10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Session B - DH6:
The Telco Advantage and the IPTV Digital Home: Gateway to Services - VOIP, Wireless Music, Broadband and Set-top
This is the year that the Telcos make their entry into the Digital Home, providing the full array of services, starting with the basic telecommunications packages, moving along into VoIP, Wireless, Broadband and finally into the full set-up video assortment of otherwise broadcast and cable based entertainment, news, movie and sports offerings. Telco as a full communications, entertainment and video provider, it was a service that was waiting to happen. After the false start of the mid-90s, it was only a ten-year wait for the real McCoy to emerge – and this time it’s for real. In this session, we will explore what the process of the rollout will look like, try to understand what the technologies of IPTV look like and try to understand what the Telco-IPTV timeline with the consumer will look like. A whole new world of content and technology will soon be available to the consumer and in this session we get a view of that future.
Jeffrey G. Weber, Vice President, Product & Strategy, AT&T Operations, Inc.
Ed Graczyk, Director, Marketing and Communications, Microsoft TV Division, Microsoft Corporation
Shahid Khan, Managing Director, BearingPoint, Inc.
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Senior Director Marketing and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum
Matthew Marnik, Director of Marketing & Business Development, Broadband Networks Group, Nortel
J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media Worldwide, IBM
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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.Ed Graczyk is director of marketing and communications for the Mi
crosoft TV Division at Microsoft Corporation. In this capacity, Graczyk is establishing Microsoft as the leading provider of software that enables network operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and TV content providers to create and deliver enhanced TV services worldwide. Graczyk is responsible for communications, public relations, branding, positioning, advertising, partner co-marketing and events worldwide for the Microsoft TV family of software products. He assumed his current role with the Microsoft TV group in October 1999. Since 1991, Graczyk has held a number of marketing and sales management positions at Microsoft, both at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters and the New York City field office. His past responsibilities include: marketing lead for the award-winning MSN™ MoneyCentral personal finance service; marketing lead for MSN Communications Services, where he launched MSN Messenger Service and MSN Web Communities; public relations lead for the Web Essentials and MSN divisions; entertainment marketing manager for MSN; and corporate account sales management. Prior to joining Microsoft, Graczyk spent six years with UNISYS Corporation. He served in various sales and product management positions, with a focus on customers in the banking, securities and insurance industries. Graczyk frequently speaks at digital TV industry events, including Broadcast Asia, CTAM Research Conference, Digital Hollywood, DigiTrends Camp Interactive, Kagan Interactive TV Summit, IFA Berlin and the PBS Technology Conference. In 1994, Graczyk received the Corporate Account Executive of the Year Award at Microsoft. Graczyk is also a member of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing. Graczyk has a bachelor’s degree in science from the Boston College School of Management, where he holds a triple major in marketing, computer science and economics.Jeffrey G. Weber, Vice President, Product & Strategy is responsible for
the new data and video product lines under Project Lightspeed, an initiative to deploy fiber-to-the-neighborhood and fiber-to-the-premises technologies to 18 million households across 13 states by the middle of 2008. His responsibility includes defining and bringing to market the Internet access product line, the actual video and programming made available to customers, the electronic program guide (EPG), video on demand (VOD), gaming and other interactive applications. He is also responsible for product development and strategy for the above areas. Mr. Weber joined SBC in 1986 and has held a number of jobs, including stops in IT, sales, strategy, network operations and marketing, while working on local, long distance, data, wireless, and entertainment. Mr. Weber is a native of Norman, Oklahoma. He received a MIS degree from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management. Mr. Weber and his wife, Lesa, have two children, Allie and Parker.Matthew Marnik is a Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Broadband Networks group at Nortel. He also brings a wealth of broadband experience to the Broadband Services Forum, for which he serves on the Board of Directors. With Nortel, he launched the industry's first Optical Ethernet solution, introduced Nortel's Ethernet switching portfolio to the service provider market, and developed the enterprise market for broadband IP services. Prior to his work at Nortel Networks, Matthew was a management consultant with Price Waterhouse. Matthew is a graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the College of the Holy Cross.
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.