Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Track III: Haas Conference Center, Room 171

Esports – Fantasy Sports – Sports Gambling – VR/AR Games - Analytic Driven Real-Time Games

Kevin Rosenblatt, VP Product & Content, ESL North America

Arabian Prince, Founder/Chief Innovator, Inov8 Next Open Labs & Co-Founder, N.W.A.

Gayle Dickie, Founder & CEO, Gamer World News Entertainment

Don Daglow, CEO, Daglow Entertainment (Games Industry Leader: La Russa Baseball, Madden NFL, NASCAR Racing)

Matt Edelman, CCO, Super League Gaming

Moderator, Steve Bradbury, President & Head Coach, Deep Sports

Kevin Rosenblatt is Vice President of Product and Content at ESL, the world’s largest esports company. In this role, Rosenblatt oversees the scaling and growth of ESL’s sales, business development, live event execution and television production. Rosenblatt’s career has taken place at the epicenter of the video game industry, where over the last decade, he has executed on hundreds of initiatives for industry leading brands such as Red Bull, Newegg, Samsung, Ubisoft and Twitch, as well as Fortune 500 companies including Intel, DirecTV and Activision Blizzard. Prior to ESL, Rosenblatt was a founding

employee and junior partner at ESS Agency, a premier North American video game and technology agency acquired by Turtle Entertainment GmbH in 2014.

Gayle Dickie, Founder & CEO, Gamer World News Entertainment: Gayle Dickie’s vast experience in TV, Media and Entertainment enabled her to execute a best-of-breed global media news platform dedicated to the explosive multi-billion dollar esports and gamer industry.  Creating Gamer World News (GWNe) with a dedicated and award winning team of professionals, she launched late April 2018 to a flurry of media attention with dozens of network news appearances on FOXBusinessNews.  Gayle and her expert hosts are now the go-to reporting team for the ‘gaming revolution’ on "Varney&Co” and also appear on “Cavuto Coast to Coast” and “Mornings With Maria.” The platform www.gwne.com is the first to use gamer technology and motion tracking for professional, competitive and casual gamer news around the world. Prior to founding Gamer World News Entertainment, Gayle was a top performer and well-respected entertainment executive with solid relationships and experience in television syndication, animation, toy licensing, marketing, packaging and producing.  She’s raised millions in private equity with various clients and independent studios worldwide.  She regularly packaged, syndicated and distributed film and television programs to over 200 domestic television stations, in addition to managing $20 million in advertising and $25 million in revenues with some of the most recognized programs in television. Following her 10 years in television syndication, Gayle effectively pitched and packaged DragonBallZ to Haim Saban, Saban Entertainment. The show became and remains one of the most successful animae programs and videogame titles with global revenues estimated over 1 billion.  Gayle further served as Managing Director, Business Development of Entertainment & Media for Covansys, Inc. She was responsible for $14 million in sales of business intelligence, end-to-end solutions, and custom development software services to studios, television networks, and music companies. Gayle has served on the Advisory Board for Los Angeles City College Cinema & Television Departments since 2015.  She most recently finished the UCLA program interview series, “Road Trip Nation” empowering millions of young students and entrepreneurs to build meaning into their careers and find their passion.

Arabian Prince or Professor X, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and DJ. He is best known as a founding member of N.W.A. In 1986, he was a founding member of N.W.A but when fellow member Ice Cube came back from the Phoenix Institute of Technology in 1988, Arabian Prince soon after left over royalty and contract disagreements. Eazy-E, Ice Cube and MC Ren remained as the main performers, DJ Yella was the turntablist and Dr. Dre was the main producer. After leaving N.W.A, Arabian Prince began a solo career. His first album, Brother Arab, was released in 1989 with the hit single "She's Got A Big Posse"; Where's My Bytches followed in 1993. In the mid-2000s, he started releasing music again, with his Professor X project on the Dutch label Clone Records. "I could not release the record under Arabian Prince", he said, "because I already had a single out, so I called myself Professor X on that record." In 2007 he performed as a DJ on the 2K Sports Holiday Bounce Tour with artists from the Stones Throw label. In 2008, Stones Throw released a compilation of his electro-rap material from the 1980s. One of his songs was included on the 2007 video game, College Hoops 2K8. In 2018, Arabian Prince appeared on the fourteenth studio album of industrial-metal band Ministry.

Matt Edelman is the Chief Commercial Officer of Super League Gaming, the defining brand in the amateur esports space. Super League produces and powers experiences enabling gamers to join local teams, participate in seasonal and year-long in-person and digital leagues, and feel the excitement of playing their sport like the pros. Matt oversees the company’s revenue, marketing, content, live event and business development activities. Previously, Matt served as the Head of Digital Operations and Marketing Solutions for WME-IMG, where he was responsible for digital growth across the company’s live event properties, digital strategy consulting for the agency’s brand clients, and managing direct-to-consumer OTT businesses. His initial foray into esports included assisting with the formation of ELEAGUE, a JV between WME-IMG and Turner. Prior to joining WME-IMG, Matt was the CEO/Founder or on the executive team of multiple early stage digital media companies, after having been an entertainment industry executive responsible for helping to build Marvel Comics entertainment business and launch Marvel.com. Matt grew up outside of New York City, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Politics and moved to Los Angeles when he was hired by Marvel. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children and is a Little League coach in his spare time.

Don Daglow, CEO, 4thRing Inc., President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation: Don Daglow is a three-time Inc. 500 CEO and 2008 Technical Emmy® Award recipient who advises game developers and publishers around the world, as well as teaching entrepreneurs at the Founders Space accelerator in San Francisco. His clients range from small mobile game startups to large international publishers.  Don is the only games industry executive who has led development teams on every generation of the first three decades of video game consoles, working on each cycle from the Intellivision in 1980 to the PS4 today. He produced two of EA’s first three sports titles and led development teams on the award-winning sports games La Russa Baseball , Madden NFL for PC, and NASCAR Racing.  He speaks extensively in North America, Europe and Asia at conferences focused on interactivity and entertainment.  He also serves as President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation, the charitable arm of the AIAS.  Don's career in game design began in 1971 (before Pong), and he has been designing online titles since 1987 (before the Internet). In addition to an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering in 2008 for his creation of Neverwinter Nights, the first graphical MMORPG, he also received the CGE Award in 2003 for "groundbreaking achievements that shaped the Video Game Industry," and his game Utopia is featured in the touring Smithsonian Museum "Art of Video Games" exhibit.

Steve Bradbury, President & Head Coach, Deep Sports: Deep Sports develops new ventures that speak to sports as a lifestyle category. We are sports fans who embrace the many reasons people connect to each other. We are storytellers who see sports as an inexhaustible fountain of human interest stories. And we are strategists who recognize sports’ intersecting passions with numerous other verticals. Throughout his career Steve has successfully focused on revenue growth & innovative strategies at the evolving intersection of media, content and technology. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer & Chief Revenue Officer of Zazoom Media Group, a leading premium video creator and multi-platform content distributor. Prior to this role, Steve was VP, Content Strategy & Business Affairs for GoTV Networks, one of the first mobile video producers. Steve has developed business strategies for companies such as Sony Interactive, The Improvisation, Engage Games Online and TriStar Pictures. He produced the first ever sports technology conference, eSportsWorld, and is sought after for his distinctive conference moderating skills. Steve’s corporate experience includes tenures at MGM Worldwide Television and Universal (MCA) TV. He is also an Adjunct Professor for both the Syracuse University and Boston University semester programs in Los Angeles as well as a board member of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship in the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Learn more at www.deepsports.com. Follow us on FB and Twitter @DeepSportsTV.