From the program: Zhan Ye is President, GameVision, and a Strategic Investment Consultant for Giant Interactive Group, China’s leading online game developers and operators in terms of revenues. Giant Interactive has over 1000 employees at their headquarters in Shanghai, and over 3000 Sales & Marketing personnel throughout China. A veteran game developer and entrepreneur, Zhan Ye is one of the first-generation game developers in China.

From the program: While most kids were grappling with the realities of growing up, Vishal took a head start and started his first company – FACT, soon after finishing school at the ripe young age of 16. In 1999, he founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles.

From the program: Tim Chang is a Principal at Norwest Venture Partners, focusing on investments in wireless and digital media, and business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific.

From the program: Following training as a documentary TV producer-director with the BBC, Hugh Mason founded and grew a multiple-award-winning broadcast TV production company. Finding himself as interested in the business side of running a creative company as he had previously been making films, Hugh co-founded

From the program: Richard Cardran is a media strategist and technologist who was recognised in the October 2006 Hollywood Reporter/Producers Guild of America's year end "Digital 50" as well as Streaming Magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People in Streaming." Richard has garnered two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television" and "Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology" through his pioneering vision and efforts surrounding the paradigm shift in TV broadcasting to new TV2.0 strategies. Richard co-founded and in 2006 sold Zetools, Inc.

From the program: Juliette Powell is a media entrepreneur, a community catalyst and the author of 33 Million People in the Room : How to create, influence and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking, (January 2009, Financial Times Press).

From the program: Doug Whatley is CEO and Founder of BreakAway, one of the world’s leading developers of entertainment games and game-based technology products. Doug has over 20 years of successful game development and management experience in the interactive entertainment industry. He began his career at America Online where he was instrumental in helping to create the AOL client/server infrastructure.

From the program: Mike McGraw has been at the forefront of emerging content development for most of his career and has always maintained a priority to deliver content to the most relevant audiences through the most relevant channels. Mike currently oversees all digital strategy, content distribution and operations for Big Fuel, a digital ad agency based in New York . At Big Fuel Mike uses his experience with on-air, online and mobile platforms to develop effective strategies for clients like Johnston and Johnston, AOL, Fox, Unilever and MTV.

Note: I'd like to apologize for not blogging Adrian Sexton or Parmesh Shahani's talks. They were both great!