Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here CES 2007, Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall Digital Hollywood at CES The Agenda - Day Two Tuesday, January 9th 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Session A – DH9 The Networked Entertainment Home - the PVR/DVR – the Set-Top & PC Entertainment Server The home entertainment server is about one basic idea - to deliver more and varied media-rich content to the consumer - giving consumers what they want, when they want it. But the battle for this consumer sector is about to assert itself as a competition of technologies, more complicated than the older battle of the home PC vs. the TV. This is a world containing the set-top box, the PVR, the PC and a host of other devices. The next generation of DTV/Set-Top/PC home entertainment server will come into the battle delivering Internet, music, games, movies, plus innovative two-way communications and telephony services that the old set-top provider was only beginning to deliver. This battle for the home will be a tremendous winner for both the consumer as well as for the content industry. It presents the simple proposition that offering the consumer more and richer services in a competitive environment is the perfect formula for success. Johan van de Ven, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Philips Consumer Electronics Dave Davies, Vice President, Strategy and Product Marketing, Subscriber Networks, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company Paolo Pastorino, CTO-CBO, Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) Stephen Mannel, Offerings Executive, Cable and Broadband Solutions, IBM Corporation Jack Guedj, PhD., President and C.E.O., Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. Dan Marotta, Senior Vice President, Broadband Communications Group, Broadcom David Pederson, Vice President Corporate Marketing, Zoran Corporation Richard Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator, Moderator David Pederson is Vice President Corporate Marketing at Zoran Corporation. Prior to joining Zoran in January 2003, Mr. Pederson spent over seventeen years at National Semiconductor in various engineering, strategic marketing and management positions including Director Set Top Box product line. Mr. Pederson has over twenty-four years experience in the semiconductor industry including more than six years at Teledyne. Mr. Pederson holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. As a recognized expert in his field, Mr. Pederson has been invited to deliver numerous talks on Digital Video, PVRs, Set top boxes, Digital Televisions, the Networked Entertainment Center and the Challenges to Creating a Connected Digital Home and Connected Consumer Products. David B. Davies, Vice President, Strategy and Product Marketing, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company: Dave Davies currently serves as Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing for Subscriber Networks, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. In his role, Davies is responsible for Scientific-Atlanta’s product marketing and business development for all subscriber-facing products including the Explorer® line of interactive set-tops and cable modems. In addition, he is responsible for strategy and marketing for the most popular cable services including digital video recording (DVR), high-definition television (HDTV) and video-on-demand (VOD.) Most recently, Davies directed the launch of Explorer® 8000HD™ with DVR. This revolutionary product merges the pristine picture quality of HDTV with Digital Video Recording capabilities to enable consumers to watch whatever they want whenever they want to. Prior to assuming his current position at Scientific Atlanta, Davies was a Senior Associate with Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc, a leading global strategy and management consulting firm, where he focused on both corporate and operations strategy. He also has prior experience in the areas of system engineering and product development and manufacturing at various technology companies. Davies is a member of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and has recently spoken at several industry conferences including Digital Hollywood, Kagan, CTAM, and CES. Davies has an M.B.A. from Harvard University Graduate School of Business, an M.S./M.E. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S./M.E. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dan Marotta, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Communications Group, Broadcom: The Broadband Communications Group headed by Dan Marotta is responsible for driving Broadcom's vision for enabling broadband services to and throughout the home, with end products and end markets focused on providing complete solutions to cable, xDSL and satellite broadband and broadcast access networks. Products from this Group are found in cable and DSL modems and gateways; digital cable and satellite set top boxes; digital TV; cable modem termination systems (CMTS) used by cable providers at their head-end equipment locations; and DSL access multiplexers used by service providers. Mr. Marotta joined Broadcom in October 2002 and became Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband Communications Business Unit in January 2003. In September 2003 Mr. Marotta was elected to the position of Group Vice President, Broadband Communications Group. Previously, from March 1999 to April 2002 Mr. Marotta served in various senior management positions in the Digital Information Division at Conexant Systems, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, the most recent of which was Senior Vice President and General Manager. In May 2002 Mr. Marotta was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the Broadband Communications Segment at Conexant. Prior to joining Conexant, from 1996 to 1999 Mr. Marotta served as Director of Engineering at Brooktree Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer, and later as Vice President of Engineering at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, after Rockwell Semiconductor acquired Brooktree in 1996. Mr. Marotta received a B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Johan van de Ven, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Philips Consumer Electronics: Johan van de Ven serves as chief technology officer of Philips Consumer Electronics, a product division of Royal Philips Electronics. Van de Ven oversees the worldwide technology strategy and R&D for the division and is responsible to ensure that the company’s technologies support the growing demand for "sense and simplicity" lifestyle products in a increasingly digitally connected and converging consumer electronics market. He is also responsible for the division’s intellectual property rights management , its technology standardization efforts and plays a leading role in new business creation and developing technology partnerships. Before his appointment to CTO of Philips Consumer Electronics per January 2006, Van de Ven has held several positions in different divisions of Royal Philips Electronics. In 2005, he was responsible as General Manager for Emerging Semiconductor Businesses within Philips Semiconductors. From 1999 until 2005, he was responsible for technology, marketing and strategy of Mobile Display Systems, a business group of Philips Components and Semiconductors and leading supplier of displays for the mobile phone and automotive markets. Before joining Philips MDS in June 1999, Van de Ven was employed by Philips Research in various divisions including the inorganic materials research department and the corporate research bureau. From 1996 to 2001, he held a professorship in applied materials sciences at the University of Utrecht. Van de Ven holds a PhD degree in physics from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Paolo Pastorino holds a degree in Physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino, and a Master in Telecommunications and Information Technology from COREP/SSGRR, Italy. His experience ranges from the design of optoelectronic devices to advanced residential/SOHO networking solutions. He managed several projects dealing with residential/SOHO networks, terminals and services, test beds for the delivery of broadband services to the home, prototypes of advanced STB/RG, home terminals and network nodes. He is author of several papers about home networking and speaker to many international conferences. He is currently on leave from Telecom Italia to cover the role of CTO-CBO of HGI. Richard 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. Jack Guedj, CEO, Magnum Semiconductor: Dr. Jack Guedj is responsible for the worldwide operations of Magnum Semiconductor, Inc., (Magnum), and brings more 20 years of semiconductor and systems expertise and leadership. Guedj successfully led the due diligence effort for Magnum's recent spin-off from Cirrus Logic (Cirrus) on July 1, 2005, and procured investment funding. He successfully established and staffed Magnum's operations, human resources and finance departments. As part of the spin-off transition, Guedj directed an employee recruitment program that achieved more than 97% employee retention and developed successful third-party consulting contracts. Guedj joined Cirrus in early 2003 as its vice president of worldwide marketing and sales of video products, and was chartered with the responsibility of worldwide marketing and business development efforts, leading to the division's growth in DVD recorders, DVD/HDD camcorders and DTV/PC media adapters. Guedj was instrumental in securing related design wins at LG, Samsung, Sony, Mustek and Grundig/Beko, resulting in revenues in excess of $9 million in the second quarter of CY2005. Prior to Cirrus, Guedj was President of Tvia, Inc. (Tvia), a leading provider of streaming media processor ICs and software for the residential broadband, information access devices and digital TV markets. He commanded the successful IPO process for Tvia which was completed in August 2000, and raised related funding of more than $70M that year. During his tenure at Tvia, Guedj grew its worldwide operations from a 30+ employee start-up to a public company employing more than 300 personnel worldwide, including its U.S. headquarters and research and development center in China. Before joining Tvia, Guedj held the position of vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Faroudja, a premier provider of professional video systems and digital TV ICs. He also served as the director of the digital media/residential broadband strategic market segment at National Semiconductor, serving as the driving force into these strategic markets. He also led National's marketing and sales activities for the broadband set-top box, cable modem, home gateway and digital TV markets. Guedj attained a MSEE from "Physique et Chimie de Paris" and was awarded a doctoral cycle DEA degree from the University of Paris. Guedj earned his MBA from the University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Management.