Thursday, March 31 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Track III: Behind the Digital Home: Chips, Microprocessors & Optical Technology Define the Future of Entertainment - from DVDs, MP3s, HD & Set-Tops to Games, PDAs and PCs The advancements being made in the basic technologies which are the foundations of our consumer electronics, PC, mobile and games devices are coming about now more quickly and abundantly than ever. Whoever said that the progress we’ve made in the past ten years will be doubled or tripled in the coming decade may have underestimated the technology timetable. From chip sets to hard drives, our entire CE and entertainment future is about to empowered. We are pleased to welcome the technical experts to this session who will explain what our future holds. Taner Ozcelik, General Manager, Consumer Electronics, NVIDIA Sandip H. Mandera, Digital Home Evangelist, Intel Corporation William Carney, Strategic Business Development, Wireless LAN, Texas Instruments Ken Wirt, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, palmOne, Inc. AMD, speaker to be announced Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners, Moderator Additional speakers to be announced Sandip H. Mandera is a digital home Evangelist/Staff Technical Marketing Engineer in Software and Solutions at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for enabling ISVs on digital home technologies (UPnP, DTCP/IP), developing enabling strategies and evangelizing digital home technologies. He has over 8 years of experience in software and technical marketing combined. In the past, he led Intel's marketing representation on Web services standards - UDDI.org and later OASIS UDDI during 2002 and 2003. He has spoken at leading conferences like Software Development Conference & Web Services World XML and Web Services Conference, contributed to a book chapter in the notable XML Handbook (5th edition) and his articles have appeared in leading magazines like IDS, DevX and JavaWorld. He holds an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and a B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India. Bill Carney is Director of Strategic Business Development for Texas Instruments’ Wireless Networking Business Unit, formerly Alantro Communications. TI acquired Alantro in September 2000, where he served as Vice-President of Sales & Marketing. Previously, he was Senior Director of Worldwide Corporate Marketing at Synopsys, Inc. Prior to his role at Synopsys, he spent 14 years with LSI Logic Corporation in a variety of management-level marketing and sales positions. Mr. Carney received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University and pursued graduate business studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor to trade publications on the business and technical issues relating to the growing WLAN industry and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. Mr. Carney serves as Texas Instruments’ representative on the Board of Directors for the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry association serving the WLAN market Taner Ozcelik, General Manager, Consumer Electronics, NVIDIA: Taner Ozcelik joined NVIDIA in 2004 and is responsible for driving the company's business into consumer electronics markets. From 1995 until 2001, Mr. Ozcelik worked at Sony Electronics, where he served in several management roles, most recently as VP & GM of the Digital Home Platform division, where he developed Sony's DVD semiconductor solutions. Mr. Ozcelik has also been an entrepreneur in the semiconductor industry, and served as President and CEO of MobileSmarts, an automotive semiconductor start-up prior to joining NVIDIA. Mr. Ozcelik holds an M.B.A from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D from Northwestern University. Ken Wirt, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, palmOne, Inc.: As senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Ken is responsible for all palmOne marketing activities, including product marketing. Prior to joining the company, Ken was the founder and chief executive officer of Riffage.com, a venture capital?funded music media company backed by Mayfield Fund, Bertelsmann and AOL. The management team he recruited built Riffage into a popular music site on the Internet, with 1 million unique visitors per month, signing major sponsors including Sony, Sega, Lipton's and Telocity. Before founding his own company, Ken was vice president of corporate marketing for Diamond Multimedia Systems, a leading PC peripherals company, where he managed all worldwide marketing functions, tech support, customer service and Internet marketing. Ken also led the introduction of the Rio portable MP3 player, which established the MP3 market and maintains a leading share today after the entry of Sony, Compaq, Philips, Samsung and Intel, among others. Previously, Ken headed marketing for Apple Computer's PIE (personal interactive electronics) division, overseeing all Newton marketing programs. Ken also has held key marketing roles at NEC Technologies, Cognitive Systems and Atari. He holds a master of business administration degree from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. Oren Zeev joined Apax Partners in 1995 and is a member of the Apax US Operating Committee. His investment focus is in the technology area, including digital media and Internet related investments. Previously he was a research staff member at the IBM Israel Science and Technology center. At IBM, Oren was a member of the founding team of the VLSI Design Center, where he managed several significant research and development projects. Previous investee companies include Commtouch (CTCH), Butterfly (acquired by TI), Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel), and Tescom (TASE: TSCM). Oren holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD and a BSc cum laude in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.