Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Tuesday, May 5th 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track I: The Flat Panel-Television Platform: HD, Downloads, Interactivity, Widgets – New Relationships, New Technology The combination of the TV, the set-top, the broadband connection and digital video recorder is breaking down the barriers of TV viewing experience. Every player in the entertainment and technology food chain – from content owner to middleware and headend operator, to the subscriber service provider and finally to the CE manufacturer, all play an equally key role. The idea that consumers might use a TV, demanding personal and enhanced video services, as they do a computer has arrived – and it is our job to make the future happen today. In the near future, viewers might be watching a football game and at the same time, on a second window on the TV, that viewer might also be shopping for tank-tops or buying snacks from the supermarket. That viewer might be taping a show, watching a movie and doing research for a term paper on the web at the same time. The TV set will serve as gateway to entertainment and information as sure as the computer opens the door to a world of information. TV, interactive TV, IPTV, PVR TV, broadband based TV, there will likely be as many ways to describe the way consumers will use and access content and programming as there are companies supplying the options. In this session we will explore that coming future Nick Colsey, Product Planning & New Business Development, Sony Electronics Inc., FTV America Martin Stein, Sr. Director, Marketing, Motorola Connected Home Solutions Group, IP Video Solutions, Motorola Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group Jeff Allen, Founder and CEO, RallyPoint S. Scott Burnett, Strategy and Business Development Director, IBM Digital Convergence Group Crx Chai, User Experience Manager, OpenTV Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Yahoo! Connected TV group Jeffrey Binder, General Partner, Genovation Capital, Moderator Nick Colsey, Product Planning & New Business Development, Sony Electronics Inc., FTV America: A veteran of Sony Electronics for 17 years, Mr. Colsey is an integral member of the team responsible for Sony’s successful BRAVIA televisions line. In this capacity, he worked extensively on development of Sony’s new BRAVIA Internet Video Link, which brings internet video directly to the TV screen without a PC. Crx Chai, User Experience Manager, OpenTV: Crx Chai is User Experience Manager at OpenTV, a leading software and technology provider of advanced digital television solutions. Crx leads the team driving the design and development of OpenTV's next generation user interface products, including OpenTV Core nX™, an intuitive and personalized UI that will allow viewers to create a virtual living room and expand and personalize their media universe. OpenTV Core nX enables friends and family to enjoy programming while creating their own television experience and social network, allowing them to build their own television community and bring relevant content to the forefront of the television experience through a unified media interface. Crx is based in Oakland, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Martin J. Stein, Sr. Director, Marketing, Motorola Connected Home Solutions Group, IP Video Solutions: Mr. Stein directs marketing and business development activities related to MPEG-based standard definition and high definition video processing products. These include satellite, cable, telco, and terrestrial transmission systems, access control and encryption systems, IP set tops, and commercial integrated receiver/decoders. Mr. Stein has also been instrumental in establishing third party partnership agreements to provide more comprehensive solutions for Motorola customers. Prior to joining Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions Sector ( formerly General Instrument), Mr. Stein was marketing manager for imaging, film, and video storage devices at Ampex Corporation, a leader in video recording equipment based in Redwood City, California. Mr. Stein earned a B.S. in industrial engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and an M.B.A at California State University, Fullerton. Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group: Brendan Traw is responsible for the architecture and technology directions for Intel's consumer PC and consumer electronics platforms. Previously, he focused on the management and protection of entertainment content in digital environments, leading the team which developed Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), the basis of content protection for today's digital home networks, as well as a range of other content protection solutions for recordable DVD, DVD-Audio, SDcard, and the DVI/HDMI display interfaces. A recognized leader across the computer, consumer electronics and content industries, he has published numerous papers and holds 19 patents in the areas of content protection, system architecture, and network security. Traw received his Ph.D. in computer information science from the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff Allen, CEO, Rallypoint, Jeff Allen is a leading international executive and expert in digital media and consumer technologies. Mr. Allen is the CEO of Rallypoint, a cutting-edge company at the forefront of the consumer electronics and digital media industries. Prior to Rallypoint, Mr. Allen was founder and managing partner of Rocket Ventures, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on software, semiconductors and digital media services, where he sat on the Board of Directors. Mr. Allen is a frequent speaker for the venture capital marketplace, entertainment and content distribution, the digital home, and advanced media technologies. Mr. Allen has also advised the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Invest In Sweden Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the State of California on economic development activities as it relates to regional technology competencies. Mr. Allen holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan. Patrick Barry, VP Connected TV, Yahoo!: Patrick Barry leads the digital home team for Yahoo!’s global Connected Life business unit, which is at the leading edge of the Web’s intersection with the “10-foot experience” of television viewing. The Connected Life business unit encompasses Yahoo!’s mobile products, broadband services, digital home initiative, PC client experience, and strategic partnerships with companies including AT&T, BT, Nokia, and Motorola. This includes the Yahoo! Go suite of services, a revolutionary way to seamlessly connect users to their favorite Web services, wherever they happen to be. Barry has overall responsibility for the digital home business, including the strategy, products and partnerships that extend Yahoo!’s content, communities and services to “10-foot interfaces” in the digital home. Barry leads Yahoo!’s Digital Home product efforts on network operator, consumer electronics and PC-based platforms, including programs with AT&T, Intel, Sony, TiVo, Philips and Microsoft. Before joining Yahoo!, Barry was an active venture investor in the areas of networking, consumer electronics and web services. Prior to that, he worked with numerous start-up technology companies, both as an operating executive and as a practicing corporate and securities lawyer. He is a regular speaker at industry events, including Digital Hollywood and the Intel Developer Forum. Patrick received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and holds a JD from Hastings College of the Law. Jeffrey Binder, General Partner, Genovation Capital: Jeffrey Binder was most recently a senior executive with Motorola, serving as Senior Director Strategy and M&A and GM of its On Demand Solutions group. In addition to day-to-day operations of the 150+ person on-demand solutions group with offices in the US, Europe and Asia, Mr. Binder spearheaded several key initiatives within the office of the CEO, as well as driving the companies worldwide on-demand video business and M&A strategy. Mr. Binder has been named as, one of eight Next Generation Leaders by MultiChannel News, Top 100 Heavy Hitters by CableFax Magazine and one of 40 under 40 by the Boston Business Journal. Prior to Motorola, Mr. Binder founded Broadbus Technologies, which was sold to Motorola in 2006 for nearly $200 Million. Broadbus pioneered the concept of television on-demand using advance memory technology and became the leading supplier of video streams in 2006. It was at Broadbus where Messrs. Binder and Bisceglia as President and CEO respectively, went on to engineer on of New England's top ten exits since the tech bubble of '99. At Broadbus Binder set the bar for start-ups, creating an advisory board of the top technologists and media players in North America, including the CTO's of Charter, Cablevision, Rogers, Cox, Liberty Media and Time Warner. The advisory board also included David Fellows, CTO of Comcast the COO of Nickelodeon (Board Member), the President of Paramount Television and the President of Warner Domestic Television. Mr. Binder was Chairman and CEO of the Leading Golf Companies from 1996-2000, then the largest marketing and technology network of high-end golf courses in North America including Mauna Lani, Pebble Beach and Pinehurst. LGC was an outgrowth of incubator Nanosoft, which was an offshore development start-up founded by Mr. Binder 1995 to incubate young technology companies in China. Prior to Leading Golf, Mr. Binder led Magic Music's rapid growth as the largest provider of digital duplicating technology to record industry from 1991-1994 to companies including Capitol Records, MCA Records, Philips NV and Polygram. Mr. Binder has been an investing and trading professional since he became a Member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1987. Mr. Binder has attended Harvard University as an undergrad with a concentration in Environmental Management.