April 28-29, 2009   |   Los Angeles, CA

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www.ce.org
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $172 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also produces the International CES – Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

www.offerpalmedia.com
Offerpal Media is the leading monetization solution for online games and social Web publishers. The company's turnkey "Managed Offer Platform" allows publishers to monetize their traffic through targeted and relevant advertising offers, generating publisher revenues at a network-wide average of $75 per day for every 1,000 Daily Active Users. Advertisers can tap into Offerpal Media's expansive network to reach more than 50 million highly engaged and targeted consumers. Based in Fremont, CA, and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Offerpal Media features an experienced management team with deep roots in online advertising, personalization, and optimization technologies. For more, visit www.offerpalmedia.com.

www.dwt.com
Davis Wright Tremaine provides legal solutions customized to its clients’ particular needs from offices across the United States and in China. We understand that each client is an individual, every project is unique, and we measure ourselves by our contributions to our clients’ success.

We offer a full-service practice and deep focus in a number of industries, including streaming media, the download of music, games and video, the distribution of multimedia content over emerging technologies, social networking and user-generated content issues, and the operation of Internet-based studios, gaming services and radio stations. We provide advice related to the provision of ring tones, wallpaper, audio and video content and/or video games to wireless handsets, kiosks and appliances. We are also experienced with issues related to file-sharing services, user-generated content, streaming and downloading television programs and movies, operating Wi-Fi networks, and production of content for distribution over the Internet.

www.switchanddata.com
For ten years Switch and Data has provided network neutral data center and Internet exchange services supporting the needs of the world's leading online brands. These demanding businesses rely on our expertise to provide safe and secure network exchange points to connect with each other, their customers and the global Internet. Switch and Data's Content and Entertainment Practice supports Content, Media and Gaming companies on large-scale Online Infrastructures to support Online Gaming, Digital Distribution of Media (i.e. Music, Film & Software), Streaming Services, Target Content Distribution and Website Infrastructures by designing, developing, and deploying these environments within Switch and Data's 34, carrier neutral, high-power density facilities.

www.gamevance.com
Gamevance.com is owned and operated by Irvine-based Future Ads, one of the southland’s fastest growing Interactive firms. Future Ads enables advertisers to target the fast growing, highly desirable, and responsive casual gaming audience through Gamevance.com and its soon-to-be launched PlaySushi.com. Gamevance.com is a top 5 casual game site, attracts 12 million monthly unique visitors and is one of the fastest-growing game sites and Web properties overall.

www.otxresearch.com
OTX () is a global consumer research and consulting firm specializing in innovative, cutting edge research products and analysis for the marketing, entertainment and advertising communities.  OTX's range of approaches, products and services leverage technological expertise with extensive traditional marketing and advertising research experience to uncover deeper and more profound consumer insights.  This unique suite of state-of-the-art products and services reach and engage today's digitally-driven global consumer more effectively, and yield more relevant and honest data.  In just eight years OTX has become the 20^th largest research agency in the U.S. (24^th largest globally) with offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Cincinnati, Miami, and Chicago with strategic partners in Japan, Australia, and Mexico.

www.popcap.com
PopCap Games is the leading multi-platform provider of "casual games" - fun, easy-to-learn, irresistible computer games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 200 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C., Dublin, and Shanghai. Its timeless games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled®, has sold more than 25 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iPhone and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only casual games developer with leading market share across all major sales channels, including Web portals, retail stores, consoles, mobile phones and MP3 players.

www.eedar.com
EEDAR is a research firm founded by a team of interactive entertainment veterans in 2006. The company's mission is to increase the profitability and creativity of the video game industry by allowing publishers, developers and investors to make more strategic decisions based on objective, accessible and meaningful data.

EEDAR supplies the industry’s two leading analytical and information services: DesignMetrics® provides fact-based comprehensive analysis for proposed game titles detailing projected sales and competitive landscapes. GamePulse® is the only information service that delivers crucial sales, marketing and demographic insights on the video game industry via a "real time" accessible website .

In addition to DesignMetrics and GamePulse, EEDAR delivers custom research and industry publications critical to understanding and navigating the highly competitive electronic entertainment and videogame market.

EEDAR’s products and services are built upon on its proprietary game feature database, the world’s largest dataset of game features, allowing the company to produce highly accurate analysis at even the most granular levels.

EEDAR is based in Carlsbad, California.

www.bigstage.com
Big Stage Entertainment enables the projection of self into digital life.  Big Stage’s breakthrough in immersive entertainment makes it simple for gamers to insert their digital clone into video game scenes to share ... and for you to take that truly game-changing technology in-game. Big Stage’s advanced stereo reconstruction creates a life-like 3-D @ctor from photos and animates it in synch with the action. Gamers can accessorize as many literal and fantasy selves as they can imagine. Big Stage’s PortableYou™ kit simplifies integration of this technology into video games, heightening competition as users recognize the faces and voices of opponents.

www.ps-b.com
Founded in 1975, Penn, Schoen & Berland (PSB), a member of the WPP Group, is a global research-based consultancy that specializes in messaging and communications strategy for blue-chip political, corporate and entertainment clients.

In the entertainment world, PSB is a leading provider of motion picture research for major Hollywood studios and video game research to top game publishers.Our proprietary visual testing capabilities help clients assess and fundamentally enhance the power of their execution.

CEOs and Presidents alike turn to PSB when they need to create innovative strategies to handle complex situations – the Winning Knowledge^TM we provide helps such leaders solve their most difficult challenges.

www.incomm.com
InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products using its state-of-the-art point-of-sale transaction technology and payment solutions to revolutionize retail product sales and customer experiences. With almost $8 billion in retail sales transactions processed at more than 145,000 retail locations, InComm’s Fastcard® Technology enables retailers to offer popular music, online entertainment gaming, gift and other card-based products with the ability to activate quickly and easily at the point of purchase. InComm’s patented and patent-pending stored-value technology solutions include innovative applications for product activation and redemption, packaging, in-store displays, data management and more.

www.zeevex.com
Zeevex is a Virtual Currency Platform. It is monetized with a GiftCard in 22k locations in 2009, while our open Platform enables Game Operators to generate additional revenue from their existing Gamers.

www.biztechlaw.com
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a corporate, securities and intellectual property law firm focusing on the representation of emerging growth and technology companies, middle market public companies, large technology companies, investors, private equity funds, investment bankers and underwriters, and clients in the entertainment industry.  Our mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective.  These principles are the hallmarks of our Firm.  Our strategy is to partner with our clients to provide legal services within our expertise, and identify and manage the most appropriate legal and other resources to provide expertise outside of our core disciplines.

www.urbanspiritlifestyle.com
Urban Spirit Lifestyle is a borderless entity committed to putting a genuine pulse on the socioeconomic progression of our branded lifestyle and influencer audience.

www.e3expo.com
E3 Expo is the world's premiere trade show for computer and video games and related products. The show is owned by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the U.S. association dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of the companies, publishing interactive games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, and the Internet. For more information, please visit www.e3expo.com or www.theesa.com.

 

www.igda.org
The International Game Developers Association is the largest non-profit membership organization serving individuals that create video games. The IGDA is committed to advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community. For more information on the IGDA, please visit www.igda.org.

www.parksassociates.com
Parks Associates is a market research firm exclusively focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home, including entertainment, home networking, controls, wireless networking, boradband, and on-demand services.

www.tagstrategic.com
TAG Strategic leverages its collective experience and expertise to accelerate business opportunities for the digital entertainment, technology and mobile industries. Visit us at www.tagstrategic.com.

www.casualgamesassociation.org
The Casual Games Association is an international organization comprised of developers, publishers, distributors, portals and service companies dedicated to the growth and maturation of the billion dollar casual games industry. Initiatives include: industry market size and impact studies, the Casual Connect Magazine, the Casual Connect Conferences, held yearly in Hamburg, Kyiv and Seattle attracting more than 3,000 professionals each year!

www.anderson.ucla.edu
UCLA Anderson's Entertainment and Media Management Institute brings together industry, students and researchers to embrace new ideas on how companies and executives can manage and thrive in the face of transforming entertainment and media business model. We challenge companies and managers to focus on the impacts of technology, globalization and deregulation on both content and distribution.

billboard.prweb.com
Billboard Publicity Wire is a major press release distribution service that delivers breaking entertainment and music news to millions of consumers and journalists through a vast SEO and social media network that includes search engines, news sites, RSS feeds and opt-in email.

www.newyork-tokyo.com
Started in 2001, NYT is a company with a mission to provide exposure of techno-cool, eye-popping production from Japan to the U.S.. NYT is currently holding two monthly events: GNG (Gamers Nite Groove) and MDS (Monthly Director Series), and two annual Festivals: Tokyo Robots and eNerGy (Game+Anime+Music).

www.visualeffectssociety.com
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 1,600 members in 17 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs.

www.producersguild.org
Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States.

The PGA's membership includes over 3,500 members of the producing establishment worldwide. The PGA offers several benefits to its members, including health insurance and pension benefits; seminars and mentoring programs; entrance to special screenings of movies during Academy Award season; and assistance with working conditions and screen credits.

www.music4games.net
Music4Games.Net is the award-winning #1 resource for the video game music industry. Music4Games.Net delivers an invaluable spotlight on today’s emerging video game soundtrack industry and is the leading provider of game music infotainment for developers, publishers, producers, audio directors, music supervisors, composers, soundtrack collectors, dedicated gamers, students, marketers and music industry executives.

www.nextisland.com
NEXT ISLAND pioneers a new generation of 3D virtual worlds - immersive game play like World of Warcraft and socialization of Second Life, plus a real cash economy and Time Travel.







 

www.mashable.com
With more than 5.5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused on social networks and web 2.0 news. Mashable's readers include the most tech-savvy early adopters, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, influencers, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists.

www.variety.com
Recognized and respected through out the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straight forward news and analysis - information vital to their professions.

www.contentagenda.com
Combining news aggregation, commentary, original reporting and user-generated content, Content Agenda is the one-stop-resource on the rapidly-changing digital entertainment market. Coverage includes: Mobile DRM Intellectual Property Rights Social Networks Media Convergence Digital Trends

www.videobusiness.com
Video Business serves the home entertainment industry as a leading news and data source about production, marketing, distribution and sales of DVD and VHS; pay-per-view and video-on-demand; Internet and digital video.

 

www.theeca.com
The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit membership organization established to serve the needs of those who play computer and video games. The organization, which is headquartered in Connecticut, focuses its advocacy efforts on consumer rights, anti-games legislation, and a host of other public policy concerns as well as providing substantial community, educational, and affinity benefits to its members-from discounts on subscriptions and game rentals and purchases to education, employment assistance, and insider access to industry news and events.

www.digitalla.net
We are an informal networking organization of professionals and friends in online entertainment, marketing, advertising, and tech in Los Angeles. Attendees work at WB, Sony, FOX, Paramount, MySpace, Google, Yahoo!, Disney, Paramount, CAA, WMA, ABC, NBC, Vivendi Games, and other entertainment, studios, agencies, and tech companies.

www.techzulu.com
TechZulu, founded in November 2007, is a technology website that brings awareness about technology companies in the Southern California area. Our goal is to report the news about emerging and established technology companies. We do this by giving you exclusive interviews with the people involved in these companies, providing information about what happens in technology conferences and reporting the news as it comes out. In addition, we provide reviews of new products as well as the companies involved with the making of the products. This will show technology enthusiasts and investors that Southern California not only has a presence in entertainment, but also a strong presence in technology.