Thursday, March 31 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Track I: Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Networking, Sharing and Protecting With the introduction and planning of the next generation of digital entertainment products from DVD video to audio into the home now in process, the emergence of the fully digital home is at hand. With the fully networked and integrated entertainment experience as the goal, content must be immediately available to the consumer in an easy as well as secure environment. In this session, we will begin the discussion of what the distribution of product in digital home will look like in the coming year as well as how the technologies of the future will enable entertainment in the digital home to emerge. Mitch Singer, Executive Vice President, Digital Policy Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Mike Harris, President, Digital 5, Inc. Todd Basche, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Products, Entertainment Technologies Group, Macrovision Corporation Tim Twerdahl, Vice President, Product Marketing, Roku Peter Kaars, Business Development Manager, Philips Electronics Brett Gaines, President, PanelLink Cinema, LLC David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Mitch Singer is the Executive Vice President of the Digital Policy Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. The Digital Policy Group was formed to coordinate digital policy across all Sony Pictures' businesses. Mitch focuses on emerging and disruptive technologies and evaluates and develops adaptive business models to stay ahead of the technological curve. Mitch has been involved in digital rights management from the launch of DVD and has been the lead negotiator for Sony Pictures in content protection technology licensing such as Digital Transmission Copy Protection (5C), Copy Protection for Pre-Recorded and Recordable Media (4C), High Definition Content Protection (HDCP), Blu-Ray Recordable and many others." Peter Kaars, Director of Business Development, Philips Electronics: Peter Kaars, Director of Business Development for Philips Electronics, has been with Philips for more than 15 years. Kaars, based in the U.S./West Coast, represents Philips in a technical capacity working with content providers on issues ranging from DRM and content protection to new technologies and entertainment formats. In this position, he is at the crossroads of the media and high-technology industries. Kaars began his career in Philips in Computer Aided Design, working in multimedia with Philips Research in the Netherlands. In 1994, he joined Philips Digital Networks, where he played a key role in such pioneering developments as Video on Demand, Digital Satellite TV, Digital Cable TV and Internet streaming. During this time, he also served as a member of various DVB standardization committees including the Multimedia Home Platform for interactive television. Kaars was graduated from the University of Amsterdam, where he worked on numerical simulation of solid state physics. Todd Basche, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Products, Entertainment Technologies Group, Macrovision Corporation: Todd Basche is an industry veteran with twenty years of technology experience in engineering, research and development, and product management. Todd brings years of experience in hardware and software development and marketing but a skill that I am really excited about is Todd's ability to balance building world class products with delivering a stellar consumer/end user experience. This end user sensibility has its roots throughout Todd's career but really hit its stride when he founded Visioneer a hardware/software company that redefined how scanners were used on the desktop. He recently expanded those skills by being VP of Software Applications at Apple where he headed up the I*apps group (including Itunes and Imovie). Before that time Todd was working on redefining how applications are hosted and controlled in large server farms at Logictier. Most recently he was responsible for software development and product marketing at Logictier a KP backed company providing managed services for fortune 500 companies. Prior to that Todd was GM Workplace Automation at Remedy a leading enterprise software company. And even before that time, Todd was primarily involved workstations by being Director of Desktop products for Sun working on workstations; founding Stellar (a computer trivia question about a high end graphic's company that merged with Ardent); Director of System Products at MIPS; and starting out designing high end systems for Apollo. He holds a BSEE from Northeastern University. Mike Harris, President, Digital 5: As president, Harris is responsible for operational vision and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Digital 5, Harris served as vice president of global software strategy for the Consumer Division of STMicroelectronics. He joined ST following the acquisition of the consumer division of Ravisent Technologies of which Harris was the founder and CTO since its inception in 1994. While at Ravisent, he was involved in several private funding rounds and a successful IPO, leading to an eventual valuation of nearly $1B. During his time there, Ravisent secured design wins for its DVD technology with most premier PC and consumer electronics OEMs. Prior to Ravisent, Harris served in executive or technical roles at numerous small companies and start-ups. Harris graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering. Don Woodward, Chief Technology Officer, Roku: Don Woodward is chief technology officer at Roku. As Roku’s technical leader, Don is responsible for guiding the technical direction of the product, the architecture of the Roku operating system, and the software development kit. Don holds many patents related to personal television technology and brings more than 13 years of engineering expertise to Roku. Don draws on recent experience as engineering fellow at SONICblue, following ReplayTV’s acquisition. At ReplayTV, Don served as principal software architect and designed and developed the architecture for ReplayTV's platform-independent modular software, its windowing system, operating system components, and much of the application software. Before ReplayTV, Don served as a principal software engineer of Dreamweaver at Macromedia. At Xerox Corp., Don wrote publishing application software for the proprietary Star system and sold Unix-based enterprise workflow software. Don holds a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science from the University of California at San Diego. David E. Leibowitz is Managing Partner of CH POTOMAC, a strategic services company focused on the entertainment, media and technology industries. Mr. Leibowitz brings twenty-five years of experience in copyright, media, communications, and technology matters, as well as business issues facing the entertainment, new media, consumer electronics and information technology industries. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves on the Industry Advisory Boards of Peppercoin, 13 Colonies Software, and Neurok Optics. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leibowitz Co-Founded VERANCE and served as it Chairman. VERANCE offers innovative technology solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection and content management. Before that, Mr. Leibowitz was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responsible for business and legal issues facing the industry with particular emphasis on how to position the industry to utilize new physical and electronic format systems. During this period, Mr. Leibowitz chaired the worldwide recording industry’s International Steering Committee on DVD Audio, the RIAA New Technology and Multimedia Committee and the RIAA Legal Committee. Prior to his work at the RIAA, Mr. Leibowitz was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding. Mr. Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Office. Brett Gaines, President, PanelLink Cinema, LLC: As president of PanelLink Cinema, LLC, Gaines is responsible for the PanelLink Cinema Partners initiative, designed to drive interoperability among and ensure the availability of premium content to consumer electronics devices from diverse manufacturers. The program’s initial focus is on HDMI/HDCP interoperability testing, and early members include Sony, Hitachi, Samsung and Mitsubishi, among others. A subsidiary of Silicon Image, Inc., PLC, LLC is also undertaking additional digital interface definition efforts, as well as efforts to define advanced architectures for the distribution, storage and rendering of premium content within a personal network. Prior to assuming his PanelLink Cinema, LLC post, he was president of HDMI Licensing, LLC, another subsidiary of Silicon Image responsible for all administrative and licensing requirements of the HDMI specification. Gaines was instrumental in the formation of the HDMI working group that eventually led to creation of the HDMI specification, as well as the specification’s launch and subsequent promotion. In addition to heading up PanelLink Cinema, LLC, he serves as senior director, corporate development for Silicon Image. In this role, his responsibilities include mergers and acquisitions, other standards related activities, strategic relationships and various technology licensing initiatives. Prior to Silicon Image, Gaines held senior positions in business development at Sun Microsystems. Gaines received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.