Monday, September 27 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Track IV: Digital Cinema Transforms an Industry - From Production and Distribution to Projection and Display The film industry is slowly transforming into a 100% digital experience, from the high end super-animated all-digital and special effects extravaganza to new evolving 3D digital experiences and the low budget digital feature production. Creative teams are being empowered. On the production front, from the creation of private digital broadband network to the transfer of digital dailies and then finally to the ultimate destination of immediate digital distribution or CD distribution of features and their projection in movie theatres the industry is in total flux. In this session, we bring together players who can offer an overview of how digital cinema is changing the industry, speaking to the timeline of development and implementation. The day of end-to-end digital is very near. Michael Sterling, Principal-Technical Coordination, Technicolor Digital Cinema (TDC) Kurt Hall, President and Chief Executive Officer, Regal CineMedia Corporation Julian Levin, Executive Vice President, Digital Exhibition and non-Theatrical Sales, Fox Entertainment Walt Ordway, Chief Technology Officer, DCI Michael Karagosian, Partner, Karagosian MacCalla Partners, Digital Cinema Consultant, NATO Charles S. Swartz, Executive Director & CEO, USC Entertainment Technology Center Steve Bergman, Vice President, Digital Cinema, Deluxe, Moderator Michael Sterling, Principal-Technical Coordination, Technicolor Digital Cinema (TDC): Michael Sterling is Principal, Technical Coordination for Technicolor Digital Cinema. Technicolor Digital Cinema develops and provides end-to-end distribution technology and support services for the delivery of digital cinema to theatres worldwide. In his position, Sterling is responsible for marketing, communicating and demonstrating the benefits of digital technology to studio customers. He also provides technical customer service on a global basis, along with setting and monitoring quality standards for the entire studio-to-theatre digital cinema delivery process. Sterling joined Technicolor Digital Cinema from Technicolor, where he has served in several senior-level quality assurance, engineering and technology positions since 1991, most recently as Director, Advanced Technology. Among his many achievements, Sterling has developed two patents for Technicolor - an encryption system for VHS and an audio editing system. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a master's degree in electrical engineering and a minor in business. Kurt Hall, President and Chief Executive Officer, Regal CineMedia Corporation: Kurt Hall is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE-"RGC") and is President and Chief Executive Officer of RGC’s media Division Regal CineMedia Corporation. Prior to his current position, Mr. Hall served as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Artists Theatre Company ("UATC") since March 6, 1998 and a director since May 12, 1992. Prior to being named CEO, Mr. Hall acted as ("UATC’s") Chief Operating Officer (February 1997 to March 1998) and as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President (May 1992 to February 1997). Mr. Hall served as Vice President and Treasurer and various other financial and accounting positions within UATC predecessor companies since joining the United Artists Group in January, 1988. Prior to joining United Artists, Mr. Hall was Director, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Avalon Corporation, a public independent oil and gas real estate company based in New York City and from 1983 to 1985 was a Senior Accountant with Peat Marwick Main & Co. in Denver (currently KPMG Peat Marwick). Mr. Hall received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Finance/Accounting from the University of Vermont ("UVM") in 1983. Prior to finishing his studies at UVM, Mr. Hall played professional baseball as a catcher at various minor league levels of the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankee organizations. Walt Ordway is the Chief Technology Officer at Digital Cinema Initiatives, DCI, the consortium founded by the 7 major Hollywood Studies. He’s been in this position since it started in July 2002, and his primarily focus has been on the creation of the DCI digital cinema specification. Prior to that, Walt had been in retirement since 1997. Prior to his retirement, Walt had worked 30 years for Hughes Electronics, where his primary duties had been in the areas of program management and business development. While in the commercial segment of Hughes, he developed the Hughes Digital Cinema business plan and an end-to-end architecture, utilizing a satellite delivery system (1993-1995). He also served as the Director of the Development Lab at DirecTV International (1996), responsible for the support of two major DirecTV satellite broadcast systems: Galaxy Latin America, deployed to Central and South America, and DirecTV Japan, deployed to Japan. He also served as a VP at DIRECTV domestic (1997), involved in investigating system performance as it related to transmission enhancements. His 24 years in the aerospace segment were primarily spent overseeing the development of major defense systems. Julian Levin, Executive Vice President Digital Exhibition and Non-Theatrical Sales and Distribution at Twentieth Century Fox, is responsible for the company’s new technology and digital theatrical distribution and exhibition initiatives. This includes overseeing theatrical distribution of Fox product to digital cinema screens worldwide. Levin is also responsible for the development and implementation of corporate strategies and key initiatives for digital theatrical and non-theatrical sales and exhibition. Additionally, Levin is the current Chairman of Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), the consortium formed by seven major studios to develop an open architecture for digital cinema components that will ensure a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability, and quality control. Levin also has responsibilities that include non-theatrical worldwide sales and distribution of all Fox’s feature film and television programming. Levin currently co-chairs the World Airline Entertainment Association’s (WAEA) Digital Content Management Working Group. Prior to his present position, Levin served as Executive Vice President, Twentieth Century Fox International Distribution since 1995 and was responsible for the sales and distribution operations of the company’s motion pictures internationally, as well as significant involvement in the division’s strategic planning, business and international systems development. Levin first joined Fox in 1991 as Vice President, Sales and was later promoted to Executive Vice President of International Sales & Distribution. Michael Karagosian is a principal of Karagosian MacCalla Partners (KMP), and is advisor on digital cinema technology and policy issues to the National Association of Theatre Owners. Through KMP, he serves as technology advisor to the UK Film Council in their planned rollout of 250 digital cinema screens in 2004-2005. Karagosian was president and a founder of Cinema Group Ltd, creators of the CinemaAcoustics product line, and is responsible for the design and development of several products found in the cinema today. He has chaired several groups in the SMPTE DC28 digital cinema standards committee, and is active in the ITU standardization effort for electronic cinema. Steve Bergman is Vice President, Digital Cinema at Deluxe Laboratories: Before accepting this newly-created position, he led Strategic Development & Marketing for Boeing Digital Cinema. While at Boeing, Bergman was responsible for negotiating deals with 7 major studios and 8 theatre circuits in the US and Europe, resulting in the digital release of 18 feature films, and over 23,000 digital screenings. He has nearly 20 years of entertainment experience, including over a dozen years in digital media. Bergman has held executive positions at Massive Media, @Home Corp., Excite Inc., and TeleTV -- a joint-venture of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX & Pacific Bell. Before moving into the digital realm, Bergman worked in traditional development, production, and post-production. He has consulted widely in digital media and continues to speak at digital events both in the US and internationally. Bergman has a BA from Brown University, an MBA from Yale, and a Master's in interactive media from Harvard, where he was an associate at the MIT Media Lab. Charles S. Swartz, Executive Director/CEO, Entertainment Technology Center at USC: Charles S. Swartz is the executive director and CEO of the Entertainment Technology Center at USC (ETC-USC), where he oversees efforts to understand the impact of new technology on the entertainment industry. He draws from more than two decades of experience in feature film and television production, academic programming and strategic consulting to lead the Center in identifying emerging entertainment technology issues and developing projects to study them. Swartz began his in film and television production at Warner Bros. Television, Roger Corman’s New World Pictures and Dimension Pictures, which Swartz co-founded. Swartz produced eight feature films and earned a screen credit for writing six of them. After Dimension, Swartz became education specialist and program manager at UCLA Extension’s Department of Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts. There, he created a trendsetting curriculum that reflected the rise of digital technology and business in entertainment and that set new standards for film and television education. Following UCLA, Swartz was named director of business development for the entertainment industry at Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) and then director of integrated strategy for media and entertainment at e-business consulting firm Sapient. When Sapient closed its media sector, Swartz founded Charles S. Swartz Consulting to connect entertainment clients with companies exploring the potential of broadband wireless. Swartz assumed his current position at ETC-USC in 2003, refocusing and recharging the research center. He is governor representing SMPTE’s Hollywood region and co-chair of the Hollywood section education committee. SMPTE named Swartz Fellow in 2004.