What is the real future of entertainment—user-generated media or traditional TV comedies or sitcoms? What will capture greater consumer interest and committed time—traditional entertainment or user-generated media? The world of social communities once thought to be a thing of the past has exploded and is again on the front pages of our newspapers and magazines. Every family communicates through photo-sharing and movie-sharing Web sites. The blogging and social networking worlds have become the new "major media networks." Is it a fad or the future of our collective lives? In this session, we will explore user-generated media as a phenomenon, a business, and a communications and entertainment medium.

David Kennedy Sr. Research Director, Telecoms Asia-Pacific Ovum

Daniel Harris Founder Kendra Initiative

Mr. Harris is an entrepreneur and Internet content expert. He founded Kendra, an initiative to promote an open content marketplace for the Internet, in 1999. Mr. Harris has worked extensively in the U.K. Internet industry. He co-founded Cerbernet in 1996 and served as chief executive officer until late 1998. Previously, Mr. Harris worked for Atlantic Telecom as their content delivery adviser until early 2001. In 1994 he co-founded Cerberus-the Cerberus Digital Jukebox was the first system for copyright-protected Internet-based music distribution.

Yunjeong Min Head of Community Division Daum Communications Corp.

Ms. Min has been in her current role since July 2006. Prior to this, she was team manager of the community planning department at Daum. She has been with the company since 1995, and in that time, she has been the team manager, planet business team, team manager, cafe team, CTO staff, R&D center, DBMS modeler in the platform technology department, and senior engineer at Daum's system integration division. Ms. Min earned her bachelor's in computer science from the Hallym University in South Korea in 1995.

Ren Xuyang Vice President Baidu

Mr. Ren joined the Baidu team in December 2001, working successively as the general manager of Baidu's Shanghai branch, director of strategic development, and assistant to the president of Baidu. Since Baidu's successful listing on NASDAQ in 2005, he has organized and led a series of strategic cooperation negotiations with a number of multinational companies, facilitated a range of cooperations with industry-leading companies based both inside and outside China, and participated in the drafting of Baidu's globalization strategy, of which he also oversaw the implementation. Mr. Ren has been in his current role since March 2007.