Monday, May 15 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Session A: Deploying Broadband Technology: Building Next Generation Media Networks In Part Two of our day-long workshop on the broadband delivery of entertainment, we will take a closer look at what it means to build and deploy a “Next Generation Media Network.” Many Digital Hollywood attendees are becoming intimately familiar with the constraints of their current Internet networking model, having to face up to the problem of inconsistent performance in the midst of expansion and massive growth. In this session, leading players from the computer and telecommunications industries will present their visions of our evolving networking future. There never is only one solution to a problem, and with a task as large as this one, evaluating various approaches will be fascinating. Sun Microsystems, speaker to be announced Paul A. Campbell, Vice President Product Marketing, Streaming, Akamai Abhay K. Parekh, co-founder, President & CEO, Fast Forward Networks April Hodgson, VP Media Services, Enron Broadband Services Greg Amadon, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Chairman of the Board, TeraBeam Networks Martin Dunsmuir, General Manager, Broadband Systems, RealNetworks Reed Majors, Director Video Networking Products, Minerva Systems Stew Chapin, Sr. Vice President, Marketing, Activate.net, Moderator April Hodgson, Vice President, Media Services, Enron Broadband Services: As Vice President of the Media Services Division, Ms. Hodgson is responsible for managing the marketing and strategic development of the sales and channel management teams. For the past year, prior to becoming the Vice President of Media Services for Enron Communications, April served as a consultant to the Media and Entertainment group. Most recently, Ms. Hodgson co-founded Insight Telecommunications Corporation, a privately held company that provides domestic and international transmission solutions for the broadcast industry. April has accumulated over 15 years of sales management experience, in the fields of broadcasting and telecommunications. She previously held the positions of Senior Vice President, of U.S. sales for GlobeCast North America/France Telecom and Director of Sales for Vyvx/Williams Communications. Ms. Hodgson graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Speech and Communication. Reed Majors, Director Video Networking Products, Minerva Systems, Inc.: Mr. Majors has over 5 years experience in the digital video networking industry at three companies, NUKO Information Systems, Optivision, and Minerva Networks. During his tenure at these companies he has been directly responsible for the product management and marketing of three separate multi-million dollar products. At Minerva Networks, Mr. Majors is responsible for product strategy, strategic relationships, developer relations, and business development for VNP, VDK, and Media Demon products all targeted at the broadband over IP market. Mr. Majors has authored a number of white papers on building video networks, and has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on the same topic. Prior to joining Minerva, Mr. Majors was responsible for Product Management and Marketing at both Optivision and NUKO Information Systems. Abhay Parekh, Co-Founder, President and CEO, FastForward Network: Abhay is an internationally recognized expert in the area of computer networking and one of the early pioneers of integrated services data network design. The techniques for high speed networking that he invented in the early 1990s are now implemented in most high-end routers. His doctoral dissertation at MIT on Generalized Processor Sharing, was influential in defining management for multimedia traffic.Abhay has been a consultant to Silicon Valley venture capital firms and has directed and managed efforts at AT&T, IBM, and Sun Microsystems that have led to significant advances in high-speed switching, network design, and directory services. Abhay received a BES in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1984, an MS from the Sloan School of Management, MIT in 1986, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1992. He received the William Bennett Prize from the IEEE Communications Society in 1994. FastForward Networks is a San Francisco-based technology company that develops high-performance networking solutions for delivering, managing, and monitoring live streaming media over the Internet. FastForward technology extends the capabilities of the Internet, enabling it to become the next generation broadcast medium. Through this medium, thousands of streams will be available to millions of simultaneous destinations. With FastForward Networks solutions, service providers can incrementally deploy overlay networks - called media distribution networks - that are optimized to scale and manage streaming audio and video. FastForward media distribution networks provide bandwidth savings, end-to-end service level agreements with resiliency to network and node failures, and an unmatched platform for monetizing subscription and advertisement-based broadcasts. Web address: www.ffnet.com Stewart Chapin, Senior VP Marketing, Activate.net: Mr. Chapin brings more than 20 years of marketing and management experience to Activate.net. At AT&T Wireless Communications Mr. Chapin, was vice president of Product Development and managed the nationwide launch of AT&T's Digital PCS service. As group marketing manager for Microsoft, Chapin designed and launched Microsoft's Solution Provider programs. As a group product manager, he had overall marketing responsibility for Microsoft's software development tools. He has a broad base of experience in marketing, consulting, and broadcasting, and he holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business. Martin Dunsmuir, General Manager, Broadband Systems, RealNetworks, Inc.: Dunsmuir is the general manager of Broadband Systems at RealNetworks. His principal responsibility is the formulation and development of solutions for broadband delivery of streaming media over cable, DSL, satellite and television. Dunsmuir has been with RealNetworks since its inception and was responsible for the development of the original RealServer and, more recently, was the originator of the RealMedia Architecture, which underpins RealSystem G2. Dunsmuir is an evangelist and industry representative on Internet standards issues, including IP Multicast. Greg Amadon, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Chairman of the Board, TeraBeam Networks: Greg Amadon is a visionary that possesses the unique ability to imagine the possibilities and then create what no one thought possible - in this case, Fiberless Optics(tm). He is responsible for eliminating the Internet's most formidable hurdle - the last mile. The disruption caused by his new capacity IP network will fundamentally alter the course of the communications industry. As Chief Technology Officer of TeraBeam Networks, Amadon strategically drive technological excellence and market leadership. He also will align the company with key partners and investors as the company begins to deliver the first Fiberless Optical gigabit IP network to businesses starved for bandwidth. Prior to founding TeraBeam Networks, Amadon was CEO and Co-founder of Virtual i-O Inc., where he attracted strategic partners, raising $30 million in equity. He also was founding CEO for Cellular Technical Services Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTSC), a company that was elected as Business Week's "OTC Stock of the Year" in 1993. During his tenure, he garnered private investments from NYNEX and Nationwide Cellular, and he led the company through a successful IPO, as well as a follow-up public offering. An inventor at heart, Amadon developed the business concept for real-time billing, fraud prevention software for cellular telephone carriers and invented a real-time cell phone rental system for rental car companies. He also created the high power telescopic video camera system used by CBS World News to record from distances of up to five miles away. Amadon received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University and currently holds three U.S. patents.