Chris Allen

CEO

Brass Monkey

Chris Allen is an international speaker, software inventor and entrepreneur based in Boston, MA. He co-founded the open source Flash server Red5, where he and his team of volunteers reverse engineered Flash’s RTMP protocol. He currently serves as president and co-founder of Infrared5, a technology company focusing on video streaming,...more

Speaking at: Tech Download: Brass Monkey

Linnette Attai

President

PlayWell, LLC

Linnette is the founder of PlayWell, LLC, a consulting firm focused on guiding clients through compliance concerns related to media and marketing, including digital and mobile privacy and safety.  Linnette has over 20 years of experience in the compliance industry, with special expertise navigating regulatory and self-regulatory environments surrounding digital...more

Speaking at: Playing By the Rules: What you need to know about Apple’s new Kids category and COPPA 2.0

Stephanie Azzarone

President

Child's Play Communications

Stephanie Azzarone is founder and president of child's Play Communications. The first agency to specialize exclusively in public relations, social media, word-of-mouth communications, content development and online marketing for products and services targeted to moms, Child’s Play is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2013. Stephanie is the winner of the 2013 Stevie...more

Speaking at: Making Sense with Digital Marketing: How to cut through all the noise and get noticed

Sara Berliner

Founder

Night & Day Studios

Sara Berliner is Chief Revenue Officer of Night & Day Studios, one of the premier mobile app developers in the world, creating and marketing interactive games, books, and activities for iPad, iPhone, Android, and other mobile markets. Sara is primarily responsible for growing the company’s agency practice -- creating and launching...more

Speaking at: Case Study Palooza!: A choose-your-own adventure session

Katie Bessiere

Director, Product Consumer Insights

Nickelodeon

Katie Bessiere is the Sr. Director of Digital Consumer Insights and User Experience at Nickelodeon. Her academic research background is in Sociology and Human Computer Interaction, and she spent many years prior to moving to research as a web developer, programmer, and UX designer. She has always been interested in...more

Speaking at: Nick App: A making-of case study

Chris Bishop

Senior Creative Director

PBS KIDS

Chris Bishop is the Creative Director of PBS KIDS Digital, where he has designed websites, apps & games for kids ages 2-8 since 2000. Most recently, Chris created the concept for the new PBS KIDS rebrand which launched in 2013. He is also an illustrator, painter and an Eagle Scout....more

Speaking at: Hot Right Now: 45 minutes, 100+ slides, and enough inspiration to last all year

Majora Carter

CEO

StartUpBox #SouthBronx

Social-entrepreneurial pioneer, Majora Carter, redefined the field of Environmental-Equality by bringing world class green-infrastructure + accessible jobs to some of the poorest urban communities in America, starting with her hometown, the South Bronx.  Now she is applying a similar economic development strategy with NYC’s growing tech industry.   StartUp Box opened in...more

Speaking at: Hot Right Now: 45 minutes, 100+ slides, and enough inspiration to last all year

Jens de Pedro

Creative Director

Toca Boca

Jens Peter, also known as JP or Jens, is Creative Director of Stories and Consumer Products at Toca Boca. He is the master mind behind apps such as Toca Hair Salon, Toca Band, Toca Kitchen, Toca Train, and Helicopter Taxi. Jens Peter has worked for organizations such as WGBH Boston,...more

Speaking at: Hot Right Now: 45 minutes, 100+ slides, and enough inspiration to last all year; The Secret Ingredient is Freedom

Carla Fisher

Director, Product Innovation

No Crusts Interactive

Carla Engelbrecht Fisher, Ed.D. is a game designer with a research obsession and the founder of No Crusts Interactive, a children’s game design firm that focuses on creating educational and developmentally appropriate interactive experiences. Having spent nearly fifteen years making children’s digital goods, she’s designed, produced, researched, and consulted on a wide...more

Speaking at: In Pursuit of the iDream: Opportunities and challenges in the children's app market; Hot Right Now: 45 minutes, 100+ slides, and enough inspiration to last all year

Amy Friedman

Founder & President

Senior Advisor, MTV Scratch

Amy Friedman serves as Senior Advisor to MTV Scratch, Viacom’s creative S.W.A.T team. With a focus on Millennial culture, their partners include Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, General Motors, The Guggenheim Museum and others.   Amy is also the President and Founder of Redhead Consulting, a brand creation and content development company...more

Speaking at: Case Study Palooza!: A choose-your-own adventure session

Peter Evan Ginsberg

Partner

THUP Games

Peter is a game designer & developer with two decades of experience designing and developing games for players of all ages. He is a co-founder of THUP Games, the award winning independent game design studio behind Monkey Preschool, one of the app world’s most successful early learning properties. Prior...more

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Jane Gould

Co-Founder & Partner

Nickelodeon

In her role as VP of Consumer Insights, Jane Gould is responsible for coordinating consumer insight research for all Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group assets, including Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons Network, Nick at Nite and digital brands like Addicting- Games, Shockwave and Nick.com. She helps understand the attitudes, lifestyles...more

Speaking at: Nick App: A making-of case study

Coleman Greene

Co-Founder, CEO

Sqord

Sqord is a social health company that is redefining what active play means for a connected generation of youth. The company was founded in 2011. Prior to founding Sqord, Coleman spent five years in the financial services industry; working in both general banking with Wachovia Bank and successfully building a private...more

Speaking at: Tech Download: Sqord

Anttu Harlin

CEO, Co-Founder

Gigglebug Entertainment

Anttu Harlin is the co-founder & CEO of Gigglebug Entertainment. The company's mission is to raise smiles around the world through games and entertainment. The company's first app has topped the charts in Finland and China, spreading giggles and winning critical acclaim on the way. The simultaneously released Gigglebug TV...more

Speaking at: Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Leo Henning

CEO

Kidobi

Leo Henning, Founder & CEO of Kidobi, believes that technology can (and should) be a force for good in our children’s lives. Leo spent 17 years in consulting and ground-up software development for startups and Fortune 500 companies, automating tasks that are too difficult, too complex, or too tedious for...more

Speaking at: SVOD Download: Kidobi

Eduardo Henrique

Co-Founder, International Business Development

Movile

Eduardo is a Movile co-founder and currently leads Movile's U.S. operations, after leading the innovation area of the company in HTML5 innovation. Previously, he led development of Movile's micropayment strategy for Latin America and established partnerships with corporate customers. Prior to Movile, Eduardo was an entrepreneur working on three startups...more

Speaking at: SVOD Download: Playkids TV

Amy Henry

President

C + R Research

Amy Henry is Vice President of Youth Insights at C+R Research, where she serves as thought-leader for YouthBeat and YouthBeat Jr., C+R's on-going lifestyle and behavior studies of preschoolers, kids, tweens and teens and their parents. Amy brings extensive experience as a youth expert and an enduring commitment to understanding...more

Speaking at: Web Matters: The role of websites and virtual worlds in an app-dominated market

Eric Huang

Director, Development

Made in Me

Eric Huang is Development Director at Made in Me, an award winning Shoreditch digital agency specialising in children's entertainment and brand development. Starting out at Disney Publishing in LA, Eric moved to Melbourne, Australia, as Managing Editor at Penguin Australia. He then joined Aussie toy company Funtastic's new book division...more

Speaking at: Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Traci Paige Johnson

Creator & Creative Director

Yummico

Traci Paige Johnson is co-founder of yummico (www.yummico.com), the new interactive children’s media company that is a trusted destination for delicious media. yummico produces entertaining media for preschoolers across multiple platforms, with a focus on digital games, interactive shows, apps and eBooks, as well as traditional narrative animation, print books...more

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Eric Karp

Chief Licensing Officer

Lima Sky

Eric Karp is Chief Licensing Officer of Lima Sky, an award-winning video game development studio and creators of the bestselling app Doodle Jump.  A 20 year veteran of the licensing & merchandising industry, Karp has held senior management positions at Mind Candy, Chorion, MGM Studios, Fox Family and Saban, and...more

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Donnie Kerrigan

Managing Director

Chunk Digital

Donnie is MD of Chunk, who help people achieve their goals through interactive entertainment. 

For over 10 years Chunk has helped some of the world’s biggest broadcasters, entertainment companies and brands to raise awareness of their products, educate, reposition, engage, sell – whatever the challenge – through branded and multiplatform entertainment,...more

Speaking at: Developer Download: Chunk Digital

Kate Kiehl

Marketing Director

Night & Day Studios

Kate Kiehl is the Marketing Director at Night & Day Studios, one of the premier mobile app development houses in the world, creating and marketing interactive books, games, and activities for iPad, iPhone, Android, and other mobile markets. She is responsible for overseeing social media, public relations, promotional opportunities, market analysis,...more

Speaking at: Making Sense with Digital Marketing: How to cut through all the noise and get noticed

David Kleeman

SVP, Global Trends

PlayCollective

Strategist, analyst, author and speaker — for a quarter-century, David Kleeman has led the children’s media industry in developing sustainable, kid-friendly solutions.  In May 2013, he broadened his focus, and is now developing a unique new global kids & family "think tank” as Senior Vice President of Insights Programs and...more

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Amy Kraft

Senior Director of Development

Media Macaroni

Amy Kraft is a content creator, strategist, and producer specializing in interactive children’s media. She is co-founder of Monkey Bar Collective, a new kids’ media content company, and creator of the kids’ media blog, Media Macaroni. She has worked on a wide range of products for kids including apps, eBooks,...more

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Donna MacNeil

President

Youth Lab

A veteran in kids entertainment, consumer products and the global kids market, Donna is a seasoned marketing exec who established Youth Lab to help bring insight, expertise and support to those in the business of connecting with kids.    Prior to founding Youth Lab, Donna served with Spin Master Ltd. where as Senior Director Retail Marketing,...more

Speaking at: Making Sense with Digital Marketing: How to cut through all the noise and get noticed

Billy Macqueen

Co-MD

Darrall Macqueen Ltd

Billy Macqueen is co-director of triple BAFTA award winning UK kids Indie Darrall Macqueen Limited. For the last 30 years he has produced and created (with his business partner Maddy Darrall) over 5000 plus hours of kids content for major broadcasters based in the UK and International market. Recent credits for...more

Speaking at: Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Keith Malone

Sr. Director of Entertainment Development

The LEGO Group

Keith Malone, Director of Entertainment Development at The LEGO Group, has been creating kid-centric advertising and content for 20+ years. As a Creative Director for LEGO Systems and Scholastic, engaging young audiences in great stories has been his focus in recent years. “Kids want to be entertained regardless of which...more

Speaking at: Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Sue Miller

Founding Partner

Cupcake Digital, Inc.

Susan is an entrepreneur and producer of television, film, books and digital content. She is the founding partner of three companies: Mixed Media Group, Bolder Media and Cupcake Digital, Inc., all specializing in producing and licensing world-class media properties, lifestyle and corporate brands. Under her stewardship, Cupcake Digital has grown into...more

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Jim Nichols

Co-Founder

THUP Games

Jim Nichols is a co-founder of THUP Games, the award winning independent game design studio behind Monkey Preschool, one of the app world's most highly regarded and successful early learning properties. For over twenty years, Jim has designed games, created characters and developed properties that meet, exceed, and invert expectations. Besides developing...more

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Susanna Pollack

President

Nonstop

Susanna has been working in media for more than 15 years, working in that illusive space where traditional TV meets the world of social and digital. In 2009 she launched Nonstiop, a creative and cultural enterprise focused on establishing strategic alliances, crafting partnerships and spearheading business development for storytellers from...more

Speaking at: Case Study Palooza!: A choose-your-own adventure session; Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Igor Pušenjak

CEO

Lima Sky

Igor Pušenjak is the president and founder of Lima Sky, a leading independent game development studio and publisher of games and apps for mobile platforms. With background in interactive design, marketing, management, publishing, and programming, Igor, joined by his brother Marko, a veteran mobile applications developer, founded Lima Sky in...more

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Robin Raskin

Founder, President

Living in Digital Times

  Robin Raskin has spent the past 30 years exploring what it means to be living in digital times. An author, editor, magazine publisher, blogger, TV and radio personality, and consultant, Raskin says she's never met a media she doesn't like, and is happiest when she's writing about technology's second citizens:...more

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Pete Robinson

Founder

Dubit

Peter Robinson is the head of research at specialist child, youth and family research agency, Dubit. With over a decade's research experience Peter is passionate about developing and utilising innovative and immersive research approaches. Previously Peter has spoken on emerging trends, media consumption, developing new IP's and technology. Youth has been central...more

Speaking at: Making Sense with Digital Marketing: How to cut through all the noise and get noticed

Dave Schlafman

Director of Design Interactive Experiences

CloudKid

Dave is a three time Emmy-nominated producer and an award-winning animation director with over ten years of experience producing creative projects for top children’s media companies. In 2009, Dave co-founded CloudKid, a transmedia studio dedicated to creating character-driven animated and interactive content. CloudKid has created engaging animated shorts, online games...more

Speaking at: Developer Download: CloudKid

Larry Seidman

Managing Director

Dimensional Branding Group

Larry Seidman is CEO of Dimensional Branding Group (DBG), a Bay Area-based brand extension agency that focuses on brand licensing, business development and promotion services, with a unique emphasis on the interactive & digital channels.  DBG specializes in developing toys & games, iconic brands & digital trademarks into entertainment placement...more

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Nat Sims

Chief Creative Officer

Night & Day Studios

Nat Sims is the CEO and founder of Night & Day Studios, a kids’ app company based in Portland and Brooklyn. He has been a content developer and interface designer for over 20 years, creating educational software, interactive installations, and games for clients such as Nickelodeon, Mattel, and the Smithsonian...more

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Lianne Stewart

Owner and Digital Consultant

For Your Reading Pleasure

Lianne Stewart is the Founder of For Your Reading Pleasure, which assists traditional and digital players identify opportunities in the emerging content space. For Your Reading Pleasure works with companies such as ad agencies, TV producers and digital shops on content strategy, digital marketing, funding applications and multiplatform storytelling tactics....more

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Michelle Sullivan

Head of U.S. Development Kids & Family Gaumont

National Geographic

Michelle Sullivan leads National Geographic’s kids and family digital initiatives including the Webby award-winning website http://www.kids.nationalgeographic.com and NG Kids TV, its multi-platform, digital video channel. She is a dynamic and creative content and product strategist with an ability to “think like a 10-year-old.” Michelle is an energetic and innovative executive whose primary...more

Speaking at: Brand Download: Nat Geo Kids

Beau Teague

VP, Product Management

CartoonNetwork.com Digital

Beau Teague has been with Turner Broadcasting for seven years. He started at GameTap, where he helped design and manage the gaming subscription service's user experience, from a 3D desktop client to GameTap.com. While at GameTap, he helped Cartoon Network Digital with the user experience (UX) for their Ben 10 Game Creator –...more

Speaking at: Brand Download: Cartoon Network Digital

Chris Waldron

VP, Cartoon Network Digital

Cartoon Network

Chris Waldron is vice president, digital for Cartoon Network and is responsible for overseeing Cartoon Network’s game development studio, game production, and overall games strategy for Cartoon Network Digital.  Waldron is based in Atlanta and reports directly to Rob Sorcher, chief content officer, Cartoon Network.  Under Waldron’s direction, Cartoon Network Digital...more

Speaking at: Mixing it Up: Building a multiplatform brand with digital in the driver's seat

Lance Weiler

Co-Founder

Reboot Stories

Lance Weiler is a storyteller, entrepreneur and thought leader. An alumni of the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, he is recognized as a pioneer because of the way he mixes storytelling and technology. WIRED magazine named him “one of 25 people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” Always...more

Speaking at: KEYNOTE: Designing for the 21st Century with Lance Weiler