Albert Cheng, EVP Digital Media, Disney/ABC

Albert Cheng is charged with general management and strategic oversight of digital media, as well as development of ancillary revenue streams for Disney/ABC Television Group's diverse portfolio of broadcast and cable networks, including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Daytime, ABC Family, Disney Channel and SOAPnet. To that end, he leads a team that oversees product development, marketing and operations for the Group's digital media content platforms, including video-on-demand, broadband, web-based and mobile platforms, as well as interactive television technologies.

Andy Miller, General Partner, Highland Capital

Miller joins Highland from Apple Inc., where he reported directly to Steve Jobs and was Vice President, Mobile Advertising. At Apple, he headed up the iAd team. Previously, Miller was the Co-Founder and CEO of Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company that was seeded by Highland and ultimately acquired by Apple in 2009. Prior to that, Miller was with m-Qube, acquired by VeriSign for $250 million in 2006 and CEO of WatchPoint Media, an MIT Media Lab interactive TV spin-off, that was sold to Goldpocket/Tandberg Television in 2003.

Avner Goren, GM OMAP, Texas Instruments

Avner is GM OMAP™ Strategy and Differentiation for Texas Instruments. He is responsible for identifying market trends and requirements, shaping the OMAP platform's long-term roadmap, technology roadmap and IP selection. His work covers markets including Smartphones, Tablets, Mobile Computing, Mobile Consumer and emerging end-equipment, and includes developing highly differentiated software. He has more than 27 years of experience in DSP and microprocessor architectures, and communication and wireless systems. He is also GM of the TI design center in Israel.

Azita Arvani, Founder and President, Arvani Group Inc

Azita Arvani has over two decades of experience in senior-level assignments across a variety of information and communication technology markets, including wireless services, mobile commerce, multimedia, handhelds, digital rights management, and document management systems. Azita works closely with executives of major companies from multinationals to start-ups and supports them to expand to new mobile markets, develop partnerships, and create and execute business strategies

Baudouin Corman, VP, Gameloft

Baudouin Corman is Vice President of Publishing, Americas for Gameloft, a leading global publisher of digital and social games. In this role, he is responsible for spearheading the company's publishing efforts in North America and Latin America.

Prior to his current position, he was Director of Sales for Gameloft's Latin American division where he developed the distribution networks and local operations into a large scale business, making Gameloft the number one mobile games publisher in this region.

Bart Decrem, General Manager, Disney Mobile

Bart Decrem is Senior VP and GM for Disney Mobile. A serial entrepreneur, Bart was the CEO and Founder of Tapulous, a Palo Alto-based start-up company acquired by DIMG in July 2010. As CEO, Bart led the long-term strategic vision and development of social games and apps for the iPhone, most notably Tap Tap Revenge, the #1 iPhone game, accounting for over a billion games played to-date. Bart has been featured in Newsweek's "Silicon Valley Future Superstars".

Benjamin Parker, Executive Director, Verizon Wireless

Benjamin Parker, Director of Architecture with Verizon, leads a team responsible for long-term network planning for the Verizon Wireless network. His major projects include 4G and IMS transport, next-generation routing and switching, IPv4 completion, and network modelling. Benjamin and his team are also responsible for developing the designs for the Content Management and Distribution System, Ethernet Backhaul, IP/MPLS to the Cell Site, IPv6, VoIP NNI, and the deployment of Network Address Translation.

Bill Gajda, Global Head Mobile, Visa

Bill Gajda is Head of Global Mobile Product, at Visa Inc., the world's largest retail payment network. Gajda oversees Visa's mobile product and commercial strategies and activities. In this role, he manages a global initiative to build alliances, develop and implement mobile services enabling the next generation of payments and financial services. Prior to joining Visa in Feb. 2010, he served as chief commercial officer for the GSMA, the organization representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry.

Biren Sood, CEO, Vasona Networks

Biren Sood is CEO of Vasona Networks, Inc., an innovative start-up developing a novel software solution that enhances the quality of experience of IP applications while improving network yield across radio access resources. Prior to co-founding Vasona, Mr. Sood was a VP and GM at BigBand Networks, Inc. He has also held sales and marketing positions at digital video and broadband pioneers DiviCom and C-Cube Microsystems.

Brad Duea, SVP, T-Mobile

Brad serves T-Mobile as SVP of Marketing and is responsible for three divisions: Value Added Services, Mobile Broadband and Emerging Devices, and Wholesale supporting MVNO/M2M. Brad is responsible for over $1 billion in revenue and indirectly drives several billion dollars of revenue. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Compensation Committee of DTS, Inc. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Brad served as president of Napster LLC.

Brandon Lucas, VP and GM Mobile, BET

In his current role, Brandon is responsible for driving the wireless partnerships for Bet Networks, the leading provider of media and entertainment for African Americans and consumers of Black culture. Prior to joining BET Networks, Brandon ran mobile business development for MySpace, where in two years he built partnerships with U.S wireless carriers, device manufacturers, SMS aggregators and ad networks. Before MySpace, Brandon held mobile business development positions with the Walt Disney Company and U.S Cellular.

Brian Modoff, MD, Deutsche Bank

Brian has been an Institutional Investor Magazine ranked or runner-up analyst for the past three years in the Wireless Telecom sector. Brian joined Deutsche Bank in 1997 working previously at Cruttenden Roth, Rauscher Pierce Refsnes and Rockwell International. Before that, he tested and repaired navigation systems in the US Navy. He has a Master of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management, Arizona, and a B.A. in Economics from California State University.

Calvin Carter, CEO, Bottle Rocket

Calvin Carter is the founder of Bottle Rocket Apps, a full-service mobile app development firm creating hand-crafted apps for the world's most discriminating brands. Bottle Rocket has completed 60+ iPhone, iPad and Android apps (NPR, PBS, Disney, ESPN, TBS, TNT, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BET, A&E Television, SPIN Magazine, American Express and AARP). With numerous industry accolades, including multiple Apple Hall of Fame awards, senior strategists, developers and artists work their magic from the company's offices in Dallas, Texas.

Cameron Clayton, EVP Digital, The Weather Channel

Cameron leads teams responsible for TWCC's mobile and digital applications, interactive television, consumer applications software, international efforts, and product development for weather.com®. Under him, TWC became a recognized mobile industry leader and a top application across platforms. At TWC he has also served as SVP mobile and digital applications, VP business development, and manager of business development for weather.com. Previously, he was marketing director of a regional ISP and business development director director of business development for MSN in New Zealand.

Charaka Kithulegoda, CIO, ING Direct

Charaka Kithulegoda is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of ING DIRECT Canada. Charaka is a member of the company's executive committee and oversees the company's enterprise-wide technology efforts. He is responsible for leading and managing the Bank's Information Technology strategy, infrastructure and the architecture, design and delivery of all systems. In addition, Charaka is responsible for the Project Management Office and Testing & Quality Assurance for ING DIRECT Canada.

Charlene Li, Founding Partner, Altimeter Group

Charlene Li is founder of the Altimeter Group and the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Open Leadership". She is also the coauthor of "Groundswell", which was named one of the best business books in 2008. She is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies, a much-sought after speaker, and frequently quoted in press outlets. Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.

Charles Golvin, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Charles serves consumer product strategy professionals, covering consumer mobility and the digital home. Charles' research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on ABC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS. Prior to joining Forrester, Charles held senior technology positions at Citigroup, providing strategic technology guidance across business units in consumer and corporate finance.

Charles Hudson, CEO, Bionic Panda

Charles is a Venture Partner with SoftTech VC and the CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games, a mobile games company. Until February 2010, he was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading producer of social games. Zynga acquired Serious Business in February 2010. Prior to Serious Business, Hudson worked at Gaia Interactive, Google, IronPort Systems, and In-Q-Tel. Hudson also founded Third Power LLC, a conference and events company that was acquired by WebMediaBrands.

Chris Brya, Director of Emerging Channels, Choice Hotels

Chris Brya is the Director of Mobile and Emerging Channels for Choice Hotels International, one of the largest international hotel chains in the world. Chris directs the mobile and application initiatives for the company. Under Chris' tenure, they launched their m-commerce platform in 2008 and in 2009 they launched the first iPhone app for a global hotel chain.

Chris Mahl, SVP, SCVNGR

Chris Mahl is SCVNGR's SVP and Chief Brand Alchemist. That means he's in charge of using SCVNGR's unique mobile gaming engine to turn brands into social engagement and awareness gold. More scientifically, that means that he deconstructs brands into their base matter, mixes them with fun mobile technology and powerful game dynamics, and produces awesome location-based social-media campaigns. Chris has deployed SCVNGR for organizations like Coke, National Geographic, GameStop, Warner Bros., and SUBWAY.

Christian Lindholm, Managing Partner, Fjord

Fjord is Europe's leading convergence design agency, based in Berlin, Helsinki, London, Madrid and New York. Christian was previously, VP of Global Mobile Products at Yahoo! He worked at Nokia for 10 years, in various roles in the areas for user interface, product creation and venturing. He is chairman of Tech21. Read his blog here www.christianlindholm.com. He believes: Everything can always be simplified and made more delightful to use and everything that can be mobile will be mobile.

Claire Tavernier, SEVP FMX, FremantleMedia

Claire heads up FremantleMedia's central digital hub FMX with responsibility to maximise the value of FremantleMedia brands across digital platforms as well as production of digital originals. Claire also oversees the global relationship between FremantleMedia and You Tube. Since joining FremantleMedia in 2001, Claire has been involved in a number of high profile new media projects, most notably the online and mobile activations of the Idols, Got Talent and X Factor programmes around the world.

Dan Deeney, Partner, New Venture Partners

Daniel J. Deeney, is a Founding Partner at New Venture Partners where he evaluates new investment opportunities from corporate research labs and business units of corporate technology companies. He holds a BS in Finance from San Diego State University; an MBA from Pepperdine University; and a MS in Management of Technology from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dan Bowman, President, Integrated Solutions Group, Sprint

Danny is President of Sprint Nextel's Integrated Solutions Group (ISG), and has responsibility for Sprint's suite of innovative integrated solutions. Danny also oversees the Emerging Solutions organization responsible for developing business and consumer solutions for the rapidly emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) and mobility computing markets. In the past Danny served as President to iDEN from June 2008 – August 2009 and he worked in various executive positions since 1997.

Daniel Danker, GM Programmes and On-demand, BBC

Daniel Danker is General Manager, Programmes and On-Demand in the BBC's Future Media division. Joining the corporation in September 2010, Daniel is responsible for the strategy and delivery of BBC's iPlayer, Radio & Music and Red Button products, working in partnership with the BBC's editorial teams. He also delivers underlying platforms for media, social, blogging, television, and mobile experiences across the BBC Online product portfolio and is a member of the Future Media Group Board.

Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures

Danny joined Index Ventures in 2002 and having established the firm's London Office, he's now resident in San Francisco, running Index US. His investment interests include Internet infrastructure software and services. He currently serves on a number of boards including Boku, Factual, Flipboard, FON, Oanda, Stardoll, Rightscale, Trialpay and viagogo. Prior to joining Index, Danny's roles included general partner of The Barksdale Group, and Managing Director in Hambrecht & Quist's (JP Morgan) Equity Research Group.

David Hunke, President and Publisher, USA Today

As President and Publisher David oversees USA TODAY, the nation's top-selling print newspaper; USATODAY.com, an award-winning news and information website; and USA TODAY Sports Media Group, which focuses on business and strategy for national sports initiatives across USA TODAY, Gannett Company Inc.'s 82 daily newspaper properties, 23 broadcast television stations, HighSchoolSports.net and BNQT.com. Hunke is also a member of the nation's Ad Council Board of Directors.

David Marcus, VP Mobile, PayPal

David is responsible for driving PayPal's mobile strategy and establishing the company as a leader in mobile payments. David brings more than 15 years of mobile and telecommunications experience to PayPal. Most recently, David was the founder and CEO of Zong, a leading provider of payments through mobile carrier billing. Under his leadership, Zong developed relationships with more than 250 carriers and more than 1,000 online merchants. Zong was acquired by PayPal in August 2011.

David Payne, SVP and CDO, Gannett Co., Inc.

David Payne is Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Gannett Co., Inc. He oversees Gannett's digital and mobile product development which includes USA TODAY, PointRoll, and all of Gannett's broadcast stations and community newspapers. David joined Gannett in 2011 from ShortTail Media, Inc. where he served as President and CEO of the video ad technology start-up he co-founded in 2008. Prior to ShortTail, David was Senior Vice President and General Manager of CNN.com.

David Rose, CEO, Vitality

David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur and instructor at the MIT Media Lab. He specializes in novel interfaces which make the physical environment an interface to digital information. David is founder CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging. He founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered glanceable technology: embedding internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, umbrellas. His work has been featured at the MoMA, in the New York Times, and parodied on the Colbert Report.

David Small, CTO, Verizon Wireless

David Small is vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless. In his current role, Small is responsible for planning, engineering, building and operating Verizon Wireless' industry-leading voice and data networks, including its growing 4G LTE, the nation's fastest and the world's most advanced data network.

Dennis Sheehan, VP, Immersion

Dennis is responsible for leading all product and corporate marketing activities including overall strategy and go-to-market activities for Immersion's TouchSense solutions in the rapidly growing market for touch feedback-enabled products. Sheehan has a depth of experience in bringing innovative embedded technologies to market in mobile, personal computer and consumer electronics products. He has built his career developing and collaborating with ecosystem partners in the complex consumer electronics market.

Dickie Oliver, VP Global IT, YUM! Brands

YUM! is the world's largest restaurant company whose brands include KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. As Vice President Global IT Dickie is responsible for Architecture, Security, Compliance, Messaging, Networks, Applications and Monitoring on a global basis for YUM! Brands. Mr. Oliver has spent 14+ years at YUM! Brands, in various roles within the YUM! IT organization. He has 20 years of experience in IT related areas including Development, Consulting, Project Management and IT Leadership.

Dickson Chu, MD Global Enterprise Payments, Citi

As Managing Director Digital Networks in Citi's Global Enterprise Payments unit, Dickson has global responsibility for leading the development of new payments capabilities for members of the digital network ecosystem including mobile network operators, mobile operating systems, device OEMs and Internet companies. Prior to joining Citi in April, 2010, Dickson was Vice President of Global Product and Experience for PayPal, and before that he held senior roles with Yahoo!, I-Impact, Wells Fargo and CSC Index.

Dirk Doerre, VP, Gemalto

Dirk Doerre joined Gemalto in 2009 and is the Vice President of the Digital Life Management Business within the Telecom Solutions & Services Unit for Gemalto, the world leader in digital security. He is responsible for Product, R&D & Marketing activities. Previously, Dirk served as CEO for Mobile Software Solution provider O3SIS.

Drew Larner, CEO, Rdio

Drew has 20 years of experience in entertainment, media and international content distribution. He has been a senior executive at companies including Europlay Capital Advisors, Spyglass Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.

Dr Ferdinand Velasco, CIO, Texas Health Resources

Ferdinand is the physician champion for THR's medical informatics initiatives and provides clinical and executive leadership for the organization's electronic health record initiative. In addition to his role at THR, Ferdinand chairs the National Quality Forum (NQF) eMeasure Review Panel and the HIMSS Quality Cost and Safety Committee. In 2010, he was recognized among the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists by Modern Healthcare.

Eiji Araki, SVP Product, Zynga

Eiji Araki joined GREE in August 2005 during its start-up stage. Araki led the development of PC based social networking services, mobile social networking services, several social games and Smartphone services as VP of Product. Eiji developed "Clinoppe" and "Haconiwa" which ar the most successful mobile social games in Japan, played by over 10 million users, currently Mr Araki is SVP of Product, Overseeing all product-related activities within GREE International – GREE's first subsidiary located in San Francisco.

Eric Anderson, VP, Samsung Electronics

Eric Anderson is Vice President of Content and Product Solutions for Samsung Electronics America, Inc., across the Home Entertainment, Mobile Entertainment and Home Appliance portfolios. Prior to working at Samsung, Eric served as SVP of Business Development and Corporate Development for Handango, Before joining Handango, Eric oversaw the Media and Entertainment group for Ericsson North America and spent more than 8 years at Accenture in their mobile and wireless data practice.

Eric J. Bruno, SVP, Verizon Telecom

Eric J. Bruno is SVP Product Management for Verizon Telcom, the wired services unit of Verizon. He is responsible for new product development and product lifecycle management across both the Consumer and Small Business segments. Key areas of responsibility include FiOS TV, FiOS Internet, High Speed Internet, VAS, Software as a Service and Connected Home services. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Bruno was responsible for consumer product management of wireless and wireline data products.

Erick Schonfeld, Editor, TechCrunch

Erick joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. When TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched an online video series with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels of industry luminaries.

Evan Neufeld, CMO, Mobile Intelligence Solutions

Evan is an analyst in the fields of mobile, new media, advertising and interactive marketing, Neufeld's experience includes senior-level roles at comScore, M:Metrics, NPD Techworld and Jupiter Research, where he was a founding analyst of Jupiter's well-known digital advertising research practice. Prior to his role at Mobile Intelligence Solutions, Evan was most recently Vice President and Senior Analyst at comScore Mobile (formerly M:Metrics), where he oversaw comScore's products and services focused on mobile advertising and marketing.

Francisco Varela, Global Head of Platform, YouTube

Francisco leads YouTube's business development efforts with mobile and consumer electronics manufacturers, telecommunications carriers, game consoles and publishers, infrastructure providers and live streaming content providers. Francisco's team is responsible for YouTube's global partnerships with companies such as Vodafone, AEG, Samsung, Sony, Electronic Arts, Verizon, and DoCoMo. Prior to joining YouTube, Francisco held the position of Legal Director for mobile software company Openwave Systems in London. He also spent five years as International Counsel for Yahoo! Inc.

George Bell, CEO, Jumptap

Prior to Jumptap, George served as Managing Director of General Catalyst, CEO of Upromise, and Chairman and CEO of Excite@Home. Earlier George founded The Outdoor Life Network (now Versus Network), and served as SVP, Times Mirror Magazines. He won two Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and four national Emmy Awards as a documentary producer and writer. George is a graduate of Harvard College, earning a B.A. in English.

Gene Keenan, VP of Mobile, Isobar

In this role, Gene has won numerous Aegis Globe awards for his innovation and has been the recipient of industry awards including an MSNEMMY for his work on Adidas. Gene is on the board of the Mobile Marketing Association who also counts as board members these major brands: P&G, VISA, AOL, CBS, ESPN, FOX, Microsoft, and every major carrier in the USA.

Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson

Håkan has been Global Chief Technology Officer of Ericsson since 2003, as well as President of Ericsson Silicon Valley since 2010. Håkan's career at Ericsson started in 1986, spanning the research and later launch of GSM, the world's first global standard for second-generation mobile communications. Currently, Håkan is focusing on IP and the convergence of wireline and wireless technologies. Håkan has held a number of senior positions in Research and Development for Ericsson in Sweden and internationally.

Harry Wang, Director of Research, Parks Associates

Harry Wang studies the consumer electronics and entertainment service industries with a focus on portable CE hardware, software, and associated applications and services. He is also the lead analyst for Parks Associates' digital health research program. Harry has presented his research in numerous industry events. Harry has industry expertise in Digital Health Products and Services, Portable and Mobile Access Platforms and Applications, and Digital Imaging Products and Services

Holger Luedorf, VP Mobile, foursquare

Holger is VP of Mobile & International for foursquare. He has held positions in internet and mobile services since 1998. Before joining foursquare, Holger worked at Yahoo Mobile as a Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, responsible for all of Yahoo's strategic partnerships with global OEMs. Prior to Yahoo Mobile, Holger worked at T-Mobile International and Red Message. Holger holds a German Diplom in Business and Japanese from Hochschule Bremen and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

Isaac Babbs, SVP, Millennial Media

Isaac Babbs heads up business development on a global basis at Millennial Media. Previously he was a VP/GM at Qualcomm Services Labs, an internal incubator for commercializing and launching mobile services. Prior to Qualcomm, Babbs was founder, CEO of Tapatap, Inc., a leading mobile social games company which he sold in March 2009. He has held executive positions at InfoSpace, Sorrent (which became Glu Mobile), Macromedia, Silicon Graphics and HP.

Dr Jan Uddenfeldt, CTO, Sony Ericsson

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt is one of the inventors of GSM technology and mobile broadband 3G (HSPA) technology. In 2010, he assumed the role of global CTO at Sony Ericsson. He also heads up the Sony Ericsson Silicon Valley site in Redwood Shores, California. Prior to Sony Ericsson, Uddenfeldt was with Ericsson for over 30 years, holding positions as VP of Global R&D and CTO.

Jason Spero, Head of Mobile Americas, Google

Jason Spero leads Google's mobile advertising business in the Americas. He joined Google in May 2010 as part of the company's acquisition of AdMob where he was vice president and general manager of North America responsible for strategy and operations. Jason has more than eight years of experience in product, marketing and general management functions in mobile including an entrepreneur in residence position at Redpoint Ventures and leadership roles at Digital Chocolate and Openwave.

Jason Topel, VP, Pandigital

Jason has spent the past 22 years in Consumer Technology including nearly 10 years with Circuit City Stores, 6 years with NEC, and Director of Sales with Gateway Computer / Acer. For nearly 3 years Jason has been a key contributor to Pandigital including roles in Sales, Product Development, and Marketing. Pandigital is ranked #1 in Digital Photo Frames and #2 in eReaders and in July 2011 launched their line of AndroidTM Media Tablets.

Jeff Jordan, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Jeff is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he is responsible for managing portfolio companies and deal flow. He is the chairman of the board for OpenTable and serves on the boards of Airbnb, Booyah, LikeALittle, Wealthfront and Zoosk. Jeff was previously chief executive officer and president for OpenTable. Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was president of PayPal and senior vice president and general manager of eBay North America.

Jeff Smith, CEO, Smule

Jeff is the CEO and co-Founder of SonicMule, Inc., aka Smule. Smule is a leading developer of applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch including top ranking applications like Ocarina, I Am T-Pain and Glee. He's currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Music at Stanford University and co-founded and ran an email security software company which he took public on the Nasdaq and grew to $50M in sales before stepping down as CEO.

Jeff Thompson, CEO, Towerstream

In 1999, Jeffrey M. Thompson co-founded Towerstream, a leading wireless service provider utilizing 4G technology to deliver advanced, high-speed internet access to businesses. Since Towerstream became a public entity in 2007, Mr. Thompson has served as President, CEO, and Director. With expertise in wireless and mobile technologies, he has been a leader in building out the largest and fastest Wi-Fi network in Manhattan, while continuing to grow the core business of wireless internet access.

Jill Braff, EVP of Digital Commerce, HSN

Jill Braff was appointed Executive Vice President of Digital Commerce for HSN in February, 2011. In this role, she leads the ecommerce, digital marketing and merchandising teams, overseeing web, mobile, gaming, connected TV and social media platforms. Previously, she was CEO and President of Scrapblog; Senior Vice President of Global Publishing for Glu Mobile, and prior to that held marketing positions at Ancestry.com as well as Sega, Nintendo and other gaming companies.

Jim Eadie, SVP, MTV Networks

Jim Eadie is Senior Vice President of Digital Business Development for MTV Networks. In his role, Jim is responsible for mobile video distribution, as well as app distribution across mobile devices, tablets, PCs and gaming consoles. Jim also works with companies across the digital landscape - from established media properties to start-ups - to bring new business opportunities and capabilities to MTVN.

Jim Lanzone, President, CBS Interactive

Jim Lanzone is responsible for the strategy and operations of CBS Interactive worldwide, a division of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) and a top 10 global Internet property with over 250 million users per month. Prior to this, Jim was co-founder and CEO of Clicker.com, the leading Internet television guide. He is the former CEO of Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) and co-founder and president of eTour.com, a website discovery service.

John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc.

John became President and CEO of eBay Inc. in 2008. He has global responsibility for growing the company's core e-commerce and payments businesses, which include eBay and PayPal. In 2010, eBay's mobile gross merchandise volume was nearly $2 billion and this is expected to double in 2011. PayPal expects to almost triple mobile payment volume in 2011 to more than $3 billion. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for eBay Inc. and Intel Corp., John also serves President Barack Obama's White House Council for Community Solutions.

John Giere, SVP, Openwave

As SVP of products and marketing, John is responsible for growing the company's global market position, bringing carrier-grade solutions to service providers around the world as well as developing business with new and existing accounts. John has over 20 years of experience in management, marketing and business development. John currently serves on the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Executive Board.

John Loughlin, EVP and GM, Hearst Magazines

John leads the Hearst Group's digital businesses, consumer marketing, production and distribution, as well as strategy. He's also responsible for CDS Global and serves on the boards of Next Issue Media and Comag Marketing Group. John led Hearst's entry into the digital marketing services business with the acquisition in 2010 of iCrossing, the advertising industry's leading search and digital marketing agency. Recently he spearheaded the group's efforts in development of its e-edition and tablet strategy.

Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, All Things Digital

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts the annual D: All Things Digital conference and co-edits the AllThingsD.com Web site with Walt Mossberg. Both the annual event and the site are devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and the media. Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and, before that, wrote about technology for The Washington Post.

Keith Lee, CEO, Booyah

Keith is a veteran of the interactive entertainment industry with a proven track record of helping create best-selling video games, developing compelling experiences, and attracting broad audiences into the gaming space. Prior to founding Booyah, Keith was the Lead Producer for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III franchise. Before Blizzard, Keith's roles as the Project Manager and Lead Programmer for Insomniac Games helped propel the Ratchet & Clank series to surpass 10 million units sold.

Kevin Fitchard, Wireless Infrastructure Editor, Connected Planet

Kevin is an acknowledged expert in all things wireless and has covered the industry for more than a decade for Connected Planet, Telephony and Wireless Review.

Kevin Packingham, SVP, Samsung

Kevin is SVP of Product Innovation for Samsung Telecommunications America. Kevin is responsible for overseeing Samsung's carrier product management, product planning and concept creation departments. Kevin has over 14 years of experience within the telecom sector. Most recently, he held the role of CEO at Amerilink Telecom Corporation. Before that, Packingham worked for over 11 years at Sprint Nextel. During this time, he focused on project management, culminating with the position of SVP of product and technology.

Kevin Rose, CEO, Milk

Kevin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Milk, a mobile application development company in San Francisco. Previously Kevin was the Founder of Digg, and co-founder of Revision3 and Pownce (now Six Apart). Kevin was named a "Top 25 Angel Investors (#14)" by Bloomberg, "Top 25 Web Celebrities" by Forbes, "Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web" by Time and BusinessWeek magazines, and one of MITs "Top 35 Innovators under 35".

Kevin Shatzkamer, Chief Mobility Architect, Cisco

Kevin Shatzkamer is a Distinguished Architect at Cisco Systems with responsibility for long-term strategy and architectural intersections of mobility, cloud, and digital media. He has worked at Cisco and the mobile wireless industry for over 10 years, focusing on technology and business services architectures for 3rd- and 4th-generation mobile networks, impact of cloud technologies to mobile architecture, and delivery of digital media over mobile networks. Kevin holds 30 patents related to all areas of work.

Dr Kim Larsen, SVP Technology Economics, Deutsche Telekom

Dr. Kim Larsen has over 12 years experience in the telecommunication industry including international management roles within Deutsche Telekom. Over the last 10 years he has formulated Techno-Financial and Economical strategies to extract maximum value and synergies from the Technologies of the DT Group. Kim was the Technology lead on the T-Mobile UK and Orange UK joint venture. He was also responsible for the successful technology program

Kim-Mai Cutler, Inside Network

Kim-Mai is a technology and finance journalist, covering iOS and Android mobile app development and gaming for Inside Mobile Apps. The site is part of Inside Network news, research and data sites, which also include AppData, Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games. She previously covered consumer Internet startups for tech news site VentureBeat and credit and foreign exchange markets out of London and New York for Bloomberg. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe.

Kinsey Wilson, SVP and GM, NPR

Kinsey is responsible for all NPR's online operations including web and mobile product development. He shares responsibility for the online news, arts and music with the VP of NPR News and oversees efforts to assist NPR Member stations with online strategy. Under Kinsey's leadership, NPR.org has won several awards. With over 15 years of digital leadership experience, Wilson provides NPR with cutting edge strategic guidance and operation oversight during this period of rapid technological change.

Larry Weber, Chairman, Racepoint Group

Larry, an internationally renowned expert in PR and marketing, is passionate about the convergence of technology, the web and communications. He is the Chairman of Digital Influence Group, a full-service digital marketing agency, and Racepoint Group, a global public relations agency, A frequent speaker on the future of marketing and the social web, Larry's fourth book, Everywhere: Comprehensive Digital Business Strategy for the Social Media Era, was published by Wiley & Sons in March 2011.

Lixin Cheng, CEO, ZTE US

Lixin Cheng was appointed President of North America Region of ZTE Corporation and CEO of ZTE (USA), Inc. in 2010. Cheng has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with expertise in sales, marketing, R&D management, supply chain management, M&A, and executive management in joint ventures, start-ups and public companies. He has held key roles at Ericsson Panda Ltd, Ericsson Wireless Inc and Axesstel. He also founded technology consulting service ALA Group, Inc in 2006.

Lucy Hood, Executive Director, USC CTM

Lucy Hood, Head of USC's Institute of Communications Management Technology (CTM), is a highly respected industry expert in mobile strategy and innovator in digital content. USC's CTM Institute is a leading Institute at the intersection of technology and content. Prior to joining USC's Marshall School of Business, Hood was President of Fox Mobile Entertainment, and SVP of News Corporation, where she was widely known as an architect of corporate digital strategy.

Mahi de Silva, SVP, Opera

Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010. Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded Frengo Corporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team. Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.

Marc DeBevoise, SVP and GM, CBS Interactive

Marc DeBevoise oversees CBS Interactive's entertainment sites, including CBS.com, TV.com and Clicker.com, as well as digital content distribution strategies, and the development of both original and show-based digital content, applications and games. DeBevoise joined CBS Interactive from Starz, where he was responsible for Starz's overall digital strategy and digital initiatives supporting its film, television and digital original content properties. Prior to Starz, DeBevoise held various roles at NBC Universal, in both Digital Media and Business Development.

Marc Frons, CTO, New York Times Company

In this role Marc oversees technology and product development at NYTimes.com while continuing to be involved in broader digital strategy initiatives at the company. Under his leadership, NYTimes.com has launched several innovative new products and become a recognized leader among news and information Websites for its creative integration of technology and journalism. Previously Marc was VP & CTO at Dow Jones & Company, VP & GM at AOL Personal Finance and editor and CTO of SmartMoney.com.

Maribel Lopez, Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Maribel offers deep industry knowledge and expertise to provide research, analysis and strategic insight to the communications industry. For over 20 years, she has observed, commented on and engaged in the massive shifts in communications technologies. Prior to founding Lopez Research, Maribel was an analyst at Forrester Research, most recently as VP of the tech industry strategies group, providing analysis on multiple topics including network and service strategies, enterprise communications and consumer markets for voice, video and data.

Marios Zenios, Head of Uconnect, Chrysler

Zenios was appointed to Head of Chrysler Group's Uconnect Systems and Services Organization in June 2009. He is responsible for vehicle features related to connectivity and advanced technology. Chrysler is dedicated to the rapid deployment of innovative services for the interactive connected car focusing on predictive navigation; convenience; safety and security and infotainment features. Since joining Chrysler in 2008, Zenios has used his experience in wireless technology and advanced electronic features for Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles.

Mark Lowenstein, MD, Mobile Ecoystem

As Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein advised C-Level executives on corporate, product, market and industry strategy across the value chain of the wireless, communications and digital media industries. Lowenstein's consulting career began at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company's top-ranked global wireless practices. Most recently, Lowenstein was Vice President of Market Planning and Strategy at Verizon Wireless.

Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, Frog

Mark is the creative leader responsible for driving frog's global creative vision. He orchestrates teams of strategists, technologists, engineers and designers to produce ground-breaking work for Fortune 500 clients including Disney, HP and Microsoft. Mark founded frog's software design capability in 1994, working with clients to leverage emerging technologies transforming the product design field. Mentored by frog's founder, Hartmut Esslinger, Mark drove frog to grow beyond its industrial design roots into a company that thrives in the digital world.

Masaaki Maeda, President and CEO, DOCOMO USA

Masaaki Maeda is the President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO Inc, Japan's leading mobile company. In this role, he oversees DOCOMO's business development in the Americas and spearheads the development of US-Japan partnerships to promote a new generation of wireless products and services. Mr. Maeda holds engineering degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Matt Freeman, Chief Innovation Officer, McCann Erickson

Matt Joined McCann Erickson as Vice Chairman/Chief Innovation Officer in April 2011 where he reports directly to Nick Brien, CEO of McCann Worldgroup. Previously Matt was CEO of Mediabrands Ventures where he scaled the network's portfolio of digital and specialized businesses units such as Reprise Media (search/social), Cadreon (audience demand platform), Ansible (mobile marketing), Orion Trading (media barter), Geomentum (hyper-local) and The Emerging Media Lab. He has also served as CEO Betawave, an early stage digital media company and founder and CEO of OmnicomGroup's Tribal DDB worldwide.

Matt McMahon, VP Mobile, Fox Digital Entertainment

Matt focuses on the license and distribution of Fox films and television series on portable devices like tablets and smartphones. He's spearheaded over 30 apps around Fox properties, working with best-of-breed partners like Rovio, Smule, Chillingo, EA Mobile, Gameloft, and Disney Mobile, producing apps Angry Birds Rio, Tap Tap Glee, Avatar, Glee Karaoke, Predators, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and more.

Michael Halbherr, EVP, Nokia

Michael heads the Location and Commerce unit in Nokia, including NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of mapping assets. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, he held positions at the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the Internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault. In 2001, Michael became CEO of gate5 AG, a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services globally. In 2006, gate5 was acquired by Nokia.

Mike Putnam, Director of Mobile Product, TripAdvisor

Michael Putnam leads mobile product management for TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel community.  Since joining TripAdvisor, he has launched a mobile website and apps for iPhone, Android, Nokia, Palm and iPad.  Previously Michael founded Zeer, the leading online and mobile grocery information resource for consumers.  He started his career at Forrester Research, where he consulted to global firms on technology strategy and wrote award winning research on global eCommerce.

Milo Yiannopoulos, Technology Columnist, The Telegraph

Milo is a journalist and broadcaster who consults on marketing, public relations and communications strategy. He writes about technology, entrepreneurship, society, religion and celebrity culture in the US and Europe. He has extensively written for the Telegraph and was commissioning editor of that paper's Tech Start-Up 100. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Techcrunch, Director's Guild of America Quarterly, the 500 start-ups blog, Management today and the Catholic Herald.

Mohan Gyani, Industry Advisor

Mohan Gyani is a private investor and advisor. Formerly the CEO of AT&T Wireless Mobility Services, he was also CFO of AirTouch at the time of the merger with Vodafone, and subsequent jv with Bell Atlantic that resulted in the creation of Verizon Wireless. Mohan sits, or has sat, on the Boards of numerous companies including Keynote Systems, Mobile Telesystems OJSC, Safeway, SiRF Technologies, Union Bank, Audience, Handango, IDEA Cellular, Jasper Wireless, mFormation, RingCentral, Roamware, Ruckus Wireless, Tellme , CTIA and the GSM Association.

Nate Simmons, SVP Consumer Marketing, Time Inc

Nate oversees all consumer sales and marketing activities for the TIME, Sports Illustrated, Golf, Fortune and Money brands. He was previously VP, Consumer Marketing for the TIME and TIME for Kids, where he helped spearhead Time Inc.'s marketing strategy for selling digital content to consumers on e-readers and mobile devices and tablets. Nate has previously worked in the Strategy & Investments group at Time Warner and as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop Per Child

The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. Now he's the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, building computers for children in the developing world. An angel investor extraordinaire, he's funded more than 40 startups, and served on the boards of companies such as Motorola and Ambient Devices. He was an original investor in WIRED and wrote the 1995 best-selling book Being Digital.

Nick Sheth, Senior Director, Gap Inc

Nick Sheth is Senior Director, Global Business Development at Gap Inc, where he leads global online alliances, marketing, and mobile efforts for Gap Inc web properties. Previously, he led the sales and business development efforts for Like.com, and spent several years at Overture/Yahoo! where he held a variety of sales and business development positions. Nick has degrees in Molecular Biology and Business from the University of Texas at Austin.

Osama Bedier, Vice President Payments, Google

Osama is the VP of Payments at Google. He joined Google in January 2011 after seven years at PayPal and eBay. Most recently at PayPal, he was vice president of platform, mobile and new ventures. Earlier, he was responsible for PayPal's open global payments platform, as well as product development for all consumer- and merchant-facing products. Osama received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California.

Pankaj Kedia, Director UMG, Intel

Pankaj is director of business strategy for the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for defining and implementing new business strategies for the smartphone market segment. Previously, Pankaj led the launch of the Intel® Atom™ processor, which is the foundation for Intel's beyond-the-PC growth strategy, and played an instrumental role in accelerating the deployment of Notebook PCs in the industry by defining and implementing the company's mobile PC strategies and launching a range of products.

Paul Baldwin, CMO, Outfit7

Paul Baldwin has over 16 years of experience in developing, marketing and monetizing digital entertainment including building companies, driving customer acquisition, distribution strategies and leveraging content into new mediums. His background includes running Sales, Marketing and Licensing at Eidos where he launched and managed the Lara Croft Tomb Raider franchise. Now at Outfit7, he is leveraging his gaming, entertainment and mobile experience to fuel Outfit7's expansion beyond the app space into film, TV, publishing and merchandise.

Paul Marino, VP, Marvell

Paul E. Marino is vice president of the Communication Processors Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor Inc. He joined Marvell in 2011 to lead the wireless communications division. Prior to Marvell, Mr. Marino served as general manager of the Multimedia Applications Division at Freescale Semiconductor, vice president and general manager of Business Line Connectivity at NXP/Philips Semiconductors, and held various management positions at Motorola. Mr. Marino received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Polytechnic Bucharest, Romania.

Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media

Paul Palmieri, co-founder and CEO, has built Millennial Media into the independent leader in mobile advertising and data. He is also well known for his influential role in mobile entertainment and advertising, having led the mobile multimedia business for Verizon Wireless. His establishment of new and successful business models have been credited with playing a key role in the birth of the now thriving app economy and mobile display advertising market.

Pete Distad, VP Distribution, Hulu

Pete Distad is Vice President of Marketing and Distribution for Hulu where he leads Hulu's efforts in content distribution, customer acquisition and retention, and business development globally. Before Hulu, Pete was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Vice President of consulting services for Calence (now Insight), and a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Pete graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin where he earned his bachelor of business administration in management information systems.

Peter Yared, Chief Technology Officer, CBS Interactive

Peter Yared is responsible for CBS Interactive's central technology including ad serving, data warehouse, data centers and content management. Yared joins CBS Interactive from Webtrends where he served as the General Manager of the Social product line, and came to Webtrends via the acquisition of his social marketing platform startup Transpond. Yared was the founder and CEO of four e-commerce and marketing infrastructure companies, which were respectively acquired by Sun, VMware, Webtrends and TigerLogic.

Quinton Alsbury, President and Co-founder, MeLLmo

Quinton leads MeLLmo's product design and marketing teams, focusing primarily on the user experience, functionality and art design of MeLLmo's software. Prior to MeLLmo, Quinton was co-founder of Business Intelligence Studios, a consultancy focused on data visualization and business intelligence dashboard creation. Quinton has more than 12 years of design experience, including publishing, advertising, interactive media, web design, software, and data visualization, during which he founded and led three companies.

Raimo van der Klein, CEO, Layar

Raimo started his career in marketing and purchase positions for the largest non-food retailer(Maxeda) in the Netherlands. He moved to mobile 8 years ago, starting in product marketing at Nokia Networks, later moving into sales and marketing at Nokia Mobile Phones. Raimo has also worked at KPN as an Innovation Manager focusing on UGC, mobile social networks and presence messaging. Raimo is currently CEO of SPRXmobile and also founded Mobile Monday Amsterdam.

Raja Doddala, Senior Director, 7-Eleven

Raja Doddala leads 7-Eleven, Inc.'s merchandising team responsible for pre-paid wireless, payments, social gaming and financial services for the company's North American operations. Prior to 7-Eleven, Raja was a management consultant for 7 years. Raja earned his engineering degree from Nagarjuna University in India and M.B.A from SMU Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas. The 37-yr-old enjoys endurance cycling and lives with his wife and two children the Dallas area.

Raj Singh, Founder and CEO, Fifo Inc.

Raj Singh is the Founder and CEO of Fifo Inc focused on enterprise mobility. Fifo was spun-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) where Raj served as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence). Previously, Raj was the founding Vice President of Business Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports full Flash rendering. Prior to Skyfire, Raj co-founded venture-funded Veeker, NBC's mobile video citizen journalism service and ToneThis, CNET's top downloaded ringtone creation product.

Richard Karpinski, Editor-in-Chief, Connected Planet

Rich Karpinski is long-time telecom journalist and currently editor-in-chief of Connected Planet, which provides in-depth news and analysis of the global service provider industry, including comprehensive coverage of 4G infrastructure, mobile apps and services and more. Connected Planet can be found at connectedplanetonline.com.

Riz Virk, CEO, Gameview Studios

Riz possesses extensive experience as an entrepreneur, technologist, author, angel investor, and indie film producer. His areas of experience include social and mobile games, online publishing and advertising, venture capital, focussing on innovative, early stage organizations. In addition, Riz has been an angel investor in many gaming/social/mobile companies, including Tapjoy, Apsalar, Pocket Gems, Telltale games, Funzio, Assured Labor, and others. Gameview's mobile games have been used by over 30 million iphone and android users.

Rob Glaser, Venture Partner, Accel Ventures

Rob Glaser has been active in the software industry as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor for nearly 30 years. At Accel Partners he focuses on digital media technology, social media, and mobile services. Rob is currently Chairman of RealNetworks, which he founded in 1994. Prior to founding RealNetworks, Rob worked for Microsoft for 10 years in a number of executive positions, including Vice President of Multimedia and Consumer Systems.

Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director, FT.com

Rob was appointed MD of FT.com in June 2008. As the FT board representative for FT.com he is responsible for the website's commercial performance and overall strategy. Prior to this, he was a member of the FT.com Executive leadership team and was Advertising Strategy and Global Online Director. Since 1998, Grimshaw has held a series of commercial roles within the business, including Head of Global Key Accounts & Clients Sales and Head of Global Advertising Strategy & Operations.

Robert Khedouri, Software and Solutions VP, SanDisk

Robert Khedouri serves as General Manager and Vice President of the Software and Solutions Division at SanDisk Corporation. Robert joined SanDisk in 2008 after SanDisk acquired his former company MusicGremlin, Inc. Robert holds a B.S.E from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Robert Scoble, Author, Scobleizer

Robert Scoble has been building online communities since 1985. In 2000 he started his technology blog http://scobleizer.com. In 2003-2006 he worked at Microsoft as an evangelist and one of the five guys who started Microsoft's famous Channel9 video community. Robert is now working at Rackspace to build a new community of people fanatical about tech startups called building43 at http://www.building43.com. The best place to watch him is on Twitter @Scobleizer and his blog.

Rod Hall, Senior Analyst, JP Morgan

Rod is JP Morgan's Senior Analyst in charge of handsets, data networking, and telecoms infrastructure. Prior to that Rod was a Director on Dresdner Kleinwort's #1 ranked telecoms services team. Rod spent 8 years working for AT&T in the 1990s prior to his investment banking career.

Ron Hirson, Co-founder and SVP, Boku

Ron is the co-founder and SVP of Marketing & Business Development at Boku and brings over fifteen years experience in product and general management in the consumer Internet space to the BOKU team. Most recently, Ron served as VP of Product at AT&T Interactive, which he joined through the acquisition of Ingenio. Prior to Ingenio, Ron was co-founder and CEO of The Digs Network, an early social network which was acquired by iDrive.

Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO, LightSquared

LightSquared is building a wholesale-only open wireless broadband network which will unleash the full power of the mobile Internet, driving innovation in devices, applications, and services. Prior to LightSquared Sanjiv founded Augere, a company delivering affordable, genuine wireless broadband to underserved customers in developing markets. From 2004 until 2007, Sanjiv was CEO of Orange and during his leadership, the Orange customer base grew from 48 million subscribers to more than 100 million subscribers globally.

Sam Altman, CEO, Loopt

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of Loopt, a company that builds mobile applications to help people enjoy the friends, places, and events around them, helping to make serendipity happen. Since founding the company in 2005 while studying computer science at Stanford University, Sam has consistently been recognized for his entrepreneurship. He was featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, BusinessWeek's Tech's Best Entrepreneurs, and others.

Scott Devitt, Consumer Internet Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Scott Devitt is an Executive Director covering the Internet sector for Morgan Stanley. Scott has been following disruptive businesses for 15 years. In 2011, Scott was recognized by Institutional Investor magazine's "All-America Research Team" survey as the #3 ranked Internet Analyst. Scott has been ranked five times as a top stock picker in StarMine's annual survey. Scott's coverage includes Amazon.com, eBay, HomeAway, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pandora Media, Priceline.com, and Google, among others.

Scott Moore, VP/CMO, Best Buy Mobile

Scott is Vice President, CMO for Best Buy Mobile, a joint venture between Best Buy Co, Inc and The CarPhone Warehouse. He is responsible for customer strategy, consumer and retail Marketing, and Best Buy Mobile's accessories business. Prior to this, he held leadership positions with Best Buy Advertising, Hunt Adkins, and Fallon Worldwide.

Srinivas Krishnamurti, Director of Mobile Solutions, VMware

Srinivas is responsible for defining and driving VMware's product and go to market strategy for mobile phones and emerging devices. Previously, as part of the emerging markets group, he led VMware's Linux Strategy and was responsible for launching VMware Fusion into the consumer market. Prior to that, he led the product management team for VMware's developer products.

Scott Jenson, Creative Director, Frog Design

Scott has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for 20 years. He was the first member of the System Software Human Interface group at Apple in the late 80s, working on System 7 and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. After Apple, Scott was a freelance design consultant, doing work for Netscape, Mayo Clinic, American Express, and several startups. He was director of product design for Symbian and managed Mobile UI design at Google for 4 years.

Shawn Barber, Head of Cloud Services, Acision

As Head of Cloud Services, Shawn Barber oversees the strategic direction for Acision's Cloud Services Delivery Model. Shawn has 12 years experience working in the International telecommunications industry. Prior to being Head of Cloud Services, he held the role of Director of Product Management with responsibility for the strategic direction of Acision's Voice Messaging Services. Before joining Acision Shawn worked for Mobile Streams Inc, Cisco Systems and CMG Telecommunications.

Stephen Bye, CTO, Sprint

Stephen Bye, CTO and Vice President of Technology Development & Strategy, is responsible for driving Sprint's technology strategy, architecture and global standards; innovation center and labs; emerging business and service model development. Prior to joining Sprint, Bye was vice president of Wireless at Cox Communications. He has also held executive positions with AT&T, inCode Wireless, BellSouth International, Optus Communications and Telstra.

Simon Khalaf, CEO, Flurry

Flurry is a leading data-driven mobile app advertising platform and analytics provider, used by over 50,000 companies across more than 110,000 apps. At Flurry, Simon is responsible for the company's day-to-day operations. He has been an entrepreneurial executive for over 20 years, having built numerous consumer, media and enterprise solutions that have generated over $800 million in M&A and IPO transactions. Prior to Flurry, Simon held senior executive positions at JustOn, Novell, Vernier, Volera and Worldtalk.

Steve Boom, President, Loopt

Steve oversees Loopt's business, product development and operations. Most recently, Steve was CEO of mig33, one of the world's largest mobile communities (+30 million users). Prior to mig33, Steve was at Yahoo for 10 years, serving as senior vice president for Yahoo!'s mobile business globally.

Steven Goh, CEO, mig 33

Steven is well experienced in developing and delivering successful Internet services for consumers, having first founded Australia's first online stock brokerage company Sanford Securities Limited, prior to co-founding mig33. Steven is recognized as an authority on contemporary IT issues, with extensive private and public board experience, has served as a keynote speaker and panelists conferences throughout U.S. Australia and Asia. Steven received both a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from the University of Western Australia.

Stewart Putney, CEO, Moblyng

Stewart Putney is the founder and CEO of Moblyng, the leading developer and publisher of HTML5-based games for web and mobile devices. Prior to Moblyng, Stewart co-founded iPlayMusic, an internationally distributed line of music creation and education software. Before co-founding iPlayMusic Stewart was a Business Manager at Knight-Ridder Digital launching and managing their local shopping and coupon product lines. He also has management experience with Electronic Arts, FusionOne and Pointcast.

Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, FierceWireless

Sue has been editor-in-chief of FierceMarkets wireless group since joining the company in January 2007. In her current position, she oversees the editorial content of several FierceMarkets' newsletters including FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, FierceDeveloper, FierceWireless:Europe and FierceBroadbandWireless and provides editorial guidance for the publications' websites, webinars and live events. Sue has more than 18 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the executive editor of Wireless Week.

Suli Ali, CEO and Co-Founder, TinyCo

Suli is co-founder and CEO of TinyCo, a San Francisco-based mobile gaming company that has launched five top-grossing iOS titles including Tiny Zoo, Tiny Chef and Tap Resort. Previously, Suli founded social applications start-up Esgut which was acquired by SGN in 2008. Prior to Esgut, Suli worked at Microsoft as an engineer in the Windows division and as a PM on the Windows Home Server product for 3.5 years. Suli studied Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

Susie Wee, VP, Cisco

Susie Wee is the Vice President Collaboration and Communication at Cisco Systems. She drives innovation and experience design in Cisco's collaboration products and software services. Susie has received numerous awards including Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators award and the INCITs Technical Excellence award. She is an IEEE Fellow with over 50 publications and 40 patents attributed to her. Susie received her graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Terry Hughes, MD, AppCarousel

Terry has been in the wireless industry for over 25 years, including 7 years at Vodafone Europe, 2 years at a San Francisco-based dot-com, and several years in mobile start-ups. In 2010 Terry's company Widality was acquired by Wmode, and Terry became Head of Market Development at Wmode. In Q3 of 2011 Wmode formed a new business unit – AppCarousel, based in the San Francisco Bay Area – and Terry is now Managing Director of AppCarousel.

Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Tim is a proven venture investor and experienced global executive. Tim invests in the mobile, gaming, digital media and enterprise applications sectors and co-leads Mayfield Fund's investment practice in China. Some of Tim's notable investments in the U.S. include ngmoco (acquired by DeNA), Playdom (acquired by Disney), leaders in mobile and social gaming, and Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm). Prior to joining Mayfield Fund, Tim spent five years as a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners.

Suli Ali, Co-founder and CEO, TinyCo

Suli is co-founder and CEO of TinyCo, a San Francisco-based mobile gaming company that has launched five top-grossing iOS titles including Tiny Zoo, Tiny Chef and Tap Resort. Previously, Suli founded social applications start-up Esgut which was acquired by SGN in 2008. Prior to Esgut, Suli worked at Microsoft as an engineer in the Windows division and as a PM on the Windows Home Server product for 3.5 years. Suli studied Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

Todd Haskell, VP Advertising, New York Times

Todd is responsible for all advertising revenue on NYTimes.com, the leading newspaper site on the web, reaching 45+ million unique readers each month (ComScore). Additionally, Todd is also responsible for cross-platform sales (print, online and mobile) for several large categories at The Times, including American fashion, international fashion, fashion & jewelry stores, department stores and The Times's sales offices in Europe and Asia.

Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora Radio

Tom Conrad leads the Pandora product organization, which includes product management, user interface design, software development, and network operations. Before joining Pandora, Tom was the Vice President of Engineering at Kenamea Inc. where he led the teams responsible for the design and development of an award-winning Internet -scale messaging system. Tom began his career at Apple Computer developing user interface elements for the Mac OS.

Trip Adler, CEO and Co-Founder, Scribd

Trip is the product visionary behind Scribd, and its newest digital reading service Float. He started Scribd after realizing the difficulty for everyday people to publish written works to the web and find a readership. Today, he envisions Float becoming the platform for readers everywhere and transforming the ways in which people share and discover information and ideas. Trip graduated from Harvard University in 2006 with a biophysics degree and regrets not dropping out to start Scribd earlier.

Vivek Arya, VP, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Vivek Arya, Ph.D., is Director and Senior Semiconductors Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch based on New York. He has been with BofA Merrill Lynch since 2004 covering the semiconductors, smartphone, wireless, optical networking, and cable video equipment markets. He was recognized among the top analysts in his sector in 2009 and 2010 by Forbes, and recognized in the Best of Street survey by the Wall Street Journal in 2009.

Yukari Iwatani Kane, Senior Reporter, Wall Street Journal

Yukari Iwatani Kane is a San Francisco-based staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who has covered the technology industry for nearly 15 years including a stint as a correspondent in Tokyo. Most recently, she has been following Apple and its related industries , but she has also written about videogames, consumer electronics, and telecommunications in the past. She was named a co-finalist in the 2011 Gerald Loeb Awards for her contribution to the Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" series on online privacy.

Amanda Whaley, Cisco

Amanda has been involved with application solution development for 15 years. An early adopter and innovator in the field of mobile application development, Amanda understands what it takes to create great productivity and business transformation solutions for the enterprise and how to best monetize them. She taught computer science at college level for several years, and is now director of support services for the Cius Developer Program, supporting IT Pro's, System Integrators, ISV's and third party developers.

Bob Morgan, SVP, Evri Inc.

Bob leads marketing and BD at Evri (@evri), the leading topic-based news discovery platform. In this role, Bob is responsible for driving user growth and strategic partnerships for the company's numerous news apps including Evri for iPad, SportStream Football and EvriThing Tech. Bob has been producing consumer mobile apps for over 11 years including some of the earliest and best-known mobile instant messaging, photo sharing and social apps. Previously, he served as GM of ShoZu and VP, Business Development for Ofoto/Kodak Gallery.

Chris LaSala, Director of Mobile Partnerships, Google.

With a decade of experience Chris LaSala is a seasoned veteran in the digital media space. Chris currently heads Google's mobile publisher business development efforts where he works with established media brands as well as the emerging mobile application developer community. Prior to this role, Chris held roles leading a channel program aimed at delivering Google's advertising solutions to local business and leading Google's North American advertising agency strategy.

Demian Perry, Senior Product Manager, NPR

Demian is the lead mobile strategist for NPR and has managed product development for a number of media companies, including a start-up, The Washington Post, and Yahoo! Currently, he manages The NPR News iPhone app (which won the Best App Ever award at MacWorld), the NPR News Android app (#5 news app in the Android Marketplace), NPR's mobile website (which won the 2009 Webby for best mobile news site), the NPR iPad app and NPR Music iPhone app.

Dhana Pawar, Director Mobile Product, Coupons.com

Along with being the Director of Mobile Product Management at Coupons.com, Dhana is a veteran mobile executive with over 10 years experience spanning product management, marketing and strategy. She has entrepreneurial experience from founding and running venture-backed mobile startups. Dhana is extremely well connected with the developer community, having most recently organized the Hackathon at Facebook and the Android Technovation Challenge at Google. Ms Pawar is also a sought after speaker and judge at leading industry events.

Karen Neuman, Partner, St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson, LLP

Karen is a founding partner of St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson, LLP and heads its Privacy practice. With over two decades of experience in diverse markets of the communications industry, including digital media, Karen combines strong legal skills with a broad strategic vision to provide "value added" counsel to both new entrants and established entities. She is a frequent speaker on trends in privacy law and the founder, editor of and a regular contributor to the SLRNO Privacy & Information Law Update.

Leslie Grandy, VP, Gerson Lehrman Group

Leslie Grandy serves as Vice President, Product for Gerson Lehrman Group, which manages the world's largest membership-based marketplace for business expertise. Prior to her role at GLG, Grandy was the Chief Marketing Officer for R2Integrated, a digital marketing and technology firm. Previously, Ms. Grandy was the Vice President of Product Development at T-Mobile, where she led the launch of T-Mobile G1 and the company's iconic Sidekick devices. Prior to T-Mobile, she was Apple's Online Store Director for the Americas.

Mike Rowehl, 16th level hacker, Churn Labs

Orr Orenstein, CTO, Mobile Theory

Orr is a mobile industry veteran with more than 12 years experience at all ends of the ecosystem. He is a well known industry advocate and specializes in the niche segment of mobile monetization, primarily through advertising. Orr is presently CTO at Mobile Theory where he continues to define and drive optimizations of industry best practices to partners, advertisers, agencies, publishers, technology companies, and his own clients.

Patrick Chung, Managing Director, SK Telecom

Patrick is a founding Managing Director of SK telecom ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital fund with $100m under management. SKTVC seeks financial returns on investments through funding companies that can leverage SK telecom. Patrick focuses on early stage investments in internet, mobile, and digital media companies. Patrick worked as a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as well as business development for Dialpad Communications (acquired by Yahoo), before joining SK telecom ventures.

Peter Farago, VP, Flurry

Peter leads marketing at Flurry, which powers app acquisition, analytics and monetization across more than 120,000 apps. Prior to Flurry, Peter led worldwide product marketing for mobile game maker, Digital Chocolate. He joined Digital Chocolate from Electronic Arts, where he led product management for The Sims franchise, the #1 PC game of all-time.

Rob Coneybeer, Co-founder, Shasta Ventures

Rob is a co-founder and managing director of Shasta Ventures, a venture capital firm which focuses on building early-stage companies. Rob is particularly interested in investment opportunities in Mobile & Wireless, Technology Applications, and Infrastructure. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, he was a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) where he led 15 investments in core infrastructure technologies spanning semiconductors, software and networking equipment.

Scott Lahman, CEO, Gogii

Scott is the Founder and CEO of GOGII, whose flagship product textPlus has been downloaded 25 million times. Before GOGII, Scott was Co-founder and President of JAMDAT Mobile, which had a successful IPO in 2004 and sold to Electronic Arts for $680 million. Previously he held roles at Activision including VP Studios, where he ran Activision's largest internal studio. His career began in film and television, most notably as a development executive for Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions.