Cyrus Allen Director, Customer Experience Telstra

Cyrus Allen is Director Customer Experience at Telstra, responsible for driving product experience excellence through embedding customers at the heart of product design. His role includes management of the user centered design activities, UI design and planning across Telstra's consumer, business and enterprise products and operational management of the new Telstra Experience Centre, a world-class customer engagement and demonstration facility.  Cyrus has extensive experience in the mobile domain, including product and business management at the local and global levels and sustains an ongoing fascination with the power of converged digital mediacommunications experiences to positively change people's lives.

Mark Bamber Director of Digital Viacom Brand Solutions International

Mark Bamber is the Director of Digital at Viacom Brand Solutions International, a division of MTV Networks International. He is primarily responsible for brand integration strategy and production of innovative online and mobile advertising and sponsorship campaigns across all of Viacom´s brands. Previously, Mark worked for MTV International as the Director of Mobile where he led the development and production of MTVNI’s core mobile content offer including Mobile TV, Video, WAP Sites, Personalisation and Games. Prior to MTV, Mark was the Mobile TV & Operations Manager at Vodafone Group where he managed the launch of Mobile TV and Video services across 18 international markets. Before Vodafone, Mark developed the BBC’s broadband video offer and produced the BBC’s first Mobile TV & Video services including the Olympic Games 2004, Eurovision and Live 8.

Jose Barea Manager, Premium Services Optus Content and Portals
Began working for Optus in 2001 as a Product Manager for Internet Content and Communities.   Moved into the mobile space and managed the launch of Optus Zoo in 2003.  Brought Optus’ 3G content offering to the market in 2005. Moved into the Premium Services space in 2006 and now manages Optus’ Premium SMS business as well as Optus’ off-portal offerings.

Angus Beattie Mobile Advertising Product Manager 3 Mobile

Angus Beattie joined 3 in July 2007 and is responsible for the company’s mobile advertising strategy and delivery.   Prior to joining 3, Angus has spent much of his career in the interactive multi-media segment, in cross-platform interactive technologies and in commercialising IVR, SMS, MMS and online services. Angus has most recently worked for News Digital Media, HWW and Legion Interactive.   As a member of AIMIA’s Mobile Internet Group, Angus actively participates in a number of industry programs, including the Mobile Advertising Standards committee, Consumer Education Program and the Export Navigator Program.

Rob Belgiovane Executive Creative Director BWM

Rob Belgiovane is a founding partner and Executive Creative Director of Belgiovane Williams Mackay and board director of the BWM Group, the largest independent marketing communications group in Australia. BWM’s clients include Telstra BigPond, LG Electronics, Masserati, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Virgin Money, Guinness and GIO. In 1988 Rob founded BAM, one of Australia’s fastest growing and most awarded agencies. In 1995 he joined Saatchi & Saatchi, Melbourne as creative director and management board member. The agency doubled in size and significantly improved its award performance while he was there. In 2006 BWM’s work for Telstra BigPond was included in the permanent collection of the department of film and media in the New York Museum of modern art.  And the agency work for Telstra BigPond was voted Australia’s best ad campaign last year.

Michael Beresford General Manager, User Contract Design, Consumer Products Telstra

Michael is responsible for the User Centred Design for Telstra’s Consumer product suite. Bringing interaction design and usability to the forefront in Telstra’s product development process ensures customer needs and goals drive development across the fixed line, mobile and internet domains. Michael has extensive experience in the mobile area having held interaction designer and customer research positions with Telstra in the past.

Peter Birch Head of Sales Digital Media

Peter Birch joined Network Ten in 2007 as Head of Digital Sales.  He is responsible for commercialising Ten's increasing array of digital content distribution for it's major programme franchises. Before joining Ten, Peter worked for ITV in the UK for 15 years.   He started his career selling airtime for the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster and was then responsible for setting up ITV Online in 1995.  Before moving to TEN last year, Peter was responsible for ITV Interactive TV and Mobile sales at ITV which included live streaming of ITV channels to 3G handsets as well as over 70 Enhanced TV applications annually and over 300 interactive advertising campaigns on the UK's three digital TV channels.

Amanda Brook General Manager- Mobiles and Strategic Marketing Sensis Pty Ltd

Amanda Brook joined Sensis in March 2004 as General Manager Marketing. In April 2007, Amanda also assumed responsibility for Sensis' Mobile portfolio, including Yellow(tm) Mobile, Whereis(r) Mobile, Whereis(r) Navigator, Sensis(r) Mobile, Citysearch Mobile(r) and Trading Post(r) Mobile. Under Amanda's leadership, the Sensis Mobiles team is responsible for the creation of world leading mobile products for consumers, as well as the delivery of mobile advertising products and revenues across both the Sensis Mobile products and Telstra's Bigpond Mobile portal. As General Manager, Strategic Marketing, Amanda's Marketing responsibilities also include customer strategy (including consumer, advertiser and business services customers), market intelligence, brand strategy, customer information management and pricing. Before moving to Sensis, Amanda held positions as Chief Executive Officer, Sussan Retail, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Brands Pty Ltd. and Brand Leader, Priceline Pty Ltd. She has also been responsible for the roll-out of the Priceline Pharmacy franchise network and the launch of the Officeworks Superstores on behalf of Coles Myer Ltd.

Paul Buchanan General Manager, Australia Soundbuzz

Paul Buchanan is General Manager of Soundbuzz Australia, an Australasian company that specializes in digital music services, primarily song download and ringtone delivery for web and mobile, with a focus on rights management and secure delivery. Clients include: Telstra BigPond Music, Optus Zoo, Motorola, Nokia, Creative Labs, Yahoo!7, Woolworths Group, Channel Ten and all the major record labels. Paul has a wealth of music industry knowledge spanning more than 20 years and cutting across most facets of the business from artist and event management, publishing, media and marketing with major and independent record companies. As GM of Soundbuzz, Paul has driven the growth of the business from a nascent ringtone and song download business, riding out the early cowboy days of the digital music industry, to a multi-faceted company at the forefront of music sales and convergence of online and wireless music consumption. (Don’t tell anyone but Paul still buys vinyl)

Bill Burton Director of Media BigPond

Bill has responsibility for building commercial return from the diverse array of Digital media assets that BigPond owns and manages. BigPond produces a Network of media products across Mobile and Broadband channels, including Australia's largest sports destinations, AFL.com.au, NRL.com, V8Supercars.com.au. The BigPond Mobile and Broadband Network also includes a range of leading entertainment download products, including Movies, Games & Music, and Mobile TV products such as 'Mobile FoxTel' and 'BigPond TV ' where customers can catch their favourite TV shows such as South Park, The Chaser and Sponge Bob.

Tim Burton Customer Loyalty Manager Ford Australia

Bertrand de Coatpont Senior Product Manager Vignette

As part of the Products and Strategy organization at Vignette, Bertrand de Coatpont defines the vision and the future evolutions for Vignette’s Web Content Management, Portal, Personalization and Collaboration software. Bertrand de Coatpont spent more than 8 years at Vignette in several positions, including sales, professional services and product management. He holds master of science and engineering degrees from Ecole Centrale de Lille.

Tomasso del Re Head of Mobile Yahoo!7

Tommaso Del Re joined Yahoo!7 in 2005 and is the Head of Mobile. In this role he is responsible for mobilising world-class Yahoo! products and services with innovative content, and ensuring that these are readily accessible to the Yahoo!7 community. Prior to Yahoo!7 Tommaso was the strategic alliances manager for Sharman Networks where he led content strategy development and implementation working with a number of record labels, distributors, film producers and artist management agencies. Before locating to Australia in the early 2000s, Tommaso held various roles in the United Kingdom including e-commerce manager and project manager for the Telegraph Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Nicholas E. Heller Strategic Partnerships Development, Media and Publishing Google

Based in London, UK, Nicholas Heller is responsible for strategic partnerships within the media & publishing sector at Google. He is tasked with identifying, structuring, and negotiating the syndication of Google products; thereby creating revenue-generating partnerships across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nicholas has over 8 years of digital media and technology experience, with the last 4 years focused on wireless multimedia. Prior to joining Google, Nicholas worked for Viacom Networks UK & Ireland, where he created the digital strategy and led new cross platform initiatives. In 2007 he was elected to the EMEA Board of the Mobile Marketing Association, and in 2006, he published a report on the ‘Growth of Mobile Multimedia Advertising’. Previously, as a mobile multimedia consultant, Nicholas engaged leading media organizations such as Endemol, and helped craft mobile advertising strategies at operators such as Vodafone Europe, Three UK, and Mitsui, in Japan. In 2002, as Founder and Managing Director of Degrees Of Separation, he worked throughout North America as a digital media consultant and was directly responsible for establishing new channels to market for fortune 500 companies including Gateway Computers and Universal Music.

Christina Fevre Head of Content 3 Mobile

Christina Fevre is Head of Content for 3 and is responsible for managing the content strategy for 3 including product management, content pricing, promotion and usage as well as the commercial partnerships with content partners in Australia and internationally. Christina was also the value added services manager for Orange Australia (Hutchison) prior to joining the 3 Content Team, where she was responsible for the management of content and communication services.   Christina has a considerable depth of knowledge of the industry and how consumers extend their experiences through the mobile phone.   Prior to joining Hutchison in 2004, Christina worked at Sybase365 in France and Telstra BigPond in Australia.

Kerry Field Director MindShare Interaction

Kerry started her media career in London in 1992 with Ogilvy & Mather Media.  Her enthusiasm for new technologies led to her digital role in 1994 when Ogilvy founded their New Media department. Her role then was strategic consultant and project manager for all digital executions. With over 13 years experience in the digital realm she has had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s leading blue chip brands such as American Express, Shell International, ING Direct, Diageo, Ford, PAG, Cisco, Kimberly-Clark, BP, IBM, Samsung, Kellogg, Kraft, Unilever, Nokia and News Corp encompassing all digital platforms (Internet, Interactive TV, mobile, touch screens, mobile). Well-respected in the industry, Kerry is also the Vice Chairperson for the Media Federation of Australia’s Digital Committee.

Brian Gallagher Founder and Director Full Circle Media

Brian Gallagher has over 23 years in the broadcast advertising market, having worked with Nine, Win/NBN, and Ten, and has pioneered brand funded content in Australia with Full Circle Entertainment which launched in January 2005.  Prior to the launch of FCE and his current role as CEO of FCM, he spent 6 years at Network Ten specialising in advertising related content strategy, brand funded programming and integrated sponsorship, developing a reputation for innovation around advertisers’ use of the media using content. In recent times the business has expanded to work in the Digital (FCD/COGS Media) and Subscriber television advertising sales arenas, business’s that are complementary in today’s fragmented media environment. Brian is an executive who has worked in across multiple advertiser platforms and has specialised in developing opportunities for brands to Connect to their targets through Content.

Geoffrey Handley New Business Director- Asia Pacific The Hyperfactory

Geoffrey Handley is co-founder of international, multi-award winning interactive mobile marketing innovator, The Hyperfactory. Geoffrey has been at the helm of this world-class mobile ideas factory since its inception and has been a key driver of its successful foundation and phenomenal growth in the Asia Pacific region. As one of the front runners in mobile marketing, Geoffrey has been instrumental in shaping the industry. As well as participating and chairing numerous events around the Asia Pacific region, Geoffrey is a Founding Board Member of the Mobile Marketing Association’s Asia Pacific Chapter and Global Board Member of the MMA, as well as an active member of the Asian Digital Marketing Association. Geoffrey is a respected thought leader in the wireless telecommunications and interactive mobile marketing and development industry in Asia Pacific; he is a highly sought after speaker and has contributed to a number of industry and commercial publications.

Martin Hoffman CEO and Managing Director Loop Mobile

In his role as CEO and Managing Director of Loop Martin is responsible for the ongoing corporate and strategic development of the company. During Martin’s tenure the company has successfully completed a re-brand of its flagship product Kink Kommunity to MOKO to further appeal to the youth and young adult market, re-positioned the company as a stand-alone entity, and successfully listed the company on the Australian Stock Exchange in June 2007. Martin has an extensive background in media organisations, most recently as CEO of NineMSN from January 2003 – July 2006. NineMSN is a 50:50 joint venture between PBL Media and Microsoft, and is Australia’s leading internet content and services business. Under Martin’s leadership, NineMSN grew revenue four-fold and went from loss-making to earning over $30m in EBIT in FY06. NineMSN also expanded strongly into the mobile content arena, with Martin driving acquisitions of 5th Finger Pty Ltd and HWW Ltd during 2006.

Matt Houltham Partner ZenithOptimedia

Matt is a seasoned marketing veteran having led digital marketing operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. His experience encompasses digital marketing strategy, media, creative services, Search Engine Marketing, eCRM, mobile & web development. Matt founded ZenithOptimedia’s digital media unit in 2002 and has built it into one of Australia’s largest & most awarded businesses. The unit provides media strategy, planning, buying, ROI validation and data analytics for clients including Qantas, Nestle, Lion Nathan, NAB and Foxtel. In 2006, Matt formed part of the management team that launched Publicis Digital across Australasia. The group’s full service offering, Publicis Digital, delivers world class creative services for clients including Coca-Cola, Nike, Tourism Victoria and Hewlett Packard.

Anne Hurley CEO Communications Alliance

Anne is CEO of the Communications Alliance which was formed in 2006 to provide a unified voice for the Australian communications industry and to lead it into the next generation of converging networks, technologies and services. Since graduating from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Arts and acquiring a Master of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney, Anne has worked on communications issues both in Australia and overseas for many years. Her extensive experience includes working in the corporate, legal and academic sectors across communications, trade practices, telecommunications policy and regulation.

Chris Kettle Co-Founder MY247.com.au
Chris is co-founder of my247.com.au, and is in charge of the mobile roadmap for my247.mobi. He is part of AIMIA's Mobile Industry Group and an active member of the YouCanonAMobile.com.au consumer education campaign.

Ben Kinealy General Manager, TV and Video  BigPond

Ben Kinealy is the General Manager of TV and Video for broadband and mobile at BigPond Telstra. In this role he has brought a range of dynamic mobile TV offerings to the marketing including Foxtel by Mobile, BigPond TV, a live events platform and Australian Idol TV.   Prior to joining BigPond Telstra, Ben was the Manager of TV & Entertainment at Hutchison 3G Australia where he successfully introduced the first major Mobile TV service to the country with a range of a la carte channels including cricket TV and the most successful season of BigBrother.  Ben also developed Australia’s first Video on Demand network at TransACT Communications along with the first A la carte Pay TV service and a fledgling IPTV prototype.

Ben Liebmann Vice President, Licensing FremantleMedia

As Vice President, and working within FremantleMedia Enterprises, the commercial arm of FremantleMedia, Ben is responsible for exploiting and developing FremantleMedia properties off-screen in areas such as online, interactive television and wireless. He also focuses on more traditional ancillary rights businesses including brand licensing, sponsorship, home entertainment, live events, gaming, consumer products and merchandise. The FremantleMedia Enterprises portfolio encompasses both wholly owned brands and managed third-party properties including Australian Idol, Neighbours, The Biggest Loser, Project Runway, Australia’s Got Talent, Temptation, The Price Is Right, Australia’s Next Top Model, Star Trek, CSI and So You Think You Can Dance. Prior to joining FremantleMedia in May 2007, Ben established himself as a leading digital media and content specialist, working with companies including Warner Music Group, Vodafone and Opera Interactive.

Nick Love Business Development Director Fox Interactive Media

With his diverse commercial background in new media entertainment Nick Love brings rich experience to his role as Business Development Director for Fox Interactive Media, Australia & New Zealand. Nick spearheads Fox Interactive Media’s commercial initiatives with external partners and internal constituents across its mobile and online properties. This includes the negotiation of relationships with mobile carriers, content owners, strategic partners, and senior executives across MySpace, Fox Interactive Media and News Corp’s global operations.

Dave Mallam Managing Director Cogs Media

David Mallam is a self-made entrepreneur who believes it is impossible to build something better and greater if all you do is follow what others have done previously. With this philosophy in mind, David is constantly challenging the norms and can be best described as a creative, passionate, futurist who encourages people to think outside the square and work to continuously strive for efficiency and effectiveness to achieve solutions. David’s vision has been realised after spending the past two years developing the COGS Digital platform. This system represents a scalable management platform, for both large and small digital media, that delivers ease of purchase, seamless financial distribution and greater accountability, revolutionising the way that the digital advertising sector does business. As the Commercial Director of Cogs Media the challenges ahead will be achieved by our success with brands and content. David’s focus lies with driving to deliver greater capacity for publishers to become self-managed and viable.

Claire McFarland Manager- Content and Portals Optus
Claire currently manages the Optus content portals for Mobile and ISP customers. Previously at Excite @Home, Fairfax and OzEmail, Claire has ten years experience in the Australian online and mobile content industry.

Peter Mercier Head of Mobile BBC Worldwide

Peter Mercier is Head of Mobile for the BBC Worldwide Digital Media Division.  With more than ten years’ experience in mobile media, content and pay television, he spearheads BBC Worldwide's continued push into the mobile space, working with content brands such as Little Britain, Doctor Who and Top Gear.   Peter joined BBC Worldwide from MobiTV where he was Director of Business Development for MobiTV (Europe) Limited, and responsible for sales and business development in the EMEA region for the mobile television services provider. His responsibilities included licensing technology and closing international content licences.   Prior to this, Peter was Director of Alliances and Partnerships at T-Mobile International where he was responsible for content and marketing licences on a pan-European basis.

Pradeep Mittur Vice President – Interactive and Mobile, Asia Pacific Paramount Digital Entertainment

Pradeep Mittur is responsible for the licensing, publishing and distribution of digital entertainment content from Paramount Pictures for the Asia Pacific region. Mittur has been with Paramount since leaving Disney where he established and consolidated the regional mobile entertainment business focused on mobile games and applications across the region. His earlier assignments were with some of the leading Wireless, Interactive and Advertising firms in the US, Middle East, India and SE Asia

Chris Noone Group Mobile Director ninemsn

Chris Noone was appointed Group Mobile Director, ninemsn in January 2006.  As Group Mobile Director, Chris oversees the development of ninemsn’s mobile offering to deliver world-class content and services, to users on the move.  Chris was formerly the Managing Director of the UK-based TV producer, Gamer.tv , a subsidiary of TWI. In this role he pioneered the creation of mobile game trailers and the distribution of television content to mobile and connected devices. Chris has a strong background in video game publishing, mobile portal and television production businesses and has worked for some of the leading companies in these fields in Australia and Europe, including Village Roadshow, Hasbro Interactive and Vodafone.

Kylie O'Reilly Managing Director- Commercial Australian Associated Press

Kylie O’Reilly is the Managing Director of Australian Associated Press (AAP). AAP is the national news agency of Australia; it employs almost 500 people including over 180 journalists and provides a comprehensive Australian and international news service to the Australian media business - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. She joined AAP in 2002 from Excite@Home Australia, the Optus led joint venture which introduced into Australia the award winning, Optus@Home broadband service.  Prior to joining Excite@Home, she worked with Fairfax Digital for 3 years ensuring that each classified site was strategically placed as number one or two in their respective category. Kylie has over 15 years experience in the media industry and holds a MBA.

Oliver Palmer Founder and Chief Operating Officer Tigerspike

Oliver has over 10 years’ experience in the digital arena, as founder and Chief Operating Officer of Tigerspike, he is now in a role which combines his experience in technology with his passion for research and development. Creating cutting edge technical solutions on mobile and delivering truly interactive and immersive web and mobile advertising experiences for users is one of the core goals within Tigerspike. Whether it is on the golf course or on the squash court, innovation and mobile technology are never far from his thoughts. Having masterminded the growth of a 6 person company to 120 employees over two years, he is equally passionate about building Tigerspike into one of the leading mobile and digital services companies in Australia and globally.

Willie Pang Head of Yahoo! Search Marketing Yahoo! Search Marketing

Willie Pang is the Head of Yahoo! Search Marketing for Australia and New Zealand. He joined Yahoo! Search Marketing in 2006 and was appointed to his current role in November 2007. He is responsible for the company’s operations throughout the region and brings a decade of experience to the role. Willie has an outstanding record of success with the company and has helped drive the business’ growth and strengthen its network of advertisers in the region. Prior to becoming Head of Yahoo! Search Marketing, Willie was the company’s Sales Director for Australian and New Zealand. Willie’s previous experience and expertise has been acquired in both Asia Pacific and Australia.  Prior to joining Yahoo! Search Marketing, Willie was the Vice President, Sales and Business Development at Melbourne IT Limited.  During his five years, he successfully established Melbourne IT’s market presence in key growth markets in Asia Pacific.   In addition, Willie was responsible for establishing the operations and sales networks for Hitwise in Asia and handling its key strategic partners including SingTel and PCCW.

Tim Parsons Co-Founder Mobile Monday Sydney

Tim has worked in digital product development, online and mobile marketing, branding and industry development for over 30 years. Having started an aerospace career in London in the 90’s, a brief stint fronting a BBC documentary convinced him to switch track and plunge into the exploding world of digital media. Tim has since worked with dozens of fortune 500 clients in Australia, Japan, the UK and the US, and has also lectured at AFTRS and UNSW on the future of media, and cross-media production. A co-founder and foundation sponsor of Mobile Monday Sydney, Tim lives in Sydney and has two children with graphic designer Karen Lee.

Adrianne Pecotic Executive Director Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft

Adrianne is Executive Director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, an association charged with the prevention, investigation and prosecution of film and television piracy in Australia. Prior to this appointment Adrianne Pecotic was Executive Director of Grundy Television, having joined as Legal Officer on completion of her degrees in Arts & Law. Adrianne worked extensively at Grundy in all areas of exploitation of audio visual copyright and television production, and in 1996 was appointed General Manager of Grundy Australasia. Adrianne Pecotic was Television Division Councillor for the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) from 1998 until 2004. She has represented the industry on many industrial and policy matters, and addressed Senate, Productivity Commission and Australian Broadcasting Authority hearings on issues effecting the Australian film and television industry.

Paz Saavedra Mobile product manager  News Digital Media

Paz Saavedra leads mobile product development at News Digital Media. In her role Paz is responsible for the strategic direction of mobile services across News Digital Media’s brand including carsguide.com.au and NEWS.com.au. In the past twelve months, she has overseen the development and launch of off-deck mobile sites for carsguide.com.au and NEWS.com.au. Paz joined News Digital Media in 2005 and played an integral role in the launch and integration of truelocal.com.au into the News Digital Media network. She has over ten years experience in the digital industry and has held a number of positions with Optus, Oven Digital and Spike Wireless. Since 2005, Paz has been an active member of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) NSW State Chapter committee.

Richard Sherwood General Manager, Mass Markets Vodafone

Richard Sherwood has more than 15 years marketing experience across Business-to-Business, FMCG and Telecommunications.   In his role as General Manager Mass Markets at Vodafone Australia since 2002, Richard led the team that launched capped mobile phone plans, changing the way customers used their mobiles.   Richard also led Vodafone’s foray into infotainment services. His team launched Vodafone live! in April 2003 and went on to re-launch the service with 3G in November 2005. Today, more than half a million customers access Vodafone live! with 3G, which leads the market with the biggest range of mobile TV channels and more than 700,000 music tracks. According to Richard, 2008 will be the year that mobile data hits the mainstream.

Anny Slater Principal Slaters Lawyers

Anny is a freelance writer for the Australian sketch show COMEDY INC- The Late Shift. The show was recently nominated for a Rose D’or TV award and six 2006 AFI awards. In 2007, she attended N.I.D.A. as part of the Institute’s prestigious Directors Intensive program and her film work has recently been honoured by inclusion in Australia’s National Collection held at the National Film and Sound Archive.  She has just helmed the much anticipated political comedies ATONEMENT TONIGHT and BARNEY THE TERRIER and is currently preparing to direct a music video for the DVD release of a major U.S. pop band’s latest album. A BARNEY series has recently been commissioned by Sony Pictures for international distribution on mobile and sell through to TV.

Scott Taylor General Manager, Mobile Multimedia Rich Media Services Telstra

Scott Taylor has been one of founding innovators behind Telstra’s Mobile Video services and capabilities.  Starting from an innovative applications deployed for the Rugby World Cup in 2003, Scott has led many successful initiatives for Telstra in the mobile video space –  these include the Sydney based ‘movemedia’ DVB-H trial, the live Commonwealth Games 3G and DVB-H showcase services, through to the next generation of  3G and NEXT G video services, including the industry-leading Mobile FOXTEL product.

Chris Taylor General Manager, Network Advertising BigPond
Chris Taylor commenced with BigPond in May of 2007 in the capacity of General Manager Network Advertising. Prior to his migration to Digital Chris has worked in the Television industry holding numerous media sales and management roles including Managing Director Nine Network Queensland, Chief Executive officer, Prime Television New Zealand and National Sales Director TCN - 9.

Angelo Tilocca Manager, Content Licensing, ABC Content Sales ABC

Angelo Tilocca (Manager Content Licensing ABC Content Sales) has been responsible for the ABC's commercial digital distribution strategy over the last 5 years. In this time, the ABC has increasingly become the provider of choice for those seeking to build audiences in both traditional and emerging media.    Prior to joining the ABC, Angelo spent ten (10) years at AAP, in various key sales, marketing and product management roles and was at the core of developing and launching AAP NewsCentre - a leading business to business customisable business intelligence tool - delivered electronically to the desktop.

Cameron Wall Technical Director G-nius

Cameron has over 20 years ICT experience and has been working with the Internet Protocol since 1993 and in 1996 opened the first Internet Café in Australia. In late 1999, Cameron built one of the first industry Portal’s for the trade and transport industry and various other Web projects including eCommerce platforms. Was the founding member of the Australian SGML User Group and a participating member OASIS, XML Committee Specification Since 2000, Cameron has focused mainly on the 4th screen specialising in mobile technology and messaging. He is the inventor and founder of the ZapMe mobile marketing platform and has also held positions with Bulletin Wireless, Telecom NZ/AAPT/Gen-i, and Connect. Cameron is now the technical director for G-nius Mobile Intelligence a provider of mobile marketing platforms, applications & services.

Mike Walsh MD Tommorrow

Mike Walsh is the Managing Director of Tomorrow, a Hong Kong based innovation think tank that guides some of the world's leading brands and corporations. Mike previously worked in strategy for News Corporation in both the Australian and Asian markets, and prior to that ran Jupiter Research in Australia during the nineties. Mike is the author of Futuretainment, an illustrated primer on how the media industry is being revolutionised. Designed by renown graphic artist Vince Frost, Futuretainment is being published internationally by Phaidon Press. Mike also writes a regular newsletter on new media called ‘The Fourth Estate’ (www.TheFourthEstate.com ).

Chris Watt Acting Director of Mobile Fairfax Digital

Chris has been at the forefront of developing the mobile strategy for Fairfax Digital, transitioning the business into the direct to consumer mobile advertising space and growing the relationships with mobile operators. Chris has been responsible for the launch of the Business and Finance categories on Optus Zoo and Hutchison Planet 3 as well as the off-deck marquee properties of; Domain Mobile, Drive Mobile, Business Day Mobile and The Good Food Guide Mobile.

Oliver Weidlich Usability Specialist Ideal Interfaces

Oliver draws on a background in psychology, experience in usability and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy, and customers, and to recommend & design solutions.  He has consulted to clients such as; Hutchison, Optus, Telstra, Orange, Holden, and Motorola. He has a wide range of experience evaluating and improving the end-to-end customer experience with mobile devices, including 2G, 2.5G and 3G devices, portals, applications and content. He has conducted field research into future mobile usage and the interaction between the mobile device and other technologies. Ideal Interfaces is a founding member of the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group and Oliver is playing a key role in the design and project management of the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index which looks at mobile content usage in the local market.

Shane Williamson Co-Founder Mobile Monday Sydney

Shane Williamson’s 23 years experience in various Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industries has included involvement in areas such as, enterprise IT infrastructure, pc hardware development, digital tv, video games development, massively multiplayer online game development, software as a service, Internet, content management services, telecommunications and mobile applications & services. A large part of Shane’s career included 8 years with software giant Microsoft that involved running various Windows & Internet development programmes within South East Asia and the South Pacific.  As the Partner Marketing Manager at Hutchison 3G Australia “3” Shane was running the Developers on 3 & Solutions on 3 marketing programmes that he founded in 2003. The Developers on 3 programme attracted a large number of Australian & international mobile solution developers to 3G. Whilst at “3” Shane launched the multi award winning Real Estate application, LOC3 that was Australia’s first mobile sales force application for 3G. Shane is currently the National Product Manager for Technology Solutions at Alphawest Services (an Optus Singtel company) and drives the go to market strategy for ICT converged solutions. A key facet of this is communicating the benefits of current innovations around Unified Communications.

Horden Wiltshire CEO m.Net Corporation

Horden is a pioneer of the Australian Mobile Internet Industry. He joined m.Net Corporation in 2001 as Project Director and was responsible for a number of the company's early infrastructure and mobile application initiatives, including rolling out the first 3G Network in the southern hemisphere (a test bed for mobile application development), the first Australian developer program for 3G applications and Australia’s first public WLAN network. Appointed as CEO in early 2003, he has been responsible for transforming m.Net into Australia's leading mobile solutions company. Horden's leadership skills were honed during an earlier carrier in the Royal Australian Navy from where he retired as a submarine Commanding Officer. Horden is also a Director of the private equity funded mobile social networking company Eccosphere International, headquartered in London. His academic qualifications include BE(Hons), MBA, MSc(Technology Commercialisation

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