Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 Wednesday, October 25 10:45 AM - Noon Track IV: The Networked Entertainment Home - the PVR/DVR – the Set-Top & PC Entertainment Server The home entertainment server is about one basic idea - to deliver more and varied media-rich content to the consumer - giving consumers what they want, when they want it. But the battle for this consumer sector is about to assert itself as a competition of technologies, more complicated than the older battle of the home PC vs. the TV. This is a world containing the set-top box, the PVR, the PC and a host of other devices. The next generation of DTV/Set-Top/PC home entertainment server will come into the battle delivering Internet, music, games, movies, plus innovative two-way communications and telephony services that the old set-top provider was only beginning to deliver. This battle for the home will be a tremendous winner for both the consumer as well as for the content industry. It presents the simple proposition that offering the consumer more and richer services in a competitive environment is the perfect formula for success. Frank Sandoval, Senior Software Architect, Advanced Platforms & Services, CableLabs Nick Chakalos, Senior Director, Software Product Management, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola, Inc. Rick DeGabrielle, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arroyo Scott Vouri, General Manager, Multimedia Business Unit, NVIDIA Corporation John Gildred, Vice President of Engineering, Pioneer Bill Sheppard, Senior Business Develoment Manager, Sun Microsystems Stephen Mannel, Offerings Executive, Cable and Broadband Solutions, IBM Corporation Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Stephen Mannel, Offerings Executive, Cable and Broadband Solutions, IBM Corporation: Stephen Mannel is responsible for creating the IBM “Point of View” for the distribution segment of the cable business. This work helps determine the trends and the accompanying needs of the operators over the next two to three years. IBM will invest their time, energy and resources on the areas of greatest impact for our clients based on that analysis and the relationships with our clients. Mannel also manages the business development and executive relationships between IBM and its two largest cable accounts, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Prior to joining IBM, he held a variety of senior business development and account manager positions at Netscape Communications (a division of America Online), Sun Microsystems, and Platinum Technology. He has 10 years of business development and sales experience in the network service provider industry. Mannel’s focus has been in the areas of creating new value added services with an emphasis on communications and collaboration solutions for residential and commercial markets, digital media distribution, e-commerce, and portal and personalization technologies. Mannel earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Mannel represents IBM for various industry analysts and media publications on the topics related to the cable industry. Bill Sheppard is Senior Business Development for Digital Television at Sun Microsystems. Upon joining Sun in 1997 he launched Sun's digital television initiative and has led efforts to craft global standards for next-generation television technology. The transition to digital television promises to transform consumers' relationship with broadcast and packaged media through the enhancement of existing programming with interactivity and by enabling compelling new applications and services to be delivered through the television set. Mr. Sheppard works with cable and satellite operators, broadcasters, studios and other content providers, device manufacturers, governments, and standards bodies worldwide to drive the architecture, development, and adoption of standards-based digital TV technology. Mr. Sheppard represents Sun Microsystems at DVB, ATSC, the Blu-ray Disc Association, and is on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Television Alliance. Prior to joining Sun in 1997, Mr. Sheppard worked at IBM followed by eight years as regional sales manager with a leading embedded operating system vendor. Mr. Sheppard, an avid trombonist, holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. John Gildred is currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Pioneer. For the past 5 years John has lead Pioneer's US division for product development and advanced research, encompassing Blu-ray product development, plasma TV product development, US digital TV standards, home AV networking standards, and the establishment of a common software framework for Pioneer. During his time at Pioneer, John has served as the Chairman of the DENi Steering Committee, Vice Chair of the UPnP Forum Steering Committee, Chairman of the CEA R7.6 home network subcommitte, editor of the PERM digital rights management standard and Pioneer representative to DLNA, Coral Consortium, CE Linux Forum, UHAPI, IEEE 802 and the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to his work at Pioneer, John has held senior executive positions for various early stage ventures in consumer home entertainment, Internet communications and digital rights management, and he has also served as technology consultant to various Fortune 500 compsanies. Pioneer is respected for its role in such innovations as interactive cable TV, the Laser Disc player, developing the first Compact Disc player for the car and the first detachable face car stereo, DVD and DVD recording, plasma display, and organic electroluminescent display. The Company's strength in optical disc and display technology is complemented by its state-of-the-art software products and manufacturing capabilities. Nick Chakalos, Senior Director, Software Product Management, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola, Inc.: Nick Chakalos is Senior Director of Software Product Management, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. In this role, he directs software strategy and product management for the Digital Video Solutions business. His key focus areas include OCAP, Whole-Home media distribution, advanced Seamless Mobility services, and the application development partner program. Mr. Chakalos brings more than fifteen years of product management and business development experience in technology, Internet, and consumer electronics. Prior to assuming his current position, Chakalos managed the worldwide strategic marketing and business development of silicon and embedded software for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes at IBM. Before joining IBM, he served as product manager of embedded Internet solutions for cable, wireless, office equipment and telecommunications market segments at Spyglass. Previously, Chakalos directed product management activities for a line of interactive services and devices at Philips Electronics. He began his career at Texas Instruments, where he held business management and development, strategy, and design engineering roles. Chakalos earned undergraduate degrees in Engineering from Dartmouth College and a Master's of Business Administration degree from Babson College. His past speaking engagements include Digital Hollywood, Kagan, NAMIC, and EXH. Rick DeGabrielle, President & CEO, Arroyo: Rick DeGabrielle brings to Arroyo more than 25 years of experience in broadband voice, data, and video networking, and four successful start up companies. Prior to joining Arroyo, he served as the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Catena Networks, where he led worldwide sales and business development activities and took the company from pre-revenue stage to $100 million a year. Rick also played a vital role in the sale of Catena to Ciena Corporation for $500 million. Prior to Catena, Rick held executive positions at Network Equipment Technologies, AccessLAN, and Cascade Communications. Rick is on the board of directors of Aktino, a provider of broadband infrastructure solutions for carriers. He holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing and an MBA in Finance from California State University Long Beach. Scott Vouri is a General Manager at NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. Leading PC and handset manufacturers incorporate NVIDIA technology into their products, including Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Electronics, Sony Ericsson, and Toshiba. Scott manages the team responsible for creating PureVideo HD, which delivers the ultimate HD movie experience on a PC. Vouri has been in the PC video and graphics industry for over 20 years, in leadership roles at such companies as Diamond Multimedia, Binar Graphics, Sigma Designs and Award Software. Scott also served as Chairman of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) for many years, and he is the inventor of three video-related patents. Richard Doherty is a co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group; a two-decade old Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains a guest columnist. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high performance tooling and consumer electronics industry sectors along with dozens of international patents. During Doherty's 32 year career he has been Director of the Urban Vehicle Design Group at Pratt Institute, an engineer for Data General Corp., Chief Engineer of Lourdes Industries, Inc., founder and President of Optronic Labs and since 1983, co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group. There, he directs laboratory testing of technologies, products and services, oversees publication of the Envisioneering Newsletter, market research reports and provides senior executive counsel on market development and intellectual property protection, portfolio management and licensing opportunities. Doherty's prime focus is on researching and articulating the impact of advanced digital technologies, services, products, industry initiatives and standards efforts on consumers, industry and society. Doherty is a 31 year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is active with its Biomedical Engineering, Solid State Circuits Society , Consumer Electronics Society, Broadcast Engineering, Magnetic Technology Society, Technology & Social Policy and other I.E.E.E. societies. This is his eleventh year as a planning director for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Doherty is also a member of the Society for Information Display, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and many other technology & professional business industry associations. In addition, Doherty has been a co-chair of, and presently sits on several cross industry standards associations and technical working groups, spanning consumer digital electronics, communications, digital media and computing architecture definition groups. He is called upon by the industry to organize and chair panels at trade conferences and technical symposia more than a dozen times each year. Amongst his many industry awards, Doherty has been cited by the International Television Association for his many years of technology coverage of digital video design and engineering trends, and is the writer most cited by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for detailed features on the evolution of America's Digital TV system. Doherty also assisted Dr. Richard Feynman, NASA and Congressional researchers in the Shuttle Challenger accident investigation at the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and many NASA contractor sites. In 2003, Doherty was nominated to and accepted a multi-year position on the Presidential Medal of Technology Award Selection Committee, reporting to the White House and Department of Commerce. Acting as an independent resource on the impact of digital and internet technologies on the consumer, society and business, Doherty is quoted frequently for his opinions on new technologies by CNN, CNBC, Fox News and by numerous American and international industry trade and daily business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Doherty is married and resides in Seaford, NY with his wife and two daughters.