Some of the executives who confirmed their participation include BBC vice president of future media and technology; FOX vice president of international distribution, content area manager for Orange in France, vice president of Fox Mobile, vice president of MTV and many more. Contech2010 is organized by Kenes Exhibitions.
Moshe Lilos, CEO of Kenes Exhibitions said: 'Contech offers a meeting place and interface for content creators and technology developers. It is an opportunity for the participants to have a closer view of new media technologies, novel contents and new media as well as to meet with the executives of the global industry who will arrive in Israel especially for the conference.'
The media and technology executives will use the three days of the conference to meet with Israeli companies to evaluate collaboration and acquisition possibilities. Tens of meetings have already been scheduled with content, technology and new media companies in Israel.
Lilos added, 'We have set up a steering committee for the conference which is co-chaired by Yoram Yaakovi, CEO of Microsoft's R&D center in Israel and Yona Wiesenthal, VP of content in YES. The committee, which consists of 50 media and technology executives, will set the professional direction for the conference.'
Concurrently with the sessions, the conference will offer additional activities such as a TV format contest which was organized by Avi Armoza, a developer of a video game managed by GameIS, and an a trade exhibition of tens of exhibitors.
Organized by Kenes Exhibitions in collaboration with MATIMOP, the Export Institute, and the High Tech Industries Association (HTIA), the Contech Conference targets Israeli and international audience. For more information, visit the conference website at www.contech2010.com or our facebook profile: www.facebook.com/contech2010
Contech 2010 list of speakers
Uri Adoni: Partner, JVP, Israel
Janet Alshouse: Senior VP, International Distribution, FOX News, USA
Olivier Avaro: CEO, Streamezzo – Amdocs Cloud Services, France
Haggai Barel, CEO, Orca Interactive, Israel
Guy Bendov: CEO, Sidekick, Israel
Pete Buckingham, Head of Distribution & Exhibition, UK Film Council, UK
Greg Clayman: Executive VP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, PRNewsFoto/MTV Networks, USA
Rani Cohen: Chairman and CEO, TuneWiki, Israel
Xavier Couture: Head of Orange Content, France Telecom, France
Arik Czerniak, CEO, Supersonic Ads, Israel
Orey Gilliam: Executive Chairman, Sentigo, Israel
Jeurgen Goeldner, co-COO, Square Enix, Germany
Joanne Gordon: Vice President, RBC, Canada
Guy Grimland: Hi-Tech Reporter, The Marker, Israel
Ehud Hausman: Senior Partner, Head of the Hi-Tech Department, Reinhold Cohn Group, Israel
Lisa Hsia: Senior Vice President, Bravo Digital Media, USA
Eric Huggers: Director, Future Media & Technology, BBC, UK
Danny Kalish: Co-Founder and CTO, idomoo, Israel
Bobby Lee, CTO, BesTV, Shanghai Media Group, China
Gigi Levy: CEO, 888 Holdings, Israel
Moshe Lichtman, Corp. Vice President and Head of Israel R&D, Microsoft, Israel
Sebastien Marteau: VP, Fox Mobile, Germany
Ori Neidich: Technical Director, DreamWorks Animation, USA
Doron Nir: Creative Director for Social Games, Oberon, Israel
Avichay Nissenbaum, Vice President and Israel Country Manager, AOL, Israel
Dana Porter, VP and Head of Global Marketing, Amdocs, Israel
Omri Reuter, CEO, Logia Mobile, Israel
Yaron Tanne, CEO & Founder, Cam-Trax, Israel
Stephen Tropp: Consultant, Naomi Assia & Co. Law Offices, Israel
Ido Wiesenberg: Co-Founder & VP Business Development, Tvinci, Israel" (source)
