Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2008 Thursday, March 13th 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Session B: The Television, the PC, Online Video and the Digital Consumer Experience The combination of the TV, the set-top, the broadband connection and digital video recorder is breaking down the barriers of TV viewing experience. Every player in the entertainment and technology food chain – from content owner to middleware and headend operator, to the subscriber service provider and finally to the CE manufacturer, all play an equally key role. The idea that consumers might use a TV, demanding personal and enhanced video services, as they do a computer has arrived – and it is our job to make the future happen today. In the near future, viewers might be watching a football game and at the same time, on a second window on the TV, that viewer might also be shopping for tank-tops or buying snacks from the supermarket. That viewer might be taping a show, watching a movie and doing research for a term paper on the web at the same time. The TV set will serve as gateway to entertainment and information as sure as the computer opens the door to a world of information. TV, interactive TV, IPTV, PVR TV, broadband based TV, there will likely be as many ways to describe the way consumers will use and access content and programming as there are companies supplying the options. In this session we will explore that coming future Mitch Weinraub, Executive Director, Products and Services, Comcast Media Center Brad Elders, Chief Revenue Officer, TidalTV Nick Chakalos, Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development, Home & Network Mobility Business, Motorola Stephen Trainor, Vice President, Strategy, Content Markets Group, Level 3 Frank Nein, SVP of Business Development & Marketing Communications, Lexicon Digital Communications, LLC. Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group Jeffrey Binder, Managing Director, Harvard Venture Partners, LLC, Moderator Mitch Weinraub is Executive Director, Products and Services for the Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable. In this role, he oversees development and implementation of the company’s content creation, management and distribution services. The Denver-based CMC’s products and services encompass production and postproduction facilities, a national VOD platform, web streaming, store and forward delivery and video over IP, including IP multicasting via satellite and delivering video to PCs and portable media devices. Weinraub has over 18 years of experience designing facilities, systems and processes for the purpose of managing technology. Before assuming his current assignment at the CMC, he spent six years as its Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation. During this time he led the team that launched the CMC’s national VOD platform, which currently manages and delivers over 3,600 assets each month to more than 15 million digital cable households across the US. His team also worked on developing the mosaic packages used for the CMC/GuideWorks’ video-rich navigation (VRN) service, and creates and delivers standard definition and HDTV content for VOD and PC video players, including highlights of professional and international sporting events. Most recently, he has supervised the development and distribution of mobile video content for the Sprint JV, and cross-platform advertising and marketing promotions for one of the world’s top consumer electronics manufacturers. Before joining The CMC in 2000, he held roles at PRIMESTAR, DIRECTV, National College Television and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Weinraub has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from The American University, and an M.A. in broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media from Temple University. He is co-author of “Universal Access to On-line Services: An Examination of the Issue,” published as Chapter 6 in The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth by MIT Press, August 2001. A frequent presenter at industry conferences, Weinraub delivered a paper on “Complete Media Management Agents: A strategy for Evolving Today’s Media Companies,” at the 2007 Emerging technologies Conference for the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE). Stephen Trainor, Vice President, Strategy, Content Markets Group, Level 3: Stephen Trainor is currently responsible for strategy within Level 3's Content Markets Group. He has been with the company for three years in a variety of positions, most recently as Director of Voice Services, Europe, and before that as Director, Corporate Strategy and Development, Europe. Prior to Level 3, Stephen was a director of Stage Technologies, a UK firm providing computer-controlled automation solutions for live entertainment venues internationally, and prior to that occupied roles in the advertising, theater and recording industries. He is based in Colorado and holds a Masters degree from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School. Nick Chakalos is Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development within Motorola’s Home & Network Mobility Business. In this role, he directs strategy and business development for the multi-billion dollar Digital Video Solutions business. His key focus areas include end-to-end video, advanced advertising, and content portability solutions. Mr. Chakalos brings more than eighteen years of business management, product management, and business development experience in technology, Internet, and consumer electronics. Prior to assuming his current position, Chakalos directed Motorola’s On Demand Video and advanced set top software solutions businesses. He joined Motorola through the acquisition of Ucentric Systems where he was vice president of business development. Before joining Ucentric, Chakalos managed the worldwide strategic marketing and business development of silicon and embedded software for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes at IBM. Previously, Chakalos directed product management activities for a line of interactive services and devices at Philips Electronics and served as product manager of embedded Internet solutions for cable, wireless, and telecommunications market segments at Spyglass. He began his career at Texas Instruments, where he held business, product management, strategy, and design engineering roles. Chakalos currently holds membership in the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). Chakalos earned undergraduate degrees in Engineering from Dartmouth College and a Master's of Business Administration degree from Babson College. His past speaking engagements include Digital Hollywood, Kagan, NAMIC, and EXH. Brad Elders, Chief Revenue Officer, TitalTV: Brad Elders is the chief revenue officer of TidalTV. He brings with him almost 20 years of experience in media advertising sales, having most recently served as senior vice president of North American sales for IPTV provider Joost. Prior to Joost, Brad most recently ran east coast sales for Massive Incorporated, a video game advertising pioneer that was sold to Microsoft. Previously, he worked with MTV Networks in New York, where he helped to create a new business development team focused on diversifying ad business, as well as Yahoo!, where he served as category development director for the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to his work at MTV and Yahoo!, Brad held sports marketing positions at Sports Illustrated and Octagon. 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. 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 34 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 Emerging Technologies 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 35 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 fourteenth 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, BBC, Reuters, 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. Frank H. Nein: Cofounder, Partner & Senior Vice President of Lexicon Digital Communications, LLC. an Entertainment & New Digital Media Company (Business Development & Marketing Communications) via Founder & CEO, Mr. David Caruso of (CBS/CSI Miami) & Mr. Nils B. Lahr, former (iBEAM Broadcasting Founder/CTO & Senior Microsoft Engineer/Chief Architect)… Frank also maintains his professional media accreditation & status through OrionsWave, LLC. as a (Sr. Digital Media & Industry/Market Research Analyst) with over 15 years of experience, example: (CNNfn.com NYC Sr. R&D Consultant/Analyst 94-96) for its IT/IS interactive LOB as liaison to the first Live/VOD online financial streaming media solutions/services, web portal & broadcasting network. Frank is currently involved with the next generation interactive video, digital media & cross platform solutions space, (DCDN’s), IPTV, H.323/H.264, broadcasting, Streaming Media & Video/Web Conferencing as well as related Mobile Media devices, applications and solutions, etc. Frank was a former Sr. Industry & Technology Consultant/Analyst for 10 years within various areas of Bell Atlantic/Verizon Telecommunications originally hired as Sr. Exec. Dir. of Corp. Online Comm. and worked for such units as VZ (ANJ) Video Portal Network, specializing in the delivery & support of interactive broadband video, international content, Internet initiatives and emerging application technologies distributed internationally to various educational institutions & environments over a multi/cross platform infrastructure with an “expert team of 4 specialists” via a $150+ million dollar project/budget. To his professional & industry credit; Frank has respectively worked closely within the Internet, broadcasting, cable, AV, satellite, ISP, streaming media, telecommunications, CDN, media & entertainment, & technology related industry's on various corporate/business levels for company's such as iCON Broadcasting Network, Broadcast.com, Lucent Technologies, Yahoo Broadcast Music/Ent, iBEAM Broadcasting, Lightstorm Ent, (James Cameron) Oak Productions & The Cimarron Group (Schwarzenegger) New Line Cinema, Fox News, ESPN 1&2, Comcast, Bloomberg TV, Planet Hollywood, Clear Channel Ent, Metropolitan Hybrid Ent. Etc. Frank is a US Military Veteran (6 yrs) & served with the "First Ever" US Navy combined Marine/Navy (FA-18) VFA-125 Fighter Jet Squadron in Calif. He holds a BS equivalent from the National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies at Alexandria Virginia.