Complete Track
Tuesday, August 15 - Thursday, August 17th
Digital Music: Mobile, Broadband, Radio, Pods & TV - Content, Branding and Technology
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The Consortium Dinner
Tuesday, August 15 - 6:45 PM - The Marriott San Jose
Advisory Committee Members
Bryan Biniak, Senior Vice President/General Manager of Wireless, AGInteractive & President, Agmobile, American Greetings Corporation
Jay Samit, General Manager, Sony Connect
Richard Conlon, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Media Licensing, BMI
Steve Canepa, Vice President, Global Media & Entertainment Industry, IBM
Thomas V. Ryan, SVP, Mobile and Digital Development, EMI Music
Mike Gaumond, VP & General Manager, Digital Media Services, Motorola
David Ulmer, Senior Director of Marketing, Digital Media Services, Motorola
Phil Wiser, President & Chairman, Building B, Inc.
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, Tag Strategic
Jamie Perlman, Business Development, SNOCAP, Inc.
David Ring, V.P. Business Development & Business Affairs, Universal Music Group, eLabs
Ken Hertz, Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP
Neil Smith, General Manager, Digital Media Services, AOL
David Dorn, Rhino Entertainment
Cassandra Cummings, Windows Digital Media Music & Filmed Entertainment Marketing, Microsoft
Jean-Paul Colaco, President & General Manager, Radio Disney
Thomas Gewecke, SVP, Digital Business Group, Sony BMG
Mike Brochu, CEO, Loudeye
Drew Denbo, Director of Business Development, Music, RealNetworks, Inc.
Tom Flanagan, Executive Director, Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
Albhy Galuten, Vice President, Digital Media Technology Strategy, Sony Corporation of America
Srivats Sampath, President & CEO, MERCORA
Ted Casey, SVP of Business Development and Partner Relations, MusicNet
Larry Frazin, President, A&R, Zingy, Inc.
KamranV, Artist Manager, CyKiK
Ken Rutkowski, founder, KenRadio Broadcasting
Laura Hess, Director, MP3.com, CNET Networks
Robert Smith, Sr. Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Concord Records
Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks
Daniel Harris, CEO, MediaPass® Network
Martin C. Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, DCIA
Kenneth L. Burry, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Ralph Simon, Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum - Americas
John Puterbaugh, CEO, Nellymoser
Fred Davis, Founder, Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone & Hayes
Kelli Richards, President, The All Access Group
Bill Valenti, Executive Vice President, Melodeo
Shawn Hopwood, Sr. Director, Coding Technologies
Alex Bernstein, co-founder, North Venture Partners
Neil Smith, General Manager, Digital Media Services, AOL
The Goal: Digital Music Consortium at Digital Hollywood: Mobile, Broadband, Radio, PODs & TV, is a group created to help facilitate the future of Music in the exploding universe of Mobile, Broadband, PODs, Satellite and TV. "The Consortium" will not only meet at trade events such as Digital Hollywood, Building Blocks 2006 or CES, but also to hold "Creative Retreats" for Artists and industry executives to help broaden and enhance the reach and future of Music in the multi-platform and Always-Connected environment now available to the consumer. To that end, the Advisory Committee will be holding a VIP Dinner (by invitation) at Building Blocks 2006, on Tuesday, August 15th at 6:45 PM - at the Marriott San Jose Hotel.
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The Track
Digital Music: Mobile, Broadband, Radio, Pods & TV - Content, Branding and Technology
Tuesday, August 15th
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Track II:
Mobile Music: New Platforms + New Technology + More Music + Dynamic Marketplace
Dr. Muzibul Khan, Vice President, Product Management and Engineering, Wireless Terminals Division, Samsung
Jay Samit, Senior Vice President, Sony Connect, Sony Digital Entertainment
Larry Moores, Senior Vice President, Global Business Division, WiderThan
Jamie Perlman, Business Development, SNOCAP, Inc.
Jim Hollingsworth, Sr. Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Gracenote
Ashok Narasimhan, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, July Systems
Daniel Harris, CEO MediaPass® Network, Moderator
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Wednesday, August 16th
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track IV:
The Piracy Freight Train: As Entertainment, The Law & The Technology Collide
Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Michael Petricone, Vice President, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
Johan Van De Ven, Chief Technology Officer, Philips Consumer Electronics
David Mathias, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Russell Frackman, Partner, Mitchell Slberberg & Knupp
Rajan Samtani, Director, Business Development, CONTENTGUARD, Inc.
David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator
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12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track III:
DRM Implementation in Media and Entertainment: From Standardization to Implementation of New Technology Strategies
Don Leake, Program Director, Copy Protection Business Development, IBM Research
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO, Gibson Guitar Corp.
Talal G. Shamoon, Chief Executive Officer, Intertrust
Tom Jacobs, Director of Research, Sun Labs, Manager, Voodoo Sciences Research Department
Jonathan Lee, Vice President of Business Development, MediaDefender, Inc.
Mark Heninger, founder & CMO, DreamTank
Richard LeVine, Senior Manager, Accenture, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track III:
Digital Music & its Transformation: Downloads and Subscriptions in Mobile, Broadband, Pods & Digital and Internet Radio
Neil Smith, General Manager, AOL Music Now, America Online Inc.
Anu Kirk, Director of Product Management of Music, Rhapsody team, Real Networks
Ty Braswell, VP, Content Development, Music, Sony Digital Entertainment
Srivats Sampath, President & CEO, MERCORA
David Ulmer, Senior Director of Marketing, Digital Media Services, Motorola
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic, Moderator
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3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Track IV:
Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Device Interoperability, Sharing and Protecting
Jurgen Krehnke, Sr. Director, Regional Marketing, Consumer & Multimedia, Philips Semiconductors
Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera Corporation
James M. Burger, Esq., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; DVDA Board Member
Tim Dowling, CEO, Network Magic
Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics
Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Software Strategy, AMD
Ross Rubin, Director of Industry Analysis, The NPD Group, Moderator
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Thursday, August 17
11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track III:
Next Generation P2P Music and Film - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries
Billy McNair, co-founder and CEO, Peerflix
Don Kosak, CTO, Lycos
Srivats Sampath, President & CEO, MERCORA
John Jones, Senior Vice President, Programming, MusicNet
Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Containers
Les Ottolenghi, founder & CEO, INTENT MediaWorks
John Beezer, President, Shared Media Licensing
Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), Moderator
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12:50 PM - 2:15 PM
Track III:
Music Industry Innovates and Morphs: Radio, PODs, Blogs, P2P, Ad Revenue Concepts, Cable/TV Innovation
Morty Wiggins, President, 33rd Street Records, founder, Bayside Distribution and SVP, Tower Records
Brian O'Neal, Senior Director, Corporate Communications, StreamCastNetworks, Inc.
Stephen Murray, founder & President of Entertainment, BurnLounge
Jon Cohen, co-President, Cornerstone
Steve Skrzyinarz, CEO and founder, Soundflavor
Dave Jaworski, CEO, Passalong Networks
Kelli Richards, President, The All Access Group, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track I:
Personalized Mobile Experience – Social Networking: Breakthroughs in Messaging, Music, Video Capabilities & Advertising
Brett Crossley, VP of Sales and Marketing, Experience Group, Packet Video
David Ratner, Head of Digital Identity, Openwave Systems
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media Corp.
Atakan Cetinsoy, VP Business Products, MusicStrands
Vincent John Vincent, President & founder, GestureTek, Inc.
Michael Papish, President & CEO, MediaUnbound
Nick Desai, founder, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Juice Wireless, Moderator
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