Tuesday, September 20 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: The Piracy Freight Train: As Entertainment, The Law & The Technology Collide Richard Atkinson, Vice President, Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations, Walt Disney Studios Jamie Perlman, Business Development, SNOCAP, Inc. David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures David Kaplan, Vice President, Intellectual Property Counsel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media Group, Moderator Additional speaker to be announced Richard Atkinson, Vice President, Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations, The Walt Disney Studios: Richard, as VP of Anti-Piracy, is responsible for orchestrating Disney Studio’s global battle against content theft – be it piracy of movies, music, television, or other products of the Studio. This includes close work with other elements of Disney, the MPA/A, other Studios, and other owners of Intellectual Property under attack by piracy. Ultimately, it is a role that serves as a catalyst and coordination point on the Piracy topic for all the various contributors to the anti-piracy effort. Prior to this role, Richard spent 5 years as a "Disney Imagineer" at Walt Disney Imagineering– with the responsibility of creatively infusing emerging technologies into Disney’s world-renown theme parks all over the world. Prior to Disney, Richard was the Chief Communications Technologist for Northrop Grumman Corporation – where he spent 15 years as a communications technology strategist and briefer of highly complex and classified concepts (such as the area of "stealth aircraft") to the top levels of US and other governments. Phil Lelyveld is Vice President of Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media group. The New Technology and New Media group supports more than 400 business units worldwide. Phil coordinates and participates in Disney's representation at multi-studio and multi-industry forums dealing with the transition from analog to digital; including such initiatives as content protection, next generation DVD, digital cinema, enhanced TV, Internet, and HDTV. He also works within Disney to make sure that all of the effected business units are aware of relevant developments, and provides support to individual business units on specific new technology projects. Phil is currently leading the effort to establish company-wide content security guidelines for digital content distribution deals. He is also actively engaged in efforts to develop forward-looking content creation and distribution options that enable "sustainable business models in a leaky environment." Phil holds an MBA from UCLA , an MS in Applied Geophysics from Stanford, and a BS in Civil Engineering (with a Music minor) from Tufts. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, serves on the Technology Advisory Committee of the USC Film School's Entertainment Technology Center, and is on the Board of Directors of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures: David Britts has extensive experience advising, building and investing in leading communications technologies companies. His most recent investments focus on emerging technologies that are solving some of the broadcast and entertainment industry’s toughest problems. For example, infrastructure company Exavio has completely redefined the real-time post-production process for editing uncompressed HDTV, and is enabling new methods for distributing personalized TV and other video content over IP. Portfolio company CHIPS & Systems’ revolutionary new chipset enables TV set top boxes to decode content in any video format, so that for the first time, studios and content providers can deliver video directly to consumers, and protect that content in new ways. David’s current board seats include Celestial, CHIPS & Systems, Exavio, and Jaalaa. His past board seats include HotRail (acquired by Conexant), Narus, and PortalPlayer (Nasdaq: PLAY). David previously worked with JP Morgan Partners as General Partner and the global head of its communications, semiconductors and storage technology venture group. He was a founding member of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) Technology Group, which later became a part of Credit Suisse First Boston. There, David established the global communications equipment practice, advising and investing in numerous early-stage companies. David holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. David Kaplan, Vice President, Intellectual Property Counsel, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.: David Kaplan is Vice President and Intellectual Property Counsel for Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. In that role he supervises the legal issues related to Warner Bros. filmed entertainment anti-piracy efforts worldwide. Having joined Warner Bros. in 1996, Mr. Kaplan has witnessed firsthand the transformation of the piracy landscape for films and television product in the digital age. Prior to joining Warner Bros., Mr. Kaplan was an attorney in private practice with Katten, Muchin & Zavis, and before that with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, specializing in intellectual property and entertainment related litigation. Mr. Kaplan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and subsequently received his law degree from Boalt Hall, at the University of California at Berkeley. Jamie Perlman leads SNOCAP's business development efforts with retailers. SNOCAP is the first end-to-end provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for the digital media marketplace. SNOCAP's digital content registry and clearinghouse enables content owners to sell their entire catalogs through SNOCAP-enabled retailers, including peer-to-peer networks. Jamie is responsible for identifying and establishing retail partnership opportunities with existing businesses and those that are exploring entry into this new space. Jamie brings with him over fifteen years experience in the music industry - as a musician, producer, and general manager of an independent record label, Satelitemusica Records. He resides in San Francisco and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and a BA in Art History and Spanish from Colby College in Maine.