Richard Kastelein, a Dutch Canadian dual citizen, the publisher and co-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, The Netherlands, and London, England. He is also the Managing Director of Agora Media Innovation Ltd. in London and a Speaker around the topic of future Television. Kastelein has spoken at a number of conferences in the UK, France, USA, The 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's also is 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, Netherlands on futurism in technology and marketing - particularly around social media and Social tv - as well as guest lectured at MIT Media Labs 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.