Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 19-22, 2009 Tuesday, October 20th SuperSessions 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Special Presentation: Demos at Digital Hollywood – Breakthroughs in Entertainment and Technology Hosted by: Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Presentations by: Jay Batson Co-founder, Acquia James Segil, co-founder & President, EdgeCast Networks Eric Gould Bear, Inventor of Telescopic Video & CEO, MONKEYmedia, Inc. Stacy Cook, CEO, Qtv, Inc. Jodee Rich, Team Leader, PeopleBrowsr Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point: Art Chang founded Tipping Point Partners in 2005 to leverage the experience of entrepreneurs and investors from both coasts for the benefit of our portfolio and the New York City technology community. Prior to Tipping Point, Mr. Chang worked in investment banking and venture capital and has had numerous founding and management roles in traditional and Internet start-ups in diverse fields including manufactured housing, legal technology, film finance and distribution, Chinese e-commerce, and music social networks. Tipping Point Partners current portfolio includes Cookstr (consumer food media), Casebook (enterprise human services), I Do Now I Don't (consumer auction), Mobile Commons (enterprise mobile services), and Playspan (multiplayer games). Art also has extensive government experience and has spent over 10 years on non-profit boards. Art currently serves on the Board of the New York City Campaign Finance Board as an appointee of Mayor Bloomberg and is an Expert Advisor to the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship at New York University. Art began his career in architecture and worked for the celebrated architect I.M. Pei. James Segil, co-founder & President, EdgeCast Networks: James is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold two successful startups. Prior to co-founding EdgeCast, James was vice president of business development for Talisma Corporation, an enterprise software vendor focusing on CRM software. James joined Talisma as a result of the acquisition of his company, KnowledgeBase, where he was president & COO. At KnowledgeBase, he worked with co-founders Alex, Phil and Lior, and was involved in all aspects of the company and responsible for its growth and development. With more than six years of leadership experience in the technology sector, James has started and grown businesses, built out scalable product and technology solutions, and created and managed high performance management teams. Prior to KnowledgeBase, James successfully led Web-hosting company Virtualis Systems through start-up, growth, acquisition, and a merger/integration. He was then COO of the web hosting division of Allegiance Telecom (Nasdaq: ALGX), the communications concern that acquired Virtualis in Fall 2000. While at Allegiance, James managed the integration of Virtualis as well as other ISP acquisitions into one centralized hosting network eventually re-branded as Hosting.com. James has a deep consumer marketing background having spent his early career (seven years) in brand management at Mattel before being sent by Mattel to business school full time as their first ever sponsored MBA. Prior to leaving Mattel, James was brand manager for Hot Wheels and responsible for more than $150 million in sales. James received his MBA from Harvard Business School and received his operations, marketing, finance and leadership skills from his front line positions growing brands and businesses. James lives in Los Angeles. EdgeCast has built a world-class network that provides content delivery services for traditional media companies, television and movie studios, advertising networks, web video and content providers, game and software delivery, social media, and more. EdgeCast enables these companies to provide their end users with the highest possible performance and quality of content delivery, regardless of the user location or connection to the Internet, while also providing an array of technologies to reduce the overall cost of content delivery. Eric Gould Bear, Inventor of Telescopic Video & CEO, MONKEYmedia, Inc.: Communication Arts described Eric Gould Bear as "one of the most thoughtful and provocative interface and interaction designers working in the field.” He has been a leading force in the design of award winning human-computer interfaces since 1984, has published numerous articles on the subject, and is first-named inventor on nearly 100 software and hardware interaction patents and patent applications, including claims essential to telescopic advertising. Bear is an enthusiastic and inspirational leader, and has established user experience strategies for many well-known corporations. He is recognized for his collaborative approaches to creating easy-to-use technology and engaging digital media. MONKEYmedia invented telescopic video in the early 1990’s. Its portfolio of patents includes claims directed towards telescopic advertising and other enhanced viewing experiences, and essential to the practice of various industry-governed standards such as DVD-Video, Blu-ray and tru2way (e.g. Enhanced TV / EBIF and SCTE-130). Licenses are available to all parties interested in practicing MONKEYmedia's patented technology and methods in connection with DVD players, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, DVRs, smart TVs, PC video players, mobile devices, discs implementing telescopic video features, and telescopic advertising. Jay Batson Co-founder, Acquia: Acquia is the second technology company Jay has (co-) founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, which was acquired by Bluesocket in 2007.) Jay's work passion is to build great companies that build things that users are passionately happy with. When not obsessing about products, he builds miles on his custom Serotta, is a rabid pro cycling fan (getting his news at VeloNews - a Drupal site!), and spends time under the headphones listening to and spinning all styles of house and trance music. Drupal.org ID: batsonjay blog: http://underheadphones.com About Acquia: Acquia helps organizations of all sizes build social publishing websites quickly, easily and with a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging Drupal, the open source social publishing platform that blends content and community. Our products, services and support enable companies to leverage the power, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal while simplifying the experience, removing the complexity and minimizing the risk. Please visit: http://acquia.com. Download Acquia Drupal, the completely free Drupal distribution, at http://acquia.com/downloads. About Drupal: The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over two million times since its inception and powers more than 400,000 web sites globally. Drupal includes an enterprise class content management system and is used to deliver a wide variety of web applications including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, e-commerce, and many more. Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse set of organizations use Drupal, including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Observer, Forbes, Disney, Intel, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology. For more information, visit http://drupal.org.