Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Building Blocks 2008 Tuesday, August 5th 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track IV: Technology Redefining the Future The Web, The Network, New Applications and Communicating in the Cloud While definitions vary as to the exact meaning, Communicating in the Cloud, Cloud Computing and Networked Consumer Applications all represent the future relationship between the consumer or customer and his universe of activities. Ten years ago the thought was that all applications could be accessed off the network and that a powerful PC would become less relevant. The future is however, never exactly what you think it’s going to be. In this case, the future grew tentacles in every direction. Everything grew larger and more powerful. The Servers and storage exploded in size. The power and design of the Network exploded. The devices became more powerful and dedicated software more elegant and the result is a Networked Cloud that enables hundreds of millions of consumers in an endless communicating and creative experience. While the definition and direction of the Cloud may vary, the entire future of the consumer electronics, media and entertainment industries will be it beneficiaries. Sanjit Biswas, CEO, Meraki Arun Saksena, Director, Cisco Systems David Hatfield, Senior Vice President, Products, Marketing and Sales, Limelight Networks Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder, 10gen Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera, Inc. John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder, ServePath Bruce Moxon, Vice President, Strategic Technology, NetApp Rick Sizemore, Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer, MultiMedia Intelligence, Moderator Sanjit Biswas, CEO, Meraki: Sanjit Biswas is responsible for Meraki’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-led the research project that won several academic awards and later became the foundation of Meraki’s wireless mesh technology. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford, and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Arun Saksena is a Managing Director and high-tech global lead of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). IBSG works with many of the world's leading companies to help them become more competitive through effective business processes and technology deployment. Mr. Saksena brings 21 years of combined consulting and industry experience. Before joining Cisco, he was partner at Accenture in New York, working for clients in the communications and high-tech industry. Whilst at Accenture, he focused mostly on supply chain strategy and post-merger integration projects. Prior to Accenture, he was with Booz, Allen & Hamilton's Operations Management Group and earlier in his career worked as a Software Engineer at Tata-Unisys in India and the U.K. He has published numerous articles on supply chain management, merger integration, telecom network asset management and mobile devices. Mr. Saksena holds an MBA in Finance and an M. Eng. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, both from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India, where he graduated with distinction. Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder, 10gen: Dwight, who is responsible for driving the strategic vision of 10gen, is one of the leading engineering minds in the Interactive industry — possessing a particular knack for solving the most complex problems. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which still serves billions of ads per day. Prior to DoubleClick, Dwight worked as a software developer at DCA/Attachmate in Atlanta. In 2005, he co-founded both Panther Express and ShopWiki, at which he serves as chairman. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. with honors in Systems Analysis from Miami University of Ohio. Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera, Inc., is co-inventor of Aspera’s core technology and responsible for overseeing the company’s direction. With breakthrough technology solving the fundamental problems of network data delivery, Aspera has quickly become the market leader for high-performance, global file transfer in media and entertainment, and is extensively deployed throughout a variety of industries, as well as government and defense markets, worldwide. Before founding Aspera in 2004, Michelle was a software engineer in several research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. She is a frequent speaker on how new data transfer technologies are revolutionizing content production, transformation and distribution workflows. A Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Munson holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Kansas State University, as well as a master's in computer science from Cambridge University. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and has received national achievement awards from Glamour Magazine and USA Today. John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of ServePath, a Managed Hosting provider based in San Francisco that has just launched its new GoGrid cloud computing service. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. At ServePath, Keagy drove the early growth of the dedicated server hosting market by introducing multiple firsts, including multiprocessor servers and hosted load balanced server networks. John Keagy’s entrepreneurial skills and strategic vision have led Servepath’s rapid growth. The company was recently named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 in recognition of its growth (#11 in Silicon Valley and #77 in North America). ServePath, founded in 2001 by John Keagy, serves the critical Internet infrastructure needs of thousands of businesses worldwide from its headquarters and data center facility in San Francisco. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath’s second growth opportunity. Much as the shift from in-house or colocated servers to outsourced dedicated and managed hosting had driven ServePath’s first half decade of growth, the shift to server virtualization will drive the next five years. Keagy’s vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel. Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California, with over 35,000 customers. InReach provided local dial-up access to more locations in California than any competitor, and was sold to a large private corporation in 1999. In 1991, John used the Internet to manage the overseas development of software and electro-optical imaging devices for computer and Internet security for biometric security start-up Identicator Technology. During his four-year tenure, John developed substantial international business expertise and also was awarded two US patents for fingerprint imaging devices. John was also a staff consultant for Andersen Consulting, served as sales team leader for IBM for two years, held an IS position with MCI, and was an IS project manager with Cookson PLC in London. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley where he earned the Kennedy Award in Business Administration. He is also an alumnus of the Stanford Business School Executive Program. John lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot. Bruce Moxon, Vice President, Strategic Technology, NetApp: Bruce Moxon is vice president of Strategic Technology at NetApp, where he works with both enterprise and technical computing customers deploying grid computing and data management solutions. He brings extensive experience in distributed computing for both scientific and commercial applications and writes, speaks, and teaches extensively on the continuing evolution of grid computing. Prior to joining NetApp, Moxon was chief solutions architect at Panasas, where he worked with customers deploying scalable storage solutions for Linux® clusters. He has architected and developed solutions for a number of high-throughput computing environments, including Perlegen Sciences’ SNP discovery system, Bank of America’s CRM and analytics systems, and NASA’s Earth Observing System. Moxon has a BS degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.