Industry luminaries to discuss future of digital media and the
connected consumer at Brightcove's second annual global customer
conference, June 25, 2012
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content
services, today announced that the Brightcove
PLAY 2012 global customer conference will feature a special keynote
conversation with industry luminaries Jim Breyer, Erick Schonfeld and
Brightcove chairman and CEO, Jeremy Allaire. The keynote will focus on
the future of digital media, the transformation of news, entertainment
and marketing content across the Web, mobile devices and connected TVs.
A free live stream of the keynote presentation will be presented from
4:20 PM to 5:00 PM ET on Monday, June 25 at play.brightcove.com.
Brightcove PLAY 2012 will take place from June 25 - 27 at the
InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
Jim Breyer is a Partner at Accel and is the President of Accel
Management Company. Jim has been an investor in more than 30 consumer
Internet, media, and technology companies that have completed public
offerings or successful mergers. Several of these investments returned
over 100 times their initial cost and many of these investments have
returned over 25 times their cost to investors. In 2011 and 2012, Forbes
ranked Breyer #1 in its Midas List of top technology investors. In
August 2010, Fortune Magazine named Breyer the #1 smartest investor in
technology, and one of the 10 smartest people in all of technology.
Breyer is currently the lead/co-lead Investor/Director in several
privately held companies, such as Etsy, Legendary Pictures, and several
others. Breyer is also on the board of directors of Facebook (NASDAQ:
FB), Brightcove, Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), News
Corporation (NASDAQ: NWSA), among others.
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former
Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. Prior to TechCrunch, he was
Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature
stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched an
online video series with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and
conferences. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993.
In 1999, he won the prize for best information technology submission at
London's Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and in 2001 he won the
prize for best space submission at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year
Awards in Paris. In 1996 and 1997, Schonfeld was recognized in the TJFR
Business News Reporter's list of the best and brightest financial
journalists under the age of 30. He appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, and
NY1, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Jeremy Allaire is founder, chairman and chief executive officer of
Brightcove, founded in early 2004 with a vision to publish and
distribute the world's professional digital media. Prior to founding
Brightcove, Jeremy worked as a technologist and
entrepreneur-in-residence for Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm
General Catalyst, where he worked on companies and investments in
broadband media, mobile content, e-commerce software and digital
identity. Before General Catalyst, Jeremy was Chief Technology Officer
of Macromedia, where he helped define and launch the Macromedia MX
platform for Rich Internet Applications, helping to evolve Macromedia
Flash into a dominant platform for rich media applications on the
Internet. Jeremy joined Macromedia with its merger with Allaire
Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.
Founded in 1995, Allaire Corporation was a pioneer in using the Web as
an application platform, and its industry leading and award winning
products power millions of websites, online services and business
applications on the Internet.
Other
confirmed speakers for Brightcove PLAY 2012 include representatives
from Adobe, Akamai, The AOL On Network, AMC Networks, Boston Globe,
Digitas, Google, IBM, Major League Gaming, Miami Dolphins, Oracle, PUMA
International, STV and TVNZ.
About Brightcove
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud
content services, provides a family of products used to publish and
distribute the world's professional digital media. The company's
products include Brightcove Video Cloud, the market-leading online video
platform, and Brightcove App Cloud, a pioneering content app platform.
More than 4,200 customers in over 50 countries rely on Video Cloud to
build and operate media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and
connected TVs. For more information, visit http://www.brightcove.com.
This press release may include forward-looking statements regarding
anticipated objectives, growth and/or expected product and service
developments or enhancements. Such forward-looking statements may be
identified by the use of the following words (among others): "believes,"
"expects," "may," "will," "plan," "should" or "anticipates," or
comparable words and their negatives. These forward-looking statements
are not guarantees but are subject to risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations
contained in these statements. For a discussion of such risks and
uncertainties, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent quarterly
report on Form 10-Q. Brightcove assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event
of changing circumstances or otherwise, and such statements are current
only as of the date they are made.
North America
SutherlandGold Group for Brightcove
Erika
Shaffer, 206-972-5514
erika@sutherlandgold.com
or
Europe
AxiCom
for Brightcove
Sheena Riviera, +44 20 8392 4064
sheena.riviera@axicom.com
Source: Brightcove Inc.
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