What's hot in Internet video? Live streams are suddenly cool again. Advertisers are trying creative new models for capturing these deep niche audiences. Independent producers are sneaking into the mainstream, and creative traditional media outlets are finding their way into new channels and interactive experiences. How does this all play out? What do the experts say? Which disruptions stand to impact the future of Internet video?

Chris Brogan is Community Developer for Video on the Net, a pulver.com conference. He is co-Founder of PodCamp, a free unconference dedicated to spreading information about audio and video podcasting, blogging, and other new media technologies. He has sixteen years of telecommunications experience, including wireless telephony and prepaid wireless expertise. He is also working on Network2.tv, a guide to the best internet TV shows available.

"Digital Dan" Dubno is an Emmy award-winning broadcaster, technologist, consultant, producer, and "connector". After 30 years in broadcasting (17 at CBS News), Dan recently created his own technology intelligence company - "Blowing Things Up, LLC."

Colin Decker, director of content and programming for Yahoo! Video, oversees the strategy, development and programming of content for Yahoo! Video. Colin is responsible for delivering a premium video experience that serves a diverse range of consumers and content publishers, including Yahoo!’s partners, advertisers and original content producers.



Prior to joining Yahoo!, Colin served as online executive producer, during the development and launch of Current TV, a home cable network and Web destination chaired by former Vice President Al Gore. While there, Colin developed Current TV’s user-generated content experience, online video training tools and groundbreaking V-CAM (Viewer-Created Ad Message) program. Prior to working at Current TV, Colin produced and directed several documentaries, commercials and musical works for clients such as Goodyear, Volkswagen, Artisan Entertainment and Dreamworks. Colin has taught storytelling and film criticism at Boston University and Harvard.



Colin holds a Bachelor of Arts in studio art and English literature from Bowdoin College as well as a Master of Fine Arts in film from Boston University.

Blake Lewin is Vice President of Product Development and Innovation for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) New Product Development. Lewin is the inventor of GameTap, Turner's first broadband entertainment network, and was responsible for its design and development.

He was Executive Producer on Cyan Worlds' MMOG Myst Online: URU Live, released on GameTap in US and Canada and for Mac and PC internationally in 2007. He has led the production of enhanced TV applications on various emerging platforms; invented two patents filed for TBS, Inc. on iTV and broadband systems; managed online development for Turner Entertainment Web sites; licensed and produced CD-ROM products and games such as Woodstock, Hell Cab, Dinotopia, The Pagemaster, ToonJam and Carl Sagan's Murmurs of Earth; and established industry policies for the licensing of music and image assets for CD-ROMs with the Harry Fox Agency, BMI, and the American Society of Magazine Photographers.

Lewin earned a BA in music in composition, with a minor in electronic music, as well as an associate's degree in audio technology from the Indiana School of Music.

Fred McIntyre is Senior Vice President of AOL Video, where he directs the team that leads and executes AOL's comprehensive strategy for video, and operates AOL's video products across AOL's network of Web properties. McIntyre joined AOL in 1999 and has worked in a variety of capacities, including most recently Vice President of Programming and Media Networks for AOL for Broadband. He also spent several years as Vice President of Business Development for AOL Entertainment where his responsibilities included mapping and implementing the strategy that established AOL as a premier online destination and industry partner for Games, Movies, Music, Radio, Television, and Ticketing. Prior to AOL, McIntyre held senior management positions at Spinner.com, VIBE Magazine and SPIN Magazine.

Steve Rosenbaum is acknowledged as one of the early innovators in User-Generated Video. In 1995 he created UNfiltered, a program that put the very first user-generated video on MTV. Magnify.net lets sites quickly add a robust video solution to their existing site by providing video discovery from the web’s most popular video services.