Interactive One and Council of Urban Professionals Host Inaugural Digital Summit, a Conference Convening Digital Professionals Focused on or Impacted by the Multicultural Online Consumer

NEW YORK, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Interactive One, LLC, the digital connection for Black America and the digital division of Radio One, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROIAK and ROIA), the largest African American multimedia company, today announced that it has partnered with the Council of Urban Professionals ("CUP"), a nonprofit that advances the social, political and economic interests of minorities and women, to host the inaugural Digital Summit in New York City on July 21st.  Additionally, the National Association For Multi-Ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC) and the ADCOLOR Industry Coalition have joined as marketing partners to support the Digital Summit. The first comprehensive conference to convene a mix of digital thought leaders, venture capitalists and marketers, this not-to-be-missed inaugural event will engage key industry innovators in a provocative dialogue and debate regarding the evolving economic opportunities on the web and the importance of the multicultural online consumer.

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The Digital Summit will also feature a one-on-one interview with Beth Noveck, United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director, White House Open Government Initiative. Dr. Noveck will share her unique perspectives on the evolution of the digital media space.

"We are excited to partner with CUP, as well as with NAMIC and the ADCOLOR Industry Coalition, and to create a forum for engaging dialogue with industry leaders and marketers to better understand the economic opportunities and benefits of reaching these highly underserved audiences," said Maria Weaver Watson, VP Brand Marketing and Strategic Communications for Interactive One.

The Digital Summit will convene at the SVA Theatre at 2:30pm with the following featured speakers confirmed to participate:

• Sarah Baehr, Associate Partner, Rosetta;
• Torrance Boone, Managing Director of Agency Development, Google;
• Smokey D. Fontaine, Chief Content Officer, Interactive One;
• Matt Jacobson, Head of Market Development, Facebook;
• Heather James, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Advertising Research Foundation;
• Mark Lopez, COO, TERRA Networks USA;
• Don Moore, President, Burrell Digital;
• Steven Wolfe Pereira, SVP Managing Director MV Forty-Two Degrees  | MediaVest Multicultural;
• Ritu Trivedi, Managing Partner, Mindshare Interaction; and
• Omar Wasow, Co-Founder, BlackPlanet.com

"Given our increasingly connected and digitized world, both the Council of Urban Professionals and Interactive One saw a need for increased dialogue among key leaders in the digital community on the future of the online marketplace and how businesses can effectively engage multicultural audiences," said Chloe Drew, Executive Director of the Council of Urban Professionals. "The Digital Summit serves as a forum to bring together diverse voices in the community for the initial conversation, which we hope will spark many more to come."

Beth Noveck is an expert on technology and institutional innovation. On leave as a professor of law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University, Dr. Noveck currently leads the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative, where she continues her longtime advocacy for the utilization of internet technologies to increase government transparency and efficacy. She previously served as a volunteer advisor on innovation in government for Obama for America and as a member of the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform Policy group for the Obama-Biden Transition. Dr. Noveck is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006). She graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor and Master of Arts and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. After studying as a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow at Oxford University, she earned a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright grant.

For more information and to register for the Digital Summit go to http://www.nycup.org/news-events/digital-summit/

ABOUT THE COUNCIL OF URBAN PROFESSIONALS:

The Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization whose members are leading minority and women professionals in finance, law, business, real estate, media and entertainment. CUP's mission is to develop diverse business and civic leaders, empowering them to exert their influence, achieve their individual goals, and create collective impact. More information is available at www.nycup.org.

ABOUT INTERACTIVE ONE

Interactive One has over 15 million members and reaches over 7 million monthly Black Americans each month. With approximately 4 billion annual page views on its suite of sites, the Company has the definitive social network for Black America, BlackPlanet (www.BlackPlanet.com), as well as a number of leading content sites.  These sites include: NewsOne (www.NewsOne.com), which provides up to the minute, comprehensive coverage of newsworthy events relevant to African Americans across the country and the world through syndicated news, original news reports, local content and opinion blogs from some of the most provocative minds in Black America.; TheUrbanDaily (www.TheUrbanDaily.com), which serves as the eyes and ears for African-Americans looking for a one-stop, comprehensive destination for entertainment news, information, gossip and opinion and original celebrity interviews; HelloBeautiful (www.HelloBeautiful.com), which celebrates the lives and style of African American women with a dynamic daily mix of fashion, beauty, entertainment and relationship content; Elev8 (www.Elev8.com) which a personal empowerment website dedicated to uplifting and enriching the lives of African-Americans by offering services, tools, information and community; and GIANTlife (www.Giantlife.com) celebrity, style and culture for the affluent African American and 52 radio station websites.

Interactive One was launched by Radio One in 2008 to complement Radio One's existing portfolio of media companies targeting the African American community. Since its launch, Interactive One has quickly become the #1 online platform for the African American community.  Interactive One is powered by the mission to create an online community that engages and positively impacts the lives of African Americans.

ABOUT RADIO ONE

Radio One, Inc. (www.radio-one.com) is a diversified media company that primarily targets African American and urban consumers. The Company is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies, currently owning 53 broadcast stations located in 16 urban markets in the United States. As a part of its core broadcasting business, Radio One operates syndicated programming including the Russ Parr Morning Show, the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, CoCo Brother Live, CoCo Brother's "Spirit" program, Bishop T.D. Jakes' "Empowering Moments", the Reverend Al Sharpton Show, and the Warren Ballentine Show. The Company also owns a controlling interest in Reach Media, Inc. (www.blackamericaweb.com), owner of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and other businesses associated with Tom Joyner. Beyond its core radio broadcasting business, Radio One owns Interactive One (www.interactiveone.com), an online platform serving the African American community through social content, news, information, and entertainment, which operates a number of branded sites, including NewsOne, TheUrbanDaily, HelloBeautiful, and social networks BlackPlanet, MiGente, and AsianAvenue and an interest in TV One, LLC (www.tvoneonline.com), a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African-Americans.

SOURCE Interactive One

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