Speakers
Karsten Weide
Program Vice President,
Media & Entertainment
IDC
Karsten Weide is the Program Vice President, Media & Entertainment, at IDC. He heads up IDC's consumer research, which covers mobile consumer applications and platforms, consumer video, the connected home and gaming. His own research practice covers the new media, including online and mobile advertising, ecommerce, and consumer behavior and attitudes. Mr. Weide is a veteran of the consumer Internet industry with over 20 years of experience in high-tech. Mr. Weide is a two time winner of IDC's Research Quality Award and is also a recipient of IDC's Research Innovation Award.
Prior to joining IDC in 2006, Mr. Weide’s career was focused on identifying and developing new technologies and applications in the Internet industry. He founded the U.S. affiliate of MediaAnalyzer, a European online market research company specializing in advertising research. Prior to MediaAnalyzer, Mr. Weide served as new media consultant to Internet startups. Before that, he was in charge of setting up and running both the German operations of Yahoo! as well as Yahoo!’s European product management. Prior to Yahoo!, he held positions with Europe Online and Ziff-Davis. Mr. Weide holds a Master’s degree from the University of Hanover, Germany.