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.

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 (i.e. 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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Ouano
Founder & President
Elastic Entertainment

Jennifer Ouano is founder and president of Elastic Entertainment, a 2.0 company that creates fresh new forms of entertainment through cross-media, shared experiences, innovative storytelling and creative collaboration.

Award-winning producer, director and new media strategist in the television, web, mobile, radio and film industries for over 15 years, Jennifer is nuts about great ideas, great thinking, great design, great storytelling and great style – in no particular order. One of her recent accomplishments was ZeD, CBC TV's flagship convergence program and a pioneer in social networking and user-generated content. Jennifer was one of the original architects of the program, as well as senior producer and head of convergence, interactive and business development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Angus Frame
Site Editor
GlobeandMail.com

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.

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.

Didi Cardoso
Managing Editor & PR
Grrlgamer.com

Founded in 1997, Grrlgamer.com was the first website of its kind to offer a female perspective on video gaming. Ten years later, the site still runs strong, now in the capable hands of an all-female crew and under Didi's supervision, offering their readers reviews, articles, editorials and strategy guides.

Thanks to her PR work, Didi has taken Grrlgamer's reviews to official websites, the cover of a game and has also been featured on Nintendo Power, spreading the word that girls do play games, and not just of the "pink kind".

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 white papers on various topics, along with being a sought after speaker in the industry.

Michael Tippett
Co-Founder
NowPublic

Michael Tippett founded The Webpool Syndicate, one of Canada's first internet companies, in 1995, and 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, a commercial descendent of BlueHereNow.com, which in 2002 became the first to combine cameraphone photographs with breaking news events.

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