Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Tuesday, August 15 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Track III: The Rush to Mobile Video: Establishing and Monetizing a Revolutionary Entertainment and Communications Medium Mobile communications has effectively and successfully integrated itself into our daily lives as the primary personal and business communications vehicle and daily usage is only accelerating. With every new feature and service provided, the acceptance and adaptation of mobile as the broadband, audio, video and text based consumer information and entertainment accessory is continually reinforced. The entertainment, information and technology industries have effectively joined forces in providing the consumer with one of the most readily adapted and embraced consumer products ever devised. The question of whether the consumer is willing to accept video as a mobile service is no longer in question. In the coming year, the industry will experiment with new and enhanced products and services, with video, audio and text features and it will be the consumer who will sort out the hits from the misses. Video and broadband is now the dominant vision for the future of mobile consumer adaptation. Jeremiah Zinn, Senior Director, Wireless Product Development, MTV Networks David Bluhm, Chief Executive Officer, GoTV Networks Paul Scanlan, co-founder & COO, MobiTV Glenn R. Schuster, Director, Partner Programs Handheld GPU, NVIDIA Sanjay Reddy, SVP, Business Development, Gemstar-TV Guide Varsha Tagare, Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital, Moderator Paul Scanlan is co-founder and current Chief Operating Officer of MobiTV, Inc., the parent company to MobiTV. Since launching MobiTV in 2000, Scanlan has played a critical role in managing the companies’ growth from a start-up to the first and only global television network for cell phones. During his tenure, Scanlan has been instrumental in launching MobiTV on three of the nations’ leading cellular carrier networks, and in securing MobiTV’s current line-up of over 20 well-known channels through negotiations with some of the nations’ largest television content providers. Additionally, Scanlan manages all of the companies International efforts and operations where he has played a key role in generating the initial momentum and hiring the teams to run the new MobiTV offices around the world. Scanlan is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conferences, and is widely respected in the mobile entertainment industry for his pioneering efforts in mobile multi-media. David Bluhm, Chief Executive Officer, GoTV Networks: David Bluhm has been at the helm of technology companies for the last 20 years. Bluhm has been involved in more than 20 start-ups that have achieved a combined "high water" equity value of over 36 billion dollars. Prior to joining GoTV, Bluhm was the CEO at WUF Networks, which allowed mobile users to access and stream rich media to their mobile phones. WUF helped pioneer mobile music and was acquired by Yahoo! to power their Yahoo! Music Mobile service. Prior to WUF, Bluhm co-founded MFORMA, serving as President of Americas and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. Before this, Bluhm was CEO of NearMe where he guided the development and initial licensing of a suite of location technologies used by AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS and U.S. Cellular to deliver Directory Assistance and other localized information to mobile phone users. Bluhm also founded 2WAY Corporation and served as President and CEO. Additionally, Bluhm has held executive positions at Motorola, Mosaix International, Davox Corporation, Realtor.com, BondHub.com, and Mammoth Micro Productions. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. Jeremiah Zinn, Senior Director of Wireless Product Development for MTV networks, is responsible for managing the mobile product roadmap and development path for six Viacom Brands; MTV, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, Spike and LOGO. In this role, Jeremiah is directly responsible for the production oversight of all mobile products that MTV networks distributes. Jeremiah was most recently head of service development at Ericsson Mobility World (www.ericsson.com/mobilityworld/) where he worked with North American operators to bring innovative content and applications to their customers. He conceived, developed, and sold Ericsson’s first hosted content services to both US and European operators in the areas of MMS content, SMS content and Mobile downloads. Before joining Ericsson, Jeremiah worked at several new media and Internet startups with a focus of creating entertainment experiences using emerging technologies. In addition to being an experienced strategic planner and business manager, Jeremiah has extensive experience evaluating technology and consumer services for venture capitalists including the Soros Group. Jeremiah is currently an adjunct professor at Parsons New School for Design, where he teaches mobile game design. Prior to his new media career, Jeremiah studied Art History and Art Restoration at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Glenn R. Schuster, Director, Partner Programs Handheld GPU, NVIDIA: Glenn Schuster joined NVIDIA in August of 2004. As the Director of Partner Programs for NVIDIA’s Handheld GPU business unit, he is responsible for driving the Company’s strategic partnerships for its GoForce line of processors. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Schuster was the Vice President of Marketing at Ubicom and has also held VP and director level positions with 3DFX Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., and S3 Inc. Mr. Schuster also has significant experience in design, applications, and software engineering from Intel and Carnegie Mellon University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Sanjay Reddy, SVP, Business Development, Gemstar-TV Guide: Mr. Reddy has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning at Gemstar-TV Guide since December 2005. Prior to joining the company in June 2004 as Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning, Mr. Reddy was a principal in an offshore animation company from June 2002 to May 2004. Previously he was a Vice President in the M&A group at Salomon Smith Barney in Los Angeles from May 2001 to December 2001 and a Vice President in Corporate Development at Covad Communications from February 2000 to May 2001. Before joining Covad, Mr. Reddy was an Associate at Salomon Smith Barney in New York from August 1997 to February 2000. Varsha Tagare, Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital: Varsha has been covering the worldwide cellular software and services investments at Intel Capital for the last 4 years. Her investments include 2 public companies: JAMDAT(Entertainment Publisher:US), Cybird(Entertainment Publisher: Japan) and 6 private companies: MontaVista(Linux OS: US), PacketVideo(Mobile Audio/Video Streaming:US), Pollex(Linux solutions:China), Yavox(Messaging Infrastructure: Latin America) and Moblie365(Messaging Infrastructure:US). Prior to cellular investments, Varsha worked on Customer Relationship Management as market development Manager for Intel Architecture. She worked on investments and alliances that included Silknet(bought by Kana) and webline(bought by Cisco). Varsha Tagare has a MS in Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and BS from University of Bombay.