 Next Event: Building Blocks 2008 Date: August 5-7, 2008 Location: Marriott, San Jose, San Jose, California Digital Hollywood, Inc. is pleased to announced that the CEA Consumer Electronics Association, producer of CES, the largest trade show in the United States has joined Digital Hollywood in the sponsorship and production of Building Blocks 2008 and each year into the future. Our two organizations are now in the process of developing next year's great program. Please feel free to contact me with your thoughts. Victor Harwood, President, Digital Hollywood, Inc., vharwood@digitalhollywood.com "Where Content is King and Technology Rules" Building Blocks 2008 is the Premier Event for Transforming Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Social Media & Web Application Technologies & the Global Communications Network: TV, Cable, Telco, Consumer Electronics, Mobile, Broadband, Search, Games and the Digital Home. "Disruptive Thinking - Change Agents That Transform the World" What follows is an archive of the Building Blocks event which took place in August, 2006 Archive of the 2006 Event Special Pre-Day Event Monday, August 14th, 3pm - 6pm Sun Microsystems, Inc. Strategic Technology Roundtable & Reception A University Project Event Held at the Computer History Museum - Click Here for Information Open to all Building Blocks Attendees  3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Welcome by: Jane Kagon, Director, UCLA Extension's Department of Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts Victor Harwood, President, Digital Hollywood Opening Roundtable EduTopia Milton Chen, Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation Google in the Classroom Cristin Frodella, Academic Relations, Google, Inc. Entertainment Visions Marilyn Friedman, Director of Special Projects, Dreamworks Animation 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM The Creativity Forum Patrick McKertcher, Director, Knowledge Web Project - Machinima Warren Stringer, CTO, Muse, Inc. - Hacking the Social Media Supercomputer Dan Costa, co-founder, Campus Moviefest - Student Cinematics and Creativity 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sun Technology Forum Jeffrey Kesselman, Lead Architect, Sun Gaming Office SunGrid, Sun Microsystems - Project Darkstar, Sun Game Server Dan Hushon, CTO, Sun Microsystems - SunGrid Hanxi Chen, Senior Engineer, Sun Microsystems - Thumper Paul Byrne, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems - Project Looking Glass Kevin Roebuck, Academic and Research Group, Sun Microsystems - Education Commons The Agenda Building Blocks Supersessions Tuesday, August 15 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: User Generated Content: An Internet, Communications and Advertising Transformation Scott Roesch, Vice President & General Manager, AtomFilms Peter Chane, Senior Business Product Manager, Google Video Jason Zajac, GM Social Media - Search & Marketplace, Yahoo! Inc. Andrew Anker, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development Six Apart & General Manager, VOX Oliver Luckett, co-founder, Senior Vice President of Network Development, Revver Erik Hawkins, CEO, PureVideo (StupidVideos.com, GrindTV.com) Ken Rutkowski, founder, KenRadio Broadcasting, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Embracing the Connected Consumer - Entertainment and Technology - From the Digital Home to the Mobile Universe Claudia Ceniceros, Senior Director Media and Content Strategy, Cisco Systems Tom Flanagan, Executive Director, Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments Debbie Solomon, Senior Partner, Group Research Director, MindShare Udo Eberlein, founder and President, Nero, Inc. Cornelis (Koen) M. Huizer, Chief Technology Officer, Business Line Cluster Digital Video Set-Top Boxes, Business Group Home Entertainment Networks, Philips Consumer Electronics Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics Stephen Condon, Vice President, Marketing, Entriq, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: 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 Chris Seymour, Director of Video Business Development, Motorola, Inc. Mitch Oscar, EVP, Carat Digital, Carat North America Mike Fidler, CEO, Digeo Dr. Ken Morse, Vice President Client Architecture, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Dave Rose, Global Director Home Solutions, ARM, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 10:45 AM - Noon Track I: Web 2.0 - The Next Iteration: How Next Generation Personalized Media is Rewiring the Web - Programmable Web, Podcasting, Mashups & Blogging - Transforming and Disassembling the World of Traditional Media, Communications & Advertising Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Senior Director, Interactive Products, Comcast Cable Marcien Jenckes, VP and GM, AIM, AOL LLC Baris Karadogan, Partner, ComVentures Kevin Rose, founder and chief architect, digg, Inc. Greg Kostello, CEO, vMix Media Inc. Dan Nova, Managing General Partner, Highland Capital Molly Wood, Executive Editor, CNET.com, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part I Companies will be selected to present company products and business plans. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Presentations by: I. vMix Media Inc.: Presentation by: Greg Kostello, CEO of vMix Media Inc. II. FilmLoop, Inc.: Kyle Mashima, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, FilmLoop III. Narrowstep™ Inc.: Presentation by: Carolyn Wall, President, Narrowstep, North America IV. Exavio, Presentation by: Michael Moone, President and CEO, Exavio V. Gas Station TV: Presentation by: Adam Bleibtreu, President, Gas Station TV VI. Rights Group, LLC: Presentation by: Jed Alpert, CEO of Rights Group, LLC Co-Hosts: Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures, Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: Television 2.0: Cable, Telco, Satellite & Broadband Redefine the Future of Entertainment and Communications 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 Eric Mark, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS) Shahid Khan, Partner, Interactive Broadband Consulting, LLC, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Mobile Video & TV – Technology & Platforms that Make the System Go Bob Shallow, Head, Music and Rich Media Business Unit, North America, Nokia Dan Monahan, Global Infotainment Segment Manager, Mobility Products Group, Intel, Inc. Rich Ferreira, Senior Director of Marketing, RMM Americas, BU Mobile and Personal, Philips Gregory Berkin, co-founder, Think Mobile Bhuvan Lall, President (Global), MCORP Global Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritas, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas & President/CEO, The Mobilium Group, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Track I: 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-verse Joe Michaels, Director, Business Development, MSN Entertainment, Microsoft Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Sony Pictures, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Social Networking in Mobile: Content, Communications and Monetizing Michael Grossi, VP of Business Development, HELIO, Inc. Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Thomas V. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Digital & Mobile Strategy and Development, EMI Music Jed Stremel, Director, Facebook Chris Bull, Vice President, Marketing, AirPlay Bryan Biniak, General Partner, Providence Ventures Michael Wehrs, Chief Technical Evangelist, AOL Wireless Dorrian Porter, CEO, Mozes, Inc., Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: The Rush to Mobile Video: Establishing and Monetizing a Revolutionary Entertainment and Communications Medium Jeremiah Zinn, Senior Director, Wireless Product Development, MTV Networks David Bluhm, Chief Executive Officer, GoTV Networks Ed Lang, Vice President, Sony BMG Digital Business Group Paul Scanlan, co-founder & COO, MobiTV Glenn R. Schuster, Director, Partner Programs Handheld GPU, NVIDIA Sanjay Reddy, SVP, Business Development, Gemstar-TV Guide Varsha Tagare, Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Track I: Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing: The Next Generation of Consumer Reach Kris W. Jacob, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Podcast Network, PodShow, Inc. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh Networks Ed Delfs, Vice President, National Advertising Sales and Operations, Real Networks Keith Richman, CEO, Break.com Greg Demetriades, CEO, WhiteBlox Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket Pam Horan, President, OPA, Onlilne Publishers Association, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part II Companies will be selected to present company products and business plans. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Presentations by: I. Songbird: Presentation by: Rob Lord, CEO, Songbird II. Fabrik, Inc.: Presentation by: Mike Cordano is the CEO and a cofounder, Fabrik III. Subculture: Presentation by: Christian Burkholder, CEO, Subculture IV. Haystack.com: Presentation by: Jordan Garbis founder, Haystack V. Cracked Entertainment, Presentation by: Monty Sarhan, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Cracked Entertainment VI. Black Arrow, Inc.: Presentation by: Denny Wilkinson, President & CEO, Black Arrow, Inc. Co-hosted by: Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, TD Securities David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: Mobile Commerce and Content - The Mobile Web, Off Deck Content, Mobile Search and MVNO Options Heidi Lehmann, VP of Content Acquisition and Strategy, Third Screen Media Lee Hancock, CEO, go2 Nara Rajagopalan, Vice President, Mobile Edge, Openwave Shaukat Shamim, SVP, Business Development, Rhythm NewMedia Inc. Vince Shaw, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Targeted Search: Aggregating Markets – Content and Advertising Ben Wright, Director, Channel Strategy and Development, Yahoo! Search Marketing David Marks, CEO and co-founder, Loomia Steven Marder, CEO, Eurekster Brian Lent. CEO, Medio Systems Bob Fogarty, VP, Sales and Business Development, PodZinger Manish Chandra, CEO and founder, Kaboodle Perry Solomon, Senior Director, Media Business Development, Fast Search & Transfer Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, BA Venture Partners, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track I: Desktop Browser & Search As Application Platform: Gateway to Information and Entertainment Chase Norlin, CEO, Pixsy Corporation Doug Leeds, Vice President, Products, Ask.com Stephen Governale, Vice President, Director, SMG Search Mike Lanza, CEO, Click TV Avikk Ghose, Director, Business Development, Mercora Brian Glicklich, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, Premiere Radio Networks, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 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 Mike Pinto, CEO, mobZilla Daniel Harris, CEO MediaPass® Network, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: Advertising Strategies in the Diversified Digital Culture: Broadcast, Cable, Satellite, Broadband, Podcasting, Games and Mobile Todd Herman, Director, Advertising & Business Strategy, MSN Video / TV / Movies / Radio, Microsoft Corporation Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President, Ventures, Denuo - A Publicis Groupe Company Dave Williams, CMO, Atom Entertainment and GM, Shockwave.com Jack Isquith, Executive Director of Music Industry Relations, AOL Music and the AOL Radio Network, AOL LLC Chris Pizzurro, Vice President, Digital, New Media Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Entertainment Walter Schild, Founder & CEO, Genex Andrew Frank, Media Research Director, Gartner Research, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Strategies in Wireless Devices and Services - from Audio & Video to Downloads: How Innovation Drives Avenues for Subscriber and Revenue Expansion Bradford D. Duea, President, Napster Jamie Rosenberg, Vice President, Premium Services, Danger, Inc. Troy Evans, Senior Business Development Manager, Branded Content, Forum Nokia, Americas Steve Schnier, Consumer Electronics Market Segment Manager, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Texas Instruments Whitey Bluestein, Strategic Business Consultant Eric Harber, Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Qpass Lauren Cole, President, Lauren Cole Media, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here The Consortium Dinners: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM I. Hollywood and the Digital Consumer Consortium Tuesday, August 15 - 6:45 PM - The Marriott San Jose Dinner Hosted by:  II. OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium Tuesday, August 15 - 6:45 PM - The Marriott San Jose Dinner Hosted by:  III. Digital Rights, Content Rights & Piracy Consortium Tuesday, August 15 - 6:45 PM - The Marriott San Jose Dinner Hosted by:  IV. The Web, Social Networks & The Net Economy Consortium at Building Blocks V. Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium; VI. Reinventing Advertising VII. Mobile TV, Video & Music Consortium VIII. Digital Music Consortium Wednesday, August 16 The Seminars 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: 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 Carl J. Rohling, Esq., V.P. Business Development. Radiotime Dan Sokol, Analyst, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: The Future of Enhanced Advertising: Addressing Brands, Message, Technology, Media and Entertainment Neil McGuiness, Vice President of Entertainment and Comedy, IMG Media Patty Mitchell, Vice President Worldwide Sales, Six Apart (TypePad, Moveable Type & LiveJournal) Lori H. Schwartz, VP, Director of Emerging Media, The Interpublic Group Jonathan Anastas, Vice President, Marketing, Network LIVE Adrian Sexton, Partner, TAG Strategic Sue Cross, Vice President, AP's Online Services, Associated Press Michael Kassan, Principal, Media Link, LLC, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: The Piracy Freight Train: As Entertainment, The Law & The Technology Collide Martha Nalebuff, Director, Intellectual Property Guidance, Microsoft Corp Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP Michael Petricone, Vice President, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association David Mathias, Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations/TMT Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP Russell Frackman, Partner, Mitchell Slberberg & Knupp Rajan Samtani, Director, Business Development, CONTENTGUARD, Inc. David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 10:30 AM - Noon - Special Workshop Open Entertainment – Networks, Devices, and Applications that Define the Consumer Experience Hosted by: Norman Liang, Business Development Manager, Technology Collaboration Solutions, IBM Corp. Speakers: Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates Neil Edwards, General Manager, dot mobi Mike Acton, Senior Architect, Highmoon Studios Jussi Nevanlinna, Director, Product Marketing, Multimedia Experiences, Nokia Steve Weinstein, CEO, Motionlabs Brian Hofstetter, Director Connected Entertainment, Zoran Corporation For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 10:45 AM - Noon Track I: Alternative Media & Advertising: Personalized Consumer Broadband, RSS Feeds, Blogging and Podcasting Tom Merritt, Editor, CNET.com Don Loeb, Vice President, Business Development, Feedburner Bart Feder, CEO and President, The FeedRoom Dr. Robert Arn, CTO, Itiva Digital Media Aaron Cohen, CEO and founder, Bolt Media Evan Berg, Senior Director of Corporate and Business Development, Brightcove Bryan Kujawski, co-founder, 360i, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part III Companies will be selected to present company products and business plans. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Presentations by: I. RallyPoint: Presentation by: Jeff Allen, CEO, RallyPoint and Managing Director, Rocket Ventures II. TurnHere, Inc.: Presentation by: Brad Inman, Founder and CEO, TurnHere III. MESoft, Inc.: Presentation by: Mark Kapczynski, co-founder & CEO, MESoft IV. Magnify Networks: Presentation by: Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify Networks V. Mediazone: Presentation by: Michelle M. Wu, Ph. D, Chief Executive Officer, Mediazone, US VI. NBOR Corporation: Presenation by: Denny Jaeger, CEO & co-founder, NBOR Corporation Co-Hosted by: Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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, COO & Executive Vice President, ICTV Inc. Jeff Binder, President, Broadbus Technologies, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 Christopher Thompson, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Netopia Marty Stein, Senior Director Marketing, Motorola, Inc. John Connelly, EVP, Marketing, BigBand Networks Ben Wagner, Director, Service Provider Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments Ben Mendelson, founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Track I: Reinventing Advertising: Broadcast vs. the New Platforms: VOD, PODs, PVR, Broadband & Mobile Chet Kanojia, CTO, Navic Networks, Inc. Will Griffin, CEO, DoD™ Rob Petty, CEO, ROO Braxton Jarratt, SVP, Business Development and Marketing, TANDBERG Television Denny Wilkinson, President and Chief Executive Officer, BlackArrow INC Terry S. Bienstock, CEO, World Extend, former EVP & General Counsel, Comcast Cable, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Venture Funding and Leadership in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Games, Wireless & Broadband David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation Stefan Abbruzzese, Senior Managing Director, GE Commercial Finance, Global Media & Communications (GM&C) Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West Tim Chang, Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, TD Securities Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track I: Connected CE Devices and Standards for the Digital Living Experience Dr. Ken Morse, Vice President Client Architecture, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Takashi Ishidoshiro, CTO, Buffalo Chris Day, General Manager, Media Processing, Philips Dr. Simon Milner, Vice President and General Manager,, Enterprise Business Unit, Communications and Consumer Business Group, Marvell Semiconductor Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales & Marketing, Metalink Jim Hillman, Vice President, Advanced Initiatives, Audio Entertainment Group, Plantronics Daniel Putterman, president and CEO, Mediabolic, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part IV Companies will be selected to present company products and business plans. Hosted by the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium I. FrameFree Technologies, Inc. Presentation by: Tom Randolph, President , FrameFree Technologies II. ClipSyndicate: Presentation By: Sean Morgan, founder and CEO of ClipSyndicate III: mSpot: Presentation by Ed Ho, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, mSpot Inc. IV. POSTroller: Presentation by Tod M. Sacerdoti, founder and CEO, POSTroller Inc. V. WideOrbit: Presentation by: Eric R. Mathewson, founder and CEO, WideOrbit VI. Teamdating: Presentation by: Ray Doustdar, President, Teamdating & Kipp Gillian, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Teamdating Co-Hosted by: Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital Tim Chang, Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track I: VoIP and Web Phone Applications: Web 2.0 Implications for Communications, Advertising and Content Shawn M. Lewis, Chief Technology Officer, VoIP, Inc. Gunjan Bhow, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Actiontec Electronics Scott Faber, Creator/Co-Founder and General Manager, Ether Monty Sharma, VP Product Management and Marketing, Vivox Michael Levit, Chief Marketing Officer, Paltalk Alex Quilici, Vice President, AOL Voice Services, AOL Antonette K. Goroch, Senior Analyst, Digital Tech Consulting, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Broadband Advertising: The Power Surge – Video, PODs, Social Networks, Links & Banners - Entertainment, Digital Publishing, Communities and Search Engines Emergence Michael Jones, President, Userplane Patrick Norton, Executive Producer, Ziff Davis Craig Besnoy, Vice President, Business Development, Imaginova Corp. Murgesh Navar, founder and CEO, Podbridge Mike Burns, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Fuel Industries Charlie Whittingham, Vice President, Sales, Advertising.com Allison Dollar, founder & CEO, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: The Craigslist Effect: Transforming a Web-based Communications Relationship into a Commercial Personalized Information, Publishing and Advertising Enterprise Walker Fenton, General Manager, Private Label Business, NewsGator Bill Flitter, founder and CMO, Pheedo Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder and CEO, Yelp Mike McGuire, Research Vice President, Mobile Device & Consumer Services, Dataquest Eric Newman, Vice President & General Manager, Portal Solutions, Pluck Corp. Howard Kaushansky, founder, President and CEO, Umbria, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 Brett Marl, Vice President of Engineering, 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, Consumer Business, AMD Ross Rubin, Director of Industry Analysis, The NPD Group, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Wednesday, August 16 5:30 PM – VIP Networking Cocktail Reception Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) Space is Limited: Please RSVP to Sari Lafferty (sari@dcia.info or 410-476-7965) Click Here for Further Info The Seminars 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, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, TANDBERG Television Rolf Hartley, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Professional Products Group, Sonic Solutions Colin Dixon, Senior Analyst & IPTV Practice Manager, The Diffusion Group Trevor Cornwell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Broadband Television Network Corporation Bill Niemeyer, Chief of Analysis and Research, DiMA Group,Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Video Distribution Across Platforms: Broadband, IPTV, Cable, TV and Mobile Scott Crowder, Chief Operating Officer, 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. Katherine L. Parker, Internet, Media & Entertainment Industry Sales Global Business Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 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, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Exploring the Web: The Ajax, Mashups, Streaming, Podcasting, Programmable Web Workshop Examining the Power of a Dynamic Web Application and Suite of Services - Understanding the User, the Community and the Power of Interactive Experience Stephen Benedict, Principal Product Manager, AIM, AOL LLC David Dudas, co-founder and CTO, Eyespot Greg Reinacker, founder and CTO, NewsGator Technologies Kevin Rose, founder and chief architect, digg, Inc. Ken Fromm, co-founder/Business Development, Loomia Rob Lord, CEO, Songbird Anil Dash, Vice President, Six Apart, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Blogs, Mashups, Social Media, Wikis, and RSS as Mass Media – Blog Movements as Agents of Change Steve S. Jang, VP, Marketing and Business Development, imeem, inc. Andy Steuer, founder and CEO, Fidelity Assets Vassil Mladjov, founder and ceo, Blogtronix Tom Gerace, CEO, gather.com Seth Sternberg, co-founder, meebo Robin Hopper, CEO and founder, iUpload Dan Farber, Vice-president, Editorial, CNET Networks, Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Expanding the Horizons of Search and Personalization – The Cross Platform Application – Mobile, Broadband, Computer & TV Judith Goodwin, Vice President, VFinity Brady O. Bruce, Senior Vice President of Telecom Products and Services, Promptu David Clarke, VP Business Development, Searchformedia Mike Brady, Senior Director, Business Development, Fast Search & Transfer™ Sean Morgan, founder and CEO, ClipSyndicate Stacey Renner, Vice President, Research & Marketing, WCSN, World Championship Sports Network Joyce Schwarz, JCOM Emerging Entertainment Marketing, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 Andrea Mitchell, founder/CEO, podcastGO Chris Hock, Director of Product Marketing, Macromedia Rochelle Grayson, Co-President, Elastic Entertainment, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Telcos, IPTV & the Technology Food Chain: From the Broadband Infrastructure to the Headend, ITV Services and the Set-Top Adam Powers, CTO, Coaxsys Marc Raygoza, CTO, Interactive Television Networks, Inc. (ITVN) Ladd Wardani, president of Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™) John J. Reed, Chairman of the Board, Bluestreak Network Gary Sasaki, President, digdia Anup Murarka, Director, Technical Marketing, Mobile and Devices, Adobe Systems Inc. Ken Pyle, co-founder, Viodi, LLC, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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 For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Advertising NEXT: Broadband, Mobile, Pods, Social Nets, Blogs and IMs - It's the Breakthrough Year! Hans Chung, co-founder and VP of Marketing, CrispAds Arthur Ceria, Executive Creative Director, OgilvyOne San Francisco Cary Savas, President, EVB, Inc. Samir Arora, CEO, Glam Media Vivian Lin, President and Founder, Tangent Entertainment Lincoln Silver, Vice President, Internet, Jingle Networks Tejpaul Bhatia, President, Tej Media Networks, Inc., Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here 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, MyStrands Vincent John Vincent, President & founder, GestureTek, Inc. Michael Papish, President & CEO, MediaUnbound Nick Desai, founder, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Juice Wireless, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track II: Micropayments & MicroEconomies - Establishing a New E-Commerce Gateway to the Future Victoria Glickman Hodgkins, Director, Business Development & Marketing, Peppercoin Leslie Poole, Chief Executive Officer, Javien Digital Payment Solutions Craig McDonald, Vice President, Business Development, North America, Valista Douglas Knopper, Chief Executive Officer, BitPass Tom Meredith, President, P2P Cash Peter H. Kang, Esq., Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track III: Building Brands & Social Networking- Word of Mouth and Community Marketing Ian Schafer, CEO and Founder, Deep Focus Hank Pronk, Senior Enterprise Sales Representative, GOT Corporation Greg Wilfahrt, Executive Vice President, co-founder, SMS.ac Michael Monello, co-creative Director, Campfire Shital Mehta, Chief Creative Officer, Shanth Interactive Anthony Batt, CEO and co-founder, Buzznet Ira Becker, Senior Vice President and General Manager, 1UP Network, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here Track IV: Vlogs - Broadband and Mobile Video Blogging: Next Gen Entertainment and Journalism, Social Networking and Personal Communication Mary Hodder, CEO & founder, Dabble Tony Philipp, CEO & founder, UpSnap Duane Kuroda, Vice President of Marketing, abazab Paula Montondo, President, Blip TV Chris O'Brien, CEO & co-founder, Motionbox Kevin Sladek, co-founder, VideoEgg Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, Moderator For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here |
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  From the 2006 Event Special Events, Consortium Dinners at Building Blocks I. The Web, Social Networks & The Net Economy Consortium at Building Blocks II. Hollywood and the Digital Consumer: The Digital Home & Digital Distribution III. Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium; IV. Reinventing Advertising: Technology & Content in VOD, PVR, Broadband, Games, PODs & Mobile Consortium V. OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium: Cable, Mobile, Broadband, Telco & Satellite; VI. Mobile TV, Video & Music Content Development & Deployment Consortium; VII. Digital Music Consortium: Technology & Content -Mobile, Broadband, PODs & TV VIII. Digital Rights, Content Rights & Piracy Consortium; IX. The University Project at Building Blocks;    Digital Rights, Content Rights & Piracy Wednesday, August 16 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM • The Piracy Freight Train: As Entertainment, The Law & The Technology Collide 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM • DRM Implementation in Media and Entertainment 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM • Digital Music & its Transformation 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM • Entertainment Expands the Digital Home Thursday, August 17 11:05 AM - 12:20 PM • Next Generation P2P Music and Film 12:50 PM - 2:15 PM • Music Industry Innovates and Morphs Hollywood and the Digital Consumer Tuesday, August 15 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM • The TV and Set-top as the Consumer Gateway • Embracing the Connected Consumer 10:45 AM - Noon • Television 2.0: Cable, Telco, Satellite & Broadband 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM • Hollywood and the Digital Consumer • Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer Wednesday, August 16 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM • The Networked Entertainment Home 10:45 - Noon • Bridging TV and Broadband • The Telco Advantage and the IPTV Digital Home 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM • Movies & OnDemand Content 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM • Connected CE Devices • Enabling OnDemand Delivery of Content 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM • Entertainment Expands the Digital Home Thursday, August 17 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM • DTV, Broadband, Set-Top • Video Distribution Across Platforms • All Video-All the Time 11:05 PM - 12:20 PM • The PVR, DVR and VOD as Disruptive Force 12:50 PM - 2:00 PM • Telcos, IPTV & the Technology The Web, Social Networks and the Net Economy Tuesday, August 15th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM • | |||||||||||||||||||
