Getting Under the Radar

In my roles at both Mediabolic and Sling Media I gained a lot of exposure to speaking at conference, and had chances to join numerous industry visionaries on a variety of panels.  I’ve talked about the Digital Home to audiences as small as 20, and demoed a pre-production Slingbox to hundreds of engineers (well, until someone on stage with me accidentally broke it, but I covered for that).  I’ve always enjoyed public speaking, especially when it’s with a group of peers with interesting things to discuss and debate. 

But it’s not nearly as interesting if the panelists have too much of a “sell my company” agenda, or the moderators aren’t actively moderating – and I’ve sat through hours of both.  In two weeks, I’m going to participate in the Under the Radar: Entertainment and Media conference in Mountain View, CA.  Click here to register for the event. I’m particularly excited about this event because I once presented at an IBD (now Dealmaker Media) event for Mediabolic, and last year did the Momentum event for Sling.  Nice to keep it ‘all in the family’ like that, eh?

For those of you using feed readers, here’s a quick list of the presenting companies (as of the time of writing):

Adap.tv | Bunchball | ChaCha | CrazyEgg | Criteo | Cruxy | Doppelganger | Flowplay | Fora.tv | Hothead Games | iLike | Kaneva |  Kongregate | Meez | MOG | mPire | Multiverse | Pluggd | PolarRose |  PowerReviews | ReverbNation | ScanScout | SplashCast | Splice | ThisNext | Ustream.TV | Vidmeter | Visible Measures | Wize | XLNTAds | YuMe Networks | Zattoo

And the list of judges/presenters:

• John Balen, General Partner, Canaan Partners

• Chris Carvalho, Director, Business Development, Lucasfilm

• Sean Crawford, Director, Home Services, Orange FT Group

• Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst, Rutberg

• Simon Hayhurst,  Director, Product Management,  Adobe

• David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital  

• Steven Horowitz, VP, Media Innovation, Yahoo!

• Sam Klepper, GM, MSN Media Network Group

• Steven Li, WebEx

• Doug MacMillan, Forum Nokia Americas

• Alexander Marquez, Director, Strategic Investments, Intel Capital

• Rafe Needleman, www.webware.com

• Chris Pirillo – Lockergnome.com

• Jeremy Toeman, www.livedigitally.com

• Jeff Yapp, Executive Vice President, MTV Networks Music & Logo Enterprise Group

C’mon, that’s a pretty outstanding list of companies and individuals.  If you work in the digital media, convergence, “digital home” or any other related space, you need to come!  All the cool kids’ll be there!

If you don’t come, we’ll be talking about you, and trust me – it won’t be pretty.