Budapest Parliament Hall. This would be an awesome place for a smart TV conference!
Just like my Future of TV Newsletter (thanks to all the subscribers – wow!), I thought it would be helpful for all my peers to create a list of all the events I’m tracking this Fall that have anything to do with Smart, Social, or Connected TV. That said, I’m sure I’m missing some (please email, tweet, or comment if you know of any!). The list below also includes some of the speakers that are presenting, though is incomplete (I only had so much room on the page, sorry to anyone I cut – it wasn’t personal. Well, mostly.).
The Future of #SocialTV – Sept 14 – New York City
Speakers include:
- Brian Stelter, TV & Digital Media Reporter at The New York Times ( @BrianStelter)
- Mark Ghuneim, CEO of Wiredset/Trendrr, @MarkGhuneim
- Valerie Streit, Strategist at YouTube/NextNew, @ValStreit
- Ryan Osborn, Director of Social Media at NBC News, @Rozzy
- Alex Iskold, Founder & CEO of Get Glue, @AlexIskold
Lean Back – Sept 14 – San Francisco
Demos by:
Digital Home Summit – Sept 27/28 – Orlando
Speakers include:
- Farhan Abid, Research Analyst, Parks Associates
- Bernie Arnason, Managing Partner, Pivot Media LLC
- Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation
- John Civiletto, Executive Director of Platform Architecture, Cox
- Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory, The Diffusion Group
- John Griffin, Senior Director, Online Media, Dolby Laboratories
- Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Yahoo!
- Alan Smith, Senior Product Manager, DirecTV
- Jeremy Toeman, Chief Product Officer, Dijit
- Claude Tolbert, Vice President of Business Development, BitTorrent Inc.
- Bill Uliasz, Director – Home Networking, Verizon
2Screen – Sept 29 – London
Speakers include:
- LJ Rich, BBC News
- Andy Hood, AKQA
- David Flynn, Remarkable Television
- Russell Davies, R/GA London
TV Next 2011 – Oct 4-5 – San Jose
Speakers include:
- Sherry Brennan, FOX Networks
- Steven Reynolds, Comcast
- Eric Bruno, Verizon
- Jim Louderback, Revision3
- Larry Robinson, Motorola Mobility
- David Mcintosh, Redux
- Jeremy Toeman, Dijit
- Kurt Hoppe, LG Electronics
- Colin Dixon, The Diffusion Group
- Stephen White, Gracenote
- Richard Bullwinkle, Rovi
- Ryan Massie, CBS Interactive
The Connected TV Experience – Oct 11/12 – Chiswick/London
Speakers include:
- Anna Bateson, marketing director, EMEA at YouTube;
- Lesley MacKenzie, group digital officer, at LOVEFiLM;
- Anthony Rose, co-founder and CTO of Zeebox;
- Dan Saunders, head of content services at Samsung;
- Bjarne Thelin, chief executive, BARB;
- Nigel Walley, managing director of Decipher;
- Tom Wolfe, senior director, advanced advertising at Rovi.
Digital Hollywood Fall & the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit – Oct 17-20 – Los Angeles
Speakers include:
- Quincy Jones (yes, Quincy Jones!)
- Harshul Sanghi, Motorola Mobility Ventures
- Kerry Trainor, AOL
- Jeremy Toeman, Dijit
- Dan Cohen, Disney-ABC Domestic Television
- Stephan Shelanski, Starz Entertainment
- Leslie Wood, The Nielsen Company
- Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab Media
- Bill Gannon, Entertainment Weekly
- John Griffin, Dolby Laboratories
- Curt Marvis, Lionsgate
- Lance Koenders, Intel Corporation
- Kurt Hoppe, LG Electronics
Smart TV Europe – Nov 1/2 – London
Speakers include:
- Karla Gecki, Facebook
- Dan Saunders, Samsung
- Stacey Seltzer, LG Electronics
- Jordy Egging, Philips
- Eric Elia, Brightcove
- John Denton, BBC
- Yosi Glick, Jinni
- Anthony Rose, tBone TV
Streaming Media West 2011 – Nov 8/9 – Los Angeles
Speakers include:
- Chris Knowlton, Microsoft
- Michael Aragon, Sony Network Entertainment
- Fred Santarpia, VEVO
- John Civiletto, Cox Communications
- Donagh O’Malley, Google TV
- Paul Wehrley, Clicker.com
- Ran Harnevo, AOL Video
- Rob Roskin, MTV Networks
- Gilles BianRosa, Fanhattan
- Andrew Wallerstein, Variety
- Greg Sandoval, CNET
- Jim Funk, Roku
- Evan Young, TiVo
- Derrick, Oien, Chumby
TV of Tomorrow NYC Intensive 2011 – Dec 5 – New York City
Speaker list not yet finalized
Digital Living Room – Dec 7/8 – San Francisco
Speakers include:
- Ashish Arora, GM, Digital Home, Logitech International
- Ian Geller, VP, Business Development, Pandora
- Joe Greenstein, Co-Founder and CEO, Flixster
- Neal Hansch, Partner, Rustic Canyon Venture Partners
- Evan Krauss, EVP, Advertising, Shazam Entertainment
- Scott Levine, VP and Managing Director, Time Warner Investments
- David Schlacht, Sr. Director, Multimedia, DirecTV
- Jeremy Toeman, Chief Product Officer, Dijit
- Charles Seiber, VP, Marketing, Roku
- Paul Wehrley, General Manager, Clicker.com and TV.com, CBS Interactive