Who's Speaking

Aaron Cohen, CEO anyClip.com

 

Aaron Cohen has 12 years of Internet Media experience in consumer Internet as senior executive.   He has completed 13 transactions involving the buying, selling or capitalizing of early-stage Internet media companies.   He has founded or co-founded 4 startups, and served as CEO for two companies as a non-founder.  In the aggregate, Aaron’s companies [...]

Alan Brody, Founder, iBreakfast

Alan Brody
Founder
iBreakfast
Alan Brody is the founder of the iBreakfast.com, the leading Digital Media Forum in NY for Executives, Entrepreneurs, Media and Investors in NY, L.A and soon, Seattle, DC and Dallas. He has been a pioneer in digital media since the beginning of the Web with the Createch Conference and eTV World Interactive TV conference [...]

Albert Wenger, Partner, Union Square Ventures

 

Albert combines over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience with an in-depth technology background. As an entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded five companies, including a management consulting firm (in Germany), a hosted data analytics company, a technology subsidiary for Telebanc (now E*Tradebank), an early stage investment firm, and most recently (with his wife), DailyLit, a [...]

Andrew Frank, Research Vice President, Gartner

Andrew Frank has 25 years of experience in the commercial and consumer technology markets, with a focus on media, entertainment, emerging technologies, product development and technology implementation.

Aneesh Chopra, Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America

Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009.
Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory [...]

Anthony Belpaire, General Manager, Touchatag

Anthony Belpaire is the General Manager of touchatag™, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture.  Touchatag™ enables consumers, applications developers and business to link everyday’s objects with online applications using 2D barcodes/Near Field Communications.
Touchatag™ is used in a variety of environments: for example in an in-home application a father can use touchatag™ to link his toddler’s teddy bear to [...]

Ben Arnold, Senior Research Analyst, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

Ben Arnold is senior research analyst for the Consumer Electronics Association. A veteran analyst, he has worked as a senior analyst of marketing research at USA Today and as a media consultant for GCG Communications.  He received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. 

Brett Jenkins, VP Technology, ION Media Networks

Brett Jenkins is the Vice President of Technology at ION Media Networks.  In that role, he supports ION’s development and evaluation of advanced television technology business models, and oversees the direction and implementation of digital television and mobile programs.  Before joining ION, Brett ran the US transmitter operations for Thomson/Grass Valley where he was responsible [...]

Carl James Yankowski, CEO Ambient Devices, Inc.

Carl was President of Sony Electronics, then named the most ethically-run large corporation in America, CEO of Reebok, and CEO of Palm’s $1+  billion IPO.
He founded Westerham Group, consulting on creatively disruptive technology, products, branding, and demand generation.
Carl is now CEO of Ambient Devices.
He started at P&G, Memorex, Pepsi, GE, and Cadbury Schweppes with increasing [...]

Debbie Stier, SVP, Associate Publisher, HarperStudio

 

Debbie is the only person she knows who will admit that running the NYC marathon was the biggest waste of time, not to mention incredibly painful. She firmly believes in the value of a candle-lit family dinner, but when she’s on her own she’ll settle for a bowl of cereal at the counter while going [...]

Dominic Tolli, Senior Vice President of Marketing, SpinVox

Dominic “Dom” Tolli is Senior Vice President of Marketing for SpinVox in the North America region. Prior to SpinVox, Tolli was at Virgin Mobile where he held positions including Vice President of Innovation Services and Vice President of Mobile Data Services.  From 1999 through 2002, he was the President of Business Operations and the Vice [...]

Dr. Danny Grant, Principal Engineer, Research, Immersion Corporation

Danny Grant, principal engineer at Immersion Corporation, brings over 15 years of experience working with haptics (force feedback) technology. He develops innovative user interface experiences for next-generation digital devices and is an authority on haptics technologies and its applications to mobile communications and other industries.  His tenure at Immersion includes senior level research and research-management [...]

Dr. Martin Kienzle, Chief Architect – Media Systems, IBM Digital Convergence EBO

Dr. Kienzle is the Chief Architect – Media Systems for the IBM Digital Convergence EBO. In this capacity he is specifying the technical requirements and defining the architectures for media systems.  Prior to this position, Dr. Kienzle was Senior Manager, Intelligent Server Infrastructures, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY.  His [...]

Elaine Warner, Director of Consumer Technologies, Compete, Inc

Over the last decade, Elaine has helped technology and retail companies build, market and advertise their products. In her role as Director of Consumer Technologies at Compete, she leads a team of researchers and analysts focused on evaluating in-market consumer demand for mobile devices and other consumer technologies. Elaine advises OEMs on optimizing ad spend [...]

Eric Frank, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Flat World Knowledge

 

Eric was born and raised in Boston, and has lived in Philadelphia and New York. Sometimes, he gets confused and thinks that Pittsburgh is the west coast. He used to have more diverse passions in life, but now, as co-founder of three concurrent startups– two-year old Miya, one-year old Emma, and Flat World Knowledge, also [...]

Erin Scottberg, Community Editor, AOL’s Lemondrop.com

As the community editor at Lemondrop.com, Erin Scottberg works to build the Lemondrop community through social news and networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg and Stumble, while also helping develop content that’s going to get the readers talking to each other and spark conversation around the Web. She has a background in tech writing, [...]

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing some 2,200 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology, the International CES.
Shapiro is an active leader in the development, launch and marketing of HDTV.  He has testified before Congress on HDTV [...]

Gilbert Fiorentino, Chief Executive of the Technology Products Group, Systemax, Parent Company of CompUSA and TigerDirect

Gilbert is a founder of TigerDirect and joined Systemax when the business was acquired in 1995. In 2004, he assumed responsibility for the Technology Products Group on a worldwide basis. Gilbert has successfully grown the sales and profitability of this business segment, in the process turning brand names such as TigerDirect and MISCO into leading [...]

Greg Gudorf, Chief Executive Officer, Digeo

 

Greg Gudorf, as chief executive officer and chief operating officer, is responsible for setting the strategic vision and bringing that vision to realization for Digeo. His most recent experience as president and chief operating officer at Digeo had him involved in day-to-day operations, with particular emphasis on product delivery and quality, process improvement, integration with MSO head-end systems and business [...]

Jason Oxman, Senior Vice President, Industry Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

Jason Oxman is senior vice president of industry affairs for the Consumer Electronics Association.  A seasoned veteran of technology and policy for over a decade, Oxman has served the federal government and private sector as a technology expert and communications strategist.  At CEA, he oversees four departments with a combined staff of 50 professionals in [...]

Jeff O’Heir, Editor in Chief of Dealerscope, www.dealerscope.com, NAPCO

Jeff O’Heir, Editor in Chief of Dealerscope magazine and www.dealerscope.com, is an award-winning editor, journalist and public speaker with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of media. Prior to Dealerscope, O’Heir was Editor of CMP Media’s Digital Connect magazine, which won American Business Media’s 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award [...]

Jenny Rosenstrach, Features Director, Cookie Magazine,

Jenny Rosenstrach is the features director of Cookie magazine, a lifestyle magazine for parents. Before cookie she was special projects editor at Real Simple. She has two young daughters.

Jim Beddows, Board Chair, MEF Americas

Jim Beddows has been creating new businesses, business models and content in the new media space (CD-Rom, Console, Online, Mobile) for the last thirteen years. Most recently, Jim was Head of Content and Application Partnerships for MSN Mobile which launched in 2007 and quickly ramped to 15 million off-deck unique users in the US and [...]

John I. Taylor, Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications, LG Electronics USA, Inc.

John I. Taylor is Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for LG Electronics USA, Inc., and its U.S. research subsidiary, Zenith Electronics, a long-time leader in digital HDTV. 
As LG’s senior U.S. industry relations and government affairs executive, and head of the LG Washington office, Taylor represents the company before the U.S. government. Since [...]

Lauren Gould, Associate Producer, Martha Stewart Living Radio

Lauren Gould is an Associate Producer for Martha Stewart Living Radio, where she focuses on lifestyle content including beauty, food, gardening, health, and technology.  Recently, Lauren was the producer for the 2009 James Beard Award nominated show “Living Today.”  In addition to her work at MSLR, Lauren has been featured on a number of national [...]

Liz Cutting, Analyst, The NPD Group

Liz Cutting is the digital imaging analyst for The NPD Group. Cutting has more than 16 years of marketing and analysis experience, offering expert insight on imaging products and trends, and has been a featured speaker at many events including Digital Imaging Marketing Association and Photokina

Marian Merritt, Internet Safety Advocate, Symantec

Marian Merritt provides consumer-friendly insights into technology issues impacting families as Symantec’s Internet Safety Advocate.  Marian authored Symantec’s “Family Online Safety Guide,” an award-winning practical guide for parents on protecting children online and she is editor‑in‑chief of Symantec’s Family Resource Web Site (www.norton.com/familyresource). She has been with Symantec’s consumer products team for 12 years.
Marian [...]

Mark Spoonauer, Editor in Chief, LAPTOP

Mark Spoonauer is the Editor in Chief of LAPTOP, the leading mobile technology magazine and Web site. Now in his seventh year at the publication, Mark is recognized as one of the leading experts in mobile and wireless gadgets, trends, and technologies. He has spoken at numerous industry events, including CES and CTIA and he [...]

Mike Bailey, Director of Programing, FLO TV

Mike Bailey is vice president of programming for FLO TV Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of QUALCOMM Incorporated. In his role at FLO TV, Bailey is responsible for programming, including identifying content opportunities, collaborating with content providers and determining overall content packaging and positioning.
Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Bailey was vice president of sales for Entriq, an [...]

Natali Del Conte, Correspondent, CBS Early Show

Natali Del Conte is a correspondent for The CBS Early Show and WCBS and a host on CNET TV. Her daily newscast on CNET TV is called Loaded and she is a co-host of the daily podcast Buzz Out Loud. CNET is owned and operated by CBS Interactive. She is  also a regular contributor on [...]

Peter Rojas, Co-Founder, gdgt

Peter Rojas is the co-founder of gdgt, a new gadget site launching later this year. He is also the founder of RCRD LBL, an ad-supported free music site, as well as the creator and founding editor of several popular technology blogs, including Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq, hackaday, and Engadget Mobile.

Richard Doherty is co-founder and Director, Envisioneering Group

 

Richard Doherty is co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group: a twenty-six year Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains an occasional contributor. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high [...]

Ross Rubin, Director, Industry Analysis at NPD

Ross Rubin is a director of industry analysis for The NPD Group.  With more than 20 years analyzing and writing about the technology industry, Rubin leads The NPD Group’s coverage of consumer electronics and wireless with an emphasis on connected intelligent devices and convergence.  CNN has called him “a top adviser to the leading technology [...]

Sarah Bussell, Product Marketing Manager, Business Notebooks, Notebook Global Business Unit, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard

Sarah Bussell is Product Marketing Manager for Business Notebooks in the Notebook Global Business Unit at HP. She leads the product marketing team and manages the roadmap strategy and product definitions for HP’s business notebook line.
Bussell has spent 9 years in business notebook product marketing at HP. Her earlier career includes product marketing roles [...]

Sascha Segan, Lead analyst, Mobile Devices, PCMag Digital Network

Sascha Segan is the lead analyst for mobile devices for the PCMag Digital Network. He’s reviewed hundreds of mobile phones over the past five years. He also speaks on radio, television and the Internet about mobile technology issues and won awards in 2007 and 2008 for his columns on mobile tech. He lives in Queens, [...]

Shawn DuBravac, CFA, Chief Economist, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

Shawn DuBravac, CFA
Chief Economist
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Shawn DuBravac, CFA is the chief economist for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) where he directs CEA’s economic analysis. He is responsible for handling analysis of the economy as it relates to the consumer electronics industry including forecasting future economic activity, econometric studies, examining trade flows, and ascertaining relative [...]

Steve Greenberg, Author, TV Personality, Board Member United Inventors Association

Steve Greenberg is on the Board of Directors for the United Inventors Association (UIA) and is the author of “GADGET NATION: A Journey Through The Eccentric World of Invention.” The book showcases more than 100 off-beat gadgets and the inventors behind them.  
Each month Steve can be seen demonstrating innovative products in America’s top TV [...]

Steve Koenig, Director of Industry Analysis, CEA

 
Steve Koenig is the Director of Industry Analysis at the Consumer Electronics Association. Koenig directs and oversees MARA shipment data program and industry forecasting. He works closely with membership and research staff to develop and execute [...]

Suzanne Kantra, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techlicious.com

For the past 19 years, Suzanne has been exploring and writing about some of the world’s most exciting and important science and technology issues. Most recently, Suzanne was the Technology Editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she also hosted the radio show “Living with Technology” on Sirius Satellite Radio. Previously she served as Technology [...]

"CEA's Line Shows have become critical events for my teams at Engadget, Switched, TUAW, and Download Squad. In a tech editorial environment that is increasingly (and understandably) remote and mobile, in-person shows like these are a welcome rarity. Not only do they get my guys and girls out of their home offices, but they have also created innumerable hands-on and breaking stories chock-full of the video and images our readers have come to love and expect. What�s more, the smaller size of CEA Line Shows means that my journalists can get their job done in a consumable environment as compared to the multi-day, exhausting conferences. Both have their place, but I am for one forever a fan of the smaller CEA Line Shows."
— Joshua Fruhlinger, Editorial Director, AOL Tech.

"All in all, the CEA Line Shows was a big success, especially for an initial effort. I urge other manufacturers of home-theater products to sign up for next year — you'll save loads of money compared to putting on an individual line show, and you'll save journalists loads of time, a commodity in very short supply these days. It's a win-win in an otherwise lose-lose economy."
— UltimateAVmag.com Editor, Scott Wilkinson. For the complete article, click here.