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 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Track I – DH5 - Digital Hollywood The NexGen Entertainment Home Experience - From the Smart & Connected TV to the PVR, Set-Top & PC Experience The home entertainment experience is about one basic idea - to deliver more and varied media-rich content to the consumer - giving consumers what they want, when they want it. But the battle for this consumer sector is about to assert itself as a competition of technologies, more complicated than the older battle of the home PC vs. the TV. This is a world containing a new generation of TV sets, HD and games devices, wirelessly connected homes with connected PCs as well as a host of set-top box and DVR options. The next generation of home entertainment hardware, software and services will come into battle delivering HDTV, Internet, music, games, movies, plus innovative two-way communication and telephony services. This battle for the home will be a tremendous victory for both the consumer, the technology industries as well as for the entertainment industry. It presents the simple proposition that offering the consumer more and richer services in a competitive environment is the perfect formula for success. Nick Chakalos, Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development, Home and Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc Sandip H. Mandera, Worldwide Product Manager, Digital Media Solutions, Software & Solutions Group, Intel JT Taylor, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco, Service Provider Video Technology Group John Gildred, President, SyncTV and SVP, Pioneer Duncan Bees, CTO, Home Gateway Initiative David Henry, Director of Product Marketing, Consumer Products, NETGEAR Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator JT Taylor, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco, Service Provider Video Technology Group: JT Taylor is responsible for defining key marketing strategies and objectives for all subscriber-facing products. His role includes direction of the Subscriber Networks’ product and industry marketing efforts, including trade shows, advertising, and public relations, as well as cooperative and consumer marketing initiatives. Taylor joined Scientific-Atlanta in 2000 as a strategic marketing manager in Subscriber Network Systems and played a key role in the development of Scientific-Atlanta’s cooperative and consumer marketing programs. Taylor has lead the company wide consumer research efforts for the last five years with particular focus on consumer attitudes and usage of DVR, HD and Connected Home services. Taylor also led Scientific-Atlanta’s retail trial, testing the viability of selling HD set-tops and service through retail outlets. David Henry, Director of Product Marketing, Consumer Products, NETGEAR: David Henry serves as NETGEAR's Director of Product Marketing for consumer products. Most recently, he was the product line manager for consumer routers and advanced wireless (802.11n) products.  David joined NETGEAR in 2004, prior to which he was a senior product manager for the high technology vertical application at Siebel Systems. David's professional experience also includes business process and information technology consulting with Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco.   David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Signal Processing from the University of Washington and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Edwin Lau, Group Product Director, TV Business, Microsoft Corporation: Edwin Lau is responsible for product management and planning for Microsoft Mediaroom, the award-winning Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform. Edwin joined Microsoft in 2007 and has led various initiatives related to new business opportunities, evaluating business risk, pricing and business models, among other areas. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was Director, Products and Services at TELUS Communications in Canada where he was responsible for their consumer wire line portfolio including the development of their consumer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offering. He was also a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little and Mercer Management Consulting in Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada where he worked on strategic challenges facing the Global 1000 telecommunications, high-tech, media and aviation companies. Edwin holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor’s degree from the National University of Singapore. Sandip H. Mandera, Worldwide Product Manager, Digital Media Solutions, Software & Solutions Group, Intel: He is responsible for enabling ISVs on digital home technologies (UPnP, DTCP/IP), developing enabling strategies and evangelizing digital home technologies. He has over 8 years of experience in software and technical marketing combined. In the past, he led Intel's marketing representation on Web services standards - UDDI.org and later OASIS UDDI during 2002 and 2003. He has spoken at leading conferences like Software Development Conference & Web Services World XML and Web Services Conference, contributed to a book chapter in the notable XML Handbook (5th edition) and his articles have appeared in leading magazines like IDS, DevX and JavaWorld. He holds an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and a B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India.