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 Wednesday, June 13th 10:45 AM - Noon Track IV: The NexGen Entertainment Home Experience - From the Smart & Connected TV to the PVR, Set-Top & PC Experience The home entertainment experience 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 a new generation of TV sets, HD and games devices, wirelessly connected homes with connected PCs as well as a host of set-top box and DVR options. The next generation of home entertainment hardware, software and services will come into battle delivering HDTV, Internet, music, games, movies, plus innovative two-way communication and telephony services. This battle for the home will be a tremendous victory for both the consumer, the technology industries as well as for the entertainment industry. It presents the simple proposition that offering the consumer more and richer services in a competitive environment is the perfect formula for success. David B. Davies, Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing, Subscriber Networks, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company John Gildred, Vice President of Engineering, Pioneer Leslie Sobon, Director of Product and Brand Management, Desktop Division, AMD Oleg Logvinov, President and CEO, Arkados; Chief Strategy Officer, HomePlug Powerline Alliance Brian Burch, Director, Managed Home, Global Consumer PC Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard Company Elizabeth Coppinger, Vice President, Video Services, RealNetworks, Inc. Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Brian Burch, Director, Managed Home, Global Consumer PC Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard Company: Brian Burch is director of the Managed Home program that drives HP’s strategic intent to "digitize" the home and provide compelling and intuitive experiences in every room and while people are on the go. He works across all of HP’s consumer-focused business units in the company’s Personal Systems Group to drive a consistent hardware, software and services roadmap. From 1998 to 2006, Burch was senior vice president of marketing for Insight, a major Internet and telesales reseller. He also served as vice president of marketing at an enterprise software start-up company, Aveo, which attracted $60 million in investor funding. He also held roles as the executive vice president of marketing and consumer/small office-home office sales at MicroWarehouse and the chief marketing officer at a leading web and audio conferencing company, Raindance, which was acquired by Intercall in early 2006. Burch first joined HP in 1995 as one of the founding members of the Home Products Division, which developed and launched the HP Pavilion PC product line and achieved market share leadership among PCs sold through the retail channel within two years. Following that success, he became the company’s first worldwide consumer brand manager, a role in which he devised and deployed successful consumer-centric brand positioning for HP around the world. Burch earned bachelor’s degrees in both journalism/advertising and psychology from the University of Kansas. He has served on multiple advisory boards and currently serves in that capacity for Incentive Logic, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based customer and employee rewards company. John Gildred is currently serving as Senior Vice President, Development and Technology for Digital TV, Blu-ray and New Media at Pioneer. For the past 6 years John has lead Pioneer's north American product development and advanced research facility, encompassing broadband TV business development, Blu-ray product development, plasma TV product development, US digital TV standards, home AV networking standards, and the establishment of common software frameworks and practices for Pioneer digital entertainment products. During his time at Pioneer, John has held Chairman and Vice Chair positions within various new media and home entertainment-focused industry forums and associations. Prior to his work at Pioneer, John has held senior executive positions for various early stage ventures in consumer home entertainment, Internet communications and digital rights management, and he has also served as technology consultant to various Fortune 500 companies. Pioneer is respected for its role in such innovations as interactive cable TV, the Laser Disc player, developing the first Compact Disc player for the car and the first detachable face car stereo, DVD and DVD recording, plasma display, and organic electroluminescent display. The Company's strength in optical disc and display technology is complemented by its state-of-the-art software products and manufacturing capabilities. Leslie Sobon is Director of Product and Brand Management for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where she is responsible for the desktop product line, including the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2, and AMD Sempron™ brands. Previously Leslie was Director of Marketing for Dell, Inc., managing the development and implementation of global marketing, business development, and go-to-market strategies. She has held a variety of marketing roles in the high technology industry, including Director of Worldwide Marketing for Texas Instruments’ software division. She has over 15 years of global marketing experience. Leslie has a BA in journalism from Northeastern University and an MBA from Baylor University. Leslie also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Heart House of Austin, a free after school program dedicated to providing a safe haven and academic support to low-income children. Oleg Logvinov, President and CEO, Arkados, Inc.: Oleg Logvinov is President and CEO of Arkados, Inc. (OTC BB: AKDS), a fabless semiconductor company bringing powerline communication solutions for audio and video applications in the home networking and broadband powerline (BPL) markets. He also serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. Oleg’s areas of expertise include optical networking, broadband access, VoIP, and networking. Previously, Oleg held senior positions with CyberPath Inc, NITECH Inc, and CEM Corporation. He also spent a number of years on research and development of control and process modeling solutions for large-scale high and medium voltage power distribution networks. Oleg has co-founded, built, and sold Academy, Ltd, a technology consulting and service company. Oleg holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Ukraine (KPI). He has also worked for an R&D laboratory at the University of Kiev and the Ukraine Department of Energy. 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. Elizabeth Coppinger, Vice President, Video Services, RealNetworks, Inc.: Elizabeth Coppinger is the Vice President of Video Services at RealNetworks, the leading creator of digital media services and software. Ms. Coppinger runs RealNetworks’ Video Services which include the RealGuide, Film.com and the SuperPass subscription service. She manages strategy, business development, and overall implementation of Real’s emerging short- and long-form video and entertainment businesses. Prior to RealNetworks, she was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances at Sony Corporation of America. While at Sony, Ms. Coppinger focused on the opportunities created by the intersection of entertainment, media and technology, including electronic music delivery, digital photo sharing and other areas such as home networking and media management; as well as new CE products and related service offerings. An early entrepreneur in renewable energy, Ms. Coppinger was the founding Engineering and Operations VP of AES, a biomass energy company, prior to and following its successful IPO. She chaired Washington State's Citizen Advisory Committee on Energy and was a member of the US Department of Energy's National Biomass Energy Advisory Committee. Ms. Coppinger is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle where she studied chemistry, physics and engineering.