Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Tuesday, May 6th 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. Franz Kurath, Director Business Development, Video Services, AT&T Richard D. Titus, Head of User Experience, BBC Future Media & Technology Kelly Egan, VP Business Development, Swarmcast Rob Hayes, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Showtime Digital Media Derek Kuhn, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, Strategic Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent Phil Simmonds, Vice President, Product Delivery, Content Markets, Level 3 Communications Dr. Pete Kocks, President, Truveo and Vice President, AOL Alex Ben Block, Senior Columnist and Show Business Historian, HOLLYWOOD TODAY, Moderator For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile Robert Hayes is the Senior Vice President, General Manager, Digital Media for Showtime Networks Inc. In this position, Hayes is responsible for the company’s online, broadband, wireless and interactive television (ITV) initiatives including day-to-day leadership, business development, content and production. Showtime recently consolidated all of their digital media operations under Hayes, and in this role he has also inherited domestic electronic sell-through (EST, or selling content to such platforms as iTunes) as well as developing further revenue opportunities through digital platforms. Previously, Hayes served as Senior Vice President, New Media and Vice President of New Media for Showtime Networks Inc., positions he held since April 2001. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Business Development and was instrumental in the strategy and launch of Showtime’s digital multiplexes including SHOWTIME NEXT, SHOWTIME WOMEN and SHOWTIME FAMILYZONE. Hayes also served as Vice President, International Business Development, charged with assessing opportunities for SHOWTIME and other SNI brands in the international marketplace including launching and overseeing Showtime’s ventures in Spain and the Middle East. He joined the company as Director of International Business Development in 1995. Previously, Hayes worked at Home Box Office as Manager of Programming, based in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as Manager of International Business Development based in New York. Hayes has done post graduate studies at Columbia University in Emerging Technologies and has received his M.B.A. in International Business from American University in Washington, D.C. He works in the company's New York headquarters. Tom Sauer, VP, Corporate Strategy, AT&T: Tom Sauer leads business development activities for AT&T U-verse. Mr. Sauer has more than 14 years of experience in strategic market and business development, including market positioning, product positioning, acquisitions, and partner programs for the broadband, video-over-IP (IPTV), and broadband content delivery markets. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Sauer headed business development for Thomson –Techincolor, where he developed an electronic content distribution strategy for the company’s newly-formed electronic content distribution group, which was focused on building a managed IP-based service offering. Before his position at Technicolor, Mr. Sauer oversaw business development at SkyStream Networks. During his four-year tenure at SkyStream, he drove efforts in the area of strategic partnerships and new market segment development for IPTV video headend systems and for a push-based movies-on-demand content delivery platform. Mr. Sauer also spent two years at RealNetworks as a key participant in the transformation of the company’s narrowband audio business into a leading broadband streaming media delivery company. He gained his business and operational expertise by co-founding and running a scientific software company, Khoral Research Inc., that provided image and signal processing software and consulting services to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Sauer has a masters degree in electrical engineering, with an emphasis on image and video processing, from The University of New Mexico. Richard D. Titus, Head of User Experience, BBC Future Media & Technology: Richard is the Head of User Experience at the British Broadcasting Corporation. responsible for the global user experience on the BBC's non linear platforms (including Internet, mobile, ITV and iPlayer). He provides thought leadership to the BBC's Future Media & Technology division and helps drive strategy and delivery of its products and services. He manages the organization's User experience team and is responsible for consistency of experience across platforms and user journeys between the commercial and public service facing products and services. Richard has founded or co-founded seven firms in his diverse entrepreneurial career; including one of the first interactive agencies, Tag media, which later became Razorfish Los Angeles. More recently he co-founded and served as President and Vice Chairman of Schematic, he co-founded interactive agency Schematic whose clients include ABC, Comcast, Microsoft, Sony, Time Warner and Target; are an industry leader in User Interface for VOD systems on Set-top boxes and IPTV. Schematic was named a top 10 independent Interactive agency by Adweek for 2005 & 2006 and acquired by WPP in 2007. Richard is a frequent public speaker and futurist speaking on the impact of technology on media & entertainment. In collaboration with his filmmaker wife, he has executive produced a variety of feature film and television projects including two Sundance selections; the seminal On line, in 2002 and 2006's hit eco-documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? - (one of the top 40 grossing theatrical documentary films of all time). Kelly Egan, VP of Business Development of Minneapolis and Tokyo, Swarmcast - He is responsible for all facets of Swarmcast’s business development and sales activities. Formerly the director of entertainment strategy at Best Buy, Kelly developed strategic initiatives targeting new media distribution platforms, mobile entertainment, and digital content opportunities. He has been active in the field of media and entertainment for more than ten years, and has worked in both creative and management roles in the film, music, television and interactive entertainment industries. Prior to joining Best Buy, Kelly founded the international film and television distributor, Kegan Entertainment, where he led both property acquisition and territory sales responsibilities and completed numerous worldwide distribution agreements at the MIPCOM and MIPTV markets in Cannes. Previously, Kelly was an associate in the Media and Entertainment practice at IBM Global Strategy Consulting. Specializing in Digital Film and Interactive Television, he was instrumental in developing and executing digital strategies for numerous global entertainment conglomerates, film studios and music labels. Prior to IBM, Kelly led Internet Strategy at video game publisher, Activision. While at Activision, he supervised the online marketing for many blockbuster titles, including: Quake II, Interstate-76 and Dark Reign. Kelly has been a frequent speaker on media and entertainment topics at numerous universities and industry events. He is also a board director for IFP North (Independent Feature Project), supporting independent film and is a member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, a global organization leading development of mobile entertainment. Kelly began his career as a television producer at Chicago PBS affiliate, WTTW, producing the movie review program Sneak Previews and WorldStage Chicago, which received the Emmy in 1995 for Best Musical Special. He holds a BA in Mass Media Studies and Film from Loyola University of Chicago and an MBA from The Thunderbird School of Global Management. Kelly has previously spoken at Digital Hollywood in April 2005, January 2006, March 2006 and June 2007. He also spoke at Ad Tech in October 2005 and iHollywood Mobile Entertainment Summit in April 2006. Derek Kuhn, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, Strategic Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent: Derek 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. Phil Simmonds is Vice President, Product Delivery, Content Markets, for Level 3 Communications, and is responsible for CDN solutions that accelerate the global delivery of customer’s website’s and media. Prior to Level 3, Phil managed the content delivery service line for NaviSite, and before that for Conxion Corporation, one of the early providers of CDN and managed hosting. Phil has worked in the Internet security space with Pilot Network Services, responsible for marketing and business development, and has held management positions both in Europe and the US with voice and data communication companies, including Case Communications, GPT and Siemens. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Hertfordshire University and a Master of Science in Microelectronics from Brunel, and is a member of the UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology. Dr. Pete Kocks, President, Truveo and Vice President, AOL: Pete Kocks oversees the ongoing development, growth and operation for Truveo, the leading video search engine. He joined Truveo shortly after the company’s founding in 2004. Prior to Truveo, Pete helped launch three software startups in the fields of video surveillance, database monitoring, and application hosting. At Presidio Technology, he led the development of a distributed video surveillance system with a unique approach to indexing video streams. As CEO and co-founder of BayGate, he led the development of a database monitoring system from inception to deployment in the mission-critical datacenters of dozens of large corporate customers. BayGate was acquired by Portal Software in 2001. As one of the first employees of Digitivity, a startup that developed and brought to market a Java application server, he guided the technical and business relationship with Citrix systems that ultimately led to its acquisition by Citrix in 1998. Pete holds a doctoral degree from Stanford University where his research focused on systems modeling and computation. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Alex Ben Block, Senior Columnist and Show Business Historian, HOLLYWOOD TODAY: Entertainment industry journalist, author, broadcaster and show business historian. He was Editor of two top Hollywood trades, "TelevisionWeek," and The Hollywood Reporter," and was Associate Editor of Forbes Magazine. He was a columnist in Detroit and a movie critic in Miami. He has served as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Press Club and is heard weekly on NPR affiliate KPCC-FM’s "Call Sheet."