Manoj Dawane is the CEO of People Infocom (Mauj Mobile), the wireless division of People Group that owns interactive websites such as Shaadi.com, Fropper.com and Astrolife.com. Consumer demand has been keeping his company on its toes—urging it to constantly churn out new concepts and services to differentiate its offering. For Dawane, innovation will drive the [...]

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Alok Kejriwal is the founder of http://www.contests2win.com (c2w), a consumer media company that dabbles in various formats of online and mobile contests. A small town lad from Parel (Mumbai) Kejriwal gave a go by to his family’s hosiery socks business at 28 to launch his first dream boat (c2w) in 1998. Later, he went on [...]

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Jennifer Wilson has been in the content industry for about 20 years, almost all of it on telephones of some sort or another (20 years in IVR and speech recognition services). She says mobile is the most fun she’s had in a long time and that she’s really enjoying the potential of this incredibly disruptive [...]

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Geoff Lowe started his career as a writer for television then studied direction at the UK’s National Film School. He has worked as a writer, producer and director on film & tv dramas, documentaries, corporates and music promos in the UK and the States. He got involved in digital film about nine years ago and [...]

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Cameron Reilly was born in Bundaberg, QLD. Escaped 1987 after high school, did a bunch of odd jobs for ten years, finally landed at Microsoft in 1998 as an internet evangelist. Did six years hard time with Uncle Bill, then left in 2004. Started Australia’s first podcast (G’DAY WORLD) in November 2004 with Mick Stanic [...]

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the-phone-book Limited is a New Media Arts Agency best known for exploring mobile phone content creation since 2000. Working across a range of projects involving artists, writers, animators, film-makers & educators around the world, we have built a strong reputation for innovative collections, ethical practices, and generous educational strategies. Our open submissions, direct commissions & [...]

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I started X Media Lab about three years ago. The intention was to link creative media producers in Australia with some of the world’s leading innovators in cross-platform media. I sort of fused a number of other events that were going on into X Media Lab - a sort of hybrid think-tank, production workshop, and [...]

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After several years in online at Tempest Media, Adam joined AURA as a director where his role has been to drive the company from early stage R&D to a point where they now have commercialised a suite of mobile technologies. As a technology evangelist, he has spent several years on the bleeding edge of mobile [...]

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Jacqui Barry’s background encompasses a B.SC(Hons) with varied work in medical research, theatre, event management and post production for the film, television and advertising industries. She is currently working full-time at Film Victoria’s Digital Media Fund as the Digital Media Development Officer, and also undertaking part-time study for a Grad Dip in Law, specialising in [...]

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Andy Nicholson is a free software hacker and new media activist. He has been a member of the CAT collective (http://www.cat.org.au) since 1999. CAT have run linux workshops and skill exchanges, and initiated such online projects including active.org.au, and the initial indymedia.org network software ‘active’. Andy was facilitator at the recent Asia Source FLOSS conference [...]

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