Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 27-30, 2008 Monday, October 27th 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Track IV - The Personalized Media Experience – Mobile, Social Media & Search The Personalized Web; The Personalized Application; Personalized Television; Personalized Social Experience The personalized experience, whether via mobile, social networks, broadband or video, more and more is how a consumer relates to the communications experience. All content via all platforms must conform to this understanding of how the entertainment, information and communications experience is defined. The broadcast, one to many, communications model is slowly being relegated to a “special occasion” while the everyday consumer lifestyle is dominated by personalization. All providers in the media and electronics food-chain, from hardware and network provider to the software, advertising and content companies are continually refining and enhancing personalization. This session is at the core of how the technology, content and consumer will interact. David Maher Roberts, CEO, Filter Neil Roseman, CEO, Evri Mark Walsh, CEO, GeniusRocket John Bryan, VP/Head of Business Development, Stumbleupon Srinivasan "Sesh" Seshadri, Chief Technology Officer, Kosmix Frank Sinton III, CEO and Founder, Mefeedia Stephen Condon, former, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Verisign, Moderator David Maher Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, The Filter: David Maher Roberts is an entrepreneurial executive with web start-up and international new media experience. After completing European Economics and Law and Advanced Management programs, Mr. Roberts began his career as a magazine editor and publisher. At the young age of 24, he successfully raised the funds to launch Unique, the first student lifestyle magazine, and The Game, a European football magazine. With roots firmly in content and fulfilling specific information and entertainment needs, Mr. Roberts went on to become the publishing director at Future Games in 2001. There he served as the board director responsible for the entire portfolio of 10 magazines, 2 websites, and 80 employees. After 2 years, he founded Future Plus, a creative agency to provide tailor-made print and digital content solutions for Future’s advertisers. As Future Plus’s publishing director, Mr. Roberts generated revenues of more than 8 million dollars in just over 2 years. From June 2004-December 2006, he also served as the New Media Director for Future’s European web operations. After leaving Future, Mr. Roberts served as the New Media director at iSporty, where he provided the founders with a launch strategy and platform for their sport social network and he was a founder and senior partner of Digital-dna LLP, where he consulted on creating and implementing web strategies for their clients. In his spare time, Mr. Roberts plays, watches, and coaches football and passionately makes and listens to music. He lives with his wife and two children outside of Bath. John Bryan, VP/Head of Business Development, Stumbleupon: John is responsible for StumbleUpon's business development & partnership activities. A native of the UK, he has spent his entire career focusing on the entertainment & digital media industries and is fascinated by the way they have merged together. An early pioneer in interactive television, John's most recent work experiences have covered the distribution of content across emerging P2P networks and the exciting explosion in personalized search and content recommendation technologies. Srinivasan "Sesh" Seshadri, Chief Technology Officer, Kosmix: Sesh is Kosmix’ resident search technology expert with more than 10 years in research and industry. Sesh was the Chief Technology Officer for Yahoo's India development center based in Bangalore. He is also the founder of Strand Genomics, a biotechnology company and was a research jock at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Sesh is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin. Frank Sinton III – CEO and Founder – Frank is Founder and CEO of Mefeedia, the leading media search and social discovery platform where over 5MM unique visitors a month find, watch, and personalize their media experience from over 15,000 sources across the Web. Frank led Mefeedia Media Search - Video, TV, News, Music, and Podcast Search - from concept to launch in March 2008, when it was called "the new front-runner in multimedia search" by CNET and others. Frank has over 14 years experience in the media and technology businesses, with a strong background in Search: Frank launched both Media Search at Sony Pictures Entertainment as part of the "Digital Studio" and Business Search at Business.com (acquired by RH Donnelly for $345 million). Frank has been involved in entrepreneurial activities since the early age of 13, when his father (Frank Sinton Jr.) built and sold Think Technologies to Symantec. Frank has a B.S. from Tufts University. Neil Roseman, CEO, Evri: Prior to joining Evri, Neil Roseman spent almost ten years at Amazon.com, largely as Vice President of Technology. Most recently, he was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role, Roseman developed products and software for efforts such as Search Inside the Book, Amazon Unbox Digital Video. Amazon MP3 Music, and the groundbreaking services for Amazon’s wireless reading device, the Kindle. Prior to this, Roseman was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's third-party business), Target.com, the initial Amazon Web Services launch and many more. Before joining Amazon.com, Roseman was a Director and GM of pioneering Internet music e-commerce startup Music Boulevard. Prior to Music Boulevard, Roseman spent 5 years at legendary scientific information service BIOSIS (now part of Thompson Reuters Scientific), most recently as a Senior Software Engineering, where he worked on the world’s first online system for tracking bacterial nomenclature, among other things. In between technology jobs, Roseman spent time running a large bookstore in Philadelphia. Roseman holds a B.S. in Biology from Temple University. Stephen Condon, former, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Verisign: Stephen Condon was most recently Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for VeriSign, Inc. and has more than 20 years of marketing experience from the advertising, entertainment and technology industries. Condon commenced his career in advertising working for J. Walter Thompson and Chiat/Day on leading brands such as Kraft Foods and NutraSweet. His advertising career introduced him to the high technology entertainment business when he worked on the hugely successful launch of DIRECTV. He later joined DIRECTV, as Senior Director of Marketing and was responsible for program marketing and subscriber acquisition promotions. In 1998 Condon moved from delivering video over satellite to delivering video on the Internet and joined INTERVU as Vice President of Marketing where he lead strategic marketing efforts and marketing communications up until the Akamai acquisition. Since then, Condon has held various senior technology marketing positions including Chief Marketing Officer of Intertainer, which was one of the first online video delivery portals. He was also Vice President of Marketing for broadband video ASP Entriq. He holds a bachelor's degree in business and has undertaken post graduate studies in Marketing at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2008, on the 10th Anniversary of Streaming Media magazine, he was named by the magazine one of their 25 Streaming Media All-Stars.