ON STAGE JURY
Early-Stage Startups - moderated
by Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch
Russell Buckley, Vice President Global Alliances at AdMob and Chairman
Emeritus of Mobile Marketing Association.
Nuria Oliver, PhD,
Scientific Director in Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling,
Telefonica R&D
Raj Singh, Vice President
of Business Development for Skyfire.
Rodrigo Sepulveda, Chairman
& CEO at vpod.tv, Managing Partner at RISC Partners
Peter Vesterbacka, founder
at Some Bazaar
Emerging Startups -
moderated by Matthäus
Krzykowski, Editor, VentureBeat
Richard Wong, Partner
Accel Partners
Inmaculada Martinez, President
of Stradbroke Advisors
David Wood, Principal
at Delta Wisdom
Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist with Vodafone Group Research & Development
Bio's
Mike Butcher, Editor,
TechCrunch
TechCrunch Europe is edited by Mike Butcher (FRSA). As well as
editing TechCrunch Europe, Mike is involved in a project to bring European
technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment called TechHub (@TechHub), in London
initially. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers
and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily
Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the
European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Since 1996 he has launched
or re-launched numerous media web sites and in 2000 he was nominated as
NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted ‘One
of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest
custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of
the Top 100 people in London’s
creative industry by The
Independent newspaper
and The
Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was
awarded the best “Web 2.0
and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In
2009 it was named as one of the Top 10
blogs out of the UK.
Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10
bloggers on Twitter in the
UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50
most influential Britons in
technology by The Daily Telegraph. Mike is a regular commentator on the
technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg.
Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.
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Russell Buckley, Vice President Global Alliances at AdMob and Chairman
Emeritus of Mobile Marketing Association.
Russell is a leading expert on mobile marketing, having
overseen thousands of campaigns since 2000. MobHappy, his blog about mobile
technology and mobile marketing, is one of the most popular focusing on this
area. Before specialising in mobile, he spent over 15 years working in
marketing, including advising leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, Texaco
and Mars. In 2000, he was recruited to be Director of Marketing of mobile
marketing start up, ZagMe, one of the leading pioneers in mobile advertising
and location based marketing. Russell learned about AdMob soon after the launch
and joined as its first employee, with the remit of launching AdMob into the
EMEA market.
Russell is currently Global Chairman Emeritus
of the Board of The Mobile Marketing Association, a founder of Mobile Monday in
Germany and has published many articles, as well as a white paper on
location based marketing.
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Nuria Oliver, PhD,
Scientific Director in Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling,
Telefonica R&D.
Nuria Oliver is currently the Scientific
Director for the Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling Research Teams
in Telefonica Research (Barcelona, Spain). She received the BSc (honors) and MSc
degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ETSIT at the
Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1992 and 1994 respectively.
She received her PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, MA, in June 2000. From July 2000 until November 2007, she was
a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. At the end of 2007, she
returned to Spain to create and lead the Multimedia Scientific Team at
Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Since March 2009, she is also the acting
Scientific Director for the Data Mining & User Modeling Team in Telefonica
Research. It is an exciting opportunity to do research in her own country.
Her research interests include mobile
computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments,
context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence,
health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciencies, and
human computer interaction. She is currently working on the previous
disciplines to build human-centric intelligent systems.
Nuria has written over 60 papers in international
conferences, journals and book chapters. Her work has been widely recognized by
the scientific community with over 2800 citations. Nuria has over 30 patent applications and granted patents.
She is also in the program committee and a reviewer of the
top conferences in her research areas (IJCAI, IUI, UMAP, ACM Multimedia,
ICMI-MLMI, Interaccion, PervasiveHealth, MIR, LoCA, MMM, CVPR, Ubicomp,
MobileHCI, ICCV, AAAI, etc...). She was program co-chair of IUI 2009 and of MIR
2010.
She believes in the power of technology to
empower and increase the quality of life of people. She has received a number
of awards, including MIT’s ‘TR100
Young Innovators Award’ (2004) and the First Spanish Award of EECS graduates
(1994). Besides her scientific publications, she is very interested in making
science available to the general public. She has been a technology writer for
Tecno2000 magazine and ‘El Pais’ newspapers, among others. Her work has been featured on multiple newspapers, magazines,
radio and TVstations both in Spain and the US. She has been named
one of the '100 leaders of the future ' by Capital Magazine (May 2009) and one
of the 'Generation XXI: 40 Spanish youngsters that will make news in the Third
Millenium ' by EL PAIS (2000).
She is proficient in multiple foreign languages and she studied classical
ballet for 13 years. Her hobbies include traveling, cinema, art, classical
music, yoga, Formula Dodge racing, dance and swimming.
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Raj Singh, Vice President
of Business Development for Skyfire.
Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked in
all aspects of mobile over the past 11 years. Currently, Raj is Vice President
of Business Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports the full
web including Flash 9, 10, Javascript and Quicktime. Most recently, Raj was
consulting with Dell Mobile assisting them with their global SMS and WAP
strategy. Prior to Dell, Raj co-founded venture-funded Veeker, NBC’s mobile
video citizen journalism service and boot-strapped ToneThis, CNET’s top ringtone
creation product.
Raj has also worked in product management, engineering,
strategy and consulting roles for Kodak Mobile, Cellmania, MobiTV, PlayPhone,
Tellme, Hungama Mobile and Antenna Software. Raj’s personal projects include
GameChalk, an SMS multi-player game service and Pubwalk, an LBS bar-hopping
service. Raj is also a mobile advisor to a number of companies including ChuckD
Mobile, Movoxx, Oomble, Nearverse, Muse, Buzzd, Yojo Mobile, Textopoly and
several VCs within the valley.
Raj is a regular mobile writer and speaker including
formal and guest blogging for GotoMobile, O’reilly Emerging Telephony and
VisionMobile. Raj has also made contributions to a number of mobile user and
expert groups including the JCP, MMA and the Bluetooth SIG. For more
information, please see www.rajansingh.com.
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Rodrigo Sepulveda, Chairman
& CEO at vpod.tv.
"Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, 39, is the co-founder, chairman
and CEO of vpod.tv, an award company enabling corporations to
create their own Internet TV channels on any device. Recent customers include
GDF Suez, L’Oréal, Danone, Leroy Merlin, BNPParibas, BancSabadell, SFR, Ono…
Previously, he was the co-founder and managing partner of
RISC Partners, a seed-stage investment boutique, where he was instrumental in
the successful launch of glowria, a leading online DVD rental and VOD service,
serving as interim CEO. In 2004, he also led the mobile strategy team for AOL
Europe.
Earlier, Rodrigo was a principal with Gemini Consulting,
and a manager (founder of the e-business practice) at KPMG Consulting France,
leading large scale European e-commerce and media projects. He started his
career as a consultant to the European operations of Intel and Novell. Rodrigo
is a Computer Science Engineer from EPITA, a graduate from the Sorbonne MBA
(IAE de Paris), and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
He is a Chilean national, and settled in France over 20
years ago.
In his spare-time, Rodrigo is an avid genealogist,
photographer and world-traveler. He is also a sought-after speaker at industry
events. He can be reached at rodrigo@vpod.tv or @rodrigo
on twitter.
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Peter Vesterbacka, Founder Some Bazaar
Peter is the founder of Some Bazaar, a new
approach to building and growing new businesses. Prior to this Peter worked for
HP in several communications industry related roles. While at HP Peter founded
the HP Mobile E-Services Bazaar, a global innovation & corporate
partnership program that BoozAllenHamilton declared an industry benchmark.
Peter is also co-founder and the original initiator of MobileMonday.
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Matthaus Krzykowski, Editor, VentureBeat.
Matthäus is a freelance writer for VentureBeat covering
the mobile space. He is also a startup founder, conference organiser and
regular speaker on the global circuit. At VentureBeat, Matthaus writes many of
the analysis and trend pieces on various mobile themes. For example he broke
the news that MySpace and Facebook had
overtaken mobile-only social networks in terms of traffic.
Also, he was part of the team which ported
Android on a netbook. In addition he was coordinating the MobileBeat
conference in San Francisco for the second year running. His startup Agora9 helps large companies to be effective in the mobile
application ecosystem. Follow him on Twitter at @matthausk, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter
at @venturebeat.
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Richard Wong, Partner
Accel Partners.
Richard joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile
services, enterprise software/SaaS, and energy technologies. Rich currently
serves on the board of AdMob, the mobile advertising player, Parature, a leader
in SaaS based customer support, SunRun, the leading provider of residential
solar power, and Getjar Networks, the largest mobile
development community and open mobile app store. Prior to Accel, Rich also
served as a board advisor to Plaxo (acquired by Comcast) ,
Sana Security (acquired by AVG), and Simplicita (acquired by Sandvine).
Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave
and previously GM of Messaging Products, and Chief Marketing Officer at
Openwave. While at Openwave, Rich founded and chaired the Messaging Anti Abuse Working
Group, a consortium of ISPs and technology providers working
together to combat internet abuse.
Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and
EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider.
Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company,
focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a
Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble
Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA
from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Rich remains active as an EVP of the MIT Club of Northern
California, Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship
Program, and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. At CTIA 2008, Rich
was awarded a "Mobile Six" award as one of the 6 most influential
individuals shaping the wireless industry by executives in the InMobile.org
community.
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Inmaculada Martinez, President
of Stradbroke Advisors.
Inmaculada Martinez is the president of Stradbroke
Advisors, a London-based investment and corporate advisory firm in the
Technology, Media and Internet industries. After holding executive
positions in financial institutions (Goldman, Sachs, World Bank) and the
telecommunications sector(Cable & Wireless), Inma
founded in 2000 one of the first UK entrepreneurial ventures of thedot.com era. Escape Velocity, funded by
3i, became one of the first providers of personalisation software to
international mobile operators and handsets manufacturers and was depicted by Lehman Brothers as one of
Europe’s top 20 companies to follow. Inma continued founding and leading at the
helm two other companies, the latter one in Finland, Visual Radio, who later
sold to NOKIAand whose
software can be found in every multimedia handset of the Finnish mobile giant.
Stradbroke is an active player in the fund-raising and
startups growth development of many known companies (Moo Print, Demotix) and
investment initiatives such as SeedCamp. Inma herself has spoken at the major
conferences and startup pitches in Europe (TechCrunch, Mobile 2.0, LeWeb,Reboot, Europe Unlimited) and is an advisor to the European
Union Technology Commission.
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David Wood, Principal
at Delta Wisdom.
David Wood has spent more than 20 years envisioning,
architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly using smart mobile devices:
ten years with PDA manufacturer Psion PLC, and then ten more with smartphone
operating system specialist Symbian Ltd. He served as Catalyst and
Futurist on the Leadership Team of the open source Symbian Foundation.
Since October 2009, he has been principal of Delta Wisdom, an independent
consultancy that aims to provide “intelligence for profound change”, and he has
a number of Advisory Board positions within the mobile industry.
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Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist with Vodafone Group Research & Development
Daniel Appelquist is a Senior Technology Strategist with Vodafone Group Research & Development where he works in the epicentre of the convergence between mobile, Web and social media. He represents Vodafone in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where he chairs working groups on the Mobile and Social Web and is involved in work around widgets and device APIs. He is responsible for R&D projects in the burgeoning "social Web" space. He was a founder of Mobile Monday London and the Mobile 2.0 conference series as well as the Over the Air developer events. Follow Daniel on Twitter at @torgo.
