Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Wednesday, March 10th 6:15 PM - 8:45 PM Themed Evening Dinners (by invitation) The Digital Economy: Threats & Opportunities Hosted by: Arts and Labs Event Moderator: Andrew Keen, Author and Advisor to Arts & Labs Theme: The Digital Economy: Threats & Opportunities Speakers: Brian Napack, President, Macmillan Publishing Channing Dawson, SVP of Emerging Media, Scripps Rick Cotton, EVP & General Counsel, NBCU Jeff Turner, Founder & CTO, Interstream C. Lincoln (Link) Hoewing, Vice President of Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon Brian Napack is the president of Macmillan, a group of America’s leading book publishers and educational content companies. Macmillan’s operations include the book publishers St. Martin’s Press, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Henry Holt, Picador, Tor, Macmillan Audio, and Macmillan Children’s; and the education companies Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman, Worth Publishers, i>clicker, and Hayden McNeil. Macmillan is a division of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a global media company based in Germany. Mr. Napack came to Macmillan in 2006 with the goal of helping the company navigate opportunities and challenges presented by the rapidly changing media markets. Mr. Napack believes that success in the digital media economy is built on what media companies have always done best – developing, distributing, marketing, and monetizing world class content. Thus, his objective at Macmillan is to ensure its publishers are well-equipped to succeed with new business models, digital platforms, marketing tools, and distribution channels. Mr. Napack has spent his career building and managing companies across various segments of the media businesses. He has held senior positions at The Walt Disney Company, Simon & Schuster, and ThinkBox, an Internet education company where he was the founder and CEO. He has served as Chairman and CEO of Scientific American. Prior to joining Macmillan, Mr. Napack was a Partner with leading strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, where he helped senior media executives and private equity investors address opportunities and challenges in the digital media economy. Earlier in his career, Mr. Napack was with A.T. Kearney, where he managed strategy consulting assignments in sectors including technology, telecom, and publishing. Mr. Napack has served on a variety of company and non-profit boards. He currently sits on the Board of LibreDigital, a provider of content infrastructure software and services; CourseSmart, an online marketplace for college course materials; and Zero-to-Three, a national non-profit that helps policymakers, professionals, and parents improve the lives of infants and toddlers. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Mr. Napack received his MBA from Columbia Business School. Rick Cotton was named executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal in August 2004. He supervises the NBC Universal Law Department, which provides legal advice to all NBC Universal business units for their ongoing operations and for new strategic plans and acquisitions. In addition, he oversees NBC Universal's global regulatory and legislative agenda, including the company’s worldwide anti-piracy efforts. Cotton reports directly to Jeff Zucker, president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal. In January 2007 Cotton was named Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce cross-sector Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP), which represents over 500 companies and associations who have come together to fight the vital economic battle against counterfeiting and piracy. He serves on the Steering Committee of BASCAP, Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy, an arm of the International Chamber of Commerce dedicated to the enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights worldwide. From 2000 to 2004, Cotton served as president and managing director of London-based CNBC Europe. Under his leadership CNBC Europe dramatically upgraded its on-air presentation; expanded its reach across Europe to 85 million homes; developed programming partnerships in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Russia, and the Middle East; and won brand recognition in leading marketing publications and throughout the European business and financial communities. Before joining CNBC Europe Cotton served as executive vice president and general counsel of NBC, a position he held for eleven years. From 1987 to 1989, Cotton was the president and chief executive officer of Washington-based management company HCX Inc. From 1980 to 1986, he was in private practice, specializing in health and environmental regulation, First Amendment and libel issues, and litigation in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels. He was appointed the deputy executive secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Secretary Joseph A. Califano in 1977 and was named the executive secretary in 1978. In 1980 he became the special counsel to Deputy Secretary John Sawhill of the U.S. Department of Energy. Cotton served as law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1969 to 1970 and to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1971. After completing his undergraduate degree in 1965 at Harvard, Cotton joined Newsweek magazine as a correspondent in the Chicago bureau. In 1969 he graduated cum laude from the Yale Law School, where he was the executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He lives in New York and has two children, Rachel and Jon. Jeff Turner, Founder and CTO, Interstream: A Silicon Valley veteran and network management expert, Jeff Turner has led Marketing and Engineering teams at the premiere firms of Cisco Systems, Novell, and Hewlett Packard. His early work with Hewlett Packard provided him with a deep knowledge of LAN technologies, TCP and low level network traffic. Jeff’s management of QoS technology with Cisco Network Management Group led to his ground-breaking discoveries about broadband traffic characteristics that eventually led to his vision for InterStream. InterStream aligns the economics, quality and consumer experience of the broadband ecosystem by deploying network technology, developed and licensed under an open source model. This technology vastly improves upon the best effort delivery model and enables guaranteed service by building cooperation among its network of participants. This network will not only enforce updated and more sustainable economic models for the Internet, but will also help to combat the unauthorized distribution of licensed content on the "video" web and provide for future innovation and new market participants that has been the hallmark of the internet. Channing L. Dawson, Senior Advisor, Scripps Networks Interactive: Channing Dawson is senior advisor to Scripps Networks Interactive. Part of the founding executive team of Home & Garden Television (HGTV), Dawson has lead company efforts in web development, broadband production, video on demand, IP video distribution, and interactive television. In 2005, he shared a technology Emmy for Living.com (www.Living.com), a weekly broadband video magazine. He is currently working on TV Everywhere, ITV and interactive network initiatives. C. Lincoln (Link) Hoewing is Vice President of Internet and Technology Policy for Verizon, one of America’s largest telecommunications providers providing wireless voice and data services, Internet backbone and businesses services, and local phone, television and broadband services. Verizon also provides services, primarily to large enterprises, throughout Europe where it has approximately 4,700 employees. Mr. Hoewing is responsible for identifying and assessing emerging issues, developing corporate positions on Internet and Technology industry issues, and assessing key technology and communications industry trends. Mr. Hoewing develops relationships with high technology industry members, interactive technology associations, research institutes, and think tanks. He is a frequent speaker on high technology issues, such as net neutrality and network management, has written articles on using the Internet in the public policy process, and blogs frequently. Mr. Hoewing’s prior responsibilities include three years in marketing, network interconnection negotiations and external affairs positions at Bell Atlantic and Telecom in New Zealand. In New Zealand he was responsible for negotiating Verizon's agreements between carriers, promoting the sale of New Zealand's Telecom stock and working on inter-connection policies with the Government. He helped developed the company's consumer policies and improved their customer service. He worked as well in Australia. He also served eight years as a Congressional Legislative Aide and Deputy Staff Director on the U. S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. As Deputy Staff Director he managed the scheduling of hearings, committee legislative structures, and oversight and budget authorization procedures. He initiated oversight hearings on defense programs that resulted in major reform to the management of defense programs. Link Hoewing has a Bachelor's degree from Carthage College, Wisconsin and a Masters degree in Public Administration from American University. Andrew Keen, Author and Advisor to Arts & Labs: Andrew Keen is an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He is the author of the international hit CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture. Acclaimed by The New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani as having been written “with acuity and passion” and by A.N. Wilson in the London Daily Mail as “staggering”, Cult of the Amateur has been published in fifteen different language editions and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. As a pioneering Internet entrepreneur, Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet music company. He was the executive producer of the new media show “MB5 2000” and, between 2001 and 2007, worked as a executive at several Silicon Valley based technology start-ups including Pulse, Santa Cruz Networks, Pure Depth and afterTV. Andrew was educated at London University where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Modern History, as a British Council Fellow at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of California at Berkeley here he earned a Masters Degree in Political Science. Andrew is currently writing a second book entitled DIGITAL VERTIGO: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age which will be published in 2011 by St Martins Press.