Wednesday, October 3 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track C: Streaming Video Management on the Net - Encoding, Compression, Video Storage, Security & Media Asset Management The technical talent base that has formed in support of streaming video is as critical to the success of the enterprise as is the traditional in-front-of-the-camera talent - perhaps even more so. Managing streaming assets in today’s environment is as important to the film and music industries as a clear audio signal is to the telephone industry. Streaming video management is no longer judged on the single mass consumer webcast to millions, it is judged on its ability to build and maintain the reliable, secure delivery of audio and video assets 24/7, three hundred sixty five days a year. Those are the needs of the entertainment industry and that’s what the streaming community is geared to deliver today. David Heppe, VP Product Management and Business Development, Telestream, Inc. Simon Khalaf, President, Volera Caren Anhder, Senior Product Line Manager Development, Media 100 Josh Coates, founder & CTO, Scale Eight Christopher Levy, Senior Director Technology, NaviSite John Bishop, Osprey Product Manager, ViewCast Corporation Jim Stroud, Editor / Analyst, The Carmel Group, Moderator David Heppe, VP Product Management and Business Development, Telestream, Inc.: David has spent over 15 years establishing and running international sales and marketing organizations for companies specializing in computer, telecommunications and video technology. David is currently responsible for developing business strategies that leverage Telestream’s success in streaming media applications for the entertainment markets. His insights have contributed to accelerated development and acceptance for Telestream’s streaming media software products. David holds an MSEE from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Caren Anhder is Senior Product Line Manager for Development at Media 100.  While at Media 100, her teams have introduced new products such as DV Option, SDI Option for Media 100 and the Media 100 RFE, a complete and portable Media 100 system, and the recently-released Media 100 i – the first interactive streaming production system.  She is currently managing the software tools at Media 100 including the industry-leading Cleaner 5.  Prior to her tenure at Media 100, Caren held technical and marketing positions at Strata, specializing in 3D graphics and special effects.  Her background in software engineering, computer generated graphics and video editing have given her insight for the new convergence required for internet broadcasting. Joshua Coates, Founder and CTO, Scale Eight: Josh is recognized as a visionary in scalable clustering technology, a reputation earned both in academic research labs and at leading Internet infrastructure companies. Before founding Scale Eight, Josh was a software engineer at Inktomi Corporation. Prior to Inktomi, Josh worked with ACM Turing Award winner Jim Gray at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, researching high-performance disk and network I/O. Josh earned a B.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, where he began his work with distributed systems. At Berkeley, Josh was part of the Network of Workstations (NOW) Group and the Millennium Project. He was a member of the three-man team that in 1998 broke the world record in parallel sorting on a 16-node Intel-based cluster, beating out teams from IBM and Compaq, among others. Simon Khalaf is President of Volera. Prior to his current position as President of Volera, Khalaf acted as Vice President and General Manager of Novell's Net Content Division. As such he was largely responsible for driving the organization of Volera as a separate operating company. Khalaf joined Novell through its acquisition of JustOn Inc in January 2000. JustOn was a leading Application Service Provider, whose file-sharing solution reached 5 million unique monthly visitors in under a year, where he was founder, president and CEO. Prior to JustOn Inc., Khalaf was co-founder and Vice President of Marketing at Worldtalk Corporation, a leading provider of Internet security solutions. Worldtalk went public in April of 1996 and was later acquired by Tumbleweed communications in 1999. Prior to Worldtalk, Khalaf held several management positions at Touch Communications, a provider of Wide-Area Networking solutions. Khalaf holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Jim Stroud is the Editor and an Analyst for The Carmel Group. He edits the company's two main publications, DBS Investor and Convergence Investor, and did the new graphic look for Convergence Investor. He also edited The Carmel Group's Asia 2000: The DBS Data Book. Mr. Stroud's career in market research began with Great Western Directories (which is now known as Worldpages.com), where he focused on creating ad campaigns for new markets. Mr. Stroud also served as a Marketing Manager for Dolphin Peripherals, a leading PCI I/O card manufacturer. Mr. Stroud holds a BA degree in Literature from West Texas State University. Mr. Stroud is regularly consulted and his views are consistently quoted in publications and web sites, such as Investor's Business Daily, Wired, CBS Marketwatch, USA Today, MSNBC, The DenverPost, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Telephony magazine and Enterprise magazine. His duties at The Carmel Group also include the writing and editing of two data books, Streaming Media 2000 and Broadband 2000, which are scheduled for release later this year. Christopher Levy is the Senior Director of Technology at NaviSite, a CMGI Company.: As the Senior Director of Technology, Levy is responsible for the development of streamOS, the industry's first Content Management and Delivery Platform. Under Levy’s guidance, NaviSite provides sophisticated streaming media solutions to a variety of clients including Microsoft, KPMG, Anheuser-Busch, NFL Films, Reciprocal, Grand Royal Records, MediaX Technologies and others. A pioneer in the WebCasting space, Levy founded ClickHear Productions in June 1997which was acquired by NaviSite in February 2000. While at ClickHear, he spearheaded the delivery of over 2,500 Web Casts with President Bill Clinton, Anheuser-Busch, Intel/Microsoft, Mariah Carey, N’ Snyc, Cindy Margolis, NBC, CNN, Showtime, TNT, Playboy, Bloomberg TV, John Glenn’s Return to Space for NASA, the X-Files Premiere for Turner, The Rush Limbaugh and Art Bell shows for Premiere Radio Networks, TLC, Tori Amos and Alanis Morrisette on MP3.com, and Meat Loaf on VH1.com. Levy's team developed a signal acquisition and broadcast delivery center for INTERVU, which was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies for $3 billion. Previously, he has spoken at Streaming Media West, DDMI, South by SouthWest (SXSW.com), nationally syndicated radio, CNN and has appeared in numerous publications including B2B Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, StreamingMedia.com, Hits Magazine and others. John Bishop, Osprey Product Manager, ViewCast Corporation, joined the Osprey Video Division in 1999. He brought with him a unique perspective and experience in leading Internet related projects while working with IBM. While at Osprey Video, Mr. Bishop has been integral spearheading many new initiatives including strategic business development and new product introduction. The recently introduced Osprey-2000, Osprey-220 and the Osprey-210 were introduced under Bishop’s tenure along with Osprey SimulStream, a premiere workflow management and scalability software tool. Mr. John Bishop holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical and Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.