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 Wednesday, October 21st 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track II: Television Platform: Content, Interactivity & Commerce Television and Broadband: Technology and Content that Bridge 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 Robert E. Quicksilver, Chief Content Officer, Tidal TV Yaron Raz, Director of Video Solutions Marketing, BigBand Networks Bryan Biniak, CEO, Jacked Jim Benz, VP, Business Development, CSG Systems Leslie Chard, President of WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) LLC Michelle Munson, president and co-founder, Aspera, Inc. David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Robert E. Quicksilver, Chief Content Officer, Tidal TV: Robert oversees all content acquisition, development and strategy for the broadband television platform. Robert has over fifteen years of senior executive level experience in local television, network television and digital media. Prior to joining TidalTV, Robert played a key role in developing a local video content initiative for Yahoo! Media Group and securing an agreement with the CBS Television Station Group in October 2006. That agreement represented the first time that a major broadcast station group had syndicated its local video content to an unaffiliated portal. From 1999-2005, Robert served as President, Network Distribution, FOX Broadcast Company, where he oversaw the business relationship between FOX and its U.S. distribution network of 180+ affiliate stations. In that role, Robert helped formulate and implement FOX’s entertainment, sports, news, promotion, distribution, and digital media initiatives across that affiliate body. During his tenure at Fox, Robert was actively involved in a number of broadcast-based regulatory initiatives and, for one year, ran the News Corporation government relations office in Washington D.C. in addition to his network duties. Prior to Fox, Robert served as Vice President, General Counsel, of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a publicly traded local television station group, and prior to that, as Vice President, General Counsel, of River City Broadcasting, a privately held station group. Robert has a J.D from the University of Michigan Law School and B.A. from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude. Yaron Raz, Director of Video Solutions Marketing, BigBand Networks: As Director of Video Solutions Marketing at BigBand Networks, Yaron is responsible for the relationships with key customers and partners defining innovative products and solutions in the areas of Personalized TV, Advanced Advertising, and Switched Digital Video. Throughout the course of his 18-year career, Yaron has held various technical, marketing, and R&D roles in the telecommunications industry. Before joining BigBand, Yaron served in various Marketing and R&D management positions for Nokia Siemens Networks, where he has been a significant contributor to the introduction of the first Carrier Ethernet Switches in the market place. Previously Yaron served in R&D positions for IBM and Intel. Yaron holds an MBA with honours from the University of Herriot Watt in Edinburgh UK, and a BSc with honours in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Israel. Bryan Biniak, Founder & CEO of Jacked, Inc.: Bryan Biniak is the founder and CEO of Jacked, Inc. the leading producer of interactive broadcasts. Jacked’s SportsTop™ fuses live telecasts with the interactivity of the Web, publishing relevant content synchronized with the sportscasts. Jacked serves as the interactive sportscast platform for a nuber of media companies including Yahoo, CBS Television, Versus, Big Ten Network, and Raycom Sports among others. Biniak is also the founder and managing director of Provenance Ventures. Most recently, Biniak served as senior vice president and general manager of AG Interactive at American Greetings Corporation (NYSE), launching Unvision Movil, Def Jam Mobile, SI Mobile, and Blue Mountain Mobile, as well as Microsoft's MSN Messenger and Messenger Live content storefronts. Prior to AG, Bryan served as COO and EVP of sales and marketing for Vivendi Universal's wireless subsidiary Moviso. Bryan served as COO of YourMobile which was sold to Vivendi Universal. He was founder and CEO of China-based Musiczone.He also was vice president and founding member of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Michelle Munson, president and co-founder, Aspera, Inc.: Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera, Inc., is co-inventor of Aspera’s core technology and responsible for overseeing the company’s direction. With breakthrough technology solving the fundamental problems of network data delivery, Aspera has quickly become the market leader for high-performance, global file transfer in media and entertainment, and is extensively deployed throughout a variety of industries, as well as government and defense markets, worldwide. Before founding Aspera in 2004, Michelle was a software engineer in several research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. She is a frequent speaker on how new data transfer technologies are revolutionizing content production, transformation and distribution workflows. A Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Munson holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Kansas State University, as well as a master's in computer science from Cambridge University. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and has received national achievement awards from Glamour Magazine and USA Today. David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH POTOMAC, a strategic services firm working with companies at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology. Mr. Leibowitz brings almost thirty years of experience in business, law and policy issues facing the entertainment, new media, consumer electronics and information technology industries. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves as a senior advisor to Gotuit Media, Motorola, National Datacast, Gibson Guitar, Peppercoin, myMPO, and Demand ID Systems. Mr. Leibowitz also has worked with other clients, including BMI, 13 Colonies Software (since purchased by a large enterprise software company), CD Intelligence, and Neurok Optics. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leibowitz Co-Founded VERANCE and served as it Chairman. VERANCE offers innovative technology solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection and content management. Before that, Mr. Leibowitz was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responsible for business and legal issues facing the industry with particular emphasis on how to position the industry to utilize new physical and electronic format systems. During this period, Mr. Leibowitz chaired the worldwide recording industry’s International Steering Committee on DVD Audio, the RIAA New Technology and Multimedia Committee and the RIAA Legal Committee. Prior to his work at the RIAA, Mr. Leibowitz was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding representing a number of Fortune 100 media and entertainment companies. Mr. Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Office.