12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Track IV:
IPTV Emergence – The Broadband, Telco, Cable, Studio Content & Technology Strategy
IPTV is another technology which both enhances the current technology and programming services for the industry and consumer, while at the same time, it brings about a basic shift in the understanding of what the broadband delivery and content experience will be for the consumer. As the consumer receives an ever greater array of content services in the home, being offered by cable, telco, satellite and IP provider, the invisible technology infrastructure behind that service is often migrating to an IP based technology. The result is a greater flexibility of services provided and an ever greater expectation by the consumer of better service and programming innovation. Ultimately this leads to the expectation by the consumer of a having all content, traditional cable, broadband and mobile on all devices at all times. That is both the promise and the challenge of IPTV.
Tom Flanagan, Executive Director, Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
Dan York, Executive Vice President, Programming,AT&T Project Lightspeed
Todd Waters, Director, Business Development, IP Subscriber Networks, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Daren Gill, VP, Business Development, ChoiceStream
Mark Turner, Head of the Western region, BT Media & Broadcast
Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Senior Director Marketing and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum, Moderator
Tom Flanagan, Director, Broadband Strategy, Broadband Communicatio
ns Group, Texas Instruments: Tom Flanagan is Director, Broadband Strategy for Texas Instruments’ Broadband Communications Group. TI’s broadband communications business includes cable modems, digital subscriber line (DSL) modems, integrated access devices (IADs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateways, carrier infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking. Prior to this, Mr. Flanagan was Director, Business Development for Telogy Networks and Vice President Sales and Marketing for ADC Skyline. Mr. Flanagan also held various marketing, sales and business development positions during a 12 year career with Dynatech Communications. He holds a B.S. degree from James Madison University.Dan York, Executive Vice President, Programming,AT&T Project Lights
peed: Dan York, Executive Vice President, Programming, leads video content strategy and acquisition for AT&T Project Lightspeed. Project Lightspeed is the initiative to expand the fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver AT&T U-verseSM TV, voice and high-speed Internet access services. AT&T companies expect to reach approximately 18 million households by the end of 2008 as part of initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node and fiber-to-the-premises technologies. York was recently senior vice president of programming and development at iN Demand Networks for several years. He oversaw all programming, content acquisition, program planning, scheduling and distribution to other platforms. This included over seventy linear channels of high def, pay-per-view, out-of-market professional and college sports packages, and more VOD content than any other entity. He was the first to program titles in high definition VOD, and has overseen many of the biggest events in TV history. Previously, York spent more than 12 years at HBO, including as VP/GM of Time Warner Sports/HBOPPV. There he was responsible for distribution, marketing, programming operations, content acquisition and sponsorship. He started his career at HBO in marketing. York holds a master’s degree in telecommunications from Michigan State University.Mark Turner, Head of the Western region for BT Media & Broadcast: Mar
k Turner, head of the Western region for BT Media & Broadcast, has over 10 years experience in specifying, selling and implementing broadcast solutions for blue chip international broadcasters, studios and corporates. Mark specializes in delivery of video media to all types of devices and through traditional and ‘new media’ paths – cable, broadcast or satellite TV, streaming, corporate IP networks and to mobiles and portable devices. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Mark’s responsibilities include product development recommendations, sales lead generation, quotations and RFP responses, contract negotiations and day to day account management of operating services. During his time at BT Media & Broadcast, Mark has overseen the expansion of BT’s Los Angeles Media Center from 22 to 50 full time TV channels and 3 new Occasional Use TV routes. Mark works daily with content owners facing challenges in delivering their media across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Mark works closely with clients such as E! Entertainment, Fox Sports, Sony Pictures Television, Cisco Systems, Warner Bros, Disney Group, Paramount, DirecTV, Hallmark. Mark holds a BA in Management Studies from the University of Leeds and is a member of the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences (Interactive TV Chapter), Society of Satellite Professionals International and sits on the board of the Interactive TV Alliance.Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ)
Video/Broadcast Portal: Frank Nein is a senior corporate, telecommunications industry analyst and technology consultant within the Verizon Video Portal & Broadcast Network HQ in Newark NJ specializing in the delivery and support of broadband interactive video communications, content, initiatives and the placement of future IPTV type emerging information technologies like FTTP & FiOS into multiple learning environments via a $150 million dollar project budget. Frank is consulting on many IPTV, FTTP & FiOS related type projects with new vendors like Synergy Sports Technology (Mark Cuban connected), SST is an IPTV TiVo-like broadcasting, VOD & streaming media service presently active and exclusive to the NBA & teams on a 24/7 VPN basis. OrionsWave LLC, for next generation interactive/digital media gateways, transcoding, middleware and (CDN) content delivery network solutions over IPTV style infrastructures allowing all set-top boxes the ability to seamlessly merge conventional H.323 and H.264/MPEG-4 with all other AV media codec’s for cross platform video broadcast conferencing utilizing existing and new solutions like the Adobe/Macromedia Breeze product over multiple devices and portable wireless devices such as mobiles, PDA’s and SmartPhones, etc. Frank was originally hired by Bell Atlantic 10 years ago as an executive director for corporate online communications & technology. He was involved with the original creative media services & digital interactive TV/video services group and chief advisory analyst/consultant on the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Internet team and corporate merger steering committee. Frank was also responsible for the complete delivery of Ivan Seidenberg’s first live corporate wide webcast and address as new CEO via the internal BA broadcasting network. Prior to BA/VZ, Frank was a lead R&D consultant & analyst for CNNfn.com NY corporate worldwide information technology & services division working with Nils Lahr the chief architect, developer/webmaster for IT/IS & interactive multimedia division as a liaison to the development and implementation of the first live/VOD & real-time online financial streaming media solution and web portal broadcasting network for the project and business strategy. To Frank’s professional and industry credit; over the past 15 years he has respectively worked closely within the broadcasting, cable, video, satellite, streaming media, telecommunications, media & entertainment, and related industry’s on various corporate business levels and projects with such chief company’s as Broadcast.com, Lucent Technologies, Yahoo Music/Ent, iBEAM Broadcasting, (James Cameron’s) Lightstorm Ent, (Schwarzenegger’s) Oak Productions, New Line Cinema, Fox News, ESPN 1&2, Comcast, Bloomberg TV, Planet Hollywood, Clear Channel Ent, Metropolitan Hybrid Ent. etc. just to name a brief few. Frank is prior US Military and served with the "First Ever" US Navy combined Marine/Navy (FA-18) VFA-125 Fighter Jet Squadron in CA. He holds a BS in Engineering & Technology from the National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies at Alexandria Virginia.Daren Gill, Vice President, Business Development, Entertainment, Choic
eStream, Inc.: Daren Gill serves as vice president of business development, entertainment products group, for ChoiceStream, Inc., the leading provider of personalization solutions for online services, mobile devices and TV. ChoiceStream is currently powering applications which help consumers to find great content on AOL, Yahoo, Blockbuster Online, Starz! VONGO and eMusic. In this role, Gill focuses on sales and business development efforts in the entertainment industry’s significant and growing market for music, movies, games and TV personalization. Prior to this appointment, Gill served as ChoiceStream’s vice president of music development. Recruited for his music industry and management expertise, Gill led the extension of ChoiceStream’s personalization technology into the music domain, managing development of ChoiceStream’s music personalization product from concept to commercial product launch. Gill’s work prior to ChoiceStream includes serving as senior vice president of marketing for MusicMaker.com (NASDAQ: HITS), a leading Internet music service, where he managed the worldwide marketing efforts and direct response marketing strategies for album releases by high-profile artists such as Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes and The Who. Before MusicMaker, Gill was senior vice president and COO for Putumayo World Music, and he was a co-founder of the Hear Music record label (now owned by Starbucks). Gill holds a J.D. with Honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Connecticut.Derek Kuhn P.Eng., Sr. Director Marketing and Business Development
Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum: Derek Kuhn is Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel’s Information, Communication and Entertainment Group and is based at Alcatel’s Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As a business and marketing lead, Mr. Kuhn is the primary liaison with Alcatel’s network and content partners that contribute to both technology and business models which will support end-to-end broadband entertainment services. Mr. Kuhn is also the Chairman of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum, an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband and works with the service provider and content community to deliver content-rich consumer and business services. Prior to Alcatel’s acquisition of Newbridge Networks in May 2000, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Product Manager, ATM Access Products in 1999, and Product Manager, Narrowband Packet in1998. Mr. Kuhn joined Newbridge Networks when they acquired Castleton Network Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia where he was a Systems Engineering Manager. Mr. Kuhn began his career as a consulting engineer with Totten Sims & Hubicki from 1988 to 1996. Mr. Kuhn holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.Todd Waters, Director, Business Development, IP Subscriber Networ
ks, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company: Todd Waters currently serves as Director, Business Development for Scientific-Atlanta’s Subscriber business. He is primarily focused on IP set-tops for the mid-tier market in North America. Previously, Waters served in various business development, marketing and product management roles at Scientific-Atlanta focused on domestic and international cable solutions. Prior to joining Scientific-Atlanta in 1997, Waters worked for Tektronix and the U.S. Air Force. Waters holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in business from the California State University.