4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Session C:
Internet Authoring and Development in a Broadband or Netcasting Environment
Just like biology, technology in a changing environment selects for those traits and qualities best suited to survival and growth. The Internet has changed. Processing and bandwidth is increasingly cheap, plentiful, and diverse. This represents a spectacular opportunity for tools to evolve. For professional and enterprise applications, the challenge and opportunity is to economically author and commercially distribute new kinds of software and digital media. For personal applications like art and science, research and scholarship, and everyday communicating, the opportunity is for our tools to become increasingly simple and ubiquitious. Commercial success is inseparable from physically actualizing ideas. Thus, this session explores enabling interface technologies, network software systems, products, and business models for the automated authoring and netcasting of dynamic media and customized applications via the Internet.
Greg Deocampo, President & Chief Executive Officer, Tekadence
Duncan Kennedy, CEO, Tribeworks
David Frerichs, co-founder & Chief Technical Officer, iM Networks
David Tristram, Director of Authoring Engineering, iVAST
Russell Tewksbury, Executive Producer, Streaming Media & Multimedia Content, National Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign
Additional speakers to be announced
Duncan Kennedy, CEO, has led Tribeworks in its unique approach to developing and distributing rich-media authoring services, and has guided the Internet-direction of the company, software, and business model. Prior to co-founding Tribeworks, Mr. Kennedy served as a senior-level executive at MJuice (f. k. a. Audio Explosion), a leading source for music fans to purchase and download music via the Web. Prior to that, he led product marketing at Apple Computer for QuickTime. In that time, he brought the industry-leading multimedia software to PCs by implementing Apple's QuickTime for Windows project. Mr. Kennedy also served as Apple's multimedia Evangelist. QuickTime became the most widely distributed software product in Apple history. Also while at Apple, Mr. Kennedy lead Apple Computer's music group – chartering the fulfillment of technology and solutions to record labels and artists enabling a more direct relationship between artists and fans. Oversaw relationships with music industry, representing $100MM+ in revenue. Prior to his success at Apple Computer, Mr. Kennedy formed the multimedia division of Cardon Rose Advertising and edited rock videos for Champagne productions in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Science in bio-psychology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
David Frerichs, co-founder & Chief Technical Officer, iM Networks: David Frerichs brin
gs more than eight years of engineering and marketing experience to iM Networks, providing an intimate understanding of the multimedia, semiconductor and Internet markets to the company. He has held senior positions at both SGI and 3Dlabs, and has substantial expertise in overseas technical marketing, particularly in Japan. Through his work at SGI, Frerichs was instrumental in the architectural design and standardization of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), and was also instrumental in the design and development of the Cosmo Player - the leading 3D Web viewer - his marketing savvy helped to bring this product to more than 25 million desktops. Frerichs is well versed in streaming content, virtual environment systems, 3D user interfaces, international strategic and outbound marketing, integrating web content, the ability to attract OEM business and the development of products in an everchanging industry. With his vast first hand experience and deep understanding of the internet marketplace paired with his well respected reputation, Frerichs has been a featured speaker and panelist at Siggraph, Seybold, Webnoize, Virtual Reality World, World Movers, among others. Frerichs holds a B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.David Tristram, Director, Authoring Engineering, iVAST, Inc.: Mr. Tristram has a deep history and personal interest in interactive multimedia applications. As Director, Authoring Engineering, he is responsible for the iVAST content development platform, its architecture, and for making accessible that platform in as many ways as possible. Mr. Tristram worked previously at France Telecom R&D, where he contributed to the core implementation of an MPEG-4 multi-media player, and led development of several MPEG-4 demonstration applications including an adventure game, interactive program guide, and massively multi-user shared virtual environment. Earlier, at SGI, Mr. Tristram made pioneering use of real-time broadcast 3D as founder of "Raster Masters", a live computer graphics performance ensemble. Mr. Tristram performed live at dozens of high-profile events and collaborated with many star entertainers including The Grateful Dead, Graham Nash, Live, Morphine, D’Cuckoo, and Herbie Hancock. Mr. Tristram also served as graphics researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he wrote the Panel Library, the first publicly available user interface toolkit for SGI workstations and contributed to many visual tools for understanding numerical simulation. Mr. Tristram is also the author of ElectroPaint™, screen-saver and interactive visual instrument, now available for Windows. He holds a B.S. degree from Northwestern University.
Russell Tewksbury, Executive Producer, Streaming Media & Multimedia Content, Na
tional Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign: In addition to having eleven years of media management/production experience, Russell Tewksbury has been an Internet strategist and new media consultant for the past eight years. As a writer, he has been published and quoted in leading industry journals and publications in over 100 countries. He has also lectured at key industry conferences in Europe, the Caribbean and throughout North America. During last year's United States Presidential election campaign, Mr. Tewksbury was asked to join the Gore-Lieberman 2000 National Campaign Staff. He served as an Executive Producer of Streaming Media and Multi-media Content for the official Gore/Lieberman 2000 Campaign Website(s): algore.com and algore2000.com. His primary function was to create streaming media content (of Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Joe Lieberman) by recording digital audio and video on location, then capturing, producing/editing and encoding the finished content for both broadband and narrow-band Internet distribution. The nature of his work was so unique to the national election process that Mr. Tewksbury was featured in an interview on CSPAN's Road To The White House just prior to election day. In 1998 --in association with GTE, Discovery Channel and NASA- Mr. Tewksbury created and was the Executive Producer of Eye of the Storm; where he flew with the world-famous "Hurricane Hunters" into the eye of a category Three hurricane and then Multi-cast the event by satellite and over the Internet. In May of 1995, he was project manager for a streaming media event that featured the Queen of Sweden; one of the first head's of state to be Webcast. Over the past four years, Mr. Tewksbury has been listed in a number of Marquis' Who's Who publications, including: Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the Media and Communications.