Tuesday, September 20 - Wednesday, September 21st
Multi-Day Track, Reception and VIP Dinners
Digital Rights Management & Anti-Piracy: Digital Rights Management in Film, Music and Technology
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The Goal: To create a gathering place for an international community of executives in the entertainment, technology, legal and legislative sectors. At each Digital Hollywood we will attempt to facilitate the future of DRM and anti-Piracy by bringing together the leading executives in seminars, working groups and VIP dinners.

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Tuesday, September 20
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
The Piracy Freight Train: As Entertainment, The Law & The Technology Collide
Richard Atkinson, Vice President, Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations, Walt Disney Studios
Jamie Perlman, Business Development, SNOCAP, Inc.
David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures
David Kaplan, Vice President, Intellectual Property Counsel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media Group, Moderator
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track I:
Piracy and Digital Rights Management: Legal, Legislative and Social Issues Surrounding DRM Implementation
Fritz E. Attaway, Executive Vice President and Washington General Counsel, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc
Donald M. Whiteside, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, Director, Technology Policy and Standards, INTEL CORPORATION
Michael Petricone, VP Government Relations, CEA Consumer Electronics Association
Andy Moss, Director of Technical Policy, Microsoft Corp.
Steven M. Weinberg, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Lydia Loizides, Analyst / Principal, Paphion Inc., Moderator
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Track II:
Music Industry Innovates into Future - From Digital Downloads and Subscriptions to Mobile Music & Digital and Internet Radio
Dave Goldberg, Vice President & General Manager, Music, Yahoo! Inc.
Paul Greenberg, Senior Vice President, Business Development & Partner Relations, MusicNet
David Ring, V.P. Business Development & Business Affairs, Universal Music Group, eLabs
Laura Hess, Site Director, MP3.com, CNET Networks
Drew Denbo, Director of Business Development, Music, RealNetworks, Inc.
Srivats Sampath, President & CEO, MERCORA
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music, Moderator
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12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
DRM Implementation in Media and Entertainment: From Standardization to Implementation of New Technology Strategies
Reed Stager, Vice President, Corporate Licensing, Marketing and Public Policy, Digimarc Corp
Carter Laren, Senior Security Architect, Cryptography Research
Raj Samtani, Director of Sales & Marketing, ContentGuard
Gerard Fernando, PhD, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Labs
Adam Gervin, Senior Director, Marketing, Entertainment Technologies Group, Macrovision Corporation
Adam Petruszka, Director of DRM, Hewlett-Packard
David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
DRM Interoperability Challenge - Consumer Satisfaction - Consumer Confusion
Talal G. Shamoon, Chief Executive Officer, Intertrust
Alan Bell, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Warner Bros.
Scott Smyers, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics
Donald M. Whiteside, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, Director, Technology Policy and Standards, INTEL CORPORATION
Martha Nalebuff, Director of Policy and Strategy, Windows Client Strategic Relations and Policy Division, Microsoft Corp
Brian Lakamp, Senior Vice President, Technology, Sony Pictures’ Digital Policy Group, Moderator
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3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Networking, Sharing and Protecting
Brad Hunt, Sr. VP, Chief Technology Officer, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Richard Bullwinkle, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist, Mediabolic
Peter Kaars, Business Development Manager, Philips Electronics
Janet Snowdon, Business Development Manager, IBM Digital Media Group
Udo Eberlein, founder and President, Nero, Inc.
Chris Coleman, Vice President Marketing, BroadQ
Martha Nalebuff, Director of Policy and Strategy, Windows Client Strategic Relations and Policy Division, Microsoft Corp., Moderator
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5:00 - End-of-Day Reception Begin

Wednesday, September 21
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Protecting Your Intellectual Property - The Policies and Technologies for Managing Risk

Mark Ishikawa, Chief Executive Officer, BayTSP, Inc.
Russ Frackman, Partner, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp
Eric G. Mark, Associate Partner, Media & Entertainment Strategy, IBM Business Consulting Services
Russell P. Reeder, Chairman and CEO, RightsLine, Inc.
Fred Davis, Founder, Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone & Hayes
Prakash Panjwani, Vice President and General Manager of the Rights Management Division, SafeNet
Mike McGuire, Research Director, GartnerG2, Moderator
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11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track I:
Next Generation P2P Music and Film - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries
Srivats Sampath, President & CEO, MERCORA
Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Containers
John Beezer, President, Shared Media Licensing, Inc.
Les Ottolenghi, President, INTENT MediaWorks, LLC
Talmon Marco, co-founder, iMesh
Randall Crockett, Vice President of Operations, DRM Networks
Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), Moderator
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Track II:
The Artists Strike Back - Will DRM & Anti-Piracy Initiatives Destroy Digital Music?
Ken Hertz, Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP
Albhy Galuten, Vice President, Digital Media Technology Strategy, Sony Corporation of America
Dave Jaworski, CEO, Passalong Networks
Ty Roberts, founder & CTO, GraceNote
Kelli Richards, President, The All Access Group, Moderator
Additional speaker to be announced
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Music Industry Innovates and Morphs: Radio, Blogs, P2P, Ad Revenue Concepts, Cable/TV Innovation

Marc Morgenstern, VP, General Manager of Loudeye, Digital Media Asset Protection Business
Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music
Stephen Taylor, CTO, Mashboxx
Bill Moore, CEO, RadioTime
David Frerichs, Vice President & U.S. General Manager, Coding Technologies
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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