The Marker conference in Tel Aviv
As the current online information about the Marker Comvention Sunday conference is only in Hebrew, below is the final agenda in english that Ouriel just translated. I speak on Sunday at 16:30 PM on "how Google Disrupts and Creates Businesses" see you there. Life seems terrible in this country.
Sunday, April 2nd
10:00-11:00 Panel: "Breaking the Value Chain: How Traditional Businesses Try to Get a Larger Share of the Internet Success"
• Moderator: Dr. Yossi Vardi, Chairman, International Technologies
• Mr. Gary Shainberg, Vice President, Technology & Innovation Support, BT Group Technology Office.
• Mr. Jonathan Weber, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, NewWest.net
• Mr. Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman, Pulvermedia, Co-Founder, Vonage
• Mr. Tom Evslin, Novelist and Consultant, Co-Founder, ITXC Corp
• Mr. Simon Levene, Managing Director, Corporate Development EMEA, Yahoo!
• Ms. Caroline Little, CEO and Publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI)
11:20-12:20 Panel: "Pickers and Cherries: What Venture Funds Are Looking For"
• Mr. Elie Wurtman, CEO, JVP Studio
• Mr. Jonathan Seelig, Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
• Mr. Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Mr. David Aronoff, General Partner, IDG Ventures Boston
• Mr. Yair Goldfinger, Co-Founder, Vice President R&D and CTO, Mirabilis, Co-Founder and CTO, Dotomi
• Mr. Shmil Levy, Partner, Sequoia Capital Israel
12:20-13:20 Panel "Breaking Ground: The Internet's Most Exciting New Business Models"
• Mr. Ed Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager, AOL Premium and Subscription Services
• Mr. Ola Ahlvarsson, CEO and Co-Founder, Result
• Mr. Ariel Yarnitsky, CEO, Speedbit, formerly CEO of ICQ
• Mr. Julius Genachowski, Founder, Rock Creek Ventures, Former Chief of Business Operations, IAC/InterActiveCorp
• Mr. Marc Goldberg, Managing Partner, Occam Capital
• Mr. Mark Pincus, Co-Founder, Chairman and former CEO, Tribe Networks
14:20-14:30 A short address by Mr. Mark Barry, Managing Director, Microsoft® .NET Emerging Business
14:30-14:40 A short address by Mr (CPA, Isr.), Partner, KPMG Somekh-Chaikin.
14:40-15:10 Most Promising Internet Start-up 2006
15:10-16:10 Panel: "The New New Media: A Guided Tour on the Internet's Media Front"
• Ms. Deborah Schultz, Consultant , user generated content, formerly Marketing Director of Sixapart
• Mr. Michael Schrage, Co-Director of MIT Media Lab’s E-Markets Initiative and a Senior Adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program
• Mr. Nish Bhutani, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Marketing Services, Arts Alliance Media
• Mr. Sam Glassenberg Program Manager, Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies, Microsoft
• Ms. Stephanie (Steffi) Czerny, Managing Director, Media Marketing & Communications, Hubert Burda Media
• Mr. Amit Shafrir, President, AOL Premium Services LLC
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Panel: "Googled: How Google Disrupts and Creates Businesses"
• Prof. Oren Etzioni, Director of Turing Center and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, Venture Partner, Madrona Ventures
• Mr. Loic Le Meur, Executive Vice President, Sixapart, Founder, Ublog
• Dr. Michel Bera, Co-Founder, KXEN
• Mr. Matthew Snyder, General Manager, Mobile Search Business Development, Nokia
• Ms. Cristiana Falcone, Senior Community Manager, Media and Entertainment, World Economic Forum
17:30-17:40 Announcement: Most Promising Internet Start-up 2006
Monday, April 3rd
08:30-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Greetings
09:45-10:00 An address by Mr. Sam Glassenberg , Program Manager, Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies, Microsoft.
10:00-11:00: Panel: "Changing Giants: How Leading Corporations Rose to the Internet’s Challenge"
• Mr. Yona Fogel, Executive Vice President, Head of Banking Division, Bank Leumi
• Mr. Lior Reitblatt, CEO, Super-Pharm
• Mr. Motti Guttman, CEO, Matrix
• Mr. Shaul Schneider, CEO, Sports Gambling Settlement Council
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Panel: “Round Table: The Internet Arena from 5 Perspectives”
• Mr. Ehud Furman, Formerly Vice President at Shopping.com, in Charge of European Operations
• Mr. Arnon Katz, Co-Founder, Empire Online
• Mr. Yariv Nachshon, CEO, Plonter
• Mr. Eran Arden, Co-CEO, Grey interactive
12:20-13:20 Panel: “The Check Writers: The Biggest Advertisers on the Israeli Web”
• Mr. Erez Paz, Vice President Marketing, Israel Credit Cards (CAL)
• Mr. Tal Raban, Vice President Marketing, Coca Cola Israel
• Ms. Nili Tzur, CEO, Snacks and Cereals, Osem
• Mr. Kobi Navon, Vice President, Clal Finance
• Mr. Raffi Tzarfaty, CEO, Euro-Tel-Aviv
13:20-14:10 Lunch
14:10-15:10 Interactive Q&A
Mr. Guy Mor, CEO, TBWA Interactive
Mr. Gay Simchon, Co-CEO Grey Interactive
Mr. Doron Tal, CEO, Saatchi Interactive
Mr. Eran Geffen, CEO, Y&R Interactive
Ms. Karen Stevenson Lahav, CEO, BBDO Interactive
Mr. Tamir Yulevitch, Founder and CEO, D-Say Interactive
Interactive Challenge 2006 Competition
15:10-16:10 Panel: “Action! The Blazing Competition Between Online Video and Traditional TV”
• Ms. Iris Beck, Vice Presdient Marketing, Orange
• Mr. Yon Feder, Editor-in-Chief, YNET
• Mr. Yinon Landenberg, CEO E-dologic Interactive
• Mr. Lior Tzoref, Marketing Communications Manager, Microsoft Israel
• Mr. Nir Lampert, CEO, Dapey Zahav (Golden Pages)
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-16:40 announcing the winner of the Interactive Challenge competition
16:40-17:00 A short address by Mr. Meir Brand, CEO, Google Israel
17:00-18:00 Panel: "Heads Up: Israeli Internet by 2010"
• Mr. Avi Gabai, CEO, Bezeq International
• Mr. Udi Milner, CEO, One
• Mr. Erez Philosoph, Founder & Vice-CEO, Walla Communications
• Mr. Meir Brand, CEO, Google Israel
• Mr. Timor Gordon, CEO, ARC Interactive.