Monday, September 25 Sponsored by: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Track E: Digital Television - Standards Across All Platforms One of the major benefits of digital television will be its ability to carry substantial amounts of auxiliary data, both program-related and otherwise. This is a result of both the maturing of broadcast television technology as well as the increasing sophistication and demands of audiences. In this regard, TV data broadcasting can be considered the zero-point toward convergence of computing and broadcasting, allowing the embrace of an interactive television experience to be delivered over a diverse range of platforms. This panel will discuss methods of adapting already successful compositional styles and data transmission standards for the creation, transport and delivery of digital television and interactive television. It will consider practical yet extensible solutions to this issue, which is of profound relevance to television’s future and its delivery . They explain The Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) specification for interactive television and how it is designed to allow content to be authored once and delivered to a variety of platforms, including intelligent TV receivers (analog and digital), set-top boxes and PCs. Dan Levin, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, ReplayTV Larry Taymor, Vice President, Liberate Technologies Wendy Aylsworth, Vice President Technology, Warner Bros. Mike Dolan, Industry Consultant Zachary Coffin, Program Leader of KPMG Consulting, Digital Media Institute Skip Pizzi, Technical Manager, Worldwide Television Standards & Strategy, Microsoft, Moderator Dan Levin, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, ReplayTV: Immediately prior to joining the ReplayTV, Dan Levin consulted a number of Silicon Valley firms for two years. He served as acting vice president of business development for Bitcraft, Inc., developers of Internet applications, including Claris HomePage; and as acting vice president of engineering for 4th Network, Inc., developers of high-speed Internet access services for the hospitality industry.  In 1991, Levin co-founded Books That Work, a high-profile publisher of consumer software in the home-and-garden category. Levin served as president of Books That Work and sat on its board of directors until the company was sold to Cendant Inc. in 1997. Before founding Books That Work, Levin served in a number of marketing and engineering roles at MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Levin holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. Wendy Aylsworth is Vice President of Technology for Warner Bros. Technical Operations. She holds an MS/MBA from the University of Southern California in Strategic Planning. Her BS is in Computer Sciences from the University of Michigan. Wendy oversees the establishment of emerging technologies for Warner Bros. production divisions. Wendy joined Warner Bros. in 1994, establishing operations for the new Feature Animation division. Previously, she spent five years at Disney overseeing animation technology and theme park rides software development. She worked fifteen years in aerospace developing systems for operational aircraft and training simulators. Skip Pizzi, Technical Manager, Worldwide Television Standards & Strategy, Microsoft: Skip Pizzi is Technical Manager for Worldwide Television Standards & Strategy at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Among his primary duties is representing Microsoft at various digital television standards bodies, including the ATSC, DVB, OpenCable and TV Anytime organizations. Skip currently serves as Secretary to the T3/S17 (DASE) Subcommittee of the ATSC, which is developing a standard for interactive television in North American DTV. He is also Technology Committee chair for the International Webcasting Association. Skip previously served as Audio Technical Manager for the Microsoft’s Media Services Department, where he oversaw the technical operation and maintenance of Microsoft’s in-house digital audio production facilities. Prior to joining Microsoft, Skip spent seven years with Primedia/Intertec Publishing as Technical Editor of Broadcast Engineering magazine and Editor-in-chief of BE Radio magazine. He continues to write regularly for broadcast, media-production and computer industry trade publications, and currently serves as Executive Editor for BE Radio. He also provides new-technology consulting services for public broadcasters and performance venues around the world. Earlier in his career, Skip spent 13 years as a technical director, engineering supervisor and technical training coordinator at National Public Radio in Washington, DC, where he was involved in the production of numerous award-winning programs, and the creation of many technical training projects. He currently serves as a member of the Distribution and Interconnection Committee of NPR’s Board of Directors. Skip’s book, Digital Radio Basics, was published in 1992, and he is a contributing author to the NAB Engineering Handbook, the McGraw-Hill Digital Consumer Electronics Handbook, the CRC Press/IEEE Electronics Handbook and several other technical references and texts. He is a member of the editorial board for the Focal Encyclopedia of Electronic Media (a CD-ROM reference) and the upcoming 24-volume Wiley/IEEE Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is currently at work on contributions for McGraw-Hill’s upcoming Interactive TV Survival Guide. Skip studied Physics, International Economics and Fine Arts at Georgetown University, graduating in 1975. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). He is the recipient of the AES Board of Governors Award and the Public Radio PRRO Award. Zachary Coffin serves as Program Leader of KPMG Consulting's Digital Media Institute, advising senior executives on industry trends and emerging technologies. He focuses on how digital media fits into the larger picture-across industries, internationally, with other internet movements and along the entire information value chain, from authors and intermediaries to audiences and investors. Mr. Coffin has over thirteen years experience in nearly every form of media and communications, including journalism, publishing, radio, interactive video, prime-time television and feature film, and prior to joining KPMG Consulting in 1996, was an executive at a production company in Hollywood. A member of the International Standards Organization and of the U.S. National Committee for Information Technology Standards, Mr. Coffin has worked on several internet consortia, including the International Press Telecommunications Council and PRISM ("Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata"), and serves as Chair of the Liaison Committee of XBRL International (for business reporting), and of the User Requirements Committee for MPEG-21 (developing an e-commerce global multimedia framework). He has been quoted by national and international publications, and is a frequent speaker to audiences ranging from screenwriters to Fortune 50 CFOs, and from the White House Conference Center to symposiums across Europe and Asia, on issues in digital media, business and e-business strategy, internet integration, e-standards and the future of the internet. Mr. Coffin graduated with an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, and with a B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University. He can be reached at ZacharyCoffin@email.com