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The Seminars
Friday, April 1st
Track I: P2P SuperDistribution: The Evolution of the Content Distribution Revolution
Track II: PVR, DVR, Personalized & Interactive TV Creation, Commerce and Delivery
Track III: Broadband & Wireless Delivery and Infrastructure
Track IV: IPTV - Video & Services to the Consumer
Track V: Specialized Programming Sectors: Children, Teen, Urban & Gender Targeted - TV, Games, iTV, Broadband & Wireless

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Track I:
IP Video, Datacasting, DSMCC and other Technologies Enabling the Transformation of Entertainment
Sam Pemberton, President/CEO, Softel-USA
Scott Dougall, Director, Content Delivery Software, SkyStream Networks
Ervin Leibovici, CEO, BitBand
Kelly Smith, Vice President, Product Marketing, Myrio
Meir Friedlander, Senior Director, IPTV Marketing, Amdocs
Donald A. Jasko, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Economics, Moderator
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Track II:
Video and Audio Management on the Net - Encoding, Compression, Video Storage, Security & Media Asset Management
Robert Hammond, Chief Technology Officer, Mirror Image
Tom Inglefield, Broadcast and Entertainment Solution Manager, StorageTek
David Hoestetter, VP of Product & Program Management, Loudeye
Omar Karim, Chief Technology Officer, WorldNow
Marc Scarpa, Producer/Director, Chair, Producers Guild of America, New Media Council NY Committee, Moderator
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Track III:
The DVR as a Disruptive Market Force: How Consumer Adaptation of Technology Determines the Future of Advertising and Programming
Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts Starcom MediaVest Group
Pat Dunbar, Co-Founder & EVP, DiMA Group
Scott Ehrlich, CEO, Red Tie, Inc.
Roei Shalev, Business Consultant (Ofek Communications, Comverse, Leumi Bank, Others)
Harley Rinzler, CEO, Playground Media Group
Andrew Steele, Vice President, Business Development, Terayon, Moderator
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Track IV:
The Revolution of Surround Sound; Recording, Distribution and the Experience
Roberto Fisher, Director, Digital Media, Yahoo
Bela Canhoto, Artist Relations, Native Instruments
Niko Bolas, Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Soundtracks for Pixar (Cars) and Sony Pictures (Martin Scorsese's Lightning in a Bottle)
Howard Soroka, VP Media Technologies, Universal Music
David Frerichs, VP and US General Manager, Coding Technologies, 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 - Part I
Les Ottolenghi, President, INTENT MediaWorks, LLC
Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalContainers
Steve Masur, Masur & Associates
Tom Meredith, President, P2P Cash
Mitchell Reichgut, Principal, Jun Group
Luke Rippy, CEO, Seamless P2P
Christopher Levy, CEO and founder, BuyDRM
Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), Moderator
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Track II:
Technology Infrastructure for the Delivery of Broadband Entertainment
Kris Alexander, Director of Media and Entertainment Solutions, Akamai
Bill Keating, CEO, Xtend Networks
Troy Snyder, President and CEO, Nine Systems
S.V. Vasudevan, Vice President, Systems Engineering and Chief Architect, BigBand Networks
David Rice, Vice President of Sales, Limelight Networks
Lauren Phillips, President, Lauren Phillips Consulting, Moderator
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Track III:
DTV. the Set-Top and Interactive TV - Middleware Enabling Solutions: from Interactive Guides to Interfaces
David McElhatten, Creative Director, Vidiom Systems
Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic
Jack Perry, President and CEO, Decisionmark
Colin Dixon, Executive Strategy Advisor, Alticast
Aslam Khader, VP, Marketing & Strategy, Ensequence
Bill Niemeyer, Chief of Analysis and Research, DiMA Group, Moderator
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Track IV:
Targeting the Teen Market: Games, Music, Wireless, iTV and Brand Extension
Todd Cunningham, SVP, Brand Strategy and Planning for MTV Networks
CJ Olivares, SVP and Assistant General Manager, FUEL, Fox Cable Networks
Jason Bakker, Director of Marketing, Campus Media Group, Inc.
Scott Leonard, President, a.d.d. marketing & advertising
William Huckstein, CEO, Tag Digital Media
Tena Clark, CEO/Chief Creative Officer, DMI
Ankarino Lara, Director, Product CNET Games & Entertainment, Moderator
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Track I:
Next Generation P2P - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries Part II
Derek Broes, Media/Entertainment Technology Convergence Group., Microsoft Corp.
Marc Morgenstern, Vice President, Overpeer
Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music
Peter Kang, Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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Track II:
Telcos, IPTV & the Technology Food Chain: From the Broadband Infrastructure to the Headend, ITV Services and the Set-Top
Fadi Malak, Business Development Manager, Harmonic Inc.
Keith Kocho, President and CEO, ExtendMedia
Scott Newnam, CEO, Goldpocket
Scott Keeney, Partnerships and Alliances Manager, Irdeto Access
Allan McLennan, Managing Director PUREMAC ADVANCED DIGITAL MEDIA
Phil Corman, Director, Partner Business Development, MSTV, Microsoft Corp.
Fred Dawson, Editor & Publisher, Screenplays, Moderator
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Track III:
Economics and Analysis of Personalized Media: From DTV, VOD, PVR to Wireless, Games, Commerce, Voting Polls, Advertising and Banking Services
Jonathan Symonds, VP, Marketing and Business Development, ICTV
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media
Dalen Harrison, President and CEO, Ensequence
Russell Zack, co-Founder and COO, Cauldron Solutions
Gil Dudkiewicz, CEO, MyDTV
John Bryan, VP/Director of Operations, emuse USA
Allison Dollar, founder & co-President, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator
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Track IV:
Media at the Edge of the Network: Are Location-based Media Networking Operators the Dark-Horse Media Titans of the Future?
Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Corporation
Caelen King, Vice President of Product Management, NewBay Software
Dan Melinger, CEO, Kamida
Mike McGuire, Research Director, Gartner G2, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track I:
Adult Industry Business Models: Understanding the $10B Opportunity and How Adult Pushes Technology To Mainstream
Michael H. Klein, Executive Vice President, LFP Broadcasting LLC
Spike Goldberg, CEO, New Destiny Internet Group
Ken Boenish, President, The Erotic Networks
Ron Jenkins, CEO, DHD Media
Moderated by Katie Smith, President, (THROB) 3ob.com
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Track II:
Next Generation Entertainment and Media Realities
Mark Chasan, founder emusic.com and Managing Director Publex Ventures
Sergio Silva, General Manager, Sulake Inc.
Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director and founder, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC
Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media Group
Gordon Lee, Chairman and CEO, American IDC Corp.
Ron Vaisbort, Media & Entertainment, Alliances Manager, Intel Corporation
Joyce Schwarz, JCOM Emerging Entertainment Marketing, Moderator
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Track III:
Charting Media Platform Economics: Using Research & Analysis to Determine How Media Platforms Impact Consumer Consumption Habits
Cathy Hetzel, Sr. VP OnDemand, Rentrak
Paul Erickson, Analyst, IMS Research
Hamet Watt, CEO, NextMedium
Steve Bradbury, President, Marketing By Design, Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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Track IV:
The Integrated User Interface and Customer Experience: Demands in Design and Delivery of Content, Products and Services to Consumers
Andrea Devenow, VP of Business Development, Napster
Kelly Egan, Manager of Strategy of Best Buy, Inc.
Rich Wonders. Senior Director Broadband Marketing, BellSouth
Carl J. Rohling, Esq., Business Development, Creative Labs, Inc.
Jonathan Hurd, Vice President, ADVENTIS, Moderator
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