Thursday, October 23rd

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

ThinkTank IV: Ballroom Terrace

Intersection of Social and TV: The 2nd Screen Experience - From Social Viewing and Communication to Data Visualization

Colin Hornett, Executive Producer, iPowow

Sean Malatesta, CEO, Micasa Multi-Platform TV Network

Tim Glomb, VP of Entertainment, Wayin

Bill Jensen, American Crime Journalist & Producer, Moderator

2011. While overseeing production and new product development, Colin also travels extensively ensuring clients are achieving the quality of executions they desire and helping challenge the limits of conventional entertainment.

 

Sean Malatesta, CEO, Marengo Knoll, Inc.: Sean Malatesta is a Global, results-focused and dynamic leader with a career showcased by a track record in exceptional sales and marketing contributions. His background is in videogames, movies and Hollywood. A relationship savvy executive with a keen ability to quickly access, and respond to client needs. A proven 20 year track-record building strategic relationships, identifying and executing on new business opportunities to maximizing revenue, and selling in ideas and negotiating deals with top decision makers. Has an analytical, competitive, and tenacious with a positive do-what-it-takes approach. Sean has done business in all over the world, lived in Europe and has visited China and India 20 times on business. Sean offers uncompromising ethics and integrity.

 

Tim Glomb, VP of Entertainment, Wayin:  With a focus on the media and entertainment industry, Tim Glomb leads Wayin's partnerships and innovation efforts. Prior to Wayin Tim served as VP of Marketing for Mark Cuban's AXS TV Network. Earlier in his career, Tim produced top rated television shows for MTV and managed the careers of successful recording artists.

 

Bill Jensen is an American crime journalist, producer and brawler. He has written crime feature stories for Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Magazine, Boston Magazine, and New York Times. A sought-after consultant in the digital media space, he recently arrived in Los Angeles to develop true crime reality programming. He sold his first show in the Spring of 2014 and has been featured as an on-camera personality in both news and crime shows. Referred to as an “expert on amateur digital detectives” by both MSNBC and Al Jazeera America, Jensen presented his panel “Solving Murders With Social Media” at the 2014 SXSW Interactive and the National Cybercrime Conference. He co-founded the Long Island Press newspaper (where he hired Amy Fisher as a crime columnist), True Crime Report and nerd news and self-loathing site Topless Robot. He has a master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Kansas, played professional roller hockey (earning the first minor penalty in Major League Roller Hockey history), and has been an editor at ToyFare magazine, Boston Phoenix and the Village Voice, where he went on to become head of digital for the 17 newspaper chain

 

Thursday, October 23rd

Video, Social Media & Crowdfunding

Colin Hornett, Executive Producer, iPowow: Born in England and raised in Canada, Colin Hornett spent his late teens and early twenties as a professional snowboarder, before becoming a lawyer, writer, producer, photographer, and interactive story telling specialist. Colin has been in the business of story telling for more than a decade, producing and directing commercials, documentaries and short films all over the planet for companies large and small. Most recently, he oversaw the development of the digital multimedia department at the Miss Universe Organization for NBC, where he directed and produced the first webcast in the 60-year history of Miss Universe, plus all original content. In addition to working behind the camera, Colin hosted the 2011 Miss Universe Preliminary Competition in Brazil, created and starred in the web series “Awesome”, and most recently hosted Miss Teen USA 2012 in the Bahamas. Colin joined iPowow as Executive Producer of North America and Europe, after realizing the massive potential following the success that was generated engaging record-breaking audiences during Miss USA 2011 and Miss Universe