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Monaco Media Forum 2009

The Program

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER

 

18:30 Opening Cocktail/hosted by Booz & Co

Columbia Terrace, Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort

 

21:00 Night Caps

Jim Gianopoulos/Chairman & CEO,

Fox Filmed Entertainment,

Daniel Ek/Co-Founder & CEO, Spotify

Michael Wolff/Vanity Fair & Newser

Blue Gin Bar

 

THURSDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

 

9:00 Welcome/H.S.H. Prince Albert II

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

9:10 New Waves 1

Presentations from the front lines of media

Innovation: Ooyala, Bigpoint, Permuto, AdMeld, 1CAST

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

9:50 KEYNOTE "Tipping Point"

Paul Sagan/President & CEO, Akamai Technologies

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

10.20 Coffee break

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

10:45 PANEL "The Living Room War:

Redefining Television" Benjamin Faes/Head of YouTube

and Display, Google EMEA, Seth Haberman/CEO,

Visible World, Sab Kanaujia/VP Digital Strategy &

Development, NBC Universal & Dr. Giles Wilson/CTO of

TV Business, Ericsson

Moderator: Jeffrey Cole/CEO, USC Annenberg

Center for the Digital Future

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

11:25 CONVERSATION "Making News"

Mathias Döpfner/Chairman & CEO, Axel Springer &

Arianna Huffington/Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Huffington

Post talk with Christine Ockrent/CEO, France 24

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

12:05 New Waves 2

Tumblr, YouTube

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

12:20 PANEL "Media Everywhere"

Samir Arora/Founder & CEO, Glam, Raoul Roverato/EVP

New Growth Activities, Orange, Richard Titus/CEO,

Associated Northcliffe Digital & Annelies Van Den Belt/CEO, SUP

Moderator: Michael Wolf/President, Media Equation  

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

13:00 Lunch

America Room

 

14:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1

 

"The Big Screen Internet 1: Technology"

Nirvana Room

Peter Cowley/Digital Director, Endemol, Andrew

Hawken/Editorial, Director, Online Business Unit, BSkyB,

Jim Louderback/CEO, Revision3, Steve

Rosenbaum/Founder & CEO, Magnify.net, 

Timothy Shey/Co-Founder, Next New Networks

Moderator: Dina Kaplan/Co-Founder & COO, blip.tv  

 

"Brave New News World: 

Who Pays (and How)?" Marigold Room

Leonard Brody/ President, Clarity Digital,

Hassan Fattah/Editor-in-Chief, The National,

Eric Hippeau/CEO, Huffington Post, Stephen

Dunbar-Johnson/Publisher, International Herald Tribune,  

Jochen Wegner/Editor-in-Chief, Focus Online,

Nicholas Wheeler/MD, ITN On  

Moderator: Katharina Borchert/CEO, WAZ NewMedia   

 

"Mobile: Open Warfare" Trivia Room

Steve Glanz/ VP Business Development, Vringo,  

Thierry Gaillet/ Head of App Shop Marketing, Orange,

Frank Kelcz/ Head of Media Technology Investment,

SEB Ventures, Jon Vlassopoulos, CEO, Moderati,

Moderator: Michael Jackson/Partner, Mangrove Capital

 

"Machine Media" Viola Room

Benjamin Barokas/ Co-Founder & Chief

Revenue Officer, AdMeld, Amar Goel/Founder &

Chairman, PubMatic, Amiad Solomon/Founder

& CEO, Peer39, Joe Zawadzki/CEO, MediaMath Inc. 

Moderator: Timothy Hanlon/MD, Riverview

Lane Associates

 

"Music: Detente?" Tirrenia Room

Jonathan Benassaya/Co-Founder & President,

Deezer, Emmanuel Jayr/Founder, Goom Radio,  

Francis Keeling/VP Digital, Universal Music Group

International, John Kennedy/Chairman & CEO, IFPI,  

Gerd Leonhard/CEO, Media Futurist, Steven

Greenberg/Founder & CEO, S-Curve Music

Moderator: Thomas Ryan/CEO, Threadless

 

15:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2

 

"The Big Screen Internet 2: Technology"

Marigold Room

Christian Bombrun/Deputy Managing Director, M6 Web

Anthony Bontrager/President, Onecast Inc. 

Alexander Holland/Chief of Staff, Viasat Broadcasting  

Andy Nobbs/CCO, Civolution

Emil Rensing/Chief Digital Officer, Epix

Njara Zafimehy/COO, Scroon

Moderator: Timothy Hanlon/MD, Riverview

Lane Associates

 

"Extreme Measures" Nirvana Room

Eran Shir/Founder & CEO, Dapper, Jennifer

Cooper/Founder & Principal, Rocketfuel Media, Stephan

Noller/CEO, nugg.ad, Shaukat Shamim/CEO &

Co-Founder, Permuto, Amiad Solomon/Founder

 & CEO, Peer39         

Moderator: Steve Baker/BusinessWeek

 

"The Real Time Web" Viola Room

Murat Aktihanoglu/CEO, Centrl Inc.  

Jyri Engeström/Co-Founder, Jaiku,   

Barak Hachamov/Founder & Chairman,

my6sense, David Karp/Founder & CEO,

Tumblr, Andrej Nabergoj/CEO, Noovo   

Moderator: Loic Le Meur/Founder & CEO, Seesmic         

 

"Digital Democracy" Tirrenia Room

Hassan Fattah/Editor-in-Chief, The National,

Bruno Patino/Director, France Culture,

Benjamin Wegg-Prosser/Director of Corporate

Development, SUP, Oliver Zeisberger/Founder & CEO,

barracuda digitale agentur

Moderator: Eric Hippeau/CEO, Huffington Post

 

"Luxury Bits" Trivia Room

André Kolasinski/CEO, LuxuryCulture.com,  

Constantin Bjerke/Founder & CEO, The Crane

Georges-Edouard Dias/SVP E-Business, L'Oréal,  

Dina Kaplan/Co-Founder & COO, blip.tv

Nicolas Rachline/ Founder & Editor-in-Chief,

Above Magazine, Beth Uyenco/Global Research Director,

Microsoft Advertising

Moderator: Shanen Reed/CEO, Morpheus Media 

 

16:30 Coffee break

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

16:45 New Waves 3

Epix, Seesmic

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

17:00 CONVERSATION  "Transformation" 

Maurice Lévy/Chairman & CEO, Publicis Groupe

talks with Thomas Stewart/Chief Marketing &

Knowledge Officer, Booz & Co

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

17:30 KEYNOTE "Convergence"

Henrique de Castro/VP Global Media & Platforms, Google

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

18:00 CONVERSATION "High Tension"

Jon Miller/CEO, Digital Media, News Corporation

talks with Rafat Ali/CEO, PaidContent

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

20:30 OFFICIAL DINNER & MMF PRIZE

Salle Empire, Hotel de Paris

INTRODUCTION: Maurice Lévy/Chairman &

CEO, Publicis Groupe

PRIZE AWARD: H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover

SPEAKER: David Kenny/MD, VivaKi

 

FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

 

9:00 New Waves 4

Dapper, JoliCloud, Romplr,

Xbox Live, MediaMath, my6sense

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

10:00 KEYNOTE "The Digital Canvas"

Darren Huston/Corporate VP, Consumer & Online Group,

Microsoft talks with Curt Hecht/President, Vivaki

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

10:40 Coffee break

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

11:20 New Waves 5

Aigo, Centrl, Twillo

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting



11:30 PANEL "On Target"

Dave Morgan/CEO, Simulmedia, Calvin Lui/CEO, Tumri,

Stefan Noller/CEO, nugg.ad & Brian Shin/CEO,

Visible Measures

Moderator: Diane Mermigas/Editor-at-Large, MediaPost

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

12:15 PANEL "The Data Dilemma"

Elizabeth Charnock/CEO, Cataphora, Alain Lévy/Chairman &

CEO, Weborama, Gregor Vogelsang/Partner, Booz &

Co. & Yossi Matias/Director, Israel R&D Center, Google,

Shelly Zalis/ CEO, OTX

Moderator: Michael Kassan/Chairman & CEO, MediaLink

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

13:00 Lunch

America Room

 

14:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS 3

 

"Brave News World 2/Content:

When Aggregators Attack!" Nirvana Room

Matt Kelly/Associate Editor, Development, Mirror Group  

Caroline Marks/General Manager, The Daily Beast

Jacques Rosselin/Publisher, Vendredi

Patrick Spain/CEO, Newser

Thomas Tercek/VP Strategic Development, Daylife

 

"Venture Capital: Designing Disruptions"

Viola Room

Esther Dyson/Chairman, EDventure,

Erel Margalit/Managing Partner, Jerusalem

Venture Partners, Martin Varsavsky/Founder

& CEO, Fon

 

"Socialism" Marigold Room

Reggie Bradford/CEO, Vitrue,

Katherine Tabb/Head of Advertising,

AOL Europe, Jimmy Wales/Founder, Wikipedia, 

Cedric Maloux/CEO, Geewa,

Mattias Miksche/CEO, Stardoll,  

Ramu Yalamanchi/Founder, hi5 Networks,

Moderator: Sarah Szalavitz/CEO, 7 Robot

 

"Everybody's in Show Biz"

Trivia Room

Alex Balfour/Head of New Media,

London 2012, Seb Bishop/CEO,

(Red)International, Ian McCaig/CEO,

lastminute.com, Thomas Ryan/CEO,

Threadless, Richard Spalding/Co-founder &

CEO, Diffusion Media Group, Beatrice

Tarka/CEO, Mobissimo

Moderator: Timothy Shey/Co-Founder,

Next New Networks 

 

 

"Cloud Media (TAG=cloud)" Tirrenia Room

Simone Brunozzi/Web Services Evangelist Europe,

Amazon Web Services, Tariq Krim/CEO, JoliCloud,

Jason Hoffman/CTO, Joyent, Hubert Kjellberg/ Head

 of Internet & Media Segment, Ericsson,  

Sean Knapp/Co-Founder & CTO, Ooyala,

Jeff Lawson/CEO, Twilio, John Lilly/CEO,

Mozilla Corp

Moderator: John du Pre Gauntt /Founder & Chairman,

Media Dojo

 

15:30 Coffee break

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

16:00 PANEL "Re-Boot: Madison Avenue 2.0"

Damian Burns/Head of Global Agency Relations, Google,

Nikki Mendonça/President, OMD EMEA & Rishad

Tobaccowala/CEO, Denuo.

Moderator: Jack Myers/Chairman, M.E.D.I.Advisory Group

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

16:45 CLOSING PRESENTATION "The Mind's Eye"

Al Seckel/ Founder & Visionary, Blue World Alliance

Salle Des Palmiers, Sporting

 

17:30 CLOSING  COCKTAIL/ hosted by PublicisLive

Columbia Terrace, Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort



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MMF 2009 Program

MMF Chairman

  • His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco

2009 Co-Chairs

  • Nikesh Arora/President, Global Sales and Business Development
    • Google
  • Mathias Döpfner/Chairman
    • Axel Springer AG
  • Lucian Grainge/Chairman & CEO
    • Universal Music Group International
  • Arianna Huffington/Founder & Editor-in-Chief
    • Huffington Post
  • HE Mohammed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei/Chairman
    • Abu Dhabi Media Company
  • Alexandre Lebedev/Chairman
    • National Reserve Corporation
  • Maurice Lévy/Chairman & CEO
    • Publicis Groupe
  • Didier Lombard/Chairman & CEO
    • Orange/France Telecom
  • Paul Sagan/President & CEO
    • Akamai
Past Co-Chairs

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Mobilization 
Aux Apps, Netoyens!


WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 

from 13:00  Registration 
Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort 

17:00 Welcome - HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco  
Sporting Monte-Carlo  


Keynote - "Internet 2.0" 
Mobile changes everything 
Hans Vestberg/President & CEO, Ericsson 

Roundtable - "Media Unbound" 
New screens, new software, new platforms--who rules the new game? 
Robert Bakish/President, MTV Networks International 
David Kenny/President, Akamai Technologies 
Hans Vestberg/CEO, Ericsson 
Moderator: Emma Barnett/Digital Media Editor, Daily Telegraph


Opening Cocktails hosted by Booz & Company 

Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel

  

Nightcaps
Smart thinkers. big ideas

Blue Gin Bar   

Rahul Sonnad/Founder & CEO, Geodelic Systems

Alain Lévy/CEO, Weborama talks with Max Colchester, The Wall Street Journal

Gerd Leonhard/The Futures Agency & Dwight Witherspoon/Ericsson sneak preview "Press/Pause/Play"

Saad Mohseni/Founder & CEO, Moby Group 

Terry Kawaja/President & CEO, LUMA Partners   
 

THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER 

09:00  "New Waves" 
From the leading edge 

Opening Panel - "Air War" 
Is the Web passé? 
Hugo Barra/Director, Mobile Product Management, Google 
Christian Hernandez/Head of International Business Development, Facebook 
Ilja Laurs/Founder & CEO, GetJar 
Raoul Roverato/EVP New Growth Businesses, Orange 
Moderator: David Rowan/Editor in Chief, WIRED UK 


Roundtable  - "Out of the Box"    
TV absolutely everywhere 
Presentation: Thomas Künstner/VP, European Media Practice, Booz & Company
Daniel Heaf/Digital Director, BBC Worldwide
Michael Comish/CEO, Blinkbox
Patrick Walker/Director of Video Partnerships EMEA, Google/YouTube 
Giles Wilson/CTO, Ericsson Television

Moderator: Staci D. Kramer/Editor & EVP, ContentNext Media  


11:00  Coffee break


Panel  - "Cloudy, with Apps"
Making content pay 
Chris Ahearn/President, Media, Thomson Reuters 
Scott Dinsdale/EVP Global Digital Operations & New Technology, Sony Music Entertainment 
Eric Hippeau/CEO, Huffington Post 
Sara Õhrvall/Director, R&D, Bonnier 
Moderator: Michael J. Wolf/Founder & MD, ACTIVATE

 

Panel - "Audience Factories"
Where's the money? 
Kate Burns/SVP, Sales and Operations, AOL Europe 
Carolyn Everson/CVP - Ad Sales Global Consumer & Online, Microsoft 
Curt Hecht/President, VivaKi Nerve Center
Dev Patel/VP, Advertiser & Publisher Solutions, Yahoo! 
Moderator: Brian Morrissey/Digital Editor, Adweek  


13:00    Lunch 


14:30    BREAKOUTS 1 

"Tablet TV" Medium cool? 
Ian McClelland/Head of New Media, RTL Group
Bruno Patino/Director General, Digital & Strategy, France Televisions
Emil Rensing/CDO, Studio 3 Partners/Epix
Adam Valkin/Accel Partners
Paul Wehrley/COO Clicker
Ido Wiesenberg/Co-Founder & VP Business Development, Tvinci
Moderator: Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz


"My Marketing" Mining the social graph 
Reggie Bradford/CEO Vitrue
Werner Brell/Chief Digital Officer, Red Bull Media House
Eric Hippeau/CEO Huffington Post
Mike Jones/CEO MySpace
Mike Lazerow/CEO Buddy Media
Jenny Zeszut/Chief Social Strategist, Lithium
Moderator: Greg Stuart/Global CEO, Mobile Marketing Association


"Musical Chairs" Vision, SVP?
Scott Cohen/Co-Founder & VP International, The Orchard
Fred Davis/Founding Partner, CODE Advisors
Ulrich Jaerkel/SVP Digital & Commercial, Sony Music
Faisal Galaria/Head of Global Business Development Spotify
Moderator: Mike Masnick/Founder, Techdirt & Floor64

"Planet of the Apps" Going mobile 
Alistair Crane/CEO, Grapple Mobile 
Rajeev Goel/CEO Pubmatic
Paran Johar/CMO JumpTap
Jon Vlassopulos/CEO Skyrockit
Nick Wiggin/Head of Advertising Strategy & Partnerships, Ericsson
Moderator: John Gauntt/MD Media Dojo


"The New New Journalism" 
Luca Ascani/Co-Founder & Chairman, Populis
Jim Bankoff/CEO SB Nation
Len Brody/President, Clarity Digital Group/Examiner.com
Burt Herman/CEO Storify
Upendra Shardanand/Founder & CEO, Daylife
Darian Shirazi/Founder & CEO, Fwix   
Moderator: Jenny 8 Lee/Knight News Challenge



15:30 BREAKOUTS 2


"Channel Busters" Video unleashed  
Raj Amin/Co-Founder & CEO Healthination

Alex Blum/CEO KickApps 
Allen DeBevoise/CEO Machinima.com
Jon Goldman/CEO Qlipso
Ran Harnevo/CEO 5MIN 
Jim Louderback/CEO Revision3 
Moderator: Andy Plesser, Beet.tv


"Kinect for Xbox360" Future of the living room  
Bella Archaya/International Director, Xbox Advertising, Microsoft


"Socialism" Soul in the machine 
Immad Akhund/Founder & CEO Heyzap
Gilles Barbier/CEO Tellmewhere
Jyri Engeström/Founder & CEO Pingpin
Andrej Nabergoj/CEO Outfit7
Ory Okolloh/Founder & Executive Director, Ushahidi
Shervin Pishevar/Founder & Executive Chairman, SGN
Moderator: Sarah Szalavitz/CEO 7Robot


"The Privacy Bomb" What to do about data? 
Vincent Ducrey/Special Adviser for New Technologies, Ministry of Education, France
Joelle Firijters/CEO & Co-Founder, Improve Digital
Alex Kelleher/Founder & CEO, Cognitive Match
Alain Lévy/CEO Weborama
Randy Nicolau/CEO & Co-Founder, Demdex
Amiad Solomon/Foundr & President, Peer39
Moderator: John Clippinger/Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, Harvard University


"Apps, Walls & Windows" Up from paid vs free?
James Bilefield/President, Digital, Conde Nast International
Nancy Cruickshank/Executive Director, Digital Development, Telegraph Media Group
Richard Titus/MD Octavian Ventures
Michael Wolff/Editorial Director, Adweek Group
Moderator: Larry Kramer, Author, "C-Scape"


17:00  Keynote - "Going Mobile"
Think different
Darren Huston/CVP, Global Consumer & Online, Microsoft

Conversation - "Social Capital"
Betting big on brave new worlds
Yuri Milner/CEO and Founding Partner, Digital Sky Technologies talks with Michael Wolff/Editorial Director, Adweek Media Group 


20:30 Gala Dinner & MMF Prize Award

Salle Empire, Hotel de Paris

After-Party hosted by Yahoo!
Grimaldi Forum


FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER

09:00   "New Waves"
From the leading edge
Sporting Monte-Carlo 


Panel  -  "Analyze This" 
What do we know & when do we know it? 
Magid Abraham/CEO, comScore 
Steve Hasker/President, Media Product Leadership & Advertiser Solutions, The Nielsen Company 
Jeff Levick/President, Global Advertising & Strategy, AOL
Eran Shir/Founder & CTO, Dapper

Moderator:  Dave Morgan/Founder & CEO, Simulmedia  

Keynotel - ""Mobile First"
What do we know & when do we know it? 
Carlo d'Asaro Biondo/VP Southern & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa with Hugo Barra/Director, Mobile Product Management, Google


Conversation - "Faster Track"
The view from Europe
Neelie Kroes/Vice President for the Digital Agenda, European Commission talks with Patience Wheatcroft/Editor in Chief, Europe, The Wall Street Journal


Coffee break


Conversation - "Ones & Zeros"
Making digital work
James Murdoch, Chief Executive, Europe & Asia, News Corp talks with Aryeh Bourkoff, Vice Chairman - Global Head of TMT, UBS

Roundtable - "Sky Writing"
Building brands in a mobilized world
Cathy Davies/VP, Brand & Communications Global Marketing, Sony Ericsson
Babs Rangaiah/VP Global Communications Planning, Unilever
Greg Stuart/Global CEO, Mobile Marketing Association
Moderator: Michael Kassan/Chairman & CEO, Media Link


Panel  - "Silicon Envy"
Will Europe ever build the next new media giant?
Mike Butcher/Editor, TechCrunch Europe
Esther Dyson/Chairman, EDventure Holdings
Jonathan Knee/Senior MD, Evercore Partners
Erel Margalit/Founder & Managing Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners
Moderator: John Gapper/Associate Editor, Chief Business Commentator, Financial Times

13:00 Closing Lunch

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