Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Events at CES 2009 Friday, January 9th 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Track I – DH5 - Digital Hollywood The NexGen Entertainment Home Experience - From the Smart & Connected TV to the PVR, Set-Top & PC Experience The home entertainment experience is about one basic idea - to deliver more and varied media-rich content to the consumer - giving consumers what they want, when they want it. But the battle for this consumer sector is about to assert itself as a competition of technologies, more complicated than the older battle of the home PC vs. the TV. This is a world containing a new generation of TV sets, HD and games devices, wirelessly connected homes with connected PCs as well as a host of set-top box and DVR options. The next generation of home entertainment hardware, software and services will come into battle delivering HDTV, Internet, music, games, movies, plus innovative two-way communication and telephony services. This battle for the home will be a tremendous victory for both the consumer, the technology industries as well as for the entertainment industry. It presents the simple proposition that offering the consumer more and richer services in a competitive environment is the perfect formula for success. Nick Chakalos, Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development, Home and Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc Sandip H. Mandera, Worldwide Product Manager, Digital Media Solutions, Software & Solutions Group, Intel JT Taylor, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco, Service Provider Video Technology Group John Gildred, President, SyncTV and SVP, Pioneer Duncan Bees, CTO, Home Gateway Initiative David Henry, Director of Product Marketing, Consumer Products, NETGEAR Greg Gudorf, Chief Executive Officer, Digeo Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Nick Chakalos is Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development within Motorola’s Home & Network Mobility Business. In this role, he leads strategy and business development for the multi-billion dollar Digital Video Solutions business. His key focus areas include internet video, advanced advertising, and portable media solutions. Mr. Chakalos brings more than nineteen 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. JT Taylor, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco, Service Provider Video Technology Group: JT Taylor is responsible for defining key marketing strategies and objectives for all subscriber-facing products. His role includes direction of the Subscriber Networks’ product and industry marketing efforts, including trade shows, advertising, and public relations, as well as cooperative and consumer marketing initiatives. Taylor joined Scientific-Atlanta in 2000 as a strategic marketing manager in Subscriber Network Systems and played a key role in the development of Scientific-Atlanta’s cooperative and consumer marketing programs. Taylor has lead the company wide consumer research efforts for the last five years with particular focus on consumer attitudes and usage of DVR, HD and Connected Home services. Taylor also led Scientific-Atlanta’s retail trial, testing the viability of selling HD set-tops and service through retail outlets. Duncan Bees, Chief Technology Officer, Home Gateway Initiative: An experienced systems engineer and development manager, Duncan Bees is currently Chief Technolgy Officer at the Home Gateway Initiative. Prior to this appointment, Duncan was Technical Advisor at PMC-Sierra, leading system engineering teams, working closely with carriers to understand home networking requirements and to translate those into specifications for Home Gateway and ONT chips. He also led standards and product road-mapping for interconnect chips, backplane switches, access devices and VOIP chips. Whilst at PMC-Sierra, Duncan represented the company with other industry fora, including the Broadband Forum (then DSL Forum), DLNA, ITU, IETF, PCI_SIG and RapidIO. Previously he worked at Bell Nothern Research and Nothern Telecom, where he lead Research and Development teams delivering products for CDMA wireless and voice recognition. Duncan holds a Degree of Applied Science from the University of British Columbia (CA) and Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of McGill (CA). David Henry, Director of Product Marketing, Consumer Products, NETGEAR: David Henry serves as NETGEAR's Director of Product Marketing for consumer products. Most recently, he was the product line manager for consumer routers and advanced wireless (802.11n) products.  David joined NETGEAR in 2004, prior to which he was a senior product manager for the high technology vertical application at Siebel Systems. David's professional experience also includes business process and information technology consulting with Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco.   David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Signal Processing from the University of Washington and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Edwin Lau, Group Product Director, TV Business, Microsoft Corporation: Edwin Lau is responsible for product management and planning for Microsoft Mediaroom, the award-winning Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform. Edwin joined Microsoft in 2007 and has led various initiatives related to new business opportunities, evaluating business risk, pricing and business models, among other areas. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was Director, Products and Services at TELUS Communications in Canada where he was responsible for their consumer wire line portfolio including the development of their consumer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offering. He was also a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little and Mercer Management Consulting in Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada where he worked on strategic challenges facing the Global 1000 telecommunications, high-tech, media and aviation companies. Edwin holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor’s degree from the National University of Singapore. Sandip H. Mandera, Worldwide Product Manager, Digital Media Solutions, Software & Solutions Group, Intel: He is responsible for enabling ISVs on digital home technologies (UPnP, DTCP/IP), developing enabling strategies and evangelizing digital home technologies. He has over 8 years of experience in software and technical marketing combined. In the past, he led Intel's marketing representation on Web services standards - UDDI.org and later OASIS UDDI during 2002 and 2003. He has spoken at leading conferences like Software Development Conference & Web Services World XML and Web Services Conference, contributed to a book chapter in the notable XML Handbook (5th edition) and his articles have appeared in leading magazines like IDS, DevX and JavaWorld. He holds an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and a B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India. Greg Gudorf, Chief Executive Officer, Digeo: Greg Gudorf, as chief executive officer and chief operating officer, is responsible for setting the strategic vision and bringing that vision to realization for Digeo. His most recent experience as president and chief operating officer at Digeo had him involved in day-to-day operations, with particular emphasis on product delivery and quality, process improvement, integration with MSO head-end systems and business development. Prior to Digeo, Gudorf was vice president of Television Marketing at Sony Electronics, where he was responsible for consumer television product marketing management, including new product and channel development. He also served as Sony's TV-centric representative to cable system operators and as a board member of the Consumer Electronics Association's video division. During his tenure at Sony, Gudorf was directly responsible for launching Passage, a key cable industry technology. He also led product development for one of the first HD digital cable-ready DVRs and managed Sony's TiVo and WebTV product businesses for satellite and cable use. Throughout his more than 30 years in the consumer electronics industry, Gudorf has been involved in sales, marketing, business development, and management for the retail, distribution and manufacturing aspects of the business, with a particular emphasis on network products such as satellite, cable, and Internet offerings. He holds fourteen U.S. patents in the network and interactive TV fields with more than 30 additional patents pending. Gudorf has been published in several industry-related trade journals and often serves as a featured panelist at industry seminars. He holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and is a graduate of Antioch University. 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.