Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Tuesday, August 15 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Track IV: Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV We are entering the age of all video all the time. Video is no longer a manifestation of TV, video is a web experience, a mobile experience, as well as an IPTV, Cable and Satellite experience. Video is taped on a hard drive, a PVR, DVR, on an iPOD and on a cell phone. Video is how consumers relate to the world. The conversion to the all-video culture has been so quiet and so quick, the implications of what an all-video culture may mean is only first becoming part of the national business and intellectual conversation. The technology and communication companies that have developed and provide the new video services may well have the greatest insight as to what these new technologies and cultural advances mean. In this session, we are delighted to bring that group of experts to a public forum. Dr. Timothy Tuttle, Vice President, AOL Video, AOL, Inc. 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 Dr. Timothy Tuttle, Vice President, AOL Video, AOL, Inc.: Tim Tuttle is Vice President at AOL and is currently responsible for AOL’s video search technology initiatives. Tim joined AOL through its December 2005 acquisition of Truveo, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as chief executive officer. As CEO of Truveo, Tim managed the company’s strategic and business direction as well as product development for Truveo’s industry-leading video search engine. Prior to Truveo, Tim was a founder and chief technology officer of Bang Networks, a company that pioneered streaming technology for real-time web applications. He served as a research staff member at Lucent Bell Laboratories where he oversaw projects in data mining and video-based web applications. He also served as research director at Kenan Systems Corp., where he managed numerous technology research initiatives in the areas of real-time web applications, database systems and networking. Tim has been a member of the research staff at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Lab for Computer Science and MIT Lincoln Laboratory conducting work in the areas of data modeling and high-performance optimization algorithms. Tim has been widely recognized for his research and entrepreneurship. He received the prestigious MIT TR100 Award and was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the nation's top 100 innovators in 2002. He is a recipient of the Harvard Business School Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship and the Intel Foundation Fellowship. In addition, he has been awarded several patents and has authored 18 technical publications. Tim earned his masters and doctoral degrees from MIT where he studied at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computer Science. Tim also earned his undergraduate degree from MIT where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October 2005. He is a veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, having joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping. In these leadership roles, he was instrumental in helping to drive innovation based on customer requirements—working on a variety of Akamai's products and directly with many of Akamai's largest customers. Mr. Afergan returned to graduate school in September 2003, and came back to Akamai full time after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on networking and distributed systems. Prior to Akamai, Mr. Afergan ran a software consulting company for over ten years, working for a variety of companies ranging from Bose and Fidelity to start-ups. He authored several trade magazine articles and books including Java Quick Reference (Macmillan), which has been translated into six languages. He has also designed and led several technology training courses internationally. Mr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in the areas of networking and distributed systems. This includes the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking and content distribution protocols, and wireless protocols and architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications on these topics and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard University. His work has won him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and academic forums. Mr. Afergan graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College with an A.B. in Computer Science and a focus on Economics. He holds a S.M. from Harvard University and a PhD from MIT, both in Computer Science. He is also a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program from the Sloan School at MIT. Michael Gordon, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks: Michael Gordon is a 20-year industry veteran whose career spans a wide range of executive and leadership positions in technology, software, networking and telecommunications. As Chief Strategy Officer, Gordon was instrumental in creating Limelight’s digital media delivery strategy, as well as a digital media focused service deployment that has resulted in over nine successive quarters of profitability as a private company. Prior to Limelight, he co-found and led Axient Communications which built and deployed a nationwide next-generation Internet network for high volume Internet users. Before Axient, Gordon co-founded Cyclone Commerce, a leading enterprise software company that provides cross-enterprise connection and collaboration solutions. He also co-founded Gateway Data Sciences Corporation, a software and services company that went public in 1996. Gordon has also held sales and management positions at IBM and National City Bank. Pallavi Shah, Senior Director, Technology Commercialization, Hewlett-Packard: Pallavi Shah is industry recognized thought leader, spokesperson and champion in digital media and rights management. She has led cross-functional alliances and global teams to bring advanced media technologies to market for the last 12 years. She is responsible for HP’s Digital Rights Management strategy for Digital Entertainment business since 2004. Prior to HP, Pallavi was Sr. Market Segment Manager for Sun and was responsible for recruiting and managing strategic partners in the streaming and rich media infrastructure market. She chaired ISO's MPEG4-Java standards group and formed multi-company alliances. Prior to Sun, Ms Shah was with the Sarnoff Corporation (RCA research lab). She represented the HDTV Grand Alliance during the development of HDTV and pioneered the world's first E-Commerce application of interactive HDTV at NAB-95. She has served as a panelist/speaker at over 50 industry conferences and published papers. She has two patents in the architecture of interactive digital media. She holds M.S. from Utah State University and B.S from University of Pune, India. Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal: Frank Nein is a senior corporate, telecommunications industry analyst and technology consultant within the Verizon Video Portal & Broadcast Network HQ in Newark NJ specializing in the delivery and support of broadband interactive video communications, content, initiatives and the placement of future IPTV type emerging information technologies like FTTP & FiOS into multiple learning environments via a $150 million dollar project budget. Frank is consulting on many IPTV, FTTP & FiOS related type projects with new vendors like Synergy Sports Technology (Mark Cuban connected), SST is an IPTV TiVo-like broadcasting, VOD & streaming media service presently active and exclusive to the NBA & teams on a 24/7 VPN basis. OrionsWave LLC, for next generation interactive/digital media gateways, transcoding, middleware and (CDN) content delivery network solutions over IPTV style infrastructures allowing all set-top boxes the ability to seamlessly merge conventional H.323 and H.264/MPEG-4 with all other AV media codec’s for cross platform video broadcast conferencing utilizing existing and new solutions like the Adobe/Macromedia Breeze product over multiple devices and portable wireless devices such as mobiles, PDA’s and SmartPhones, etc. Frank was originally hired by Bell Atlantic 10 years ago as an executive director for corporate online communications & technology. He was involved with the original creative media services & digital interactive TV/video services group and chief advisory analyst/consultant on the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Internet team and corporate merger steering committee. Frank was also responsible for the complete delivery of Ivan Seidenberg’s first live corporate wide webcast and address as new CEO via the internal BA broadcasting network. Prior to BA/VZ, Frank was a lead R&D consultant & analyst for CNNfn.com NY corporate worldwide information technology & services division working with Nils Lahr the chief architect, developer/webmaster for IT/IS & interactive multimedia division as a liaison to the development and implementation of the first live/VOD & real-time online financial streaming media solution and web portal broadcasting network for the project and business strategy. To Frank’s professional and industry credit; over the past 15 years he has respectively worked closely within the broadcasting, cable, video, satellite, streaming media, telecommunications, media & entertainment, and related industry’s on various corporate business levels and projects with such chief company’s as Broadcast.com, Lucent Technologies, Yahoo Music/Ent, iBEAM Broadcasting, (James Cameron’s) Lightstorm Ent, (Schwarzenegger’s) Oak Productions, New Line Cinema, Fox News, ESPN 1&2, Comcast, Bloomberg TV, Planet Hollywood, Clear Channel Ent, Metropolitan Hybrid Ent. etc. just to name a brief few. Frank is prior US Military and served with the "First Ever" US Navy combined Marine/Navy (FA-18) VFA-125 Fighter Jet Squadron in CA. He holds a BS in Engineering & Technology from the National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies at Alexandria Virginia. Nash Parker as Director Strategic Alliances in Alcatel's North American Strategic Solutions Group has an integral role in supporting Alcatel's IPTV and Mobile initiatives. This position has particular relevance in the content, advertising and mobile industries. He has held previous positions as the Manager of Business Development for Sony Computer Entertainment America (PlayStation) and with General Motors Corporation in advertising and sales/marketing.