Tuesday, October 2 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track C: Technology Infrastructure for the Delivery of Broadband Entertainment As we move from narrowband to broadband delivery, the physical convergence of entertainment in the home requires a new technological infrastructure to be put in place. For a TV broadcaster to become an Internet broadcaster, an entirely new technological framework must be devised. Creating the new "Digital Hollywood" is not possible without the framework to support the structure itself. The products and services that will redefine technology require an infrastructure capable of supporting bandwidth intensive applications. And much of it is here today. In this session we will explore the capabilities of the systems in place, understand what kind of content we can deliver, as well as investigate what alternatives the production community has in reaching its marketplace. Matt Armstrong, Senior Director, Marketing, NET-36 Mehmood Merali, Chief Technical Officer, Media.net Rick Gillett, founder & CTO, Storigen Systems Doug Mow, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Qwest Digital Media Tom Pinckney, CTO & founder, Vividon Enterasys Networks, speaker to be announced Michael Bloom, President, Communication Strategies and Planning, Inc., Moderator Matt Armstrong, Senior Director, Marketing, NET-36: Matt Armstrong brings over 15 years of agency and branding experience to his position as Senior Director for NET-36. Mr. Armstrong reports to Bill Moses, President and CEO, and is responsible for all strategic business development, marketing and external communications efforts. Previously Mr. Armstrong served as Executive Vice President, Business Development specializing in new media at Draft Worldwide, a member of the Interpublic Group of Companies. Mr. Armstrong holds a BA degree from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Doug Mow, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Qwest Digital Media: As vice president of product management and marketing for Qwest Digital Media, a pioneer in the production, management and delivery of digital content via broadband and satellite distribution, Doug Mow oversees product planning and development, including digital asset management, digital rights management, e-commerce, media-on-demand, live webcasts, and production and creative services. Prior to joining Qwest Digital Media, Mow was the VP of product marketing and strategy for Qwest Communications International, Inc. His career spans the software, hardware, consulting, Internet and telecommunications industries and includes companies such as Anderson Consulting (now Accenture), Cognos Corporation, Information Builders and Software AG. His experience encompasses sales, marketing, product development, business development and strategic relations. Mow is a former member of the Board of Directors of the ASP Industry Consortium and is a member of the Advisory Board of the ASP Summit. He holds a BS in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University. Thomas Pinckney, founder and CTO, Vividon: Mr. Pinckney founded Vividon in 1998. As CTO, Tom helps determine the company’s future direction and is Vividon’s technology evangelist. Tom has been instrumental in building the organization, developing the corporate and product strategy, negotiating a technology license that provided Vividon’s early operating funds and obtaining venture funding. Prior to founding Vividon (originally known as Exotec), Pinckney was working towards his Ph.D. at MIT, where he served as a research assistant at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science Parallel and Distributed Operating System Group. While at MIT, Tom co-authored a paper on the Application Performance and Flexibility of Exokernel Systems. This basic technology became the foundation for the Vividon product. In 1999, Tom was chosen as one of MIT Technology Review’s top “100 Young Innovators” in the world. Tom earned B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in computer science and engineering, with an emphasis on computer system research, from MIT. Mehmood Merali is Chief Technical Officer for Media.net. He is responsible for developing strategic solutions for the deployment of Media.net’s global high-speed network/server infrastructure, as well as designing software to enhance creative collaboration applications supplied over the network. Before joining Media.net, Merali served as Vice President of Information Systems & Technology for lnternetConnect, Inc., a broadband solutions provider to businesses. The company employed its national ATM network to offer services such as digital subscriber lines (DSL), virtual private networks, and Web hosting. Merali brings over 18 years of extensive networking and software development experience in various industries from high-tech manufacturing to retail and entertainment. A graduate of the University of Alberta, Merali is also an ICMCC Certified Management Consultant. Rick Gillett, founder & CTO, Storigen Systems: Rick Gillett brings to Storigen more than 20 years of experience in processor, memory, storage and networking engineering. Prior to founding Storigen, Gillett served as corporate fellow at Avid Technology, where he co-defined and drove the strategy for the company’s shared storage architecture. He was also co-founder and CTO of Avid’s Edgestreme Systems Division, focused on delivering high-bandwidth streaming media servers to the Internet Service Provider market. Prior to Avid, Gillett spent 17 years at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), most recently as corporate consulting engineer and CTO for DEC’s Alpha Server Division. Gillett has a BSEE from University of New Hampshire and has been granted 20 patents.