Conferences

Mark runs lively debates and live interviews at industry conferences such as the MIP broadcasting confab in Cannes, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the Progressive Manufacturing Summit in the U.S. His conference interviewees and panelists have included:

* George Bodenheimer, president ESPN and ABC Sports
* Ben Pyne, president, global distribution, Disney ABC Worldwide Television
* Gregory Ricca, CEO Discovery Networks Intl.
* Tom Mockridge, CEO, Sky Italia
* Joanna Shields, president, Bebo
* Doug Richard, star of Dragons Den BBC show, and venture capitalist
* Barry West, president and chief technology officer, Sprint
* Hyun-Oh Yoo, CEO, SK Communications (S. Korea broadband service)
* Jason Kilar, CEO, Hulu (News Corp/NBC online video joint venture)
* Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, Managing Director, MTV Networks South Europe, CEO, Telecom Italia Media
* Kevin Wall, CEO, Control Room (producers of Live Earth)
* Stephen Nuttall, director of business development, BSkyB
* Gordon Graylish, vice presdident, Intel Europe, Middle East, Africa
* Stratton Sclavos, CEO, Verisign
* Barney Wragg, head of digital, EMI Music
* Dr Hyun-Myung Pyo, Executive VP, Korea Telecom (Korea)
* Hideo Okinaka,vp emerging technologies and spectrum, KDDI (Japan's 2nd largest mobile operator)
* Bernd Langeheine, director of electronic communications policy, EU
* Charles Jenne, director of spectrum policy, OFCOM (UK regulator)
* Peter Bury, director of strategic resources, OFCOM (UK regulator)

Here are some clips of Mark in action:

MIPTV, Cannes, April 08, excerpts from interview with Jason Kilar, CEO, Hulu
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(cursor over “videos”, click on foto of Jason Kilar; interview starts about 5 minutes in).

MIPTV, Canne, April 08, excerpts from interview with Kevin Wall, CEO, Control Room (produced Live Earth)
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(cursor over "videos", click on foto of Kevin Wall)

MIPTV, Cannes, April 08, excerpts from interview with Jeremy Allaire, CEO, Brightcove (online video technology company)
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(cursor over “video”, click on foto of Jeremy Allaire; interview starts 5:40 in)