Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Wednesday, May 6th 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 Richard Carriere, President-Americas, Nero, Inc. Steve Borelli, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Integra5 Molly Glover Gallatin, Director, Marketing, YuMe Robert E. Quicksilver, Chief Content Officer, Tidal TV Alex Castro, CEO, Delve Networks Bryan Biniak, CEO, Jacked David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Richard Carriere, President-Americas, Nero, Inc.: Richard Carriere is the president of Nero, Inc., the creator of liquid media technology. His role with Nero, Inc. includes overseeing sales, marketing, operations, finance and business development teams in the United States, Canada and Latin America and leading them towards the company’s goals and targets. Carriere brings more than 20 years of high tech management experience, providing Nero with a holistic view of the digital media landscape and insight into the industry’s trends and future. Before joining Nero, Carriere was general manager at Corel Corporation, a publicly-traded application software company based in Ottawa, Canada. During his tenure, he drove significant impact by repositioning the company’s productivity software business line. Previously, Carriere also served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he was a member of the media and telecommunications practices and was a leader of the firm’s broadband initiative. Additionally, Carriere has worked for Ernst & Young in Montreal, Canada. Carriere earned an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He also studied at the London Business School, and he graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Carriere is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Steve Borelli, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Integra5: Steve Borelli has more than 15 years of marketing, product management and business development experience in the telecommunications, cable broadband and enterprise software and systems industries. Before joining Integra5, Steve served as Vice President of Broadband Markets for Comverse. In this role he led global marketing and business development for the cable, satellite and IPTV markets. Prior to Comverse, Steve spent six years with CSG Systems most recently as Vice President of Business Development where he played a key role in directing companywide initiatives to support the cable broadband industry and develop growth initiatives for CSG. Steve spent seven years with U S WEST (now Qwest Communications) where he served as Director of Video and Online Services for their Broadband Services division and was responsible for product management of the VDSL and cable delivered services. Steve was also involved with early deployments of video on demand, online content and other interactive TV services. Earlier in his career, Steve was part of the cable industry’s first cable modem deployments as the Director of Marketing at Jones Internet Channel. In this role he was responsible for overall marketing strategy and execution for cable modem Internet access and Web-based community content. Steve holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Molly Glover Gallatin, Director of Marketing, YuMe: With over 15 years of media and marketing management experience, Molly oversees the marketing and sales planning department for YuMe, the leading video ad management platform and ad network. Molly began her work in interactive media when she launched Granite Broadcasting’s Internet Division in 1997, overseeing operations and sales for ten network-affiliated TV station websites. Molly joined YuMe from Knight Ridder Digital, where she managed marketing and communications for the Real Cities Network. Prior to Knight Ridder Digital, Molly worked for start-ups in the digital media management and Internet TV space – eMotion and RespondTV. She began her career in advertising, working in account management at BBDO and D’Arcy Masius Benton Bowles in New York. Molly received her BS from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MBA from Columbia University. 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. Alex Castro is CEO & Co-founder of Delve Networks. Alex has deep product and management experience from Microsoft, Amazon, and Trilogy. At Microsoft, he was the Group Program Manager for the MSN Entertainment business unit, which included the MSN Music,Video, Movies, and TV websites. He also drove the company's device synchronization strategy for Windows Vista and was a key member of the CRM team. At Trilogy, Alex led the successful deployment of a complex CRM solution for Toyota. He was responsible for the marketing and program management of Amazon's web services and oversaw the launch of the Mechanical Turk online marketplace. Alex holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science from Cornell University, where he also completed coursework at Cornell's Johnson School of Management. As an undergrad, he was named a AT&T Bell Laboratories Scholar, which provided a full scholarship to the college of his choice and an opportunity to work on digital media, voice over IP, and speech recognition at Bell Labs. As a graduate student, Alex was a recipient of a full tuition scholarship from the Microsoft Corporation. Bryan Biniak, CEO, Jacked: Bryan Biniak is Founder & CEO of Jacked. He is a seasoned entrepreneur who has held C-level positions at his last four companies. Most recently, Bryan served as SVP and general manager of AG Interactive at American Greetings Corp., overseeing its mobile, instant messaging, email and social communications business units and growing the company&Mac226;s mobile business to $18 million in net revenue in less than two years. Prior to AG, Bryan served as COO and EVP of sales and marketing for Vivendi Universal's wireless subsidiary Moviso, building and operating mobile media publishing platforms for Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Match.com, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Bryan also served as COO of YourMobile and Premium Wireless Services, where he led the company&Mac226;s sale to Vivendi Universal. He founded and served as CEO of China-based MusicZone. He was also a founding member and VP of MIT Media Lab spin-off Harmonix, which was sold to MTV for more than $175 million. 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.