Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood New York City November 10-12, 2010 Thursday, November 11th 10:45 AM - Noon Track II: ViDeo-9 Inventing TV 2.0 - Defining the Set Top, Connected TV Streaming Media Adapter, Downloadable Consumer Experience The next generation of television is beginning its final march into the broadband universe. The devices with the amazing screens are starting to adopt broadband technologies, bringing streaming, gaming, PC options, advertising and interface innovation and flexibility. The technologies of communication, interactivity and social networks are now within reach. And the consumer is starting to notice. Next generation TV sets, set-tops and interface bring next generation consumers and greater revenue. We are at the new starting line. Adam Powers, Senior Director, Technology, Rovi Corporation on behalf of DLNA David Ulmer, VP Content and Services, LG Electronics Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo Broadband David Jacobs, Chief Technical Officer, Broadband, Cable & Satellite Division, Amdocs Martin G. Kienzle, Ph. D., Electronics Industry Leader, IBM Research Uzi Breier, EVP Worldwide Sales and CMO, PrimeSense (Technology inside Kinect) David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Adam Powers, Chair of Ecosystem Committee, DLNA; Director of Standards and Emerging Technology, Rovi Corporation: Adam Powers serves as the chairman of the Ecosystem Committee of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). In this position, Powers leads the efforts of the members of the digital living ecosystem in support of the DLNA’s charter of enabling content sharing between any variety of consumer devices and customer premises equipment. Powers is also director of standards and emerging technology at Rovi Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for standards and technology initiatives across Rovi Corporation’s product lines, including on-screen guides, metadata, Internet content and content sharing. Powers joined Rovi Corporation in January 2007 after Rovi Corporation acquired Mediabolic, where he had served as principal engineer and architect for the Connected Platform. Prior to this, Powers was co-founder and CTO of the IPTV home networking company, Coaxsys. Powers is a member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, and participates in standards activities at CableLabs and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He attended California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo for Computer Engineering. David Ulmer, VP Content and Services, LG Electronics: Dave's had a long history of championing and chaperoning bleeding edge products into the consumer space. From graphics apps in the '80s to revolutionary digital music solutions presently, from startups to massive corporations, Dave's always held the consumer and content creator in focus while herding the industry cats needed to actually deliver the right solutions to market. Original founder of Roxio, Burningpoint, and Earjam. Presently driving strategy, partnerships, and breakthrough new multi-screen media solutions for the company's next-generation connected TVs, mobile phones, tablets, and entertainment devices.for LG Electronics, Inc..Served as Vice Chairman on the Board of Mobile Entertainment Forum, chairing the Marketing Committee, and former board member for OSTA and founding member of SDMI in eras past.. Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo Broadband: Michael Lantz is the CEO of Accedo Broadband, which he jointly founded in 2004. He has extensive experience in the converging telecom and media industries. Since founding Accedo Broadband, Michael has been driving development of innovative content offerings and applications for IPTV service providers and CE companies. Prior to setting up the company, Michael held roles at a Nordic management consultancy company, Digiscope and the medical IT company, CellaVision. Michael holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics  and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. David Jacobs is CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER for the Amdocs Broadband, Cable & Satellite Division with responsibility for developing and representing Amdocs product and services strategy for Cable MSOs and satellite operators who provide next generation services to residential and commercial customers. Previously, David was VP of Product Strategy for the Amdocs OSS division focusing on the fulfillment of PayTV, online and voice services for the wireline and cable industries. David joined Amdocs following the acquisition of Jacobs Rimell by Amdocs in April 2008. As co-founder and CTO of Jacobs Rimell, he was responsible for the company's technology and product direction, enabling it to become one of the leading providers of customer-centric fulfillment solutions for the cable industry. Beforehand, he spent 11 years with Reuters in a number of senior roles, culminating in the deployment of a global frame relay infrastructure and one of the world's first global IP extranets for the delivery of Reuters' information services. David frequently speaks at industry conferences, including TM Forum events, Broadband World Forum Europe, the Cable Show, and CableLabs conferences. He holds a BSc in electrical and electronics engineering from Middlesex Polytechnic, London and a Full Tech City and Guilds Certificate in Telecommunications. He holds two U.S. patents and contributed to a third. Martin G. Kienzle, Ph. D., Electronics Industry Leader, IBM Research: Dr. Kienzle is Electronics Industry Leader at IBM Research. In this capacity he is bringing the IBM Research technology portfolio to bear on problems of IBM’s electronics industry customers. Current focus areas are cloud technology, service delivery platforms, and helping customers to make the transition from product business to product plus service businesses, supporting the smarter products and services for the home vision within IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy. Prior to this, Dr. Kienzle was the chief media technologist of the digital convergence EBO, where he specified requirements and defined architectures linking emerging consumer devices directly to content and services. Before that he was Senior Manager, Intelligent Server Infrastructures, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, leading research and developing strategies for media management technologies and media delivery infrastructures. Dr. Kienzle frequently consults customers in assessing their requirements in media-related projects. He guides them in their development of system architectures, and their selection of component technologies for building large scale media systems that are integrated with the customers' business processes. Dr. Kienzle has extensive experience in developing and deploying media delivery technologies. Starting in the early nineties, he developed quality-of-service technologies and media streaming technologies. He has participated in, and guided numerous technology trials and deployments, including residential Video-on-Demand trials, corporate communications and e-learning systems, and integrated streaming content distribution systems. Dr. Kienzle has received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has participated in numerous academic conferences on media technology as presenter, program committee member, and chair. He has authored more than thirty scientific papers and holds fourteen international patents. Uzi Breier, EVP Worldwide Sales and CMO, PrimeSense (Technology inside Kinect): Mr. Uzi Breier brings with him over 20 years of Business and Management experience. Prior to joining Primesense, Mr. Breier served as the President of Alvarion Mobility Division (Nasdaq: ALVR), developing and marketing leading WiMAX solutions. Before that he was the CEO of Optibase (Nasdaq: OBAS) operating in the IPTV domain and CEO of Emblaze Semiconductor (BLZ.L) which he sold to Zoran Ltd. Prior to that, Mr. Breier held senior business and management positions at National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) and Flextronics (Nasdaq: Flex). Mr. Breier holds B.Sc degrees in Computer-Science and Industrial-Engineering from New York Institute of Technology and MBA from SJSU in California - all graduated with Honors. David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner of CH POTOMAC: working with companies at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves as Chairman of Sir Groovy (a music synchronization technology platform and licensing solution connecting TV Producers, Music Supervisors, Filmmakers and Advertising Executives to premium label music worldwide) and as Partner in The A&R Channel (a music oriented cable VOD service on Comcast available in over 18 million homes). In addition, as Managing Partner of CH Potomac, Mr. Leibowitz is a Senior Advisor to Motorola, National Datacast (a commercial subsidiary of PBS), Gotuit Media, and Musicane, among others. In recent years, Mr. Leibowitz served as Executive Vice President of Gotuit Media (a leading provider of premium metadata based video discovery, advertising, personalization and monetization technologies to major program networks and sports leagues), as Chairman of Ezmo (an independent online social music subsidiary of FAST Search and Transfer - since acquired by Microsoft) and as an advisor to BMI, Gibson Guitar, Peppercoin and others in the content and technology industries. Mr. Leibowitz also is a co-founder of VERANCE, the preeminent audio watermark technology provider employed by the content industries to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including Blu-Ray formatted motion pictures, and served as its Chairman and Co-CEO. Earlier in his career; Mr. Leibowitz served as: Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responsible for business, policy, legal and standards setting issues facing the industry with particular emphasis on how to position the industry to best utilize new physical formats and electronic delivery platforms; a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley & Rein, representing a number of Fortune 100 media and entertainment companies, television personalities, a major league professional baseball team; and media and CE trade associations; as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights; and as an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami Law School, and at the Communications Law Institute of the Columbus School of Law (Catholic University).