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 2010 Friday, January 8th 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Track I – DH5 and CC5 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. Jim Funk, VP of Business Development, Roku Sean Alexander, Director of Silverlight Media, Microsoft Stephen Palm, DLNA Board of Directors and Technical Director, Broadcom Corporation Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation Steve Tranter, VP, Interactive and Broadband, NDS Americas Buddy Snow, Senior Director, Global Product Marketing, Motorola Nicholas Fishwick, Vice President, OpenTV Labs Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, 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. Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation: Richard Bullwinkle joined Rovi Corporation, formerly Macrovision Solutions Corporation, in January 2007 after the company acquired Mediabolic, where he had served as vice president of Products and chief evangelist. Since that time, Richard has served as chief evangelist responsible for corporate strategy. In his role, Richard helps define the direction of Rovi’s products and technology solutions. He represents the company at numerous industry events to gather market perspectives and understand trends that have an impact on the company’s customers and the end consumer in order to provide recommendations to the senior team. He also works to establish standards and lead the discussions to promote a better consumer experience throughout the CE industry. With roles at Mediabolic, Rio Audio, and TiVo, Richard is well known in consumer electronics and entertainment industries. As vice president of products and chief evangelist at Mediabolic, Richard helped pioneer the connected home strategy of connecting entertainment media devices. As a senior member of Rio Audio's product marketing team, Richard played an instrumental part in the creation of some of the most popular MP3 players in the US. At TiVo, Richard was the company’s chief evangelist and a senior member of TiVo's product marketing team. He helped create and develop the TiVo products and was behind the campaign to make the TiVo product a household name. Richard graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and Music. Stephen Palm, DLNA Board of Directors and Technical Director, Broadcom Corporation: Dr. Stephen Palm is a member of the board of directors of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). He also serves as the technical director for Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group (BCG). In this role, Dr. Palm is responsible for driving Broadcom's home networking strategy to enable voice, video, data and multimedia services for distribution via residential wired and wireless networks with products that run over coaxial cable, wireless or CAT 5 infrastructures. Dr. Palm joined Broadcom in 1999. Previously in his career, he was a senior staff engineer at Panasonic, and held several engineering and technical planning roles at Rockwell International Semiconductor Systems. Dr. Palm is an active participant in several standards leadership positions, holds a number of patents, and has published numerous journals, whitepapers, articles and conference presentations. He also participates in committees that include Wi-Fi Alliance, MoCA, IEEE 802.11, UPnP, ITU T SG9, ITU T SG15 and CableLabs, with particular emphasis in home networking applications and quality of service technologies. Dr. Palm earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine, a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include quality of service and multi-media processing. Sean Alexander, Director, Product Management, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft Corporation: As a director of product management for the Entertainment & Devices Advertising Business Group at Microsoft, Sean Alexander and team are focused on monetization of TV platforms including Xbox LIVE, Zune Video Marketplace and Mediaroom. A twelve year veteran in the platforms and media space, Alexander has led teams producing the Emmy(r)-award winning Windows Media platform, Media Center, and Microsoft Silverlight. Prior to Microsoft, Alexander led development efforts on early Internet-based services with clients including Gemstar/UVSG, Broadcast.com, and NASA JPL. Steve Tranter, VP, Interactive and Broadband, NDS Americas: Steve Tranter is responsible for the design, delivery and support of NDS's interactive products and systems for North and South America. He relocated to NDS's Newport Beach office in California five years ago from the NDS headquarters near London in the UK. Steve has a degree in Physics from the University of Leeds in the UK and has experience in systems design and integration from a variety of industries, including analytical scientific instrumentation, photographic reproduction, database technology and digital broadcasting. Steve has been with NDS for 9 years and has been involved in the design and implementation of some of the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast systems. Buddy Snow, Senior Director, Global Product Marketing, Motorola: Buddy Snow is a Senior Director for the Broadband Home Solutions (BHS) business within Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility division. In his current role, he is responsible for product marketing of all BHS video, voice & data products and solutions worldwide. Snow’s experience includes over 20 years of engineering, marketing, and executive management for consumer, broadband, and digital video products. He has spent the last 12 years developing and selling products into the worldwide cable television and IPTV markets. His previous experience includes senior management positions with Terayon, Harmonic, DIVA Systems Corp., and General Instrument (now Motorola), responsible for a variety of product categories such as compression, video processing, VOD, SDV, back office software systems, and broadband modems and gateways including voice and home networking. Prior to broadband, Snow spent 8 years working for Apple Computer, Inc. Snow is a frequent speaker within the cable industry and has been quoted in key trade publications such as Multichannel News, Light Reading and Communications Technology Magazine. Snow holds a BS degree from North Carolina State University in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He also holds a patent in human interface design. 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.