Kitty Kolding is the CEO of House Party, Inc., a leading consumer activation and experiential marketing company that engages thousands of qualified consumer advocates to host in-home parties featuring a brand or product, and to spread the word further via a customized online community. Since taking the reins in 2007, Kolding has led House Party to profitability and dramatic growth, tripling the firm’s revenue for the past three consecutive years. Under her leadership, House Party has broadened its word-of-mouth products and services, expanded from the U.S. into 11 other countries, and penetrated several major industries, all while increasing its repeat-business rate among clients – blue chips such as Kraft Foods, Disney, Ford, Microsoft, and P&G – to over 60%.

Kolding has been quoted across major media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Fast Company, Variety, Advertising Age, Adweek, Brandweek and Event Marketer Magazine. She has been a featured speaker at leading industry conferences, such as the WOMMA Summit, Digital Hollywood, and the American Marketing Association events.

Aimee Viles is Vice President of New Media, Bravo Media, where she is responsible for supervising Bravo’s New Media department, including all wireless, interactive TV, gaming, and other emerging media initiatives. Prior to joining Bravo, Viles served as Director of Creative Services at Ensequence, a premiere provider of internet TV products and services, responsible for building revenue generating business services for programming and advertising partners and spearheading development for new business ventures. Her clients included NBC, Bravo, MTV, Nickelodeon, ESPN, GSN, Showtime, AETN, CNN, Nike, Ford, Sony, and Verizon. She also honed her skills at UK-based Vodafone, where she was responsible for content strategy and programming plans for the mobile provider’s internet applications and products.Viles graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and currently resides in New York City.

Brian Rogers is the Founder and CEO of evenhere, Inc. Rogers founded the company and began designing the company's platform in Minneapolis, MN in 2002 and moved the company to New York City in 2009. Rogers has 15 years of experience in the retail and computer software industries, building and managing profitable large scale ecommerce businesses. He founded and managed the ecommerce business for the leading leather retailer Wilsons Leather; during his time there he was also instrumental in developing the company's television product placement process and relationships. Rogers later went on to co-found Objix, Inc., a company that developed an online municipal bond management system for brokerage firms. Rogers also led the operations for the next generation of enterprise search functionality for the internet division of Best Buy, Inc.

Rogers' interest in technology and entrepreneurial spirit has been with him since early childhood. At age 10, Rogers was writing software code for video games and staying abreast of the hottest technologies. Rogers' inspiration to found evenhere evolved from his passions for the arts, the efficiencies of technology and his retail experience. 

Rogers holds a B.A. in Economics from Denison University.

As Chief Product Officer and co-founder of FourthWall Media, Ellen Dudar leads a seasoned product team that has launched Emmy-nominated, new media products to millions of homes since 2003. Ellen’s latest products include Ad Widgets® and TV Widgets®. Ad Widgets delivers targeted interactive advertising, measurement, and reporting to the 30-second spot through the latest EBIF and SCTE-130 industry specifications. TV Widgets is a portfolio of interactive programming that includes hundreds of individual widgets that drive viewer engagement, growth and revenue on TV.

Prior to founding FourthWall, Ellen worked as a technical manager in Oracle's System Performance Group, providing direction to critical accounts in the areas of system architecture design, database design, capacity planning, and performance management. Ellen also worked for Lockheed Martin as an application architect, and PRC Inc. as a software development manager on the International Space Station.

Walden Miller is one of the principal founders of enableTV and has contributed significantly to the company's success. Walden is responsible for product strategy and management, QA, Documentation, Training, and Support. Walden has championed the development of DV-TIDE and ETV cablewidgets for enableTV. Previously, Walden was one of the founders of Vidiom Systems, Inc.    As VP of Engineering Services, Walden helped the company build a documentation, testing, and training corps, in addition to personally writing authoring tool manuals, API manuals, training modules, and ITV specifications.   Walden was also responsible for project management and application production. Prior to joining Vidiom, Walden was with Philips Media/OptImage, where he managed the technical documentation department, directed multimedia CD productions, and coordinated other engineering services. Walden has worked in the RTOS and ITV industry for over 25 years. His work history includes enableTV, Vidiom Systems, XAOS Tools, Philips/OptImage, and Microware.

A 17-year cable vet, Jeff Baumgartner has never once been embarrassed that he owes his career and much of his happy post-college life to an industry that so many people love to hate.

Jeff got his start in cable in 1992 flacking for Jones Education Networks, an umbrella company that operated full-time education and technology programming networks that have since gone away or been absorbed by a bigger programmer.   He left in 1998 to sip a cup of coffee at what's now Starz Entertainment, where he wrote and developed trade advertising, and pretty much had no role or influence in that company's success.  But he learned a valuable lesson: marketing was not for him.

In 1998, Jeff finally got his big chance to do something with his journalism degree when he was named Denver Bureau Chief of CableFAX Daily, where he penned lots of implication leads, rarely wrote a story longer than 300 words, but learned a lot about cable technology along the way, and actually started to like the subject.

He got to flex his tech muscles in 2000 when he joined CED Magazine  as an associate editor, then later took over the tech beat at Multichannel News.  He later returned to CED, eventually rising to Editor in Chief, and ruled that pub with an iron fist. 

When his swelling ego reached a size that no longer allowed him to enter the front door there, the fine folks at Light Reading  took him down a notch in April 2007 to take over the day-to-day editorial needs of Cable Digital News.