Mr Tomi T Ahonen is the author of eleven bestselling books on mobile telecoms, technology and media.

Translated into several languages, he is the father of numerous industry tools, theories and concepts, and already referenced in over 100 books by other authors. Mr Ahonen has been quoted in over 300 press articles in major media like the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Economist and Financial Times, and is often seen on TV on all six inhabited continents. He lectures twice per year at Oxford University's short courses on digital convergence and next generation telecoms and he has presented papers at over 250 conferences in 40 countries on six continents.

Before starting his own consulting company in 2001, Tomi Ahonen was the Global Head of Business Consultancy for Nokia and earlier the company's first Segmentation Manager, Mr Ahonen also oversaw Nokia's 3G Reserach Centre. Before that he worked for two operators/carriers in Finland, and started his technology career on Manhattan at one of the world's first internet service providers, OCSNY. Mr Ahonen's accomplishments include creating the world's first fixed-mobile service bundle; setting the world record for taking market share from the incumbent; and creating the world's largest billing system covering 45 independent telecoms operators. Tomi Ahonen holds an MBA from St John's University New York City and lives currently in Hong Kong.

Mr. Graylin is the CEO of mInfo, the leading Mobile Search Service in China providing natural language search services to users throughout China via SMS, WAP, IM and embedded client applet.

Mr. Graylin is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and business leader with over 15 years of management experience, seven of which are in Greater China. Mr. Graylin co-founded mInfo in early 2005. He is intimately knowledgeable about the wireless search and mobile marketing space in China. Mr. Graylin has rich entrepreneurial experiences prior to mInfo, having also been the founder and CEO of two other technology start-ups in the US, one in personalized e-marketing and the other in online financial tools for consumers.

In the mid-90’s Mr. Graylin helped establish the Intel organization in Shanghai, and grew Intel’s consumer business in China from $50M to $300M over a three year period. He also led Asia Pacific marketing for Intel Online Services in the late’90s. Additionally, Mr. Graylin ran the global Enterprise and Consumer business units at Trend Micro in 2001-2003 (while based in Taipei), and security products/services business at WatchGuard Technologies (based in Seattle), with respective yearly revenues in excess of US$200M, US$100M and US$80M. He delivered sizable double digit revenue growth for all three businesses units. Mr. Graylin began his career at IBM designing next generation processors for the AS/400 mini-computer family.

Mr. Graylin earned an MS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School. He graduate top of his department with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. Mr. Graylin was born in China, educated in the US, and honed his professional skills in the global marketplace. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese

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. 

While most kids were grappling with the realities of growing up, Vishal took a head start and started his first company – FACT, soon after finishing school at the ripe young age of 16.

In 1999, he founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles.  Indiagames is an award winning multi-platform games company, developing games for wireless, console and online gaming platforms, and works with top game publishers, handset manufacturers, Hollywood studios and mobile operators across the globe.

Vishal is recognized as being instrumental in starting and growing the Gaming Industry in India.

Vishal was part of The Nokia Advisory Council for Games and actively advises Nokia on wireless and gaming technologies and is a much sought after speaker at gaming and wireless technology conferences. Indiagames under Vishal’s leadership was featured amongst Red Herring Asia’s Top 100 companies in 2005.   

Amongst his other achievements and industry recognitions include being featured among the top 40 Indian entrepreneurs by Business Today magazine in 2001; an E&Y Indian Entrepreneur of the year award nomination in 2004 and most recently being listed among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space by the UK based Mobile Entertainment Magazine. This list featured the likes of Steve Jobs of Apple. Vishal also features among the 20 Fab Indians to watch out for in 2006 by The Week magazine.

Ivo is currently responsible for the Layar Partner Network, the premium tier of the Layar developer community.

He joined Layar in November 2010, and is tasked to build, grow and facilitate a global network of passionate and dedicated developers. By offering tools, information and business opportunities to Layar Partners, Ivo stimulates the growth of the overall Layar ecosystem. He acts as the linking pin between Layar's product development team and the Layar Partners, and has a pivotal role in scaling up the internal organisation to support a flourishing developer community.

Ivo has a wide interest and has held a variety of positions before he joined Layar. His work experience includes mobile networks, phones and content, gained during his 10 years at Nokia. At Nokia Networks, he sold VAS platforms to mobile operators. He also spent 4 years at Forum Nokia, supporting Nokia's developer community to bring their apps to the market through various channels, including the predecessor of the Ovi Store (Nokia Download!). In his last role at Nokia he was responsible for the global video preload programme, bringing Hollywood movies and other videos to Nokia's high-end smartphones.

Prior to Layar, he worked 1.5 year as a manager at ProRail, the Dutch railway infrastructure manager, responsible for offering services to railway undertakings in the areas of transfer and rail yards.

Ivo is a native to the Netherlands and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology.

Gabriele Gresta is considered worldwide as one of the biggest expert in digital medias and technologies, specialising in viral projects, participative television and new TV formats designed for various digital platforms.

Gabriele Gresta started at a very young age in the software field. By age 15, he was Software Development Director in a multinational company (Alpha Center Int.). At 16 Gresta created the first super-learning system with various technical internships in the UK,US and Australia.

He unleashed his musical creativity with the Mato Grosso digital dance music project, that hits N° 1 of the Italian Dance Chart bringing him on an international tour for 11 months. In five years Mato Grosso hit N°1 several times with a total production of 21 records+1 "All the best".

In Tv he was host, author and producer of hit programs on channels such as MTV and coordinated Telecom Italia's special events strategy. On Tmc2 he hosted Altromondo, the first daily Italian Tv show dedicated to Video Games.

In 1995 Gabriele Gresta founded Bibop Research Int, a cross-media agency that creates interactive projects such as the Mediaset portal, hosted Futurshow, Tim Tour, and the I-Tv Alice Live for Telecom Italia.

In 1999 he sold 40% of Bibop to Telecom Italia for 11 Billion (Italian Lira) hitting the Italian media with the creation of one of the first successful case history in the Italian New economy.

In 2000 he created and produced the first ever Tv Format that used the “SMS” as a form of interaction: the Tv format "2008" for the national Tv Italia1.

In 2003, Gresta founded the Digital Magics Group, a digital media company incubator focused on the production and distribution of interactive cross-media contents and formats for different technological platforms.
Gabriele Gresta is also the inventor of MyCast, a patented web, mobile and television platform that offers video-participative services to Editors (web, telcos and broadcasters).

Gabriele Gresta is more specifically involved in viral projects, participative TV and new TV formats for the various platforms, working closely with key Italian and international broadcasters and phone operators (H3G,Telecom, Vodafone, Rai, Sky) . “Occhio alla spesa” on Rai TV, for example, is the first TV show where the audience interacts with a studio host via mobile video-phones.

Between 2009 and 2010 Gresta is in charge of M&A and International Business Development of the Digital Magics company. In this period DM collected around 15 mln euros from the partners and from private investors. The money has been invested in the 22 companies of the group to sustain the growth.

Chris Deering has led multicultural motion picture video and computer game publishing for nearly 3 decades, initially as Vice President – International for Atari game consoles and computers, and subsequently as Executive Vice President and COO for Columbia Pictures International Video, and from 1995 to 2005 as President of Sony Computer Entertainment - Europe (SCEE).

At SCEE he led the team that has sold over 80 million consoles and facilitated the sale of over 1 billion games. Most of SCEE's original management team, set up by Chris, remains at the core of PlayStation leadership, now including the management of Sony's worldwide game development studios.

From 2006 to 2010, Chris served as Chairman of the Board for Codemasters, the world’s leading independent video game developers; and as Chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.  He was a board director at Malmo based Wayfinder Systems, a GPS navigation software firm, before it was acquired by Vodafone in 2009.  Chris was also a board member of Malmo-based Sony Ericsson in 2004 - 2005.

Chris currently serves as Chairman of Stockholm based Music Myne and is a board member at PlaySpan of Santa Clara, California.

Paris wears many hats: author, co-founder of Secret Lab, researcher, mobile product and technical guru.

Paris has degrees in HCI, computer science, medieval and modern history and enjoys designing, producing and building awesome experiences for mobile. Paris also works with Meebo, Inc., one of the fastest growing consumer Internet companies, building awesome mobile experiences for mobile users. Through some miracle of time management, he is also a Graduate Researcher in information management at the University of Tasmania in Australia.

An expert in the mobile space, Paris is the co-author of the books 'iPhone and iPad Game Development’ and 'Unity Mobile Game Development’ in the popular ‘For Dummies' series. The books cover game development on mobile platforms such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices in languages/frameworks such as Objective-C, CocoaTouch, Open GL ES, Unity, C# and JavaScript. They also cover game design techniques, principles and patterns.

Paris is co-founder of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Recent and upcoming conferences of note include GDC, Interaction 11, DevWorld 2010 and OZCHI. Topics of note are interaction design, user interface design and mobile product design.

Paris founded and led ithinkitworks P/L from 2001 to 2008, spearheading product development and design efforts on a variety of platforms including desktop Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile/Pocket PC and others.

Paris is also a highly experienced software developer, product and project manager. Key experiences include Objective-C/Cocoa on the Macintosh and iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad platforms, Java on Blackberry and Google Android and C# on Windows Mobile. Open GL ES and Unity are also favourites.

Recent awards have included the 2010 Tasmanian Pearcey Award (a prestigious national Australian award for those who have “taken a risk and made a difference” within the technology industry) and three 2010 Tasmanian ICT Awards (“Export”, “Digital Media” and the “President’s Award for Excellence”).

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Johan's background is in media, design and the marketing industry where he has served as the CEO for several companies. Johan is also one of the founders and board members for the World Internet Institute which is conducting research on the use and impact of digital communication technologies on people and society.

The World Internet Project conducts over 60.000 interviews in some 30 countries around the world every year to gain knowledge about the effects and use of Internet. Johan was recently appointed “European Cluster Manager of the year”, by the European Union.

Kajsa Lundfall is a serial entrepreneur in the IT and telecoms business. Ms Lundfall has been active in the location industry since 2006, as CEO of Mobilaris, founder of first location aggregator Visibilly, and now as CEO of Lociloci, Scandinavia's largest positioning service.

Ms. Lundfall started her career in sales and marketing positions of large systems towards operators at Ericsson and later Nortel Networks, working in Stockholm as well as in the UK.

After leaving the multi-national companies in the late nineties, Ms. Lundfall has used her entrepreneurial skills in CEO roles for start-ups. She co-founded one of the first sms service providers, she has CEO experience from mobile TV and IP infrastructure start-ups. In 2006, she was appointed CEO of location supplier Mobilaris, and from there she founded the spin-off Visibilly, the first location aggregator in Scandinavia. Visibilly was later acquired by Lociloci. Ms. Lundfall holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from The Institute of Technology at Linköping University in Sweden.

Annika has an extensive background as an industry-oriented researcher from both SICS and Interactive Institute and has headed several research projects both on a national and international scale. Working together with game designers, media theorists, artists and technicians her research of today is highly multidisciplinary with a focus on theory, design, production, evaluation and analysis of technology-supported pervasive games: games that are played in the real world rather than on the screen of computers and mobiles.

Gigi is the Chair Emeritus of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (where she remains on the Board) and is Managing Partner at MG-Team, an international strategic marketing and business development firm for mobile, web services and telecom companies.

Previously, she was the SVP of Marketing and Alliances for July Systems, a mobile Internet company providing mobile retailing and marketing solutions to carriers and media brands including AT&T and MTV. Prior to July, she was CEO & Co-founder of AsiaQuest, a company providing market entry services for companies entering Asian markets. Her team developed relationships with Asian operators including LGTel and Telstra for its clients. She had also started up the International Carrier Marketing group and lead VOIP Product Marketing for Ascend Communications (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent).

As an Internet pioneer, she launched the TRUSTe Internet privacy program in 1996 and also started up Pacific Internet in Singapore (IPO on NASDAQ in 1999), along with holding sales and business development positions at Pacific Bell (acquired by SBC/AT&T). Gigi holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University where she was President of the Engineering Honour Society, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Gigi is also Co-Chair, Location Based Services SIG - Wireless Communications Alliance and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore.