Social TV Forum - Asia

Triona is a director and founder of the audiovisual company Campbell Ryan Productions Ltd and Be Entertainment UK.

Damien is a relatively new addition to the telecoms sector having spent the majority of his career covering marketing and commercial roles in FMCG and retail, working for companies such as Woolworths, Homebase, Blockbuster and Britvic.

Sebastian is an entrepreneur with an extensive business and corporate experience in a number of international markets.

He is an internationally recognised figure in the field of digital video coding and its various applications. With an extensive network of contacts across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors as well as in the financial community, he combines business acumen and corporate experience with technological knowledge providing a practical perspective and strategic commercial approach. After studies in social sciences and economics, he previously specialised in property and investment with a specific focus on Russia.

Benjamin Schwarz has over 20 years of international experience in consulting and Telco & Media organisations.

He spent 8 years with Orange, whom he joined in 2001. Benjamin started with Orange Labs focusing on video technology, QoE and new business models to take advantage of the few-to-few broadcasting that DSL was enabling. These premise to social TV were trialled in 2002 as various community based services.

• Angel Gambino, Social Entrepreneur & Advisor
• Anthony Rose, Controller, Vision & Online Media Group, BBC
• Dan Cryan, Head of Broadband, Screen Digest
• Nigel Walley, MD, Decipher
• Julian Clover, Editor, Broadband TV News and New Television Insider
• Rahul Chakkara, Controller of TV Platforms, BBC
• Jonnie Turpie, Digital Media Director, Maverick TV
• Colin Donald, Owner, Futurescape
• Ian Mullins, CEO, Yamgo
• Kelly Sweeney, Head of Original Productions, Bebo UK
• Pasa Mustafa is the Head of Digital Studios at Endemol
• Laurence Billiet, General Manager & Publisher, Metropolis & Our Earth, Babelgum
• Digby Lewis, UK Country Manager, Dailymotion
• Philip Bourchier O’Ferrall, SVP, Digital Media for MTV Networks UK & Ireland
• Rachael Antony, Manager Acquisitions, Commissions & Community,
• LonelyPlanet.TV
• Julian March, Executive Producer, Sky News
• Korash Sanjideh, Managing Director, Chew TV
• Laurel Chamberlain, Director Digital, Turner Broadcasting
• Triona Campbell, CEO, Campbell Ryan Productions – Producers of Sofia’s Diary
• Zad Rogers, Creative Director, RDF Media
• George Fraser, VP Vice President, EMEA, APAC, Limelight Networks
• Marina Geymonat, Researcher, Telecom Italia Lab
• Rossana Simeoni, Researcher, Telecom Italia Lab
• Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, New Media, Channel 4
• Kate Bradshaw, Head of Online Commissioning, ITV
• Adrian Swift, Chief Creative Officer, etv
• Mike Bennet, Creative Director, Oil