Speaking at MidemNet 2008:
Chad Hurley Co-founder & CEO YouTube (USA) |
Joanna Shields Global President Bebo (USA) |
Bob Ezrin Producer & Chairman Live Nation Recordings (USA) |
Janus Friis Co-founder & Co-chairman Joost Co-founder Kazaa & Skype (UK) |
Prof. Lawrence Lessig Author of "Free Culture" & CEO Creative Commons (USA) |
Jean-Bernard Lévy CEO Vivendi (France) |
Tero Ojanpera EVP & Chief Technology Officer Nokia (Finland) |
Jim O’Mahony, CEO EMEA, Asia, Australasia & Latin America, Saatchi & Saatchi (USA) |
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THE MENTORING SESSIONS
The Mentoring Sessions give you a chance to meet top industry professionals face to face and ask questions that only they can answer!
On a one to one basis, you get ten minutes of a MidemNet Forum speaker's undivided attention for advice or analysis tailored to you.
Mentoring sessions are reserved for MidemNet Forum participants and are of limited capacity.
Confirmed mentors to date:
Sunday January 27, 10.00-12.00
- Martin Blomkvist, Director & Head of Global Content Acquisition & Partner Management, Sony Ericsson (UK)
- Steve Greenberg, CEO, S-Curve Records (USA)
- Ali Partovi, CEO, iLike (USA)
- Ian Rogers, General Manager, Music, Yahoo! Music (USA)
- Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, MEF-Americas (USA)
Monday January 28, 10.00-12.00
- Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic (USA)
- Steve Purdham, CEO, We7 (UK)
- Greg Scholl, President & CEO, The Orchard (USA)
Monday January 28, 14.00-16.00
- Mathew Daniel, VP Strategy Development, R2G (China)
- Steven Fock, VP, Chengtian Entertainment Group (China)
- Philip Qu, Partner, TransAsia Lawyers (China)
The Music Ally/MidemNet New Business Showcase
In association with Music Ally
The Music Ally/MidemNet New Business Showcase has been looking for the most enterprising and inspiring business ideas, which help to create value and move the music industry forwards in the 21st century. Be it recent companies, business at the planning stage, a new service, a new device, or even a new concept… delegates are warmly encouraged to discover onstage the innovative ideas of carefully selected successful applicants.
Here are the six winning finalists for the first ever Music Ally/MidemNet New Business Showcase, selected by Music Ally:
- Fred Deutsch, Chairman, Voxonic (USA)
- Tim Heineke, Founder, Twones (The Netherlands)
- Sergi Jordà, Research Manager, Music Technology Group (Spain)
- Daniel Johansson, Project Manager, Musiclink (Sweden)
- Noa Lerner, Designer, 3/4 design (Germany)
- Dave Park, CEO, Recombinant (USA)