Marc Ian Rose, CCO, mmCHANNEL

Marc Ian Rose serves as Chief Commercial Officer for mmCHANNEL, maintaining over 20 years of industry and consulting experience specializing in strategic business and technology solutions within the Consumer Products, High Technology and Communications industries. He has held senior management positions involving the execution of business creation, process innovation and solutions integration for Fortune 50 organizations during his service with The McCall Group, Ernst & Young, Capgemini and as an Independent Business Advisor; such as Director of IT Development for a High Tech organization, Director of Telecommunications practices in Chile, interim CIO for a data transport carrier and Deputy Director of Technology Services Operations in Spain.

Marc has extensive experience in international, "mission critical" operational and product launch efforts, specifically in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in International Studies from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Throughout his professional tenure, he has achieved additional business and technology accreditations, as well as serving as Corporate Chairman for charitable events conducted with The March of Dimes, Special Olympics and Atlanta Opera.

Andrew Swartz, User Experience Expert, Serco ExperienceLab

Andrew is a Managing Consultant at ExperienceLab, designing and leading commercial research projects, with a special focus on mobile hardware and software. He also has a particular interest in the effects of high technology on society and democracy. Before coming to Serco, Andrew spent eight years working at Apple Computer on instructional design and usability issues for projects ranging from HyperCard, the first commercial hypertext product, to Newton, the first commercial PDA (personal digital assistant). He also worked for three years at a company that developed police intelligence software.

Andrew studied Psychology at Yale University where he graduated summa cum laude (highest honours) as a Scholar of the House. In addition to his usability work, Andrew has worked and volunteered as a butcher, a blood bank worker, a medical researcher measuring the size of pancreatic nuclei, and escorting elderly ladies to sherry socials.

Anna M. Chagnon, President and CEO, Bitstream

Bitstream President and CEO Anna Chagnon is successfully transforming the wireless browsing, publishing and font technology company to address the new demands of digital and Web-based communications and play a leading role in the advancement of the mobile Internet. In this role, Anna led the introduction of ThunderHawk, the first browsing technology for carriers and handset manufacturers to display full web pages on mobile phones.  Most recently, Anna brought to market BOLT, a mobile browser for consumers that works on mobile phones of all types.  Hailed as the fastest and most fully-featured mobile browser, BOLT was downloaded over 1.5 million times in the first six months of its public beta and is the first J2ME browser to support streaming video from popular video sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace.

Anna was appointed as chief executive officer in 2003. Prior to that, she held the roles of executive vice president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and general counsel.  Under her leadership, the company was ranked #25 on the 2008 Fortune Magazine list of America's fastest-growing small public companies and named by The Boston Globe to "The Globe 100" list of fastest growing companies and is consistently cited as a one of the "Top Women-Led Businesses" by both the Commonwealth Institute and Babson College.

Using the lessons learned from the development efforts of ThunderHawk and BOLT, Anna has presented at numerous wireless and mobile industries, including iDate, iWireless World, Mobile Enterprise, NetWorld + Interop and the Wireless Security Conferences. 

Prior to joining Bitstream, Anna served as counsel to Progress Software Corporation and also specialized in corporate law at prestigious Boston firms Peabody & Arnold and Warner & Stackpole. A truly diverse leader, Anna received her Bachelor of Science in from Northeastern University and holds both a Master of Business Administration from Babson College and Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ian Curson, Principal User Experience Manager, Vodafone

Simon Davies, MD Europe, Moblica Ltd

Gus Desbarats, Chairman, TheAlloy

Cees Van Dok, Executive Creative Director, Frog Design

Matt Edgar, Head of Products, Orange

Matt Edgar is Head of Products, responsible for product marketing and innovation planning, in Orange Group's Mobile Multimedia Innovation Stream. Matt joined Orange in 2000 with a background in journalism and web development. His career has encompassed overseeing the conception and launch of Orange's mobile portal, Orange World, managing the global product strategy and customer experience of Orange World, and Head of Design and Usability for Orange UK. Matt has previously worked for Ananova, the Press Association and United News & Media.

Darren Edwards, Head of User Experience and Principal, WHAM

Madhava Enros, Lead UE designer for Fennec, Mozilla Corporation

David Gibbs, General Manager for Mobile ,BSkyB

I started my career at Sky in 1998 and have had a variety of commercial and business development roles focusing on our online and mobile platforms.  I had a break from 2000-2002 to join Teamtalk.com and rejoined in 2003.  I currently head up our mobile team with responsibility for all of our mobile services; Mobile TV, Mobile Internet and Mobile applications

Rob Graham, Head of User Experience & Research, Product & Content Marketing ,Telefonica O2

Mike Grenville, Chairman ,160 Characters

James Haliburton, Concept Lead ,TAT

Tom Hume, Managing Director ,Future Platforms

Ken Johnstone, Co-Founder and Products & Design Director ,INQ Mobile

Ken Jonhstone, Product & Design Director and co founder of INQ Mobile

• Director of Products at Hutchison Whampoa  - Responsible for Defining, Designing and Delivering the 'Total User Experience’ across services and handsets including the award winning SkypePhone - the world’s first presence enabled mobile phone
• Director of Handset Marketing & Product Management at 3 (Group)
• Head of Handsets at 3UK - Responsible for the 2G mass-market handset roadmap across EMEA, including in life management and new product development. Later drove 3G concepts/strategy for Europe.
• Motorola – Responsible for the 2G mass-market handset roadmap across EMEA, including in life management and new product development. Later drove 3G concepts/strategy for Europe.
• Napier University – BSc (hons) Industrial Design (Technology)

Bill Jones, CEO ,Global Village Ltd

Richard Lewis, Experience Design Manager ,Orange

Christian Lindholm, Partner and Director ,Fjord

David Manni, Head of Creative ,Mippin

David Mannl is Head of Creative and co-founder of Mippin, a Mobile Technology company started in 2005.

Previously, David was a Senior Multimedia Designer at T-Mobile International in London. His career started back in 2002 working for Siemens Mobile followed by consultancy work for Macromedia specializing in Flash-Lite technology.

David loves mobile design and technology. He believes that creating a great user experience for small screen devices requires innovative approaches. Making it happen is his biggest pleasure.

He was able to get some great industry recognition for his work from a very young age as a Macromedia Max award winner, Nokia Developer of the year and as a Forum Nokia Champion.

Hakim Mendjeli, Principal Manager, Apps Portfolio ,Vodafone

Romi Parmer, CEO ,The 3G Dating Agency

Adrien Pitrat, Usability Expert ,Bouygues Telecom

Christian Plamenig, Head of Portal & UI ,Hutchison 3G

David Pollington, Head of Technical Research - Consumer & Internet ,Vodafone

David Pollington graduated from Imperial College, London with a Masters degree (MEng) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.  Joining Vodafone back in 1995, David has worked on a number of key projects within Vodafone ranging from deploying mobile satellite systems, introducing multimedia capabilities & services into the mobile industry and defining Vodafone's terminal platform strategy.  David is now responsible for leading all the technical research areas across VF Group R&D related to the consumer with an especial focus on bringing Web experiences to mobile users.

Eveline Pupeter-Fellner, CEO & Owner ,Emporia Telecom

Eveline Pupeter-Fellner is the CEO and owner of emporia Telecom and is responsible for the international strategic business. She has in-depth experience of market and target group research.Before Eveline joined emporia she was MD of a European publishing house.

Paul Rasmussen , User Experience Director ,Proximity London

Stephanie Rieger , Principal, Mobile User Experience Designer ,Yiibu

Stephanie is a designer and closet anthropologist with a passion for the many ways people interact with technology. With a diverse background, Stephanie's expertise lies in marrying design, technology and business goals to craft simple, elegant experiences. A compulsive researcher, Stephanie is always keen to share insights on mobile learning, mobile trends in emerging economies, and the technology habits of today’s ‘digital natives'.

Stephanie is a founder and principal at Yiibu, a boutique design consultancy based in London, UK.

Tero Sarkkinen , CEO ,Futuremark

Tero Sarkkinen, M Sc. (Econ. and BA), is an experienced international software business manager. He is CEO of Futuremark Corp. (Finland) , a company employing over 60 people in Finland, US and China. Futuremark serves customers around the world within PC, cell phone and automotive industries. Tero established Futuremark's US subsidiary in Silicon Valley in 1999 and ran the US operations for 7 years. He has lead Futuremark’s rapid organic growth while maintaining good net income margins. This resulted in 85th place in Deloitte’s EMEA Growth Company Ranking in 2005 and in RedHerring’s Hot 100 Europe nomination in 2006.

Peter Seaman , Director  ,MobileContent.co.uk

Mirjana Spasojevic , Head of User Interfaces Team ,Nokia Mobile Phones

Mirjana Spasojevic is a Senior Principal Scientist and Team Lead of the IDEA (Innovate, Design, Experience, Animate) team in the Nokia Research Center in  Palo Alto, CA.  In her role as a user research evangelist and a passionate advocate for very human mobile experiences, she focuses on ethnographic and lab based studies of mobile  technologies. In the last several years she has been investigating how and why people use camera phones and has been conducting international studies of mobile web services. Prior to Nokia, Mirjana has worked as a senior design researcher at Yahoo! Mobile business unit, and a senior research scientist and project manager at HP Labs where she was a member of the Cooltown program. She also has experience from the startup world, as a technical member of Transarc Corp. and academia as an assistant professor at Washington State University.

Florent Stroppa, Director of Product Management, Data Unit ,OnMobile

Florent is Product Director at OnMobile, one of the leading mobile VAS in Asia. He has 10 years experience in the telecommunication industry, focused on new product development, product management, solution architecture in mobile applications, web services and IMS/SDP.

Florent has worked on several products and projects for operators such as Airtel, AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, Cox Communications, Orange, Proximus, Vodafone, Telstra, T-Mobile, Turkcell and handset manufacturers such as HTC and Motorola.

He was awarded in 2008 at the Google Android Developer Challenge for its "Phonebook 2.0".

Florent Stroppa holds an Engineering degree from the University of Paris Sud and a Master degree from Telecom Paris.

Nicky Smyth, Senior Research Manager, User Experience  ,BBC

Terence Warmbier, Director Business Development Europe ,Immersion Corporation

Terence Warmbier is Director Business Development, Europe, for Immersion Corporation, the leader in tactile feedback technology. He has been responsible for the adoption of Immersion’s technology by Europe’s wireless communications ecosystem: mobile handset manufacturers, operators, and the content applications development community. Terence has an strong understanding of the many aspects that make up a successful ecosystem, having led engagements with leading players in the wireless industry, built strong relationships, secured license agreements, and supported implementation of the technology. He continues to work closely with device manufacturers, operators and mobile developers across Europe to expand understanding of the opportunities for haptics, including for haptic-enabled content and services.

Terence has 25 years experience in international high-technology markets. In this time, he has brought new technologies to market and developed new markets for technologies, while building successful long-term customer relationships. He has an extensive knowledge of the mobile communications industry at all levels.

His earlier experience includes engineering and marketing positions in the semiconductor, industrial computing system, smartcards and satellite communications industries.

Scott Weiss, Technology Manager, User Interface ,Symbian Foundation

Rob Dalgety, Marketing Director, Mformation

Rob has more than ten years of marketing, strategic business development, telecommunications and internet experience. Prior to taking on his current role as marketing director for Mformation, Rob worked at Vodafone Plc. for both Vodafone Group and the Vodafone UK operation. At Vodafone he led a range of programmes, including the Vodafone Device Management initiative in 2004. This initiative led to Vodafone taking a leading position in this area and to the deployment by Vodafone operating companies around the world of device management-based services for their subscribers.  Prior to Vodafone, Rob led the marketing strategy team at the internet technology company Magex.  Previously, Rob worked as a consultant for the NatWest Group.

Rob holds an MBA with distinction from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and an Honors Degree in Economics and Finance from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.