Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Thursday, May 8th 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Track I: IPTV and Internet TV Connectivity - Broadband, the TV, the Set-Top, the Server - Enabling Advanced Services - Content and Advertising The integration of the TV experience with the full power of the new consumer technologies – from broadband to mobile – opens to door to not only an unique world of entertainment and information, it brings to the table a next generation idea of full consumer interactivity within the TV experience. Personalized TV will forever change the consumer entertainment landscape – it will open the door to a consumer with more and greater control over his or her environment – in touch with family members, enjoying HD programming, accessing and saving information and ultimately creating it and sharing it with others. The Personalized TV experience represents a huge step forward, and at this event, we are pleased to take small steps forward in that direction. Ellis Lindsay, Director, Strategy, Americas, Alcatel-Lucent Neal Page, CEO, Inlet Technologies Steve Shannon, EVP and GM of Product Development, Gemstar-TV Guide Paul Shen, CEO, TVU Networks Brian Caskey, VP, Worldwide Marketing,UTStarcom Brett Crossley, Business Development, 10 Foot Wave Jonathon Barbato, Partner, APRICOT CORPORATION, Moderator For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile Ellis Lindsay, Director, Strategy, Americas, Alcatel-Lucent: Ellis Lindsay serves as Director, Strategy, Americas for Alcatel Lucent activity in the area of connected home technology, serving as the primary liaison to the consumer electronics and home control vendor communities. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. Lindsay worked for Bell Canada as Associate Director of Consumer Services Development. He also worked at Ubiquity Software, an SIP infrastructure company, where he was Director of Strategic Alliances, and held product management roles at Corel Corporation and Cognos. Ellis Lindsay holds a bachelor of engineering degree from Carleton University. Neal Page, CEO, Inlet Technologies, Inc.: With more than 20 years of experience in digital media and imaging, Neal Page is a true pioneer of new media and a recognized leader in the streaming media industry. Prior to founding Inlet Technologies in 2003, he founded Osprey Technologies in 1994, where together with strategic partners such as Microsoft and RealNetworks, he established the Osprey brand as the industry’s “de facto standard” for enabling video over the Internet. Previously, Neal held management positions at Sun Microsystems where he led an elite Advanced Products Group to quickly deliver advanced media technology to market. Prior to that, he held senior engineering positions at Sun Microsystems, General Electric and Data General. Neal holds BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State University, and has completed executive programs at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. He presently serves on the board of directors of Hauppauge Digital, Inc (NASDAQ: HAUP). Steve Shannon, EVP and GM of Product Development, Gemstar-TV Guide: Most recently, under Steve’s leadership, the Product Development and Technology group developed and launched My TV Guide, a new suite of cross-platform personalized guidance tools and services designed to help consumers address the complexity in the video entertainment landscape brought about by rapidly expanding choices and new forms of content. Prior, Steve was the executive vice president of Sales and Marketing for Akimbo Systems, a company he founded in 2002. Akimbo is the world’s first Internet-delivered, video-on-demand service designed for televisions. In 1998 Steve helped co-found ReplayTV where he served as the VP of Marketing and Sales until 2001. At ReplayTV he helped launch the world’s first digital video recorder, driving marketing strategies. Before ReplayTV, Steve was director of Internet authoring at Macromedia, where he launched Dreamweaver, Macromedia's market-leading Web-authoring tool. Steve joined Macromedia when it purchased iband, the company he co-founded and the original developer of Dreamweaver. He has also worked at Coopers & Lybrand, Paramount Pictures, MGM/UA, and Capitol Records. Paul Shen, CEO, TVU Networks: Paul Shen is a renowned expert in the digital video area and a successful serial entrepreneur. Paul was the founder and CEO at Imedia Corporation, a leader in digital video communication, and developer of the first statistical re-multiplexer, CherryPicker, which played a central role in digital television distribution in cable and satellite TV services. Imedia Corp. was acquired by Terayon in 1999. Previously, Paul defined the hardware architecture for General Instrument's first all-digital television system and the first digital high definition television (HDTV) system. He served as a General Instrument representative to the MPEG Committee, where he chaired the MPEG4 Syntax Group and led the effort to define a new object-oriented descriptive language. Paul holds 10 patents. Paul has a B.S. from the New York Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree from M.I.T., under well-known professor William Schreiber. Brian Caskey, VP of worldwide marketing, UTStarcom: Brian Caskey oversees all aspects of marketing at UTStarcom, Inc. Caskey has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and IP networking industry and extensive experience in the successfully design of large, IP-based voice and data networks for Fortune 500 companies and telecommunications service providers. Caskey began his career with UTStarcom as vice president of strategic technical marketing in 2003, responsible for lecture and consultation on the design and implementation of large-scale Voice over IP (VoIP) and next-generation networks. A frequent featured lecturer at telecommunications and networking conferences around the world, Caskey's professional career includes an extensive array of telecommunications expertise with more than 12 years in the satellite communications industry at GTE SpaceNet and AscomTimeplex designing Voice, TDM and SS7 networks for some of the largest service providers and enterprises in the world and over 10 years at 3Com/CommWorks in various executive, technical marketing and strategic technical advisory rolls. Brett Crossley, Business Development, 10 Foot Wave: Brett is responsible for business development and marketing at interactive TV company 10 Foot Wave. Prior to 10 Foot Wave Brett was VP of Sales and Marketing for mobile Experience products at PacketVideo. PacketVideo provides mobile music and video solutions to some of the largest carriers including Verizon, Docomo, Orange, and Vodafone. Brett came to PacketVideo through the acquisition of Tusonic, a music personalization company where he was a founder. Prior to Tusonic, Brett was product manager in charge of IBM's Content Management integration products that brought together image, audio, video, and text content from multiple content management platforms. Jonathon Barbato, Partner, APRICOT CORPORATION: has been a key player in distributing & monetizing thousands of hours of entertainment to television, the Internet, VOD, wireless and other digital platforms. His over 20 years of experience include: Founder of the multi-platform digital network (RipeTV), Head of TV Distribution for a major studio (MGM), Head of Marketing for a major Cable network (Starz) and now Partner in the New Media consultancy Apricot Corporation. Barbato’s expertise is in the monetization of video content across multiple platforms of distribution. He helped steer RipeTV to create and sell lower third dynamic ads in video online and in VOD as early as 2005 (since popularized by YouTube and others). The company claims some of the highest cpms in digital video and reported 8-figure revenue the past two years. Ripe Digital has raised $40 million in investment from Time Warner, Hearst and others. Barbato is also a leader in the migration of video across multiple platforms (TV, the Internet and mobile). Ripe has three networks with over 14 million uniques per month combined online, in front of 30 million cable VOD homes and both on & off deck in mobile. All are ad-supported and feature short-form video content with measurable viewership. Under Apricot Corporation, Barbato advises industry leaders on their own strategies to monetize video across multiple platforms. Rentrak Corporation, for example, is a publicly traded company specializing in census-driven reporting of video usage and Barbato is advising on their multi-platform deployment strategy. Barbato works with cable networks, such as the Outdoor Channel, or social networks, such as takepart.com, to create ad sales and content strategies to build traffic and increase cpms. Barbato’s experience on the content acquisition/sales and brand marketing fronts includes shaping the consumer brand image of the vast television libraries of MGM, Sony and Warner Bros. International, including Seinfeld, Mad About You, Ricki Lake, Dallas, Falcon Crest and hundreds of other titles both domestically and internationally. Barbato currently serves on the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) Video Standards and Video Measurement Standards Committees, the ADM’s (Assoc of Downloadable Media) Video Measurement Standards Committee and is a member of CTAM, NCTA, NATPE and other entertainment trade associations.