Caroline Behar heads the Department of Acquisitions and International Co-productions at state television channel France 5, a key player in documentary production within France. She has been a Commissioning Editor in the Department since 1997, developing numerous international co-production projects....
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Caroline Behar heads the Department of Acquisitions and International Co-productions at state television channel France 5, a key player in documentary production within France. She has been a Commissioning Editor in the Department since 1997, developing numerous international co-production projects. This work takes her to programme markets and festivals worldwide in search of the best documentary films and proposals dealing with her preferred subjects: people, places and cultures from across the world, wildlife and the environment, science and technology. For many years Caroline has been building long-term relationships with producers and broadcasters overseas, and is now actively seeking to collaborate with producers in emerging markets. She is also currently developing cross-platform projects which exploit the potential of new technologies.
Previously, Caroline was involved in setting up the International Association of Educational and Discovery Channels (AITED), and in developing interactive events held throughout France, in complement to the channel's programming.

Caroline is a regular speaker at international documentary forums and has taken part in numerous juries, both in France and abroad

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Michael E. Katz is Vice President, Programming and Production, International Division, A&E Television Networks. In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creati...
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Michael E. Katz is Vice President, Programming and Production, International Division, A&E Television Networks. In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creative direction for both existing and new channels. In addition, he oversees the company's international program sales efforts.

Previously, Mr. Katz was Vice President, Daytime and Specials Programming, A&E Network, where he oversaw late night and daytime programming, and was responsible for the acquisition, development and scheduling of the network's special event programming with a concentration on world premiere documentary mini-series.

Before joining A&E in 1989, A&E, Mr. Katz was Executive Producer of WABC-TV. He was responsible for The Morning Show's entry into national syndication as Live With Regis And Kathie Lee and received an Emmy for the local show in 1983 and an Emmy nomination for the national show in 1989.

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Alberta Nokes is responsible for Apartment 11's development slate. Her responsibilities include cultivating existing development projects, seeking out and evaluating pitches and developing new properties in the children's and adult factual programming genres.

Nokes brings extensive e...
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Alberta Nokes is responsible for Apartment 11's development slate. Her responsibilities include cultivating existing development projects, seeking out and evaluating pitches and developing new properties in the children's and adult factual programming genres.

Nokes brings extensive experience in both broadcast and production to Apartment 11. She has created, written, developed, financed, executive produced and commissioned more than 500 hours of television programming including several international co-productions. Her many roles have included Vice President of Development for Frantic Films, Executive Producer and Head of Development for Associated Producers Limited, Executive in Charge of Production for History Television, and Director of Independent Production for S-Vox/Vision TV & ONE.

Throughout her career, Nokes also has worked with Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA, Peabody, Juno and Gemini award winning directors and producers including James Cameron, Ric Esther Bienstock, and Antony Thomas.

Prior to her work in television production, Nokes held the position of VP Marketing and Communications for Vision TV and was a consultant on communications and regulatory affairs to CBC Radio and Television. She has also written three factual television series.

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Bill has been at Lion Television for ten years. During that time he's made shows on everything from the birth of Athenian Democracy to the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, as head of History and Special Projects, Bill focuses on historic subjects and also observational series for broadcasters all ove...
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Bill has been at Lion Television for ten years. During that time he's made shows on everything from the birth of Athenian Democracy to the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, as head of History and Special Projects, Bill focuses on historic subjects and also observational series for broadcasters all over the world - covering diverse subjects from Chinese Emperors to African schoolchildren and Greek heroes.

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Daniela Bagliani is the Documentary Acquisitions and Co-productions Manager of RTI SpA - Mediaset Group, the largest commercial network in Italy with more than the 43% of the general share in the free television market. She is responsible for acquisition, pre-acquisition and co-production activity, ...
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Daniela Bagliani is the Documentary Acquisitions and Co-productions Manager of RTI SpA - Mediaset Group, the largest commercial network in Italy with more than the 43% of the general share in the free television market. She is responsible for acquisition, pre-acquisition and co-production activity, from selection and negotiation till contract reviewing. Working and thinking strategically about the commercial and editorial objectives of all programming agreements and implementing them into the operations of the department, she develops relationships with suppliers, other broadcasters and independent producers, monitors the international market and collects the needs of different slots and channels. Since 2000 Daniela has contributed to the schedule development of the satellite channel MTChannel. She has a degree in International Law and a MBA in Marketing and she's currently a member of the Board of Directors of both History and Factual World Congresses

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John Farren has just launched his own indy production company, 360 Production, specialising in history and science for TV and across emerging platforms. John was Editor of the BBC's multi-award winning flagship history programme - Timewatch, for 6 years. He commissioned and executive produced 70 epi...
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John Farren has just launched his own indy production company, 360 Production, specialising in history and science for TV and across emerging platforms. John was Editor of the BBC's multi-award winning flagship history programme - Timewatch, for 6 years. He commissioned and executive produced 70 episodes of the strand, with average audiences of over two million. John also pioneered the brand's launch into online space with hits like Bloody Omaha and Stonehenge Live. Previously John was also an exec for Granada and Scottish/GingerTV.

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Following his studies at universities in Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, Olaf Grunert began to work for German public broadcaster ZDF based in Mainz.

Beginning as a freelancer in the entertainment department, he soon became a full-time Commissioning Editor in the Classical Musi...
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Following his studies at universities in Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, Olaf Grunert began to work for German public broadcaster ZDF based in Mainz.

Beginning as a freelancer in the entertainment department, he soon became a full-time Commissioning Editor in the Classical Music and Theatre departments. In 1990, he became Deputy Head of Zentralredaktion Kultur, the programming unit of ZDF's culture and science department.

When the German-French Culture Channel ARTE was created, he became Senior Commissioning Editor of all the documentaries ZDF produces for ARTE. In 1998, he headed the department exclusively dedicated to theme nights, THEMA.

He has since been involved in an increasing number of international co-productions, mainly of European origin. Recently, some Spanish and Italian projects have been realized with the support of his department. In January 2005 he moved to ARTE Headquarters Strasbourg where he continued to work as head of Unite THEMA.

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In January 1996, Vidicom was founded by Peter Bardehle in Hamburg. Four staff members produce at average 10 hours per year, mainly science and history shows. After graduating from Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism, Peter Bardehle worked for SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG and public broadcasters in Germany. He ...
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In January 1996, Vidicom was founded by Peter Bardehle in Hamburg. Four staff members produce at average 10 hours per year, mainly science and history shows. After graduating from Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism, Peter Bardehle worked for SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG and public broadcasters in Germany. He was assigned as news reporter, editor and anchorman. From 1993 - 1995 he headed the documentary department of the commercial broadcaster SAT.1. During his career he was awarded the Strasbourg Prize, the John J. McCloy Fellowship of the American Council in Germany, the RIAS Television Award and the first Ludwig Bolkow Award by the EADS Airbus Consortium. Vidicom's website won Excite's Cool Site Award

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As a Commissioning Editor of documentaries & factual programming Mette Hoffmann Meyer is responsible for appx 700 hours of programming per year. In this job she has won many awards, among others Grierson, Peabody; Sundance; Oscar and many more. She is a board member of Steps International initia...
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As a Commissioning Editor of documentaries & factual programming Mette Hoffmann Meyer is responsible for appx 700 hours of programming per year. In this job she has won many awards, among others Grierson, Peabody; Sundance; Oscar and many more. She is a board member of Steps International initiating "Why Democracy?" and is an advisory member of festivals around the world. Mette joined TV 2 in 1991 as a Chief Executive for Sales & Co-production. In her time the sales department became the largest distributor in Scandinavia with world wide sales.

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As Senior Executive Producer for NGCI, Stephen Hunter is responsible for executive producing some 100 hours of original programming per year - programming that goes across 164 countries worldwide. These hours run across the whole vista of National Geographic's core areas including natural history, a...
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As Senior Executive Producer for NGCI, Stephen Hunter is responsible for executive producing some 100 hours of original programming per year - programming that goes across 164 countries worldwide. These hours run across the whole vista of National Geographic's core areas including natural history, adventure, science and world cultures. Stephen has played an instrumental role executive producing series such as Air Crash Investigation and I Didn't Know That and the Python Attack episode of Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr. In edition to these editorial duties, Hunter also takes the lead in developing key series and specials for the channels.

Prior to joining NGCI, Hunter was Vice President of Production for Cineflix in Toronto, Canada. There he helped develop a number of hit series including Trapped, Mayday: Crash Scene Investigations, Final 24, True CSI, and developed and co-executive produced the award-winning, two-hour doc drama, Jonestown: Paradise Lost. Before that he was Vice President and Head of Development for CineNova Productions. He was also producer, director/writer on two Emmy-nominated documentaries: In the Wrong Body and Growing Up Old.

Hunter began his TV career as a presenter and producer for Current Affairs at the CBC. Prior to that he put his degrees in Philosophy from Princeton and Cambridge Universities to excellent use by being a professional actor in New York City, Los Angeles and London.

National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) invites viewers to re-think the way they see television - and the world - with smart, innovative programming. A business enterprise owned by National Geographic Television (NGT) and FOX Entertainment Group, NGCI contributes to the National Geographic Society's commitment to exploration, conservation and education.

Globally, National Geographic Channel (including NGC U.S. which is a joint venture of NGT and Fox Cable Networks Group) is available in over 250 million homes (including day-part households) in 166 countries and 34 languages.

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Elizabeth Klinck has worked as producer, researcher and clearance specialist on numerous award-winning Canadian, American and British documentary films that have garnered Emmy, Gemini, Peabody and Academy awards.
A graduate of Queen's University, Elizabeth has taught documentary research and ...
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Elizabeth Klinck has worked as producer, researcher and clearance specialist on numerous award-winning Canadian, American and British documentary films that have garnered Emmy, Gemini, Peabody and Academy awards.
A graduate of Queen's University, Elizabeth has taught documentary research and development at Ryerson University in Toronto and has led workshops at numerous international conferences and broadcasters. Elizabeth serves as a member of the board of History Makers, FOCAL International, the Audio Visual Trust of Canada, and the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival. She is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers' Society of Canada and is a member of DOC and WIFT Toronto.
Elizabeth has personally been nominated for the FOCAL International Researcher of the Year Award, a Canadian Gemini award, an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft - Research and last year was presented with the FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Daniele Doglio is a professor of media economics and copyright management at the Universita Cattolica in Milan and the Swiss-Italian University in Lugano.

After working in several media and communications related companies at managerial levels including RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana, ...
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Daniele Doglio is a professor of media economics and copyright management at the Universita Cattolica in Milan and the Swiss-Italian University in Lugano.

After working in several media and communications related companies at managerial levels including RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana, the Sugar Music Group, Cable&Wireless Plc, Telecom Italia, Polygram, Stream-Sky Italy Digital Television, DD is presently consulting for the director general of RAI Educational Department Mr. Giovanni Minoli, a position which includes working on various strategy matters including the daily program series History Are Us.

As a journalist DD contributes to several italian newspapers and magazines, and was correspondent from Italy for the program-trade magazine TV World.

A member of the International Institute of Communications, London, since 1977, the Foreign Press Association, and the Italian Journalist Association, DD has just published in Italy the book Copyright & Media, A guide to the market of rights.

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Koch is Vice President of PBS Distribution (PBSd), the world-wide broadcast co-production, acquisition and distribution and new media business development company jointly owned by PBS and WGBH-Boston. PBS Distribution seeks out and manages co-production partnerships with producers and broadcasters a...
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Koch is Vice President of PBS Distribution (PBSd), the world-wide broadcast co-production, acquisition and distribution and new media business development company jointly owned by PBS and WGBH-Boston. PBS Distribution seeks out and manages co-production partnerships with producers and broadcasters and directs the sale of PBS, WGBH programs and programs of independent producers to media companies globally. Koch's primary role is to oversee all international activities of PBSd.

PBSd represents such acclaimed television series such as Wide Angle, Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, as well as select award winning independent producers such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jurecki, David Grubin, Jon Else, David Sutherland, among others.

Koch, a 20 year veteran of public broadcasting and WGBH-Boston launched, along with the Banff Television Festival, History Makers in October, 2001, where he served as chairman for six years. Koch is also a Board member of the International Emmy Committee, a founding partner of the European Television and Media Academy, a member of the Discovery Campus advisory board .

Previously at WGBH Koch was Director of WGBH International and earlier, Director of Licensing for WGBH where he oversaw the launch of This Old House Magazine, among other things. He has also worked in WGBH's budget and strategy departments.

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Michael Kot is currently the VP for Factual Entertainment for Entertainment One Television.

Michael was formerly the VP for Factual Content for Canwest Broadcasting. As such, Michael was responsible for all original factual programming outside of the lifestyle genre for Canwest Broad...
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Michael Kot is currently the VP for Factual Entertainment for Entertainment One Television.

Michael was formerly the VP for Factual Content for Canwest Broadcasting. As such, Michael was responsible for all original factual programming outside of the lifestyle genre for Canwest Broadcasting. Channels included terrestrials, Global and E!, and specialty channels, History Television, Mystery, National Geographic Canada, and IFC.

Michael joined History Television just before it launched in 1997. As Director of Original Content he was responsible all original programming. He has also served as an executive for National Geographic Canada, BBC Canada and BBC Kids. Michael was on launch team of CBC Newsworld eventually producing a range of network specials and series. He left to peruse online digital projects as well as to make feature documentaries.

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Stephen Segaller is Vice President of Content for WNET.ORG, heading up the creation of all national and local programming from the company's producing subsidiaries - Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets...
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Stephen Segaller is Vice President of Content for WNET.ORG, heading up the creation of all national and local programming from the company's producing subsidiaries - Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Wide Angle, Worldfocus, Expose , Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Cyberchase, SundayArts, Reel 13 and many documentary films and series.

For nine years to January 2008 he was WNET's Director of News and Public Affairs Programming. He has been a journalist, producer, director, writer and author whose work has been broadcast and published on both sides of the Atlantic and all over the world.

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William Spencer Reilly is the Executive Vice President, Creative Strategies, Production & Partnerships at Odyssey Networks. Reilly joined the company (formerly Faith & Values Media) in 1999 as Executive Producer and was later promoted to Vice President of Production and Programming. In thos...
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William Spencer Reilly is the Executive Vice President, Creative Strategies, Production & Partnerships at Odyssey Networks. Reilly joined the company (formerly Faith & Values Media) in 1999 as Executive Producer and was later promoted to Vice President of Production and Programming. In those positions, Mr. Reilly oversaw all of the organization's regular weekly productions and programming on Hallmark Channel as well as its primetime holiday specials and movies.

Bill Reilly's contributions as Executive Producer resulted in two of the highest rated movies in Hallmark Channel's history: "Love Comes Softly" and "Love's Enduring Promise," each of which have sold over a million DVDs, as well as Hallmark Channel's highest rated non-fiction special, "Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi." He has won over 30 national awards including several CINE Golden Eagles ("C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia," "Joan of Arc," "Patrick" and "Reluctant Saint"), and others for various series, specials and made-for-television movies including the BBC's highest rated drama single of the year in 2008, "Florence Nightingale."

Reilly temporarily left Odyssey Networks in 2007 when he was promoted to President & CEO of the newly created Lightworks Pictures, a new motion picture subsidiary of Odyssey. Under Reilly's direction, its first film, "The Note," was Hallmark Channel's highest rated movie of the year in 2007. The sequel, "Taking a Chance on Love," premiered on the Hallmark Channel in January, 2009, earning the honor of cable's highest rated primetime telecast of the day. Reilly rejoined Odyssey Networks in July 2009 at the request of its new CEO, Nick Stuart.

For over 25 years, Reilly has worked for various television and theatrical production companies serving as President & CEO of Sea Lion Productions, Executive Director of Fordham University's Sesquicentennial Celebration, Executive Director of the Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts, and Director of the American Theatre Wing, founders of The Antoinette Perry "TONY" Awards. Before he began his career in television, Reilly worked on Broadway as an actor and producer of shows and special event fundraisers, among them several productions of, "WAITIN' IN THE WINGS: The Night the Understudies Take Center Stage, "Bob Hope and The Best of Broadway Salute Fordham Prep," and the Broadway workshop production of Leon Uris' bestseller, "TRINITY."

Mr. Reilly received his BA in theatre from Fordham University and served his apprenticeship as an actor with the Yale Repertory Company. He lives in Somers, New York with his wife Diane and has two daughters, Maeve and Erin.

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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executi...
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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executive Producer of the hugely successful current affairs program The Journal (1982-92).

Mr. Starowicz's passion for Canadian history and culture culminated in his monumental 32 hour documentary series, Canada: A People's History. Airing over two years (2000-01) in both English and French, the series attracted over 14 million viewers.

Mark Starowicz is currently Executive Director of Documentary Programming at CBC where recent projects include the four-part series China Rises. He is much in demand internationally as a writer and lecturer on the history and future of broadcast communications.

Awards and honours include Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2006); Officer of the Order of Canada (2004); Canadian Club Canadian of the Year (2000); Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); eight Gemini Awards, and honorary degrees from six Canadian universities.

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Ralf-Peter Piechowiak is Writer, Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor for ZDF German Television Network, Europe's largest public TV company. Ralf has had a distinguished 25-year career at ZDF's Department of Contemporary History. He has co-developed, written, produced, launched or supervised ...
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Ralf-Peter Piechowiak is Writer, Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor for ZDF German Television Network, Europe's largest public TV company. Ralf has had a distinguished 25-year career at ZDF's Department of Contemporary History. He has co-developed, written, produced, launched or supervised the production of many highly acclaimed multiple-part, award-winning documentary series over the past few years including The Unification of Germany, Scandals, Our Century, Hitler - A Profile, Hitler's Henchmen, Holokaust, The Century War, 100 Years, Stalin, German POW's, Dictators, Power Couples, Monarchies, Conspiracy Files. Ralf contributes articles for historical publications and books. He helped launch the World Congress of History Producers and currently serves on the Board of Directors of "History Makers 2008: International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers". More information on ZDF can be found on the company's website www.zdf.de

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Julia Harrington is Commissioning Editor for History at Channel 4, where she is responsible for a diverse and innovative range of programmes. She joined Channel 4 last year, following a stint as history commissioner at channel five where she commissioned last year's run of Revealed. Previously she w...
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Julia Harrington is Commissioning Editor for History at Channel 4, where she is responsible for a diverse and innovative range of programmes. She joined Channel 4 last year, following a stint as history commissioner at channel five where she commissioned last year's run of Revealed. Previously she was a freelance film maker, known for making some of Channel 4's highest rating specialist factual programmes, such as the first Bodyshock, The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin. She was also commissioned by Channel 4 to make a number of her own series ideas including the award-winning Shell Shock, the previously untold history of British military psychiatry.

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Piero A. Corsini (Series Producer, La Storia siamo noi, Rai Educational) was born in Rome. He graduated in Film History and Criticism at the State University in Rome. He joined RAI in 1986: two years later, he became a producer for Mixer in 1988, producing, directing and appearing on camera in dozen...
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Piero A. Corsini (Series Producer, La Storia siamo noi, Rai Educational) was born in Rome. He graduated in Film History and Criticism at the State University in Rome. He joined RAI in 1986: two years later, he became a producer for Mixer in 1988, producing, directing and appearing on camera in dozens of segments (5' to 1h), on such different topics as Italian terrorism, US politics, domestic and international affairs, among many others. In 1994, he was the co-creator of the award-winning talk show Mixer Giovani, and later became the production supervisor (editorial and contractual) of the first 1,500 episodes of Un posto al sole. Under Mr Minoli's direction, he was also responsible for international co-productions and acquisitions of documentaries for Format and Raitre (with partners like Discovery, Turner Original Productions, Teleimages, Set Productions). In 2002, again with Mr Minoli, he moved to Rai Educational, where he is currently the executive in charge of La Storia siamo noi, also with editorial responsibilities.

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Max Segal, along with CNN's David Sheehan, have been serving as ASCIL co-presidents since elected in November 2006. ACSIL is a not-for-profit group of 22 of the leading footage libraries in the world - representing Instituitional, Commercial, TV network and Independent collections. ACSIL's main mi...
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Max Segal, along with CNN's David Sheehan, have been serving as ASCIL co-presidents since elected in November 2006. ACSIL is a not-for-profit group of 22 of the leading footage libraries in the world - representing Instituitional, Commercial, TV network and Independent collections. ACSIL's main mission is to get together, as a community, to clarify and standardize, where we can, they way we all do business.

In 1989, Segal started his career at HBO as head of Rights and Clearances for the network's Sports division. In 1991, Segal began feature producing. As Senior Feature Producer, Segal has told the stories of high-profile athletes from across the sports world spectrum. He won the Sports Emmy Award in 2003 for his Inside the NFL feature story contributions.

In 2003, Segal let go of his feature story assignments to become founder of the HBO Archives (www.hboarchives.com). Since then, the HBO Archives has expanded its on-line search/preview/download to include High Definition footage, as well as content from The March of Time Newsreels, HBO Entertainment News division as well as the high-end footage from HBO Films.

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Evan Silverman is Senior Vice President, Digital Media, A&E Television Networks (AETN). In this position, Silverman oversees content, production and design for AETV.com, History.com, myLifetime.com, and Biography.com. Based in New York, he reports to Dan Suratt, Executive Vice President, Digit...
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Evan Silverman is Senior Vice President, Digital Media, A&E Television Networks (AETN). In this position, Silverman oversees content, production and design for AETV.com, History.com, myLifetime.com, and Biography.com. Based in New York, he reports to Dan Suratt, Executive Vice President, Digital Media and Business Development.

Silverman was named to that position in September, 2009, after serving in a similar role for Lifetime Networks. Before joining Lifetime in 2006, Silverman served as executive producer of NBCOlympics.com for the 2006 Torino Games and the 2004 Athens Games. Prior to that, he served as Director, Internet Services, at NBA.com, and worked in Media Relations for the NBA and the Utah Jazz.

Silverman graduated from Bates College in Maine. He currently lives with his wife and daughter on the Upper West Side in New York City.

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Katie McKenna has more than a decade of experience producing and directing non-fiction content for film, television, and the web. Specializing in 2.0. tools and open distribution strategies, she's produced web sites and campaigns from the corporate trenches of JumpTV to the non-profit frontlines o...
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Katie McKenna has more than a decade of experience producing and directing non-fiction content for film, television, and the web. Specializing in 2.0. tools and open distribution strategies, she's produced web sites and campaigns from the corporate trenches of JumpTV to the non-profit frontlines of the NDP, FreePress, and the Documentary Organization of Canada. Katie is also credited on over a dozen documentary productions, including co-producing The Take (2004) with Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, and directing The Year Before for the NFB (2007).

In 2009, she completed her MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics. Her thesis focused on how new information-exchange structures in global organizations can improve both efficiency and stakeholder accountability.

Katie has worked as Web and Interactive Director for PTV Productions since 2009. Over the past year, Katie has led the production of Inside Disaster interactive, the HaitiFixers website, the PTV corporate website, and Star Portraits Online.

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Robin McKenna is a documentary filmmaker, director and cinematographer. She began making films with La Course destination monde (1997-98), a Canadian series which sent young people around the world with a video camera, making creative, point-of-view documentaries. Her film The Great War Experience a...
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Robin McKenna is a documentary filmmaker, director and cinematographer. She began making films with La Course destination monde (1997-98), a Canadian series which sent young people around the world with a video camera, making creative, point-of-view documentaries. Her film The Great War Experience aired on CBC and won the Founders' Award at Yorkton Film Festival. Her cinematography credits include The Take (AFI Best Documentary 2004), and City of Borders (Berlinale, Hot Docs 2009), and she has directed series for networks like the History Channel, Oxygen, and MTV. Her current project is a feature documentary for theatrical release, about a psychotropic Amazonian medicine and the treatment of addiction.

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Leonard is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or...
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Leonard is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date.
Much critical acclaim has followed him in his endeavours. At Onvia (where he was part of the initial executive), the company was voted Canada's number one startup in 2000 and subsequently closed a $240 Million IPO on NASDAQ.
Currently, Leonard is Co-Founder and CEO of NowPublic which is one of the pioneers in citizen generated news and quickly becoming one of the largest news agencies in the world with over 170,000 contributing reporters in 160 countries & over 3 million readers a month.
The Guardian in London ranked NowPublic as one of top 5 news sites in the world and Time Magazine named it as of the top 50 websites in the world.
Leonard acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia. Throughout his career, has also advised several entities including, the Associated Press, Alliance Atlantis,
CanWest Global, Derby County Football Club and Sonic Foundry. In addition, he was the Senior Technology Advisor to Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Trade - David Emerson. Currently, Leonard is a Senior Advisor to the Canadian Ministry of International Trade and a Director of Canada's largest technology association, CATA.
A highly sought-after public speaker, Leonard has lectured at universities such as Stanford, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai and the Gordon Business School in Johannesburg. His insight has been requested by companies such as Forbes, Warner Music and Bell, as well as, the governments of countries such as India, Israel, Ireland and South
Africa. He has spoken at conferences throughout the world including NASSCOM, the World Newspaper Congress, CEBIT and the Monaco Media Forum. His work has been featured in such publications as USA Today, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, El Mundo and Der
Spiegel. Recently he was given the award as one of Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40. He is coauthor of the best selling books, "Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park
to Java" and "Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned from a Canadian" both published by John Wiley and Sons.
Leonard holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.

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Eric Berger is the Creative Director at InsomniaTV(InsomniaTV.tv) a New York-based production company specializing in on air promotions and marketing.
Beginning as a writer/producer at The History Channel in 1994, Eric has seen the evolution of marketing and promotions in cable and the web fi...
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Eric Berger is the Creative Director at InsomniaTV(InsomniaTV.tv) a New York-based production company specializing in on air promotions and marketing.
Beginning as a writer/producer at The History Channel in 1994, Eric has seen the evolution of marketing and promotions in cable and the web first hand. At InsomniaTV he has been instrumental in series launches, rebrand campaigns, topical promos and short form production for History, A&E, CBS, HBO, TLC, FoodTV and others.

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Matt Thompson is a web strategist working at the intersection of media, technology and social change. In his current role as communications strategist for the Mozilla Foundation's new "Drumbeat" initiative, he's exploring how "open source thinking" can help knock down language an...
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Matt Thompson is a web strategist working at the intersection of media, technology and social change. In his current role as communications strategist for the Mozilla Foundation's new "Drumbeat" initiative, he's exploring how "open source thinking" can help knock down language and educational barriers, reinvent media, and ultimately help update the operating system of the planet.

As a campaign strategist for the U.S. media reform organization FreePress.net, Matt won a 2007 Webby Award for his work around net neutrality and protecting the Internet's open future. A former CBC radio producer, he has delivered presentations on the web and social media at McGill University, the U.S. Library of Congress and London School of Economics.

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Ocean MacAdams is a multi-award winning television producer with over 15 years in the media industry. He joined Current TV as Senior Vice President, Programming, in 2009, and is responsible for all areas of programming and production for the Network. Under his purview, he is charged with building ...
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Ocean MacAdams is a multi-award winning television producer with over 15 years in the media industry. He joined Current TV as Senior Vice President, Programming, in 2009, and is responsible for all areas of programming and production for the Network. Under his purview, he is charged with building out Current TV's development slate of news, information, and documentary programming, including the Emmy- nominated "Vanguard" investigative journalism series.
Previously, MacAdams worked at MTV Networks, where he first began his career as an assignment editor at VH1 News. Over the course of 13 years, he worked his way up the MTV News division, and held a variety of positions which eventually lead to his role as Senior Vice President, MTV News. In that role, MacAdams oversaw all of MTV News' television and digital efforts. During his tenure, he helped produce groundbreaking programming from the Week In Rock to President Obama's Youth Inaugural Ball. He was part of the team that created MTV Overdrive, one of the first broadband channels, and created MTV's first original series for mobile phones. After leaving MTV, he was a freelance producer and consultant, most recently producing the annual White House Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
MacAdams' work has been recognized by a number of industry organizations including : a 2007 GLAAD nomination for "The Equality Ride", a 2006 Prism Award for "Jack Osbourne - Back for Rehab", a 2006 Emmy Nomination for "Diary of Gideon in Pakistan", and 2004 Beacon Award for "At War with Iraq." the recipient of a number of awards including the 2007 GLAAD, Prism
MacAdams holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University and . currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his family.

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