Korea’s Leading Blogger (Seoul)
Taewoo Danny Kim is one of the leading IT/Web 2.0 bloggers in Korea behind qOoOp Media and Taewoo’s log (Korean) and TechnoKimchi(English) blogs. He’s also known as the very first full-time blogger in Korea. His passion is about informing the rest of the world about the “cool digital things” happening in Korea. He’s been featured on numerous media, such as CNN, SBS, and several other newspapers.
Taewoo Danny is also the author of Meconomy, a book on the economic analysis of Web 2.0. Prior to becoming a full-time blogger, he worked for Samsung SDS as a researcher for 4 years and is currently helping Openmaru with global marketing for Springnote (www.springnote.com), an online wiki-based notebook service.. Danny holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in computer science from Cornell University
Managing Director, Skylake Incuvest (Seoul)
Harry Kim is the Managing Director, SkyLake Incuvest Inc.
Skylake Incuvest & Co is a Korea’s leading principal investment firm focused on private equity investments in the digital media industries. Skylake “Incuvests Innovation” globally, investing in early stage companies as well as late stage and post-IPO companies. Skylake also acts as [...]
Founder and CEO, Second Interest (Berlin)
Michael Schumann belongs to a small group of innovators who have opened up the market for virtual worlds in Germany. For the last seven years, Schumann worked as an entrepreneur and CEO of a renowned marketing and communication agency in Berlin. Schumann initiated and manages “Second Commerce”, Europe’s premium [...]
Founder, Vykarian Studios (Shanghai)
Xin founded Shanghai-based Vykarian in 2003 servicing a nascent game outsourcing market. Four years later, Vykarian now services most major US game publishers including Electronic Arts, Activision, Vivendi and THQ. Prior to founding Vykarian, Xin established an industry first MPEG-4 rapid prototyping studio at iVAST Digital Media and gained his first outsourcing [...]
Founder and President, Beijing Capital Recreation District and China Virtual Business Zone (Beijing)
The Beijing Capital Recreation District and China Virtual Business Zone is the biggest Government supported digital media industry development initiative in China. Dr. Liu Yan (David) is the Founder and President of both organizations, as well as CEO of the Beijing Cyber [...]
Principal, Corporate Development, Google (Mountain View)
Michael joined the Corporate Development Group at Google in 2005 and is a senior member of the team responsible for all the company’s acquisitions and minority investments.
Prior to Google, Michael held positions at the private equity group McCown De Leeuw & Co focusing on investments in early stage companies. [...]
Founder and CEO, Characterline; Advisor to Korea Culture & Tourism Research Institute and KOCCA (Seoul)
Mr Si-Bum Kim is widely recognized as one of Korea’s leading experts in the commercialization of entertainment and intellectual properties. His company, Characterline, is one of Asia’s leading marketing and IP management agents for characters, cartoon, animation, publishing and [...]
Chief Executive Officer, Genkii (Tokyo)
Ken Brady is CEO and Founder of Genkii, a Tokyo-based strategic consultancy focusing on social media and virtual worlds. Ken is widely recognized as a leading cross cultural communications specialist in digital media.
Ken’s expertise spans all media platforms: film, television, digital media, publishing; and all three screens. He [...]
Executive Producer & Co-Founder, Multiverse (San Francisco)
Corey is helping build the world’s leading network of 3D virtual worlds. Responsible for business development and strategic marketing at Multiverse, Corey helped pioneer the concept of virtual worlds as a new medium that will support a range of applications, including entertainment, business collaboration, research, education, and [...]
CEO and Co-founder, mInfo Inc (Shanghai)
Mr. Graylin is the CEO of mInfo, the leading Mobile Search Service in China providing natural language search services to users throughout China via SMS, WAP, IM and embedded client applet. mInfo was the official Mobile Search Service of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Mr. Graylin is a seasoned [...]