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Yesterday, Lijit and Foundry Group hosted the inaugural b.media forum. Based in Boulder, b.media brought together the digital media industry’s top entrepreneurs and thought-leaders to discuss consumers, online advertising, and publishing. Click here for a full list of attendees.

The half-day interactive discussion included three panel sessions:

• Consumer panel: moderated by Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada. Panelists included Dave Heal, Tim Falls, Cali Harris, and Casey Finkel.
• Publisher panel: moderated by Todd Vernon, CEO and founder of Lijit. Panelists included Todd Sawicki, CRO of Cheezburger Network; Andy Clurman, COO of Active Interest Media; Kurt Kohlstedt, Executive Editor of Webist Publishing & Misnamed Media; and Jeff Reine, GM of TypePad.
• Advertiser panel: moderated by Seth Levine, Managing Director, Foundry Group. Panelists included Rajeev Goel, CEO of PubMatic; Philip Smolin, VP and GM of TURN; and Jay Ferracane, Creative Director of Angry Bovine Advertising.

There were numerous insights from the forum that we’ll cover in upcoming blog posts. In the meantime, check out our cool b.media video with tons of interesting market stats. And here are some photos below. Enjoy!

Todd Vernon, CEO of Lijit; Seth Levine, Managing Director of Foundry Group; and Jeff Reine, GM of TypePad

Cali Harris, consumer panelist

Our fearless leader, Todd Vernon, moderating the publisher panel

Lijit's Todd Vernon and Walter Knapp walking to networking reception with Lijit Board members Mark Solon and Paul Berberian

Rajeev Goel, CEO of PubMatic, and Alex Vogenthaler, Product Manager at Google

Brad Feld, Managing Director of the Foundry Group

b.media networking reception

b.media networking reception