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hannah , marah , ishya new westminster 200px 18 september 1967 wieke beenen activism , publishing , sailing and advocating technology richard_kastelein . jpg richard kastelein
 richard kastelein publisher , analyst , speaker , lecturer
richard kastelein

richard kastelein , a dutch canadian dual citizen , the publisher and founder of appmarket.tv , the first online portal , community , events and industry directory for the emerging industry around tv applications and widgets , social tv , multiplatform strategy , connected tv , and transmedia .
currently based in groningen , netherlands , and london , england .
he is also the managing director of agora media ltd. in london and a speaker around the topic of future television .
kastelein has spoken at a number of conferences in the uk , france , united states , australia , canada , estonia , france , germany , switzerland , curaçao , denmark , belgium , netherlands and brazil .
such as the uk 's 2nd annual digital convergence summit , apps world in london , the future of tv advertising and the brazilian international tv conference in rio de janeiro .
he was also the publisher , editor and founder of atlantic free press along with a number of other online progressive , activist websites .
kastelein has guest lectured at the hanze university groningen and the university of groningen on futurism in technology and marketing - particularly around social media and social tv - as well as guest lectured at mit media lab on social tv .
in 2010 he was deloitte netherlands tech visionary for his predictions and futurist views on new media and social tv .
and in 2011 , he won a computerworld honors laureate for innovation - his five-year atlantic free press project and free press group were honoured for visionary application of information technology to promote positive social , economic and educational change including category co-winners from nasa , duke university , lexisnexis , and george washington university .
kastelein was nominated for connectedworld.tv personality of the year in 2011 , vying against facebook founder mark zuckerberg , chief executive officer of softbank capital masayoshi son , digital living network alliance -lrb- dlna -rrb- 's chairman nidhish parikh , director of personal media industry collaboration for nokia and director of amazon instant video cameron janes and leo laporte , an american technology broadcaster , author , and entrepreneur .
