader of Institute without Boundaries program. Luigi lectures on topics as diverse as design and sustainability, design management, urban planning, information technology, digital media, telecommunications and the network society.

Dan Fill
Head of Development, New Media & Digital Services
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dan oversees ABC's web presence, broadband content, video on demand, audio/video podcasting, interactive television, emerging platforms, virtual world development and mobile development. In addition, Dan is responsible for original programming for ABC's Digital Free to air network ABC2. Dan is based in Melbourne Australia.

Angus Frame
Site Editor
Globe and Mail

Angus Frame has been with The Globe and Mail since 1996 in various capacities in the news and Report on Business sections. He moved to globeandmail.com in 2000 as Deputy Editor in charge of business coverage and became the site's editor on Sept. 10, 2001.

He has an honours BA in Political Science from McMaster University and a Journalism degree from Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto's High Park neighbourhood with his wife, two daughters and dog.

Jonathan Freedman
Manager, Business Development
TELUS TV

Jonathan Freedman is currently the Manager of Business Development at TELUS who started by managing the TELUS mobile deals with the Music Labels before moving into the IPTV world of TELUS TV. In his current role he manages the business relationships and secures the deals with the various networks and content providers for VOD & Linear programming. In his current role he highlights new business and revenue opportunities as well as harvesting existing relationships that can add value to one or more of TELUS's many screens.

Prior to TELUS he was Director of 1st Party Relations & Acquisitions at videogame publisher/distributor Hip Games. From 1996 to 2001 he was Studio Director at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe where his studio won a BAFTA award for their title WIPEOUT 3. His professional roots started in 1988 in the world of traditional film and television as an Assistant Director with Degrsssi Junior High after which he moved to YTV in 1990 as their Floor Director on such programs as, Rock 'n Talk and Hit List.

It was at YTV that his love for videogames led him to the role of Producer on YTV's successful show, Video & Arcade Top Ten.

Tom Frencel
President
Capybara Games

Tom Frencel is the President of Capybara Games Inc. (www.capybaragames.com), a mobile game developer based in Toronto, Ontario. As head of the company, Tom has been responsible for guiding the fast growth of Capybara and positioning it as a provider of premium mobile games with a growing international reputation for quality. Overseeing the development of over fourteen projects in just 3 years has given Tom a unique perspective on a burgeoning industry.

Tom has been involved on both AAA licensed games, including Cars for Disney/Pixar, Happy Feet for Warner Brothers, and successful original IP titles, including Pillow Fight with I-play and Super Shove It! with Starwave.

Earlier in his career, Tom established a strong technical background through his work at EMC and Nortel Networks. He holds a BSc. in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Toronto.

Claude Galipeau
Senior Vice President-Digital Media
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc

Claude Galipeau is Senior Vice President, Digital Media, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. Claude is responsible for new media business strategy, programming and operations for all Alliance Atlantis properties. Claude previously was Executive Director, Digital Programming and Business Development, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Claude’s background includes working for Alliance Atlantis Communications, as Vice-President, Broadcasting, and heading business development at Salter Street Films. Claude has a PhD from the University of Toronto, an MA from Queen’s University and a BA from Bishop’s University. He is the author of Isaiah Berlin’s Liberalism (Oxford, 1994), as well as numerous articles on political theory and Canadian politics and public policy.

Paula Gignac
President
Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB) 

Paula is the former Vice President of Rogers Women’s Group of Websites, and is recognized throughout the industry -- not only as a pioneering Web publisher -- but also as an award-winning Interactive marketer and author of digital marketing programs for clients as diverse as AirMiles, GlaxoSmithKline, Ford, Proctor + Gamble, Hershey, etc. With more than 15 years of experience in the medium, and an unmatched record of helping clients achieve success in the Online arena, she is also chief instructor for the IAB Canada Intensive, One-Day Course in Interactive Marketing + Online Advertising.

Brady Gilchrist
Executive Vice President of Strategy & Head of BlueScience
Fuel Industries



As Executive Vice President of Strategy & Head of BlueScience, Fuel Industries’ crea-tive strategy and research division, Brady is responsible for helping clients navigate the branded entertainment landscape with solid consumer insight and research. Headquar-tered in Fuel’s Toronto office, BlueScience is built on the philosophy that as branded entertainment evolves even further, the campaigns that work will be as a result of strat-egy, media and technology converged.

In the early 1990s, Brady founded one of the first online agencies in Canada, and has since helped many major brands discover the possibilities of the web. Since then, he has developed and implemented online strategies for clients including Motorola, Shell,, Covad, Cincinnati Bell, Ford, Acura. Most recently, he built the online practice at GJP Advertising as Senior Vice President of Digital. Since moving over to Fuel he has worked interactive strategies with clients such as Fox, SciFi Channel, Hit Entertainment, Microsoft, Wrigley’s and many other leading brands.

Brady began his career as a commercial pilot with a love of science and an appetite for knowledge about technology. His first venture into the realm of communications tech-nology was the creation of software that would allow pilots to receive wireless email in-flight. When the internet began to emerge as a new medium, he made the jump from the skies into the world of advertising to explore the limitless potential that it possessed.

Brady’s love of exploration is not just limited to the world of marketing. In 2000, he wired up a sailboat to the internet and started one of the first blogs about living life en-tirely on the grid. Later that year he became a crew member aboard the Microsoft, Sony and Stern-sponsored Starship Millennium Project – a ship making a record of the planet at the turn of the new millennium.

Matt Gillis
VP of Business Development
Capcom Interactive Inc.

Matt Gillis is currently the Vice President of Business Development with Capcom Interactive Inc., the mobile games division of the originator of top selling games such as Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Megaman to name a few. With Capcom Interactive, Matt is responsible for wireless carrier relationships, OEM relationships, and brand licensing.

Prior employment includes more than 10 years working for wireless carriers in North America, spending 2003-2005 looking after wireless entertainment content at Verizon Wireless including ringtones/ring back tones, V CAST Video on Demand, and mobile games. Matt holds a degree in Communication Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Originally hailing from Toronto, Canada, Matt now resides in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Matt Golden
SVP Corporate Development and Co-founder
Tira Wireless

Since co-founding Tira Wireless in 2001, Matt Golden has been a driving force behind the company's visionary approach to mobile content deployment. As SVP Corporate Development, Matt heads the team responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with all participants in the mobile content value chain, and leads corporate merger and acquisition activity.

Matt came to Tira from Brightspark Ventures LP, where he was Director of New Ventures. In this role, Matt was charged with building financial networks, raising capital, striking alliances and forming partnerships for the Brightspark group of companies. Previously, Matt practiced law at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Matt is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's LLB/MBA program.

Michael Girgis
President and CEO
Fourth Wall Media

Michael is the President and CEO of Fourth Wall Media a Toronto-based interactive marketing and creative agency and ONESTOP Media Group, the Out-of-home Digital Network operators of Canada’s largest digital network installed on the TTC.  Michael leads a dynamic and award-winning group that have gained international acclaim as producers of innovation and leaders in digital media.  Michael is a founding member and acting chair of the CDSA (Canadian Digital Signage Association) designed to educate and create industry leading research and best practice.  

The Hollywood Reporter’s (November 2003) 10th Anniversary Edition included Michael in their annual “World View Search” for the Top 35 under 35 – “poised to be industry leaders.”

Jonathan Graff
President
Kaboose

Mr. Graff joined Kaboose as President in 2003. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Graff was Director of Business Development with Homestore.com (NASDAQ:HOMS), an online real estate provider of listings in North America. Mr. Graff also managed Homestore’s Canadian national sales force from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Graff holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Jim Griffin
Managing Director
OneHouse LLC

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.

While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States.

Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho's many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media.

Nathon Gunn
President, CEO, Co-Founder
Bitcasters

Bitcasters CEO Nathon Gunn began in new media in 1983, programming and animating while living in India. In Malaysia in 1986 he developed new digital morphing techniques. He followed this by presenting one of South East Asia’s first touch-screen kiosks at a trade conference in Australia. At 16, after founding a profitable video production business and releasing a shareware game in B.C., Nathon moved to Toronto to earn a degree in Computer Animation and Film from Ryerson University while simultaneously working full-time at Chum Ltd. producing, directing, shooting and editing for Citytv, MuchMusic, Bravo, Fashion Television etc.

Nathon has been an advisor to the OMDC, Canada Council for Arts, Charles Bronfman Foundation/Historica, has created web initiatives in support of the campaigns of Al Gore, John Kerry, the Premier of Ontario and has run the technology strategy for the Prime Minister of Canada’s successful leadership bid and general election campaign. Clients include AOL/TW, Family, Disney, Universal, Miramax, the Governments of British Columbia, Ontario and Canada, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, Craig Broadcast Ltd., Chum Ltd., BMG, Sony Music and others.

Laura Jo Gunter
Dean, Information Arts & Technology
Seneca College

Laura Jo Gunter has 15 years in the high technology and entertainment industries. She is currently Seneca College's Dean of Information Arts & Technology, and is a co-founder and C.E.O of Condition30 Inc., an interactive software and content company. Ms. Gunter's previous positions include Vice- President, Creative, Technical and Community for User Friendly Media, Vice-President, Programming, Special Projects and Industry Partnerships for the Vancouver Film School, Executive Director and former Board member of New Media BC, and Director, Applied Sciences Continuing Education at Simon Fraser University. Ms. Gunter has an MBA from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University.

Maria Hale
Vice President, Content Business Development
CHUM

As Vice President, Content Business Development, Maria is responsible for identifying new business and revenue opportunities that are incremental to CHUM's existing core business and that exploit new forms of commerce and distribution on emerging platforms. Reporting to the SVP, Content, with a direct line of report to the President, Radio, CHUM Limited for all radio-related issues, Maria also oversees CHUM’s successful Interactive department.

Maria joined CHUM Television in 1999 as Managing Director, CHUM Interactive. In this role she headed all new media initiatives for the company’s Interactive division and led a team of 30 internet specialists who design, produce and distribute CHUM’s world-renowned content and channel formats across all digital platforms. In 2003 Maria was appointed Vice President of Citytv Toronto where she was responsible for both the strategic planning and growth of Canada’s largest independent television station and its day-to-day operations.

Before joining CHUM, Maria was Launch Director for Excite Canada. Managing all aspects of the launch, she was instrumental in propelling the business into one of Canada’s leading portals.

David Hamilton
Co-founder and Managing Director
Digital Goldfish

Based in Dundee, Scotland. Digital Goldfish create mobile content with the female market in mind. After graduating with a University of Abertay Dundee’s highly rated computing games degree, David then went on to study a Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship where he then with another graduate set up the business in 2005.

At only 23 year old David has gained valuable experience in the mobile sector after their successful release of their first game title: Babygrow; A virtual baby in the palm of the hand. With new products set for release this is an exciting time for Digital Goldfish.

Wayne Helman
President
A51 Integrated Marketing & Communication

Wayne Helman is a veteran Internet & New Media designer, programmer, strategist, and producer. Since 1997, Wayne has been president of A51 Integrated Marketing & Communications, a firm steeped in interactive development.

From custom CMS applications to virtual environments, Wayne has led A51 through the maze of technology and innovation bringing solutions to corporate and entertainment verticals.Recent interactive projects have included a multi-user promotional trivia game for Yahoo! Canada and the Falcon Beach Virtual Cottage Community – a Flash based multi-user virtual world.

Wayne attended the University of Guelph, McGill University, and The Bell Centre for Creative Communications.

Michael Hennessy
Vice-President
Wireless, Broadband and Content Policy
TELUS

Michael Hennessy is currently Vice-President, Wireless, Broadband and Content Policy and has responsibility for TELUS’ public policy and regulatory strategies in areas of spectrum management, evolving internet content matters and for broadcast regulatory support for TELUS’ IP based multi-platform digital media business.

Prior to his work with TELUS, Mr. Hennessy served as President of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) and was a member of the Canadian Television Fund Board of Directors.

Before that Michael served as Vice-President, Government & Regulatory Affairs for Bell Mobility and Mobility Canada. In that position he represented BC Tel and TELUS. He was a member of the Board and Vice Chair of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). He was also serving as Chair of the Communication Industries Forum for the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), and as a director on the Boards of industry organizations such as Mobility Canada, Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education (Canarie).

Ian Hewetson
Director, Client Services
EyeReturn

Ian is Director, Client Services at eyeReturn, Canada's leading rich media provider. Over the past 7 years Ian has overseen the delivery of thousands of online advertising campaigns, from the first rich media ads delivered in Canada to the most complex executions on the web today. Ian specializes in bridging the gap between advertisers and publisher sites. Prior to joining eyeReturn, Ian produced television for Discovery, YTV, Bravo UK and Alliance Atlantis. Ian holds an honours degree in Communications from Queen's University in Kingston.

Ryanne Hodson
RyanEdit.com; RyanIsHungry.com

Co-author of the first published vlogging book, The Secrets of Videoblogging on Peachpit Press.



Ryanne started her career as a video editor at WGBH PBS Boston and in Boston public access television. From Delhi to Amsterdam to New York to San Francisco, Ryanne has taught diverse audiences the hows and whys of videoblogging. With co-creator Michael Verdi, she founded Freevlog.org and Node101.org the essential resources for teaching videoblogging online and in the classroom. Current projects include Swajana.com, a distributed videoblogging production with a team of creators in Pune, India.

On participating in ICE 2007: "As an artist and media maker, I've always had a pretty independent view on how to make a living. I'm excited to attend ICE to share my processes and meet other media makers and creative connectors

Nate Horowitz
Dean of the Centre for Creative Communications,
Centennial College

Nate was the founding director of Liberty Village New Media Centre, funded by the City of Toronto, the Province and the private sector was established to enable the development of small and medium size companies in all aspects of interactive digital media.

Nate is currently Dean of The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College. The Centre is focused locally and internationally in interactive storytelling through innovative design, writing and production. It recently was chosen as one of the best new media schools in Canada.  Educated in visual communication, design, photography, film and animation, he has taught photography, design and photojournalism at several institutions and has developed digital animation, gaming and new media and online writing and information design programs.

Brian Seth Hurst
CEO
The Opportunity Management Company

Brian Seth Hurst is CEO of The Opportunity Management Company, a strategic consultancy that is driving the next generation of entertainment.

Hurst was instrumental in the establishment of the Prime Time Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television. In spring 2006 he spearheaded the initiative that modified the Television Academy by-laws so that original programming distributed via broadband would be eligible for Primetime Emmy® Awards.

Currently, Hurst sits on the National Board of the PGA and Chairs the Television Academy’s Emerging Media Task Force. He was recipient of a 2006 Interactive TV Today [itvt] Award for Leadership in Interactive Television for his long term contribution to the industry. He was named #6 on the Hollywood Reporter’s “The Digital 50” a list of the most significant players in digital storytelling compiled by the Hollywood Reporter (Oct 19, 2006 ed.).

A well regarded authority on the subject of emerging entertainment, Hurst was contributing author to the book “They Say They Want A Revolution: What Marketers Need to Know As Consumers Take Control” (iUniverse 2003).

Anne-Marie Huurre
President/Founder
Women Wise(TM) Software

Anne-Marie is a producer/director having brought over 50 computer games to market. She started the Women Wise™ initiative to encourage women and teen girls to be a part of the games and digital entertainment industry. Today she is extending her internationally recognized www.WomenWise.com portal to focus on mobile game publishing and “female inclusive” development.

She frequently lectures about the game industry, especially how it relates to young girls and women. She has been featured on BBC World, CNN, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Wired Magazine, game sites and whatwomen's magazines.

She served as a consultant for the South Korean government on the topic of female-friendly games; sits on the steering committee for the International Game Developers Association/Women in Game Development; and is a Board member for a wireless enterprise firm in New York City.

Shel Israel
Co-Author
"Naked Conversations"



Shel is the co-author of Naked Conversations, the best-selling book on business blogging. He is currently working on a new book called Global Neighborhoods that explores social media and how “power is moving from the organization into the community”.

Bill James
Co-Founder
The James Gang Advertising Inc.

William James is the co-founder of The James Gang Advertising Inc. He has led the company for over a decade, winning numerous awards for programming and design including the writing credit for the "Digital Gold Marketing Award" and "Best in Show in 2003" for his work for Nike Canada. In October 2006 he was awarded a Fellowship for Cross Platform Mentorship Lab at the Banff Center in Banff Alberta. Bill has presented at several events and conferences including IGaming Indepth: Causal Gaming, Sheridan College, CUTC, NMBA, and the World Animation Celebration, Hollywood. Community Building projects include: Office- Politics(TM), the game everyone plays; Whack The PM, Canada's national election spoof and poll; Verbotomy, the create-a-word game; and The Room, an interactive personality quiz created for Umbra.

On participating in ICE 2007:  "Interactive content is hot. But with content, and content platforms, proliferating like crazy, it is harder than ever to put together a winner. That's why they created ICE. It is a collaborative event bringing together a whole bunch of people, from of a whack of different industries, to share ideas, strategies and connections -- everything you need to create a winner. That's cool. And that's why I'm going."

Joey Jodar
Managing Director
Heavy Worldwide

Mr. Jodar is currently Managing Director of Heavy Worldwide where he is in charge of all business functions – including sales, marketing and programming. Heavy Worldwide consists of all offices and employees of Heavy Inc. outside the United States. Mr. Jodar is overseeing the launch Heavy in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Prior to being named Managing Director, Heavy Worldwide, Mr. Jodar founded and led Heavy’s advertising sales department as the Vice President of Advertising Sales, where he was responsible for driving quadruple and triple digit revenue growth year-over-year from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining Heavy, he worked at the 3DO Company and Thomson Learning, as well as with his own marketing services company based out of New York. He graduated from the University of Oregon and divides most of his time between New York City and London.

Evan Jones
Stitch Media

Jones has been the Creative Director at Xenophile Media for three years, a cross-platform production studio which works in traditional and emerging forms of media. His multidisciplinary background spans community radio and theatre, music, television, and computer science. Jones was named 'Graduate of the Year' by the Canada New Media Awards in 2005 after training at the Canadian Film Centre's Habitat New Media Lab and Sheridan College's Interactive Multimedia programme. Currently, Jones teaches Rich Media Production and works with the FITC Design and Technology Festival. He volunteers as one of the f ounding members of the IGDA Alternate Reality Games special interest group. His integration of television and interactive narrative for the ReGenesis Extended Reality Game has been recognized with a Gemini for Best Cross-Platform and Banff World Television Award, a CNMA award and a Vortex Award at the Marshall McLuhan Festival of the Future. He lectures regularly on his recent work at colleges and conferences including the Screen Producer's Association of Australia, Games Developer Conference and NextMedia.

Sutha Kamal
CEO
Nakama

Sutha's the founder/CEO of Nakama, a mobile photo and video publishing/sharing application. He's been in the mobile space for the last 6 years and focuses on bringing people together with the apps and services they actually want. With a background in computer science, he's spent his career bridging technology and product vision.. and he can't imagine anything more fun! :-) He’s also recently accepted a role as Entrepreneur in Residence at Celtic House Venture Partners. He’s got a somewhat-frequently updated blog at http://blog.suthakamal.com

Sean Kane
Vide President
Intercasting Corporation

Sean Kane is Vice President of Intercasting Corporation, which provides a leading solution for mobile user-generated community to customers around the world. Sean’s focus is ensuring that Intercasting Corp.’s applications are globally available and compelling for community members to interact with mobile media and commerce content. Sean is a serial entrepreneur in large and small organizations, having successfully delivered consumer and technology product revenues over the last fifteen years in the United States, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Richard Kanee
Supervising Producer, Interactive - Music and Youth Services
CHUM Limited

Richard Kanee has played a leading role in the development of CHUM Television's interactive initiatives for over eight years. In his current role as Supervising Producer, Richard is responsible for the overall growth of MuchMusic and CHUM’s youth brands and content across emerging digital platforms, including web, mobile and interactive television. As Manager of New Media Business Development, Richard oversaw the development of interactive television, mobile services, online games, convergent programming and web properties, including the launch of PunchMuch and RazerTXT (SMS-controlled interactive broadcast channels) and shop.muchmusic.com, the MuchMusic ringtone store. In 2006 Richard led the development of a cross-platform strategy for the highly successful and interactive MuchMusic VJ Search as well as MuchAXS, MuchMusic's broadband streaming video channel.

Raja Khanna
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer,
QuickPlay Media Inc.

Raja Khanna is responsible for all aspects of QuickPlay’s global product and marketing strategies and has played a key role in introducing mobile video services to the North American market. As a veteran of the interactive digital media industry Khanna brings focus to QuickPlay's strategies around content, end-user experience, and product merchandising and has helped the company win the coveted “Company of the Year” award at the Canadian New Media Awards. Khanna holds his degree in law from Osgoode Hall Law School and his Genetics and Philosophy Bachelors from the University of Toronto.

Paul Koidis
Managar of Communications, Marketing and Development
Centennial College

Paul Koidis is a media, marketing and communications strategist, practitioner and educator.

Paul is currently the Manager of Communications, Marketing and Development for the School of Communications, Media and Design at Centennial College. In addition, he is also a faculty member teaching in various post-graduate Corporate Communications and Public Relations, Online Writing and New Media Design programs.

As a diversified communications professional, Paul began his career as a writer and journalist and quickly discovered the world of interactive media at the Canadian Film Centre, Canada’s foremost institution for advanced training and production in film, TV and new media established in 1988 by Canadian-born Academy Award winning filmmaker Norman Jewison. Paul held various positions at the Film Centre, including marketing and communications manager, recruitment strategist, new media program manager and producer for an international lecture series, The Interactive Arena, focused on new directions in design, culture and technology. Paul worked directly with the Habitat New Media Lab, a division of the Centre and a unique training and production think-tank environment for tomorrow's new media content developers. A graduate of Queens University and Centennial College, Paul is passionate about media literacy, leadership in the culture and education sector and new forms of storytelling, and now plays many roles at The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College. In addition, he is a freelance magazine writer, new media consultant, and a marketing and communications consultant.

Tamera Kremer
Director of Client Service
Thornley Fallis / 76design
Founder, Wildfire Strategic Marketing



Tamera Kremer is a seasoned marketing and communications strategist, blogger, thought leader, and public speaker. She has 10 years experience in interactive strategic planning and execution, integrated launch campaigns, and developing customer lifecycle relationship building strategies with Tier 1 brands in both Canada and the United States. Her accomplishments include leading the strategic development of the award-winning eInterchange program for General Motors of Canada and the ground-breaking Canadian Budweiser-NFL cross-promotion which integrated NFL league and team branding with the client’s retail, interactive and event channels. Most recently, as Director of Client Service for Thornley Fallis Communications / 76design, and founder of Wildfire Strategic Marketing, Tamera helps clients develop digital marketing and social media strategies that drive business and communications results.

Albert Lai
CEO
Bubbleshare

Albert leads BubbleShare's hard-working team with his compulsive need to find new ways to do "stuff" better. Prior to founding BubbleShare Albert spent the last decade founding and running a variety of startups in the fields of educational software, e-marketing, online publishing, e-commerce, peer-to-peer software, and others.

Albert was involved in creating interactive marketing productions for a number of multi-national organizations, including one of the first advergames in the country that was built to be virally spread via floppy disks under his production company Frogdog (as in a frog on a bun, yummy!). Since his discovery of the first graphical Web browser, he has focused on developing Web-based stuff to do cool things for earthlings like him. Notable ventures include MyDesktop (publishing network), BuyBuddy (comparison shopping agent), and IdleAgent (self-healing p2p storage software.)

Albert blogs at http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com/.

Lucie Lalumiere
Vice President & General Manager Interactive
Corus Entertainment

Lucie Lalumière joined Corus Entertainment Inc. as Vice President and General Manager Interactive, Television in December 2005 and is responsible for leading the production of online properties and developing new interactive business opportunities for Corus Television.

Previously, Ms. Lalumière was Executive Director of New Media at Radio-Canada, heading up new media initiatives, including the award-winning Radio-Canada.ca, one of the top web destinations in Canada. She also oversaw
Internet and wireless partnership development for CBC and Radio-Canada for over 6 years, and was chair of the international multimedia committee of the Communauté des Télévisions Francophones. She sat on the board of the Bell
Broadcast and New Media Fund from 2002 to 2005.Ms. Lalumière is a member of the New Media Business Alliance (NMBA) Board of Directors.

With more than a decade of experience in the online industry, Ms. Lalumière has held a number of strategic positions, notably the development of multimedia applications at Bell and online bilingual content at Sympatico, where she served as General Manager of online French services. Ms. Lalumière holds an undergraduate degree in management of information systems from Université de Sherbrooke and an MBA from McGill University, completed at New York University¹s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Tim Lambertus,
Director
Social Media & blogTV.ca

Tim began his career at Alliance Atlantis in January 2005 as the lead for Operations within the Interactive division, overseeing design, production, technical programmers, and client services. Tim made the move from Director Operations and Technology to his current role heading up the newly formed Social Media department at Alliance Atlantis in June 2006. Tim has been working in the online space since 1995. Prior to joining Alliance Atlantis, Tim was a partner in a successful interactive agency, providing strategic, design, and technical consultation to mainstream clients such as Nikon Canada, Maple Leaf Foods, Bell Canada, RBC Financial and P&G Pharmaceuticals. Tim has contributed and participated in a wide variety of Social Media based initiatives throughout his entire online career which include involvement in the development of an independent musician's online network, co-authoring a developer's platform, and strategizing MMORPG community development among others.

Pierre Lelann
Co-Founder
Tribal Nova

Tribal Nova specializes in producing, distributing and marketing children interactive games based on popular TV series, as well as children online gaming and VOD broadband channels in partnership with major TV producers such as Cookie Jar, Nelvana, Marathon, Spectra Animation; TV broadcasters such as Telequebec, CBC/Radio-Canada, PBS, France 2, TF1; and Internet Service Providers/portals such as Bell Sympatico and France Telecom Orange. Tribal Nova is particularly active in the Canadian, US and European markets.

Pierre started in kids interactive in 1995, when he built Periodica Multimedia, a division responsible for marketing children edutainment PC games. He went on to create and run PTM kids, a studio developing children interactive PC games that counted Disney and Ubisoft among its clients. Pierre joined afterwards Radio-Canada/CBC as director of business development first of the New Media division and then of the Merchandising division. He then founded Tribal Nova with long term friend and colleague Guillaume Aniorte. Pierre Le Lann holds a Master's degree in marketing from Texas A&M University.

James Lewis
Editor,
Decima Reports’ Canadian NEW MEDIA

A Brit by birth, James is editor of Decima Reports’ Canadian NEW MEDIA, Canada’s only English-language publication devoted solely to interactive and digital media, as well as the broadcasting industry title Canadian Communications Reports. Before joining Decima, he was managing editor of Canadian Investment Review, a Rogers Media Publishing journal aimed at the institutional investment and pension finance community. Prior to that, he worked for another Rogers magazine, Channel Business, as news/Web editor. In 1998, entered the world of online journalism with CANOE, Sun Media Corp.'s online presence, where he served as online editor--and later senior editor--at CANOE Money. His writing has recently been featured in Canadian Business Magazine and the Toronto Star’s Evergeek digital lifestyle channel, and his past work has been nominated for several Kenneth R. Wilson business press awards.

Mauro Lollo
CEO
Movidity

Mr. Lollo has over 20 years of experience in managing and commercializing technologies for a wide range of clients and industries. His leadership capabilities have helped start and grow a number of successful technology organizations.With a broad business perspective and extensive experience with number of leading technologies and products, Mr. Lollo is a current director of several companies. Mr. Lollo has authored texts and whitepapers on various topics, along with being a sought after speaker in the industry.

Brent Lowe-Bernie
President
comScore Media Metrix Canada

Brent has over 25 years of information and software marketing experience. He began his career at the Global Television Network in Toronto in 1977. Following Global, he pursued a career at Nielsen Marketing Research ­ eventually becoming Vice President of A.C. Nielsen. After Nielsen, Brent joined Compusearch Micromarketing Data and Systems (a major provider of geodemographic consumer and business information) as Vice President of Sales.

Brent started Media Metrix in Canada as President in 2000. Prior to joining Media Metrix, Brent was President of Harris Media Systems, a major Canadian software builder in the advertising industry. Media Metrix was acquired by comScore Networks in spring 2002.

Brent was the 2004 & 2005 Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada and is still on the board. He was very involved in the creation of the IAB’s CMOST (Canadian Media Optimization Program and is also on the board of CARF (Canadian Advertising Research Association).

ComScore Media Metrix Canada is the only Canadian company that maintains a panel of Canadians for the purposes of reporting and evaluating their actual online behaviour. With a current panel of between >25,000 people per month cMMC has the ability to benchmark sites vs. their category, evaluate demographic delivery and monitor the growth of the online market across many different business sectors.

Jason MacIsaac
Design Director
Cerebral Vortex Games

Jason MacIsaac is the Design Director of Cerebral Vortex Games, and a 12 year veteran of the gaming industry. He has worked as a game designer and game journalist with articles published in the Globe & Mail, Electric Playground, CE Biz and HUB Digital Living. Jason also teaches courses in the Video Game Design & Development program at the International Academy of Design & Technology. Jason has appeared in two documentaries about video games, where he was credited as a "Video Game Expert." With what little spare time he has, Jason volunteers as a member of the steering committee of the Toronto Chapter of the International Game Developers Association, also serving as webmaster.

Jonathan Mak
Founder Queasy Games

Jonathan Mak is a skinny Chinese kid with long black curly hair. Due to his inability to quickly formulate sentences, he chooses to express himself via music and games. His works include Gate 88, ToJam Thing (a Toronto Game Jam '06 contribution), and the multi-award winning Everyday Shooter.

Spence McDonnell
Tax Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC

Spencer is a partner in our Technology and entertainment tax practice who has been providing a broad range of tax services to both start-up clients as well as international clients. Spencer has extensive experience with regards to restructuring financing arrangements, dispositions of business units, U.S. and international expansion, corporate group reorganizations and shareholder tax planning as well as assisting clients manage their tax compliance requirements. In addition, he has extensive experience with the federal and provincial tax incentives applicable to the technology and entertainment sectors.

Michael McGuigan
Managing Partner
Breakthrough New Media Inc.

Michael has over sixteen years experience in television, interactive new media and radio, having previously worked at a senior management level in television distribution with 20th Century Fox/Astral Television Distribution Ltd. and in television production and distribution with Cambium Films and Television, and at Breakthrough Films & Television Inc., where he is currently the Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Partner of Breakthrough New Media Inc..

Currently, Michael, in addition to his duties as CFO for the Company, is the Executive Producer on Uh-Oh Flamingo, a comprehensive interactive property that includes both online and iTV games. The iTV games will be distributed via Bell ExpressVu’s Game Galaxy.

Previously, Michael has acted as Executive Producer on a number of interactive properties including Operation Victory, a multiplayer game distributed online with a CDROM version published by Merscom, a mobile phone game based on Atomic Betty, two Gameboy Advance games based on Atomic Betty and published by Namco, and Kenny vs Spenny: Versusville, an online multi-player game based on the comedy Kenny vs Spenny which is now in its 3rd Season on Showcase.

Michael currently serves as Co-Chair of the New Media Committee of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.

Cate McQuillen
Producer/Creative Director/Writer
mememe productions

Co-owner and creator of mememe productions Cate is a highly successful musician and performer. Originally trained as a primary school teacher, Cate was the Head of Drama at Clarence Valley Conservatoirum in Grafton for 10 years. She is also an invited regional HSC drama consultant. She has been working in all facets of children's entertainment for the past 20 years.

As well as an educationalist Cate is an award winning performer and musician. She was nominated for best female performer at the Green Room Awards for her role as Sheila Franklin in David Atkins/Graeme Blundell's production of Hair. She also received a RA award - Best Rural Documentary in Australia- for writing and producing the radio documentary 'The War Years' a 90 minute youth perspective of 'Australia Remembers'.

She's the award winning co-creator, writer and performer of 'Dirtgirl World', a childrens project targeting the under eight market. Sadly, (hehehe) without a child of her own, poor little Cate is obsessed by childrens TV, music and media and is comitted to producing high quality, high art value TV for the new generation of children.

James Milward
Senior Creative Producer and Head of production,
Lifecapture Interactive

James Milward is a graduate of Bishop's University with a degree in Economics and the Habitat New Media Lab's post graduate program at The Canadian Film Centre. James has a background production managing and Producing Television Commercials and Music Videos for some of the largest brands and production companies in the World. Since graduating from the CFC Media Lab, James has created, designed and produced numerous innovative and award winning online and interactive projects for large brands as well as Television programs. James' is currently the Senior Creative Producer and Head of production at Lifecapture Interactive, a boutique New Media studio, recently named 12 on the Profit Hot Top 50.

Jay Mitchell
Director of Sales for Advertising.com
AOL Canada

Jay Mitchell joined AOL Canada in January, 2007 as Director of Sales for Advertising.com in Canada. Jay's primary responsibilities are to promote Advertising.com and all of its unique attributes to the Canadian marketplace, manage the revenue and relationships with clients.

Prior to joining AOL, Jay was Director of Sales and Business Development at 24/7 Real Media, one of Canada's premiere advertising networks. Jay has also worked at Sympatico/MSN, Toronto.com and CORUS Entertainment.

Ron Moravek
Chief Operating Officer
EA Canada



Ron Moravek joined EA Canada as Chief Operating Officer in September of 2006. Prior to joining EA, Ron spent nine years with Relic Entertainment (now THQ Canada), most recently as General Manager Relic Entertainment, and Vice President of Product Development THQ. Under Ron’s leadership, Relic grew into a well-respected development studio, resulting in their acquisition by THQ in 2004. Before entering the games industry, Ron held leadership roles with FedEx in the areas of sales and business development. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.

Nigel Newton
Vice President
Youth Culture Group

Nigel Newton is a pop culture marketer and Vice President of the multi-media Youth Culture Group.

Heading up business development and research at Youth Culture Nigel has created the tween lifestyle media offer B-Zone and transitioned Vervegirl from a print focus with magazines to a platform combining print, daily e-news service and a social media network.

With marketing experience both sides of the pond, Nigel has notched up successes with the extension of RED Distribution from the US into Canada for SONY Music, expansion of Quebec DJ Daniel Desnoyers into English speaking Canada, Canadian #1’s for I Like To Move It, The Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out, diamond sales of MuchMusic presented DanceMix compilations, syndication of Chris Sheppard’s Pirate Radio, launch of Björk’s “Debut” and creation of entertainment complexes in Tokyo, Osaka, Amsterdam and Istanbul.

On participating in ICE 2007: "Young people are the driving force behind the adoption of new technology and the rapid progression of media online and they expect media and communications to be personally relevant. ICE 07 is at the nexus of the continual change in today's media community, so it's an essential event on the media calendar. It's a privilege to be participating."

Debbie Nightingale
President
The Nightingale Company

Debbie Nightingale has been involved in the film and television industry since 1979. Producing credits include: A Few Of The Kings’ Eighth, (feature length television drama, broadcast on ONTV); TV Pilots Prime Time (Magazine style show for seniors) and The Alleged Report (send-up of the news). She has produced or production managed a number of documentaries, specials and Vid Kids, a popular children’s series, for CBC, before becoming Assistant Programmer at C Channel, Canada’s first cultural pay television station. When C Channel closed, Nightingale was retained by the Toronto International Film Festival to produce its Industry Symposium. During her 14 years with the Festival, the Symposium grew into the 2,000 delegate Rogers Industry Centre it is today and spans the 10 days of the Festival.

From 1993-1999 Nightingale was Founding Executive Director of HOT DOCS! This was an initiative of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, and guided it to its premiere position as North America ’s leading documentary Festival.

Nightingale was Special Projects and Development Officer at the Ontario Film Development Corporation from its inception in 1985 through 1988 where she evaluated and made recommendations on the business and creative aspects of feature films and television projects. Debbie Nightingale has sat on Boards including Toronto Women in Film and Television and Canadian Independent Film Caucus in recent years.

Brian Oberkirch
Marketing Consultant



about Brian...

I’m a marketing consultant focused on social media and product/service development.
Like It Matters is my personal blog where I write about social media, community-based marketing and technologies that revolve around relevance.,

I do social media consulting and projects for companies and marketing agencies of all sizes, helping them use these new tools to have better conversations with those who matter to their business. I also do quite a bit of speaking and training on social media and other topics.

In my past lives, I was a marketing consultant and writer for hire, managed national brand accounts at large and small advertising and PR shops, started a social media consultancy called Weblogs Work and helped build a suite of applications for those clients, taught literature and creative writing, wrote newspaper articles, did the morning news at a radio station, and many other things.

Michael Pachter
Analyst
Wedbush Morgan Securities

Mr. Pachter is an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities providing coverage of the Entertainment Software Publishing and Retail sector.

Previously, Mr. Pachter spent two years as the Director of Research at Wedbush Morgan Securities. Before joining Wedbush Morgan Securities, Mr. Pachter worked as a Director at Management Resource Center, a middle-market investment bank. Prior to that, Mr. Pachter spent 15 years in various financial and management positions at Atlantic Richfield Company, most recently as Director of Strategic Planning. Mr. Pachter brings over 20 years of experience as a finance professional to Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Nick Patsiopoulos
Product Manager, Mobile
Yahoo! Canada

Nick is responsible for building and expanding Yahoo!'s Mobile and Communities portfolios in Canada to help fulfill Yahoo!’s vision of connecting people to their passions, their communities and the world's knowledge.

Prior to joining Yahoo! Nick was a Senior Associate Director in Bell Mobility’s Services Development group. In that role he launched North America's first mobile phone-based GPS mapping service and Canada's first consumer voice portal, as well as mobile search and personal information management products.

When not immersed in the worlds of mobile and community (and where they intersect), Nick enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking and hiking in places that mobile signals can’t reach.

Joseph Pilotta
Vice President of Research
BIGresearch

BIGresearch is a market intelligence firm located in Columbus, Ohio, that provides analysis of consumer behavior in areas of retail, financial services, automotive, and media.

Current interests include contemporary research methodology, consumer behavior, consumer taste preference, and new media technology.
 
Pilotta is a former Professor for The Ohio State University, School of Communication. He holds a BA from SUNY Oswego, a MA and PhD from Ohio University, and a PhD from University of Toronto. He has published 11 books and over 200 articles and presentations.

Recent published works include: “Media Consumption and Consumer Purchasing Connecting the dots…finally,” (with Don Schultz) in Worldwide Multi Media Measurement 2006, ESOMAR; "When Customers Talk", Dearborn Trade Publishing, Chicago, 2005 (with T. Scott Gross and BIGresearch); “Developing the Foundation of a New Approach to Understanding How Media Advertising Works,” (with Don Schultz) in Excellence 2005 in International Consumer Research, ESOMAR.

Recent presentations include: Global Users Conference, hosted by Valassis September 10-12, 2006 “Consumer Trends and How to Use Them in Your Business”; ESOMAR (European Society of Marketing & Advertising) Conference / Shanghai June 18, 2006 “Connecting Media Consumption to Purchasing Consumption: Connecting the Dots”; GlobalShop 2006 March 26-28, 2006 “When Customers Talk”

Upcoming presentations include: WOMMA's (Work of Mouth Marketing Association) Research Symposium December 11, 2006 “A Word of Mouth Media Plan”

Forthcoming publications include: WOMMA’s Measuring Word of Mouth: Current Thinking on Research and Measurement of Word of Mouth Marketing, Volume 2 “A Word of Mouth Media Plan”

On participating in ICE 2007: “Our company’s focus is and has always been “you”, the consumer. ICE has it right; YOU and I need to be there in the new media ecosystem.”

Kim Parlee
TV Host
Business News Network

In addition to being the co-host of BNN's Stars & Dogs with investment reporter Andrew Bell, Parlee is also the co-host of After Hours with Jim O'Connell and anchor of Talking Tax, a tax call-in program airing Tuesday and Thursday at 11:30 a.m. ET/ 8:30 a.m. PT. Prior to joining BNN, Kim launched her journalism career at CBC Newsworld. Her in-depth knowledge of business evolved from working in strategy and finance at two blue chip companies in Canada and abroad. Following that she taught marketing at Dalhousie University, and helped start a technology venture capital company in Toronto

Alana Reid
Founder
girlz Of destruction

My name is Alana Reid, known as "Ms.X" in game. I've played console games since I was very young, but in 2001 I was introduced to PC games which left me completely in awe. The concept of playing multiplayer shooters online blew me away and I am the founder and leader of the all female professional team, girlz 0f destruction.

My team attended Quakecon 2005 and between 3 members we won $30,000 that weekend, which was a huge feat for us. We had a corporate sponsorhip which later brought amazing opportunities to the table, such as moving to Stockholm, Sweden for a gaming house ("Home of Chrome") where many world class players came to train. We've been featured in press such as the Financial Times, CNN, Discovery Channel and MTV.

I have been living in Sweden for the past year with 3 other of my teamates from various countries, and it has been an experience I will never forget. Through gaming I have been able to travel extensively with my team and soak in different countries and cultures to attend various events, and make friends worldwide.

Some people may think that playing video games is a bad habit, though I must beg to differ. I worked as an editor for a professional gaming based website, which involved various video and written event and online coverage.

My most recent gaming achievements:
Unreal Tournament 2k3:
2nd @ MsQuakecon 2005; 1v1 OSP - Dallas, Texas
1st @ MsQuakeCon 2004; 1v1 RA3 - Dallas, Texas

Quake 4:
4th @ Blind Date 2006; 2v2 TDM - Online(With[aAa]Appleseed)
2nd @ Kode 5 Spain 2006; 1v1 - Bilbao, Spain
Top 9 @ Quakecon; 2v2 TDM - Dallas, TX(with gellehsak)
Top 12 @ rAge; 1v1 - Johannesburg, South Africa

Shootouts:
0 losses @ Razer booth challenge, E3 2005 - Los Angeles
0 losses @ Razer booth shootout, Tokyo Game Show 2005 - Tokyo
0 losses @ Chrome booth shootout, CeBIT 06 - Germany

Other:
Top 10 sexiest geeks of the year - Tinynibbles.com
Nominated Best team of the year - Gamingeye.com
Top 13 gamers of all time @ - GGL.com
Invited to E-Sports World Cup, Paris, France

Jason Roks
Digital Alchemist

Jason Roks is recognized across North America for his networking and media distribution acumen, and for his ingenuity in predicting and leveraging new directions on the Internet and other communications technologies. He has been featured in Wired, Time, Maclean's, Saturday Night, Yahoo! Internet Life, Shift, Macworld and Silicon Alley Reporter for his insights on new media economies, digital music and video, p2p file sharing and networking, online communities, piracy, copyright and intellectual property. He has also presented his ideas at numerous conferences, including the International New Media Festival, Digital Coast Reporter, MB5 New Media Visionaries, Mac World and iWorld.

As a consultant to various software and media companies, Jason provides expertise in media prototyping, broadband and wireless infrastructures, digital media distribution, content management systems, adaptive business modeling, rights management and online guerrilla marketing. Jason advises the Canadian Film Centre/Habitat technical advisory council and is a founding volunteer of wirelesstoronto.ca. Jason was a founder of Hotline Communications, the now decade-old file-sharing software pioneer. He studied philosophy and business at the University of Western Ontario.

Robert J. Sawyer - Keynote address: 'Think Outside the Cube'
Noted Futurist & Award-Winning Author

Robert Sawyer is a noted futurist and author of 17 bestselling science fiction novels. Sawyer has won over thirty national and international awards for his fiction, most prominantly Hugo and Nebula awards. Holding a degree and Alumni Award of Distinction from Ryerson University, Sawyer has written and narrated numerous radio and television productions.

He has over 200 television appearances to his credit, including Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera, The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos, W-Five, The Fifth Estate, and Canada AM, and frequent futurism
commentaries for Discovery Channel Canada and CBC Newsworld.

He's written television series bibles for American and Canadian studios, and documentaries and dramas for CBC Radio. He's also a noted net pioneer: the very first science-fiction writer to have a website (at sfwriter.com, online since 1995); a blogger since 1999; and a former CompuServe sysop.

Combining his background in media with his thoughts on the future, Sawyer will deliver a mind-expanding speech and will offer ICE delegates a vision for the future of the business of media, entertainment, creativity and technology.

Kevin Shea
Chair,
Ontario Media Development Corporation

Kevin Shea has over 30 years experience in the Canadian entertainment, broadcasting, cable, telecommunications and culture industries. Shea is owner and President of SheaChez Inc., a consulting firm whose clients include the CBC, Telus Communications and Standard Broadcasting. The former President and CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio, as well as YTV Canada, Shea led both companies through the CRTC licensing and start-up processes. He also served as President and COO of the Global Television Network, Executive Vice-President at Bell Globemedia Inc. and as President and CEO of Atlantis Communications Inc.

Shea's other accomplishments include chairing the Toronto Tourism Recovery Alliance in the aftermath of SARS, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters TV Board, and the Canadian Film Centre. Shea holds several directorships, including one with Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc., of Arthur, Caillou and Doodlebops fame. Prior to 1993, Mr. Shea occupied senior management positions for a diverse group of broadcast and entertainment entities, including YTV Canada Inc., Rogers Cablesystems Inc. and the Cable Satellite Network Inc. Mr. Shea serves on the Telus Television Advisory Board and the Marketing Board of the National Capital Commission.

Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto and Los Angeles, Mr. Shea graduated from the University of Western Ontario (1984) and York University (1975). His commitment to Canadian broadcasting is evident from his involvement in a number of industry associations including the Canadian Film Centre (Chairman), Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Canadian Women in Communications (named 2004 Mentor of the Year), Canadian Cable Television Association, Canadian Film and Television Production Association, Banff International Television Festival, Life Network, Prime TV Network, CN Tower Limited, Children's Broadcast Institute and the Canadian Children's Foundation.

Damir Slogar
Co-Founder
Big Blue Bubble

With over 20 years spent in game industry and credited for over 30 games across 10 different platforms, Damir is one of the most experienced industry professionals in Canada. He started his career in the mid 80's as a programmer creating proprietary games for the MSX and Commodore Amiga. The next couple of years, he spent in broadcasting; producing and hosting a live TV show devoted to video games and computer technology. In 1995, he started a video game magazine where he worked as the editor. In 1999, he moved to Canada and continued his professional career as a lead programmer, first in Sandbox Studios and later in Digital Illusions Canada. Three years ago, he established Big Blue Bubble, which quickly became one of the best known and highest rated handheld game developers in North America.

John Sobol
Senior Consultant
76design

John Sobol is currently a Senior Consultant at 76design (www.76design.com), where he specializes in social media projects. He spent the first 15 years of his career in old media' (writing for newspapers, producing national radio and writing Gemini award-winning TV documentaries) before moving into multimedia', first as an associate of The Convergence Consulting Group and then in 1999 as the co-founder of Globalhood, an experiential media' firm that offered digital adventures' to both street kids and CEOs. He was subsequently Co-Director of digifest at The Design Exchange from 2003-2005. John is the author of 4 books, including Digitopia Blues '| Race, Technology and the American Voice (Banff Centre Press, 2002) and the writer/performer of a one-man show called 2 Million Years of Technology. His new blog is at: www.thetalkingshop.ca

Scott Steinberg
Managing Director, Embassy Multimedia Consultants
Author, Videogame Marketing and PR



Scott counsels game industry publishers, developers and investors worldwide. The biz’s most prolific freelance author and radio/TV host, he’s covered gaming/technology for 300+ outlets from CNN to the LA/NY Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, USA Today and TV Guide. Other ventures include software publisher Overload Entertainment and Games Press, the ultimate resource for game journalists.

Paul Sullivan
Editor
Orato.com

Paul is an accomplished journalist, communications strategist, teacher and Internet pioneer, with 30 years of experience editing, producing, performing and writing highly rated, award winning web sites, magazines, TV and radio shows, newspapers and columns.

Paul is founding editor of Orato.com, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism web site recognized both in traditional and online media for its innovation and quality. Since going live in June 2006, Orato.com’s complement of citizen correspondents has grown to more than 2000, who submit first-person news accounts of events in their lives and communities from every corner of the planet.

Bill Sweetman
Vice President, Internet Strategy
MacLaren MRM

Bill Sweetman is one of the interactive marketing industry's most respected authorities, and his innovative work over the last 15 years has been recognized by numerous awards, including the prestigious Internet World Impact Award for Communications. As an interactive marketing specialist, Bill has overseen Internet marketing campaigns for companies such as Alliance Atlantis Communications, CBC, Dupont, Enbridge Gas Distribution, Harlequin Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer Canada, and RBC Royal Bank. Bill is a regular contributor to various industry publications and Websites, a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is regularly interviewed by the media as an interactive marketing expert. He is also one of the founders of The Canadian New Media Awards, and he has worked as a producer on numerous award-winning Websites. A member of the Association for Internet Marketing and Sales (AIMS), Bill also serves on the Digital Marketing Conference Committee for the Canadian Marketing Association and the Centennial College e-Business Institute Advisory Council.

Michael Tippett
Co-Founder
NowPublic

Michael Tippett founded The Webpool Syndicate, one of Canada's first internet companies, in 1995. He has worked internationally. Recently he lived in New York and served as General Manager at Register.com (one of Deloitte & Touche's Fast 50). In 2005 Tippett co-founded NowPublic, acommercial descendent of BlueHereNow.com, which in 2002 became the first to combine cameraphone photographs with breaking news events.

He has also contributed to digital culture in fields such as media arts. In 2004 he collaborated with Kate Armstrong to produce Grafik Dynamo, a net art piece that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. Grafik Dynamo was a commission of Turbulence, made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He studied philosophy at Queen's University.

Gary Toste
SVP Product and Customer Delivery
Tira Wireless

Gary Toste brings to Tira Wireless a unique combination of development and product management expertise in managing all aspects of the product lifecycle for enterprise applications and mobile platforms. As the company's SVP Product and Customer Delivery, Gary is responsible for deployment, application integration and licensing of the company's flagship Jump product and service offering.

Gary joined Tira Wireless as General Manager of Tira Studios, following the acquisition of Appligo in 2003 (Tira Studios was sold to Airborne Entertainment in 2004). At Appligo, Gary led all R&D and product marketing efforts for its wireless application portfolio. He previously helddevelopment and product marketing roles at companies such as Broadbase Communications, Delrina, Symantec, Balisoft and Jetform Corporation. Gary holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Terri Wills
Manager
Nordicity Group

At Nordicity, Terri counsels clients in the film, television, and interactive media industries on strategy and business plan development, policy analysis, and market assessments. With Nordicity, Terri has worked on a creative industries strategy for the province of Ontario, developed market forecasts for a South African satellite tv licence applicant, and co-authored Nordicity's Green Paper: The Future of Television released at Banff 2006.

Before Nordicity, Terri was a Head of Strategy for the BBC where she shaped tv and interactive content strategies, developed 'creative cluster' partnerships, and led the strategic development of special projects - including the Creative Archive and BBC Jam.

Terri was at Forrester Research before the BBC, where she co-authored reports analyzing best practices and new business models in cross-platform marketing and advertising; video-on-demand and interactive television; and online retailing. Terri has an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.

Andy Wright
Director, Business Development
Bell Mobility

Andy Wright is Director of Content Acquisition and Service Distribution. He is responsible for developing and launching new products, refining existing products as well as sourcing and acquiring content for distribution on Bell Mobility and Solo Mobile's various devices. Andy oversees business development fostering and managing strategic partnerships with major content providers from a multitude of media genres including music, movies, gaming, lifestyle, instant messaging and email. He leads the acquisition of content on all of Bell Mobility's various content distribution platforms including mobile internet, search, video, gaming, text messaging, java applications, ring tones, caller ring tunes, images, and location based technology services.

Andy's background with Bell Mobility is concentrated and in that time he has managed to develop data and marketing relationships with leading media companies some of which include Warner Bros, MTV, MSN, AOL, NHL, House of Blues, Canadian Idol, Sega, Sony Pictures, Disney, WWE, Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music, EA, Airborne Entertainment and many more.

Kaan Yigit
President
Solutions Research Group

Kaan Yigit is the president of the Toronto-based Solutions Research Group. The company's main focus is on the entertainment, media, technology and leisure sectors.

SRG started tracking consumer behaviour and attitudes in these sectors in 1996. The Fast Forward^TM trend study is now one of Canada's most comprehensive sources of consumer information consisting of over 13,000 detailed interviews over a 10-year period. The US counterpart, Digital Life America was launched in 2005.

In addition to regular coverage in Canadian media such as The Globe and Mail and The National Post, SRG's consumer insights have been covered by trade and consumer titles such as TelevisionWeek, Multichannel News, Media Life, Advertising Age, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, Boston Globe and The New York Times, among others.

Kaan holds an MBA degree from York University's Schulich School of Business.