Tim Sarnoff is President of Sony Pictures Imageworks, an Academy Award-winning visual effects and computer animation company dedicated to the art of digital production and character creation. Mr. Sarnoff joined Imageworks in 1997, five years after its inception.

As president, Mr. Sarnoff is responsible for the direction and management of the facility, which has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars for its work on "Spider-Man 2" and the CG-animated short film "The ChubbChubbs!," as well as nominations for "Spider-Man," "Hollow Man," "Stuart Little" and "Starship Troopers." Other notable credits for Imageworks include "Bewitched," "The Aviator," "The Polar Express," "Big Fish," "Bad Boys II," "Stuart Little 2," "Cast Away," and "Contact."

Imageworks, which has grown from 600 to nearly 1000 employees over the past year, is currently in production on "Monster House," "Ghost Rider," "Spider-Man 3," "Beowulf," and the first two full-length CG-animated features from Sony Pictures Animation, "Open Season" and "Surf's Up."

Prior to his affiliation with Imageworks, Mr. Sarnoff was Senior Vice President of Warner Digital Studios, which was established as a division of Warner Bros. in 1995. Mr. Sarnoff originally joined Warner Bros. in 1989 to set up Steven Spielberg's animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures." During Mr. Sarnoff's tenure, Warner Bros. Animation grew from four employees to more than 300 employees, became a separate business unit of Warner Bros. and completed numerous animated television series, including "Tasmania," "Batman," "Animaniacs" and "Superman."

Mr. Sarnoff began his career as Program Director for the NBC affiliate KMIR in Palm Springs, and then moved to the NBC network in Los Angeles as a production unit manager. In 1987, he joined Paramount Television as Manager of Production Accounting, and then became Director of Domestic Television Programming.

Mr. Sarnoff is a graduate of Stanford University, where he received his undergraduate degrees in 1981.

Torrie Dorrell is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sony Online Entertainment. Ms. Dorrell is responsible for managing the company's marketing and public relations departments, as well as long-term strategic focus and direction for the company's efforts to reach new audiences.

Prior to joining SOE, Ms. Dorrell was General Manager of Black Label Games, a videogame studio under the Vivendi Universal Games umbrella (also home to Sierra, Blizzard, Universal Interactive, NDA, PPG and Knowledge Adventure).

Ms. Dorrell is a seasoned entertainment industry executive with a wide range of experience across multiple mediums. She began her career in the music industry, where she created family record imprints for Disney, Warner Bros. and Rhino Entertainment. She moved into film and television to create the Licensing & Merchandising division for PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, and the Music Merchandising division for Universal Studios.

Prior to that, Dorrell was a journalist, working as an editor and writer for various national and regional magazines and weekly newspapers.

She has a B.A. in Journalism from Pepperdine University.

Douglas Gayeton recently became Chief Creative Officer at Millions of Us, a social media agency specializing in virtual worlds.

Since the early 90's Gayeton has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media for such clients as AOL, MSN, MTV, Yahoo, Fox, Napster, Electronic Arts, Vivendi, Sony, Ubisoft, Viacom, Sega, Intel, National Geographic, PBS, Warner Bros, Columbia, and Virgin Records.

In 1993 Gayeton directed "Tomorrow", the first documentary about interactive television. It featured interviews with Bill Gates, John Malone, Barry Diller, Sumner Redstone and Geri Laybourne. Its graphic depiction of what Interactive TV would look like—and Gayeton's conviction that "everyone will become their own channel"—was considered heretical at the time but was later proven out in the implementation of the Internet. Gayeton subsequently developed interactive projects for Viacom & ATT's Interactive TV test in Castro Valley, California, then went on to explore the subject of Interactive TV for MTV and U2's ZOO TV television series.

With William Gibson he wrote and directed JOHNNY MNEMONIC, the first interactive cd-rom based movie, for Sony Imagesoft. He then wrote and designed BIG BROTHER, a cd-rom sequel to George Orwell's 1984 with Media-X, and designed an interactive version of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS with writer Alan Lightman. He also wrote THE TULSE LUPER JOURNEY, an EC sponsored interactive film project based on Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper films, for Submarine, a Dutch producer. It won the Europrix Top Talent Award for best game of 2006.

A graphic novel by Gayeton, DELTA STATE, became an animated television series for Alphanim, Nelvana, and Canal + (26 half-hour episodes). Aside from creating the original property, Gayeton wrote and directed the pilot. It received a special award for best new television series from the Annecy Animation Festival in 2004.

Other projects include LOST IN ITALY, a 26 episode interstitial TV series Gayeton created and directed for Fine Living, a US cable network and MY SHOES ARE CAKED WITH MUD, a photographic series for a PBS project awarded a Webby for best broadband website of 2004. More images by Gayeton can be seen online at www.gayeton.com/photoworks.

Gayeton has consulted on video games for the largest publishers in the business. GHOST RECON, a game he recently wrote, was nominated for best script and honored with the BAFTA for 2006's videogame of the year.

His most recent work is MOLOTOV ALVA: MY SECOND LIFE, a series of video documentary shorts shot entirely within an online world called Second Life. It has been the highest rated video in the world on You Tube, with over 250,000 views in its first week, and was recently selected to premiere at both the Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Festivals.

Geoff Keighley has been writing about videogames for more than 14 years. He currently covers the industry for Entertainment Weekly and Business 2.0 magazines (both published by TIME Inc.). On television he is the host of SpikeTV's "Game Head," the #1 rated videogame show on television, and also hosts "Bonus Round" on MTV's GameTrailers.com. In June 2004 he was named one of the Top 30 business journalists under 30 by NewsBios.

Keighley is a magna cum laude graduate in philosophy and business from the University of Southern California.

Peter Marx is the Managing Partner for Analog Protocol, a consultancy working on virtual and online worlds for MTV Networks. He is the former Chief Technology Officer for Vivendi Universal Games. Peter has held the position of Vice President, Digital Media Management for Vivendi-Universal (Paris, France and Los Angeles, California) with a previous position as Vice President, Emerging Technologies for Universal Studios.

Prior to that he was at Electronic Arts (San Francisco, California) where he worked on their online efforts, EA Sports branded games, and on a variety of technology projects.

As a third-party game developer, he produced a variety of games for Propaganda Films, Digital Domain, Disney, EA, Sony, Bandai, IBM, and Capcom. An engineer by trade, he has licensed software to 3M, Apple, and other companies in the area of diagnostic imaging (medicine) and in color printing. As a consultant, his clients have included IBM, Apple Computer, UCLA School of Medicine, Bellcore, Sony, and JP Morgan.

T. Sibley Verbeck is founder of The Electric Sheep Company, and is responsible for business development and overall company strategy.

As a former Chief Scientist of StreamSage, Inc. and Comcast Online, Sibley is a leading researcher in advanced computational linguistic and statistical techniques for analyzing audio, video, and text. In January 2001, Sibley received an award from the Washington Techway Magazine as one of the top young technology executives in the DC area; in 2003 he was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's top 100 technology innovators worldwide under the age of 35. He has been an invited presenter at conferences ranging across Internet infrastructure, digital television, scientific publication, and undergraduate science education and repeated guest lecturer at the Georgetown University Department of Linguistics.

Sibley is involved with the I Do Foundation, the Acceleration Studies Foundation, and the Journal of Young Investigators.

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