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 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track III: Television Platform: Content, Interactivity & Commerce The Flat Panel-Television Platform: HD, Downloads, Interactivity, Widgets – New Relationships, New Technology The combination of the TV, the set-top, the broadband connection and digital video recorder is breaking down the barriers of the 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 Ryan Pirozzi, Director, Digital Video, Best Buy Sean Besser, VP of Business Development, Rovi Corporation Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group Jeff Allen, Founder and CEO, RallyPoint Nick Fishwick, Vice President, OpenTV Labs Jeffrey Binder, General Partner, Genovation Capital, Moderator NICHOLAS FISHWICK, Vice President, OpenTV Labs: Nicholas Fishwick is Vice President, OpenTV Labs for OpenTV Corp. (OPTV - NASDAQ). He is responsible for managing OpenTV's innovation and new technology initiatives, exploring new ideas and interesting technology directions, ensuring that the company has a long term vision, comprehension and strategy, so that it can continue to be a market leader in powering media experiences. He is based in San Francisco and reports to Tracy Geist, Senior Vice President, Business Development. Nicholas has had distinguished career in software engineering and the digital television industry. He has more than 16 years of experience in developing digital media solutions, starting at Panasonic Research Labs, moving to the London based Open Interactive (BiB) before joining OpenTV in 2001. At OpenTV, Nicholas ran the Application Engineering team, the company’s Core Middleware Engineering team, was VP of Architecture and now runs OpenTV Labs. Nicholas holds degrees in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Heriot Watt respectively. He is active in several industry groups, and currently resides in San Francisco. Sean Besser, VP, Business Development, Rovi Corporation: As the head of Business Development, Sean Besser is responsible for guiding the corporate growth of Rovi Corporation, formerly Macrovision Solutions Corporation, including identifying, expanding and managing its strategic partnerships. Sean's current focus is on the company's digital content strategy. One of his key goals is to enable consumer TV viewing experiences to be more compelling and interactive by bringing downloadable video, music, photos, games, etc. directly to the TV directly through the guide. Sean brings to Rovi nearly 15 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and related services, including work at TiVo, Fox Sports, NBC, EchoStar (The DISH Network), and most recently Movielink, where he headed up all of the company’s business development and strategic partnership activities. Sean holds an M.B.A. from the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and both a J.D. and B.A from the University of Southern California. Ryan Pirozzi, Director, Digital Video, Best Buy: Helping lead Best Buy’s evolution to a Digital Media company. Responsible for the distribution, marketing, and merchandising of digital video. P&L responsibility for video services business including sales of DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Tivo, Vudu and others. Relationships with digital content providers including Netflix, CinemaNow, Napster, Hulu, Vudu, and Sezmi. Relationships with leading device manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, LG, Pansonic, and Toshiba. Member of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium. Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Digital Home Group: Brendan Traw is responsible for the architecture and technology directions for Intel's consumer PC and consumer electronics platforms. Previously, he focused on the management and protection of entertainment content in digital environments, leading the team which developed Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), the basis of content protection for today's digital home networks, as well as a range of other content protection solutions for recordable DVD, DVD-Audio, SDcard, and the DVI/HDMI display interfaces. A recognized leader across the computer, consumer electronics and content industries, he has published numerous papers and holds 19 patents in the areas of content protection, system architecture, and network security. Traw received his Ph.D. in computer information science from the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff Allen, CEO, Rallypoint, Jeff Allen is a leading international executive and expert in digital media and consumer technologies. Mr. Allen is the CEO of Rallypoint, a cutting-edge company at the forefront of the consumer electronics and digital media industries. Prior to Rallypoint, Mr. Allen was founder and managing partner of Rocket Ventures, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on software, semiconductors and digital media services, where he sat on the Board of Directors. Mr. Allen is a frequent speaker for the venture capital marketplace, entertainment and content distribution, the digital home, and advanced media technologies. Mr. Allen has also advised the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Invest In Sweden Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the State of California on economic development activities as it relates to regional technology competencies. Mr. Allen holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan. Jeffrey Binder, General Partner, Genovation Capital: Jeffrey Binder was most recently a senior executive with Motorola, serving as Senior Director Strategy and M&A and GM of its On Demand Solutions group. In addition to day-to-day operations of the 150+ person on-demand solutions group with offices in the US, Europe and Asia, Mr. Binder spearheaded several key initiatives within the office of the CEO, as well as driving the companies worldwide on-demand video business and M&A strategy. Mr. Binder has been named as, one of eight Next Generation Leaders by MultiChannel News, Top 100 Heavy Hitters by CableFax Magazine and one of 40 under 40 by the Boston Business Journal. Prior to Motorola, Mr. Binder founded Broadbus Technologies, which was sold to Motorola in 2006 for nearly $200 Million. Broadbus pioneered the concept of television on-demand using advance memory technology and became the leading supplier of video streams in 2006. It was at Broadbus where Messrs. Binder and Bisceglia as President and CEO respectively, went on to engineer on of New England's top ten exits since the tech bubble of '99. At Broadbus Binder set the bar for start-ups, creating an advisory board of the top technologists and media players in North America, including the CTO's of Charter, Cablevision, Rogers, Cox, Liberty Media and Time Warner. The advisory board also included David Fellows, CTO of Comcast the COO of Nickelodeon (Board Member), the President of Paramount Television and the President of Warner Domestic Television. Mr. Binder was Chairman and CEO of the Leading Golf Companies from 1996-2000, then the largest marketing and technology network of high-end golf courses in North America including Mauna Lani, Pebble Beach and Pinehurst. LGC was an outgrowth of incubator Nanosoft, which was an offshore development start-up founded by Mr. Binder 1995 to incubate young technology companies in China. Prior to Leading Golf, Mr. Binder led Magic Music's rapid growth as the largest provider of digital duplicating technology to record industry from 1991-1994 to companies including Capitol Records, MCA Records, Philips NV and Polygram. Mr. Binder has been an investing and trading professional since he became a Member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1987. Mr. Binder has attended Harvard University as an undergrad with a concentration in Environmental Management.