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Digital Hollywood Fall, Hollywood, California
Date: October 29 - November 1, 2007
New Location: The Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highlands and the adjacent Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, 1755 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, California, Tel: 800-769-4774 (next to the Kodak Theater)

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Monday, October 29th
Special Opening Session
"Media, Entertainment & Social Change"


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Note: Digitial Hollywood has multiple tracks on each day. Attendees will be free to move from conference room to conference room during the day. There will be from four to eight concurrent sessions - depending on the Day - see the very long agenda below.

The Strategic Tracks:
Track I: Hollywood 2.0 - Programming & Platforms
Track II: Advertising 2.0 - Reinventing Advertising: Content, Commerce & Communications
Track III: User Generated Media & Social Networks - Media, Communications and Entertainment Reinvented
Track IV: The Personalized Experience: Mobile, Broadband, Entertainment and Media
Track V: Mobile TV & Video: The Establishment of a Platform: Content, Distribution & Commerce
Track VI: Digital Production World at Digital Hollywood
Track VII: Digital Rights Management and Content Rights & Anti-Piracy
Track VIII: The Digital, Broadband and Networked Home
Track IX: Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Committee & Launch at Digital Hollywood
Track X. OnDemand Content & Technology: Broadband, TV, Cable, IPTV, Games & Mobile
Track XI: University Project at Digital Hollywood

The Complete Agenda
Monday, October 29th - Special Pre-Day Event
The Strategic Tracks
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Kick-Off Roundtable
Special Opening Session
"Media, Entertainment & Social Change"
Honoring: “Darfur Now”
Cathy Shulman, Producer
Ted Braun, Director
Adrian Sexton, Executive Vice President, Digital, Participant Productions
Hosted by Participant Productions
Producers of:
"Darfur Now"
"An Inconvenient Truth"
"Syriana"
"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
"Fast Food Nation"

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Track I: Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Programming
Mainstream Hollywood Meets the VC and Private Equity Community: Exploring the Future of TV - Film - Broadband Finance
Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group
Conrad Riggs, Mark Burnett Productions
Virginia Turezyn, Managing Director, American Capital
Howard T. Owens, Managing Director (Co-Head of Domestic Television & Head of Digital), Reveille LLC
Phil Ressler, Vice President, Clearstone Venture Partners
Mark Kapczynski, CEO, Kontrol Media Corp, Moderator
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Track II: Reinventing Advertising
Deconstructing Advertising: Making Choices in a Universe of Limitless Choice: Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile, TV, Cable, Games, VOD & ITV
Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President, Ventures, Denuo - A Publicis Groupe Company
Adam Stewart, Vertical Director, Media & Entertainment Group, Google
Dean Carignan, Director, Advertising Business Strategy, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft Corporation
Tom Bosco, Head of Sales, MySpace TV
Joe Franzetta, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Television Business Unit, TANDBERG Television
Karen Bressner, Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, Tivo
Feisal Nanji, Sector Resident, Global Media & Entertainment Sector, Ernst & Young, Moderator
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Track III: User Generated Media & Social Networks
UGM, Social Networks and Traditional Media: Strategies in Content, Communications and Commerce, Part I
Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Vice President, Product Development, MTV Networks and Logo
Matt Farber, President, Wilderness Media & Entertainment & founder, LOGO, Viacom
Todd Herman, President, Mediagasm, LLC
Jason Meil, SVP of Original Programming & Acquisitions, Current TV
Stephen Smyth, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Americas, Reuters Media
Howard Tiersky, Vice President, Media & Entertainment, Capgemini
Andrew Wallenstein, Digital Media and Television Features Editor, The Hollywood Reporter, Moderator
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Track IV: The Personalized Experience - Mobile
Track Sponsored by MEF

The iPhone Paradigm - Establishing the Mobile Entertainment Bar - The Perception and Reality
Rio Caraeff, Vice President & General Manager, Universal Music Mobile US
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group
Larry Berkin, Senior Director Developer Ecosystem & Technology Acquisition, ACCESS, USA (former PalmSource)
Chris Drake, Sr. Director of Mobile Strategy, ThePlatform
John Hallman, Manager, Market Development, Video and Mobile Television, Motorola
Mike McGuire, Research VP, Media, Gartner Industry Advisory Research
Steve Bradbury, VP, Content Strategy & Business Affairs, GoTV Networks, Moderator
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2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Track I: Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Programming
Advertising and Monetizing: Mashup, Viral & Episodic Video Phenomenon
Timothy Shey, founder & Head of Network Development, Next New Network
Scott Roesch, GM, AtomFilms, MTV Networks
Chris Dorr, VP Video, Sony Connect
Jane Hu, Vuguru / Tornante
Kourosh Taj, Co-President & Head of Programming, No Good TV
Zach Posner, Head of Interactive and Business Development, National Lampoon
Ben Relles, founder, barelypolitical.com (Obama Girl)
Bambi Francisco, CEO, co-founder Vator, Moderator
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Track II: Reinventing Advertising
Advertising NEXT: Social Networks, User Generated Video, Search, Blogs, IMs, Podcasts, Broadband and Mobile, - It's the Breakthrough Year!
Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO, imeem
Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision 3
Greg Fawcett, VP, Business Development, IMG World
Peter Pham, Vice President, Business Development, Photobucket
Kevin Lange, Director, SMG Search
Marc Ruxin, SVP, Director, Digital Marketing, MCCANN Worldgroup
Chi-Hua Chien, Associate, Accel Partners, Moderator
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Track III: User Generated Media & Social Networks
UGM, Social Networks and Traditional Media: Strategies in Content, Communications and Commerce, Part II
Dmitry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh
Adrian Sexton, Executive Vice President, Digital, Participant Productions
Michael Jones, CEO, Userplane and VP, AOL
Gilles BianRosa, CEO, Azureus
Eric D. Alterman, Founder and Chairman, KickApps
Robert Tercek, founder and President, PeopleJam
Jim Long, Venture Advisor, Gabriel Venture Partners, Moderator
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Track IV: The Personalized Experience - Mobile
Mobile TV & Video: The Establishment of a Personalized Entertainment Platform: Content & Commerce
Rusti Baker, Senior Manager, Studio and Media Content, Market Development and Ecosystems Team, Motorola, Inc.
Steve Johnson, CEO, Choicestream
Stephen Condon, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Verisign
Mike Bailey, Senior Director, Programming, Qualcomm MediaFLO
Frank Barbieri, founder, Chairman and CEO, Transpera
Henri LINDE, President, Americas, Actimagine Corp.
Frank Chindamo, President and Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies, Moderator
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3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Track I: Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Programming
The Exploding Appetite of Film, Cable, TV and Broadband Networks - The New Golden Age of Hollywood
Jonathan Karron, Vice President of Digital Marketing, Turner Broadcasting, TBS, TNT and TCM
Michael Kernan, Vice President, ICM
Chris Monteleone, Vice President, Marketing and Distribution, MSG Interactive (Madison Square Garden)
Richard Hull, Chief Content Officer, Blowtorch Entertainment
Jared Hoffman, Partner, Generate, former executive, CAA
Will Flannery, Vice President, Advanced Services, Fox Cable Networks
James Segil, co-founder & President, EdgeCast Networks
Mark Kapczynski, CEO, Kontrol Media Corp, Moderator
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Track II: Reinventing Advertising
Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media
Yaakov Kimelfeld, Digital Research & Analytics Director, MediaVest
Mark Schulze, Vice President, Partner Development, Quantcast
Erin Hunter, EVP, comScore, Inc.
Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President, Mobile Media, Nielsen Mobile
Tim Napoleon, Product Line Director, Media & Entertainment, Akamai
Will Hodgman, President & CEO, M:Metrics
David Graves, Chairman and Founder, PermissionTV
Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset, Moderator
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Track III: User Generated Media & Social Networks
Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User Generated Media, Personalized News, Blogs & PodCasts
Venu Vasudevan, Ph.D., Director, Mobile Platforms, Applications Research Center, Motorola Labs, Motorola, Inc.
JD Lasica, founder, OurMedia.org/Partner, Outhink Media/President, Social Media Group
Eric Newman, General Manager, Pluck
Leonard Brody, co-founder & CEO, NowPublic
Jason Oberfest, Managing Director, Product Strategy, Los Angeles Times Interactive
Chris Adams, founder, Orbit Media Group
Shelly Palmer, Managing Partner, Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC and President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Moderator
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Track IV: The Personalized Experience - Mobile
Personalized Mobile & Broadband Content & Commerce: Innovation in Search, Contextual Information, Social Media and User Experience
John Smelzer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile, FOX Interactive Media
Darcy Lorincz, CEO, Origin Digital
Alberto Montesi, CEO, Flycell, Inc.
Dorrian Porter, CEO, Mozes, Inc.
Vijay Sundaram, COO, ZadMobile
Lee Hancock, Chief Executive Officer and founder, go2
Frank Chindamo, President and Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies, Moderator
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5:00 PM - End-of-Day
Opening Day Reception
Poolside at the Renaissance Hollywood, 5th Floor
Open to all Attendees
Sponsored by Edgecast


Monday, October 29th
6:15 PM – 8:00 PM - The ETC - Studio Executive VIP Dinner and VC & Private Equity Consortium Dinner - Special Company Presentations: “Launch, Disruption & Innovation at Digital Hollywood”


Special Thanks to Dinner Sponsors:
Emergent Game Technologies and JCI PR


Monday, October 29th
6:15 PM – 8:00 PM
Special VIP Consortium Dinner – The Advertising Transformation
Hosted by: Adobe Systems & EyeWonder:
Dinner Speakers
John Vincent, CEO, EyeWonder
Craig Barberich, Sr. Business Development Manager, Adobe
Jeff Minsky, Director, NEXT, OMG Digital
Bant Breen, president, Futures Marketing Group, Interpublic Group
Mike Salerno, VP, Strategic Planning, Turner Broadcasting
Phil Ressler, VP, Clearstone Venture Partners
Paul Santello, EVP, Regional Managing Director, West, Carat
Brad Berens, Chief Content Officer & Editor at Large, iMedia, Moderator - for Dinner Invitation - email Mark Kapczynski markkap@eyewonder.com



Monday, October 29th -Day Long Event
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• P2P Advertising UpFront - Sponsored by the DCIA - Click Here

Monday, October 29th
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
MobileMonday Open Meeting to Attendees & Members