Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley ? Joss Whedon, Stan Rogow, Les Morgenstein and Chris Henchy at TechCrunch50

TechCrunch50 is all about the startups, but we manage to squeeze in a few high powered panels too. And this one is going to be a ton of fun.

Today, we are pleased to announce that we will be featuring a panel at TechCrunch50 entitled ?Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley.? Brought to you in partnership with Creative Artists Agency, the panel will showcase the efforts of a posse of entertainment luminaries who are creating content exclusively for the Web, and embracing new technologies in all aspects of their production, marketing and distribution of commercial entertainment properties.

The panel will include Chris Henchy, writer, producer, and co-founder of Funny or Die and co-executive producer of ?Entourage?; Leslie Morgenstein president of Alloy Entertainment (?Gossip Girl?); Stan Rogow, executive producer and director of online series Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson; Joss Whedon creator of ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer? and ?Dr. Horrible?s Sing-Along Blog?; and Michael Yanover, head of Business Development, Creative Artists Agency.

As we move closer to the conference, we are encouraging everyone to book their hotel reservations (many hotels are already sold out) and register for the conference before we sell out. For companies seeking to launch and showcase products at TechCrunch50, please take a look at our Exhibitor Packages. If you have questions about sponsorships, please reach out to Heather Harde or Dan Kimerling. All media inquiries should be sent to Sarah Ross.

Bios on our ?Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley? panelists are below

Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's top talents, scripting several hit films and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer.? Born June 23, 1964, in New York, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as ?The Donna Reed Show,? ?Leave It to Beaver? and ?The Golden Girls.?

After receiving a degree in film studies from Wesleyan University, Whedon landed his first writing job on the staff of the top-rated series ?Roseanne.? He later pulled double-duty, co-producing and writing, on the series ?Parenthood.?

After creating ?Buffy? as a feature film script, Whedon brought it to television in 1996, where it became a cult phenomenon. In 2000, Whedon garnered his first Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his groundbreaking episode entitled "Hush." In 2002, he wrote, composed and directed a Broadway-style musical episode entitled ?Once More, With Feeling? which received worldwide recognition and spawned an ?Original Cast Recording? soundtrack, which sold more than 400,000 CDs worldwide. In a New York Times Magazine profile, ?Buffy? was called ?one of the most intelligent and most underestimated shows on television.? The show won several awards including, Emmys, Saturns, SFXs and a Hugo in its seventh and final season.

In 1998, Whedon developed and produced ?Angel? through 20th Century Fox Television and his production company, Mutant Enemy. The ?Buffy? spin-off gained a loyal following of its own and ran for five seasons. In 2002, he followed up with the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama ?Firefly.? In addition to serving as creator and executive producer on "Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and ?Firefly,? Whedon also wrote and directed multiple episodes of each series.