DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich

Dina Kaplan

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:04:31 +0100

Dina Kaplan is a co-founder of blip.tv . Dina oversees finance and business development for the company, including media and distribution partnerships, public relations and marketing.

Blip.tv is an online television network focused on featuring, promoting and monetizing the best original shows on the Web. Blip.tv shares advertising revenues evenly with content creators and syndicates shows throughout the Web, to iTunes, and to the TV set through partnerships with FiOS, TiVo, Sony Television, Boxee and roku. Blip.tv hosts 50,000 original shows attracting 90 million video views a month.Before blip.tv Dina was an Emmy-award winning local television news reporter, mostly for NBC stations. Prior to reporting, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and was the Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel.

Dina is a judge for the Webby Awards, on the Board of the IAWTV (International Academy of Web Televison), a member of the Producers Guild of America, on the National Board of Wesleyan University, and on the Advisory Board of the Women's Media Center. Dina is also the founder and Chair of the New York Founders Club, a group dedicated to promoting the start-up community in New York City. Dina is a judge for the Webbies; a member of the Producers Guild of America; on the Board of the Socrates Program at the Aspen Institute; on the National Board of Wesleyan University; on the Advisory Board of the Women's Media Center and of WeLoveBeauty.com; and the founder of the New York City Founders Club.

Dina also believes the start-up community in New York City should rise up and take over the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley whom she suspects have too much hubris.

Samir Arora

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:53:53 +0100

Samir Arora serves as Chairman and CEO of Glam Media, the pioneer and global leader of vertical content networks. Since Arora founded Glam in 2005, Glam has risen to the top, claiming the number one spot in women's lifestyle online since 2007.

A tech-industry veteran, Arora was previously chairman of Emode/Tickle Inc., which boasted over 42 million registered users and became a Media Metrix-ranked Top 20 destination site. Prior to Tickle, Arora served as chairman and CEO of NetObjects, Inc., where he drove the creation of the first web site building product, NetObjects Fusion. During his tenure, Arora was named one of the "Web Innovators of the Year" by CNET.

Arora currently serves as chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture-capital fund based in Woodside, Calif., that invests in leading-edge companies in consumer publishing, media, and technology. This past year Arora was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year for Northern California in the category "Media, entertainment and communications."

Daniel Dubno

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:03:14 +0100

Dan Dubno is an Emmy-award winning TV producer, broadcaster, technologist, presenter, inventor, and "connector". He is founder of Blowing Things Up (BTU) LLC., an international consultancy that brings innovative technology companies together. He is founder and Executive Director of The Hourglass Initiative, a non-profit that engages the scientific community in efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He is a popular speaker at technology, business, and policy conferences around the world.

For seventeen years, Dan Dubno was Producer and Technologist for the CBS Evening News and supervised Special Events coverage of wars, terrorism, natural disasters, and elections. His over thirty years of experience at CBS News and PBS garnered multiple Emmy Awards and commendations.

He continues to write technology columns and reviews for websites and science magazines. His success in "Bringing the Smart and Useless Together" led him to co-found the annual Gadgetoff, a notorious, invitation-only technology celebration in New York City.

Tero Ojanperä

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:26:49 +0100

Tero Ojanpera is the head of Nokia's entertainment business, covering music, games, video and TV, online communities and more. As Executive Vice President, Services, Tero is at the forefront of Nokia's push into delivering compelling, interactive entertainment that gives consumers the opportunity to connect with each other to discover and share a wide range of media.

A sought-after industry commentator, author and speaker, he has played a defining role in driving Nokia's evolution as a company since joining in 1990. Tero has held a number of senior roles at Nokia, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, as well as head of the Nokia Research Center.

Tero has also been a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board since 2005. He has a master's of science degree from the University of Oulu, Finland and a Ph.D degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

René Obermann

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:26:03 +0100

René Obermann, born in March 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom since November 2006.

From the end of 2002 to December 2006, he was CEO of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG and the Deutsche Telekom Board Member for Mobile Communications. In this period, T-Mobile continued its growth course as one of the leading mobile operators in the world with more than 100 million customers, successfully introducing the T-Mobile brand in eleven countries.

René Obermann's career began with a business traineeship at BMW in Munich. Following that, he set up his own business ABC Telekom in Münster in 1986. He became Managing Partner of Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, the successor of ABC Telekom, in 1991. From 1994 to 1998, Obermann was Chairman of the company's Management Board.

René Obermann has been a presidium member of the German industry association BITKOM since March 2007. In the 1990's, he was Chairman of the former German Association of Mobile Communication Service Providers for two years.

Neta Oren & Yam Aylon

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:25:06 +0100

Neta and Yam are students in the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel.

They started Juggling and Circus studies about five years ago, with the first two years in the circus tent of Benyamina.

Both have performed around Israel, performing in the European Juggling Convention in Athens, Greece this past year.

Markus Miessen

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:24:26 +0100

Markus Miessen (*1978) is an architect, writer and curator migrating between Berlin, London, Cambridge (MA) and the Middle East. In 2002, he set up Studio Miessen, a collaborative agency for spatial practice and cultural analysis, and in 2007 was founding partner of the Berlin-based architectural practice nOffice. In various collaborations, Miessen has published books such as East Coast Europe (Sternberg, 2008), The Violence of Participation (Sternberg, 2007), With/Without -Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East (Bidoun, 2007), Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press, 2006) and Spaces of Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002). He frequently contributes to magazines and journals. His work has been exhibited and published widely, including at the Lyon, Venice, and Shenzhen Biennials. Miessen has taught and lectured internationally at institutions such as the Architectural Association (AA), Columbia and MIT. He has consulted the Slovenian Consulate (NYC) during Slovenia's presidency of the EU council, the European Kunsthalle, the Serpentine Gallery and the Swiss think tank W.I.R.E.; in 2008, he initiated and now directs the AA Winter School Middle East (Dubai). Miessen is a Harvard fellow and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, London.

DLD Arts Project 09 contribution: ECE East Coast Europe (2008), Installation with 3 channel slide Installation.

Marcus Englert

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:23:30 +0100

Dr. Marcus Englert studied physics at the University of Munich before earning his doctorate at CERN, the European nuclear research institute in Geneva.

From 1994 to 1998, he was a consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Munich and in 1996, he earned an MBA at INSEAD, the European business institute in Fontainebleau, near Paris. In 1998, he assumed the general directorship at ProSieben Digital Media in Munich, and from 2000 to 2001, he was a member of the Executive Board at Kirch New Media AG. He has been Managing Director at SevenOne Intermedia since 2001, and the ProSiebenSat.1 Group's New Media and Diversification Director since 2004.

Dr. Marcus Englert has been member of the Executive Board at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG since August 2006.

Itay Talgam

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:22:37 +0100

Itay Talgam has conducted some of the world's best ensembles, studying with and assisting some of the world's greatest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado.

A native of Israel, he studied music in Jerusalem (and Philosophy in the Hebrew University), Siena, and Tanglewood. Itay's main interests lie both in contemporary music and in promoting classical music through developing his own innovative approach to the understanding of music-making as a metaphor for social and professional processes.

Hans-Peter Siebenhaar

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:22:02 +0100

Born in 1962, Dr. Hans-Peter Siebenhaar has studied political sciences, dramatics and communication sciences, sociology and new history in Erlangen (Germany), Kalamazoo (USA) and Madrid (Spain). During his studies, he worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk and volunteered at "Fränkischen Tag" (Bamberg, Germany).

Siebenhaar graduated in "media politics within the European Union" and received a scholarship from European Parliament in Luxemburg.

As of 2000, Siebenhaar has served as an editor for the daily newspaper Handelsblatt within the companies & markets department.

He is the founder of the media podcast, Bel Etag (together with Thomas Knüwer since 2006), as well as last year's blog, Mediawatcher.

Hans-Peter Siebenhaar is primarily specialized in media and telecommunication.