Lenn Pryor

Vice President of Product Marketing - Services & Software, Nokia

Lenn Pryor is Vice President, Product Marketing for the Services and Software division of Nokia. In this role, Lenn leads strategic and digital marketing initiatives for Nokia’s mobile internet services including Ovi, Nokia Maps, N-Gage, Nokia Music Store, Comes With Music, Contacts, and Nokia E-Mail.

Prior to joining Nokia, Lenn led global mobile product management at eBay. Previously, he led platform strategy, developer and partner programs at Skype, and was Director of Platform Strategy and Evangelism at Microsoft where he conceived Channel 9, a widely acclaimed social media and marketing venture.

Lenn started his career as a designer and creative director building websites for AOL and MCI as co-founder of Ironlight Digital in San Francisco.

Lenn attended George Mason University in Fairfax, VA from 1990-94 and studied German Language and Literature and Design Arts. He holds no degrees.

“Join the community”

December 3,

11:15

Julie Ask

Vice President and Research Director JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research Company

As a Research Director with JupiterResearch, Julie Ask focuses on evolving trends in the telecommunications – specifically wireless - industry, examining both the marketing and technology issues these companies face as they look to deploy new technologies and services to enhance their businesses. JupiterResearch's wireless coverage examines business models, technology trends, and consumer behavior and attitudes to provide strategic advice and insight to those in the industry or those looking for a presence on the "third screen." Ask joined JupiterResearch in May 2001.

Ask's telecom experience dates back to her research at COMSAT Laboratories where as an engineer she did microwave circuit design - the focus of her graduate work. After graduating, she began her career in as an engineer in Germany. After earning her M.B.A., she worked for almost five years as a management consultant within the both the Operations Management and Communications Groups at Booz Allen & Hamilton where her primary area of focus was telecommunications strategy in the US and Europe. Prior to joining Jupiter Research, she worked as a Business Development and Product Marketing Manager for a wireless data company, Livemind, a start-up in San Francisco.

Ask holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She lives in San Francisco.

“Social Networking and Community Trends”

December 3,

11:30

John Poisson

Founder and CEO, Tiny Pictures

John formerly led mobile media research and design for Sony R&D in Tokyo, where he focused on developing market-enabling applications for camera phones and other media-rich devices. A veteran of the film and television business, John founded Meteor Studios, one of Canada's largest digital animation studios, and was president of Icestorm Digital Studio

“Mobile Insights”

December 3,

12:00

Daniel Graf

CEO & CO-Founder, Kyte

Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services.

Prior to Kyte Inc., founded in 2006, Daniel worked in the world of converging media consumer products. In 1999 and 2000 he was instrumental in the build-up of ReQuest Multimedia, an award-winning Consumer Electronics Startup Company, based in New York. There he created the world’s first MP3 Hard Disk Jukebox, the predecessor to Apple’s “iPod”. It took the team 11 months from product idea to market. ReQuest Multimedia is running a successful business up to this day.

In 2001, Daniel joined Philips Consumer Electronics where he developed several world premieres in the field of consumer electronics converging with Internet services, such as the world’s first Internet Audio stereo system and the first wireless Home Entertainment System with Internet video services. In addition, to creating these awards winning new media products and bringing them to market, Daniel, together with his team, explored new businesses in the Connected Planet domain which included the development of new value propositions for TV. These propositions included domains such as IPTV, peer to peer community TV, Internet content service overlays (e.g. RSS and weather information “on top” of a TV signal), mobile TV and others.

Before ReQuest Multimedia, Daniel worked at several other companies in the field of software and electronics. Daniel has earned several awards, including the “Top 100 Swiss People of the Year 2000” award, a list of Switzerland’s most outstanding achievers, awarded by Sonntagszeitung. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Interstate College of Engineering (NTB), Switzerland, and an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, Troy NY

“Creating winning Internet Innovations”

December 3,

14:00