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Intelling Media has developed InCast. InCast creates a semantic web of content that transforms video from a write-once stream into a lively, conversational, and evergreen medium. Mobile Devices have allowed real-time communication through sms messaging, notifications and through images and video where it has expanded its breadth and depth along a z-axis, as influencers and users worldwide participate in the authorship and creation of evolving conversations.

STEPHAN FITCH

Stephan Fitch is a visionary thought leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of executive experience at the convergence of media, technology and design. Fitch has a record of innovation and achievement in product development, relationship building, global marketing, strategic growth and business transformation. Thinking Pictures, founded in 1993, develops of proprietary technology to create customized media solutions for its clients. Fitch’s projects have pioneered the development of proprietary interactive technology to create customized media solutions, including digital out of home networks, computer perception and wearable video. Clients and partnerships include Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Universal Pictures, Universal Music, Time Inc, AT&T, Cisco, Intel Corp, NYT, News Corp, Dow Jones, Disney, Herman Miller and the Rolling Stones. Fitch is a graduate of MIT Media Lab. He speaks regularly at MIT and other academic venues. He lives in California, where Thinking Pictures Studios is headquartered and spends a great deal of time in DC.

MARSHALL SPIGHT

Marshall Spight’s background is in software engineering. He was a member of the core development team at Adobe, where he worked on both Premiere and Photoshop. In 2001 he joined Google where he managed the development of AdWords and AdSense and later served as technical lead for Google Base. He started out in film work doing editing and visual effects for WINTER ORANGES. He has contributed to a number of bay area independent features over the years, most notably producing several films for indie legend Rob Nilsson, including IMBUED (starring Stacy Keach), MAELSTROM, and A BRIDGE TO A BORDER. In 2007 he left Google to open a state-of-the-art green screen studio in San Carlos, California. Marshall has an undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley with majors in computer science and psychology.

SCOTT MINNEMAN

Scott Minneman, an Affiliate Researcher in the Technology Horizons program at the Institute for the Future, is a die-hard technologist and innovator, versed in robotics, interaction design, futures forecasting, embedded computing, user experience, and mechatronics. His background includes Architecture and Mechanical Engineering degrees from MIT, and a doctorate from Stanford, where he worked at the Center for Design Research. Scott was on the research staff at the think-tank Xerox PARC for 15 years, doing fundamental research on how multidisciplinary groups of engineers and designers collaborate on large engineering projects. He holds a dozen or so US patents and worked with Mark Weiser and Rich Gold on Ubiquitous Computing–the grand-daddy of the Internet of Things. Scott co-founded Onomy Labs–a make-tank for interactive objects and is currently an Associate Professor teaching Interaction Design, Mixed Reality Experiences, Physical Computing, Branding, and User Experience in the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts. Scott also roasts his own coffee.

PETER WILLIAMS

Peter Williams is a serial innovator and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience inventing, developing, deploying and commercializing ICT research and technology. Since 1986, Peter’s career revolves around enabling ICT organizations – his own, start-ups and global blue chip companies – developing IP strategies and realizing technology solutions. Peter consistently identifies problem spaces and novel solution strategies resulting in deployed inventive solutions across both vertical and horizontal markets. Every role in the last 30 years has involved him leading, mentoring and building commercially focused teams – often from the ground up.