Tuesday, March 30 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session C: 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. Walt Ordway, Chief Technology Officer, DCI Kurt Hall, President and Chief Executive Officer, Regal CineMedia Corporation Doug Darrow, Business Manager for DLP Cinema™ Michael Sterling, Principal-Technical Coordination, Technicolor Digital Cinema (TDC) Julian Levin, Executive Vice President, Digital Exhibition and non-Theatrical Sales, Fox Entertainment Michael Karagosian, Partner, Karagosian MacCalla Partners, Digital Cinema Consultant, NATO 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. 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. 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, Partner, Karagosian MacCalla Partners, Digital Cinema Consultant, NATO: Michael Karagosian has made significant contributions to both the cinema and theme park industries. He has chaired several committees in the SMPTE DC28 Technology Committee for Digital Cinema, and is a member of the European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF). He serves as Digital Cinema Consultant to the National Association of Theatre Owners, where he advises on technology and policy. As a partner of Karagosian MacCalla Partners, he advises the UK Film Council in their planned rollout of 250 digital cinema screens in 2004-2005. In 1979, Karagosian created the world's first 5.1 format cinema processor for Dolby Laboratories. His DSP-based surround decoder is used today by studios such as Skywalker Sound, Industrial Light and Magic, and Pixar Animation. He was a founder and former president of Cinema Group, creators of the CinemaAcoustics product line. In theme parks, Karagosian designed show control and sound systems for many themed rides and attractions, and was the first to deploy an ATM network backbone for audio and control distribution in a major Disney theme park.