Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Building Blocks 2008 Wednesday, August 6th 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Track I: The Mobile 2.0 -Personalized Platform Reinventing the Mobile Device and Mobile Network – Integrating the Full PC Experience into a Personal Communications Device The mobile experience is merging with entertainment consciousness. What was thought to be absurd two years ago is now fait accompli. The mobile device is continually evolving to include the full range of communication and entertainment dynamics, from just a phone to a device with the functionality of a radio or MP3 player and the video quality of a DVD player. Video phones will be for watching TV, watching friends on vacation and for watching movies. Mobile devices will range from the mini, the micro to the mini-laptop, perfect for watching full-featured live sporting events. Music will be accessed via the mobile device. Video shopping will be become a factor in the marketplace. The parameters of the mobile audio and video experience are only now beginning to be understood. Rob Katcher, Senior Manager, Smartphones, Palm, Inc. Mark Jacobstein, CEO, iSkoot Dan Monahan, Global Internet Segment Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Intel, Inc. Jennifer Vancini, Sr. Director of Business Development, Symbian Paul Zuber, founding Chief Executive Officer, Dilithium Babak Jafarian, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Ortiva Wireless Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Rob Katcher, Senior Manager, Smartphones, Palm, Inc.:As Senior Manager of Palm’s Smartphones business unit, Rob Katcher is responsible for management of the Centro and Treo 755p product lines. Rob began his career at Accenture’s Telecom practice. Prior to joining Palm he served as Senior Consultant at Redshift Technologies and held executive positions at Xpherix. Mr. Katcher holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Georgia and a masters degree in computer science and entrepreneurship from Princeton University. Mark Jacobstein, CEO, iSkoot: Mark most recently served as the EVP at Silicon Valley-based loopt, Inc., a ground-breaking social mapping startup backed by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Before joining loopt, Jacobstein was the founding President for Digital Chocolate, one of the world's largest publishers of mobile games, which raised more than $20M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, KPCB, and Sutter Hill. Mark was also the CEO and founder of Small World Sports, the world's first online fantasy sports business, where he raised more than $20M from Flatiron Ventures, SCP, CCP and NBC before selling the business to Paul Allen's The Sporting News. In addition, Jacobstein co-founded Small World Software, an Internet technology consultancy, which he sold to iXL in 1998. He then served as the SVP of sales and business development for iXL's New York office before its 1999 IPO. Jacobstein studied Computer Science at Harvard University and began his career as a software developer at Bloomberg L.P. Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, 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. Paul Zuber is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Dilithium. Paul brings twenty five years of experience in founding and growing successful global technology companies. Prior to joining Dilithium, Mr. Zuber was President of Solectron Australia, the Australian subsidiary of the world’s leading electronics manufacturing services company. Solectron acquired the company Mr. Zuber co-founded and led as CEO, the Bluegum Group, and Mr. Zuber was asked to remain as President of the new Solectron subsidiary. As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Bluegum Group, a full-service, electronic manufacturing services provider serving the Asia Pacific region, Mr. Zuber was responsible for raising $20M in equity and growing the company to revenues of approximately US$250 million with customers including Agilent, Alcatel, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent, and NEC. The 800-employee company grew to be among the 20 largest in the world in its industry before the acquisition by Solectron. Prior to founding Bluegum, Mr. Zuber held a variety of senior management positions at Ready Systems including Vice President of Operations, Chief Financial Officer, and Vice President of Worldwide Customer Service Operations. Ready Systems was a global leader in software development environments for microprocessor-based embedded systems. The company was acquired by Mentor Graphics, a world leader in electronic design automation software. Before joining Ready Systems, Mr. Zuber co-founded John Galt Computer Corporation (San Francisco, California), a leading regional system integrator of microcomputer-based CAD systems and micro-mainframe communications products. As President, Mr. Zuber grew the business profitably and developed a diverse client base of semiconductor and aerospace customers before a private investment group acquired it. Mr. Zuber began his career as a management consultant with Bain & Company (Menlo Park, California/Mexico City, Mexico), where he was a founding member of their venture capital group (Bain Capital) and also performed strategy consulting for Fortune 500 technology companies. He holds BA degrees in both International Relations and Economics from Stanford and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Babak Jafarian, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Ortiva Wireless: Babak Jafarian has more than 15 years of experience in technology and product development in the wireless communications industry. Prior to co-founding Ortiva Wireless in 2004, he led the Network Solutions Group at Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI), and held management roles at Motorola and O2 in the UK. Babak holds a Ph.D. in electronic and electrical engineering from King's College London and an MBA from the London School of Economics.