Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 27-30, 2008 Thursday, October 30th 12:50 PM - 2:00 PM Track I: Music Industry Innovates and Morphs: Mobile, Radio, Broadband, P2P, Ad Revenue Concepts, Cable/TV Innovation In the never-ending odyssey that is called the Music Industry, the road to future just keeps on getting longer and more complex. Perhaps it is because music is such an integral and creative personal experience, giving rise to an unlimited number of creative and disruptive forces, but as each year arrives, so too do about fifty new ways to deliver, listen, experience and pay for the music. In this session, we bring together a cross-section of creative players, from the traditional music label and P2P players, to companies with entirely new ways to reach the consumer offering new ways to listen and experience music all with completely new revenue models. We welcome you and all look forward to a fascinating session. Bill Crandall, Music Vice President, AOL Guy Borgford, Sr. Marketing Director, Real Networks/RollingStone.com Jessica Steel, Vice President of Business Development, Pandora KamranV, CyKiK, Spaceland Recordings Dimitri Villard, CEO, ARTISTdirect Steve Morin, Director, Product Management, IP Applications, Alcatel-Lucent David Ray Bean, BeanBag1.com Paul Verna, Senior Analyst, eMarketer, Moderator Paul Verna, Senior Analyst, eMarketer: Paul Verna covers digital media and entertainment, including music, movies, video games, user-generated content and podcasting. Paul has held leadership positions as a journalist, author and communications professional in the entertainment industry. Paul came to eMarketer from The Orchard, a digital content licensing and distribution company, where he was director of corporate communications. Earlier, he served as editorial programs manager at Avid Technology. Previously, Paul was New York editor of Mix magazine, spearheading coverage of the New York recording and post-production industries. He began his career at Billboard magazine,where he served as reviews editor, pro audio/technology editor and senior writer. While at the magazine, Paul co-authored The Encyclopedia of Record Producers, an authoritative reference on more than 500 studio producers. Paul has moderated panels for the Recording Academy, the Audio Engineering Society and CMJ, and been quoted in print and on TV as a music industry expert. He is a voting member of the Grammy Awards and serves on the Advisory Council of the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing. Jessica Steel, Vice President, Business Development, Pandora: Jessica has served as Pandora's Vice President for Business Development since mid-2004, and is responsible for strategic partnerships for the company. Prior to joining Pandora, Jessica led the business development efforts for the international division of Overture Services (a Yahoo! company). During her four-year tenure there, she helped to grow the business from one market to a 19-country, 600+ person international division that drove $500M in annual revenues. Before Overture, Jessica worked in international finance, with clients ranging from Softbank Japan to the Thai Ministry of Finance. Outside of work, she is a singer-songwriter, writing under the name "Jessica Stone," with a full-length CD entitled Seven Letters released in 2002. Jessica holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a recipient of the Thouron Scholarship. She also attended the Los Angeles Music Academy for vocal performance. KamranV is a music and video producer and a graduate of USC's prestigious Music Industry program, he went on to set the standard for research-driven artist marketing and Universal Music's web video streaming standards as Head of Production in the New Media division of Interscope Geffen A&M, and Co-Founder/Head of Marketing for Universal Music's Mobile division. He blazed new trails for new technology business development incorporating mobile phones, Video on Demand, and high-definition physical formats such as DVD-Audio and Dual-Disc for which he served as Producer of many releases including albums from Sting, Snow Patrol, Keane, Nine Inch Nails, and Beck. KamranV currently serves on the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy's L.A. Chapter Committee. He is an executive strategist for multinational clients and is Co-founder, President, COO, Producer of Spaceland Recordings, the premiere on-demand, globally distributed, live audio and video recording record label. KamranV recently co-created Campus MusicFestival. Bill Crandall, Vice President/ Editor In Chief, AOL Music: As Vice President/ Editor in Chief of AOL Music, Bill Crandall is responsible for the overall consumer experience and editorial content for the site’s channels that include Spinner.com, PopEater.com and TheBoombox.com. Under Bill’s direction, AOL Music has become one of the top online destinations for music fans. Before joining AOL in 2006, Bill served as Music Editor for RollingStone.com where he was the site’s liaison with the magazine, overseeing online editorial features and multimedia content including live concert performances, video interviews and podcasts. Prior to his work at RollingStone.com, Bill was the Managing Editor of BAM Magazine in California. As a writer, he has contributed to a number of high-profile publications including Rolling Stone, Maxim and Urb, and as a television commentator he’s appeared on ABC, CNN, VH1, The CW, ESPN and E! Bill is graduate of the University of Delaware, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1990. Steve Morin, Director, Product Management, IP Applications, Alcatel-Lucent: Steve Morin brings more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience to his role as Director of Product Management for the IP Applications Division of Alcatel-Lucent. In this position, Mr. Morin is responsible for the network and services architecture for Alcatel-Lucent’s Internet application management. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Morin served as Director of Product Strategy in the IP Division of the Alcatel Fixed Communication Group. Steve Morin holds a bachelor of applied sciences degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is also a licensed professional engineer. Guy Borgford - Senior Marketing Director - Advertising Sales, Real Networks: Mr. Borgford has been with Real's Advertising Sales group since 2000, and has been specializing in interactive media and client creative strategy for well over 15 years. During his tenure at Real, he has developed integrated and multichannel music sponsorship programs for some of the world's biggest brands, including Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft, HP, T-Mobile, Hanes, Johnnie Walker, Jameson, Cuervo, Greyhound, Hyundai, Honda, Mini, Visa, MasterCard and many more. Mr. Borgford always attempts to drive the bigger picture and leverage client's interactive strategy to better optimize activities in all marketing channels, including those of the artists involved. Prior to joining Real, Mr. Borgford held various creative positions in traditional advertising, web development, software development, interactive POP and public relations. David Bean began his music industry career as a Disc Jockey, Music Director, and Program Director in FM "Album Oriented Rock" (AOR) radio in California, and as PD led the station from last place to #1 in the Arbitron ratings for the 18-34 age group in the combined Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Salinas markets. After 5-years in radio, Dave was hired by Pacific Arts Records, owned by legendary singer/songwriter Michael Nesmith, to promote their artists to radio. Within two years, he became president of the company, which began Producing and Licensing music video entertainment, ranging from Nesmith's Grammy award-winning “Elephant Parts” to “Best of Blondie,” Jethro Tull’s “Slipstream,” and even Bruce Brown’s classic surf movie, “The Endless Summer.” During this period, Nesmith produced the pilot programs for MTV, called Popclips. David Bean became president of CTI Records in New York, distributed by both major and independent distribution during his tenure. Producer Creed Taylor, known for his work with Grover Washington, George Benson and many others, owns the label. Bean opened his own independent record labels releasing music from many great artists, including Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods), Georgie Fame (with Van Morrison), and Will Lee (from Letterman's Late Night Band). Bean was one of the first to license Masters to eMusic, iTunes, & others for digital distribution. Between 2000 and 2008 Bean helped pioneer Internet Radio, as the VP music programming for Arbitron Top 5 rated Musicmatch Internet Radio; as a Director for baseBeat.com placing Internet Radio at SingaporeAirlines.com; as a Director for OnRadio.com overseeing music streaming and eCommerce; and currently as a Program Director for Internet Radio at Slacker.com. He was a guest speaker at the 2001 Gavin Radio convention introducing Internet Radio. In September, Bean announced the opening of Artist Airplay Advisors, a service for Digital Labels and Recording Artists self-released online. The technology industry has given more musicians the ability to self-release their recordings and for digital labels to distribute music online, which has created a situation where good music that might work well for radio programming is not always serviced to broadcast Music Directors anymore. Artist Airplay Advisors strives to inform musicians about all formats of radio and to bring their music to broadcast radio when appropriate, backed by the company's experience in Terrestrial and Internet radio, Record Labels, Concert & Club Booking, Artist Management, and Grammy membership (producers & engineers wing).