• Live From New York, It's The Beet.TV Online Video Summit

    Erick Schonfeld

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the executive producer of DEMO. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City. Schonfeld is the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily... → Learn More

    Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

    Today, I will be helping to moderate Beet.TV’s Online Video Summit from the NBC Studios in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. We’ll be streaming the event here live, all three hours of it. It starts at 9 AM ET. It will be broken into three parts. Here is the schedule:

    Online Video, a New Medium: How big and small publishers will successfully embrace online video in news and entertainment (moderated by Dan Farber, Cnet).

    Where is the Money? An exploration of business models around online video (moderated by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch)

    The Technology: A look at the nitty-gritty of encoding, infrastructure, search, and live streaming (moderated by Andy Plesser, Beet.TV)

    Below is the list of participants. It is an amazing group, representing both startups (Brightcove, Blinkx, Kyte, HowCast) and big companies (CBS, MSNBC, MySpace TV, WSJ.com, YouTube) alike.


    Amir Ashkenazi, CEO and Co-Founder, Adap.TV

    Adam Berrey, Senior VP, Brightcove

    Victoria M. Brown, Co-Founder, Big Think

    Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and Founder, Blinkx

    Christian Cussen, Director of Content and Marketing, MySpace TV

    Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News.com Co-moderator

    Mary Kathleen Flynn, Senior Video Producer, The Deal

    Rachel Gartley, Operations Director, MESA

    Richard Glosser, Executive Director, Emerging Media, CondeNet

    Daniel Graf, CEO, Kyte

    David Hallerman, Senior Analyst, eMarketer

    Max Haot, CEO and Founder, Mogulus

    Mike Hudack, CEO and Co-Founder, Blip.tv

    Andrew Heyward, Senior Advisor, Marketspace LLC/Monitor Group; former President, CBS News

    Peter Kocks, President, Truveo

    Almar Latour, Managing Editor, WSJ.com

    Laura Lee, Strategic Partner Development Manager, YouTube

    Jason Liebman, Co-Founder, HowCast

    Gina de Mendonca, Group Planning Director, Ogilvy

    Fred McIntyre, Senior VP, AOL Video

    Jimmy Pitaro, VP Sports and Entertainment, Yahoo!

    Shoba Purushothaman, CEO, The NewsMarket

    Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor of News Video, Washington Post.com

    Bud Rosenthal, CEO, TurnHere

    Eric Schmidt, Director of Media and Advertising Evangelism, Microsoft

    Tim Shey, Co-Founder, Next New Networks

    Erick Schonfeld, Co-Editor, TechCrunch Co-moderator

    Charlie Tillinghast, President and Publisher, msnbc.com Event host

    Bill Wheaton, Vice President Digital Media, Akamai

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