Dale is a thought leader on the future of media consumption in an interactive and “many-screen” world of increasingly rich media interfaces. 

With an extensive background in Broadcast Design and branding, he was creative director of on-air design and branding for the three CBS Sports Winter Olympics broadcasts in the 1990s. Having his roots in the rich media approach to design in TV and film, he has pioneered a unique spatial approach to designing navigation systems for Interactive TV and connected screens. The work begins to blur the line between television, games and web, a concept he calls "New Television."

Dale was a part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces that first appeared in the film Minority Report, and is now leading development work in the rapidly emerging world of gestural navigation for screens at a distance. Screens have always defined unique spaces, and, particularly with advancements in stereo 3D projection and advanced AR, information can occupy these spaces. Spatial context is becoming increasingly important in design that is no longer flat: space and place are the new frontiers of design. 

Dale has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where in 1981 he taught the first course in Motion Graphics offered to designers in the United States. He served on the founding advisory board of the digital content direction at the American Film Institute, and was an active participant in the development of advanced prototypes for Enhanced TV at AFI for many years. Dale received one of the first ITVT Interactive TV Leadership Awards and has won four Emmy awards.

Dale was co-founder of interactive agency Schematic, which recently merged with three other agencies to become global powerhouse Possible Worldwide where he currently serves as Chief Interaction Officer. 

Marcelino Ford-Livene has a wide range of business, operational and creative experience in the interactive and traditional media industries.

He is the General Manager of Interactive Content and Advanced Advertising Development for Intel’s Digital Home Group. In this capacity, he leads a team charged with developing new interactive content and advertising technology on Intel’s connected CE platforms. Prior to Intel, he was a senior member of TV Guide’s development and planning team. He has also held senior positions with the FCC. He served as Special Counsel for New Media Policy and as Senior Counsel and Director of Media Strategic Analysis for the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning. He is a former Vice President of NetNoir, Inc., served as Director of Business Development for iBlast, and worked as an Associate with Hill, Farrer & Burrill in Los Angeles. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Television Academy, Ford-Livene is the Division Chairman of the Interactive Media Division for the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. He also sits on the Board of LA36. He holds a B.A. in Economics from UC San Diego, a JD/MBA from the University of Illinois and has completed an Executive MBA Leadership Program at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Michel is responsible for the leading innovation of the broadcasters, including “future proofings”, its TV, radio and digital activities.

Michel, previously with McKinsey&Company, Director of Grey Interactive, and formerly a private entrepreneur, joined Netherlands Public Broadcasting in 2001. He is responsible for developing and implementing its online strategy, including the country's prime content portal Omroep.nl and its largest VOD service Uitzendinggemist.nl, serving 9 million video streams monthly to the Dutch audience.

Most recently he constructed a deal to launch 17 thematic channels with the country’s cable platforms.

Michel Mol: “We need to make many larger and smaller adjustments in strategy and execution: from moving our VOD offering from the web to TV sets in the living room, adding interactivity to TV, launching mobile channels and enriching radio with visual images, to a renegotiation of our rights policies and overall creating sustainable models with industry partners throughout the value chain."

Invited Scientist, Electrical Engineering Computer Science, MIT (Massachussets)

Marie-José Montpetit is an invited scientist in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT focusing on video convergence.

She is also a collaborator at the MIT Communications Futures Program where her work on Social TV has received a lot of attention.
 
Her current work is on how TV is mobile, social and IP based and involves multiscreens and both seamless and collaborative experiences. This work involves novel approaches to networking in heterogeneous ecosystems, software platforms and collaborative user interfaces.
 
In 2007-2008 Dr. Montpetit was an invited scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory where she is still involved in a class on converged video applications. Dr. Montpetit received a Ph.D. in EECS from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.  She is a member of the IEEE Standing Committee on DSP and a collaborator to the ETSI BSM working group on aspects of convergence. She was the recipient of the Motorola Innovation Prize in 2007 for the development of a multi-screen and multi-network video mobility system. Her work on converged video applications and multi-screen IPTV has gotten her many invited papers and keynote presentations.
 
She is a reviewer for the European Union for proposal and projects in the wireless networking and future Internet fields as well as the editor of many journals and publications and has served on numerous conference program committees. Dr. Montpetit is a Senior Member of the IEEE. 
 

Adrian Sexton is the Co-Founder and former CEO of New Medici LLC, a media strategy + lifestyle innovation network.

He recently joined Dynamics Inc as their Chief Developer Officer, in charge of the company's content and brand ecosystem; working with major studios; talent agencies; charities; gaming companies and online/offline retailers. 

As former digital head of two media companies, Lionsgate and Participant Media, and co-founding partner of TAG Strategic consultancy, Sexton brings a hybrid background in operational digital strategy, product development, social and viral marketing and distribution.

Before New Medici, Sexton was Executive Vice President, running digital at Participant Media. He was responsible for managing the company’s expansion into global media, digital distribution and marketing. He architected TakePart.com, a social marketing and entertainment portal. Traffic across the site and acquired sites grew 1000% year over year during Sexton’s tenure. Sexton recently worked on such Participant films as Food Inc., The Soloist, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Kite Runner, and the Academy Award®-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Sexton came to Participant from TAG Strategic, a digital media and entertainment agency he co-founded with EMI veteran Ted Cohen. TAG’s diverse client roster has included Qualcomm, Sandisk, Participant, Eyespot, Lionsgate, LimeWire and LivePlanet.

Before forming TAG, Sexton headed Digital Media as Vice President at Lionsgate, where he oversaw the day-to-day operations, production, media planning and business development for digital and mobile properties. His duties encompassed theatrical, home entertainment, television, international and physical studios. He oversaw the digital campaigns for such movies as Best Picture Academy Award®-winning Crash, Monster’s Ball, Fahrenheit 9/11, and the SAW and Tyler Perry franchises; as well as digital cinema initiatives with BMW Films and Microsoft.

Sexton identified multiple-platform marketing, distribution and sales opportunities for the studio’s 8000+ title film library in such high-growth markets as broadband, mobile, digital cinema, peer-to-peer and IPTV. Lionsgate’s market capitalization rose from $60 million to $1.2 billion during Sexton’s tenure; and, he was part of the team which secured the $350 million credit facility to acquire Artisan Entertainment.

Prior to Lionsgate, Sexton was the New Media Director at Mediapact Capital, a $500M media management and investment capital firm which took over management of Lionsgate. His professional experience also includes work in television at Sony Pictures Entertainment, production and development at HBO Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Saban Entertainment.

A frequent media presenter, Sexton delivered a media and entertainment keynote at the 2009 X Media Lab in Auckland, the studio keynote at the Opening Forum of the 60th Anniversary of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, as well as keynotes at the 2007 Digital Hollywood, 2006 Intel Viiv launch in Tokyo and 2006 Forrester conference in São Paulo. In addition, New Medici won the 2009 British Airways/Harvard Business Review Face of Opportunity award.

Sexton has served as an arts advisory member of non-profits American Democracy Institute, Games For Change and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Additionally, he is on the Interactive Media Peer Group Awards Committee for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and a New Media Council member of the Producers Guild of America.

Damien Marchi is an Emmy Award winning multi-platform specialist with over ten years experience in digital media, broadcast media and branded entertainment.

As Vice-President, Production Damien oversees all FremantleMedia's FMX digital media productions in the UK and the US, turning ideas into tangible projects and managing teams of producers. In parallel, Damien is also in charge of running the digital media network within FremantleMedia at a European level.

Damien’s interest in cross-media began with the genre itself. At the time the world was discovering Reality TV, Damien was behind the scene in Great Britain, France and Sweden creating and managing the interactive adaptions of some of those most talked-about shows (Big Brother, Star Academy, Cruel Summer, The Bar...).

Keen to continue investigating viewers’ involvement through interactivity, Damien then moved on to consult and work with producers on other genres (talk shows, factual entertainment, game shows, drama...) to adapt those shows to the online world and even develop and produce new original concepts adapted to a three-screen consumption.

Before moving to London, Damien was Branded Entertainment Executive Producer for the Havas advertising group in Paris where he worked on the 360 degrees strategies of consumer brands such as Air France, L’Oreal and Orange.

Since January 2008, Damien moved to London to join FMX, FremantleMedia’s global digital media division where are developed and managed non-linear entertainment formats.

With headquarters in London, FremantleMedia is one of the largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, with leading prime time drama, serial drama, entertainment and factual entertainment programming in over 40 territories. The production operation comprises some of the most recognized and creative labels from around the world including UFA, Blu, talkbackTHAMES, Grundy. Their programmes include American Idol, Neighbours, The Apprentice, The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, The Price is Right, Farmer Wants a Wife, The IT Crowd...

Meg Pickard is the Head of Social Media Development for Guardian News & Media, responsible for developing and supporting existing and new social web strategy and interactive experiences.

She comes from a background in social anthropology and in the mid-nineties conducted ethnographic fieldwork into community participation and cultural identity first in Bolivia and subsequently online. Since then, she has worked in New Media including a long stint at AOL, plus consulting roles with a range of small startups, global brands and charities.

Meg’s particular areas of interest are community engagement and the emergence of new forms of collaborative and participatory media, which are inspired by her ongoing curiosity about the cultural, social and psychological aspects of online interaction plus an enduring personal passion for publishing and participating online. She describes herself as a creative geek, is one of the longest-running bloggers in the UK and lives in London and online.

Based in Canberra, Chris Winter worked until August 2012 for the ABC’s Innovation Division.

Current interests include the collection sector (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), relationship management and communications, high speed networks, and the potential of ICT for the development of progressive outcomes for education, health, media and entertainment, and industry generally.

Chris has a long background in web and mobile projects, digital and interactive TV, technology marketing and radio, managed the ABC’s first digital-only TV channel ABC2 for its first two and a half years, was in 2004 the joint recipient of an Australian Recording Industry Association Award for Best Music DVD for his production work on Midnight Oil’s Best of Both Worlds and was presented with the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association’s 2007 Outstanding Contribution Award.

He is also a member of the Music Council of Australia and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences; has contributed to the annual conferences of the Screen Producers Association of Australia since 1999 and been an XMediaLab participant since they began in 2003.

He is on the board of the NSW screen development body Metro Screen, and is a member of the Australian Government’s IT Industry Innovation Council, the Queensland Government’s ICT Ministerial Advisory Group, and the advisory committee of the Federal Enterprise Connect’s Creative Industries Innovation Centre. 

He is asked regularly to speak at conferences including some dozen events in Australia in the media and collection sectors, XMediaLab in Amsterdam, the KANZ broadband conference in Seoul and broadcast technology conferences in Singapore, Paris, Las Vegas and San Francisco.

Alex Hutchinson was the Lead Designer on two of the most successful and influential computer games of all time: The Sims and Spore. Do we have to say anything more?

Alex is currently the Creative Director of Ubisoft Montreal on Assasin's Creed 3.  Prior to his current role, he was the Creative Director of EA Montreal on Army of Two: The 40th Day,  a co-operative action title for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 that was shipped worldwide in January, 2010.

Alex is recognized as a worldwide authority and thought-leader on games, game design, and game mechanics. His public engagements are relatively rare but have achieved cult-status among games professionals for the irreverent wit, the behind-the-scenes research and reasoning, and the deeply valuable insights he is willing to share.

 

Ondi Timoner is an American film director, producer and editor. She is the only director to win a Sundance grand jury award twice in the prestigious festival's history for her two documentaries DIG! and We Live in Public.

Timoner graduated cum laude from Yale University and founded Interloper in 1995. She filmed the documentaries Voices From Inside Time about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, The Nature of the Beast, about one woman's heroic journey through the criminal justice system, and winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot Dam Nation, set in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam.
 
Timoner created and directed for the TV series Sound Affects, the highest-rated pilot in VH1's history, and ABC's highly successful Switched!. With her own company, Interloper Films, Ondi has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and DMC, among others.
 
Ondi is currently slated to direct a narrative feature film based on the life of controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V. (Amsterdam)

Mr. Armstrong is curently working on projects in television, content and transactions security and has worked in 2009 to bring mobile web access, banking and payments applications in developing countries, focusing on East Africa. 

One of the founders of Dutch GSM Service Provider Rabo Mobiel in The Netherlands in mid-2005, Dan served on the board of directors as CTO for four years responsible for product, telecommunications and mobile financial services products, innovation and technology strategy. 

Prior to Rabo Mobiel, Dan was responsible for mobile, internet and strategy business lines in  companies like Telfort, British Telecom, MCI, Proxicom, Netscape and worked on 22 MVNOs in Europe, Asia and North America including Virgin Mobile, easyMobile, Sony M’Club, Talkline, retailer, ethnic-focused and business service providers.

Amsterdam-based Rabo Mobiel is a highly-successful daughter-company of Rabobank, the large Dutch cooperative consumer bank with approximately 50% market share in the banking marketplace.  Rabo Mobiel launched nation-wide services in The Netherlands in November 2006 targeting Dutch consumers with Postpaid and later Prepaid mobile services, as well as over a dozen new mobile financial services and mobile banking applications in 2007-09 including mobile banking, mobile payments (P2P and merchants) and contactless payments programmes
 

Justin Kniest has been working in the live music industry since 1996 as a live entertainment event producer, music promotor of Dutch and international artists and as Managing Director of de Grote Prijs van Nederland and Paradiso-Melkweg Productionhouse.

In 2000, Justin founded the online concertchannel Fabchannel.com. Since then Fabchannel recorded over 1000 HD live concerts and put them on the web, live and on-demand. Fabchannel.com attracted tens of thousands music fans a day and got awarded with 7 international awards amongst which the Webby 2006 for best music website in the world.

In May 2009 Fabchannel had to stop its activities due to the reluctance of the major record labels to embrace Fabchannels' businessmodels that were based on advertising and subscription revenues.

In September 2009 Justin started online marketing agency Market Me (www.marketme.nl). Market Me is specialized in online branding, online video, website/platform development and cross media concepts.

Peter is responsible for marketing and media at football club PSV Eindhoven.  The renowned club has an innovative marketing strategy with a strong emphasis on value creation through (cross) media reach to connect to the fans and customers.

Innovative new media development is a key focus area, especially in the domain of mobile services and TV & Internet convergence. Peter was recently awarded Sport marketer of the year. And for PSV's social media strategy he received the social marketeer of 2009 award underling the respect in the Dutch new media industry. Peter is a well-known author and has published two books about Desktop Publishing and Web Design which have been translated into English, German, Spanish and Korean.

A creative designer and respected project leader who never loses sight of the initial design goals of a project, Peter Slavenburg is the co-founder and Director of NorthernLight.

Slavenburg has worked on more than 30 exhibition and experience projects, amongst others the Glasgow Science Centre, the Hidrodoe in Belgium, the Rotterdam Historic Museum, the Sound and Vision Experience, the Guang Dong Science Centre, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Science and Technology Museum in Beijing and the Macao Science Centre.

Based in Amsterdam, NorthernLight is a dynamic company that develops, designs, builds and installs exhibitions and experiences for a wide variety of exhibitors. Clients include museums, science centres, brand centres and world expos. Action and interaction are central to the NorthernLight approach, turning visitors from passive observers into active participants. NorthernLight creates exhibitions that tell stories, not merely present objects.

In recent years, NorthernLight has established itself as a world leader in the field of museum and expo design and handling complex projects involving many parties is a particular strength of NorthernLight. The company’s portfolio includes over 70 projects, in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. In-house there is a team of interior designers, exhibit designers, multimedia designers, project managers, fabrication managers, researchers and education experts.

NorthernLight has just opened its Asia Pacific office in Beijing, China and has established strategic partnerships in Canada and Spain. The focus of NorthernLight’s designs is on interaction and experience; to lead visitors into the process of exploration and discovery.

One of the projects that has made a name for NorthernLight in the Asia pacific region is the Science and Technology Museum in Beijing. Of the 35 companies that submitted proposals in 2007, the Amsterdam-based agency for exhibition design NorthernLight was one of five selected for the design of the new Science and Technology Museum in Beijing. This immense museum, which opened September 2009, consists of five exhibitions, the largest of which, measuring 6.400 m2, is entirely interactive and is being designed by NorthernLight.

Prior to founding NorthernLight in 1997, Slavenburg worked as a designer for the NEMO science centre in Amsterdam, where he developed and designed its exhibition gallery on human psychology. He was also a photographer for Doctors Without Borders, traveling to Albania, Kenya, Sudan, Malawi, and Mozambique.

Slavenburg completed his MSc in Design Engineering summa cum laude at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

 

Seth Shapiro is a two-time Emmy® winner and a leader in the profitable application of new technology to emerging business models.

He has managed digital media initiatives with the Walt Disney Company, DIRECTV, Comcast, TiVo, Time Warner Cable, Showtime, HBO, STARZ, Sun Microsystems, Universal Studios, Goldman Sachs and a variety startups, venture and private equity partners.  Shapiro is Principal of New Amsterdam Media LLC, co-founder of Media Valuation Partners, a leading firm specializing in the economics of media, entertainment and emerging technologies, and partner at the Opportunity Management Company.  He is also a Founder of ARC: The A&R Channel, a VOD network available in 17,000,000 US cable homes via Comcast. Most recently, he provided litigation support for a series of matters before the Federal Communications Commission. 

 
As Head of Production at DIRECTV’s Advanced Services Group, Shapiro managed over 20 service launches across four platforms, designed the groundbreaking NFL Highlights On Demand Service and was the production/content lead for DIRECTV/TiVo, the world's first major DVR platform.  Shapiro is a member of OVP Venture Partners' Technology Advisory Group, the Television Academy's Blue Ribbon Emmy Committee, the PICNIC Amsterdam Advisory Board, the AFI Digital Content Lab, the IP Media Advisory Board, the Producer's Guild New Media Council and the Milken Institute. He is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University and was Adelbert Alumni Scholar at CWRU and the Cleveland Institute of Music.