Industry Leaders Converge on Connecticut!

Join Eric Mortensen, Director of Content Development (Blip.tv), Dana Tower, COO (Pond5), and Jamison Tilsner, Founder and COO (Tubefilter.tv) for presentations about their organizations and a panel discussion about trends in the industry and opportunities to grow revenue.

The event will take place at Seaside Tavern (891 Cove Road, Stamford, CT 06902).

Here is a quick glance at the schedule:
6:30 - cash bar / menu - networking
7:30 - Intro CT Online Video Meet-up
7:40 - Each Presenter Intro's their company for five minutes
8:00 - Panel Discussion
8:40 - Q&A
8:55 - Closing
9:00 - cash bar / menu - networking

Seaside Tavern will provide a special menu available to purchase by attendees:
Video Summit Menu
Chicken Ceaser Salad Wrap served with french fries $8
Beef Angus Sliders served with French Fries $12
Steak and Cheese Sliders with onions and peppers, shredded cheese and served with fries $9.00
Turkey and Cheese Wrap with American cheese spinach and a pesto mayonaisse $8.00

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Please note that due to space limitations, this is an RSVP event (though attendance is FREE!)

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Eric Mortensen, Director of Content Development (Blip.tv)

(See interview with Blip.tv co-founder here)

Building on prior experience in art, technology and digital media, Eric Mortensen joined blip.tv in 2006 as the Director of Content Development, where he oversees discovery of and interaction with new media content creators. As a founder of the pioneering social bookmarking site, linkfilter.net, a prolific blogger and the co-founder of Digital Dissonance — a digital music collaboration created in 1994 and pre-dating the commercial Internet — Mortensen has spent more than fourteen years as a media innovator and expert.

After studying Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music, Mortensen held various positions in both old and new media as musician, web designer, data analyst and technology consultant. He is married and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Dana Tower, COO (Pond5.com)

Dana Tower, COO, of Pond5.com is an accomplished stock footage and advertising executive. He led marketing and business development for footage licensing leaders Getty Images and Corbis. In advertising, he managed Fortune 100 accounts including Coke, Kodak, Sony and Mars for global ad networks Omnicom, WPP and IPG. His new media work includes Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, VP Client Services/Partnerships for Omnicom’s AGENCY.COM, and VP Partnerships for FastForward, a marketing services ASP. Dana received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School. ABOUT POND5: "Pond5.com is the world’s first open marketplace for stock video footage, and it’s a better way for video professionals to buy or sell stock footage for use in productions. Video, film and television producers anywhere in the world can find and buy instantly downloadable, broadcast quality royalty-free footage for use in their productions. Video/film creators and content owners around the world can offer their owned work for licensing and use by others. And, like any vital marketplace, people are able to connect, collaborate and share creative inspiration" (from their website).

Jamison Tilsner, Chief Operating Officer (Tubefilter.tv)

Jamison has been an Associate Producer and Production Coordinator for various film, television and new media productions and has served as an Adviser to Digital Filmmaking students at the Katherine Gibbs School in New York. Along with Joshua Cohen, he co-foundered Tilzy.TV, one of the first media outlets dedicated to providing news and reviews for original, online, episodic programming, which was acquired by Tubefilter, Inc. in 2009. Jamison has spoken on the topic of digital entertainment at Streaming Media East and West, NYU Tisch School of The Arts, OMMA Video Summit, Digital Hollywood, The Broadcast Education Association and various other conferences.

Jamison is a co-founder of the Streamy Awards, the first awards show celebrating excellence in Web television, and the International Academy of Web Television, a professional organization of online entertainment content creators, producers and talent dedicated to the growth of the online entertainment industry. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA and is currently pursuing an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.