Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here CES 2007, Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall Digital Hollywood at CES The Agenda - Day Two Tuesday, January 9th 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Session B – DH10 Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV We are entering the age of all video all the time. Video is no longer a manifestation of TV, video is a web experience, a mobile experience, as well as an IPTV, Cable and Satellite experience. Video is taped on a hard drive, a PVR, DVR, on an iPOD and on a cell phone. Video is how consumers relate to the world. The conversion to the all-video culture has been so quiet and so quick, the implications of what an all-video culture may mean is only first becoming part of the national business and intellectual conversation. The technology and communication companies that have developed and provide the new video services may well have the greatest insight as to what these new technologies and cultural advances mean. In this session, we are delighted to bring that group of experts to a public forum Jan Hofmeyr, EVP of Business Development, Entriq Jeffrey G. Weber, Vice President, Product and Strategy for U-verse, AT&T Frank Nein, Senior Vice President of Strategic & Business Development, OrionsWave, LLC Mike Gordon, Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Dan Monahan, Manager, UMPC Infotainment Programs, Intel Mike Afergan, Chief Technology Officer, Akamai Yoram Solomon, President and Chairman of the Mobile Digital TV Alliance Derek Kuhn, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, Strategic Solutions, Alcatel, Moderator Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October 2005. He is a veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, having joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping. In these leadership roles, he was instrumental in helping to drive innovation based on customer requirements—working on a variety of Akamai's products and directly with many of Akamai's largest customers. Mr. Afergan returned to graduate school in September 2003, and came back to Akamai full time after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on networking and distributed systems. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Afergan ran a software consulting company for over ten years, working for a variety of companies ranging from Bose and Fidelity to start-ups. He authored several trade magazine articles and books including Java Quick Reference (Macmillan), which has been translated into six languages. He has also designed and led several technology training courses internationally. Mr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in the areas of networking and distributed systems. This includes the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking and content distribution protocols, and wireless protocols and architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications on these topics and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard University. His work has won him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and academic forums. Mr. Afergan graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science and a focus on Economics. He holds a S.M. from Harvard University and a PhD from MIT, both in Computer Science. He is also a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program from the Sloan School at MIT. Michael Gordon, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks: Michael Gordon is a 20-year industry veteran whose career spans a wide range of executive and leadership positions in technology, software, networking and telecommunications. As Chief Strategy Officer, Gordon was instrumental in creating Limelight’s digital media delivery strategy, as well as a digital media focused service deployment that has resulted in over nine successive quarters of profitability as a private company. Prior to Limelight, he co-found and led Axient Communications which built and deployed a nationwide next-generation Internet network for high volume Internet users. Before Axient, Gordon co-founded Cyclone Commerce, a leading enterprise software company that provides cross-enterprise connection and collaboration solutions. He also co-founded Gateway Data Sciences Corporation, a software and services company that went public in 1996. Gordon has also held sales and management positions at IBM and National City Bank. Derek Kuhn is the Sr. Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel’s Strategic Solutions Development Group and is based in Canada at Alcatel’s Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As a business and marketing lead, Mr. Kuhn is Alcatel’s primary liaison with the content community including film, television and gaming. Mr. Kuhn is also a past Chairman of the Broadband Services Forum (BSF), 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 helping found the BSF, Mr. Kuhn served as Chairman of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF), which under his stewardship merged with another prominent industry association, the Service Creation Community (SCC), to form the BSF in January 2005. Mr. Kuhn has held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and Product Management for both wireless and wireline multimedia delivery solutions at Alcatel. 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. Yoram Solomon, President and Chairman of the Mobile Digital TV Alliance and Strategic Marketing and Industry Relations, Mobile Connectivity Solutions, Texas Instruments: As Director, Strategic Marketing and Industry Relations, Mobile Connectivity Solutions, Yoram Solomon is responsible for driving strategic marketing efforts, planning product roadmap development and defining product requirements of next-generation mobile connectivity technology solutions for Texas Instruments, as well as drive industry and standard development organization participation. A well known industry evangelist, Yoram is on the boards of the WiMedia and Wi-Fi Alliances, is active in the new UWB activity in the Bluetooth SIG, and is a key contributor to the Wireless USB Promoters Group. Among his other recent industry activities, he was the Chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11g Marketing Task Group, the coexistence task group, and many others. Yoram Solomon has been with TI since 2002, where he has held a variety of roles including managing strategic business development and industry relations, General Manager for the Consumer Electronics Connectivity Business Unit and Director of Business Development and Strategy Planning for TI’s Wireless Networking Business Unit. Prior to joining TI, he was vice president and general manager of PCTEL’s Advanced Communication Business Unit, as well as a manager and founder of other technology companies. Yoram Solomon received a MBA from the University of Colorado, a law degree from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, an electronics and computers engineering degree from Ort Singalowsky College, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Yoram also participated in the executive marketing management program at Stanford University. Frank Nein, OrionsWave, LLC. Senior Vice President of Strategic & Business Development. Next generation interactive video & digital media gateway solutions, transcoding, middleware, P2P & (CDN) content delivery networks over IPTV infrastructures allowing all/any set-top boxes the ability to seamlessly merge conventional H.323 & H.264/MPEG-4 with all other AV media codec's for cross platform video broadcasting & video conferencing utilizing existing Windows Media & other solutions like the Adobe/Macromedia Flash/Breeze products over multiple web based & portable wireless devices such as mobile/cell, PDA's & SmartPhones, etc... Former Senior Industry & Technology, Telecommunications Consultant/Analyst with Verizon LOB (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal & Network, specializing in the delivery & support of broadband interactive video communications, international content, streaming media initiatives & the placement of future IPTV type emerging application technologies delivered into multiple educational institutions & environments over a multi/cross platform infrastructure with a $150 million dollar project/budget. He was originally hired by Bell Atlantic as a consultant/analyst via executive director of corporate online communications during his 10 years of multiple LOB's & levels of support. He is actively involved in many other Hollywood entertainment, IPTV & digital media related projects & professional sports solutions like SynergySports Technology (Mark Cuban connected) an IPTV TiVo-like broadcasting, VOD & streaming media service presently active & exclusive to the NBA & teams on a 24/7 VPN basis. He was a lead R&D consultant/analyst for CNNfn.com NY Corp Worldwide IT & services LOB working with Nils Lahr, chief architect, developer & webmaster for IT/IS & interactive multimedia as liaison to the development & implementation of the first live/VOD online financial streaming media solutions, web portal & broadcasting network for the project & business strategy. To his professional & industry credit; over the past 15 years he has respectively worked closely within the web, broadcasting, cable, AV, satellite, streaming media, telecommunications, media & entertainment, & related industry's on various corporate business levels & projects with such 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. Frank is a US Military Veteran (6 yrs) & served with the "First Ever" US Navy combined Marine/Navy (FA-18) VFA-125 Fighter Jet Squadron in CA. He holds a BS equivalent from the National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies at Alexandria Virginia.