We are very excited to announce a special new keynote session that has been added to Brightcove PLAY 2012, our second annual global customer conference taking place from June 25 - 27th in Boston. The new keynote will feature industry luminaries Jim Breyer, Erick Schonfeld and Brightcove chairman and CEO, Jeremy Allaire. The keynote will focus on the future of digital media, and the transformation of news, entertainment and marketing content across the Web, mobile devices and connected TVs.
A free live stream of this exciting session will be featured on play.brightcove.com from 4:20 - 5:00 pm ET on Monday, June 25th.
Jim Breyer is a Partner at Accell and is the President of Accel Management Company. He has been an investor in more than 30 consumer Internet, media and technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers, some turning over 100 times their initial cost. Breyer is currently the lead / co-lead Investor / Director in several privately-held companies, including Etsy, Legendary Pictures and several others. He is also on the board of directors of Facebook, Brightcove, Wal-Mart Stores, Dell, News Corporation, among others.
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine. He also launched an online video series with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences. He started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993.
Jeremy is the founder, chairman and CEO of Brightcove, which he founded in 2004 with a vision to publish and distribute the world's professional digital media. Prior to Brightcove, Jeremy was a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence at General Catalyst. Previously, he served as CTO of Macromedia following its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and CTO.
Other confirmed speakers for Brightcove PLAY 2012 include representatives from Adobe, Akamai, The AOL On Network, AMC Networks, Boston Globe, Digitas, Google, IBM, Major League Gaming, Miami Dolphins, Oracle, PUMA International, STV and TVNZ.
If you have not yet registered to attend PLAY 2012, you can sign up at play.brightcove.com. Don't miss out on this exciting event!
