2010

Seth Haberman

CEO and Founder
Visible World

Under Seth’s vision and leadership, Visible World has emerged as a technology leader in the field of advanced video advertising by enabling new levels of automation and efficiency in the targeting, customization, trafficking and delivery of video ads. Seth Haberman founded Visible World in 2000 to transform advertising production and delivery to achieve greater relevance and effectiveness.

Under Seth’s leadership, Visible World was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy in 2007 for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising. Seth was featured for his pioneering thinking in Details Magazine’s 2007 Mavericks Issue, as well as in Media Magazine's 2004 “Top100 People to Know in Media

Seth's innovative approach to video advertising has been recognized by leading industry experts including Jack Myers, who identified Visible World as one of the top 25 media innovators of 2003. Seth has been featured as a speaker at The MIT Forum, the RVC Technology Conference, and at the ANA's Advertising Management committee meeting on "Innovations that Marketers Must Be Familiar With."

 Prior to founding Visible World, Seth was the CEO of Montage Group, an innovator in non-linear editing, networking video and tactile feedback and licensor of technology to leading manufacturers such as Avid and Apple. Montage's innovative work earned and Academy Award for technological achievement in 1987 and several Emmy Awards.

Dale Herigstad

Chief Creative Officer
Schematic

Dale Herigstad is an internationally recognized 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 has pioneered a unique spatial context approach to designing advanced navigation systems for Interactive TV and connected screens. From this work are emerging new content mediums that blur the line between TV and Games—and, in fact, Dale is currently engaged with a variety of Schematic teams to redefine what Television is becoming.

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.

Dale has taught Motion Graphics at California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, and UCLA. He is active with the AFI Digital Content Lab, and is a member of the TV Academy, AIGA, and ITA, and received one of the first [itvt] Interactive TV Leadership Awards and an [itvt] "All Star Award." Dale has 4 Emmy awards.

Arthur Orduna

Chief Technology Officer
Canoe Ventures

Arthur manages the engineering and technology team for Canoe Ventures. He helps drive the creation of shared technology processes and standards for more robust audience targeting, interactivity and measurement.

For more than 20 years, Arthur has worked in the media and interactive TV industries where he has helped develop critical initiatives with standard bodies, industry organizations and providers. He is an active member of SCTE, chaired the CableLabs Working Group, which developed the EBIF technical specification for enhanced television, and is a long-term advocate of open standards-based technologies and other cross-MSO projects. Before Canoe Ventures, Arthur was a Senior Vice President at Bright House Networks where he was responsible for leading the development of new technology-based products and services for video, high speed data, voice and wireless.

In 2009, Arthur received the Individual Leadership Award of the 6th Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television, which were presented at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009. This award is given to "an individual who demonstrated notable leadership in the interactive, multiplatform TV industry over the past year, and whose efforts helped move that industry forward." He is also a member of NAMIC and CTAM, from which he received a Rainmaker Award in 2005. Arthur has a B.A. from Cornell University and attended the MFA Graduate Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Leslie Ellis

Principal
"Translation-Please.com"

Leslie Ellis is an independent technology columnist, analyst, author, and owner of Ellis Edits, Inc., based in Denver, CO. Since September of 2000, she has written and continues to write a bi-weekly column for Multichannel News called "Translation Please," aimed at demystifying commonly-used cable and broadband technology terms

Ms. Ellis is Senior Technology Advisor to the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing. She received the National Cable Television Association's Vanguard Award for Associates & Affiliates in 2005.

Mike Ryan

CEO, Founder
A Different Engine

Mike Ryan has spent the last 15 years developing interactive applications, the last 9 years developing applications for TV. Most recently Mike has been working for TVWorks, a joint venture between Comcast and Cox communications developing their interactive television infrastructure. Mike led TVWorks’s Client Applications group’s development of Comcast’s first generation of ETV applications. Mike was intimately involved in all aspects of developing, testing and deploying these applications and help define much of the initial infrastructure. Mike also led the development of the Cox DCA interactive portal currently deployed in over 200,000 homes across the U.S.

Previous to TVWorks Mike worked for TechTV, a 24 hour, technology focused, cable network. At TechTV Mike was the lead engineer for their Interactive Television Group where Mike developed an interactive television, video on-demand portal for the CableVision IO service. Mike also developed an on-air interactive application deployed on Charter and DIRECTV’s Wink deployments. While at TechTV Mike designed and developed a system for creating a PC-based, online, synchronized-to-TV application system. Before leading interactive television development Mike also was crucial to the development of a website rebrand, redesign and deployment. Mike has also held developer roles at MeeVee.com, Excite@Home and Electronic Arts.

Mike has a Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television and an M.B.A (cum laude) both from San Francisco State University.

Suzanne Stefanac

Director of the AFI
Digital Content Lab

Will Kreth

Senior Director - Advanced Video Strategy (OEDN.net)
Time Warner Cable

 

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