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Digital Hollywood
Tuesday, October 30th
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM – Special Workshops
Session Workshop A:
Imagining the Digital Future of Film and TV Production - Tools & Technologies to Liberate the Imagination
Stephen Jacobs, Vice President, Sony Corporation of America
Kenneth Yas, Market Development Manager, Cameras, NA, Grass Valley
Thomas A. Ohanian, Vice President of Product Management, Signiant
Jakob Lodwick, founder, Vimeo
Bernie Laramie, CEO, MOS Sync, Inc.
Joel Ordesky, Chief Technical Officer, Wexler Video, Moderator

Thomas A. Ohanian - Vice President of Product Management, Signiant: Tom Ohanian oversees the development, improvement and customer acceptance of all Signiant offerings with a special focus on exceptional customer experiences and continuous innovation. Ohanian is an accomplished strategist, designer, and inventor of digital media products and workflow solutions and was a founding member of Avid Technology. Drawing upon his 26 years in the media industries, his inventions and efforts in product creation and evangelization have led to the widespread adoption of digital nonlinear video, film editing systems and workflow strategies in addition to LAN and WAN digital media collaboration. He is an Academy Award® and a two-time Emmy® recipient.








Joel Ordesky, Chief Technical Officer, Wexler Video: Joel is a senior executive with over 12 years experience in leading and managing operations for companies with revenues in excess of 30 million. Expertise in P&L management; video, audio, other communication and computer systems; risk-management and insurance; contract development, negotiations, and compliance; and data base management. Strengths in strategic and business planning, team development and building, written and verbal communication, employee coaching and budgeting. Extensive experience in expense/cost-management and budgeting, OSHA and safety, human resources compliance, labor-management relations. Analytical planner and conservative risk-taker who develops creative solutions in demanding environments. Effective in union and non-union environment. Joel has worked in a variety of management and individual contributor positions at companies including First Television, Four Point Entertainment and ABC's Home Show. Joel is a graduate of University of Southern California, earning his Bachelors degree in Philosophy. Joel was born in Hollywood, California and now resides in Beverly Hills, California. He is Married with 2 children, Cole age 8 and Samantha age 6.