Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Events at CES 2009 Friday, January 9th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Track II - DH12 - Digital Hollywood Movies, TV & Video Programming to the Consumer – All Video All the Time: Broadband, IPTV, DVD & Mobile Movies, TV and video programming delivered via broadband Internet! An idea that seemed to be dead on arrival just a year or two ago, is an industry on the verge of busting out. SVOD, VOD - features delivered via the Internet - via the PC and via the set-top is very much a part of our future. A centerpiece of this anticipated future is the expectation that the PVR, the Personal Video Recorder will become a fixture on the next generation of all home PCs as well as in Set-tops. Add to that a wireless connection between the PC/PVR and the Set-top or TV, and it doesn’t take brain surgery to see how the herky-jerky downside of IP delivery of rich media will become a thing of the past or at least a secondary consideration as consumers download content to the PVR and play it back in crisp, full screen DVD quality. Under this scenario, Internet SVOD will become a full competitor to SVOD via the cable or satellite. IP delivery of features is about to reshape the landscape of the film industry. Josette Bonte, Chief Digital Media Strategist, Cisco IBSG David Thomson, Global Acquisitions - Video | Film | Television, Sony Ericsson Bradford C. Auerbach, Digital Entertainment Services, Hewlett-Packard Company Alki David, Chairman & CEO, Filmon.com & 111 Pictures Gaurav Dhillon, founder and CEO, Jaman Gary Baker, founder and CEO, ClipBlast! Scott Ehrlich, CEO, Agility Studios, Moderator Josette Bonte, Chief Digital Media Strategist, Cisco IBSG: Bonte is a digital media and filmed entertainment expert. She spent the first 11 years of her career as film and television industry executive in Hollywood and the past 14 years in the fields of telecom, interactive television, broadband content and online games. Josette joins Cisco from Cookie Jar Entertainment, the producers of the acclaimed Kid’s TV series: Arthur, Caillou, Zaboomafoo, The Doodlebops, etc., where she was the VP of Digital Media. As such, her responsibilities included negotiating distribution agreements with all the new media platforms (telco VOD, IPTV, broadband and mobile) in the domestic and international markets. She previously served as Ovum’s Vice President of Content and IPTV, working on IPTV deployment strategies with service provider clients like AT&T, France Telecom and BT. Besides her consulting experience while at Ovum and earlier at RHK, Josette has also worked as Chief Content Advisor to the PanAmSat Net 36 Team; where she concentrated on broadband content strategy and customer acquisition. Bonte is also a “telco TV pioneer”: In 1994, she joined then US West (now Qwest) as Head of Strategic Marketing, Entertainment and Interactive Services, where she participated in the company’s early interactive media and VoD trials and soon became the company’s Liason with the Hollywood entertainment industry for content strategy. In the eighties, Josette served as Executive Director of Unifrance Film, where she represented the French motion picture and television industries in Hollywood. She subsequently founded EuroScreen Partners, a film production and distribution company capitalized by European cable operators and banks. Josette received an M.F.A from the UCLA School of Film and Television in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and New Media from the Sorbonne in 1996. She is also the author of a best-selling book published by French publisher PUF in 1995 entitled La Television a la Carte aux Etats-Unis. David Thomson, Global Acquisitions - Video | Film | Television, Sony Ericsson: David joined Sony Ericsson in May 2005 and is responsible for Video/Mobile TV content acquisition within the Content Alliances team. David joined Sony Ericsson from the operator "3" where he from their start in Sweden has been working as Content Manager, responsible for creating, negotiating and implementing many of their most successful and innovative service and content offerings predominantly in the areas of video streaming and download. Prior to that assignment, David was for over 15 year active in the area of commercial television and broadcasting, working in the US and Sweden with channels and production companies such as TV4, TV 3, SVT, STRIX, MTV, Jarowskij och Nordisk Film, and internationally with companies such as Egmont, Endemol and VH1. His experience in these areas and his wide network within the broadcasting business will bring valuable knowledge to Sony Ericsson in the implementation and acquisition of consumer oriented entertainment services going forward. Bradford C. Auerbach, Digital Entertainment Services, Hewlett-Packard Company: Mr. Auerbach is a senior entertainment executive with extensive and unique expertise in production, content acquisition, Intellectual Property law and licensing, on a global level. He is currently handling Strategic Business Development with Hewlett-Packard for the mammoth Retail Custom Publishing project. He was the prime architect for Hewlett-Packard in structuring the entertainment industry’s first DVD manufacture-on-demand agreement with a major Hollywood studio. Mr. Auerbach has had success in structuring many groundbreaking deals with a diverse range of rightsholders, including NFL, HBO, MTV, Olympics Committee, Screen Actors Guild, every Hollywood studio, Peter Gabriel, ESPN, Sesame Street/CTW, among numerous others. He has deep familiarity with each aspect of the media business, having sat on all sides of the deal-making table, on behalf of mobile, cable, satellite, Internet, hardware, software, distribution and production companies. He has held positions as Senior Legal Counsel with Qualcomm’s MediaFLO initiative, General Counsel for Philips Media (a division of Royal Philips Electronics, Netherlands) and Head Counsel, Business Affairs for Astro/MEASAT (Malaysia), the premier direct broadcast satellite operator in South East Asia. As the lead attorney of Business Affairs for Programming at Starz/Encore he structured the pay television industry’s largest Hollywood studio output deal, and the first to include SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) rights. Mr. Auerbach started his entertainment media career at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, where he handled business affairs for the industry’s leading home video company, including the company’s first copy protection deal and the company’s first Pay Per Transaction deal. He has published dozens of entertainment articles worldwide (including his Law Review article “Biotechnology Patent Law in Britain and the United States”), and he has presented his views at numerous industry conferences across the globe. Mr. Auerbach helped form the Digital Entertainment Group, the industry-wide consortium that was the primary catalyst for the launch and spectacular success of the DVD format. He was a Founding Board Member of the Electronic Software Association, which not only established the E3 video game conference but remains dedicated to serving the business and public affairs interests of companies that publish video and computer games. He was the Founding Executive Director of the DVD-Audio Council, and has consulted to a handful of cutting edge clients. His past engagements include Warner Music Group, Playboy, Flexplay, Macromedia’s Mobile group and the Getty Museum. He holds a patent with Qualcomm relating to mobile phone media technology. BA – Hamilton College, JD – Boston College. ALKI DAVID, Chairman & CEO, Filmon.com - Alki David is a multi-faceted and dynamic business-man. Mr. David has built up his own self-made media group that includes London based ICM Models with Duncan Heath, 111 Pictures Film Sales venture with Elliot Kastner and most recently the 111Pix/Filmon VOD distribution portal. 111Pix/Filmon is the world largest aggregator of independent content in the World, boasting in excess of 14,000 titles ranging from how to’s, special interest videos, movies and television programming licensed from the Independent sector. With over 60 Content partners that include Granada, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Playboy, Rive Gauche to name but a few, 111Pix has developed its primary portal Filmon.com to exploit these titles across many platforms that include the Web, Set-Top Boxes, Mobile Phones and Operating System Media bundles. Furthermore, Filmon3d.com is a 3D virtual world in the look and feel of Beverly Hills where users to the free service are able to preview movies exchange movie info experience Filmon made content and buy movies through the Filmon Web Portal. Mr. David spends his time between his Wardour Street headquarters and his Greek island home of Spetses, where he has produced, directed and starred in several inependent movies and television shows including “Fishtales” with Billy Zane and Kelly Brook, “Killing Brigitte Nielsen” and “The Freediver.” Mr. David has also acted leading roles in several Studio movies and mini-series including “The Grid” for BBC/TNT, “Flight of Fury” for Sony Screen Gems and most recently “Baker Street Bank Job” alongside Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. Current internet content productions include the World Record Freedive by Austrian diver Herbert Nitsch, who dived down to 214 Meters (712 feet) and back up on a single breath of air. In October 2007 Filmon.com publishes Miss Black Filmon and interactive beauty pageant website. Other developments spearheaded by David in the early 90’s include the Snow Java Browser with then San Francisco based World Wide Web Inc and Miss Internet 1995. Of Greek Cypriot origin, Mr. David is the heir to a fortune of the Leventis David dynasty who amongst their many business interests is the world’s second largest Coca Cola bottler in the world, Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling CCBC, producing and distributing Coca Cola products in twenty-eight countries around the World. Once in the shipping industry, Mr. David was on the board of directors who built up the once troubled Navios Maritime business and sold it off for a price in excess of $700 million USD. Gary Baker, founder and CEO, ClipBlast!: Gary has focused his 20-year career at the intersection of television, interactive media, and the Internet. He previously served as a management consultant for IBM Interactive Media, leading Internet strategy, live webcasts and web application development for clients including Hertz, Toyota, the Grammys, PGA Tour, and CompUSA. Independently, he consulted and provided strategic direction to CinemaNow, Inc., the first website to offer video-on-demand. He also has directed and produced children's television programs, music video and sports programming for the Walt Disney Company, Dick Clark Productions, and ABC. Baker has previously spoken at various media conferences, including the DMA, Digital Hollywood, Digital Coast, CTAM, iHollywood Search and Media, Video on the Net, DEMOFall07 and most recently CES 2008. In public forums, he invariably zeroes in on interactive media, convergence and the bridges connecting creative, technology and entertainment. Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering Web-wide video search that uses patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of video content across the Internet. ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant, targeted video clips from the world’s major media brands, independent producers and individuals – video that informs, enlightens, inspires and entertains. The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif. Gaurav Dhillon, founder and CEO of Jaman: Prior to founding Jaman, Dhillon served as the chief executive officer for Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a Silicon Valley company that he led from a startup idea in 1992 to a leading software enterprise with customers and operations around the globe and more than a billion dollars in cumulative revenue. Dhillon led Informatica through its initial launch, an IPO in 1999, its expansion into Europe and Asia, and through the establishment of alliances with major technology and consulting companies by the time he left in 2004. Prior to Informatica, Dhillon held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp. Dhillon was recently recognized by Variety Magazine in its Fest Zest 60 List "Faces to watch for the Cannes Film Festivals 60th Anniversary."