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November
4, 2002
Los Angeles |
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Home Day
1 Day
2 Speaker
Bios
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Speakers
Bios:
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Michael
Anderson
Chief Technical Officer, Huge Systems |
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| Bio:Mr.
Anderson brings over 20 years of disk storage development
experience, and as CTO, he leads the engineering team
at Huge. He holds several patents in the area of disk
storage, and is responsible for industry firsts including
the first commercial RAID5 system, the first AV optimized
disk drives, and the first commercially available video
Server. |
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Richard
Andrews
President,
Technicolor Creative Services |
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| Bio:
Mr. Andrews has over 24 years of experience in the television
production and post-production industries. He began his
career with Vidfilm in 1978, joining the company as a
videotape operator and eventually moved-up through the
ranks to the position of President & Chief Executive
Officer. After Vidfilm International Digital’s acquisition
by Technicolor in February 2002, Mr. Andrews assumed the
position of President, Distribution Services within Technicolor
Creative Services (TCS). Mr. Andrews’ current day-to-day
responsibilities include overseeing TCS worldwide post-production
operations. |
Steve
Canepa
Vice President, Global Media & Entertainment Industry,
IBM |
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| Bio:
As Vice President Marketing and Strategy,
Global Media and Entertainment Industry, Mr. Canepa is
responsible for IBM's strategy, market-share, business
attainment, industry solutions and product offerings for
Entertainment, Sports, Broadcast, Cable, Publishing and
Advertising customers worldwide. In addition to his management
responsibilities, Mr. Canepa has participated in the structuring
and negotiation of numerous consulting, services, product
and partner agreements; leading the development of IBM's
Global Media and Entertainment solutions business from
startup to a profitable worldwide organization with over
250 members. In addition, he has developed the business
strategy and plan for two Interactive WWW joint ventures
and is a regular speaker at industry events, including
keynote addresses at NAB and Broadcast Asia. |
Ernie
Cicogna
General Manager, NXN Software |
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| Bio:
Ernie has 30 years of experience in the information technology
industry. He has worked on both the sales and financial
sides of the technology business for companies such as
IBM, where he spent more than 25 years, and for multiple
software start-up companies in Silicon Valley .
He joined NXN Software in January of 2003. |
| John
Coghill
Director
General Manager, Digital Cinema, DALSA |
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| Bio:Mr.
Coghill has over 20 years experience in technology based
companies, the first 10 in various design engineering
and management roles and the past 10 in various marketing
and business development capacities. Mr. Coghill joined
DALSA in 1994 as a technical program manager, moved into
a new role created to oversee the sales and marketing
activities related to the company’s Application Specific
Contracts group and then on to the Corporate Business
Development Manager role. During his tenure in this position
he was largely responsible for the process that resulted
in the restructuring of the company during the fall of
2000 and the creation of the DALSA Digital Cinema strategic
business unit. During this period Mr. Coghill also earned
his MBA degree from the top business school in Canada
, Queen’s University at Kingston . Given
the nascent state of the business unit for the past
two years, as the General Manager of the Digital Cinema
division he has been primarily responsible for directing
the R&D team working on the development of the Origin
digital cinematography camera recently demonstrated
at NAB in April. He is also responsible for the development
of strategic and business development plans for the
division, now his primary focus. The positive response
received at NAB has encouraged DALSA to add significantly
to the resources dedicated to this business unit, including
a level of R&D management that will allow Mr. Coghill
to focus exclusively on the business and relationship
development activities required to build a name for
a newcomer to the industry such as DALSA. |
Terry
Cullen
President,
1 Beyond, Inc |
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| Bio:
Mr.
Cullen has more than 30 years of computer industry expertise,
including senior positions at Westinghouse and Digital
Equipment Corporation. With his Harvard Business school
background he built a career as a successful entrepreneur.
At 1 Beyond he combines his passion for film with his
technical expertise to design PC-based editing systems.
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Randall
Dark
President and Co-founder, HD Vision Studios |
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| Bio:
An undisputed pioneer in the HDTV industry, Randall Paris
Dark is the creative and marketing force behind HD Vision
Studios. His 17 years of work exclusively in the High
Definition Television medium have distin-guished him as
both an artistic and tech-nological visionary. As a writer,
director, and producer with over 450 HDTV productions
to his credit, Dark is able to offer an artist's point
of view while demonstrating the technological advantages
of High Definition. Recognized globally as an enthusiastic
speaker who tells it like it is, Randall has spoken about
High Definition Television to audiences at events such
as: the Tokyo International Film Festival, the National
Association of Broad-caster's Convention, the International
Electronic Cinema Festival, CES, World Television Forum
and NATPE. On May 19, 2000 , Randall was presented with
one of the International Electronic Cinema Festival's
top honors: The Pioneer Award. This honor was bestowed
upon Randall for his extraordinary contributions to the
success of HDTV. In October of 2000, Randall was inducted
into the Consumer Electronic Association's Academy of
Digital Pioneers , a select group of the top 150 DTV visionaries
from around the world. Dark was also honored for his efforts
by Baylor University , which instated him as an Honorary
Alumnus in 1999. Programs directed by Dark have received
awards from CEA, Telly, IECF, Communicator, Aurora , Axiem,
Videographer, Summit , and Cinema Chicago. In addition
to his experience in High Definition, Randall is a theatrical
director/producer and published playwright. |
Scott
Dinsdale
EVP,
Digital Strategy, MPAA |
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| Bio:Scott
Dinsdale is EVP, Digital Strategy for the Motion Picture
Association of America where he is responsible for representing
the interests of the audio-visual entertainment industry
in the digital age. Prior to the MPAA, Dinsdale was SVP,
CTO & CIO for BMG Entertainment, the entertainment
division of Bertelsmann and prior was VP, Applied Technology
at Merrill Lynch & Co. His background includes various
executive roles at developing ventures including President
and Founder of Data Broadcasting Corporation, now a division
of Pearson plc. Dinsdale sits on the Editorial Advisory
Board of InformationWeek magazine; the Advisory Board
of Polytechnic University; is a General Partner of Phocas
Partners; Founder and Dean of Stanford University’s “IT
Executive Boot Camp”; a Founding Board Member of the International
Informatics Society ; and a principal of Taylor-Dinsdale
LLC, a marketing and technology consulting organization. |
| Mark
Drop
Disney,
Producer Lloyd in Space (Show in development);
Producer, Recess |
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| Bio:
Mark Drop graduated from
Ohio University
in Athens
('83) with a Bachelor
of Science in Journalism. Degree in hand he moved immediately
to New York where he pretended to focus on a career in
advertising while actually playing in various loud rock
bands, performing improve and writing plays, songs, screenplays
and a humor book ( The Hamper & Trivet Catalog
; Simon & Schuster, 1985). He moved to Los Angeles
in 1989 to write jokes for The Arsenio Hall Show
and went on to write for various live-action sitcoms,
including Dinosaurs (ABC/Disney), Something
Wilder (WB), Goode Behavior (UPN/Paramount)
and The Clinic (Comedy Central). |
Volker
Engel
CEO and Co-Founder, Uncharted Territory;
Academy Award Winner, Visual Effects, Independence
Day |
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| Bio:Volker
Engel co-founded Uncharted
Territory
in 1999 with company
President Marc Weigert to combine their expertise in advanced
production technology to create major motion pictures
for the global audience. An Academy Award recipient for
Best Visual Effects for 20 th Century Fox’s Independence
Day , Volker’s visual effects mastery positions him
in the industry as a filmmaker with a unique approach
to telling big screen stories on independent budgets.
The team has collaborated on their first feature, Coronado
, as writers,
producers and VFX supervisors working with first-time
writer and director Claudio Faeh. Prior to forming Uncharted
Territory, Volker worked on director Roland Emmerich’s
1998 version of Godzilla (TriStar, Independent
Pictures) as the film’s Visual Effects Supervisor, leading
a team of 500 visual effects specialists. In 1995, Volker,
worked as Visual Effects Supervisor, together with Doug
Smith, on Independence Day delivering over 400
effect shots and overseeing a crew of 325 effect specialists.
When he was only twenty-three years old, Volker first
worked with Emmerich in Germany
as Visual Effects
Supervisor on Moon 44 , the director’s last feature
before he came to the U.S.
Volker supervised the
model effects on Emmerich’s Universal Soldier
in 1990, their first U.S.
project together.
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Pete
Fasciano
Corporate Fellow,
Advance Development Co-Founder, Avid Technology
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Bio:
Pete Fasciano is Corporate Fellow, Advance Development
for Avid Technology, and a co-founder of the company.
Pete worked with Avid founder Bill Warner to launch
Avid in 1987-88 and developed the now familiar nonlinear
editing interface for Avid's first product, the Media
Composer. Today Avid is the worldwide leader in
digital nonlinear editing, effects and audio systems.
Pete is currently engaged in long-term advance product
planning and development, and can speak to the full
line of Avid products. Prior to joining Avid,
Pete was Founder/CEO of Vizwiz, a Boston film/video
production and editing facility, and later CEO of Imagenda,
an advertising & media design firm. |
Ron
Frankel
Previsualization Supervisor, Dreamworks
The Cat in the Hat (DreamWorks,Thanksgiving, 2003); Panic
Room (Columbia Pictures) |
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| Bio:
With
a degree in philosophy and a masters in architecture from
MIT, Ron Frankel lives in Los Angeles designing complex
production sequences for film and television. Through
typically unusual circumstances he began his career in
New York as an illustrator/graphic designer for interactive
cd-rom games. While in New York he joined forces with
Pixel Liberation Front to help expand their feature film
business and ultimately became the PLF Creative Director,
co-founding their Los Angeles office. Encouraged by the
success of previs on projects such as Starship Troopers
, Fight Club , Panic Room and Minority
Report and the promise of further exploration into
the technical/artistic design process of feature film
production, Ron recently founded Proof, through which
he will continue to push the state of the art of previsualization.
Proof is currently responsible for previs on Cat In
The Hat . |
Kevin Hause
Moderator:
Vice President, Americas Research, Screen Digest
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| Bio:
Kevin
is responsible for conducting analysis on digital media
markets and technologies, leading North American business
development and marketing, as well as managing operations
within the region. Widely noted as an expert in digital
media, with a focus on interactive TV, wireless, and home
entertainment. Kevin has been featured at numerous conferences
and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street
Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Investor's Business Daily,
and Time Magazine. Prior to joining Screen Digest, Kevin
was Worldwide Director, Strategy & Corporate Development
for NBC, where he guided NBC’s strategy for emerging technologies.
Prior to NBC, Kevin was Global Program Director, Consumer
Devices Research and Consulting at IDC, where he led research
on emerging technologies and provided consulting for companies
developing digital strategies. Kevin holds a B.S. in engineering
from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the Owen Graduate
School of Management at Vanderbilt. |
Jon
Healey
Technology Reporter, LA Times |
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| Bio:
Jon Healey is a staff
writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covers the digital
living room. Frequent story topics include digital and
interactive TV, digital and online music, copyrights and
piracy, personal video recorders, streaming audio and
video, and home networks. A 22-year veteran of the news
business, he joined the Times in October 2000 after three
years as a telecom and multimedia reporter for the San
Jose Mercury News. Prior to that, he spent seven years
in Washington for Congressional Quarterly and the Winston-Salem
Journal, covering telecommunications and transportation
policy, tobacco, textiles and the NEA. His current goal
is to find another way of saying, ``controversial Morpheus
file-sharing service.'' |
| Carl
Hixson
Director
of Digital Technology, HBO |
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| Bio:An
industry expert with more than fifteen years of digital
imaging experience, Carl is responsible for the development
and integration of emerging digital technologies into
the technical infrastructure of HBO. Some of Carl’s
recent projects include the design and implementation
of the HBO Digital Library system, which is an enterprise-level
digital asset management solution for digital photo, video,
and audio assets. Carl
is also responsible for the HBO Intranet environment,
interactive web/TV development, as well as the HBO web
content management initiative. |
Bill Hudson
Senior Strategic Business Development Manager
for Professional Applications, Apple |
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| Bio:
Bill Hudson is Senior Strategic Business
Development Manager for Professional Applications at Apple
working on such products as Shake, DVD Studio Pro and
the Emmy Award-winning Final Cut Pro. Prior to joining
Apple four years ago, Bill produced on-air promo for ABC
in Los Angeles. He¹s a member of the WGA, a produced
screenwriter and has logged over ten years in commercial
and feature production and feature film development. |
| Tim
Jones
VP
Production, ANIMAX |
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| Bio:
At
ANIMAX, Tim leads a team of over 40 artists and
animators at the Company's Los Angeles headquarters
and at its overseas facility in Eastern Europe
. ANIMAX is a full-service studio that creates
and produces animation and rich media across multiple
platforms including TV, the Internet, DVD, CD-ROM and
iTV. In addition to leading engagements with ANIMAX
clients such as Disney, Fox, Universal, MGM and others,
Tim heads ANIMAX's original content production efforts
which includes several TV shows. With over twelve
years of industry experience, Tim is a seasoned veteran
of directing teams of traditional and digital animators.
His past career highlights include production positions
at Disney, Warner Bros., Klasky-Csupo and at the pioneering
Internet animation house, Icebox, where he headed the
Flash Animation Department.
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| Ramy
Katrib
Founder,
DigitalFilm Tree |
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| Bio:
After finishing film school,
Ramy Katrib began working in the post industry as a telecine
colorist. He started using Final Cut Pro (FCP) in 1999
on two feature length documentaries he was producing.
He went on to found DigitalFilm Tree (DFT), a professional
FCP training, integration, post production company. DFT
has worked with hundreds of independent filmmaker as well
as studio based projects using FCP including Steven Soderbergh’s
“Full Frontal.” Roger Avary’s “The Rules of Attraction,”
and Walter Murch’s “ Cold Mountain . |
Kirk
Kessler
Vice President of Digital Media, Technicolor |
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| Bio:
He
is responsible for developing and deploying the technology
used for digital distribution, compression for broadcast,
VOD and Internet applications and security tracking of
digital content. Kirk has over 20 of years experience
in the data management industry. He was co-founder of
OS Systems, a software development company specializing
in production and control systems for studios and production
companies. Technicolor Creative Services provides complete
creative and post production services worldwide with facilities
in Los Angeles , New York , Montreal , London , Rome and
Singapore . |
Chad
Knowles
General Manager, Digital Media Group, FotoKem |
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| Bio:
FotoKem is a Burbank, CA-based motion picture
film laboratory and video post-production facility. FotoKem’s
Digital Media Group offers advanced digital media services
to content owners including D.A.M., Digital Distribution
and Digital Storage. FotoKem’s strategic partners include
Microsoft and IBM. |
| Dan
Krech
President
DKP
Effects |
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| Bio:
Since
founding 3D animation, visual effects and compositing
house DKP EFFECTS in 1985,
Dan Krech has produced nearly 3000 award-winning commercials
and dozens of feature film, television and direct-to-video/DVD
projects for leading studios. Krech and DKP EFFECTS are
the inventors of DVD n , a hybrid movie/game direct-to-DVD
platform, with Warner/Rhino Home Video releasing the first
DVD n title “Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons
Adventure”. DKP EFFECTS produced the pilot for the first-ever
prime time CG animated series “Game Over” for UPN and
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach. Dan Krech’s DKP EFFECTS has produced
groundbreaking animation and visual effects for such recent
films as “X-Men” (Fox), “The Siege” (Fox), “Joseph: King
of Dreams” (Dreamworks), “Space Station” (IMAX) and “The
Nuttiest Nutcracker” (Columbia Tri-Star). |
Bernie
Laramie
Television
Producer (Credits include, CSI, Profiler)
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| Bio:
Bernie
Laramie has been a Producer in Los Angeles , CA for more
than 25 years. He is best known for his recent work as
a Producer on CBS’ “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (PGA
Kodak Vision Award; Golden Globe Nomination for Best Dramatic
Series, etc.) as well as work on such series as “Profiler”
and Dark Skies” for NBC, (Emmy for Best Main Title Picture,
Emmy Nomination for Best Main Title Music; ITV Monitor
Award for Visual Effects) “The Invaders” for Fox Television,
“War on the Worlds” for UPN, and “Max Headroom” for ABC
(Emmy for Sound). Bernie is currently producer on “Theat
Matrix” for the upcoming fall season on ABC. After many
years as an editor in sitcoms, then a Director in commercials,
Bernie became a Director of Post Production at Lorimar
in the mid 80’s, leading the transition from film to electronic
post production at the first major production company
to take a corporate conversion to the new technology.
While there, he pioneered many state of the art post production
techniques used today including the use of electronic
non linear systems for editing, computer graphics for
special effects and 16mm and 3 perf 35mm for film and
television production.
Bernie
was a consultant to Lucasfilm’s Droidworks in the creation
of Editdroid, the first non linear editing system editing
system used for dramatic television post production,
and Convergence Corp., creators of the breakthrough
editing system for electronic news. Priot to his work
at Lorimar, Bernie owned and operated this own commercial
production service, Milestone, one of the pioneering
visual effects companies used by clients such as IBM
and ATT. While there, Bernie created advertising campaigns
for ABC Network, OnTv, Ford, Mazda, Califonia Raisins,
and California Milk Advisory Board. Bernie teaches Post
Production for Film & Television at UCLA Extension
and has been a guest lecturer at USC, Cal Arts and Santa
Monica College . He is currently working on preparing
his course for UCLA’s Online studies. Bernie is a member
of The Producer’s Guild, Director’s Guild, Editor’s
Guild, and The Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers (SMPTE). He has recently collaborated on a
textbook for Allyn & Bacon “Creative Post Production”.
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Larry
Librach
Assistant Vice President, Business Development - Broadcast
and Entertainment,
JVC |
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| Bio:
As the assistant
vice president of business development for Broadcast and
Entertainment Markets, Lawrence Librach is responsible
for researching and developing new markets and strategic
alliances in the rapidly evolving high-definition television
(HDTV) marketplace, including the development of Pro-HD
professional D-VHS. His efforts are helping JVC serve
its global customer base with the introduction of cross-platform
capable HDTV products. |
David
Lipsey
Vice
President Media and Entertainment, Artesia Technologies
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| Bio:
David Lipsey is Artesia's Vice President for Media and
Entertainment. David works with Artesia's clients, partners
and sales staff to define and develop digital asset management
initiatives in this vital business sector. David also
serves as an "industry expert", with a particular
focus in the publishing and media sectors. David has been
involved in sales and business development at Artesia
since the first release of TEAMS in May of 1998. David
frequently presents technical and strategic papers on
Digital Asset and Enterprise Content Management issues.Prior
to joining Artesia, David worked in the newspaper industry
in a variety of positions - beginning with the roll-out
of the New York Times National Edition. His work has been
consistently oriented in providing database oriented software
solutions and delivering them through a strong partner
and technology network. David holds a degree from New
College in Sarasota, Florida.
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| Alex
MacDowell
Dreamworks,
Production Designer, Minority Report (DreamWorks)
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| Bio:
Alex McDowell is a feature
film production designer whose look is total, textured,
and a strange-beautiful mix of realism, fine art and the
insane. He designed Minority Report for Steven Spielberg.
Fight Club for David Fincher. Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas for Terry Gilliam. He designed The Crow, The Crow:
City Of Angels , Affair of the Necklace and Lawnmover
Man. Currently, he is designing The Cat in the Hat. Before
tackling feature films in the nineties, McDowell studied
painting at the Central School of Art in London , designed
punk rock album covers in the late seventies, and music
videos and commercials in the eighties with directors
like Fincher, Tarsem and Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Married
and a father of two, he’s building a tree house in his
spare time. |
| Bruce
Markoe
VP
Post Production, MGM Studios |
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| Bio:
Mr.
Markoe oversees all aspects of budgeting, post production
and use of new technologies as they pertain to feature
production and post. He instituted HiDef Dailies process
for feature post production and previews starting in 1999.
He also produced renovation of picture and sound for The
Beatles “Yellow Submarine” re-release/DVD. |
William
Marks
Director of Business Development,
The Walt Disney Company |
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Chris
Marlowe
Technology/New
Media Associate Editor, Hollywood Reporter |
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| Bio:
As the new media/technology reporter for
The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Marlowe breaks news and
reports on trends of interest to the growing segment of
the entertainment industry that utilizes emerging technologies.
Her interviews with notables including Bill Gates, Rob
Glaser and Craig Barrett, along with her own expertise,
have provided insights unavailable anywhere else. Before
joining The Hollywood Reporter, Chris lived in London
and wrote for sister VNU publication Music & Media.
Additionally, numerous music magazines have published
her celebrity profiles, feature articles, news and reviews
throughout her career. |
Tom
McDonald
VP Marketing, Quantel U.S. |
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Bio: Tom recently joined Quantel to head
up the Market Development effort for the UK-based company's
new line of postproduction and broadcast solutions. Prior
to joining Quantel, Tom was Product Line Manager for the
Video Applications Group at Apple where he helped shape
the direction of Final Cut Pro 2, 3 and 4. Tom has held
Product Management positions for ICE and spent several
years as an Avid and Media 100 editor in Chicago. |
| Ray
McIntyre, Jr.
President
and Head of Digital Effects, Pixel Magic |
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Cliff
Meltzer
Chief Executive and President, Digital Fountain |
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| Bio:
Cliff
is a seven-year veteran of Cisco Systems where he held
numerous senior executive positions. Prior to Cisco, Cliff
spent 16 years at IBM, the last 10 at the company's prestigious
IBM Watson research center conducting research and product
development on high performance networking products. Cliff's
unique blend of research and Internet product development
experience are invaluable to the strong science component
and extensive Internet product capabilities that Digital
Fountain has to offer. Cliff holds both a BA in Mathematics
and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. |
| Tom
Ohanian
Vice President of Product Development, DMOD,
Inc. |
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| Bio:
Tom
Ohanian is an Academy Award® and two-time Emmy® award
winner for his inventions of the Avid Media, Film, and
Multicamera systems prior to joining DMOD. An accomplished
editor, designer and inventor, Ohanian is author of Digital
Nonlinear Editing and co-author of Digital Filmmaking
, the industry leading textbooks. He also is a frequent
judge and lecturer at film festivals and industry speaker.
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Charlie
Oppenheimer
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development,
Digital Fountain |
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| Bio:Charlie
is a senior business executive specializing in networking
and communications and has held the positions of president
and chief executive officer, Aptiva/VivaSmart, which was
acquired by Yahoo!; chief operating officer, Oneworld
Systems Inc.; and senior vice president and general manager,
products division, Global Village Communication. At Oneworld
Systems, Charlie conceptualized and developed a unique
new wide area networking product family providing integrated
access devices. |
Dave Pederson
Zoran, VP Strategic Technology |
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| Bio:
David Pederson joined Zoran Corporation
in January 2003 as Vice President Strategic Technologies,
where he is responsible for product definition, platform
technology, third-party development, and driving new industry
initiatives. Prior to joining Zoran, Pederson served as
Director of National Semiconductor’s Set-top Box
Business Unit, having joined National Semiconductor in
1986 as a Field Applications Engineer specializing in
microcontrollers and microprocessors. In 1995, he moved
to Santa Clara to become the Worldwide Applications Manager
of the Personal Systems Group and was promoted to head
the Set-top Box activity in 1998. Prior to joining National,
he was employed by Teledyne Avionics designing medial
and aircraft instrumentation. He holds a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of
Virginia. |
| Colin
Ritchie
Founder,
Aarmadillo |
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| Bio:
Founder Colin Ritchie has worked within the entertainment
industry for over 20 years. His career has taken him around
the globe many times working with the world’s most advanced
post-production companies, broadcasters and manufacturers.
In the early nineties Ritchie focused his attentions on
the burgeoning business of digital effects in the motion
picture industry, joining Eastman Kodak’s Cineon team.
Working with a new breed of post-production company, Ritchie
began the deployment of digital film technology in the
United States and Europe. Joining Quantel’s film division
in 1994, Ritchie continued the deployment of high performance
hardware working with the visual effects’ teams on Stargate,
Independence Day and Lost in Space. From there he continued
his relationship within the visual effects industry by
working on some of the early previsualization technology,
and worked closely with visual effects companies developing
higher performance platforms. For the past four
years Ritchie has worked and consulted with entertainment
companies within the interactive television arena, as
well as global connectivity for digital dailies. Most
recently Ritchie was at 5D where he, and the 5D team,
promoted a ground breaking graphics workstation, and introduced
the Colossus digital intermediate color corrector. Ritchie
has gained considerable knowledge of the digital intermediate
process, working with companies such as Sony Imageworks
and assisting them to complete projects, such as Stuart
Little II. Founding Aarmadillo in October 2002,
Ritchie continues his focus on the post-production film
and TV industry. Aarmadillo is a unique resource for both
post-production companies, and manufacturers with software
and hardware targeted towards these premier clients.
Ritchie is a member of the Visual Effects Society &
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts. |
| Dana
Ross
General
Manager and Vice President, Technique
|
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| Bio:Dana
Ross is the general manager and vice president of Technique,
Technicolor's Digital Intermediate facility in Burbank.
Ross joined Technicolor in 2001 after 23 years at CFI.
At CFI, Ross served as color-timer to director Steven
Soderbergh on "Ocean's Eleven," "Traffic,"
"Erin Brockovich," and "The Limey."
His other recent credits include Wes Anderson's "The
Royal Tenenbaums," Andrew Davis' "Collateral
Damage," Andrew Niccol's upcoming "Simone,"
"Ammores Perros," and Sofia Coppola's "Virgin
Suicides." |
| Steve
Schklair
Founder
and Principal, Cobalt Entertainment |
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| Bio:With
over 20 years experience as an innovative leader of new
technology ventures, Steve Schklair has a track record
of financial and creative success that includes 3D films,
location-based entertainment, high-definition television,
CD-ROMs, and digital film production. His current company,
Cobalt Entertainment, is a market-leading provider of
3D digital production services and proprietary technology
to the film, computer, and broadcast television industries.
It’s current clients and development partners include
NFL Films, Ideal Entertainment, and Dreamworks. Immediately
preceding his involvement with Cobalt, Schklair merged
the multimedia content company he founded, Quantum Arts,
with an Internet technology company, became the combined
company’s CEO, and played an instrumental role in taking
the company public. Prior to Quantum Arts, Schklair served
as VP/General Manager of New Media for Digital Domain,
the special effects studio responsible for films such
as Apollo 13, The Fifth Element, Titanic and
T2:3D. At Digital Domain and prior to his work
there, at R/GA Digital Studios as Executive Producer and
Creative Director, Schklair provided his creative vision
to corporate clients such as Warner Brothers, Universal
Studios, IBM, AT&T, Landmark Entertainment, Toyota,
Philips, Levi’s, Sony, and Electronic Arts. Schklair
has recently been invited to join the American Society
of Cinematographers (ASC) Advanced Imaging Committee. |
| Leon
Silverman, Executive Vice President, LaserPacific
Media Corporation |
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| Bio:
Leon Silverman has helped introduce new technology to
Hollywood for over twenty five years. Silverman is a founder
and current President of the Hollywood Post Alliance.
He is aslo a Manager of the Hollywood section of SMPTE,
where he chairs its Education Committee. He serves on
the Board of the Entertainment Technology Center at the
University of Southern California and is also a member
of its Technical Advisory Board. |
Emile Edwin Smith
Zoic
Studios, Computer Graphics and Special Effects Supervisor
(Projects include : Excelerant, Firefly (Fox TV)
Century
City, NYPD 2069, Battlestar Gallactica, Buffy Series
Finale) |
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| Bio:
Currently
a CG supervisor at Zoic Studios in Culver City , California
working on the Joss Whedon show Firefly, Emile Edwin Smith
has worked in the past as a Visual Effects Supervisor
and Director with such facilities as Foundation Imaging,
Radium and Neo Pictures. Recently Emile served as Digital
Effects Supervisor on the Emmy nominated TV movie Superfire
, after spending several months in New Zealand as Visual
Effects Supervisor for on Extreme Team, a television pilot
for Touchstone Pictures. He has worked on several Star
Trek series, the feature films Mimic 2 and The Jackal,
numerous commercials and music videos and directed several
episodes of Starship Troopers: the Roughneck Chronicles.
Emile graduated with his BA in Visual Arts from the University
of California at San Diego and lives in Sierra Madre,
California. |
Michael
Stroud
Business Journalist,
iHollywood Forum CEO and Founder, Event Chair |
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| Bio:
Michael
has been a professional business journalist for 20 years,
is the co-founder of iHollywood Forum, and a frequent
moderator for Internet business forums on digital entertainment
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and NY including NAB, Internet
World, CTIA, Telematics Update, Digital Living Room, Digital
Hollywood, MB5 and eTV World. He previously covered technology
as a senior writer at Investor's Business Daily, then
became the Los Angeles Bloomberg News entertainment correspondent
for five years, and later served as the Los Angeles Bureau
Chief for Broadcasting and Cable. He works as an
independent journalist covering technology, entertainment
and the wireless industry for business magazines, and
is a regular contributing writer covering entertainment
and technology for Wired.com. His articles have also appeared
in the Sunday New York Times, Business 2.0, and The
Red Herring. He has a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Asian Studies
in 1981, and speaks fluent Mandarin. He also conducts
media trainings for European and Asian technology companies. |
Dave
Trescot
Director
of the Dynamic Media Group, Adobe Systems, Inc. |
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| Bio:
David Trescot is currently the Director of Dynamic Media
at Adobe and has overall responsibility for both the Adobe
Premiere and Adobe After Effects product lines. Upon his
arrival at the company, Dave was Group Product Marketing
Manager for the Dynamic Media Group. He has an extensive
background in digital video and animation, and has held
a variety of engineering, sales, and marketing positions.
Prior to joining Adobe, he worked at the Alias|Wavefront
division of Silicon Graphics as the product manager for
the world's leading 3D animation tool -- PowerAnimator.
Previous positions in the computer industry included being
the Director of Sales and Marketing at Specular International
(creators of the Infini-D animation product) and as an
engineer and product manager for Yarc Systems (makers
of high-speed RISC accelerator cards). He holds a master’s
degree in electrical engineering from the University of
Florida. |
| Martin
Vann
VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Discreet |
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| Bio:
Martin leads worldwide
sales and marketing activities for Discreet overseeing
customer needs for sales and support of the company's
award-winning products in visual effects, editing and
finishing, infrastructure, and 3D and animation solutions.
Martin is an accomplished sales, marketing and operational
leader. Prior to joining Discreet, he spent 18 months
at DMOD, a Digital Rights Management company as VP of
Sales and Business Development. In 2000, Martin joined
iFilm as VP of Sales and Marketing. Prior to iFilm, Martin
held various senior management positions at Avid Technology.
While managing field operations for Avid's entertainment
and broadcast sales, the company received both Emmy(tm)
and Oscar(r) recognition. Martin began his career at IBM,
holding multiple sales and marketing positions. |
| Stephen
Wright
Technical Director, Cinesite |
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| Bio:
Steve
Wright, Technical Director for Cinesite, is a veteran
digitalimaging artist with over 16 years experience in
3D computer animation, digital compositing, and digital
cel animation effects for feature films, broadcast television
and commercials. His extensive production experience includes
over 35 feature films and 50 broadcast commercials. Steve
is an experienced speaker on digital imaging and visual
effects, and is the author of the book "Digital Compositing
for Film an Video". As the Technical Director
for Kodak's Cinesite for the last three years, Steve
has specialized in solving digital imaging problems
for Digital Mastering, Visual Effects, Scanning and
Recording, and Digital Restoration departments. |
| Matthew
White
Vice President, Film Library, National Geographic
Television & Film |
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| Bio:
As
vice president of the National Geographic Film Library,
Matthew White runs the day-to-day operations of the film
and video archiving and licensing division of National
Geographic Television & Film (NGT&F). Under his
direction, the Film Library markets its award-winning
footage to advertisers, educators, scientists, entertainment
producers, museum curators and corporate marketers for
commercial use in advertising campaigns, television and
film productions, museum exhibits, research projects,
classroom/educational productions and corporate presentations.
In 2002 and early 2003, White led a strategic alliance
with Associated Press Television Network to syndicate
the Film Library’s footage internationally, and developed
relationships with Yahoo! and AOL to create a branded
presence for National Geographic on their broadband services.
In the past year, he has also formed reciprocal licensing
agreements with the National Film Board of Canada and
ABC Australia, among others. |
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