a Digital Hollywood Spring Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel Wednesday, March 29 10:45 AM - Noon Track IV: 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. William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corporation Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast David Novak, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Video Without Boundaries, Inc. Steve Francis, CEO, Avtrex Dave Clark, Director, Product Strategy & Management, Home Entertainment Products, Scientific-Atlanta Stacy Cook, CEO, BroadQ Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corporation: Bill Leszinske is the General Manager of the Networked Media Platform Group within Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. He previously served as the Intel® Viiv™ Technology Platform Manager. Bill has an extensive background in sales and marketing. In 2004, he formed the Digital Home marketing team within Intel's Desktop Products Group. He also served as director of Chipset and Software Marketing for the same group. Prior to joining Intel, he was a regional applications manager for one of the world’s largest computer companies. Bill joined Intel in 1989, and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is based out of Intel Corporation’s Folsom, California campus, and lives nearby with his wife and three children. Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast: Mitchell J. Weinraub is Senior Director of New Media Initiatives for the Comcast Media Center. In this role, he is responsible for all of the Comcast Media Center's production and new media services including the national VOD platform, studios, post-production, live events, web streaming, store and forward delivery and video over IP at the Denver-area facility. Weinraub has 15 years of experience designing facilities, systems and processes for the purpose of managing technology. Before his current assignment, he held roles at PRIMESTAR, DIRECTV, National College Television and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from The American University, and an M.A. in broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media from Temple University. Weinraub is co-author of Universal Access to On-line Services: An Examination of the Issue, published as Chapter 6 in The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth by MIT Press, August 2001. Dave Clark, Director, Product Strategy & Management, Home Entertainment Products, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.: Dave Clark is Director, Product Strategy & Management, for Home Entertainment Products at Scientific-Atlanta. He has responsibility for managing and charting the future course of the DVR platform which includes the ExplorerÒ 8300 and 8300HD Home Entertainment Servers as well as the Multi-Room DVR products. Dave joined Scientific Atlanta in January, 2001. Prior to coming to Scientific-Atlanta, Dave held various engineering and marketing positions at Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA, GE, and ProScan brands). The last engineering position he held was as Project Engineering Coordinator for DirecTv set-top units. Dave then moved into product management where he managed various product lines including digital cameras, camcorders, and 19‰-36‰ televisions. Prior to Thomson, Dave started his career working in the Defense industry for what is now Raytheon, working as a project engineer on weapon and avionic systems for Navy aircraft. Dave received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Degree from Purdue University. David Novak, EVP, Video Without Boundaries, Inc. (VWB): Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing’s (CTAM) Award winner David Novak currently serves as Executive Vice President for VWB where he leads all commercial activities for the company. Mr. Novak is spearheading the company’s global distribution and marketing of its groundbreaking Broadband Media Center (MediaREADY 4000 and 5000) and Portable Media Center (Flyboy) technology. Novak has come to VWB from Pace Micro Technology plc where he was responsible for corporate development, product management and marketing. Novak served as Vice President of Marketing for Pace and during his tenure, Novak led all marketing efforts to introduce their competitive digital home gateway technology (set-top boxes) into the US cable market most notably to, industry leaders, Time Warner Cable and Comcast. He established and directed strategic relationships with North and South American partners resulting in an improved competitive position in the marketplace and important development/marketing alliances. In addition, he identified and led new business development efforts for alternative technology applications involving satellite, terrestrial, IP networks and software products for several MSOs, RBOCs, computer manufacturers, and TV Manufacturers. Prior to joining Pace, David served as senior system account executive at Metrocall Wireless Communications in Hollywood, Florida for two years, where he was responsible for marketing information technology and system product and services. Prior to that he was president of DLN Promotions, Inc., a promotion and marketing firm he founded in 1994, to plan and conduct event marketing and promotion campaigns at Major League Baseball stadiums. David earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Maryland. Mr. Novak holds an US/IPT Patent for the Digital Cable Adapter. Steve Francis, CEO of Avtrex, is an experienced leader, marketer, and technologist. He has been involved with Avtrex since its inception as a member of its board of directors. Before joining Avtrex, Steve was president and CEO of Captiva Software (NASDAQ:CPTV; recently acquired by EMC) where he was responsible for refocusing the company and returning it to profitability before doubling its size through a merger with a strategic business partner. His career has spanned roles as diverse as software development, engineering management, marketing, and OEM sales. Steve also serves as chairman of the board of RAF Technologies, a Seattle-based company which delivers intelligent software systems for complex data capture and analysis tasks. He holds a BS degree and pursued advanced work in electrical engineering and computer science from Stanford University where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honorary societies. Steve was one of the first ReplayTV customers, and has watched personal video recorders (PVR's) change the way his family is entertained. He lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga, California. 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.