MMF 2008 PROGRAM

"MEDIA EVERYWHERE: THRIVING ON DISRUPTION"

WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER

18:30  Welcome Cocktail & Dinner, Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
"Le Defi Americain":  the best of Napa and beyond, hosted by Accel Partners

21:00  NIGHTCAP: "Bits & Bold Type"/Tina Brown, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast talks with Larry Kramer, Polaris Ventures


THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER

9.00 Welcome by HSH Prince Albert II

9.10  SHOWCASE: "New Waves: Live From the Front Lines"  
Playfish/COO Sebastien de Halleux
Peer 39/CEO Amiad Solomon
OffBeat Guides/CEO David Sifry
Tumri/CEO Calvin Lui
SocialMedian/CEO Jason Goldberg

10:00  KEYNOTE: "State of the Mediasphere" Jeffrey Cole/USC Center for the Digital Future

10.20  Coffee break

10:40  PANEL: "The Rise & Rise of Distributed Media" Presentation by Theresia Gouw Ranzetta/Accel Partners, followed by discussion w/Samir Arora/CEO Glam Media, Tim Cadogan/CEO OpenX & Suranga Chandratillake/CEO Blinkx.  Moderator: Spencer Reiss/Wired

11:20  PANEL: "Open Mobile"  Alvin Wang Graylin/CEO minfo, Omar Hamoui/CEO AdMob, Alexandre Mars/CEO PhoneValley & Head of Mobile, Publicis Groupe, Federico Pisani Massamormile/CEO Hanzo & Jon Medved/CEO Vringo.  Moderator: Rich Wong/Accel Partners

12:00  CONVERSATION:  "Big TV In a YouTube World"  Ben Silverman/Vice Chair, NBC Television & Mark Thompson/Director-General BBC talk with Michael Wolff/Media Columnist, Vanity Fair

13.00 LUNCH sponsored by Vivendi
PRESENTATION: "Piracy & Regulation" Sylvie Forbin, SVP Corporate Affairs, Vivendi

14.15   BREAKOUTS 1

15:15 Breakouts 2

16:15  COFFEE BREAK

16:40  CONVERSATION: "Think Locally, Act Globally" James Murdoch/CEO News International Europe & Asia talks with Rich Greenfield/Pali Capital

17:20  PANEL: "The Two-Way Audience" Toby Coppel/MD Yahoo Europe, Denmark West/President, Digital Media, BET Networks, Ira Rubenstein/EVP Global Digital Media, Marvel Entertainment & Curt Hecht/Pres Vivaki. Moderator: Simon Waldman/Group Director, Digital Strategy, Guardian Media Group

18:00  CONVERSATION: "Social Marketing" Travis Katz/MD International MySpace & Babs Rangaiah/Director, Global Communications Planning, Unilever talk with Michael Kassan/MediaLink

20:00  Cocktail & 2008 Monaco Media Prize Award Dinner, Hotel de Paris
WELCOME: John Rossant, Exec Chair/PublicisLive
INTRODUCTION: Maurice Levy/MMF 2008 Co-Chair, Chairman & CEO Publicis Groupe
PRESENTATION: HSH Prince Albert II & 2008 MMF prize winner Lawrence Lessig/Co-Founder, Creative Commons

22:00  After-party at Moods music bar, hosted by MySpace

FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER

9.00 DEMO SHOWCASE: "New Waves 2"
AdMob/CEO Omar Hamoui
MediaEquals/CEO Martin Banbury 
vpod.TV/CEO Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
DayLife/VP Strategy Tom Tercek
PressDisplay/Director of Strategy Igor Smirnoff
Joost/CEO Mike Volpi

9:45  KEYNOTE: "Internet 2018: The Road Ahead" Nikesh Arora/President, Google EMEA

10:15 Coffee break

10:35  PANEL: "On Target" Presentation by Avinash Kaushik/Google Analytics, with discussion by Alain Levy/CEO Weborama, Dean Denheart/CEO BlackArrow & Auren Hoffman/CEO Rapleaf. Moderator: Tim Hanlon/EVP & MD Ventures, Vivaki

11:15  PANEL: "The Revolution Will Be Streamed" Henrique de Castro/Director Sales & Operations, Google EMEA,  Nancy Cruickshank, Global CEO, VideoJug, Dina Kaplan/COO Blip.tv, Mike Volpi/CEO Joost & Dan Scheinman, General Manager, Cisco Media Solutions. Moderator: Jack Myers/Editor & Publisher, Jack Myers Reports

11:55 PRESENTATION: "Some Rights Reserved" Lawrence Lessig/Professor, Stanford Law School & Co-Founder, Creative Commons

12:20 CONVERSATION: "The Digital Imperative"  MMF 2008 Co-Chairs Maurice Levy/Publicis Groupe & Niklas Zennstrom/Joost & Atomico talk with Lionel Barber/Editor, Financial Times

13.00 LUNCH
SPEAKER: "Content & Devices: Married...With Children"  Gary Shapiro/CEO Consumer Electronics Assn

14.15  BREAKOUTS 3

15:15  COFFEE BREAK

15:40  PANEL: "The Money Crunch" Jonathan Goodwin/Head of Global Media, Jefferies, Michael Garin/CEO Central European Media Enterprises, Jeff Montgomery/Managing Partner, GMT Communications, Jane Thompson/MD International IAC/InterActive Corp & Makram Azar/Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.  Moderator: Norman Pearlstine/CCO Bloomberg

16:20  PANEL: "Shock of the New: Building the Next Disruption"  Joe Schoendorf/Accel Partners, with discussion by Esther Dyson/EDventure Holdings, & Niklas Zennstrom/Partner Atomico & Co--Chairma Joost . Moderator: Spencer Reiss/Wired

17:00 Closing Cocktail hosted by Publicis Groupe

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Now in its fourth year, MMF brings together leaders of new and old media for two and a half days of high-level discussions about the future of online, broadcast and print communications. Hosted by HSH Prince Albert II, the invitation-only event focuses on emerging opportunities in technology, distribution and content, along with related developments in marketing and finance.

MMF 2008 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
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