Nokia World 2011 Panel Discussion: Nokia's scale and reach means opportunity for developers

Panel Discussion at Nokia World 2011: http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/ titled "Nokia's scale and reach means opportunity for developers " with

Marco Argenti from Nokia.
Barry Cottle from Electronic Arts
Virat Khutal from Twist Mobile
Matthew Bencke from Microsoft
Terry Fitzpatrick from Sesame Street
Russell Wolf from ESPN International

Nokia World is an annual conference and exhibition devoted to all things Nokia, that took place this year on the 26th and 27th October in London. The two days were packed with captivating talks, inspiring discussions, exciting surprises, fruitful networking. The event offered visitors to experience all new mobile products, services and innovations from Nokia and partners.

Marco Argenti is a consumer technology industry veteran with more than 20 years' experience and currently serves as Senior Vice President, Developer & Marketplace for Nokia. Argenti is globally responsible for support and growth of Nokia's developer community and broader ecosystem across the entire product portfolio. In this role, Argenti also provides the strategy, delivery and support for Nokia's on-device application marketplace.

Barry Cottle leads EA Interactive (EAi), a top worldwide publisher of mobile, social and online games. EAi encompasses EA Mobile (including Chillingo, Firemint and Bight Games), Pogo, Hasbro-licensed games, Playfish, the #2 social games provider and PopCap Games a leader in casual digital games. Cottle has more than 20 years experience working in the entertainment, cable TV, high-tech, wireless, mobile content and business software sectors.

Virat Singh Khutal is Co-Founder and CEO of Twist Mobile. He has worked as game developer and game designer in Gameloft before starting Twist Mobile. He has been active participating in Twistfuture for Short Mobile Movie production in India. Entrepreneurship and Mass reach has been always focus for him. Virat graduated as an Architect from IPS Academy, India and did MCM from Pune University.

Dr. Matthew Bencke manages the Windows Phone Apps Division and is extremely passionate about developing innovative apps designed to entertain and delight users. During his career Matt has helped conceive, negotiate and manage several new businesses across the aerospace and software industries from devising the strategy behind Boeing 787 to Microsoft's Windows desktop deployment initiative, and alliance with Nokia. Matt speaks Russian, and has published in political science and astrophysics. He holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Matt loves spending time with his family and enjoys snowboarding, backpacking and kayaking.

As Chief Content and Distribution Officer, Terry Fitzpatrick oversees six key divisions at Sesame Workshop: Sesame Street Production, The Electric Company, Sesame Languages, Media Distribution, Content Innovation Lab and Themed Entertainment. He manages global content development and production as well as distribution strategy and partner relationships to deliver Sesame's content across all media platforms. Prior to this role, Terry was Executive Vice President, Distribution. He joined the Workshop in 1996 as Vice President, Finance. Fitzpatrick holds a MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin.

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• Russell Wolf
• ESPN International
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