Gilbert B. Hammer

Managing Editor, Producer/DP

Gilbert B. Hammer, an Internet TV pioneer in his own right, has been working with streaming media since its inception and is a video Producer/DP in Broadcast and Corporate Television for the past 20 years. Gilbert studied film and video production at The University of Bridgeport in addition to the Rockport Film & Television Workshops, where he studied under feature film directors such as, Rob Draper, ACS

Gilbert has worked as a Producer/DP for companies like, Avon, General Foods, IBM, Mercury Marine and Virtus creating VNR's and other product segments. In the mid nineties, Gilbert was part of the team that established streaming media at Morgan Stanley and broadcast content to internal and external websites on a daily basis. After leaving in 2000, Gilbert was charged with building the streaming media and video production department for Yahoo! in their New York City office, this as part of their Broadcast.com division. Among his accomplishments while at Yahoo!

• Worked with Yahoo! FinanceVision, the first ITV platform created which fed real-time video content about the financial markets from both New York City Stock exchanges each day.
• Was Co-Creator of the Giants of Advertising series which features the best known names in the advertising world.
• Implemented use of Vyvx TV-1 Fiber circuits [MPEG-2, 3Mbps] to receive feeds from client studios and remote locations worldwide. Later, added field based laptop capture using Firewire - WM Encoder for faster cycle time to web

Gilbert currently serves as Streaming Media Producer/DP for IBM for their live and on-demand events. He and his wife overlook the Hudson River in NJ., their horse Teddy lives further West near Bridgewater NJ. in a stall bigger then many NYC studio apartments :-)

Adrian Smith

Producer/Director/Interviewer

Mr. Smith began his career in London working in the theater as an actor, writer and director. Following on from his theater work, Adrian developed projects for the BBC and became more involved with documentary filmmaking (including segments for the BBCs acclaimed Panorama series).

Mr. Smith moved to the USA in 1988 and formed Tricycle Productions, a team of like-minded writers, directors and production staff producing work on a variety of subjects including: environmental issues, indigenous rights, healthcare and the global impact of technology. Projects included work for the BBC, the Smithsonian, PBS, the United Nations and numerous non-profits and NGOs.

During this time Mr. Smith continued his love of dramatic projects and directed a series of short films that played on the international film festival circuit winning awards at the London, Chicago and Venice film festivals.

In 2000 Mr. Smith joined Yahoo! Inc. to champion the use of video in distance-learning modules and to create unique training and learning products. Mr. Smith continued his career at Yahoo! by becoming Senior Producer of Media Production for the Yahoo! marketing department where he produces work for Yahoo! advertising and marketing campaigns. Projects also include a series of Yahoo! funded documentaries on the consumer and social impact of the internet and related technologies.

Adrian is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Slice of Life Media and lives overlooking the water in Pacifica, CA. with his wife, children and new baby girl.

Levi Shapiro

Writer/Interviewer

Levi Shapiro oversees Los Angeles operations for Telephia, the dominant player in mobile-related market research. In this role, he has created partnerships and products for leading movie studios, television networks, game publishers and record labels. He has also helped develop innovative new products including the industry's first-ever Mobile Television Diary.

Previously, Mr. Shapiro was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of two mobile video companies, Two Minute Television and Snack Mobile. Two Minute Television created short-form TV series with episodes averaging 4 million TV viewers, carriage on 110 major websites and distribution on wireless carriers in North America, Asia and Europe. Snack Mobile is a software company enabling a completely new category of mobile media - combining a hybrid of casual mobile gaming and live-action video.

Prior to that, Mr. Shapiro helped re-launch a multi-million dollar line of online digital services across Europe for IBM, growing revenue by over 20% in a previously flat segment. Mr. Shapiro is completely fluent in Japanese and Italian and spent the early part of his career in Tokyo and Beijing, working for Toyota Motor Corporation. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including NAB, CTIA, IIR, IQPC, Digital Hollywood, iHollywood, Terrapin, MoMeMo. Levi Shapiro is also Assistant Editor of Video Age International, where he covers the mobile and new media platforms. He graduate of Tulane University and received an MA from Cornell and MBA from MIT.

Levi also writes an insightful technology column for the Jerusalem Post: Unleavened Media Also, follow Levi
on Twitter Levi lives out in the sunshine in CA. No horses or kids :-)