Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Wednesday, August 16 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track IV: Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Device Interoperability, Sharing and Protecting With the introduction and planning of the next generation of digital entertainment products from DVD video to audio into the home now in process, the emergence of the fully digital home is at hand. With the fully networked and integrated entertainment experience as the goal, content must be immediately available to the consumer in an easy as well as secure environment. In this session, we will begin the discussion of what the distribution of product in digital home will look like in the coming year as well as how the technologies of the future will enable entertainment in the digital home to emerge. Jurgen Krehnke, Sr. Director, Regional Marketing, Consumer & Multimedia, Philips Semiconductors Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera Corporation James M. Burger, Esq., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; DVDA Board Member Brett Marl, Vice President of Engineering, Network Magic Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Consumer Business, AMD Ross Rubin, Director of Industry Analysis, The NPD Group, Moderator Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics: Mr. Smyers serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Digital Living Network Alliance and as President of DLNA Corporation. Aside from his DLNA duties, Mr. Smyers is also Vice President of the Network and Systems Architecture Division of the Platform Technology Center of America at Sony Electronics. Mr. Smyers’ particular area of focus is system architecture, system I/O and interfaces. Through his leadership as chairman of the 1394 Trade Association's AV Working Group over the course of seven years, Mr. Smyers has served a pivotal role in bringing about a suite of standards that define consumer device discovery and control. Mr. Smyers now also serves as the Chairman of the CE Linux Forum Steering Committee, and has in the past served as CTO and member of the Board of Directors of the 1394 Trade Association and on the UPnP Steering Committee. Mr. Smyers holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Cornell University Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Office, Zetera Corporation: Doug Glen has over twenty-five years of operating experience as a technology, media and entertainment operating executive, followed by several years experience as a venture capitalist. Most recently, Glen has been a managing partner in ProVen Private Equity, a London-based venture capital firm specializing in media and entertainment investments. From 1994 through 1999, Glen was senior vice president, chief strategy officer, for toymaker Mattel. While at Mattel, Glen directed the formation of the company’s girl’s software division, which created some of the best-selling entertainment software titles of all time, building on the company’s flagship Barbie brand. He was also responsible for the Intel-Mattel joint venture which produced high tech toys under the Intel Play brand. Prior to Mattel, Glen was group vice president, strategic planning and business development at Sega of America. There he was responsible for the company’s product management, licensing, and marketing. Also at Sega, he formed Sega Channel, a joint venture with Time-Warner and TCI, which delivered video games over cable television. Before then, Glen was general manager of Lucasarts Entertainment, the entertainment software division of George Lucas’ film company. There, he supervised the development and marketing of best-selling computer and video games, which extended Lucas properties such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Young Indiana Jones. Previously, Glen founded an advertising agency, which was sold to D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, where he remained for the next five years, supervising many of the agency’s media and entertainment accounts. Glen completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds an MBA and PhD from Somerset University. Jim Burger, Member, Dow Lohnes & Albertson: Jim represents technology and consumer electronics companies on intellectual property, communications, and government policy matters. Jim joined the firm’s Media, Information and Technology group in January 1997. For nine years before that, Jim was Senior Director in Apple Computer’s Law Department; his responsibility included worldwide telecommunications and intellectual property policy. Also, he was General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for worldwide government affairs. He was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council’s Proprietary Rights Committee. Jim has participated extensively in such complex matters as, DVD content protection, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), wireless data communications, the Copy Protection Technical Working Group (CPTWG), as well as representing information technology industry associations and individual IT companies before the FCC in proceedings such as Broadcast Protection, and Cable Plug & Play. Jim recently won FCC Broadcast Protection certification of TiVo’s technology in the face of MPAA and NFL opposition and filed an amicus brief in MGM v. Grokster on behalf of Intel in the Supreme Court. Jim is a Director of the DVD Association. Jim works, speaks, and writes extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, telecommunications, entertainment, intellectual property, and government regulation. Brett Marl, Vice President of Engineering, Network Magic: Brett Marl is responsible for setting the technical direction of the company. Brett comes to Network Magic with more than 12 years of software development and management experience, bringing significant expertise in the wireless, Internet, and security technologies. Before joining Network Magic, Brett co-founded and served as Vice President of Engineering for ViAir, Inc. In this role, Brett led the development and architecture of the massively scalable, carrier-grade Wireless-Inbox product. Prior to ViAir, Brett was the development manager for Microsoft’s MSN Mobile Services and was responsible for overall services design and architecture. Brett led the MSN Mobile Services development team through 3 successful commercial releases in just 12 months. Prior to his MSN assignment, Brett was the lead developer for Microsoft Outlook Express. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President Consumer Business, AMD: As Corporate Vice President of Consumer Business for AMD, Joe Menard is responsible for the solutions, strategies, and sales and marketing efforts for AMD’s processor businesses serving the consumer segment. Previously, he served as Corporate Vice President of Software Strategy and Alliances, defining and driving AMD’s software strategies and partnerships. Before joining AMD, Mr. Menard was founder, chairman and CEO of WebGain Inc., a privately held provider of Java software for Fortune 500 companies. Joe Menard holds a master of business administration degree from Babson College, and a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Ross Rubin is a director of industry analysis for The NPD Group. With over fifteen years analyzing and writing about the technology industry, Ross leads The NPD Group’s coverage of consumer electronics with an emphasis on connected intelligent devices, software, and services. Prior to NPD, Ross was a vice president and chief research fellow at Jupiter Media Metrix, where he founded and managed research services focusing on PCs and peripherals, smart devices, wireless, broadband, and video games. Previously, he was an IT analyst in the advanced technologies group at Salomon Brothers, where he led a team developing the company's first extranet application, and at McKinsey & Company, where he devised strategies for improving electronic communications and workflow. Ross has been a featured speaker at many conferences, including CES (for which he serves on the advisory board), Comdex, and E3, and has been quoted in dozens of media outlets, including ABC News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes and Business Week. Ross has written or contributed to 11 books and more than 100 magazine articles for publications such as Internet World, PC/Computing, Information Week, and MacWEEK. In 2003, he served as founding editor of Ziff Davis's Wireless Supersite, now part of eWEEK, where he wrote a twice-weekly column. Ross has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.