Tuesday, September 24 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Session A: SVOD and the Set-Top Box - DTV and the Expanded Content Opportunity In this session, we will take a look at the SVOD, Subscription Video on Demand marketplace primarily as it is being transformed by the cable and satellite industries. The era of three or films-a-night being offered to the consumer is being retired, system by system and in its place, the new digital set-tops are offering up a host of new packages - a host of subscription style services, ranging from an entire month’s package of thirty or so films available on demand to whole new libraries available on an on-demand basis. In this session we will take a look at the packages and the technology behind them that makes these new offerings possible. The transition to an SVOD world is now underway. Jay Schiller, Senior Vice President, Broadband Strategy and Product Management, nCUBE Dom Stasi, CTO, TVN Entertainment Yvette Gordon-Kanouff, Corporate Vice President Strategic Planning, SeaChange International Ted W. Schremp, Cable and Satellite Industry Marketing Manager, Americas, Hewlett-Packard Company Steve Necessary, President, Concurrent Xstreme Division Franklin Cannata, Manager, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Sherry Warburton, Sr. Dir., Product Management and Solutions Marketing, Liberate Technologies Phil Swann, CEO, TV Predictions, Moderator Ted W. Schremp, Cable and Satellite Industry Marketing Manager, Americas, Hewlett-Packard Company: As the Cable and Satellite Industry Marketing Manager for Hewlett-Packard, Ted is responsible for strategic planning, marketing and development for HP’s products and solutions for cable and satellite companies in the US, Canada and Latin America. In this role, Ted manages the overall strategic planning process and go-to-market strategy, and represents HP in various industry organizations and technology consortia. Prior to joining HP in early 2001, Ted spent 9 years working for telecommunications service providers including Sprint, Cable & Wireless and Comcast. He began his telecom career in sales and later moved into various senior level product management, product development and product marketing roles. Ted holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Business from the University of Pittsburgh and is an MBA Candidate (Spring ’03) at Penn State University. Yvette Gordon-Kanouff is Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning for SeaChange International, Inc., where she works on the design and future planning for the company’s technology platforms. Gordon-Kanouff holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Mathematics and has more than 15 years of professional experience in the communications industry. Gordon-Kanouff’s career began at Lockheed Martin in Signal Processing, where she specialized in compression and detection algorithms. She then worked for Time Warner as Engineering Director for the Full Service Network where she ran the network operations of the world’s first interactive television trial. She then joined the Time Warner corporate architecture team, specifying Time Warner’s engineering standards. Gordon-Kanouff won the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Engineer of the Year 1997 Woman in Technology award from the SCTE & WICT 2001 Wonder Women (one of 10 female executives honored by Cablevision magazine) 2001 Next Wave Woman in Technology (Broadcasting & Cable) She has several patents and is an active member of the IEEE and WICT and a senior member of the SCTE. Jay Schiller is senior vice president of broadband strategy and product management at nCUBE where he is responsible for the strategy and rollout of all nCUBE video-on-demand (VOD) and streaming media products and applications. Prior to this position, Mr. Schiller served as nCUBE's director of product management. Previous to joining nCUBE, Mr. Schiller was the chief technical officer of SkyConnect, Inc., which was acquired by nCUBE in 1999. He was the first to hold this position at SkyConnect and was responsible for directing SkyConnect's research and development strategies. His duties included management of software applications and video server technology development for advertising insertion products and video server applications. Mr. Schiller has more than 15 years in the cable/broadband industry, including serving as director of technical operations for Tele-Communications Incorporated, which was later acquired by AT&T Broadband. An established patent holder, Mr. Schiller is a graduate of the University of Colorado, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications, and the University of Hartford, where he graduated Franklin Cannata is a Manager in Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Digital Asset Management practice. His 6 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) solutions included Content Management Services (CMS), Digital Asset Management (DAM) services, System architecture, Requirements gathering, Application development, High availability strategy, Data center disaster recovery, Oracle database development, Oracle database administration, Internet technology due diligence, UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX and LINUX) administration, Content Distribution Network Design, Development & Deployment, Interactive Television application development, Video On Demand streaming technologies, Information architecture and Project management. Prior to Joining Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Frank Cannata was Directing Manager of System Architecture for Cablevision Systems. For the entertainment and media company Frank worked in research and development, bringing products from a visionary standpoint to actual customer based products with a valued revenue stream. The products included High Speed Data (HSD) customer service portals, HSD e-commerce Internet sites, HSD Customer Self Install, interactive optimum (iO) services such as: NY Knicks Multi-Camera Angle Application, NY Rangers Multi-Camera Angle Application, News12 Interactive, Metro Traffic and Weather and Mag Rack, Static web development migration to dynamic solution (enterprise wide) using Vignette Story Server, Content Distribution Network in the Cable head end for iTV distribution using Inktomi Traffic Server, Digital Asset Management for Video on Demand (VOD) feature films, Publishing system for VOD portals for the following networks: HBO on Demand, Showtime on Demand, IFC on Demand and Starz on Demand and Instant Messaging portal for the Interactive Television offering. Steve Necessary, 45, is president of the XSTREME Division of Concurrent Computer Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance real-time computer systems, software, and servers. Concurrent’s XSTREME Division is the leading supplier in the emerging digital video server marketplace. The Division focuses on the broadband Video-On-Demand (VOD) and rich streaming media markets, which include VOD applications for cable, corporate training, education, hospitality, and digital video-to-the-home. Mr. Necessary has more than 20 years of cable television related experience, including product management, engineering, technical support, and sales efforts in the communications and broadband industry. As president of the XSTREME Division, he is responsible for leading the division’s efforts to expand its leadership position as a recognized worldwide leader of reliable, high-capacity end-to-end VOD systems and services. Bringing with him a wealth of industry expertise and general management experience, Mr. Necessary’s focus is on building Concurrent’s excellent operational performance and identifying new process improvement initiatives to help facilitate the growth of Concurrent’s VOD business. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Necessary was the president, CEO, and director of PowerTV, Inc, a software subsidiary of Scientific-Atlanta. Previously, Mr. Necessary had been corporate vice president and vice president of marketing at Scientific-Atlanta. He also held a number of other positions with Scientific-Atlanta, including vice president and general manager of analog video systems, where he was responsible for the operational P&L, product planning, engineering, and marketing for advanced analog set-tops. Mr. Necessary spent several years at ANTEC Corporation, where his final position was president of the products group. Earlier in his career, he was a team manager for Procter & Gamble. A native of Atlanta, Mr. Necessary received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Georgia Tech and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. Active in both professional and civic affairs throughout his career, Mr. Necessary is an active member in The Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT), and Christians in Cable. Mr. Necessary also serves on the board of the Atlanta Ballet Theater and the advisory board of the Georgia Wilderness Institute. Dom Stasi, Chief Technology Officer, TVN Entertainment: An industry veteran, Dom Stasi’s background in the production, distribution, and exhibition of state-of-the-art television has kept him at the cutting edge of this rapidly advancing industry. The deployment of interactive applications such as platform-independent Video-On-Demand, and its ensemble of capabilities and enabling technologies designed to meet the unique technical and business requirements of CATV, have characterized his tenure with the TVN. Dom has been a frequent and invited speaker at the national conventions of SMPTE, NCTA, CTAM, SCTE, Women In Cable, and NAB. He has served on the NCTA Engineering Committee and its subcommittees since 1979, and published numerous technical papers. Dom came to TVN from TCI’s National Digital Television Center (NDTC). As Senior Vice President for Network Business Development, he worked closely there with MSOs and program providers in the development of the digital distribution architectures that have come to characterize this industry. Prior to joining TCI, Dom was Director of Engineering for HBO, and Vice President/General Manager of Engineering and Network Operations for MTV Networks. Dom came to the television industry from the State University of New York where, as an instructor in the Engineering Department, he was already an experienced public speaker. PHILLIP SWANN is the author of "TV dot Com: The Future of Interactive Television." UpsideToday.com calls the book "a must for anyone involved in the business of marketing the future." #3 Best Seller on Amazon.com’s ranking of TV-related books. He has twenty years experience in publishing, marketing, public relations and advertising. He has served as a speaker at numerous TV and Internet industry conferences, including the Consumer Electronics Show, Digital Hollywood and Paul Kagan’s Digital Summit. He has partnered with Nielsen Media Research, developed four landmark studies on satellite TV and Enhanced TV viewing habits in the mid to late 1990s. He has also appeared as an expert on technology on such TV and radio shows as The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CNN Dot Com, Tech TV’s Silicon Spin, Yahoo’s Finance Vision, CBS Market Watch, The Larry King radio show, PBS’ Nightly Business Report, CNET TV and Donahue. Weekly contributor to Tech Live on Tech TV. In October 1998, he founded TV Online Magazine, the nation’s first print magazine on Interactive TV. Served as vice president, publisher and editor of TV Online during its one year run.