Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 2-5, 2011 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, California Wednesday, May 4th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track II: ViDeo-15, TV-2011-14 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. David Maher Roberts, CEO, The Filter Alan Messer, Member of the DLNA Board of Directors and Senior Director of Connected Consumer Technologies and Standardization, Samsung Electronics Nate Williams, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, Motorola Mobility Sachin Sathaye, Senior Marketing Manager for Video Solutions, Service Provider Group, Cisco Stuart McKechnie, Director Strategic Marketing, Zoran Corporation Brandon Stander, Director of Marketing, PlayStation Network Radek Zemel, Sr. Product Planner, Rich Media & Video, Microsoft Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator David Maher Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, The Filter: David Maher Roberts is an entrepreneurial executive with web start-up and international new media experience. After completing European Economics and Law and Advanced Management programs, Mr. Roberts began his career as a magazine editor and publisher. At the young age of 24, he successfully raised the funds to launch Unique, the first student lifestyle magazine, and The Game, a European football magazine. With roots firmly in content and fulfilling specific information and entertainment needs, Mr. Roberts went on to become the publishing director at Future Games in 2001. There he served as the board director responsible for the entire portfolio of 10 magazines, 2 websites, and 80 employees. After 2 years, he founded Future Plus, a creative agency to provide tailor-made print and digital content solutions for Future’s advertisers. As Future Plus’s publishing director, Mr. Roberts generated revenues of more than 8 million dollars in just over 2 years. From June 2004-December 2006, he also served as the New Media Director for Future’s European web operations. After leaving Future, Mr. Roberts served as the New Media director at iSporty, where he provided the founders with a launch strategy and platform for their sport social network and he was a founder and senior partner of Digital-dna LLP, where he consulted on creating and implementing web strategies for their clients. In his spare time, Mr. Roberts plays, watches, and coaches football and passionately makes and listens to music. He lives with his wife and two children outside of Bath. Alan Messer, Member of the DLNA Board of Directors and Senior Director of Connected Consumer Technologies and Standardization, Samsung Electronics: Dr. Alan Messer is a Member of the DLNA Board of Directors and Senior Director of the Convergence Technologies and Standards with Samsung Electronics’ Silicon Valley R&D Center. He leads both US research into next generation consumer electronics software technologies and Samsung's US convergence standardization activities. In this role, Messer has been a worldwide leader in connected TV, home networking and IP service technologies for consumer devices. Messer has been with Samsung for 7+ years, before which he has worked at a variety of consumer electronics companies including HP and Sony Electronics. Messer has participated in various standardization organizations and is the President and Chairman of the UPNP's Forum as well as holding Samsung's position on the DLNA Board of Directors. 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. Sachin Sathaye, Senior Marketing Manager for Video Solutions, Service Provider Group, Cisco: Sachin Sathaye brings more than 17 years of telecommunications industry experience spanning engineering, support, business consulting and marketing, to his current role as Senior Marketing Manager for Service Provider Video Solutions with Cisco. In this position, Mr. Sathaye is responsible for defining strategy, technological & business architectural plays and marketing video, cloud and data center solutions to sp segments such as cable, telco and media broadcasters. Previously at Cisco, Mr. Sathaye spent five years in advanced services for network consulting, supporting the company's enterprise and SP accounts. He has led advanced services delivery management and business development during his tenure in customer advocacy with emphasis on enterprise and SP network design consultancy, operational efficiency strategy and fault management encompassing technologies such as, routing, MPLS, security, VoIP and network management systems. Sachin Sathaye holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the Pune University, India and a masters of business administration in global management. Stuart McKechnie, Director of Strategic Marketing at Zoran Corporation since 2004,has more than twenty-five years experience in high-tech electronics. He has directed projects that range from strategic planning through product specification, management, development and marketing to sales and customer support. His experience includes time with technology startups as well as more than fifteen years with the global giant Philips Electronics, serving at both Philips Semiconductors and Philips Consumer Electronics. His focus has been on high-volume products and services developed from leading edge consumer electronics technology, with a special emphasis on digital imaging. Stuart holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Southampton in the UK, where he specialized in analyzing space imagery. Brandon Stander, Director of Marketing, PlayStation Network: Brandon Stander is the Director of Marketing for PlayStation Network at SCEA.  Stander oversees marketing efforts for PlayStation Network branded services, PlayStation Network partnership marketing (Vudu, Hulu Plus, etc.), PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Home and PSN original programming as well as corporate CRM and loyalty efforts. Stander comes to PlayStation from Microsoft, where he spent eight years of his career in a number of global product management and product planning leadership roles.  Stander previously led brand management and subscription marketing for Xbox LIVE, which included acquisition and retention marketing functions and the launch of the New Xbox Experience.  Prior to that, Stander directed the strategic planning efforts for several MSN content businesses such as Autos, Money, Real Estate, and Weather.  Previous to his time at MSN, he was a Global Product Manager of 1st party games for Xbox and Games for Windows. Stander received an MBA from Yale University, a BBA from The University of Michigan and was a National Merit Scholar. 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.