Speakers

Aleiza Alerta, Director, Digital Communications, Digital, Carat Digital
Aleiza began her career at Carat Canada as a media planner in 2002. Her passion for new technologies led her to the digital world. In 2003 Aleiza applied her exemplary planning skills to online strategy, planning and execution. Aleiza rapidly ... [more ]

Michael Barry, New Media Consultant, Mb Media
Michael Barry’s 16 year career in the Canadian broadcast industry has taken him from technical operator duties for Astral Television Networks in the early 90’s to the Multiplatform Content Leadership today.

During 8 years at the Astral family, Michael ... [more ]

David Beaton, Senior Partner & CEO, Custometrics
David Beaton is the Senior Partner and CEO of Custometrics, an innovator in high-performance marketing analytics. Custometrics’ clients include some of North America’s leading brands, who rely on Custometrics’ ROI management technology, predictive modeling, and optimization algorithms to help make ... [more ]

Susan Bonds, Chief Executive Officer, 42 Entertainment
Susan Bonds is 42 Entertainment's President and CEO, responsible for leading the teams that design, create, and execute 42's unique immersive experiences. Susan has more than 20 years of experience as a producer in the entertainment, gaming and technology industries.
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Rita Carbone Fleury, Marketing & Business Development, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
As a Content Strategist for traditional and multi-platform media, Rita Carbone Fleury’s role is to take successful producers and turn them into international content players. Her responsibilities include: creation and implementation of multi-platform content strategies; forecasting of future content trends; ... [more ]

Michael Carter, President, MyThum Interactive Inc.
Michael Carter is the founder, President and CEO of MyThum Interactive, a North American leader in interactive mobile media. MyThum enables brands and media companies to build direct interactive relationships with more than 250 million consumers through their mobile devices. ... [more ]

Joe Casale, President and CEO, Casale Media
Joe Casale, described by many as an entrepreneurial technophile, has been involved in the research and development of ground-breaking communication technology solutions for over 30 years. He has spearheaded an impressive list of industry firsts since entering the field of ... [more ]

Jason Chaney, Director, Emerging Platform Ventures, Content, Corus Entertainment
As Director, Emerging Platform Ventures, Jason identifies new opportunities for exploratory growth across the Corus Network through acquisition, partnership and organic development.

Previous to this role, Jason was the Executive Producer Content, Corus Television Interactive, where he headed ... [more ]

Francis Chang, Partner, Corporate, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Francis is a corporate lawyer with significant experience in the media, private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and entertainment areas. Prior to joining Blakes, Francis was based in Hong Kong where he worked as vice-president and deputy general counsel ... [more ]

Andrew Cherwenka, VP, Biz Dev, Trapeze
Andrew Cherwenka is Vice President Business Development at Trapeze, a Webby award-winning interactive marketing agency recognized in 2007 by Profit Magazine as one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies.

Trapeze builds online brand experiences that drive results. Global and ... [more ]

Patrick Crowe, President, Xenophile Media
A producer, writer, game designer and filmmaker, Patrick is President of Xenophile Media, a Toronto-based cross platform production company with clients ranging from Disney to BBC.
Xenophile’s best-known productions include the Primetime Emmy ® Award-winning Fallen Alternate Reality Game ... [more ]

Trevor Doerksen, CEO & Founder, Production, MoboVivo Inc.
Trevor has been at the intersection of media and technology for nearly 20 years. He has investigated and developed large-scale implementations of streaming video and Internet TV for government and industry. His graduate research into flexible e-content and content repurposing ... [more ]

Nader Elm, Senior Director, Strategy & Development, Rogers Digital Media, Rogers Media
Nader Elm is Senior Director, Strategy and Development, Rogers Digital Media. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing the strategic direction for the Digital Media group as well as identifying and orchestrating the growth of the business.
Mr. Elm ... [more ]

Mark Ferrier, Founding Partner, TRAFFIKGroup
Mark Ferrier is the founding partner of TRAFFIKGroup, a marketing services firm focused on solving client business problems with BIG ideas. TRAFFIKGroup’s ideas help companies to solve business problems that inspire, motivate and activate people to engage clients’ brands, and ... [more ]

Dominique-Sebastien Forest, General Manager, Digital Media and e-Commerce, QMI
As General Manager Digital Media and E-Commerce, Dominique-Sébastien Forest is responsible for Canoe's digital content, social media, online dating, search and wireless distribution strategy. He is also in charge of building and operating a new e-commerce global environment for Quebecor ... [more ]

Angus Frame, Group Director, Digital Media, globeandmail.com
Mr. Frame has been with The Globe and Mail since 1996 in various capacities in the news and Report on Business sections. He moved to globeandmail.com in 2000 as Deputy Editor in charge of business coverage and became the site's ... [more ]

Diana Gallo, Interactive + Social Media Manager, Cineplex Entertainment
Di Gallo is the Interactive Marketing, Promotions + Social Media manager for Cineplex.com. In this role she is responsible for the marketing of cinplex.com (which includes online | mobile ticketing, promotions, content, community, user generated + member contests, video etc) ... [more ]

Greg Goodfried, President and COO, EQAL, Inc.
Greg Goodfried is the Co-Founder, President and COO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and co-created and executive produced the online video series “lonelygirl15,” “KateModern,” and most recently, “LG15: The Resistance.”

While practicing law as a first-year associate ... [more ]

Stacey Grant-Thompson, VP Strategic Projects, Strategic Projects, Rogers Wireless
Stacey Grant-Thompson is a marketing executive with extensive experience in strategy development, branding and CRM. Currently, she is Vice-President, Strategic Projects for Rogers Wireless. In that role, Stacey leads the assessment of critical strategic initiatives impacting the business in the ... [more ]

Mark Greenspan, Director, Digital Media, Achilles Media Ltd.
Mark Greenspan is Director of Digital Media for Achilles Media and was previously Conference Program Producer for nextMEDIA 2006. He is a new media producer and educator with a decade's worth of experience in the field. During this time he ... [more ]

Sunny Handa, Partner, Intellectual Property, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Sunny Handa is a Partner and co-head of both the Firm's Information Technology (IT) Group and the Firm's India Practice Group. Sunny has a substantial practice in mergers and acquisitions of technology companies and also deals with information technology, intellectual ... [more ]

Maura Hanley, Managing Director, Interactive, MediaCom
Maura Hanley brings nineteen years experience to her role as Managing Director at MediaCom Canada. For the past ten years she has been developing our direct response and interactive services, bringing in top talent and state of the art tools. ... [more ]

Kate Hanley, President, Digital Theory Media Consulting
Kate Hanley, President of Digital Theory Media Consulting, is a lawyer and leading digital entertainment strategist with over eighteen years of executive experience in the content industries. Digital Theory assists media players extend their brand, develop new business channels and ... [more ]

Jordan Hoffner, Director, Content Partnerships, YouTube
Jordan Hoffner is currently the head of content partnerships at YouTube. He is mainly responsible for establishing content partnerships with all verticals in the television and broadcast sector, including networks, station groups, cable networks and multi-service operators as well as ... [more ]

Jennifer Hutcheson, Customer Experience Manager, Volkswagen Canada

Nick Johnson, Vice President, Digital Media Sales, NBC Universal
Nick Johnson was named Vice President, Digital Media Sales for NBC Universal in February 2007. In addition to leading and coordinating sales and marketing strategies across all of the company's digital properties, he oversees the national sales force for NBC ... [more ]

Richard Kanee, Director, Business Development, Digital Media Group, CTV
Richard Kanee is Director of Business for CTV Digital. He joined the company in 1999.
Kanee oversees all aspects of digital content strategy and business development across the family of CTV television and radio properties with a focus on digital ... [more ]

Raja Khanna, Co-CEO, GlassBOX Television Inc.
As Co-CEO of GlassBOX Raja helps drive the company’s mandate to launch new channels and capture market share in the digitally-savvy 18-34 year-old demographic. While directly managing the forthcoming launch of GlassBOX’s next channel Raja is also responsible for legal, ... [more ]

Alexandra Levy, Director, Branded Entertainment, Google
Alex Levy leads the new Branded Entertainment initiative at Google, which is focused on creating innovative branded entertainment solutions for advertisers. Using her previous experience in business development, Alex’s team manages content partner relationships and sponsor sales and helps to ... [more ]

Marina Mann, e-Marketing and e-Commerce Specialist, Marina Mann is an independent digital Marketing consultant specializing in e-Commerce and building online businesses. Marina has 11 years experience producing and monetizing interactive, high-tech customer experiences for entertainment, retail and telco brands. In 2007, Marina led Virgin Mobile Canada's ... [more ]

Robert Montgomery, CEO, Achilles Media Ltd.
Robert Montgomery is the CEO of Achilles Media Ltd. in Toronto, an events and information company that produces some of the world's leading media events including the Banff World Television Festival, the History Makers: International Summit of History and Current ... [more ]

Caroline Moul, Digital Group Manager, PHDiQ, PHD Canada
Caroline manages the Toronto chapter of PHDiQ and has been singled out by Strategy Magazine as one of Canada's brightest young media stars. Caroline's expertise is online, but her main strength is marrying that expertise to real business insight. ... [more ]

Brady Murphy, Managing Partner, Vortex Mobile
Brady is a founder and managing partner of Vortex Mobile. Since 2004, Brady has been leading Vortex's sales and marketing efforts and has acted as the company's chief evangelist for all things mobile marketing. His expertise lies in leveraging mobile ... [more ]

Brad Murphy, VP Sales, Revision3
Brad Murphy is the Vice President of Sales for Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation. A seasoned sales executive, Murphy has more than ten years of experience in the advertising industry. Prior to Revision3, Murphy worked at UGO ... [more ]

Nadia Nascimento, Product Strategist, memelabs video contest platform
Nadia is a strategist, project manager, and filmmaker with 9 years of experience in advertising and production in both new and traditional media and is currently the memelabs Product Manager for Invoke responsible for business development, campaign management, and content ... [more ]

Pamela Ouellette, Brand Manager, Molson Canadian, Marketing, Molson Canada
Pamela Ouellette is a Brand Manager for Molson Canadian, Molson Canada’s flagship beer. In her role, Pamela helps set the foundation for the brand and how its personality and essence are articulated to the Canadian marketplace. This includes authoring brand ... [more ]

Shelton Palmer, Managing Director, Advanced Media Ventures Group
Shelly Palmer, Managing Director, Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC, is an award-winning inventor, technologist, composer and television producer and the host of his own daily video show. He invented Enhanced Television (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Monday Night Football), ... [more ]

Will Pate, Community Manager/Evangelist, VenCorps/ConceptShare
Will Pate is a venture capitalist, technology entrepreneur, and social media personality. He has been a technology entrepreneur since co-founding his first business, Infinity BBS, in elementary school. In 2005, he co-founded Raincity Studios, Vancouver's premiere social media firm. In ... [more ]

Ilona Posner, Usability Consultant, CFC Media Lab
Ilona Posner is a Usability Consultant and on Faculty at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab. She strives to improve the users’ experience by making technology more usable and useful. Working in Human Computer Interaction for over 20 years, Ilona ... [more ]

David Purdy, Vice President, Television Products, Rogers Cable
David Purdy is Vice President and General Manager Television Products at Rogers Cable. He has an extensive back ground in the Television industry, and has helped launch several Canadian Specialty Channels including Discovery Channel Canada, The Comedy Network, OLN Canada, ... [more ]

Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo
Mark Ruddock joins Viigo as President and CEO after having worked with the team for a number of months in his capacity as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ventures West.

Mark Ruddock came to Ventures West in 2006 after the acquisition of ... [more ]

Gary Schwartz, CEO, Impact Mobile
Gary Schwartz founded Impact Mobile in 2002 having worked in the IT and telecommunications industry for over 20 years. Gary developed programming for the first satellite networks in Japan with Asahi and Dentsu broadcast and media divisions. Over the past ... [more ]

Lori H. Schwartz, SVP, Director of the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab
As SVP and Director of the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab, Lori provides consultation and solution recommendations for the latest in broadband, wireless, and emerging media for Interpublic’s global client roster. Lori was instrumental in the establishment of the lab and ... [more ]

Bryan Segal, Vice President, Comscore Media Metrix
Presently, working at comScore Media Metrix as the Vice President of Canada, Bryan has a pulse on electronic media, the future of the Internet and its full spectrum. His love of statistics and Sociology at McGill University allow Bryan a ... [more ]

David Silverberg, Managing Editor, Editorial, DigitalJournal.com
David Silverberg is the Managing Editor of DigitalJournal.com and the Associate Producer of Digital Journal TV. DigitalJournal.com, which also offers a mobile site at DigitalJournal.mobi, is a citizen journalism news network based in Toronto.

A shameless Web 2.0 ... [more ]

Eli Singer, Independent Consultant, Social media, Branding, Community Building, Eli Singer is an independent consultant specializing in social media, branding, community building and disruptive innovation. His current clients include the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Ontario Chamber of Commerce and through Social Media Group, Ford Motor Company and TVO. ... [more ]

Dave Stevens, General Manager, MySpace Canada
Dave Stevens is the newly appointed General Manager of MySpace Canada. In this role, Stevens is responsible for overseeing strategy and operations for the MySpace Canada community.
Based at MySpace headquarters in Toronto, Stevens will lead the development of content, ... [more ]

Tomer Strolight, President, Torstar Digital
Tomer Strolight oversees all digital corporate development and strategy for Torstar Digital, the Toronto Star and Star Media Group, including: toronto.com, ourfaves.com, thestar.com, Wheels.ca, Workopolis, the Publishing Technology Group, Olive Canada Network, eyeReturn Marketing, online classified and online product development. ... [more ]

Missy Suicide, Co-Founder, SuicideGirls
Combining her love of pin-up photography, music and art with personal ideals of female empowerment nurtured in DIY culture, co-creator Missy founded SuicideGirls as a place where a woman can be herself and her confidence, creativity and uniqueness are what ... [more ]

Mark Thompson, Director, Mobile, The Weather Network
No stranger to Mobile product and service launches, Mark Thompson leads the Mobile team at Pelmorex with a wealth of experience in strategy creation, execution, market forecasting and partner collaboration.

Thompson’s reputation for integrating business goals, brand building and ... [more ]

Warren Tomlin, Chief Creative Officer, Fuel Industries
As Fuel Industries’ Chief Creative Officer, Warren Tomlin provides the solid strategy and creative direction necessary to keep Fuel on the cutting edge of branded entertainment. Bringing over a decade of business and marketing experience to his role, Warren leads ... [more ]

David U.K., Managing Director, Worldwide, Heavy.com
David U.K., a 16-year media veteran is the Managing Director of Heavy.com in Canada overseeing Heavy’s Canadian operations, including all revenue, ad sales, affiliate relations, content licensing and distribution. This is the first International division for the company outside of ... [more ]

Peter Vaz, VP Director, Digital Communications, M2 Universal
I am passionate about providing clients with integrated and effective approach to using Digital media.

I began my media career in India in 1989 and in three years rose to the position of Media Manager by consistently providing keen ... [more ]

Clyde Wagner, Founding Partner, Sweet Caesar Inc.
Clyde is responsible for managing Sweet Caesar's administration, financial and market development.

Clyde's experience includes general manager, LuminaTO, the Toronto Festival for Arts, Culture and Creativity including the launch of the Festival in 2007. Clyde was associate creative ... [more ]

Barbara Williams, Executive Vice President, Content, Canwest
Since joining Canwest in February 2005 as Senior Vice President of Programming and Production, Barbara Williams has overseen a succession of landmark projects come to fruition for both conventional and specialty television. From the creation of stellar Canadian original productions ... [more ]

Ryan Wolman, Creative Director, Creative, Henderson Bas
Ryan thinks the web is the best toy ever. Before joining henderson bas as Creative Director, he spent 10 years as a web pusher at top-notch agencies like 10plus1 and Maclaren MacCann. Dedicated to epic creative that gets results beyond ... [more ]

Gary Yentin, Executive Consultant, QuattroWireless
Gary Yentin has been consulting with media and advertising companies over the last ten years in developing and executing strategies that monetize their core assets into mobile revenue generating properties. Most recently, Gary worked in the role of Vice-President at ... [more ]