Séverine Philardeau heads up TripAdvisor's Global Partnerships team, in charge of developing successful relationships with partners that wish to leverage the power of user-generated content for their own audience and products (online, offline and mobile).

Based in Espoo, Finland, Jure manages business development activities in the Nokia developer ecosystem and specializes in Location Based Services, Utilities and Near Field Communication.

Prior to the current role he held position as developer product manager for the S60 platform and has extensive business and technology management experience in the IT industry. He holds an MBA in High Technology management from Helsinki School of Economics.

Robert has worked in the mobile industry since 1999.

He created J2ME Polish, the Open Source framework for mobile application development in 2004 and founded Enough Software to commercialize it. Today, J2ME Polish is the quasi standard for mobile Java development, comnmercially licensed by Nokia, Motorola, Qualcomm, Huawei and many more. As a service provider, Enough Software nowadays develops applications for all major platforms. This means that Robert has a first-hand knowledge of the fragmented mobile ecosystem- not only as a manager, but also as an experienced programmer who still enjoys coding whenever possible.

Shirlene Chandrapal, Director of Connected TV for Yahoo! Europe, leads business development efforts for Yahoo! Connected TV, a unique platform that brings the best of the Web to millions of TV sets around the world.  By extending the reach of Yahoo!’s presence on TV, Shirlene broadens Yahoo!’s leading efforts toward creating an ecosystem of global partners to place the Yahoo! Widget Engine front and center on millions of TVs and other consumer electronic devices.  She draws on her background leading the development, marketing, delivery and operations for all Yahoo! brand products in Europe.

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Nigel Smith was appointed NDS Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in June 2007 and is responsible for all corporate marketing activities throughout the company.

Dan Saunders is Head of Content Services at Samsung Electronics Europe. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. Dan is responsible for content strategy across a range of different devices with a current particular focus on Connected TV. Previous experience includes marketing and distribution roles for National Geographic Channel, Sparrowhawk Media and IPTV targeted advertising provider Packet Vision. Dan has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University.

Anthony is a software developer with over fifteen years experience in web based application development encompassing a broad range of programming languages, technology vendors and techniques.  Throughout his career he has worked in solution architecture and technical consulting to a variety of industry sectors, building a range of bespoke applications in the secure web, intranet, knowledge sharing, collaboration and mobile spaces.

Age 49, Andrew Burke Joined Amino as a non-executive director in June 2007 and was appointed CEO in June 2008. He is Chairman of Crisp Thinking and a non-executive director at the IT Forum Foundation. Previously, he was CEO BT Entertainment where he devised and ran the company's IPTV initiative (BT Vision), chaired their Premium Rate Services activity, pioneered their Digital Media Services and led BT's relationships with the media world.

Sanyu Kiruluta is the Team Lead for Developer Relations, EMEA at Research In Motion. She is responsible for driving and managing the development of applications for the BlackBerry platform, working closely with BlackBerry Alliance Partners.

She co-ordinates and oversees multiple aspects of the BlackBerry applications programme to ensure the creation and delivery of compelling, high-quality and targeted applications which will appeal to business and consumer users in local markets across EMEA.

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Jason Braverman is the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Planet Apps.

Provide tactical and strategic direction for development of cutting-edge Android* OS mobile applications. Lead teams of onshore and offshore developers engaged in continuing development of flagship 3G/WiFi RoboPrint and dTor BitTorrent products.

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Nick Lansley has been at Tesco since 1987 and worked as an Analyst/Programmer in the IT Division. In 1995 he was asked to "see what I could do with this thing called the Internet"! As one of several "founding father"s of Tesco.com, Nick built web and downloadable applications to enable wine and grocery home shopping on slow modem internet connections. The first web application built 1996 for grocery and was opened by Tesco's Tim Mason and Bill Gates from Microsoft. Nick then managed grocery web development through to 2000, then took on his research role to help tune out irregularities in the changing business and technical models in order to deliver a service better for customers, simpler for staff and frankly, cheaper for Tesco.com - work that continues apace to this day!
In May 2010 magazine Wired UK voted Nick #35 in the "The Wired 100" - Britain's top digital power-brokers.

Ian has 19 years of technical systems design, engineering and deployment experience, and has spent the last 11 years in the Digital Media and Television industries, with the last 7 years at Sky.

He is a well known industry visionary, has advised the UK and European governments on Interactive TV standards.
Ian led the MBO creating Miniweb from his department at Sky. Prior to founding Miniweb, he served 4 years as Technical Alliances Director of Sky New Media, and a member of BSkyB's R&D steering committee.

Christian Hernandez Gallardo is Facebook’s Head of International Business Development. He is tasked with increasing the use and engagement of the Facebook platform across international markets through the establishment of partnerships with media firms, technology companies, innovative start-ups and leading brands.

Ilja Laurs is Founder and CEO of GetJar, the world’s largest cross-platform mobile application store. In 2009, Informa Telecoms & Media included Ilja in the “Top 40 most influential people in mobile communications”. As a recognized industry's thought leader, Ilja speaks on all major telecommunication conferences and is regularly quoted in such respectable news sources as BBC, Forbes, The New York Times, USA Today and other. In February 2010, Ilja made the cover of the America's leading entrepreneurship magazine "Entrepreneur".

Babs Rangaiah is the Vice President of Global Communications Planning for all Unilever Global Brands and is based in their London Headquarters. In this capacity, he oversees a team that works with Global Brands and their Agencies to infuse Media Strategy and Channel thinking into the creative development process.

Most recently, Babs led media planning across all Unilever brands in the U.S. He has overseen media for several highly innovative campaigns in the area of branded entertainment, digital and Hispanic marketing. .

Elizabeth  helped transform JustGiving from a tiny start-up in 2001 into being the world's largest online fundraising community. As Product Manager, she oversees  the conception, production, development, implementation and delivery of everything from online fundraising tools to apps for Android and iPhone - for a community of over 10 million. Their successful iPhone app now has over 17,000 users.  

Jaskirat Singh Gill has close to twelve years of relevant experience in the Digital Media space with specializations in the telecom content and marketing domains. He works with Bharti Airtel as General Manager – Entertainment where he is responsible for TV & Movies in this new 3G market which will soon be exposed to the richness of the 3rd generation media, content and applications. 

Serge Jespers is an Adobe Platform Evangelist and longtime Flash enthusiast. For more than 10 years he has been working with Flash to develop award-winning online experiences, including projects for Belgium's largest media company in support of numerous TV shows such as Idols,
Big Brother, and Miss Belgium. He became and an Adobe certified freelance Flash designer/developer in 2004 and joined Adobe in 2007.

Barry Rubery, is the Chairman and Founder of Green Button Media Ltd, the new interactive Connected TV and Set Top Box platform launched at appsworld 2010 as a serious alternative to YouView and Google TV’s closed platforms.  

The visionary entrepreneur, as co-founder of Pace Plc, has already revolutionised the digital TV industry once by launching the world’s first MPEG2 digital set top box in 1995. With Green Button, Barry and his team are now capitalising on the open HbbTV standard solution, using their worldwide consumer electronics insight, to offer a leading edge platform that makes the seamless connection of the Internet and TV possible.

John has been building payments and fraud systems on the internet for over 15 years and has advised many of the successful and less successful start-ups on their payment strategies. 

Originally a java certified developer and now an all purpose hacker and Start-up mentor.  John heads up the technology for PayPals new developer network PayPalX in the EU.

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Mike is responsible for all engineering development for the Antix Game Player (AGP)  — a media player for high performance games that consumers can play, copy across their various devices and then share with their friends and family either over the network or off-network in close proximity.  Mike also  coordinates third party/partner development programs at Antix.

Nina Woolvett is a Portfolio Manager in the Intel AppUp Developer Program (IADP) Team responsible for scaling the number of Apps in the Intel AppUp Center.  This involves educating, motivating and influencing the developer community to sell their applications via the Intel AppUp Center.  

Equity Plus Partners is a London-based investment management firm, which was formed in 2008 by a team of highly experienced entrepreneurs, each of whom has successfully built and sold a number of companies prior to forming EPP.  Our objective is to invest in or acquire, and then provide management assistance to, established or new start-up businesses in the UK and beyond.

 

Badoo.com is the world’s largest social network for meeting new people nearby with over 82 million registered users. It is a global, multi-lingual, location-based, “social dating” network, focused on chatting, flirting and meeting new people.

Joe Neale is a Principal at m8 Capital, a London-based Venture Capital firm investing solely into mobile and related technologies.

Joe has worked in marketing, business development and the creative industries for close to a decade. He possess a deep understanding of the startup space and associated business models.

Most recently he served as Global Head of Online Presence and Engagement for Symbian, the world’s largest mobile operating system. In this role, Joe was responsible for identifying, developing and bringing the world’s leading mobile application developers onto the Symbian platform while running the companies social media engagement strategy.

Jeff has worked with personal computers since the late seventies, when he learned to program BASIC on an Apple II (not an Apple II Plus, mind you). Since then, he’s learned Pascal, Fortran and VB/VB.NET – all of which have been enough to show him that he’s not a born developer, but he can play one on TV, so to speak. He founded the computer club in his high school and has been fixing everyone else’s PCs since.

Limvirak joined InMobi in May of 2010 and leads business development for Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to InMobi, he spent four years at Google  where he lead  Strategic Partnerships focusing on mobile and distribution and then moved onto Google's New Business Development team helping the Product and Engineering teams bring new products to market through early-stage, exploratory deals and engaging with the tech community. 

John Denton is Managing Editor, TV Platforms in the BBC’s Future Media & Technology division.

John has an extensive production background in television and new media.

 For five years, John was responsible for chellomedia’s production of eTV and iTV applications for broadcast onto digital platforms across Europe.

Shaun Gregory was appointed Managing Director of O2’s Media Business in February 2009. Shaun is responsible for the overall media strategy at O2 and for building the advertising business that will offer mobile and cross-media opportunities for brands in the UK.

I have been working in Mobile Data for the last 12 years, gathering experience in both network and Value Added Services over CSD, GPRS, SMS, MMS, UMTS, DVB-H, RTP and other technologies that allow the delivery of mobile content. I have been involved in Mobile Internet since the early stages of the preWAP technology and acted as responsible for Emoción (Content Portal of MoviStar) in the period 2000-2009.

Rahul is a technologist, entrepreneur and music fanatic. He founded Apsmart to bring experienced strategy, design and execution services to the newly relevant mobile application phenomenon. Before founding Apsmart, Rahul was the principal technical architect for Shazam Entertainment, a UK-based provider of music recognition and search services.

Sébastien Marteau is VP Sales & Business Development for Fox Mobile Group (FMG), the mobile industry’s largest vertically integrated mobile entertainment company, wholly-owned by News Corporation.  He is responsible for driving world-wide sales and business development activities with carriers and billing aggregators. In addition, Sébastien also heads up the sales and business development team for EMEA to drive B2B partnerships with mobile operators, OEMs, internet companies and media groups.

Tamar Shachar is the Chief Revenue Officer of Logia Group responsible for Sales & Monetization.

Logia works with a network of developers providing them the tools they need in order to distribute their application in different Android application markets and enable monetization of the apps by enabling in-app purchasing.

Stela Bokun is a Senior Analyst with Pyramid Research focusing on market research and consulting engagements related to the global device market, as well as macroeconomic, regulatory and business environments in a number of European markets.

Based in the Pyramid’s  London office, Stela is responsible for assessing market opportunities, market intelligence, forecasting and modeling market trends.  For more information on Stela’s work, click here:

Paul is the Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director of the Europe branch of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), working towards the MMA’s charter to build a sustainable ecosystem for the mobile marketing industry in the region, and promoting the MMA as the leading association for region-wide consultation on key industry issues such as mobile media guidelines and best practices. Berney is involved in all of the MMA’s initiatives and communications for the 300+ Europe members representing the entire mobile media ecosystem.

Nigel Little is a games industry veteran with over 20 years of games development experience under his belt. 
He founded Distinctive Developments in 1994 and has been leading the company with his hands on approach from strength to strength.

Peter has been CEO of CreditCall since February 2007 having previously held successful senior level positions in large international Japanese and American companies. Under Peter’s direction, CreditCall is now a major supplier of EMV kernel technology for manufacturers of ATMs, POS devices, and unattended terminals.

Ferhan Cook, President Any Screen Productions & MobiAdNews

Ferhan is the President of Any Screen Productions Ltd, a mobile media consultancy, and online publisher based in London, Paris and Istanbul.

Ferhan has 25 years of experience in marketing, electronic publishing, interactive content and international business development.

Stephen has over 15 years experience in advertising and technology markets having previously held senior leadership positions in a variety of venture capital-backed technology start-ups including FirstCapital, Rhythm NewMedia and behavioural targeting and internet personalisation start up, Touch Clarity.

Christoph Weinmann started working for Intel in 2007 as an Application Engineer for Enterprise Software with a focus on software analysis and optimization for Intel’s Server Platforms. After some initial opportunities in the embedded Intel Atom space, he has moved on to mobile devices in 2010.

Tristan is Director of Digital for Dow Jones Consumer Media Group Europe with P&L responsibility for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, including WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com   and efinancialnews.com.

He previously spent 11 years at the Guardian, where he was Head of Business Development for several years.

Ben recently joined The Wall Street Journal Europe as Technology Editor. He writes across both print and digital editions of the newspaper, and spearheads a new section providing news, commentary and analysis on technology business activity in Europe, as well as start-ups, digital entrepreneurship, and gadget and service launches relevant to the regional market. Ben has also launched a new technology blog to be featured on europe.WSJ.com in the coming months.

Graham Rivers joined WIN as Chief Executive in November 2006.  Prior to joining WIN, he was a member of the UK Operating Board of T-Mobile UK Limited where he was responsible for the wholesale business (including Virgin Mobile) and for non-voice revenues.

He has been actively involved in the mobile industry since the mid-1980’s and has held senior executive positions with handset/device manufacturers, infrastructure providers and software service companies.  With the completion of IMImobile’s takeover of WIN in October , he now holds the position of Executive Director.

Thibaut has been active in the mobile, telecom, software world for the past 10 years as an all-rounder from the research labs, to the telecom shelter, from core network to core OS, from photons to airwaves and from product management to community strategy. 

Ian is the co-founder and Managing Partner of We Are Apps. He has spent 14 years working in advertising and marketing agencies, focusing on digital communications since 2001. Before setting up We Are Apps he was the Digital Creative Director of one of the UK’s leading independent advertising agencies, creating campaigns for brands including Continental Airlines, Ford, HSBC, Royal Mail and Tesco to name a few.

Tim Haysom is Head of Developer Relations at the Wholesale Applications Community. He was previously CMO of OMTP, having moved from Orange in 2007. In his role at OMTP, he led the developer marketing for the BONDI mobile web apps initiative which led in 2010 to the creation of WAC.

Tim has spent 20 years in mobile telecoms. He participates as a speaker at industry conferences and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Tim holds a B.Eng. degree in Electronics from the University of Southampton.

Lothar has assembled a team of expert marketing and business development managers to assure that Badoo continues to lead in all aspects of product development, strategic consumer and b2b marketing, business partnerships and, of course, profitability.

Costas Stylianou started working for Intel in 2005 as a Software Engineer for the Cellular Hand-Held Group mainly focusing on developing drivers and middleware for the Symbian OS running on the XScale.

Mark Lister is Managing Director of Imano, a full service digital design agency with a unique specialisation in making beautiful and useful applications for iPhone and iPad for global brands like ABInBev, Conde Nast and Ray-Ban. 

Imano have offices in London, New York and Mumbai, where they combine skills in interactive design, iPhone/iPad development, web services, databases and strategic consultancy.

Angelo is working for the Mediaset Group since 1981. He is Head of DTT Content Factory since 2003. The Content Factory team is in charge of design and manage
interactive application to be broadcast on the Mediaset free to air and pay TV digital networks.

Brian J Friedman has been developing and implementing mobile strategies for over fifteen years in the US and Internationally in Europe, Central and South America and Asia.

Luke has been with T-Mobile International since 2005. In his role as Head of Apps Propositions with the Products and Innovation: Mobile Products division he is responsible for setting strategy and developing customer-centric apps propositions and associated business models across the EU footprint. Prior to this – in his role as Head of Media Propositions – he was responsible for setting strategy and developing propositions across a number of mobile media categories including music and moving images.

Charles Damen joined MACH as Vice President, Business Development, Mobile Content & Applications in September 2007. He brings more than 15 years mobile and internet experience to his role. He is a member of the MACH Mobile Content and Applications management team with responsibility for business development, product management and the roadmap of MACH’s Mobile Payment Gateway Solution.

Since joining the company, he established the MACH Mobile Applications billing line of business, lead the creation of its direct billing offering and established agreements with major Application Stores and mobile network operators on a global scale.

 

Anthony Rose is Chief Technology Officer for YouView, the venture creating an open IPTV platform that brings internet connectivity to the UK’s free to air platforms.

Anthony joined the YouView team from the BBC where he was Future Media Controller, Vision & Online Media Group,  responsible for the BBC iPlayer as well as realising the BBC’s plans to create a unified embedded media experience across its online properties.

Bill Scott is one of the founders of easeltv and its Chief Operating and Commercial Officer. The company’s vision is to enable brands to build high quality TV experiences using low-cost web components, fast. easeltv will help its clients to exploit broadband connected TVs and in doing so will help to shape the future of television.

Kelaine Olvera has over 18 years of product management and marketing experience in the mobile and technology industries. Having worked with both operators and vendors in the UK and US, Kelaine has a deep understanding of how mobile technology has evolved and its potential application.

Former senior management consultant at Nordic consultancy company Digiscope. Prior to Digiscope, Michael worked for the medical IT company CellaVision as project manager for software development and product manager for Internet services.

Michael holds a Master of Science in engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lund University.

Nick is passionate about creating tools and services that enable developers to create remarkable location based experiences across all device types - from mobile to web and beyond.  His passion comes from his background as a developer striving to create unique applications that delight and amaze consumers everywhere.  A desire to enable the creation of unrivalled location experiences led him to co-found CloudMade in 2007.

Jamie joined Metro soon after it launched in 1999 and has seen it grow into the most read free newspaper in the world and one of the UK's most well known media brands.

As digital director Jamie has ownership of all elements of Metro's digital business including content, product and commercial departments. He is focused on establishing Metro as a leading UK online brand and delivering rapid revenue and audience growth from existing and new platforms.
Jamie has a Politics degree from the University of London.

Jon Mew was appointed in November 2008 as the IAB’s first Head of Mobile. His role is to drive the IAB’s strategy in the mobile arena via a series of ongoing initiatives including dedicated events, educational publications and research essential to its development. Jon works with advertisers and agencies, helping them to understand the value of mobile advertising and how it can add to marketing campaigns.

Steve Reynolds has been a leading expert within field mobility for over 20 years. He is the Managing Director of Technological Business Solutions Ltd (TBS) and the Chairman of the Mobile Data Association.

A qualified Electronics Engineer, Steve became involved with the design and development of field mobility solutions in 1985. One of his early innovations was utilising the potential that mobility solutions offered to the field service sector. He worked with some major clients (including Rank Xerox and British Gas) on what were landmark projects with handheld computers and wireless communications.

Andy Gower is a Research Group Leader within the Future Consumer Applications and Services practice in BT Innovate & Design. He currently leads BT’s research on future Social TV applications. He has a background in user centred design and has previously lead many research and development projects including Multi-client Platforms that link IPTV, web and mobile, and Location Based Media Services for gaming, urban regeneration and cultural heritage applications.

Mimmis Olsson is managing a new team function responsible for identifying, evaluating and managing partnerships with third party technology and service providers. She is responsible for driving the technical roadmap, messaging and positioning around third party technologies, tools and services which bring strategic value to NAVTEQ’s developer offering and complement NAVTEQ APIs towards developers.

Jean-Luc Ottensen is Head of mobile games and applications at Orange France, the leading mobile Operator in France. Previously, he was Head of Business Development in charge of developing new offers (LBS, Visio, Ring Back Tone,Voice Mail, …) within the framework of multi-operator offer for third parties (Gallery, SMS+).

Beatrice Farina has extensive marketing experience including more than 10 years in the telecommunications market and more recently in the mobile to web2 space. She is a Marketing Communications Specialist for Brand, PR, Digital Media, Events and Communications (B2B, B2C & D2C) having worked previously for blue-chip, entrepreneurial and start-up organisations such as SpinVox, Canon, Marconi, and MSI.

Gerry Gouy is the New York-based Global Senior Business Development Director for MTV Networks International, the world's largest television and mobile video network.

He is responsible for global distribution deals and partnerships (200+ deals in 100+ countries) across every country outside the United States, and across every digital platform including TV VOD, Online, Mobile, Applications, and across all MTV Networks global brands and properties including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, South Park, The Daily Show, the MTV Europe Music Awards & SpongeBob SquarePants.

As the Business Development Director for digital agency Imano, Jane works on the most prestigious accounts in the business.  With a  dynamic and fresh approach to digital marketing she brings enthusiasm, insight & knowledge into projects.

Paul co-founded ScreenReach Interactive and created the Screach Product from his vast experience in digital signage and interactive technology. Still only 30 years old, Paul started out creating EPOS, Sales Order Processing and Marketing systems for businesses including Burger King and Dixons. He then went on to create digital signage systems that are used in some of the UKs leading Cinema chains.

Randeep Wilkhu is a Senior Investment Manager at T-Venture Holding GmbH; an entrepreneurial executive and venture capital investor focused on the creation of innovative business models and disruptive technology. Investor in early- to late-stage mobile internet companies, particularly in areas of mobile applications, payment, location based services, search, advertising, and digital media.

Randeep is actively involved with the boards of deCarta(US) , Mobile Commerce(UK) and Mindmatics – MOPAY(Germany).

Prior to joining T-Venture, Randeep has accumulated over a decade of experience as a senior manager with expertise encompassing web and mobile space within CSC Computer Sciences, RareMedium & T-Mobile International; accustomed to strategy development/management; international product and proposition management

Current position:
Director, Applications and Mobile Commerce at MTS.
Areas of responsibility:
- developement of branded mobile applications
- management of applications portfolio
- customization of handsets for retail
- developement of applications store concept at MTS
- implementation of JIL/WAC concept
- mobile commerce and payment services
- payments from mobile account

Named one of the UK's top 100 most influential people in Media by the Guardian newspaper, Ilicco is responsible for the strategy and production of Reuters portfolio of mobile websites, applications and alerts, and has pioneered a new relationship between professional journalists and bloggers, sharing technology and incorporating social media techniques into its newsgathering operation. A Reuters veteran at the age of 39 - Ilicco has helped change the way consumers receive mobile multimedia news with Reuters' news apps and has worked closely with journalists and bloggers to help them adopt new digital technology and techniques in the field, as well as inviting prominent bloggers and Twitter users to Reuters social media events such as election news conferences with the three party leaders.

Having worked in advertising for 8 years Simon moved to into the online marketing world with leading UK bookmaker - Ladbrokes. Since then he has held roles that span business development, marketing, interactive television and gambling with roles at BSkyB’s Sky Bet and Carmen Media’s Red Interactive. Simon became CEO of Betfair TV (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Betfair Group) in January 2008. Simon has turned his passion for skiing into a sideline in ski journalism.

With more than a decade of working in the telecom industry, Loo Cheng Chuan has extensive experience in SingTel's finance, consumer and corporate businesses where he worked on costing, pricing, and business strategies.
Before his role as Principal of the SingTel Idea Factory, Loo served the organisation as its Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) Strategy Director. He was the SingTel project lead of the winning NetCo bid.

Nicolas is a senior VP at Orange Vallée, an Orange entity dedicated to rapid innovation.

 

Nicolas is higly skilled in digital innovation & TV services design. He successfully lead 3 major TV programs: first worlwide roll-out of Microsoft TV in 2006 at Club-Internet (Deutsche Telekom subsidiary), VOD in 2008 at SFR, and in 2009 Orange Box with Intel technology, now developed as SoTV product.

 

Franco the Head of Mobile oversee’s COI business development for mobile and enlists mobile agencies at the forefront of the industry to develop mobile as a channel for Government. Franco has created the Mobile Insight Team within Interactive Services which is responsible for mobile strategy and planning, design and development and measurement. They are involved in integrating communications planning with interactive planning to develop a single citizen experience by integrating product based planning with digital marketing.

Franco is experienced with mobile technology including strategy and planning, design and development, measurement and buying media, search, display, m-sites, apps, SMS, MMS, and Bluetooth. He is also experienced in digital marketing, integrated campaigns, websites, search, PPC, email, viral, affiliate, display, sponsorship and social media campaigns.

Franco has an MSc Digital Marketing Communications.

Cian is the Chief Reporter for GoMo News, the leading news site on Android, barcodes, advertising and all things mobile. He moved to GoMo from his position as Picture Editor for the Irish Sun after five years in the news media.

Faisal Galaria is a member of the management team at Spotify where he is responsible for Corporate and Business Development. Previously, Faisal was the International Managing Director of Kayak.com, the online travel meta search engine. Here he was responsible for expanding the service to nine countries and propelled it to become the second largest travel search engine in the UK in less than one year.

VP, Head of Content & Applications, Telenor Group, Corporate Development. Working on Telenor applications and content strategies.

Ed spent the first twelve months of the mobile app gold rush building iPhone apps, both on contract and independently. Two of these independent apps reached the number one spot in the iTunes App Store - TV Plus (the first app to set Sky+ to record from iPhone; 6 months before BSkyB released a similar app) and iPhone MMS (the only way to send and receive MMS on UK iPhones before Apple's 3.0 firmware).

Stephen Pinches was appointed lead product manager for FT.com mobile products in June 2008.  He is responsible for all mobile, audio and video products across FT.com including the FT’s iPad and iPhone apps and mobile websites.

Laura is head of the Verizon Developer Community (VDC) for Business Markets & Applications at Verizon Wireless. She has over 15 years of experience in Multi-Content Management Systems, with specific focus in Mobile Applications and Mobile Storefronts for both Consumer and SMB/Enterprise customers. Laura currently drives the Business Mobile Apps & Storefront Strategy for Verizon Wireless.

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Randolph Nikutta started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary leading several larger business oriented R&D projects (value added services & service delivery platforms) for several business units of the Deutsche Telekom Group.

David Gibbs, General Manager Mobile, BSkyB

An international senior telecommunications and technology executive with general management, marketing P&L and operational management responsibility in fixed line and mobile sectors with over 20 years experience in the USA, Japan, Europe, India and the Middle East .
Currently leads the enterprise marketing function for du, an integrated telecommunications operator in Dubai. Has full responsibility for enterprise revenues, customer numbers and the customer value proposition including overall enterprise customer experience. 

Valentina Rivoira is Project Leader for Innovative Services in Telecom Italia and Co-chair of the Italy Local Council of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). She manages projects on new services and business opportunities enabled by technology innovations. At present she focuses on Mobile Search & Advertising, Mobile Applications 2.0 and Services for Communities.
Since 2001 she’s been leading activities with the Marketing and Strategy departments of Mobile (TIM) and Wireline divisions, involving future scenario analysis and definition of new offerings.

Richard Kastelein, a Dutch-Canadian dual citizen, is the publisher, editor and founder of www.appmarket.tv - a leading Business2Industry online portal that covers the emerging TV industry. Based in Groningen, The Netherlands, he is a speaker, social TV, convergent media and Connected TV analyst - and has guest lectured at Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands on futurism in technology and marketing.

Martine Edgell manages the customer relationship programmes for Mercedes-Benz and smart.  She is responsible for smart's online community - destinationsmart.co.uk - aimed at building customer loyalty and introducing prospective customers and fans to the world of smart. 

Scott Ellis is a new media and wireless consultant based in Dallas, Texas. Scott is a founding partner at BlackBox Technologies and is currently working with Verizon Wireless building the Verizon Developer Community. Scott works with companies of all sizes from start-ups to enterprises, helping them better use cutting edge web, mobile, content management and social technologies.

Since 2009 Mr. Helin has worked as the CTO at Qbitech Ltd, a telco consulting company and a spin-off from the award-winning TeliaSonera Medialab in Finland. Qbitech provides services e.g. in mobile, broadband, and TV broadcasting areas including business intelligence, conceptualization and prototyping, user interface design, innovation management, business and service development, and project management.

Roland Beckmann-Kunz, Group Director Content, Etisalat