Kevin Winston (@kevinwinston) is the founder of Digital LA, the LA-based networking group of professionals in digital entertainment (movies, TV, web series, music, games, VFX), start-ups, social media, marketing, and advertising, reaching more than 50,000 members via its newsletter, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn groups. digitalla.net, @DigitalLA.

Kevin is also founder of Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. The fest brings together LA's accelerators, startups and Hollywood digital entertainment, and attracts more than 3,000 attendees with a multi-day fest in the summer, and a one-day event in the fall. Silicon Beach Fest has been covered by Forbes, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, LA Times, and other national and local press.

Previously, Kevin worked at Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, and IGN where he created social media marketing campaigns for movies, TV shows, web series and video games. Prior to that, he worked at Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment and McKinsey & Company, the top management consulting firm.

Kevin has spoken at numerous tech / entertainment conferences including: SXSW, San Diego Comic-Con, Social Media Week LA, NATPE, Film Finance Forum, Silicon Beach Fest, Games Marketing Summit, and Digital Hollywood.

He was named in a recent Forbes article as one of “12 Entrepreneurs That Are Changing LA Forever.”

Kevin graduated from Yale University, and has a masters from Harvard University.

He also co-founded and is President of both Yale in Hollywood and IVY Entertainment, both networking organizations for alumni in entertainment based in LA.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Digital LA, CEO / Founder
- Silicon Beach Fest, Founder and Executive Director
- Yale in Hollywood, Founder and President
- IVY Entertainment, Co-Founder and President
- SXSW Accelerator 2014, Advisory Board
- Social Media Week LA, Board Member, 2010-2013
- Streamy Awards, Blue Ribbon Board, 2013

Focused on the intersection of technology and entertainment, predominantly in how emerging technologies will radically change how consumers experience media entertainment content.

Extensive work in the area of innovation and facilitation as a catalyst for growth; this includes internal innovation initiatives targeting new processes to enable quicker ideation, prototyping, and launching of ideas to market, as well as external partnerships allowing for innovation through collaboration (through partnerships, JVs, commercial deals, and direct investments/accelerator models).

History of success in building and launching new models and products to the market.

Home brewer. Home chef. Gardener. Carpenter. Fledgling guitar player.

Bettina Sherick is the SVP, Digital Strategic Marketing for 20th Century Fox International, where she is responsible for managing relationships with leading digital marketing and technology companies to ensure that digital is at the core of all marketing activity within the division. During her 12 year tenure, she has managed the launch of over 100+ international digital marketing campaigns for titles such as X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, RIO, AVATAR, all films in the ICE AGE franchise, and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, the latter of which won the Webby Award and People's Voice Webby Award in the Movie and Film category. She has also spearheaded the development of proprietary systems to enable the quick launch of digital content globally.