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Digital Hollywood Spring
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
Santa Monica, California
March 30 – April 1, 2005
"Transforming the Entertainment Industry"

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Tuesday, March 29th
Pre-Event Meetings, Seminars & Receptions
Broadband Services Forum

Wednesday, March 30th
Track I: OnDemand Content & Services - Cable, Satellite, Telco, Broadband & Games
Track II: The Digital and Networked Home Track
Track III: Mobile Entertainment & Technology – The Audio, Video and Text-Based Experience
Track IV: IPTV - Video & Services to the Consumer
Track V: General Sessions - Branded Entertainment & Marketing: Film, TV, Music & Broadband

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track I:
OnDemand Television – All-Access All the Time – From the Basic DTV Package, the Premium Package to the PVR Enabled Viewer
Albert Cheng, SVP of Distribution Strategy & Operations, ABC Cable Networks Group
Paul Colichman, Chairman and partner, Regent Entertainment and President , here! TV, LLC
Mitch Oscar, Executive Vice President, Carat Digital
Jeff Shultz, CEO, CONCERT
Michael Hopkins, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Sales, Fox Cable Networks
Naveen Chopra, Director, Business Development, TiVo
Terry S. Bienstock, Bienstock Consulting, LLC, former EVP & General Counsel, Comcast Cable, Moderator
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Track II:
Embracing the Connected Consumer - Entertainment and Technology - From the Digital Home to the Mobile and Wi-Fi Universe
William Carney, Strategic Business Development, Wireless LAN, Texas Instruments
Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics
Dan Quigley, Senior Director, Strategic Technology, Motorola
Dale (Ty) Roberts, Chief Technology Officer, Gracenote
Tom Powledge, Director, Product Management, Consumer and Client Product Delivery, Symantec Corporation
Jurgen Krehnke, Sr. Director, Regional Marketing, Consumer & Multimedia, Philips Semiconductors
Scott R. Campbell, Vice Consul, UK Trade & Investment, Moderator
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Track III:
Getting the Bling Bling: Mobile Ringtones, Ringtunes, Advertainment, Games & Custom Branded Experience
Jason Ford, General Manager, Wireless Games and Entertainment, Sprint
Bryan Biniak, Senior Vice President/General Manager of Wireless, AGInteractive & President, Agmobile, American Greetings Corporation
Gilles Babinet, CEO and Founder, Musiwave
Carolynne Schloeder, President, Moderati Inc.
Alex Conrad, President and COO, Dwango
Matthew Feldman, co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Versaly Entertainment
Timothy Shey, Creative Director and co-founder, Proteus, Moderator
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Track IV
Next Generation of DVD - Transforming an Industry – Expanding the Experience
Zane Vella, President and co-founder, MX Entertainment
Brian Brodeur, President, Masterdisk/NewYorkDVD
Rick Dean, Director Technical Business Development, THX
Andy Parsons, Senior Vice President, Advanced Product Development, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc.
Doug Textor, Founder & CEO, The Cannery
Tom Adams, President, Adams Media Research
Ben Fritz, Technology Reporter, Variety / Daily Variety, Moderator
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10:45 AM - Noon
Track I:
Cable, Satellite, Broadband & Games: As the Games Industry Migrates to the Broadband Universe – Commerce Content & Branded Entertainment
Garry Kitchen, CEO, Skyworks
John Welch, CEO PlayFirst
Claudia Ceniceros, Senior Director, Media and Content Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mike Vorhaus, Managing Director, Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc.
Nicholas Longano, Chief Marketing Officer, Massive Inc.
Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Director Strategic Planning, Comcast Online, Moderator
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Track II:
Hollywood and the Digital Home: How Technology and Content Establish the Next Level of Consumer Entertainment Experience
Bob Lambert, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Media Technology and Development, The Walt Disney Company
Michael Arrieta, Senior Vice President, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
Shahid Khan, Managing Director, BearingPoint, Inc.
Adam Bain, Vice President, Technology & Production, Fox Sports Interactive
Roger Munford, General Manager, Maxim Online
Charles S. Swartz, Executive Director & CEO, Entertainment Technology Center at USC (ETC-USC)
Lisa Napoli, Journalist, New York Times, American Public Media - Marketplace, Moderator
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Track III:
Mobile Music & Video Make-Over – As Mobile and Entertainment Industry Merge – TV, Music and Movies
George Linardos, Sr. Business Development Manager, Branded Content, Nokia
Bruce Gersh, Senior Vice President Business Development, ABC Entertainment Group
Darryl Franklin, Senior Lawyer, Business Affairs, Interscope Records
Anthony Stonefield, Chief Strategy Officer, InfoSpace Mobile
Michael Steuer, General Manager, MINICK USA Inc.
Robert Tercek, Executive VP Programming, Chief Strategy Officer, (M)FORMA
Ralph Simon, Co-founder Zomba/Jive & Chairman, The Mobilium Group, Los Angeles & Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum, Americas, Moderator
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Track IV:
The Telco-Entertainment Partnership – How Networks, Studios and Telcos Establish a New Broadband Path to the Consumer
Sean Riley, SVP, Affiliate Sales, Fox Cable Networks
Amy Friedlander, SVP, Programming, SBC Communications
Suzanne Rainey, Principal, Accord Media Group LLC
Eric Aledort, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Walt Disney Internet Group
Greg Demetriades, CEO, Continental Vista Broadcasting Group
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Sr. Dir Mkting and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel Strategic Solutions & Chairman - Broadband Service Forum, Moderator
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12:00 Noon
VIP Lunch: Entertainment Financing and Packaging: The Future of Film, TV, Broadband and Wireless
Sharon Swart, Senior Editor, Variety, Moderator
P. Clark Hallren, Senior Vice President and Manager, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Entertainment Industries Group
Randolph M. Paul, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Isaac Palmer, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Paramount Pictures
Roy A. Salter, founder and Managing Member, The Salter Group
Christine P. Ball, Senior Vice President and Manager of Union Bank of California
Michael London, Producer, "Sideways"
Hosted by Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC
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12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Track I:
Digital Cable and Satellite Television Strategies: Channel Launches, SVOD-VOD, HDTV, International and Interactive
Robyn Polashuk, of Counsel, Corporate Media Group, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Michael Kohn, Sr VP Business Affairs & General Counsel, GSN: The Network for Games
David Meister, Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Tennis Channel
Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast
Craig Engler, Director, Interactive, SCI FI, NBC Universal
Anil Srivatsa, SVP, Affiliate Sales & Operations, ImaginAsian TV
Chris Marlowe, Associate Editor, New Media/Technology, The Hollywood Reporter, Moderator
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Track II:
Game Power - as Games Crossover into Music, TV, Movie, Mobile, Advertainment & Custom Branded Experience
Joseph Varet, MTV Business Development & Strategy, MTV Networks
Ralph Rivera, VP & GM, AOL Games, America Online, Inc.
Jonathan Epstein, United Talent Agency
Jordan Mechner, Videogame Creator, Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express
Karim Sanjabi, President, Freestyle Interactive
Don L. Daglow, President and CEO, Stormfront Studios
Mark Friedler, CEO, GameDAILY/Gigex, Inc., Moderator
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Track III:
Mobile Music: Groovin’ to a New Beat and Bringing in the Revenue
Beth Levine, VP Product Management & Strategy, Melodeo
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music
Neil Strother, Senior Analyst, In-Stat/MDR
Mike Brochu, CEO, Loudeye
Richard Sharp, CEO, PodChannels, Inc.
Andy Milburn, CTO, AIEntertainment
Paul Resnikoff, founder & Editor, DigitalMusicNews.com, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track IV:
Digital Cinema Transforms an Industry - From Production and Distribution to Projection and Display
Michael Sterling, Principal Technologist, Technicolor Digital Cinema (TDC)
Dave Schnuelle, Director, Image Technology, Dolby
Josh Greer, CEO, Real D
Steve Bergman, Executive Vice President, Digital Distribution, Deluxe Laboratories, Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Track I:
Entertainment Concepts in Branded & Integrated Entertainment - Film, TV, Music, Cable, Wireless, Games & Broadband
Robert Riesenberg, president & CEO, Full Circle Entertainment (an Omnicom Media Group company)
Karen Bloore, Managing Director, Universal McCann
Entertainment Group, Los Angeles
Steve Katleman, Shareholder, L.A. Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Ken Solomon, founder- Fine Living Network
Ken Hertz, Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP
Cary Woods, Chief Creative Officer, PlumTV
Michael Kassan, Media and Entertainment Consultant, Moderator
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Track II:
Movies and TV for Mobile - Original Entertainment & Information Programming Jumpstarts the Revolution
Ross Levinsohn, Senior Vice President & General Manager – Fox Sports Interactive Media
Dr. Phillip Alvelda, Chairman & CEO, Co-Founder, Idetic, Inc. MobiTV
Greg Clayman, V.P. Wireless Strategies and Operations, MTV Networks
Keith Hindle, VP Integrated Marketing and Interactivity, FremantleMedia North America (American Idol)
Manish Jha, Senior Vice President, ESPN Mobile
L.M. Kit Carson, Film Producer, Writer (Paris, Texas), co-founder, TheWirelessStudio Moderator
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Track III:
Mobile Games, Advertainment & Custom Branded Experience
Jeff Nuzzi, Director, Global Marketing, THQ Wireless
Jen Herman, Director of Licensing, Digital Bridges
Matt Liszt, Director of Marketing, Sorrent
Brian Levin, CEO, Mobliss
Ricci Rukavina, Director of Mobile Product Development, Walt Disney Internet Group
Bradford C. Auerbach, Senior Entertainment Executive, Moderator
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Track IV:
The University Project - Open to All Attendees
"Global Media Strategies - Developing the Next Generation of Entertainment, Media & Technology Thinkers and Visionaries – Art vs. Commerce vs. Theory"
Bernie Laramie, Producer, “Threat Matrix” for ABC & “Aliens of the Deep,” Imax 3D
Nancy Uscher, Provost, CalArts
Teri Schwartz, Dean of Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television
Bob Slutske, SVP Strategic Planning, National Teleconsultants
Paul Levine, SVP Corporate Development, Ruckus Networks
David Traub, VP Business Development, Screen Media Technology
Dr. Bernard J. Luskin, Director, Media Studies, Executive Vice President, Fielding Graduate University, Moderator
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3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Track I:
Transforming Television: From Reality TV, HDTV and Interactive TV, to PVR TV and VOD TV
Peter Lee, Vice-President, Business Development New Technology, The Walt Disney Company
Jeffrey Pollack, Managing Director, Broadcasting & New Media, NASCAR Digital Entertainment
Patricia Karpas, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Television
Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts Starcom MediaVest Group
Matt Farber, founder, Logo, Viacom
Richard W. Sherrill, EVP Business Affairs, ReFreshIQ
Ken Rutkowski, founder, KenRadio Broadcasting, Moderator
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Track II:
Advertising Strategies in the Diversified Digital Culture: Broadcast, Cable, Satellite, Broadband, Games and Mobile
Joy Marcus, Senior Vice President, Time Warner Global Marketing
Shawn McMichael, Group Product Manager, MSN Games
Ridgway H. Hall, Chief Strategy Officer,The Advertising Research Foundation
Brian McAndrews, President and Chief Executive Officer, aQuantive, Inc.
Chris Pizzurro, Vice President of Multimedia Marketing, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Carrie Himelfarb, Vice-President, Mobile Marketing, Vindigo, Moderator
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Track III:
Strategies in Wireless Devices and Services - from Audio & Video to Downloads: How Innovation Drives Avenues for Subscriber and Revenue Expansion
J.H. Kah, Vice President, Head of Global Business, SK Telecom
Jamie Rosenberg, Sr. Director, Program Management, Danger, Inc.
Jan Lezny, Senior Director Business Development, QUALCOMM MediaFLO
Dale Knoop, General Manager, Multimedia, Sprint
Mark Desautels, Vice President, Wireless Internet Development, CTIA-The Wireless Association
Gary Yentin, Vice President, m-Qube
Luis Ubinas, Director, West Coast Media Practice, McKinsey & Co, Moderator
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Track IV:
The University Project - Open to All Attendees
"Envisioning the Future of Digital Entertainment – As a Student Curriculum, as a Cultural Prototype and as a Digital Lifestyle"
John Fogarty, Associate Director, Business Development , Napster
Vin Crosbie, President and Managing Partner, Digital Deliverance
Doug Levin, Director of Education Policy - Cable in the Classroom
Dave Lambert, CIO, Georgetown University
Jeannie Novak, founder & CEO, Indiespace
Brett Goldberg, President, Cdigix
Chamath Palihapitiya, VP/General Manager - America Online's AIM and ICQ
Todd Richmond, Managing Director, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, Moderator
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5:15 PM - 6:30 PM:
The University Project - Open to All Attendees
"Research, Development and Investment in Entertainment Technologies and Media Studies Innovation: From the University to Industry Application"
Joe Gaucher, CTO, Video Furnace
Kenn Heller, Associate Director of UCLA's Center for Student Programming
Kathy Smith, Chair of Animation/Digital Arts, USC
Janet Pearce Stenzel, Director, Mobile Media Institute, USC
Tim Langdell, Information Technology Program, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Vernon Smith, President & CEO, Amplify, Moderator
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5:00 PM - End-of-Day Poolside Reception at the Loews
Special RELEASE PARTY in Honor of "The Art of Digital Music," authors & insiders David Battino and Kelli Richards - Meet Legendary Industry Stars, Doug Fieger, The Knack; Stewart Copeland (The Police, Emmy-nominated film composer); Patrick Gleeson (virtuoso synthesist, composer); megaproducers Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Wilson Phillips), Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2, Frank Zappa), and Albhy Galuten (18 #1 hits as a record producer) and More to be announced.
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Thursday, March 31st
Digital Hollywood Seminars
Track I: DRM & Piracy: Digital Rights Management in Film, Music and Technology
Track II: On-Demand Content Services: Programming for Cable, Satellite, Broadband & Wireless
Track III: The Digital and Networked Home
Track IV: Branded Entertainment & Marketing: Film, TV, Music, Games & Broadband
Track V: IPTV - Video & Services to the Consumer

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Track I:
DRM Interoperability Challenge - Consumer Satisfaction - Consumer Confusion
Talal G. Shamoon, Chief Executive Officer, Intertrust
Ron Wheeler, SVP Content Protection, Fox Group
Scott Smyers, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics
Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group, Director, Content Protection Architecture, INTEL CORPORATION
Scott Fierstein, Program Manager, Media Content Protection, Microsoft Corp.
Brian Lakamp, Senior Vice President, Technology, Sony Pictures’ Digital Policy Group, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track II:
OnDemand TV Networks: Innovations in VOD, Pay Subscriber and Basic TV Services
Will Griffin, president and COO, Simmons Lathan Media Group (SLMG)
Gregg Spiridellis, President, JibJab Media Inc.
Charles Humbard, President, Gospel Music Channel
Daniel Ronayne, SVP-GM Mag Rack & sportskool, Rainbow Media
Charles B. Walker, President & CEO, HMG, Heritage Media Group
Jeffrey Kapner, Regional Director, Marketing & Strategy, California Region, Adelphia Communications
David Jensen, Vice President of Business Development, Zetools, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track III:
The Networked Entertainment Home - the PVR/DVR – the Set-Top & PC Entertainment Server
David B. Davies, Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Subscriber Networks, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Charlie Gonsalves, Business Development Manager, Streaming Media Group, Texas Instruments
Ken Nelson, President & CEO, CACMedia
James Behrens, Chief Executive Officer, Orb Networks
Gordon Paulus, Senior Marketing Manager, Digital Entertainment, Maxtor
Jan-Luc Blakborn, North America Digital Entertainment Category Manager, Digital Entertainment Products, Hewlett-Packard Company
Ben Mendelson, founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track IV:
Branded Media Marketing - TV, Film, Wireless, Music and Broadband – Reinventing the Commerce & Media Model
Maria Thomas, Vice President and General Manager, NPR Online
Brian J. Murphy, CEO, Fearless Entertainment
Sarah Nettinga, Director, Film, Television and Music Entertainment, NASCAR
Steven Yee, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Movies and Moviefone, America Online, Inc.
Neil McGinness, Vice President, National Lampoon
Scott Moore, General Manager, MSN Network Experience, Microsoft Corporation
Linda A. Goldstein, Advertising, Marketing & Media, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

9:15 AM - 5:00 PM - Exhibits Open

10:45 AM - Noon
Track I:
Digital Rights Management: Legal, Legislative and Social Issues Surrounding DRM Implementation
Gerd Leonhard, Music Futurist, Senior Advisor, Media Rights Technologies
Michael Petricone, VP Government Relations, CEA Consumer Electronics Association
Brad Hunt, Sr. VP, Chief Technology Officer, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Donald M. Whiteside, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, Director, Technology Policy and Standards, INTEL CORPORATION
Jennifer Urban, Director of Intellectual Property Clinic, USC Law School
Jon Healey, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track II:
Movie Distribution and the Broadband Timeline - Via the PC - Via the Set-Top: Technology, Content & DRM
Josh Goldman, Chief Executive Officer, Akimbo
Bruce Eisen, President, Cinema Now (USA)
Ken Lipscomb, President, DAVE Networks
Virl Z. Hill, Senior Director of Business Development, Consumer Services, RealNetworks, Inc.
Alan Citron, SVP Marketing, Movielink
John D. Canning, Tech Evangelist., Apps and Services, Windows eHome, Microsoft
Lisa Crane Greer, CEO, Media Venture Advisors, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track III:
Everything-on-Demand: From the Server to the Set-Top Box - Movies, TV Programs, Games and More - Enhanced Content Opportunity Now in 50 Million Homes
Stuart Lipson, Vice President of Content Solutions, Seachange
Ken Goldsholl, CEO, PRISMIQ
Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic
Reggie Bradford, President, TANDBERG Television
Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Broadband & Digital Media Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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Track IV:
The Telco Advantage and the IPTV Digital Home: Gateway to Services - VOIP, Wireless Music, Broadband and Set-top
Jay Fausch, Senior Director of Marketing, Alcatel's Fixed Communications Group
Keith R. Wehmeyer, P.E., General Manager, IP Decoders, Thomson Access Platforms and Gateways
Josette Bonte, Managing Director, Broadband Services, RHK
Matthew Marnik, Director of Marketing & Business Development, Broadband Networks Group, Nortel
Brian Queen, Digital Media Solutions Manager, IBM Corp.
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Track I:
DRM Implementation in Media and Entertainment: From Standardization to Implementation of New Technology Strategies
Pallavi Shah, Digital Rights Management Strategist, Hewlett-Packard
Chris Parkerson, DRM Evangelist, RSA Security
Robert Fransdonk, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Entriq
Raj Samtani, Director of Sales & Marketing, ContentGuard
Carter Laren, Senior Security Architect, Cryptography Research
Reed Stager, Vice President, Corporate Licensing, Marketing and Public Policy, Digimarc Corp.
Janet Snowdon, Business Development Manager, IBM Digital Media Group
Katherine L Parker, Global Business Development Manager, Media & Entertainment Industry Sales, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track II:
Music Industry Innovates into Future - From Digital Downloads and Subscriptions to Mobile Music & Digital and Internet Radio
David Ring, V.P. Business Development & Business Affairs, Universal Music Group, eLabs
Jack Isquith, Executive Director of Music Industry Relations, AOL Music and AOL Radio Network, America Online, Inc.
Greg Harper, Senior Strategic Advisor to the Chairman, TransWorld Entertainment
Laura Hess, Director of Label Relations/Business Development, MP3.com, CNET Networks.
Gary Cohen, co-founder & President, MusicNow
Paul Zullo, CEO, Muze
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track III:
TV & Interactivity: Evolving Content & Business Models: Content, Commerce and Branded Entertainment
Jim Turner, Vice President, Interactive at A&E Television Networks
Scott Fedewa, Managing Partner, Broadcast Commerce Partners
Marcia Zellers, Director, Enhanced Television, American Film Institute
James Glasscock, Director, Business Development, TBS, Inc.
Charles Segars, Senior Vice President of Programming, Production and Network Strategy, FINE LIVING TV Network
Richard Titus, President, Schematic
Brian Cooley, Editor-at-Large, CNET.com, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track IV:
Broadband Advertising - Merging Commerce and Content: From Feature Film and TV Tie-ins to Search Engines
Todd Herman, Streaming Media Evangelist, MSN Video, Microsoft Corp.
Michael Zimbalist, President, Online Publishers Association (OPA)
David Tokheim, Vice President, Marketing, IGN Entertainment Inc.
Marianne Caponnetto, Vice President, Publishing, Global Media & Entertainment Industry, IBM
Sam Huxley, Director of Internet Strategy, BrandBuzz, a Young & Rubicam Brand
Daniel Harris, CEO, MediaPass® Network
Josh Rose, Senior Vice President, Director, iDeutsch, Deutsch, Inc., Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track I:
Market Data, DRM & Piracy: Establishing the Economic Baseline for Film, Music and Games
Richard LeVine, Senior Manager, Accenture
Mark Ishikawa, Chief Executive Officer, BayTSP, Inc.
Lydia Loizides, Analyst / Principal, Paphion Inc.
Myra Moore, President, DTC
Gerry Kaufhold, Principal Analyst, In-Stat
Jeff Karish, Associate Principal McKinsey & Company
Larry Gerbrandt, Media & Entertainment Practice, AlixPartners, LLC., Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track II:
Subscription and Download Models in Broadband: Music, Film, TV. Games and Information Content Distribution
Don Ryan, General Manager of Microsoft Games Studios
Scott Roesch, VP Marketing, AtomShockwave Corp.
Zack Zalon, President, Virgin Digital
Ron Frankel, CEO, Synacor
Brad Singer, Executive Vice President, Products and Markets, PaymentOne
Stephen Smyth, Vice President, Mobile and Emerging Media, Reuters
Jan Steenkamp, CEO, Entriq, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track III:
VC and Investment in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Games, Wireless & Broadband
Michael Montgomery, President, Montgomery & Co., LLC
David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank
Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Media and Entertainment, Intel Capital
Richard Siderman, Managing Director, Credit Analyst, Telecommunications and Cable Group, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Ralph Terkowitz, Special Partner, ABS Capital Partners
Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track IV:
HD, DVD and the CE Transformation of the Digital Home
Dr. Hugo Steemers, Director of Strategic Marketing, Display Group, National Semiconductor
Bill Holmes, VP of Consumer Electronics, DivX
Rob Pait, Senior Director, Global Consumer Electronics Marketing, Seagate Technologies
Vivek Pathela, Senior Director, Product Management and Marketing, Residential Products, NETGEAR
Rex Wong. President, X2 Corporation
Michael Tchong, Trend Analyst, Trendsetters.com, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Track I:
Entertainment Expands the Digital Home: Networking, Sharing and Protecting
Mitch Singer, Executive Vice President, Digital Policy Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Mike Harris, President, Digital 5, Inc.
Todd Basche, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Products, Entertainment Technologies Group, Macrovision Corporation
Tim Twerdahl, Vice President, Product Marketing, Roku
Peter Kaars, Business Development Manager, Philips Electronics
Brett Gaines, President, PanelLink Cinema, LLC
David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator
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Track II:
Broadband Games Expands – From the Casual to the Massively Multiplayer Universe
Scott Cohen, President, Game Trust, Inc.
Kevin Donovan, President, Planetwide Games
Adam Lake, Intel 3D Graphics Research
Sandra G. Myers, Business Development Executive, Digital Media for IGS, IBM
Chris Swain, co-director, EA Game Innovation Lab., USC School of Film & Televison
Steve Parkis, Vice President, Premium Products, Disney Online
Joshua B. Grode, Partner, Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, Moderator
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Track III:
Behind the Digital Home: Chips, Microprocessors & Optical Technology Define the Future of Entertainment - from DVDs, MP3s, HD & Set-Tops to Games, PDAs and PCs
Taner Ozcelik, General Manager, Consumer Electronics, NVIDIA
Sandip H. Mandera, Digital Home Evangelist, Intel Corporation
William Carney, Strategic Business Development, Wireless LAN, Texas Instruments
Ken Wirt, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, palmOne, Inc.
Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners, Moderator
Additional speaker to be announced
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Track IV:
P2P – Voice of Artists and Content Creators: Film, TV & Music
Dave Kusek, Vice President, Berklee College of Music
Seth Freed, Label Director-Blue Man Group Records
Sam Jennings, Director, NPG Music Club, Prince
Scott Page, CEO & co-founder NewMBC, saxophone and guitarist, Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Toto
Jay Cooper, Shareholder, Chair, L.A. Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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5:00 - End-of-Day Poolside Reception
The OnDemandies - Recognizing the Highest Standards of Achievement in On-Demand Entertainment & Technology
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The Seminars
Friday, April 1st
Track I: P2P SuperDistribution: The Evolution of the Content Distribution Revolution
Track II: PVR, DVR, Personalized & Interactive TV Creation, Commerce and Delivery
Track III: Broadband & Wireless Delivery and Infrastructure
Track IV: IPTV - Video & Services to the Consumer
Track V: Specialized Programming Sectors: Children, Teen, Urban & Gender Targeted - TV, Games, iTV, Broadband & Wireless

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Track I:
IP Video, Datacasting, DSMCC and other Technologies Enabling the Transformation of Entertainment
Sam Pemberton, President/CEO, Softel-USA
Scott Dougall, Director, Content Delivery Software, SkyStream Networks
Ervin Leibovici, CEO, BitBand
Kelly Smith, Vice President, Product Marketing, Myrio
Meir Friedlander, Senior Director, IPTV Marketing, Amdocs
Donald A. Jasko, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Economics, Moderator
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Track II:
Video and Audio Management on the Net - Encoding, Compression, Video Storage, Security & Media Asset Management
Robert Hammond, Chief Technology Officer, Mirror Image
Tom Inglefield, Broadcast and Entertainment Solution Manager, StorageTek
David Hoestetter, VP of Product & Program Management, Loudeye
Omar Karim, Chief Technology Officer, WorldNow
Marc Scarpa, Producer/Director, Chair, Producers Guild of America, New Media Council NY Committee, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track III:
The DVR as a Disruptive Market Force: How Consumer Adaptation of Technology Determines the Future of Advertising and Programming
Tim Hanlon, Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts Starcom MediaVest Group
Pat Dunbar, Co-Founder & EVP, DiMA Group
Scott Ehrlich, CEO, Red Tie, Inc.
Roei Shalev, Business Consultant (Ofek Communications, Comverse, Leumi Bank, Others)
Harley Rinzler, CEO, Playground Media Group
Andrew Steele, Vice President, Business Development, Terayon, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

Track IV:
The Revolution of Surround Sound; Recording, Distribution and the Experience
Roberto Fisher, Director, Digital Media, Yahoo
Bela Canhoto, Artist Relations, Native Instruments
Niko Bolas, Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Soundtracks for Pixar (Cars) and Sony Pictures (Martin Scorsese's Lightning in a Bottle)
Howard Soroka, VP Media Technologies, Universal Music
David Frerichs, VP and US General Manager, Coding Technologies, Moderator
For Session Description & Speaker Bios Click Here

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track I:
Next Generation P2P Music and Film - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries - Part I
Les Ottolenghi, President, INTENT MediaWorks, LLC
Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalContainers
Steve Masur, MasurLaw
Tom Meredith, President, P2P Cash
Mitchell Reichgut, Principal, Jun Group
Luke Rippy, CEO, Seamless P2P
Christopher Levy, CEO and founder, BuyDRM
Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), Moderator
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Track II:
Technology Infrastructure for the Delivery of Broadband Entertainment
Kris Alexander, Director of Media and Entertainment Solutions, Akamai
Bill Keating, CEO, Xtend Networks
Troy Snyder, President and CEO, Nine Systems
S.V. Vasudevan, Vice President, Systems Engineering and Chief Architect, BigBand Networks
David Rice, Vice President of Sales, Limelight Networks
Lauren Phillips, President, Lauren Phillips Consulting, Moderator
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Track III:
DTV. the Set-Top and Interactive TV - Middleware Enabling Solutions: from Interactive Guides to Interfaces
David McElhatten, Creative Director, Vidiom Systems
Daniel Putterman, President and CEO, Mediabolic
Jack Perry, President and CEO, Decisionmark
Colin Dixon, Executive Strategy Advisor, Alticast
Aslam Khader, VP, Marketing & Strategy, Ensequence
Bill Niemeyer, Chief of Analysis and Research, DiMA Group, Moderator
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Track IV:
Targeting the Teen Market: Games, Music, Wireless, iTV and Brand Extension
Todd Cunningham, SVP, Brand Strategy and Planning for MTV Networks
CJ Olivares, SVP and Assistant General Manager, FUEL, Fox Cable Networks
Jason Bakker, Director of Marketing, Campus Media Group, Inc.
Scott Leonard, President, a.d.d. marketing & advertising
William Huckstein, CEO, Tag Digital Media
Tena Clark, CEO/Chief Creative Officer, DMI
Ankarino Lara, Director, Product CNET Games & Entertainment, Moderator
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Track I:
Next Generation P2P - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries Part II
Derek Broes, Media/Entertainment Technology Convergence Group., Microsoft Corp.
Marc Morgenstern, Vice President, Overpeer
Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music
Peter Kang, Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP
Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
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Track II:
Telcos, IPTV & the Technology Food Chain: From the Broadband Infrastructure to the Headend, ITV Services and the Set-Top
Fadi Malak, Business Development Manager, Harmonic Inc.
Scott Newnam, CEO, Goldpocket
Scott Keeney, Partnerships and Alliances Manager, Irdeto Access
Keith Kocho, President and CEO, ExtendMedia
Allan McLennan, Managing Director PUREMAC ADVANCED DIGITAL MEDIA
Phil Corman, Director, Partner Business Development, MSTV, Microsoft Corp.
Fred Dawson, Editor & Publisher, Screenplays, Moderator
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Track III:
Economics and Analysis of Personalized Media: From DTV, VOD, PVR to Wireless, Games, Commerce, Voting Polls, Advertising and Banking Services
Jonathan Symonds, VP, Marketing and Business Development, ICTV
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media
Dalen Harrison, President and CEO, Ensequence
Russell Zack, co-Founder and COO, Cauldron Solutions
Gil Dudkiewicz, CEO, MyDTV
John Bryan, VP/Director of Operations, emuse USA
Allison Dollar, founder & co-President, Interactive Television Alliance, Moderator
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Track IV:
Media at the Edge of the Network: Are Location-based Media Networking Operators the Dark-Horse Media Titans of the Future?
Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Corporation
Caelen King, Vice President of Product Management, NewBay Software
Dan Melinger, CEO, Kamida
Mike McGuire, Research Director, Gartner G2, Moderator
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track I:
Adult Industry Business Models: Understanding the $10B Opportunity and How Adult Pushes Technology To Mainstream
Michael H. Klein, Executive Vice President, LFP Broadcasting LLC
Spike Goldberg, CEO, New Destiny Internet Group
Ken Boenish, President, The Erotic Networks
Ron Jenkins, CEO, DHD Media
Moderated by Katie Smith, President, (THROB) 3ob.com
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Track II:
Next Generation Entertainment and Media Realities
Mark Chasan, founder emusic.com and Managing Director Publex Ventures
Sergio Silva, General Manager, Sulake Inc.
Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director and founder, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC
Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media Group
Gordon Lee, Chairman and CEO, American IDC Corp.
Ron Vaisbort, Media & Entertainment, Alliances Manager, Intel Corporation
Joyce Schwarz, JCOM Emerging Entertainment Marketing, Moderator
Additional Speakers to be announced
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Track III:
Charting Media Platform Economics: Using Research & Analysis to Determine How Media Platforms Impact Consumer Consumption Habits
Cathy Hetzel, Sr. VP OnDemand, Rentrak
Paul Erickson, Analyst, IMS Research
Hamet Watt, CEO, NextMedium
Steve Bradbury, President, Marketing By Design, Moderator
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Track IV:
The Integrated User Interface and Customer Experience: Demands in Design and Delivery of Content, Products and Services to Consumers
Andrea Devenow, VP of Business Development, Napster
Kelly Egan, Manager of Strategy of Best Buy, Inc.
Rich Wonders. Senior Director Broadband Marketing, BellSouth
Carl J. Rohling, Esq., Business Development, Creative Labs, Inc.
Jonathan Hurd, Vice President, ADVENTIS, Moderator
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