Multi-Day Track
Tuesday, March 28 - Thursday, March 30th
The Digital, Broadband and Networked Home Track
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Hollywood and the Digital Consumer Consortium at Digital Hollywood
Consortium Dinner, Tuesday, March 28 - 6:45 PM - The Loews
Dinner Hosted by MSN Entertainment, Video Services, Microsoft


Consortium Advisory Committee Members
Claudia Ceniceros, Senior Director, Media and Content Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Sony Pictures
Blair Westlake, Corporate Vice President, Media, Content & Partner Strategy Group, Microsoft
Bob Greene, SVP, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group
David L. Kang, J.D., Ph.D., Media and Entertainment Consultant
Jennifer Feikin, Director Google Video
Peter Chane, Senior Business Product Manager, Google Video
Laura Caraccioli-Davis, Senior Vice President/Director Starcom Entertainment, Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG)
Todd Herman, Director of Media Strategy, MSN Video, MSN, Microsoft Corporation
Saul Berman, Partner and Global Executive, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS)
Jan Steenkamp, CEO, Entriq
Vince Messina, Entertainment Category Development Officer, Yahoo!
Willem de Zoete, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Entertainment Services, Hewlett-Packard
Erik Flannigan, Vice President of Entertainment Programming , AOL
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
John Harran, Director Business Development, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Alan Citron, SVP Marketing, Movielink
Virl Z. Hill, General Manager, Partner Services, Music Software and Services, RealNetworks, Inc.
Lewis Henderson, Senior Vice President, William Morris Agency
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Senior Director Marketing and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum
GK Parish-Philp, Director of Product Management, DivX
Karen Bloore, Managing Director, Universal McCann
Curt Marvis, CEO, CinemaNow
Adam Bain, Executive Vice President, Fox Interactive Media
Maria Thomas,
Vice President and General Manager, NPR Digital Media
Peter Lee, Vice-President, Business Development New Technology, The Walt Disney Company
Claire Cowart, SVP, Business Development and Strategy, Courtroom Television Network LLC
Amy Friedlander,
Senior Vice President, Programming, AT&T Operations
Scott Roesch, Vice President & General Manager, AtomFilms
Vince Broady, SVP, Games & Entertainment, CNET Networks
Jay Fehnel, Vice President, Entertainment Products, Tribune Media Services
Paul Kosac, Vice President of Market Development, Media Networks/Headend Transmission Network Systems, Scientific Atlanta
Nick DeMartino, SVP Media & Technology, American Film Institute
Greg Demetriades, CEO, Continental Vista Broadcasting Group
Stephen Smyth, Vice President, Mobile and Emerging Media, Reuters
Marty Gordon, Vice President, Philips Electronics Hollywood Office
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group
Todd Tarpley, President, Tarpley Media

The Goal: "Hollywood and the Digital Consumer Consortium" is a group created to help facilitate broadband content as a significant entry in the great tradition of innovation from Hollywood - the entertainment and information industries. "The Consortium" will not only meet at trade events such as Digital Hollywood, Building Blocks 2006 or CES, but also to hold "Creative Retreats" for to help broaden and enhance the reach and future of Broadband Content. To that end, the first VIP Dinner of the Advisory Committee to the "Hollywood and the Digital Consumer: Music, Movies, TV, News & Sports" Consortium will be held at Digital Hollywood, on Tuesday, March 28th at 6:45 PM - at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.

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The Digital, Broadband and Networked Home Agenda
Tuesday, March 28th
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track II:
Embracing the Connected Consumer - Entertainment, Content and Technology - From the Digital Home to the Mobile and Wi-Fi Universe
Claudia Ceniceros, Senior Director, Media and Content Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics
Barry James Folsom, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola
Udo Eberlein, founder and President, Nero, Inc.
Scott Crowder, Chief Operating Officer, Entriq
Ron Vaisbort, Media & Entertainment, Alliances Manager, Intel Corporation
Dan Rosenthal, Principal, Mayfield Partners
, Moderator
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track II:
Hollywood and the Digital Consumer: How Technology, Content and Services Establish the Next Level of Consumer Entertainment Experience
Erik Flannigan, Vice President, Programming, AOL
Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Senior Director, Interactive Products, Comcast Cable
Josh Brooks, Director of Marketing and Content Development, MySpace.com
Rob Bennett, General Manager, MSN Entertainment and Video, Microsoft Corp.
John Penney, Vice President, Business Development, HBO, Inc.
John Zelenka, Senior Manager, Business Development, Tribune Media Services
Ira Rubenstein, Senior Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Sony Pictures, Moderator
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12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track IV:
IPTV Emergence – The Broadband, Telco, Cable, Studio Content & Technology Strategy
Tom Flanagan, Executive Director, Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
Dan York, Executive Vice President, Programming,AT&T Project Lightspeed
Todd Waters, Director, Business Development, IP Subscriber Networks, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Daren Gill, VP, Business Development, ChoiceStream
Mark Turner, Head of the Western region, BT Media & Broadcast
Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Senior Director Marketing and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track III:
Web 2.0: How Next Generation Personalized Media - Programmable Web, Podcasting & Blogging - is Transforming and Disassembling the World of Traditional Media, Communications & Advertising
Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO, Weblogs, Inc. an AOL Company, Senior Vice President, AOL
Phil Holden, Director:Windows Live, Microsoft
John D. Canning, Yahoo Media Group
Brad Greenspan, founder and former CEO, Intermix Media, (underwriter of MySpace.com)
Sarah Bernard, General Manager, The Huffington Post
Kevin Cohen, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Molly Wood, Section Editor, CNET.com, Moderator
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3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Track IV: Presented by DVD Association
Next Generation DVD - Part I – Market Makers SuperSession

Scott Hettrick, Contributing Editor, Variety
Bruce Apar, Board Member, DVD Association
Andy Parsons, Senior VP, Pioneer Electronics and Blu-ray Disc Association
John Town, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Research and Development Technicolor
Steve Nickerson, Senior VP, Warner Home Entertainment
Mark Waring, Director, Sanyo Technology Center USA
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6:45 PM -
Consortium Dinner, Tuesday, March 28 - The Loews
Hollywood and the Digital Consumer Consortium at Digital Hollywood
Dinner Hosted by MSN Entertainment, Video Services, Microsoft


Wednesday, March 29
Digital Hollywood Seminars
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
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
Peter Percosan, Executive Director Broadband Strategy, Broadband Communications Group. Texas Instruments
Dr. Eduardo Pérez, V.P., Marketing, Media Excel, Inc.
Daniel Harris, CEO MediaPass® Network
Martijn Lopes Cardozo, Executive Vice President Distribution and Partnerships, GoldPocket
Amy Friedlander, Senior Vice President, Programming, AT&T Operations
Michelle Abraham, Principal Analyst, In-Stat, Moderator
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10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
The DVD Association Workshops - Part II
Next Generation DVD - Content Makers
Bruce Nazarian, Gnome Digital & DVDA Board, Moderator
Jim Taylor, Founder/Chairman, Sonic & DVDA Board Member
Kevin Collins, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Andy Evans, Managing Director, Pepper Post Production
Morgan Holly, Managing Director, Blink Digital, An Ascent Media Company
Jeff Norton, co-CEO, Lean Forward Media
Steve Venezia, Manager of DVD and DTV Broadcast Support, Dolby Labs
James M. Burger, Esq., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track IV:
The Networked Entertainment Home - the PVR/DVR – the Set-Top & PC Entertainment Server
William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Networked Media Platform Group, Intel Corporation
Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast
David Novak, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Video Without Boundaries, Inc.
Steve Francis, CEO, Avtrex
Dave Clark, Director, Product Strategy & Management, Home Entertainment Products, Scientific-Atlanta
Stacy Cook, CEO, BroadQ
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track II:
Movies, OnDemand Content and Broadband - Via the PC - Via the Set-Top: Technology & Content
Curt Marvis, CEO, CinemaNow
Don Dulchinos, Vice President, Advanced Platforms and Services, CableLabs®,
Alan Citron, SVP Marketing, Movielink
Scott Roesch, Vice President & General Manager, AtomFilms
Jeff Shultz, CEO, CONCERT
Carl Crabill, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, MovieBeam
Rex Wong, CEO, DAVE.TV
Lisa Crane Greer, CEO, Media Venture Advisors, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track IV:
The Digital Home Entertainment Complex – Music and Movies Everywhere – Content Enabled by Servers, Set-Tops and Gateways
Mary Schetter Butler, Director of Business Development, Motorola Connected Home Solutions
Michael Markman, Senior Director, Digeo, Inc.
Yoav Nissan-Cohen, president and CEO, Amimon
David Kaill, Director, Technical Business Development, MusicNet
Bill Holmes, VP of Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc
Edward Scott, Principal, Media & Entertainment, Infosys Technologies
Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Broadband & Digital Media Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator
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3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Track I:
Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Networking, Sharing and Protecting
Richard Bullwinkle, Senior Product Marketing Director and Chief Evangelist, Mediabolic
Anthony Wood, CEO, Roku
Brad Hunt, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Brian Hofstetter, Director Connected Entertainment, Zoran Corporation
Gaben Chancellor, CEO, Creative and Design Director, Vidiva
Peter B. Kaars, Director of Business Development, Philips Electronics, Moderator
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Track III:
Behind the Digital Home & Mobile Consumer: Chips, Microprocessors & Optical Technology Define the Future of Entertainment - from DVDs, MP3s, HD & Set-Tops to Games, PDAs and PCs
Jeroen Brouwer, Director of Business Development, BU Home, Philips Semiconductors
Dr. Nikhil Balram, General Manager, High-Definition Products Division, National Semiconductor Corporation

Jose V Tormo, Jr., Manager, Business Strategy, Digital Media & Pervasive Computing Group, AMD
Sandip H. Mandera, Product Manager, Digital Media Products and Infrastructure, Intel Corporation
Berardino Baratta, General Manager of Multimedia Applications Division, Wireless & Mobile Systems Group, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Brian Heuckroth, Vice President, Marketing, Magnum Semiconductor
Antonette K. Goroch, Senior Analyst, Digital Tech Consulting, Moderator
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Thursday, March 30
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Track I:
IP Video, Broadband Connectivity, Broadband Wireless, Datacasting and other Technologies Enabling the Transformation of Entertainment
David Yates, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Arroyo
Sam Pemberton, president and CEO of Softel-USA
Seth Kenvin, VP, Strategic Marketing & Corporate Development, BigBand Networks
Scott Dougall, Director of Content Delivery Software, SkyStream
Ray Smets, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Netopia
Joseph Dellinger, Vice President, Sales, IMAKE
Donald A. Jasko, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Economics, Moderator
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Track II:
Video Distribution Across Platforms: Broadband, IPTV, Cable, TV and Mobile

Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera Corporation
Tom Inglefield, Media and Entertainment Solutions Manager, Data Management Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Norman Liang, Business Development Manager, Technology Collaboration Solutions, IBM Corp.
Geoff Allen, Chairman and Founder, Anystream, Inc.
Michael Gordon, co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks
Vic Mahadevan, Chief Executive Officer, NeoEdge Networks
Katherine L. Parker, Internet, Media & Entertainment Industry Sales Global Business Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator
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11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track III:
DTV, Broadband, Set-Top and Interactive Content & Advertising Experience - Enabling Entertainment Choice via Interactive Guides and Gateways
Seth Haberman, founder & President, Visible World
Jodie McAfee, Vice President, Business Development, Turner Media Group
Aslam Khader, VP, Marketing and Strategy, Ensequence
Colin Dixon, Senior Analyst & IPTV Practice Manager, Specialty: Enhanced TV Applications
David Jensen, Vice President of Business Development, Zetools
Jack Perry, President & Chief Executive Officer, Decisionmark
Bill Niemeyer, Chief of Analysis and Research, DiMA Group,Moderator
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Track II:
Telcos, IPTV & the Technology Food Chain: From the Broadband Infrastructure to the Headend, ITV Services and the Set-Top
Rob Glidden, Industry Manager, Broadband Media, Sun Microsystems, Inc
Hemang Mehta, Group Product Manager, Microsoft TV
Taras Bugir, Chief Strategy Officer, Harris Software Systems
David Price, Vice President, Business Development, Harmonic, Inc.
Josette Bonte, Vice President, Content and IPTV, Ovum
Kurt Hoppe, Director, Product Management, 2Wire
Fred Dawson, Editor & Publisher, Screenplays, Moderator
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Track III:
Personalized Video Media: ITV Advertising and Content
Dan O'Brien, President & CEO, Gotuit Media
Greg Morrow, President, PureVideo
Israel Drori, President & CEO, Integra5
Kanaiya Vasani, Vice President, Product Marketing, Terayon Communication Systems
Mark Jeffery, Senior Director, Product Marketing, ICTV
Jay Schiller, Vice President, Business Development, Atlas On Demand
Pat Dunbar, co-founder and President, DiMA Group and the ID!A Program, Moderator
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