Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Building Blocks 2008 Tuesday, August 5th 10:45 AM - Noon Track III: The Television - Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Content Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology & Content Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV We are entering the age of all video all the time. Video is no longer a manifestation of TV, video is a web experience, a mobile experience, as well as an IPTV, Cable and Satellite experience. Video is taped on a hard drive, a PVR, DVR, on an iPOD and on a cell phone. Video is how consumers relate to the world. The conversion to the all-video culture has been so quiet and so quick, the implications of what an all-video culture may mean is only first becoming part of the national business and intellectual conversation. The technology and communication companies that have developed and provide the new video services may well have the greatest insight as to what these new technologies and cultural advances mean. In this session, we are delighted to bring that group of experts to a public forum. Steve West, Director, North American Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent Mark Langford, Vice President, Marketing and Product Development, Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services Dorian Simpson, Sr. Director, Product Management, Macrovision Solutions Corporation Darcy Lorincz, CEO, Origin Digital Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President, Switch and Data Pallavi Shah, Digital Media Strategist, Hewlett-Packard Stephen Condon, former, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Verisign, Moderator Steve West, Director, North American Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent: Steve West is a Director of North American strategy for Alcatel-Lucent and is based in Ottawa, Canada. Mr. West has a lengthy resume of real-world experience in IPTV and video centric service development, marketing and strategy dating back to the early 90’s. Mr. West is an Alcatel-Lucent Strategy lead responsible for North American activities related to Alcatel-Lucent’s “multi-screen” strategy. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent’s acquisition of iMagicTV in 2003, Mr. West was Director of Product Management, Media Manager IPTV platform. Prior to iMagicTV, Mr. West was responsible for consumer broadband services development and marketing, including the world’s first commercial launch of a consumer mass market IPTV service at Aliant Telecom, Atlantic Canada’s largest telecom service provider. Mr. West holds a Diploma in Marketing and International business from St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a Diploma in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Mark Langford is the VP of Marketing and Product Management for Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services and is responsible for all online content delivery marketing strategy as well as for directing service specifications and platform functional design. Mr. Langford has extensive and diverse electronic content acquisition and distribution experience and has worked domestically and abroad in the Telco, MSO and Broadcast markets for both vendor and service providers alike. Mr. Langford was VP of Product Development for the innovative MovieBeam Video on Demand network. He developed the VoD, HDTV and IPTV product strategy for UPC Cablecom in Switzerland. He also led the Broadband Entertainment division at Swisscom (the incumbent Swiss Telco) for three years. While at Swisscom, he was a key figure in the development and deployment of the IPTV roll-out, designing the TVoDSL offer and negotiating all of Swisscom’s worldwide content and OEM contracts (set-top box, middleware - Microsoft TV - and system integrator contracts). Previously, Mr. Langford was a Principal at an international systems integration firm (AMS) and spent two years on Wall Street (Salomon Bros). Mr. Langford earned an MBA with concentration in IT and Marketing from the Harvard Business School in 1991. He now resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and two sons. Dorian Simpson, Sr. Director, Product Management, Macrovision Solutions Corporation: Dorian Simpson has served as senior director of product management for New Product and Cross Platform Services at Macrovision since May 2008 when the acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide International by Macrovision was completed. Since joining Gemstar in 2006, Dorian drove corporate planning for new product and service initiatives. Dorian has more than 20 years of product development and marketing experience with a variety of companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100. He has held key management positions in product management, sales, marketing, business development, and engineering, building the diverse background required for launching new innovations Before joining Gemstar, Dorian launched the Planning Innovations Group, a management consulting firm focused on new product innovation and planning. Prior to that, Dorian was a director at Motorola, where he led the launch of the world’s first 500 channel satellite TV system. He then went on to ReplayTV, where he helped launch the DVR revolution. Dorian is also president of the Oregon Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and often instructs on best practices in product innovation management. Dorian holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of San Diego. Pallavi Shah, Digital Media Strategist, Hewlett-Packard: Pallavi Shah is industry recognized thought leader, spokesperson and champion in digital media and rights management. She has directed global teams through multi-company alliances to bring several digital media products to market. At HP, she is responsible for Digital Media Intellectual Property strategy and alliances for their Imaging and Printing business. Prior to HP, Pallavi was Sr. Market Development Manager for Sun Microsystems and was responsible for revenue generation through partnerships in digital media. She also chaired many standards bodies including ISO's MPEG4-Java. Prior to Sun, Ms Shah was with the Sarnoff Corporation (RCA research lab), where she pioneered the world's first E-Commerce application of interactive HDTV. She has served as a speaker at over 50 industry conferences and published several papers. She holds multiple patents in the architecture of interactive digital video. Darcy Lorincz, CEO, Origin Digital Inc.: Together with the co-founders he is responsible for building the business plan and raising the capital to privatize this company derived from assets acquired from public company SAVVIS Communications. Previously Mr. Lorincz was the Vice President and General Manager of Global Rich Media Services at SAVVIS Communications where he built the Media and Entertainment Division from it’s inception to the business today at over $80M annual revenue contributing to 10% of SAVVIS current annual revenue. He has over 20 years building, implementing, and managing technology strategies, products, and solutions for the IT, telecommunications, and networking industries. In his current role, Lorincz will be directing this new venture and building Origin Digital into a premier provider of Digital Media products and Services. Prior to joining SAVVIS, as VP Americas, Mr. Lorincz helped set the global strategy for the Networking and Communications segment of the BBC Technology product and marketing focus, primarily focused on New Media in IP and Mobile program distribution. Prior to joining the BBC, Lorincz was the Managing Director for M&E at Global Crossing. There he directed the strategy for entry and growth of Global Crossing in the Media & Entertainment markets. He then directed the execution of the technology strategy and operating plan for a global applications-enabled media extranet for on-demand and consumption based network services. Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President, Switch and Data: Ernie Sampera is responsible for product management, marketing communications, corporate communications and business development at Switch and Data.  Joining the company in 2004, Ernie brings 20 years of marketing, sales distribution channels, program management, strategic alliances/business development, and financial management experience. Prior to joining Switch and Data, Ernie served as Vice President of Channel Marketing for AT&T Business Services, where he focused on centralizing and transforming all facets of AT&T’s Sales Channel Marketing business unit.  Prior to AT&T, Ernie held executive marketing and development positions with IBM, UNISYS, and the American Medical Association, where he designed, developed and deployed an open network infrastructure that positioned the AMA as a key participant in the on-line information industry.  Stephen Condon, former, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Verisign: Stephen Condon was most recently Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for VeriSign, Inc. and has more than 20 years of marketing experience from the advertising, entertainment and technology industries. Condon commenced his career in advertising working for J. Walter Thompson and Chiat/Day on leading brands such as Kraft Foods and NutraSweet. His advertising career introduced him to the high technology entertainment business when he worked on the hugely successful launch of DIRECTV. He later joined DIRECTV, as Senior Director of Marketing and was responsible for program marketing and subscriber acquisition promotions. In 1998 Condon moved from delivering video over satellite to delivering video on the Internet and joined INTERVU as Vice President of Marketing where he lead strategic marketing efforts and marketing communications up until the Akamai acquisition. Since then, Condon has held various senior technology marketing positions including Chief Marketing Officer of Intertainer, which was one of the first online video delivery portals. He was also Vice President of Marketing for broadband video ASP Entriq. He holds a bachelor's degree in business and has undertaken post graduate studies in Marketing at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2008, on the 10th Anniversary of Streaming Media magazine, he was named by the magazine one of their 25 Streaming Media All-Stars.