Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica Tuesday, June 12th 10:45 AM - Noon Track III: Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology & Content Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV We are entering the age of all video all the time. Video is no longer a manifestation of TV, video is a web experience, a mobile experience, as well as an IPTV, Cable and Satellite experience. Video is taped on a hard drive, a PVR, DVR, on an iPOD and on a cell phone. Video is how consumers relate to the world. The conversion to the all-video culture has been so quiet and so quick, the implications of what an all-video culture may mean is only first becoming part of the national business and intellectual conversation. The technology and communication companies that have developed and provide the new video services may well have the greatest insight as to what these new technologies and cultural advances mean. In this session, we are delighted to bring that group of experts to a public forum Ray Starbird, Director, Strategy & Development, Cox Communications Mitch Weinraub, Executive Director, Products and Services for the Comcast Media Center Bruce May, SVP of Corporate Development, WhiteBlox Dan Monahan, Manager, UMPC Infotainment Programs, Intel Steve Weinstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. Fred McIntyre, Senior Vice President, AOL Video, AOL Bill Wheaton, Vice President of Digital Media Sales, Akamai Derek Kuhn, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, Strategic Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent, Moderator Derek Kuhn is the Sr. Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel’s Strategic Solutions Development Group and is based in Canada at Alcatel’s Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As a business and marketing lead, Mr. Kuhn is Alcatel’s primary liaison with the content community including film, television and gaming. Mr. Kuhn is also a past Chairman of the Broadband Services Forum (BSF), an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband and works with the service provider and content community to deliver content-rich consumer and business services. Prior to helping found the BSF, Mr. Kuhn served as Chairman of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF), which under his stewardship merged with another prominent industry association, the Service Creation Community (SCC), to form the BSF in January 2005. Mr. Kuhn has held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and Product Management for both wireless and wireline multimedia delivery solutions at Alcatel. Prior to Alcatel’s acquisition of Newbridge Networks in May 2000, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Product Manager, ATM Access Products in 1999, and Product Manager, Narrowband Packet in1998. Mr. Kuhn joined Newbridge Networks when they acquired Castleton Network Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia where he was a Systems Engineering Manager. Mr. Kuhn began his career as a consulting engineer with Totten Sims & Hubicki from 1988 to 1996. Mr. Kuhn holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Ray Starbird, Director, Strategy & Development, Cox Communications: Having worked for an ISP, ASP, ILEC, CLEC, IXC, MSO, RBOC, a VSAT provider, and a dotcom, Ray considers himself fully acronym- and buzzword-compliant. His current responsibilities include business strategy and new product development for Cox Communications, where he focuses on entertainment services such as music, games, sports, and online video. Bill Wheaton is the Vice President of Digital Media Sales, Akamai. For the last 4 years, Bill has focused his efforts on supporting Akamai's key Digital Media customers and driving innovation at Akamai to help our customers take advantage of emerging opportunities. Prior to that, Bill was the Director of Streaming Sales at Akamai and headed the streaming sales efforts at Akamai including partnership programs. Before coming to Akamai in 2000, Bill worked for Intervu and was in charge of the Business Communications Sales Group supporting customers like CCBN, MCI, AT&T, Sprint and others. Bill has started and sold several businesses including VCS Technologies, which he sold to Intervu in 1999. Bill started his career at Proctor & Gamble and moved to Pfizer before starting his entrepreneurial ventures. Bill has a B.S. from WPI and a MBA from NYU. Fred McIntyre, Senior Vice President, AOL Video: Fred McIntyre is Vice President of AOL Video, where he oversees a team that leads AOL's comprehensive strategy for Video and has operational oversight for video initiatives across AOL's network of Web properties. McIntyre is also responsible for developing new video opportunities on behalf of AOL's Audience business. McIntyre joined AOL in 1999 and has worked in a variety of capacities, including most recently Vice President of Programming & Media Networks, AOL for Broadband. He also spent several years as Vice President, Business Development for AOL Entertainment where his responsibilities included mapping and implementing the strategy that established AOL as a premier online destination and industry partner for Games, Movies, Music, Radio, Television, and Ticketing. Prior to AOL, McIntyre held senior management positions at Spinner.com, VIBE Magazine and SPIN Magazine. Bruce May, SVP of Corporate Development, WhiteBlox: As an interactive media expert experienced in business development within the IPTV industry, Mr. May holds the title of Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with WhiteBlox. He brings his many years of video production, broadcast and creative media development to Continental Vista Broadcasting Group, Inc. In the last two years he has grown with the company helping to guide the development of the business models in a highly dynamic business environment. Mr. May has helped develop the business solution for The Texas Music Café, a premier WhiteBlox client, and continues to help expand WhiteBlox into new media markets. Mr. May began his broadcasting career with Quanah Productions in 1996, selling, writing and co-producing television commercials, marketing videos and training videos. He founded New Light Productions in 2000 working on a variety of projects including film, video and multimedia productions. He completed Dreaming of Tokyo, his first film script in 2001. He also contributed to the production of, Primal, a full-length movie produced by Gold Spur Entertainment, (2003). Mr. May’s other clients over the years have included a number of local production companies [including Quanah Productions, 3D Texas, MGA Productions] and individual businesses [including Compaq, Jim Will Ph.D. and Associates, The Texas Real Estate Show and many others]. Mr. May is also a member of the American Society of Training and Development. He completed the ASTD certification course offered by the University of Oklahoma in 2001. Combining his experience in marketing and training, Mr. May authored The Value Based Marketing Process‘, in 2001 which offers a systematic method to marketing that focuses on putting core values into marketing strategies. Mr. May also authored Market Yourself‘ in 2002, a seminar designed to teach individuals how to better market themselves. Over the last five years Mr. May has focused his attention on interactive media gaining expertise in interactive broadcast solutions. Mr. May has developed rich media projects and is expert in multimedia production. His experience with Continental Vista Broadcasting Group and now with WhiteBlox, during a time of industry incubation, combined with his creative experience and video centric world view, has given Mr. May valuable insight into an Industry that is growing expertise from the inside out. Bruce May graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Mitch Weinraub is Executive Director, Products and Services for the Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable. In this role, he oversees development and implementation of the company’s content creation, management and distribution services. The Denver-based CMC’s products and services encompass production and postproduction facilities, a national VOD platform, web streaming, store and forward delivery and video over IP, including IP multicasting via satellite and delivering video to PCs and portable media devices. Weinraub has over 18 years of experience designing facilities, systems and processes for the purpose of managing technology. Before assuming his current assignment at the CMC, he spent six years as its Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation. During this time he led the team that launched the CMC’s national VOD platform, which currently manages and delivers over 3,600 assets each month to more than 15 million digital cable households across the US. His team also worked on developing the mosaic packages used for the CMC/GuideWorks’ video-rich navigation (VRN) service, and creates and delivers standard definition and HDTV content for VOD and PC video players, including highlights of professional and international sporting events. Most recently, he has supervised the development and distribution of mobile video content for the Sprint JV, and cross-platform advertising and marketing promotions for one of the world’s top consumer electronics manufacturers. Before joining The CMC in 2000, he held roles at PRIMESTAR, DIRECTV, National College Television and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Weinraub has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from The American University, and an M.A. in broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media from Temple University. He 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. A frequent presenter at industry conferences, Weinraub delivered a paper on “Complete Media Management Agents: A strategy for Evolving Today’s Media Companies,” at the 2007 Emerging technologies Conference for the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE). Steve Weinstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc (MovieLabs): With a background that spans technology, intellectual property and entertainment, Steve Weinstein now leads the film industry’s united effort to explore and invest in emerging technologies to advance the consumer experience in the new media environment. Prior to joining MovieLabs, Weinstein served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Macrovision Corporation, where he led the post-reorganization effort to define that company’s strategic and technological direction. Weinstein previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Macrovision’s Entertainment Technologies Group, where he guided the transition from physical security technologies to secure online distribution, commerce and subscription services. Previous to Macrovision, Weinstein held the role of Chief Technology Officer at Vicinity, a mapping company acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Weinstein was a founding executive and Chief Strategist and Technologist at Liberate Technologies, an interactive television software company. Over his career, Weinstein has held executive-level positions at Microprose/Spectrum HoloByte, Electronics for Imaging, and Media Cybernetics.