Wednesday, January 9 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Session B - DH16: Immersive Technology on TV and the Net - Expanding the Visual Horizon For decades the film industry has experimented in wide-screen, surround sound or other visual concepts, but they have rarely found a sustained audience. Now the computer industry is following in the same direction, offering up a host of unique immersive visual experiences. From static 360 degree views to moving pictures that take the viewer into an immersive universe, a new experience is on the way. You will not want to miss hearing from the leading developers in the field and experiencing their fantastic technologies. Chris Yewdall, President & CEO, DDD Inc. Ted Iannuzzi, Canadian CEO, Cycore Paul Cha, Executive Vice President, Enroute Imaging Don L. Daglow, President, Stormfront Studios Dr. Edward C. Driscoll, Jr., founder & CEO, Be Here Technologies Jim Stroud, Editor / Analyst, The Carmel Group, Moderator Paul Cha, co-founder & Vice-President, Operations, Enroute Imaging: Enroute Imaging co-founder Paul Cha brings to Enroute over 16 years of management experience in high-technology operations, including software/hardware development and biotechnology. As Vice President of Operations for Enroute, Paul is supervising the roll-out of their FirstPerson Immersive Video system and was instrumental in establishing Quickstitch panorama software as the highest market-share OEM product in the digital camera market. Before founding Enroute, Cha was a Partner with HowNow Productions where he developed games and educational titles. Previously, Cha held senior management positions at Galen Systems, Maxzen Medical Technologies, and Yamalchi Finance. Cha, a Southern California native, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Whittier College. Dr. Edward C. Driscoll, Jr. is the Founder, Chairman and CTO of Be Here Corporation. Under his direction, Be Here's technology was named one of the top 15 products at NAB 2000 and Be Here received the prestigious Digital Photography and Videography award at Digital Living Room 2000. Be Here was also awarded Internet Showcase People's Choice Award in 1997. Before founding Be Here, Driscoll was the President and CEO of Focus Surgery, a pioneer in image-guided, non-invasive medical devices. Driscoll was also Corporate Vice President and CTO of Diasonics, a leader in diagnostic medical imaging, Division President of its Therapeutic Products Division, and a Vice President of its MRI division. He was also Vice President of Engineering of Identix, the world leader in fingerprint imaging and recognition. He began his career as a Founder and Director of R&D at International Imaging Systems, an early leader in satellite imaging. Driscoll has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in the U.S. and abroad, and a speaker at many conferences including Streaming Media East, SIGGRAPH, SPIE, MacWorld, and Seybold. He is the principal inventor of more than a dozen granted or pending U.S. patents. Driscoll holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and two master's degrees from Harvard University. Driscoll earned his doctorate in Remote Sensing-Digital Imaging from Stanford University. Jim Stroud is the Editor and an Analyst for The Carmel Group. He edits the company's two main publications, DBS Investor and Convergence Investor, and did the new graphic look for Convergence Investor. He also edited The Carmel Group's Asia 2000: The DBS Data Book. Mr. Stroud's career in market research began with Great Western Directories (which is now known as Worldpages.com), where he focused on creating ad campaigns for new markets. Mr. Stroud also served as a Marketing Manager for Dolphin Peripherals, a leading PCI I/O card manufacturer. Mr. Stroud holds a BA degree in Literature from West Texas State University. Mr. Stroud is regularly consulted and his views are consistently quoted in publications and web sites, such as Investor's Business Daily, Wired, CBS Marketwatch, USA Today, MSNBC, The DenverPost, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Telephony magazine and Enterprise magazine. His duties at The Carmel Group also include the writing and editing of two data books, Streaming Media 2000 and Broadband 2000, which are scheduled for release later this year. Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of Cycore Canada, a leading Sweden based software development company specializing in interactive 3D software solutions for e-business. Prior to joining Cycore, Ted was responsible for the creative development and marketing of the on-line auction web site Bargoon.com across North America. He was co-founder of software development house Digital Image FX Inc., where he managed several successful multimedia projects including virtual reality and online 3D animation for clients such as Microsoft Canada, Warner Brothers and Gibson Guitars. Mr. Iannuzzi has also served as a technology consultant to both the federal and provincial governments and in 1997 he was tasked to demonstrate VR and distance education to the Prime Minister. He has extensive experience in the television and publishing industries and was trained at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada. Chris Yewdall, President and CEO, DDD Inc.: Chris Yewdall oversees the global operations of DDD and keeps the company focused on bringing 3D TV to the mass market. He has been the driving force behind the commercialization of DDD’s 3D technologies, and continues to grow their presence in the Internet, broadcast, film and advertising markets. Yewdall’s unique blend of marketing and technical skills, backed by a sound understanding of the fast-moving digital entertainment market have been critical to his success. His diverse background includes serving as vice president of business development at C-Dilla Ltd. (A division of Macrovision Corporation NASDAQ:MVSN), an anti-piracy software provider to the world’s leading desktop and entertainment software developers. He also held several senior management positions in Europe and North America with the UK-based Virtuality Group, the world leader in immersive virtual reality technologies. Yewdall graduated from North Staffordshire University, Stafford, England with an honors degree in Information Systems. Don Daglow is president of Stormfront Studios, developers of EA Sports' NASCAR series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, John Madden Football, Discovery Channel's Byzantine: the Betrayal, Creative Wonders' Eagle Eye Mysteries, and the Tony La Russa Baseball series. In 1971 he wrote the first computer baseball game ever created (on a PDP-10 mainframe); in 1976 he wrote the first mainframe role-playing game. In 1981 he designed and programmed the first Sim game, Utopia for Intellivision. Don has led design teams for almost 20 years, as Director of Game Design for Mattel's Intellivision, as a Producer at EA, and as the head of Broderbund's Entertainment & Education division before founding Stormfront Studios in 1988. He holds a BA in Creative Writing (Pomona College) and a Master's in Education (Claremont Graduate School).