Monday, September 25 Sponsored by: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Track C: Movies and Music CDs: Confronting Digital Piracy & Copyright Infringement The entertainment news is full of it - piracy, digital rights and consumer access to content is a national obsession. The Internet may be the greatest communications medium of our time; yet it may also pose the greatest threat to the integrity of intellectual property rights of anything invented. As we know, digital delivery of music and movies over the Internet can be accomplished seamlessly and unobtrusively. In a nutshell, it is the perfect solution to the future of digital content dissemination as well as a most impossible problem to deal with. In this session we bring together a group of experts in technology, piracy, and copyright infringement to set-out the current understanding of the problem at hand and how the entertainment and technology industries are prepared to put solutions in place. Brad Hunt, Chief Technology Officer, MPAA, Motion Picture Association Richard Conlon, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, BMI Scott Schulte, Product Manager for Windows Media Rights Manager, Microsoft Corp. Gary Ambrosino, Executive VP, SecureMedia Patrice Capitant, Vice President Of Engineering, Macrovision Talal Shamoon, Senior VP, Media, Intertrust Technicolor, speaker to be announced Richard Doherty, CEO, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator Patrice Capitant, Vice President Of Engineering, Macrovision: Capitant has a strong background in digital broadcast, interactive television and HDTV, as well as video processing, compression, storage and networking. He has over 15 years experience in various engineering and program management assignments at Compression Labs, Sony, International Imaging Systems, and Teknekron. He is a co-inventor on seven issued patents. Capitant was born in France and completed his undergraduate and post graduate work in engineering and automatic control at I.D.N. (Lille) and University of Lille. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. Talal Shamoon, Senior VP, Media, Intertrust: Talal Shamoon has served at InterTrust as Senior Vice President, Media, since February 1999. Dr. Shamoon joined InterTrust in June 1997 as a member of the research staff of STAR Lab. Previously, he had been at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, an advanced research facility of NEC focused on computer science and physics. His work there focused on multimedia security, signal processing and data compression. Dr. Shamoon holds a Ph.D, M.Eng and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. Gary Ambrosino, Executive VP, SecureMedia: Gary Ambrosino is a technology visionary with over 20 years of management experience in developing and selling critical infrastructure technology solutions. Ambrosino joined the SecureMedia board in 1998 and became Chairman in 1999. He took on a full time operating role in the company in May 2000 following the company's first venture financing round. He joined SecureMedia from Xionics Document Technologies, the world leader in digital copier and printing systems technology. Ambrosino joined Xionics when it was an early stage company, and led the integration of several leveraged buyouts and acquisitions that resulted in Xionics growing from $6 million to a $38 million public company. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Xionics , he led the company's development of a highly integrated next generation operating system and VLSI chip product line. He was responsible for developing Xionics' first key strategic customers including Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh Corporation, which combined, represented $75 million of revenue for Xionics. Previously Ambrosino founded two successful startup companies, serving as their president and CEO. He spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard in various marketing positions. Ambrosino holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSEE from Cornell University. Founded in 1996, SecureMedia SecureMedia, Inc. provides the first end-to-end solution for securely delivering audio and video over the Internet. The SecureMedia system is highly scalable to meet the demanding needs of simultaneous real-time and on-demand content delivery to large audiences. SecureMedia is based in San Francisco, CA with offices in Boston, MA and Auckland, New Zealand. Richard Conlon, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, BMI: Richard Conlon is the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for BMI. In his position Conlon is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of sales and marketing strategies to manage BMI’s digital licensing business and increase BMI licensing penetration with existing media customers. Conlon is a frequent speaker on the digital rights marketplace at digital media industry events including Jupiter Plug-In , Webnoize, Digital Hollywood , PROMAX and South by Southwest. He has served media industry organizations including the CTAM Mark Awards (Final Judge), NATPE IRIS Awards (Final Judge), PROMAX and BCFM. Previously Conlon was Assistant Vice President, Sales and Marketing for BMI. In that role he was responsible for managing the long term and day to day activities of BMI’s Media Licensing Sales and Marketing Team. Prior to joining BMI, Conlon was a television marketing consultant to SET, Viacom’s Pay Per View production and marketing arm where he managed trade and consumer marketing and promotion for live Pay Per View events. He also served as Vice President Affiliate Sales and Marketing for The Learning Channel cable network. He holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from The Annenberg School of Communications at The University of Southern California where he contributed to the development of The California Channel public affairs network, and B.A. in English from Boston College.