Hack Day Paris: Connected TV

Eric Scherer is Director of Future Media at France Televisions, in charge of digital strategy and Connected TV. He has spent his career working for Agence France-Presse, Reuters and AFX News in a wide range of functions spanning journalism, management, business development, strategy and new media in locations across the globe including Japan, North America and the UK.
He blogs at meta-media.fr about his favourite subject: all aspects of the digital revolution and how media industries should adapt and surf the accelerating pace of change. He teaches entrepreneurial journalism at Sciences Po in Paris, is a regular speaker at conferences in Europe, and is the author of a glossary La Révolution Numérique (Dalloz 2009), and Do We Still Need Journalists? (PUF 2011).

Roxanne Varza currently runs some of the startup-related initiatives at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft she worked for several European startups and was the former Editor of TechCrunch France (2010-2011). She also co-founded the French and British chapters of Girls in Tech and is the co-organizer of the Failcon Paris conference.
She has spoken, moderated, mentored and judged numerous startup events and programs throughout Europe and also helps European startups with content and communications. Roxanne has an Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and Master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics.

Frederic is co-founder of movies.io. He moved to Switzerland from Belgium to study Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) where he met Amos Wenger, his co-founder. He does also work at Storify on the side. Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social media.

Amos is the other half of movies.io. Interested in peer-to-peer technologies, he's led a BitTorrent implementation project at EPFL, and is still studying computer science there. In a previous life, he used to work for the music start-up official.fm, and co-wrote an MP3 decoder in JavaScript. In his spare time, he likes to implement new programming languages and participate to the Ludum Dare game programming jam.

Olivier Ezratty is a freelance digital media strategy consultant specialized in digital television, helping startups and large organizations shape their solution, ecosystem and business strategies. He is involved in many startup and innovation communities: teaching, coaching and doing startups due diligences for investors, and also working with corporations in the telecom and media industry sectors. He shares his in-depth industry analysis and creative common licenced reports on his blog "Opinions Libres" (free opinions, http://www.oezratty.net) including a Digital Economy Startup Guide (16th edition) and a thorough 240+ pages report on the Consumer Electronics Show every year since 2006.

Michel Lévy-Provençal is one of the founders of the information website Rue89 and was digital director of France 24 from 2007 to 2010.
Michel founded the TEDxParis conference in 2009. He is the founder and CEO of Joshfire. A company that provides content and brand experience solutions for the web, mobile, tablet, TV and connected objects.