Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 19-22, 2009 Tuesday, October 20th SuperSessions 10:45 AM - Noon Workshop A: The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television Greg Foster, President, Filmed Entertainment, IMAX Neal Weinstock, Chairman/CEO, Kerner New York James Dix, Analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities Steve Shannon, Executive Vice President, RealD Home Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager, Consumer 3D Products, NVIDIA Corporation Angela Wilson Gyetvan, VP, Marketing and Sales, 3ality Digital Lenny Lipton, Fellow, SMPTE Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective, Moderator Greg Foster, Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment, joined IMAX Corporation in March, 2001. Based at IMAX's Santa Monica office, Foster’s primary responsibility is overseeing all aspects of the company's global filmed entertainment activities, including creative, production, film distribution, business affairs, marketing, sponsorship, studio relationships and the revolutionary IMAX DMR® process. During Foster's tenure at the Company, he has successfully re-positioned IMAX’s film slate to include more commercial entertainment product by bringing numerous Hollywood blockbuster event films to IMAX Theatres around the world. Among the films released under Foster are some of the most popular entertainment franchises, and some of the most successful in IMAX’s history. These films include Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience; Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones: The IMAX Experience; The Matrix Reloaded: The IMAX Experience; The Matrix Revolutions: The IMAX Experience; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience; Spider-Man 2: The IMAX Experience; The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience (the first ever digitally remastered IMAX® 3D animated film, which produced record-breaking results); Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The IMAX Experience; Superman Returns: An IMAX 3D Experience (the first live-action film with select scenes in IMAX 3D, which was an outstanding success at the box office ); Happy Feet: The IMAX Experience; 300: The IMAX Experience; Night at the Museum: The IMAX Experience; and most recently, The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience. Greg has also re-focused IMAX's original 15/70 film product to include more commercial fare with films like Space Station 3D (narrated by Tom Cruise), NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience, the Tom Hanks/Playtone film, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, and Deep Sea 3D (narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet) and Under the Sea 3D. A seasoned Hollywood executive, Foster spent 15 years at MGM/UA where he served in various senior management posts, including Executive Vice President of Production and Senior Vice President of Motion Picture Marketing and Research. During the course of his career at MGM/UA, Greg played a key role in the production and/or marketing of over 150 films, including hits such as A Fish Called Wanda, Get Shorty, King Pin, Moonstruck, Rain Man, Species, Thelma and Louise, Untamed Heart and several from the James Bond – 007 series. In 1999, Foster founded uMogul, a financial services company offering retail investors competitive market returns via mutual funds comprised of entertainment industry assets. He held the positions of Chairman, Co-founder and President of uMogul. Foster is a 1984 graduate of Georgetown University. He and his wife have three sons and currently live in Los Angeles. James Dix, Analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities: Mr. Dix is a senior research analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities providing research coverage for the media and entertainment sector focusing on advertising and broadcasting. Prior to joining Wedbush Morgan Securities, Mr. Dix spent the past three years at Deutsche Bank where he was a senior analyst covering stocks in radio and TV broadcasting and out of home advertising sectors. Prior to that, at Deutsche Bank Mr. Dix was an associate for five years. Mr. Dix holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Mr. Dix is a C.F.A. charter holder. Neal Weinstock, chairman and CEO, Kerner New York, one of the companies of the Kerner group. Kerner builds on its heritage as five of the former six divisions of Lucasfilm, to continue as one of the greatest film production studios in movie history. The group is also bringing to market a number of industry-leading technologies for 3D and 3D content. Neal has served as chairman of a Los Angeles film-industry systems integrator, Be Media, and he co-founded and led marketing and strategy for the Swiss AV semiconductor manufacturer, BridgeCo. Neal was previously president and founder of Weinstock Media Analysis (WMA), a leading market research company in the professional video and broadcast TV industries. At WMA, Neal supplied analytical consulting services to hundreds of the leading companies in the film, television and media technology industries. His writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers and he is the author of two books. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. Steve Shannon is Executive Vice President of RealD Home and is responsible for delivering on RealD's mission to enable 3D content is the living room. Prior to RealD, Steve was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Product Development at Gemstar-TV Guide, Int. (acquired by Macrovision). At Gemstar and Macrovision, Steve led product strategy and software development. In 2002, Steve founded Akimbo Systems, Inc., the first Internet video-on-demand service for televisions. Prior to Akimbo, Steve was a co-founder at ReplayTV where he helped launch the first digital video recorder, driving product, marketing, and sales strategies. Before ReplayTV, Steve was Director of Internet Authoring at Macromedia, where he launched Dreamweaver; now Adobe's market-leading Web-authoring tool. Steve joined Macromedia when it purchased iband, the company he co-founded and the original developer of Dreamweaver. Steve holds a bachelor's degree from UCLA and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager, Consumer 3D Products, NVIDIA Corporation: Mr. Fear currently is a senior product manager at NVIDIA Corporation and is responsible for NVIDIA’s consumer stereoscopic 3D products, including NVIDIA 3D Vision. Mr. Fear defines the product features, positioning, messaging, and launch events for 3D Vision, and has participated on 3D panels at the 2008 3D Entertainment Summit, 2008 3D Business Summit and 2009 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference. Andrew Fear has more than 10 years of experience in the high-technology field with an emphasis on graphics processing units and 3D technology. Mr. Fear began his career in 1998 and was instrumental in leading the product management cycle for Voodoo 3D graphics accelerators at 3dfx Interactive. At NVIDIA, Mr. Fear has been product manager for all GeForce desktop graphics drivers for over 5 years, managing all software releases to the millions of NVIDIA GeForce owners around the world. In addition, Mr. Fear has also been product manager for NVIDIA SLI™ technology, allowing you to scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions. Mr. Fear also successfully launched the 3-way and Quad SLI technologies at NVIDIA Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective, Inc., a husband and wife management consulting team that provides a unique blend of hands on management roles, strong educational credentials and many years of professional service work to companies all along the entertainment and entertainment technology food chain. Their backgrounds include Big 4 consulting/CPA firm experience, top 5 business graduate school with work experience at, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Lucasfilm/Industrial Light & Magic, Kodak’s Cinesite and Bank of America. The types of projects include business and strategic planning, operational reviews, market assessments, research & analysis and consulting on trends in the various market segments in which they are involved, with special attention paid to the anticipated impact on the professional and consumer marketplaces. These include many aspects of digital content production and distribution, digital cinema and its transition, digital image acquisition, 3D stereoscopic imaging, computer animation, sophisticated software tools and the next generation of DVDs. Visit the firm’s web site at iShindler.com for more information. Lenny Lipton, Fellow, SMPTE: Lenny Lipton was the founder of StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980 and was the CTO of Real D. He’s been granted thirty-five patents with forty pending. In 1996 he received a Smithsonian award for this invention of CrystalEyes®, the enduring stereoscopic product for computer displays. He invented the ZScreen, which is the basis of the electronic stereoscopic cinema. He has written four books, including Independent Filmmaking (1972), for twenty years the standard text on the subject, and Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema (1982). At Cornell he wrote the poem that became Puff the Magic Dragon. He lives in Laurel Canyon with his wife and three kids.