Thursday, August 7, 2008

Digital Hollywood Building Blocks Conference, San Jose

Just back from a fab conference in San Jose, Jointly Produced by Digital Hollywood, Inc. and the CEA Consumer Electronics Association
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/BuildingBlocks.html

LOVE to hear your thoughts about how technology & social networks have changed YOUR place of business and career.




Please read on then give us your thoughts:




Some of the dynamic and exciting panel discussions included

The Platforms that Tranform the Industry

Investment & Change: Media, Entertainment & Technology

The New Hollywood – Silicon Valley Investment Equation – Content Owners, New Platforms, VCs, Agents & Commerce

Three Days of energetic sessions in a great Open Dialog, active audience participation format!

Hold on to your hats, the talent that is focusing on business in the Cloud and in bringing Silicon Valley and Hollywood together, what the new media mogels call Siliwood, is smokin!

Many of the speakers and attendees seemed out of college less than ten years and they're holding the Keys to the Kingdom of their careers and possibly YOUR next job. These New media professional career commandos are not dependent on jobs or their corporation for their identity. They're busy building their own Brand with their work, their Facebook pages and Linked In networks and with their ferocious dedication to their current teams projects.

They Text, Twitter, widget and gadget seemingly 24-7. Silicon Valley, the place where someone managing a $3 billion venture fund is "just getting started"!

Yikes!!

Look out slow pokes, get yourself back in school and go make some Freshman friends to stay up to date on the latest in Social Networks, staying in touch and the coolest toys and business tools.

Illustrious executives and speakers included:

Alex Barkaloff, Executive Producer, Digital Media, LIONSGATE
Derek Norton, founder and Managing Partner, Watertower Group
Heather Gates-Massoudi, Director, Deloitte Services LP
Buno Pati, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sezmi
Jessica Algazi, Senior Vice President, HighView Media
Mark J. Kapczynski, Chief Operating Officer, Kontrol Media, Moderator

The Mobile 2.0 - Personalized Consumer Platform
The Mobile Platform 2.0: Establishing the Personalized Video, Music, and Communications Experience

Elgin Kim, Head of Business Development, West, Nokia Interactive Advertising
Shawn Molodow, Director Business Development, Content & Internet Services, Xohm, WiMAX from Sprint
Jeff Finkelstein, Senior Manager, Multimedia, Palm, Inc.
Greg Woock, co-founder and CEO, Pinger
Michael Dimelow, Director of Marketing, Media Processing Division, ARM
John Fogarty, Vice President of Mobile, Napster
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic, Moderator

The Television - Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Content
Television without Boundaries: Cable, Telco, Satellite, Broadband & Mobile Define the Future of Entertainment and Communications

John Penney, Head of Global Strategy, IMG Global Media
Sean Atkins, SVP, Digital Media, HBO
Stuart McKechnie, Director Strategic Marketing, Zoran
Peter Hoskins, CEO, maniaTV
Michael Kernan, Chief Executive Officer, NuMedia Studios (former executive ICM)
Mitch Oscar, EVP Televisual Applications, MPG
Shahid Khan, Partner, Interactive Broadband Consulting, LLC, Moderator

Embracing the Personalized Consumer - Entertainment, Technology and Commerce – Making the Transition to the AlwaysOn Home

Great Conference, Thanks Consumer Electronics and Digital Hollywood for a great conference and tons of new Linked in friends!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i have an all out prohibition on 'social networks.'

i think the proliferation of such systems does not speak well for humanity... life more and more seems to be lived in virtual worlds, which are 'safer,' more predictable, etc. it's very often the case that the real person behind a facebook profile or a myspace profile, is something MUCH different than what is being presented.

then again, i have enjoyed flipping through certain profiles from time to time but would rather see them not used in the business world, where i prefer real face-to-face exchanges.

Mike Dever said...

I was a speaker at the Building Blocks conference and am convinced that social networks will only continue to increase and improve people's ability to both connect with others and "get their job done."

My company, www.YouChoose.net, enables people to connect with others to take action on issues they are passionate about. It is the social networking aspect of it that makes it all possible. We connect people who otherwise would not have been able to even find each other, let alone join in a cause.

Our next stage is "Distributed Social Networking," (see www.DistributedSocialNetworking.com), which enables people to connect with others across multiple social networks. This multiplies their reach and effectiveness.

Mike Dever