Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Thursday, August 17 11:05 AM - 12:20 PM Track IV: Expanding the Horizons of Search and Personalization – The Cross Platform Application – Mobile, Broadband, Computer & TV Judith Goodwin, Vice President, VFinity Brady O. Bruce, Senior Vice President of Telecom Products and Services, Promptu David Clarke, VP Business Development, Searchformedia Mike Brady, Senior Director, Business Development, Fast Search & Transfer™ Sean Morgan, founder and CEO, ClipSyndicate Stacey Renner, Vice President, Research & Marketing, WCSN, World Championship Sports Network Joyce Schwarz, JCOM Emerging Entertainment Marketing, Moderator Mike Brady, Senior Director, Business Development, Fast Search & Transfer™: Senior Director, Business Development, Fast Search & Transfer™: Mr. Brady has spent his career in the software industry helping businesses leverage digital technology to improve profitability. His expertise includes working for MSA Media, Centerseat, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, with responsibility for enabling new technologies in media and communications. As Sr. Director, Bus. Dev. at Fast Search & Transfer™, Mr. Brady works with wireless carriers and content companies to apply search technology to maximize revenue from commerce, advertising and multi-media services online and with mobile devices. Mr. Brady has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business. David Clarke, VP Business Development, Searchformedia: David is responsible for Searchformedia's content acquisition, partnerships & new business initiatives as well as liaising with film, television, new-media companies, content producers and aggregators wishing to build out their online multimedia search strategies. The last 7 years has seen him working with Rocketinfo a leading RSS company providing aggregated news & weblog content search. Previously he has held senior positions with imaging & internet technology companies in the roles of Sales, Brand Management and Business Development. Searchformedia is a leading video search company, powering one of the Internet's most comprehensive video search experiences available through a network of portals including searchforvideo.com and searchforipod.com. The company's proprietary "learning" technology enables consumers to quickly find premium video content by removing search result links to files that are static, incomplete or broken. Its unique search results are the only type of its kind that direct consumers back to the content owner's website before playing the content, enabling providers and media creators to build their own traffic and better monetize content. The company's proprietary technology has five patents pending and draws upon more than 1,300,000 video clips from more than 6,000 independent sources. Brady O. Bruce, Senior Vice President of Telecom Products and Services, Promptu: Brady O. Bruce leads Promptu's business activities serving mobile carriers, with overall responsibility for business development, product management, sales and marketing. Bruce’s career spans more than 20 years in telecommunications, broadband, and consumer technology. Prior to Promptu, Bruce served as vice president of sales and support at PRISMIQ, Inc., a leader in digital media hubs and consumer electronics. Bruce helped to establish the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer as the industry's top-selling product, and to garner top awards such as "Product of the Year" from PC Magazine and other publications. Prior to joining PRISMIQ, Bruce served as senior vice president of marketing and business development for NightFire Software, a maker of service management and network provisioning applications for communication service providers, expanding the company's business into Europe and Asia. Before NightFire, Bruce served as vice president of marketing at Radius (and its successor Digital Origin), the renowned maker of digital media products, where he led a complete rebranding, created new retail products, and expanded international distribution. Bruce was also successful as an entrepreneur, co-founding Fatbubble, Inc., a pioneering social networking and peer-to-peer marketing firm, and the not-for-profit Texas Telemedicine Project. He also served in senior sales and marketing management positions at VTEL Corporation, a leading video-conferencing technology company. Before entering the private sector, Bruce was an instructor and senior lecturer in economics at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, and Austin Community College. Bruce earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he also completed his doctoral coursework in international monetary economics. Judith Goodwin, Vice President, VFinity: Judith Goodwin, Vice President , has spent 25 years in senior sales and marketing management positions for Digital Equipment, Compaq and HP. She spent over 10 years as the Director of the Media and Entertainment segment at Digital, Global Director of Marketing . Judith has a BA, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the City Univ. of NY, and advanced degrees from Boston University and the Darden School of Business at UVA and additional post graduate work at Cornell University. She is a member of the National Assn. of Female Executives, the Intnl Engineering Consortium,and Whos Who in Female Executives. She has also been a speaker at NAB, NCTA and other technical and industry symposia. Sean Morgan, founder and CEO of ClipSyndicate, is a pioneer in online syndication. As one of the founders of Pinnacor, Inc. [NASDAQ: PCOR, formerly ScreamingMedia], a leading provider of information management solutions for the aggregation, distribution and integration of real time business and financial information into websites, intranets, wireless sites and interactive television, he developed the product specifications and key features of what became Pinnacor's core product, the Editors Desk. Morgan also developed the first royalty pool sharing model for Internet syndication that allowed more than 4,000 content producers to benefit from Pinnacor's meteoric rise to the Internet's largest text syndication network. He cut the initial deals for ScreamingMedia with the New York Times Syndicate, The Associated Press, PR Newswire, and Comtex, which included other newswires such as Deutsche Press, Agence French Press, Xinhua and Kyodo News service and many others. Morgan went on to build a 60-person sales and business development organization, and grew monthly revenue from $15,000 to $1.8 million in under 24 months. ScreamingMedia debuted on the Nasdaq in August of 2000 and was subsequently acquired by CBS MarketWatch for $100 million. Stacey Renner, VP Research & Marketing, World Championship Sports Network: As the vice president of research and marketing of the World Championship Sports Network, Renner is responsible for targeting appropriate audiences and promoting the network, which is devoted to showcasing athletes and international sports federation competitions from around the world. With Renner’s 15+ years of marketing experience and remarkable ability to translate research insights into tangible marketing strategies and tactics, she has brought a "hands-on" approach to WCSN to help discover new and creative ways to market and establish the network as a brand. WCSN enjoys exclusive U.S. coverage rights with over 20 domestic and international athletic federations representing more than 1,200 hours of annual original programming as well as thousands of hours of archival footage. At AOL Inc., Renner served as the director of affliate marketing/marketing operations where she executed quarterly marketing and incentive campaigns to fuel subscriber acquisition and retention. In addition, Renner successfully developed and launched innovative Internet and Video product/services including Road Runner with AOL, AOL for Broadband and AOL TV. Joyce A. Schwarz is an author/speaker/consultant and one of the leaders in the emerging entertainment and media arena. She heads JCOM, a new product launch and branding consulting firm located in Marina Del Rey, California. Joyce has created marketing and advertising campaigns for more than 100 consumer and B2B technologies and products ranging from emusic.com to projects for Philips, France Telecom & AT&T. She combines more than 20 years experience in advertising and marketing for international ad agencies such as Foote Cone & Belding with a masters degree in film from USC and extensive production experience in film, television, video and interactive. She wrote "Reinventing Hollywood" for the NAB in 1992 and then co-wrote "Multimedia: Gateway to the Next Millennium" in 1993, "How to Break Into the New Hollywood" in 1995. Her latest book is "Cutting the Cord: Guide to Going Wireless" Que Publishing, June 2002. Schwarz is well known as a business writer and colu! mnist for more than 150 articles in such publications as: Business 2.0, Conferenza, Digitrends.net, 'Christian Science Monitor", 'Sales and Marketing' (SAM), LA Times and more. She was the chair and organizer for the first Paris, France Internet/ITV conference from 1995-1997, Digital Day LA , 1993-1996 and is a popular keynote speaker at such conferences as the Invention Convention and the San Diego Computer Fair. She specializes in developing partnerships and alliances for emerging entertainment and new technologies.