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 January 9 - 11, 2012 Wednesday, January 11th 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Track I - CC1 - Cable Conference 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. Sandip Mandera, Senior Software Manager, AppUp SDK, Software & Services Group, Intel Corporation David Grubb, VP, Architecture & Strategy, Converged Experiences, Motorola Mobility George Tupy, Marketing Solution Manager, Service Provider Group, Cisco Brian Miller, Director of Business Development, Western Digital Edgar Villalpando, SVP, Marketing & Content Relations, ActiveVideo Networks Ronald Jacoby, Vice President and Chief Architect, Connected TV, Yahoo! Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator David Grubb, Vice President, Architecture & Strategy, Converged Experiences, Motorola Mobility: David Grubb III is Vice President, Architecture & Strategy, Converged Experiences, Motorola Mobility. In this role, he is responsible for focusing on the development of the strategy and architecture for Motorola Mobility's next-generation Internet Era of TV and converged experiences. He is also responsible for developing differentiated applications and device solutions for the delivery of multi-screen experiences. Grubb previously served as the Chief Technology Officer for Motorola Home, a business within Motorola Mobility. Grubb was responsible for technology and innovation leadership, intellectual property creation and timely integration of new technologies to create new business opportunities. Previously, Grubb was Vice President, Technology Business Development for Motorola's Home business. He was responsible in that role for leading the development of business strategies related to next generation TV, media mobility and fixed-mobile convergence. Grubb was tasked with bringing together Motorola's wired and wireless video and broadband technologies to create new, compelling seamless mobility experiences for consumers. Grubb originally joined Motorola, then General Instrument, in 1982. Over the last 28 years, Grubb has held a series of roles including research and development for the transmission network systems business, and later assumed leadership responsibility as the director and then vice president of engineering. In 1997 he was named vice president, marketing for the TNS business. From 1999 to 2003, he held the position of vice president of marketing for the TNS business and then moved into the role of vice president, advanced network technology for the IP solutions group. Grubb holds five patents and has published numerous papers on fiber optics and HFC network technology. He has also published and presented at numerous industry conferences. He holds a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Drexel University and a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. George Tupy, Marketing Solution Manager, Service Provider Group, Cisco: George Tupy brings more than twenty years of experience in the rich media and video networking industry to his current position as Marketing Solution Manager with Cisco’s Service Provider Group. His responsibilities include leading Cisco’s global marketing initiatives for media, satellite and broadcast. Mr. Tupy previously held management positions with Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems. His experience includes work with rich media, digital rights management, media data centers, content delivery networks, IPTV, mobile networking products, and video servers. Brian Miller, Director of Business Development, Western Digital: Brian Miller 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. Miller came to Western Digital through the acquisition of Senvid and its MioNet remote access and sharing software where he was VP Marketing. His 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. Miller 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. Edgar Villalpando, SVP, Marketing & Content Relations, ActiveVideo Networks: Edgar joined ActiveVideo in 2008 and is responsible for global market strategy and content relations for ActiveVideo®. Edgar's extensive media and consumer products experience includes executive positions with HBO and DIRECTV, and as Founder of THUMP, an agency that developed branded content through a combination of traditional and new media platforms. With HBO, Edgar served as vice president, new media and business development for the programmer's international group, with specific responsibility for expanding linear and new media properties into new territories. Edgar previously had served as vice president, marketing for HBO, driving and managing international marketing and communications efforts for the HBO and Cinemax brands. With DIRECTV, Edgar served as director of marketing and advertising with a focus on supporting the satellite provider's new and international programming services within United States. Edgar began his career in advertising in the agency world, working on blue-chip brands such as Ford, Miller Brewing, Mobil Oil, Wesson Oil, and several other accounts. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA. 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.