Complete Track
Tuesday, August 15 - Thursday, August 17th
OnDemand Content & Technology: Broadband, TV, Cable, IPTV, Games & Mobile
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Consortium Dinner
Tuesday, August 15 - 6:45 PM - The Marriott San Jose
Dinner Hosted by:
OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium
Advisory Committee Members
Mike Hayashi, Senior VP Advanced Technology, Time Warner Cable
Mark Hess, Senior VP Digital Television, Comcast
Tom Cerio, Executive Vice President Distribution, HBO
Wilt Hildenbrand, Chief Technology Officer, Cablevision
Anne L. Coulombe, Director, Middleware and Games, SeaChange International
Jeff Binder, President, Broadbus Technologies
Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Director Strategic Planning Comcast Online
Scott Campbell, US Media & Communications Industry Advisor, British Consulate-General
Shahid Khan, Partner, Interactive Broadband Consulting, LLC
John Canning, Tech Evangilist, Yahoo
Arthur C. Chang, Partner, Tippingpoint Ventures
Gina Fegan, Chief Executive, South East Media Network
Lucy Goldenhersh,Vice President, Distribution--New Technologies, Lifetime Entertainment Services
Kevin Cohen, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, Tag Strategic
Kevin Conroy, EVP, America Online, Inc.
Steve Jacobs, Vice President, Broadband Alliances, Sony Corporation of America
Mike Dougherty, VP of Corporate Development, Loudeye
Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Broadband & Digital Media Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Bruce Gersh, Senior Vice President Business Development, ABC Entertainment Group
John Harran, Director Business Development, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Rob Glidden, Market Development Manager, Broadband and Digital Media, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Marty Gordon, Vice President, Philips Electronics Hollywood Office
Geoff Allen, Chairman and Founder, Anystream, Inc.
Bethany Gorfine, President & CEO, Federal Hill Communications
Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President, Ventures, Denuo - A Publicis Groupe Company
Ken Hertz, Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP
Stephen Smyth, Vice President Mobile & Emerging Media, Reuters
Virl Hill, General Manager, Partner Services, Music Software and Services, RealNetworks
Jaymes A. Hines, CEO, NDY Media Group
Jane Kagon, Director, UCLA Extension's Department of Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts
Michael Kassan, Media and Entertainment Consultant
Derek Kuhn P.Eng., AVP Marketing and Business Development Broadband Video, Alcatel Strategic Solutions, Chairman, Broadband Services Forum
Ross Levinsohn, Senior Vice President, Fox Interactive Media
Don Levy, SVP, Marketing & Communications, Sony Pictures Digital
Andy Lipschultz, Vice President, WiderThan
Sandip H. Mandera, Digital Home Evangelist, Intel Corporation
Curt Marvis, CEO, CinemaNow
Neil McGinness, Vice President, Entertainment & Comedy, IMG Media
Ben Mendelson, founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
David F. Nathanson, VP, Advanced Services and Channel Development, Fox Cable Networks Group & GM, Fox College Sports
Ryan O’Hara, President, TV Guide Channel
Mitch Oscar, Executive Vice President, Carat Digital
Josh Rose, Senior Vice President, Director, iDeutsch, Deutsch, Inc.
Jay Samit, General Manager, Sony Connect
Marc Scarpa, Producer/Director, Chair, Producers Guild of America, New Media Council NY Committee
Lori H. Schwartz, VP-Director, Emerging Media, Zentropy Partner
Pallavi Shah, Senior Director, Technology Commercialization, Hewlett-Packard
Ralph Simon, Mobile Entertainment Forum, U.S. Chair Americas
Anthony Stonefield, CEO, USA Wireless
Laurel Skillman, Vice President, Marketing, GameSpot and MP3
Robert Tercek, co-founder, Multimedia Networks LLC
Richard D. Titus, President, Plinyminor
Trevor Kaufman, President, Schematic
Joseph Varet, CEO, Code Networks
Julia Veale, Vice President, Business Development, Showtime Networks
Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, TD Securities (USA) LLC
Zack Zalon, President, Virgin Digital
The Goal: The OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium at Digital Hollywood" will take on tremendous importance within our future events. With the explosion of OnDemand Content and Services in the Entertainment industries, it will be a role of the Advisory Committee to help plan how the future of OnDemand content and technologies will emerge in the industry, in the marketplace and Digital Hollywood events. The committee will meet at regular dinners at all Digital Hollywood events, at Building Blocks, at CES and at the Media Summit New York. In addition, we look to the Advisory Committee to explore ideas such as "Creative Retreats" to bring various elements of the film, TV, Mobile and Games industries into creative dialogue. Our next dinner will take place on Tuesday, August 15th at 6:45 PM - at the Marriott San Jose Hotel.
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The Track
OnDemand Content & Technology: Broadband, TV, Cable, IPTV, Games & Mobile
Tuesday, August 15
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track II:
The TV and Set-top as the Consumer Gateway to Entertainment & Information – Set-Top, Broadband, Guides & PVRs
Tara Maitra, VP and GM, Content Services, TiVo Inc
Andrew Solmssen, Executive Vice President, Schematic
Eric Cooney, President & CEO, TANDBERG Television
Tony Zona, General Manager of Motorola Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) Solutions, Motorola, Inc.
Mitch Oscar, EVP, Carat Digital, Carat North America
Mike Fidler, CEO, Digeo
Dave Rose, Global Director Home Solutions, ARM, Moderator
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track III:
Television 2.0: Cable, Telco, Satellite & Broadband Redefine the Future of Entertainment and Communications
Saul Berman, Partner and Global Executive, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS)
Patricia Karpas, Vice President and General Manger – AOL Television, AOL LLC
Tony Kern, Deputy Managing Partner, Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Americas Managing Partner, Media & Entertainment, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Philip R. Wiser, President and Chairman, Building B, Inc.
David Tochterman, Executive Vice President/Executive Producer, ChannelBlast
Larry Tanz, CEO, LivePlanet
Shahid Khan, Partner, Interactive Broadband Consulting, LLC, Moderator
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12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Track II:
Hollywood and the Digital Consumer: How Technology, Content and Services Establish the Next Level of Consumer Entertainment Experience
Jennifer Feikin, Director, Google Video
John Penney, Vice President, Business Development, HBO, Inc.
Lewis Henderson, Senior Vice President, William Morris Agency
Chad Hurley, CEO & co-founder, YouTube
Michael Grasso, Assistant Vice President, Consumer Marketing, AT&T U-verseSM
Joe Michaels, Director, Business Development, MSN Entertainment, Microsoft
Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Sony Pictures, Moderator
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Track IV:
Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV
Fred McIntyre, Vice President, AOL Video, AOL LLC
Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal
Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Broadband & Digital Media Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mike Afergan, Chief Technology Officer, Akamai
Michael Gordon, co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks
Pallavi Shah, Senior Director, Technology Commercialization, Hewlett-Packard
Nash Parker, Director Strategic Alliances, Alcatel, Moderator
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Wednesday, August 16
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track I:
The Broadband Video Tipping Point: Availability of Vast Content and Portability - Broadband, ITV, Mobile & DTV
Jeff Karnes, Director of Multimedia Search, Yahoo! Inc.
Steve Banfield, SVP and General Manager, Sony Connect, Sony Digital Entertainment
Thomas McInerney, co-founder and CEO, GUBA
Robert Whitmore, CEO & co-founder, NPOWR Digital Media Inc. (stimTV™Network)
Theodore May, VP Content & Value Added Services, Synacor
Markus Almer, president and co-founder, Almer/Blank
Om Malik, Senior Writer, Business 2.0 magazine, Moderator
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Track III:
The Networked Entertainment Home - the PVR/DVR – the Set-Top & PC Entertainment Server
Patrick Barry, Director, Digital Home, Yahoo! Inc.
John Gildred, Vice President of Engineering, Pioneer
Sandip H. Mandera, Product Manager, Digital Media Products and Infrastructure, Intel Corporation
Cornelis (Koen) M. Huizer, Chief Technology Officer, Business Line Cluster Digital Video Set-Top Boxes, Business Group Home Entertainment Networks, Philips Consumer Electronics
Ian Blaine, CEO, ThePlatform
Dan Sokol, Analyst, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track III:
Bridging TV and Broadband: Strategic Relationships - Advertising, Technology & Content
Matthew de Ganon, Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Application Software, The Weather Channel Interactive (TWCI)
Curt Hecht, EVP, Chief Digital Officer, GM Planworks
Stephanie Quay, Site Director, TV.com, CNET
Jen Soch, Vice President, Associate Director of Advanced TV, MediaVest USA
Geoff Allen, Chairman and Founder, Anystream, Inc.
Ed Forman, Strategic Initiatives, ICTV Inc.
Jeff Binder, President, Broadbus Technologies, Moderator
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Track IV:
The Telco Advantage and the IPTV Digital Home: Gateway to Services - VOIP, Wireless Music, Broadband and Set-top
Jay Fausch, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, Fixed Communications Group, Alcatel
J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media, Global Communications Sector Services, IBM
Ray Smets, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Netopia
Marty Stein, Senior Director Marketing, Motorola, Inc.
John Connelly, EVP, Marketing, BigBand Networks
Ben Wagner, DSL Worldwide Marketing and Business Development, Texas Instruments
Ben Mendelson, founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator
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12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track II:
Movies & OnDemand Content - Via Broadband & PC - Via the Set-Top & Via Mobile: A Discussion of Technology & Content
Shravan K Goli, Director, Product Management for Video, Yahoo Media Group
Mary Coller Albert, Chief Marketing Officer, Movielink
Bruce David Eisen, President, CinemaNow, Inc.
Jim Funk, co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Akimbo
Carl Crabill, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, MovieBeam
Brian Taptich, Vice President of Business Development, BitTorrent
Marcia Zellers, Director, AFI Digital Content Lab, American Film Institute, 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
Michael Brochu, President and CEO, Loudeye
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music, Moderator
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Track IV:
Enabling OnDemand Delivery of Content: Implications of Expanded Bandwidth and Near to Unlimited Storage
Basil Badawiyeh, Vice President, On Demand Strategy, C-COR Inc.
Steve Lampen, Multimedia Technology Manager, Belden Electronics Division, Belden CDT
Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent Technologies
Tom L Engdahl, CEO, Radiance Technologies
Darcy Lorincz, SVP & General Manager Global Rich Media, SAVVIS
Randall Crockett, Senior Vice President, DRM Networks
Michael Rolnick, Partner, ComVentures, Moderator
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Thursday, August 17
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Track I:
DTV, Broadband, Set-Top and Interactive Content & Advertising Experience - Enabling Entertainment Choice via Interactive Guides and Gateways
Andy Addis, Executive Vice President, Hillcrest Labs
Jack Guedj, CEO, Magnum Semiconductor
Martijn Lopes Cardozo, Executive Vice President Distribution and Partnerships, GoldPocket
Rolf Hartley, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Professional Products Group, Sonic Solutions
Colin Dixon, Senior Analyst & IPTV Practice Manager, The Diffusion Group
Bill Niemeyer, Chief of Analysis and Research, DiMA Group,Moderator
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Track II:
Video Distribution Across Platforms: Broadband, IPTV, Cable, TV and Mobile
Stephen Condon, Vice President, Marketing, Entriq
Norman Liang, Business Development Manager, Technology Collaboration Solutions, IBM Corp.
Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast
Courtney Jane Acuff, Associate Director, Denuo
John Delay, Director of Strategic Management, Networking Solutions, Harris Corp.
Rodrigo Sepulveda, CEO, vpod.tv
Katherine L. Parker, Internet, Media & Entertainment Industry Sales Global Business Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator
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Track III:
All Video-All the Time: Next Generation in Media Technologies – Creating and Maintaining a Rich Media Internet-Based Broadcasting Network
Mark Larkin, Executive Producer, CNET Broadband and Webcasting
Marc Ruxin, Chief Operating Officer, The Mill Group, North America, BEAM.TV
Faraj Aalaei, CEO and co-founder, Centillium Communications
Samantha Stone, Vice President of Product Marketing, Maven Networks
Patrick Vogt, Chief Executive Officer, Viewpoint Corporation
Todd Johnson, VP of Broadband Content Services, VeriSign
Tony Greenberg, CEO, RampRate Sourcing Advisors/Research, Mooderator
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11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track I:
The PVR, DVR and VOD as a Disruptive Market Force: How Consumer Adaptation of Technology Determines the Future of Advertising and Programming
Tom Morgan, Chief Development Officer, BlackArrow
Don Bogue, Chairman and CEO, Command Audio
Jeff Shultz, CEO, CONCERT
Louisa Shipnuck, Global Media and Entertainment Industry Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV)
Sangita Verma, CEO & founder, TVHead
Beverly Zaslow, Vice President, Acquisitions & Business Development, ReelTime
Seth Shapiro, New Amsterdam Media Inc., (Two-time Emmy® Award winner), Moderator
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Track I:
Personalized Video Media: ITV, Broadband, Podcasting & Blogs - Advertising and Content
Mihai Crasneanu, CEO, Glowria
Daren Gill, Vice President, Business Development, Entertainment Products Group, ChoiceStream
Jay Amato, Managing Partner, Personal Screen Media
Ron Stevens CEO, Pixpo
Andrea Mitchell, founder/CEO, podcastGO
Rochelle Grayson, President, Media 2.0 Consulting, Moderator
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