Monday, September 27 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: Transforming Television: From Reality TV, HDTV and Interactive TV, to PVR TV and VOD TV While the television industry – from content producer to content provider - continues to serve as a punching bag for the media critics - with such success stories as Reality TV - consumer support for the future of TV as a whole appears to be more than secure. The future of TV may well be typified by an increasingly personalized experience for the consumer, in both on-screen content as well as the delivery system and display. As on-demand and interactive television continues to emerge, the viewing experience will be nearly unrecognizable. Along with the home theater, as plasma HDTVs move into the home, the viewing experience will feel more like a screening room – better, or certainly more comfortable than most cinemas. Content will be controlled at will, coming from cable, satellite, telco, wireless and broadband sources. Programmers as well as advertisers will have a much more personalized relationship with the consumer. The future of television, we will continue to probe the question of how the new technologies in the home, from DTV, VOD, PRV to broadband and home networks will change the nature of TV – from content, technology developed for the home as well as consumer’s relationship to the new choices. Major change is now in process. What will the TV experience look like in two years, in five years. In this session we will try to find out. Salil Mehta, Executive Vice President, Corporate Business Development, The Walt Disney Company Patricia Karpas, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Television Bill Squadron, SVP & Head of North America Advanced Media, for TWI, div. of IMG Frederic V. Bien, SVP Advanced Media Technology, Turner Broadcasting System Larry Namer, President & CEO, Reality Central Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts, Starcom MediaVest Group Ken Rutkowski, founder, KenRadio Broadcasting, Moderator Patricia Karpas, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Television: As VP and General Manager of AOL Television, Patricia Karpas oversees the business strategy, programming and product development for AOL Television. She is responsible for partnerships with broadcast and cable networks, as well as production and studio partners, to develop unique and innovative programming for the AOL service in a multiband environment. In addition, she and her team strive to pioneer new ways of extending on-air television programming online to engage and entertain AOL members. Before joining AOL in 2001, Ms. Karpas spent 11 years with NBC. There she served as an executive in both the broadcast and cable divisions including CNBC, NBC and NBC Interactive. While at NBC.com, she lead the development of unique, interactive business strategies for NBC programs like Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Homicide, ER and The Olympics. Prior to joining NBC, Ms. Karpas spent six years with Time Warner Cable where she was responsible for marketing and television program guide strategies for Time Warner Cable Systems across the country. Ms. Karpas holds a BS from University of Colorado and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Denver. Salil Mehta, Executive Vice President, Corporate Business Development, The Walt Disney Company: Education - Obtained a master's degree in business administration from Wharton School and a bachelor of arts degree in international relations from Brown University. Joined The Walt Disney Company - August 1994. Current Walt Disney Company responsibilities - Salil leads Disney's Corporate Business Development activities, managing a team of creative, technical and financial professionals focused on technology and digital media, as well as on other sectors, such as travel and retail. The team is responsible for major strategic investments by Disney, as well as the creation of new business units within Disney. He is also the lead in developing Disney's strategy for distributing its content in the future "on-demand" world. In addition, Salil works closely with ESPN to help strengthen the global franchise of "the worldwide leader in sports." Current Buena Vista Datacasting responsibilities - Part of the original MovieBeam concept development team; Salil is the Disney executive responsible for all aspects of MovieBeam's operations and strategy. Previous positions at Disney - Prior to assuming his position in Corporate Business Development, Salil spearheaded strategic development of the company's Studio and Broadcasting businesses across the globe. He was an integral part of the teams that launched a number of international Disney Channels, ESPN International services, and other domestic cable services. Salil also helped develop the company's Asia strategy and played an important role in building Disney's relationship with the Chinese government. Previous jobs outside Disney - Prior to joining Disney, Salil worked at Boston Consulting Group in New York. Personal and professional achievements - Bringing MovieBeam to market. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study political economy at the Delhi School of Economics in Delhi, India. National Board Member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Favorite aspect of Buena Vista Datacasting - The "can-do" culture. Life outside of work - A huge pop culture junkie and avid hiker, Salil enjoys watching movies and spending time outdoors with his family. Favorite movies - Sixteen Candles, Life Is Beautiful, and the greatest movie of all time: The Godfather. Hometown - Miami, FL Larry Namer, President & CEO, Reality Central: Larry Namer is a noted cable television industry veteran with over 32 years of professional experience. Over the years, he has founded and developed several high-profile entertainment companies, including E! Entertainment Television Inc. (formerly Movietime Channel Inc.), Movies USA Magazine, and Comspan Communications. As President and CEO, Mr. Namer guided E! Entertainment Television as it expanded to include 11 international markets and a successful radio show, syndicated in over 110 markets. His interest in E! was eventually pursued and purchased by Home Box Office. Mr. Namer began his career in 1971 at Time Incorporated Manhattan Cable where he ultimately became Director of Corporate Development. After leaving Time Inc., he moved to Los Angeles and established Valley Cable Television (VCTV), the nation’s first 61-channel, two-way cable system. VCTV’s accolades included being recognized by Forbes Magazine as the national model for local cable television programming. In 1989, he founded Comspan Communications Inc. (CCI), one of Hollywood`s foremost strategic planning and consulting firms for the cable television and new media industries. For ten years, CCI has developed the business plans and models for many new niche and enhanced cable television networks. Comspan also established itself as one of the leading live events companies (sports, concerts, and fashion shows) in what was then the Soviet Union. Mr. Namer’s CCI was also the primary consultant to Microsoft`s innovative, interactive television project, MiTV. Frederic Bien is senior vice president of advanced media technology for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) since November 2003. Bien is charged with leading the digital transition strategy for the company's cable TV networks and the integration of new technologies such as digital video recorders, video-on-demand, broadband video, HDTV and advertising localization, and interactivity. In addition, he is a founding member and current chairman of the Time Warner Media Asset Management Committee, which develops strategy and architecture and fosters creative alliances across the Time Warner portfolio of networks and businesses. Previously, Bien was senior vice president of media technology for Turner Entertainment Networks. In this capacity, he oversaw long-range technology planning and technology capital budgeting for TBS Superstation, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, as well as the NASCAR.com and PGA.com businesses of Turner Sports, Inc. He is based in Atlanta. Bien joined Turner Broadcasting in January 2001, from the online movie store BigStar Entertainment, where he was vice president of communities and marketing technology and later chief technology officer. Previously, Bien founded the company which produces and markets one of the very first online dating and relationship web site: Flirt.com. Bien managed the technology and business development teams that forged partnerships with Elle.com and Roadrunner, among others. When Flirt.com was acquired by Playboy Enterprises Inc. in 1999, Bien joined that company as vice president of business development. From 1993 to 1997, Bien was CEO of Bien Logic Inc., an Internet software company he founded, and whose clients included Netscape, Oracle, Wal-Mart, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and the Smithsonian Institute. Bien Logic was the largest Web design agency in San Diego and Orange County, California when it was sold to SiteLab International in 1997. The software product line of Bien Logic - web traffic analyzers SurfReport and ProxyReport - was sold to Netrics, also in 1997. From 1986 to 1996, Bien was an assistant professor at Princeton University, then a tenured associate professor of mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. He has published a book: D-Modules and Spherical Representations, and 13 papers in international mathematical journals; has been honored with the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University; was named Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation; and was awarded two Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. Bien earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and education at the University of Brussels, Belgium and a doctorate in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tim Hanlon is Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group, a global media services network of Publicis Groupe, S.A. He is chiefly responsible for all US client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm’s ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting. Hanlon has over a decade of traditional and interactive agency media experience including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy & Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, KY, USA. He also served as Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, DE, USA. Hanlon also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America. Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon currently serves as Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Advanced Television Committee, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Consortium, and as a member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Advanced Media Committee. He is also an inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today’s Leadership in Interactive Television Award, and has been named as one of MEDIA Magazine’s "100 People to Know." Hanlon holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and an MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Bill Squadron is Senior Vice President and Head of North America Advanced Media, for TWI, the media arm of IMG. TWI provides interactive services for a wide array of clients including the United States Tennis Association, Tiger Woods, the United States Soccer Federation, the New England Patriots, Venus and Serena Williams, and many others. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Squadron was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Sportvision, Inc., a leading sports media technology company. Sportvision developed pioneering, patented technologies to provide sports fans with an enriched experience on the telecasts of sports events. Examples include the company’s Emmy-winning inventions of the 1st and Ten® yellow first down line and the "K Zone" baseball tracking and display system. In addition, Mr. Squadron negotiated Sportvision’s groundbreaking six-year agreement with NASCAR, where the company uses satellite technology to calculate the position and performance of each race car and generate fan-friendly features on television, the Internet, pay-per-view, and wireless platforms. In 2001, Ernst & Young named Mr. Squadron N.Y. City Entrepreneur of the Year in the media category. Prior to founding Sportvision, Mr. Squadron was Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, at News Corporation. In his four years at News Corp., Mr. Squadron was responsible for a variety of technology-related deals and partnerships and oversaw worldwide projects that encompassed News Corporation’s many operating companies. He crafted and negotiated the economic development package between News Corp. and the City of New York and spearheaded the company’s first global data base marketing initiative. Mr. Squadron represented News Corporation on the Board of TV Guide On Screen – a partnership between News Corp. and TCI – that extended the TV Guide brand into set-top based electronic program guides. From 1990-93, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Telecommunications and Energy, Mr. Squadron oversaw New York’s cable franchises. Construction throughout the five boroughs was completed during his tenure. He created the city’s five-channel cable network, which delivers local government C-Span, educational programming, and public interest information to all cable subscribers. The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) elected Mr. Squadron President in 1992, and he represented this organization of local government officials in Washington, D.C. during the deliberations leading to the 1992 Cable Act. Mr. Squadron also created and chaired the Mayor’s Task Force on Network Reliability, a consortium of all major voice and data carriers to address emergencies, which acted first during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. During the 1980’s, Mr. Squadron practiced law in the Washington office of the international firm of Morrison and Foerster, where he became a partner in 1987. Mr. Squadron’s practice specialized in telecommunications regulation and policy. He was involved in numerous proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and state public utility commissions, as well as in legislative activities at the Congressional and state levels. While in private practice, Mr. Squadron was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and authored numerous articles on legal, regulatory and policy issues in the telecommunications field. In 1980, Mr. Squadron served for six months as an aide on the White House Domestic Policy Staff under President Carter, and in 1977-78 was press secretary to Congressman James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y.). He has also worked as a journalist for New West magazine and News Limited of Australia’s London bureau. Mr. Squadron is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coro Foundation’s New York Leadership Center. He also is a Trustee of the New York Hall of Science, where he chairs the Board’s Marketing Committee, and serves on the Board of the Stanton/Heiskell Center for Public Policy in Telecommunications at the City University of New York. Mr. Squadron was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977, and from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law in 1981. He is a member of the California and District of Columbia bars. Ken Rutkowski, founder, KenRadio Broadcasting: As a media personality and industry figure, Ken has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, BBC, Wired, Business Week, The Red Herring, Internet World, Electronic Media, Online Journalism Review, Chicago Tribune, Chicago SunTimes, Boston Times, Asahi Shinbun, Bangkok Times, Finland Helsingin Sanomat, Yahoo Internet Life and dozens of other publications worldwide. He has been a featured presenter at over seventy industry conferences, including , CES, CTIA, NATPE, IBC, NAB, Digital Hollywood, Internet World, Streaming Media, COMDEX, N+I Interop, Radio Ink and MILIA. Ken has cultivated extensive relationships, ranging from the biggest tech companies (Microsoft, Sun, Nokia and IBM) to the motion picture studios. He has particular networking reach into the local software development and media companies, IT outsourcers and consultants. Ken stays in touch with a huge number of people via his daily newsletter (KenRadio's Daily Tech News Clicks - read by an audience of over 42,000 daily); a daily radio show ("World Tech Round Up" - commanding over 175,000 daily listeners) produced in LA and occasionally on location at big trade shows and other events, covering technology and entertainment topics; and most importantly, regular events to connect individuals and companies with key relationships they need in the entertainment and technology worlds.