Tuesday, March 6 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Session D: Technology Infrastructure for the Delivery of Broadband Entertainment As we move from narrowband to broadband delivery, the physical convergence of entertainment in the home requires a new technological infrastructure to be put in place. For a TV broadcaster to become an Internet broadcaster, an entirely new technological framework must be devised. Creating the new "Digital Hollywood" will not be possible without the framework to support the structure itself. The products and services that will redefine technology will require an infrastructure capable of supporting bandwidth intensive applications. In this session we will explore the capabilities of the systems in place today, understand what kind of content we can deliver, as well as investigate what alternatives the production community has in reaching its marketplace. Omar Ahmad, founder & CTO, Logictier Eric Wolford, Vice President Product Management, Inktomi Corp. Paul Vixie, CTO, Metromedia Fiber Network Nick Falco, Vice President, New Media Solutions, Zullosoft Consulting Lawrence R. Kaplan, President & CEO, Omneon Video Networks Jeff Huppertz, Vice President, Marketing, Clearband Neal Page, Vice President and General Manager, Osprey Technologies Division, ViewCast.com Michael Bloom, President, Communication Strategies and Planning, Inc., Moderator Neal Page, Vice President and General Manager, Osprey Technologies Division, ViewCast.com: Neal Page, a recognized leader in the streaming media industry with extensive experience in the areas of product development, business partnerships, video encoding/compression and streaming technologies, has been Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Osprey Technologies Division of ViewCast.com since 1995. He is responsible for leading the company's business and technology initiatives in networked video and developing the streaming video market for the company. He has been responsible for development of strategic relationships including Sun, Real Networks and Microsoft. He also leads the "Your Video On The Web" initiative that is introducing streaming media to consumer market. Page was the founder of Osprey Technologies, which joined with ViewCast.com in October 1994. Before founding Osprey Technologies, Page was employed by Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he held both management and engineering positions directing development and strategic relationships for multimedia technology products. Page developed advanced graphics and imaging products at General Electric from 1984 to 1988 and at Data General from 1983 to 1984. Page holds B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. Eric Wolford is vice president of product management for the Network Products Division at Inktomi Corp. In this role, he's responsible for managing product strategy, direction and development of the industry's leading Internet infrastructure software, including caching, content distribution and media broadcasting technologies. Prior to Inktomi, Wolford was vice president of product marketing and business development for FastForward Networks, which was acquired by Inktomi in 2000. Before joining FastForward Networks, Wolford was the director of product management for AT&T's IP Network Services, where he grew business by nearly tenfold over three years. His team developed and launched more than 15 new services, including VPN, broadband, and global access services. Wolford earned a bachelor's in biology at Pepperdine University and a master's in marketing and finance from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and NYU's Stern School of Business. In 1998, he was selected by AT&T to attend a graduate program in management at the London Business School. Omar Ahmad, founder and Chief Technical Officer, Logictier: A gifted mathematician with an exhaustive background in building and managing high-end Internet sites, Mr. Ahmad co-founded Logictier through the belief that best practices and new technologies combined with mathematics can yield some completely new outcomes in end-user experience guarantees. Prior to founding Logictier, Mr. Ahmad was Webmaster of Netscape, responsible for the strategic direction and operation of the portal, supporting 1000% annual growth. Before that, he was director of media technology for @Home and Webmaster for Discovery Channel Online. Mr. Ahmad served as chair for online technologies for SIGGRAPH '98, and serves on the Technical Advisory Board and as co-chair of the Cybercast Committee for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Mr. Ahmad holds a B.S. in Material Science Engineering from the University of Florida. Lawrence Kaplan is the President and CEO of Omneon Video Networks, the company providing networking and storage infrastructure for new media. Omneon systems are used by content providers and distributors in the converging industries of television and the Internet. Under Mr. Kaplan's leadership, and that of his management partners, Omneon has created the VIDEO AREA NETWORKä, an integrated networking and storage platform that enables customers to route, store, and share digital audio, video, and any type of related data throughout and among facilities. With substantial experience in television and computer networking, Mr. Kaplan's tenure in the business includes strong relationships with computer network, satellite and television companies worldwide that deploy sophisticated digital media networks. Before creating Omneon Video Networks, Mr. Kaplan was most recently senior vice president at Sony Electronics with overall responsibility for Sony broadcast, production and data products and systems. His organization also included the Sony systems integration and software development operations that designed and built several major television facilities including DIRECTV and AskyB (Primestar). Prior to joining Sony in 1995, Mr. Kaplan had overall responsibility for both the computer graphic and television operations at Tektronix-including the color printer division and The Grass Valley Group. These businesses generated more than $1 billion dollars in revenue. Mr. Kaplan has an MBA from Rutgers University and a BSEE from the University of Wisconsin. Jeff Huppertz is the visionary behind the dramatic growth of ClearBand, the global technology leader dedicated to bringing TV and video programming to broadband connected PCs. As vice-president of marketing, Huppertz has focused on developing relationships internationally with cable, telecom and satellite companies around the world to deploy this revolutionary new technology. An accomplished speaker, Huppertz has recently participated in such events as Streaming Media Europe, BCE London, EmediaTainment, ehollywood, Meyers conferences and Kagan Seminars. Huppertz has had a long and distinguished career in the broadband area. Prior to joining ClearBand, Huppertz was director of business development and strategy for Motorola’s Broadband Communications Sector and was a key player in Motorola’s purchase of General Instrument. Additionally, his role included strategic planning for Motorola's family of digital set-top boxes and high-speed cable modem systems as well as partnerships, alliances, and equity investments with content and technology companies. Prior to Motorola, Huppertz spent several years with the Broadband Communications Group of Scientific-Atlanta, most recently as the director of subscriber video systems. Huppertz began his broadband communications career in 1983 with Zenith Electronics’ Cable Television Division. Paul Vixie, CTO, Metromedia Fiber Network: Paul Vixie joined Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) as senior vice president of Internet Services when MFN purchased M.I.B.H. in January 2000. He was co-founder and CEO of M.I.B.H., following five years as founder and CTO of Internet Software Consortium where he published such works as BIND (the Internet's premier and reference implementation of DNS). Since 1980, Mr. Vixie has published about a half dozen software packages that have seen wide use inside the ISP community. He is the author of six IETF RFC's, and has built or helped to build networks for four companies. Mr. Vixie is the co-author of "Sendmail: Theory and Practice," Digital Press, 1993 Nick Falco, Vice President, New Media Solutions, Zullosoft Consulting: Prior to joining Zullosoft, Nick held director level positions at Epoch Internet and iBEAM Broadcasting. While at Epoch Nick acted in an advisory role in helping Epoch Determine its strategy for entering the CDN arena. At iBEAM Nick pioneered many of the live production and encoding techniques most widely used now by internet broadcasters throughout the streaming media industry. The breakthrough work of the Media Engineering team led to iBEAM's partnerships with Winnov and Octiv to create quality encoding solutions for iBEAM's encoding facility and Radio station customers. The team focused on the integration of technologies that comprise iBEAM's Broadcast Operations and signal Acquisition and Distribution systems. His traditional media experience includes work for Music Televison's On air promos department, and an active role in the creation and performance of an elaborate puppetry sequence for a Nationally aired Miller Genuine Draft commercial titled "Clothes Line". Nick entered the Technology space when he was hired by Jonathan Fram the former General Manager of Bloomberg Radio and Television to work in the Video Research and Development department at Bloomberg LP. His work led to the first build of the backend system that handled delivery of live streaming video content on Bloomberg.com, and to the first incarnation of Bloomberg Interactive Television. He went further to drive the development of a live batch encoding system that delivered On -Demand streaming media content to Bloomberg's website and Customers like @home and Echostar. Nick was also responsible for the technical delivery and production of Bloomberg's first live webcast from the Jacob Javits Center in NYC during Internet world '97, featuring three days of interviews with industry luminaries such as Michael Dell, Tim Koogle of Yahoo and Larry Ellison of Oracle.