Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 17-20, 2011 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, California Wednesday, October 19th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track II: ViDeo-15, TV-2011-14, Salon II 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 game 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. Timothy Dodd, Vice President and General Manager, Neustar Media Nate Williams, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, Motorola Mobility Brian Miller, Director of Business Development for Branded Products, Western Digital Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Product Marketing Digital Home, Yahoo! John Gildred, founder and CTO, SyncTV Corporation Ajay Dugar, Director, Business Development, Digital Media, DTS, Inc. David Porter, TV/Video Advertising Evangelist, Microsoft Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Timothy Dodd, Vice President and General Manager, Neustar Media: has a long career at the forefront of managing digital content for both studios and distribution networks. Formerly a Vice President of Corporate Business Development and Strategy with Warner Bros., Dodd managed digital distribution and digital rights management issues and cross-industry alliances for the studio. Formerly, Dodd was Group Vice President, Technology Policy at Time Warner Cable and managed digital policy and strategy on behalf of the company, working highly collaboratively with other major cable operators, programmers and networks. While at Warner Bros., Dodd was engaged in the formulation of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE). DECE is a multi-industry consortium that will provide consumers with innovative new ways to manage and enjoy their digital entertainment content across multiple devices, networks, services and retailers. DECE recently launched its consumer brand - “UltraViolet”. In his role at Neustar, Dodd leads the company’s media and entertainment business focused on creating interoperable solutions for digital and mobile content delivery – an example of which is Neustar’s development of the UltraViolet Digital Rights Locker. Trained in law at both Duke University and the University of Canterbury School of Law (Christchurch), Dodd has practiced as an attorney both in the United States and New Zealand. He is the head of Neustar’s operations located in Los Angeles. Nate Williams, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, Motorola Mobility: Nate Williams is senior director of strategy and business development for the 4Home Connected Home Solutions division of Motorola Mobility. He leads the strategy and business development teams focused on expanding the proliferation of the 4Home platform across all consumer converged experiences. Williams joined Motorola in December 2010 through the acquisition of 4Home. While at 4Home, Nate was Chief Marketing Officer and facilitated the planning and development of 4Home’s go-to-market strategy, managing sales, marketing, and corporate development. Nate helped launch 4Home as “Best of CES” in 2007, refined 4Home’s strategy to position 4Home as a market leader in Connected Home Services, and served as a functional deal team lead to facilitate its acquisition by Motorola. With progressive leadership roles in Marketing, Business Development, and Corporate Finance, Williams’ 15 years of advisory experience unites the most tactical facets of the communications industry with the technological complexity of Silicon Valley. His expertise includes evaluating new media technologies, connected home business strategy, cross industry negotiations, and investment analysis. Williams joined 4Home from the Digital Home Group of Intel Corporation, where he provided strategic finance and business development direction for their multi-billion dollar Consumer PC business. His financial analysis of the risk to Intel’s CPU business due to the emergence of discrete graphics processing earned him Intel’s DRA award in 2006. Earlier, Williams served as an Associate at JPMorgan & Co. in New York City. He began his career as a Marketing Intern at The Walt Disney Company. Through his professional affiliations, Williams has spoken at many industry conferences including Consumer Electronics Show, Telecom Council, Digital Hollywood, CableLabs, and Parks Associates Smart Energy Summit. Williams holds an M.A. in Marketing and Technology Management from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.A. in Communications Technology from The University of Connecticut. Brian Miller, Director of Business Development, Western Digital: Brian runs business development for Western Digital’s consumer business unit and leads partnership and content relationship activities for the WD TV product family as well as the market leading My Passport and My Book storage products. Brian came to Western Digital through the acquisition of Senvid and its MioNet remote access and sharing software where he was VP Marketing. Brian’s software as a service and cloud expertise comes from his role as Vice President for Product Marketing and Professional Services at Noosh, a market leading software as a service solution. Additional senior management experience was gained at Ipsilon Networks as the GM for Asia Pacific and at Nokia which acquired Ipsilon for over $100M. Brian was also a marketing leader in the early days of videoconferencing and has a significant strategic background developed at Bain and Company. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford. Russ Schafer, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Connected TV, Yahoo! Inc.: Russ Schafer brings twenty years experience in product and corporate marketing to his role as Senior Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Connected TV. Russ has global product marketing responsibility including consumer insights, segmentation, concept development, branding, pricing, positioning and compelling “out of the box” consumer experiences. Yahoo! Connected TV is at the leading edge of the Web’s intersection with the “10-foot experience” of television viewing. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Russ held positions as Director of Marketing, Director of Technology Management, Director of Business Development and Operations, and Regional Sales Manager for Intel, Sybase, and IBM. He has marketed a broad range of hardware, software, and Internet products and services to consumers and businesses. His responsibilities spanned the entire product lifecycle, including research, design, development, branding, pricing, manufacturing, inventory management, distribution and intellectual property. Russ’ experience as an entrepreneur included time as Director of Product and Business Management for an Intel-funded startup that developed a mobile wireless and e-commerce software platform and service. He was responsible for market development and business management including market research, pricing, user interface design, e-commerce transactions, e-coupon advertising, and a multi-million dollar P&L. Russ holds an MBA in international business from Duke University and a BBA in Management from Texas A&M University. John Gildred, founder and CTO, SyncTV Corporation: John is the President of SyncTV Corporation, a CE-industry backed venture enabling large-scale device-connected Internet television. Prior to SyncTV, John served as Senior Vice President at Pioneer Electronics for eight years where he launched major products for Pioneer and Sony including first generation Blu-ray and the award-winning Kuro plasma television. Before Pioneer, John founded Indrema, an open-source game platform for independent game developers, and OpenSoft, an award-winning consumer Internet communications software company. John has held several CE industry forum leadership positions, including Vice Chair of UPnP Steering Committee, Chair of CEA Home AV Networking Group, IEEE and IETF representative for Pioneer. John has also served as a Senior Technology Consultant to several Fortune 500 companies. Ajay Dugar, Director, Content Business Development, DTS, Inc.: As Director at DTS' Digital Media division, Ajay Dugar creates and manages DTS' content partnerships in the advanced audio products arena. He works with a wide range of DTS' customers and partners on home theatre, streaming, Blu-ray, and connected entertainment products and services. Prior to DTS, Ajay was the Executive Director of new product development at Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment. He was responsible for identifying and implementing new business models and strategies around distribution and monetization of digital entertainment content across Online (transactional VOD, EST, Streaming), Mobile and Interactive (Gaming) platforms. Previously, Ajay was the Director of Product Management at Hewlett Packard's Digital Entertainment Services group, which specialized in a set of foundational technologies and operational capabilities to provide content owners, aggregators and advertisers with the ability to create, manage and re-purpose “digital masters” for commercial transactions. Before HP, Ajay headed the Product team at ClickStar, an online entertainment portal. Prior to ClickStar, Ajay worked in the digital anti-piracy field at MediaSentry. He was responsible for managing the scanning/investigation and enforcement products and services for the major motion picture studios. Mr. Dugar holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Business from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. 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.