Tuesday, March 28 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track III. Search as Gateway to the Video and E-Commerce - The Integrated Consumer Experience of Choice, Quality and Global Integration With hundreds of millions of consumers addressing their need for daily information, entertainment and contact with the outside world via the global broadband highway, their gateway to information, their tools for navigation, will define much of that experience. More and more, the idea of search is being replaced by an definition that search is a tool to access or address all issues of information, choice and the boundaries of experience. The day of turning on your television and turning to a channel will soon be replaced by an intelligent navigation tool that will assist the consumer in reaching entertainment, information as well as commerce. Broadband will be a concept that defines all communications platforms, from TV and cable to computer, handheld and other mobile devices. In this session we will begin a discussion, that is likely to take place at every event we hold into the future of how the consumer with search or navigate through their desired universe of activity. Brian Lent, CEO, Medio Systems Perry Solomon, Senior Director, Media Business Development, FAST Search & Transfer Steven Marder, CEO, Eurekster Don Kosak, Chief Technology Officer, Lycos Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder, blinkx Ethan Fassett, Product Manager, Multimedia Search, Yahoo! Inc. Brian Glicklich, Vice President Interactive Services, Premiere Radio Networks, Moderator Brian Lent, CEO, Medio Systems: Brian co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previously the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a business analytics software company, Brian also held various senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com leading efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Prior to Amazon, Brian was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee (acquired by Amazon.com) pioneering new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, Brian held various research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics. At Stanford, Brian co-founded the MIDAS (Mining Data At Stanford) group in 1994, the lab that spawned the Google crawler and search engine. He has contributed to several professional publications and is a patent holder on the topic of Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Database Systems. Brian sits on a number of technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics. Brian holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nevada Reno, M.S. and Ph.D. Candidacy in Computer Science from Stanford University. Perry Solomon, Senior Director, Media Business Development, FAST Search & Transfer: Perry Solomon has over 10 years of experience in the media & entertainment, technology and Internet industries, helping companies develop and implement growth strategies. Most recently, Perry was a founder and Vice President of Strategy and Products at Peppercoin, a venture-backed electronic payments software company, where he led the development of Peppercoin’s business and technology strategy and product roadmap. Previously, Perry served as a director in the Content Bridge business unit at Inktomi Corporation and also served as product manager at Adero, Inc., a start-up content delivery network, where he built a globally-distributed e-commerce service for small and medium-sized digital merchants. Perry was also a Strategic Change consultant in the Entertainment, Media & Communications practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He began his career as an investment banker with Peregrine Capital in Hong Kong and with Salomon Brothers in New York, where he advised telecommunications/media companies on mergers and acquisitions and fundraising. Solomon received a bachelor's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Don Kosak, Chief Technology Officer, Lycos: Don Kosak is responsible for Lycos software engineering, integration, operation, and new product development. In 1995, as Director of Research and Development, Don was a co-founder of WiseWire, a collaborative community web site. After Lycos' acquisition of WiseWire in 1998, he ran Lycos' Search and Directories engineering teams. He led the integration of acquired technologies for sites including Tripod, Angelfire, Matchmaker, Quote.Com, Lycos Communities, and Gamesville. He also led the globalization of Lycos Search for Japan and Korea, and Tripod for Europe, Japan, and Korea. He spearheaded the launch of multiple innovative products for the company including HTMLGear.com, Tripod's subscription and Blogging services, Terra's Global Instant Messenger, and Lycos' Connections products. Don was appointed to the Chief Technology Officer position in 2005. Prior to joining Lycos, Don created information retrieval and expert system applications for Westinghouse, Alcoa, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Senate. He is a pioneer in information filtering and Internet communities, with several patents in the field. Additionally, he has served as a Director for the Berkshire Technology Council, and Director of Lycos Labs incubator. Steven E. Marder, CEO, Eurekster, Inc.: Steven is Chief Executive Officer and a co-Founder of Eurekster, Inc. With significant experience in both the traditional media and technology industries and as a serial entrepreneur, Steven has almost two decades of professional experience as a business development/ corporate development executive, venture catalyst, strategic advisor and attorney. In addition to executive experience with companies such as EMI Music, Compton’s NewMedia/Tribune Company and global venture catalyst Double Impact, Steven co-founded and is on the Board of enterprise search company S.L.I Systems, co-founded and managed the North American operations of Gramercy Venture Advisors, co-Founded indie recording company Metropolis Records and was Chairman/CEO/co-Founder of public company eMemberDirect, Inc./PetPlanet.com. Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder of blinkx, is an IT innovator with over seven years' frontline experience. He received his MA in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England specialising in distributed processing architectures. Following his university years, Suranga worked as a software developer for Morgan Stanley, creating global risk resolution systems as well as on next-generation voice recognition technologies at netdecisions, an IT consultancy group. While working at netdecisions, Suranga joined a small Cambridge-based technology start-up called anondesign, working in the area of commerce-focused content management and delivery. In true start-up fashion, he held numerous roles including presales, product development and software development. Another Cambridge-based technology firm - Autonomy Corporation - caught Suranga's attention and he joined the company where he became the operational CTO. After three successful years at Autonomy, Suranga went on to found blinkx. Blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer, is changing the way that people think about search technology. Free-to-download, blinkx automatically and intelligently links to relevant information anywhere and in any format: on the Web, in the news or on the desktop. Utilizing blinkx, users are no longer limited to Boolean keyword search. Instead, blinkx automatically and implicitly conducts searches based on the content being view by each individual user. blinkx is a privately-held firm based in San Francisco and London. Ethan Fassett, Product Manager, Multimedia Search, Yahoo! Inc.: Ethan Fassett, product manager, multimedia search, is responsible for leading the product strategy behind Yahoo!’s Audio Search, Video Search and Podcast products. With extensive industry experience in multimedia search applications, Ethan’s knowledge and expertise ensure that Yahoo!’s latest multimedia search offerings are a compelling combination of core functionality requirements and innovative new technologies. Prior to Yahoo!, Ethan served as product manager for multimedia search products at Overture Services following its acquisition of AltaVista. Before the acquisition, Ethan worked as product manager for AltaVista’s image, audio and video search engines as well as the BabelFish online translation service. Ethan holds a B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara in a combined major of digital art studio, sociology and computer science. He is an active painter and illustrator in digital and traditional art, and enjoys surfing in his free time. Brian Glicklich, 45, is Vice President Interactive for Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications (NYSE:CCU), which syndicates 70 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country and features the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Carson Daly, Glenn Beck, Bob (Kevoian) & Tom (Griswold), Delilah, Blair Garner, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Phil Hendrie, Matt Drudge, Art Bell, Donald Trump, Glenn Hollis, Big Tigger, and others.