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Speakers we have confirmed so far include:

	Emily Boyd - Founder, Remember The Milk Emily Boyd is the founder of the Apple Design Award winning company, Remember The Milk. With a background as a designer/developer, Emily created MatMice which has more that 1.5 million kids using it throughout the world in over 200 countries. She co-founded and designed Remember The Milk, a way to manage tasks online. Emily was once NSW Young Australian of the Year and became very well known when she and her two sisters, Sarah and Elise created MatMice, which helps kids to create their own homepage, with no adult assistance whatsoever from their home-base in Newcastle when they were 16, 14 and 10.
	Dr Richard Favero PhD - Founder & Chief Executive Officer, SOPRANO Design Richard is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the leading Australian mobile messaging and wireless application infrastructure provider SOPRANO Design. Richard has been responsible for the international expansion of SOPRANO Design establishing the European operations in Paris and London. SOPRANO counts as its clients Telstra Corporation, National Australia Bank, Accor Asia Pacific, Transurban, Visa, Ascom and Qantas. Richard is a leading researcher in the fields of mobile technology, software engineering and speech recognition technology. Continuing his commitment to Australian technology research and development, Richard and SOPRANO are actively engaged with the research community supporting research projects at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. Richard provides high level strategic consulting services for technology adoption, corporate impacts of technology to blue chip Australian companies and commercialisation services to early stage technology companies. Richard is a director and early investor of several technology companies spanning financial services, software and biotechnology. Prior to founding SOPRANO, Richard worked as a technical project manager and team leader at Telstra Corporation. Before joining Telstra Corporation, Richard was a software engineer at Gestetner Lasers. Richard has provided consulting services to BHP, National Australia Bank, SingTel, Optus, Alcatel, Visa Europe, Hewlett Packard, and Invensys. Richard completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Sydney in speech technology and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) Honours 1 at the University of New South Wales.
	Martin Hoffman - Ulysses Ventures Formerly the CEO of ninemsn, Martin is now managing a portfolio of digital media and technology investments under the banner of Ulysses Ventures. These include the listed Loop Mobile Limited, TotalTravel.com.au and DNAML Ltd. During his time at ninemsn, Martin quadrupled the company’s revenue over three years. He previously held senior roles at Fairfax Business Magazines and Fairfax Digital between 1999 and 2002, including starting and building the online auction business SOLD.com.au before its sale to Yahoo! in early 2001 for $24m.
	John Hughes - Manager E Commerce, Jetstar John Hughes is Manager E Commerce at Jetstar Airways responsible for Jetstar.com, including PC browser, iPhone and 3G phone sites. A qualified accountant, John has worked in with low cost airlines for several years and was one of the founding employees of Virgin Blue with responsibility for launching Virgin Blue IT and web infrastructure in 2000. After leaving VB in 2006 John had stints with Flybe and SkyEurope Airlines in the E Commerce and IT space
	Alan Jones - Doing Words Between co-founding startups and working for corporates such as Microsoft, Yahoo! and News Digital Media, Alan has a broad range of experience in online media. He was Yahoo!'s second employee in Australia, was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc., co-founded Home Screen Entertainment and has worked for a diverse range of businesses including mobile startup Bluepulse.com. He's presently working on an internet travel start-up, Trippything.com. He has just returned from six weeks in the Himalayas, which he says is 'all about getting into the heads of travelling customers.'
	Mark Jones - Founder, Filtered Media Mark Jones is the founder of Filtered Media. He is the former IT Editor of Fairfax Media's Australian Financial Review, and has over 10 years of experience as a technology and business journalist. Mark's industry awards include "Winner Best IT Editor 2001" at the Consensus IT Writers Awards. Mark is the host of MISAustralia.com's technology business podcast, The Scoop.
	Stephen Kilsby - Head, Games Development, Viva La Mobile Stephen Kilsby is the head of the Games Development team at Viva La Mobile, having joined the team in 2004. An innovator in mobile games design, Stephen developed the first real-time multiplayer mobile game titles which led to the creation of Viva La Mobile’s award-winning RedStar multiplayer system. Today Viva La Mobile is known globally for its high performance interactive mobile games and is continually working to introduce new and exciting mobile concepts to the market. As the head of the Games Development team, Stephen is at the forefront of the design and implementation of new products and is always in touch with the latest and greatest in the mobile entertainment space.
	Dr Marisa Maio Mackay - Director of Research, m.Net Corporation Marisa is responsible for the development and integration of research into the role that m.Net plays as Australia’s leading mobile marketing solutions company. This involves tracking the changing landscape of attitudes, behaviours and trends in the mobile space in Australia and globally. This is achieved through client specific research, in-house research and industry driven initiatives. During her time with m.Net, Marisa has carried out research on behalf of media and telecommunication clients including Yahoo!7, Seven, Pacific Magazines, Austereo, Hutchison 3G Australia, Telstra, and the Australian Government. Together with AIMIA she manages the annual Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index Survey. She also instigated and manages Australia’s involvement in the annual global Wireless Mobile Data Survey. She has a PhD in Marketing and Information Systems in the area of ‘Forecasting Market Demand for Breakthrough Products’. Additionally, Marisa has undertaken extensive research and consulting into the value of brands and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
	Ramin Marzbani Ramin Marzbani is regarded as a leading technology, internet and financial services analyst and researcher in Australia and Asia. Ramin was the CEO of www.consult from 1995-2003 and oversaw the transition of the company to ACNielsen following the sale of the business in 2000. The company has gained recognition for pioneering work and excellence in 13 countries. Previously, Ramin spent three years as a consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton and seven years in various positions at IBM. Ramin has a BE from UNSW and an MBA from AGSM. Ramin sits on a number of boards and advisory boards in Australia and the US including: mig33, Indigo VC Partners, Project Goth, Event Zero, MIR Funds Management, The MINDD Foundation and a number of other organisations.
	Antony McGregor Dey - Chief Executive Officer, QMCODES Antony McGregor Dey, a recognised leader in the Australian mobile industry was recently appointed to the Victorian working committee for MEGA (Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance), is on the advisory board for the State government’s Mobility Victoria industry cluster, and heads up Mobile Monday Melbourne. He has over 10 years experience in the Australian mobile industry; including work with Hutchinson, Optus, RSL COM, and Vodafone. He was the chief technical officer of a mobile software development firm specialising in mobile streaming solutions, and the director of a UK based direct marketing and Promotions Company.
	Dan Rosen - Chief Executive Officer, Nomad NetworX Dan is the CEO and founder of Nomad NetworX, a leader in the acquisition creation and distribution of mobile Glamour and Adult content. Nomad specialises in the development of premium Adult WAP sites. Mobile TV Channels and Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) propositions for some of the world's best-known Adult brands such as Club Jenna, Penthouse, Danni.com, Burning Angel, Private, Tera Patrick, Gaydar and Raging Stallion. Rights cover wireless distribution into multiple territories including Australia/NZ, North America, India, various Asian and European countries and South Africa. It's exclusive cornerstone property, Club Jenna 3G, is progressively being rolled out across Hutchison's 3 mobile network globally, following a successful Australian launch in November 2005. Before founding Nomad, Dan was the Australian Head of Adult Entertainment for 3 mobile where he developed and drove 3's Adult Entertainment strategy. The portfolio of high-revenue products included Chat, Dating and Age Restricted services - the latter of which is known as "Premier" and features leading mobile content from the likes of Playboy. Whilst at Hutchison Dan lead the development of Australia's first Mobile Age Verification System - "Access All Areas". This restricted access system allowed 3 to enter a commercially attractive category whilst, at the same time, meeting the expectations of shareholders, management and the community alike. Prior to 3, Mr Rosen's experience has primarily been at media and technology companies with roles spanning accounting, marketing and ecommerce for firms such as EMI Records, FOXTEL and OzEmail Internet. Dan is an Associate of the National Institutes of Accountants and holds a Masters of Business (Marketing and eCommerce) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
	Cliff Rosenberg - Executive Chairman, Clear Light Digital Cliff Rosenberg is the Executive Chairman of Clear Light Digital, a leading digital agency based out of Melbourne; as well as Chairing one of the largest independent online publishers in Australia, Sound Alliance. Cliff is also a partner of the Ivany Investment Group, where he specialises in investments in the digital space. Until mid 2006 Cliff spent 3 years as the Managing Director of Yahoo! Australia & NZ. In 2006 he was elected as the inaugural Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and has also been Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Awards (MMA) in 2006 and 2007. Prior to his role at Yahoo!, Cliff was MD of iTouch Australia, the wireless application service provider. Cliff has ten years consulting experience with international management consultancies Cap Gemini and Bain Consulting.
	Christina Thurn - Senior Producer, Walt Disney Internet Group Australasia Christina is Country Manager Australia/NZ and Senior Producer Asia Pacific for Disney Interactive Media Group. She oversees all areas of operations including business development, distribution, production and marketing. Christina is a 10-year Disney veteran and her background includes experience in digital interactive content production, cross-platform promotions and Internet launches in China and Europe. DIMG distributes Disney Mobile and Starwave content through all carriers across Australia and New Zealand. Online properties produced and managed by DIMG Australia/NZ include the number one Kids & Families site Disney.com.au, Disney Connection on Optus and Disney Zone on Yahoo!7.
	Angelo Tilocca - Manager Content Licensing, Digital Business Development, ABC Commercial Angelo Tilocca has been responsible for the ABC's commercial digital distribution strategy over the last 8 years. In this time, the ABC has increasingly become the provider of choice for those seeking to build audiences & revenues in digital media. With well established relationships with all local telcos and increasingly with international ones, ABC is at the forefront of syndication & development for the mobile device.
	Oliver Weidlich - Ideal Interfaces Oliver draws on a background in psychology, experience in usability and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy, and customers, and to recommend & design solutions. He has a wide range of experience evaluating and improving the end-to-end customer experience with mobile devices, portals, applications and content. Oliver has consulted to clients such as; Hutchison, Optus, Telstra, ninemsn, ABC, and RPO. As part of the local mobile industry Oliver is playing a key role in the design and project management of the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, which looks at mobile content usage in the local market, a project on behalf of the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group. He also co-hosts Mobile Monday Sydney, a mobile focused networking night. In addition, Oliver is a judge, author and speaker on the mobile customer experience.
	Peter Williams - Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Digital Peter Williams is a Partner with Deloitte, CEO of Deloitte Digital, and until recently, was CEO of Australia's largest Online Mobile and Emerging Technology firm, Eclipse. Peter is one of Australia's thought leaders on online, mobile & emerging technology.
	Jennifer Zanich - Chief Executive Officer, Xumii Jennifer is the CEO of Xumii, a mobile social messaging service that gives you centralized way to aggregate contacts and feeds from your social networks and IM to stay connected and share messages, widgets and photos in groups or on mobile walls. She is an accomplished leader with over 20 years of marketing and executive management experience. Prior to her return to Australia earlier this year Jennifer spent 9 years in the US where she was a Founder of SeeSaw Networks, a digital media services company for which successfully raised $10m USD in venture capital. As CEO of Wedgetail Communications, an enterprise security company, she delivered more than seven times return for investors via a successful acquisition. Jennifer has also held executive positions in SkyPilot Networks (wireless broadband) and Microsoft APAC. Jennifer holds several advisory and board roles in the US and Australia including Capital Markets CRC and Aggregate Knowledge and has been an active mentor of Australian companies migrating to the US for 7 years through ANZA TechNet.