Wednesday, September 21 12:50 PM - 2:00 PM Track I: Music Industry Innovates and Morphs: Radio, Blogs, P2P, Ad Revenue Concepts, Cable/TV Innovation Marc Morgenstern, VP, General Manager of Loudeye, Digital Media Asset Protection Business Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music Stephen Taylor, CTO, Mashboxx Bill Moore, CEO, RadioTime David Frerichs, Vice President & U.S. General Manager, Coding Technologies Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks: Entertainment industry veteran, Michael Weiss first joined StreamCast Networks, formerly known as MusicCity.com, as its President & CEO in April 2000. Weiss was responsible for re-positioning the company from an Internet radio provider into a peer-to-peer powerhouse and the world’s largest peer-to-peer consumer software provider. Under Weiss’ leadership, the company introduced the wildly popular "Morpheus" peer-to-peer file sharing software. Within 4 months of launch, "Morpheus" achieved legendary status: 20+ million users, # 1 most popular Internet software, over 1 million downloads weekly, 2 million daily users, and the # 1 most searched Internet subject. After taking the company to # 1 status, Weiss left the company in September 2001 when it relocated to Nashville, TN and co-founded ShareComm, Inc., a technology start-up venture. Previously, Weiss was founder of WebRadio.com and served as its Vice President & General Manager. WebRadio.com, a subsidiary of GEO Interactive Media Group, Ltd. (GIM:LSE), transmits terrestrial radio stations’ signals on-line through the innovative EMBLAZE "plug-in free" streaming media technology developed by GEO. WebRadio.com was valued at $441 million during Weiss’ tenure. Previously, Weiss was VP, Strategic Marketing for GEO. Prior to GEO, Weiss held several positions at Sirius Publishing, Inc from 1994 to 1998. As Vice President of Entertainment & Business Development, he negotiated and acquired the digital rights to movies and video programs from major motion picture studios, independent production companies and record labels and served as company spokesperson for its MovieCD product line. As VP, Marketing, he played a key role in Sirius' trajectory as a major player in the multimedia industry--growing annual company sales from $100,000 to $22 million within nine months. Previously Weiss spent 16 years in the home video industry. Stephen Taylor, CTO, Mashboxx: Stephen F. Taylor is a multi-discipline engineer and research manager with a distinguished career in the design and commercial introduction of leading-edge entertainment-based products and systems worldwide. As a designer, manager, entrepreneur and consultant, he has been a leading contributor to the state of the art in digital imaging and image processing, high performance audio systems for in-home and professional use, and user interface human-in-the-loop systems design. His career has had two aspects—the analysis and articulation of market and technical developments on the one side, and the integration of the technologies, products and systems that align with these developments, on the other. In this dual capacity, Mr. Taylor has provided research, management and technical leadership within established corporations—at Motorola, Inc. and at Madrigal Audio Labs—and has founded and managed successful technology start-ups—Entertainment Technologies Corporation Inc, Dimension Audio, Inc. and SimSystems. In an era of specialization, Mr. Taylor has integrated engineering and scientific expertise with the verbal and conceptual skills required of a senior strategist–unifying the disciplines of scientists, engineers and programmers with the constraints and goals of managers, financiers and organizations. In doing so, he brought to bear his education (academic degrees in both Liberal Arts and Electrical Engineering) and his practical experience in commercial product design and manufacturing. And as a former professional musician (and as a currently active amateur), his perspective embraces the passion of artists, as well. Ted Cohen, Vice President, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music: As Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Recorded Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this "big five" record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio. In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide policies, which have allowed EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena. Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Webnoize ’98 & ’99 conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media. Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and several other entertainment, computer and new media organizations. A 25-year industry veteran, Cohen serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, Co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to the Grammy In The Schools Program. David Frerichs, Vice President and U.S. General Manager of Coding Technologies, brings over a decade of experience in Internet and broadcast consumer content services. Frerichs, the former president and co-founder of iM Networks, is a business and technology expert in the areas of mobile music, streaming media, HD radio, satellite radio, connected devices, virtual reality, and content aggregation. He sold his first startup, Future Vision Technologies, to Fujitsu Microelectronics and his second startup, iM Networks, to Softbank Broadmedia and has significant experience licensing technology in international markets like Japan and Korea. Marc Morgenstern, VP, General Manager of Loudeye's Digital Media Asset Protection Business. Prior to the acquisition of Overpeer by Loudeye, Mr. Morgenstern served as chief executive officer of Overpeer, Inc. Before joining Overpeer in November 2001, Mr. Morgenstern was Executive Vice President, Enterprise Group of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the largest music rights organization in the world, where he pioneered licensing of content for on-line use. He was also the former President Music Group, RightSpring, Inc, a B2B on-line marketplace for content rights. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant on strategy, organization and communications issues at the Sucherman Consulting Group. Mr. Morgenstern is a multi-Emmy winner who worked as a producer and news executive for CBS in New York and Los Angeles. He has been quoted on copyright and on-line piracy issues in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Wired, the Financial Times and many other publications. Mr. Morgenstern graduated with a BA from Yale University. William Moore, Founder and President, Radiotime: Bill has led two profitable self-funded software businesses from bootstrap through acquisition and brings 15 years of technology experience in management, marketing, sales, and development including 8 consecutive years exceeding quota and profit objectives. Prior to RadioTime Bill was Vice President and General Manager of the Access Software Business unit for Efficient Networks selling over 8 million copies of consumer client software through broadband providers around the globe. Prior to Efficient Networks Bill was vice president responsible for sales, marketing, product management, and business strategy for the software startup Network TeleSystems in Sunnyvale California. He worked closely with the founder to create a profitable IP Management and broadband infrastructure business before the acquisition by Efficient Networks. Before NTS Bill was promoted through senior management roles in sales, marketing, and support during 9 years at UB Networks in Santa Clara and Dallas. Bill has a BBA/MIS degree from Southwest Texas State University. Rick 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.