Michelle Abraham

In-Stat

Principal Analyst
Michelle's specific areas of research include video delivery by telephone companies, the Direct Broadcast Satellite industry, digital television, DVD, and MPEG ICs. She has contributed industry commentary to many technical and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Business Week, EETimes, and Electronic News. Ms. Abraham has been a speaker at industry conferences such as Globalcomm, CES, TelcoTV, and Digital Hollywood. She has also contributed articles to industry publications, including Electronic News and TWICE. She completed her BA in Economics at the University of Michigan. Ms. Abraham received her MBA from Arizona State University.

Andy Addis

Hillcrest Labs

Executive Vice President, Marketing
Andy brings to Hillcrest more than 20 years of marketing and product management experience, much of it focused on the launch of innovative new products. Prior to Hillcrest, he was a senior vice president at Comcast, responsible for marketing and new products. While there Mr. Addis played a lead role in new product strategy as well as development, deployment and marketing for Comcast's most innovative video products, including video-on-demand (VOD), high definition television (HDTV), and digital video recorders (DVRs). He has been recognized numerous times in his career for leadership and innovation, including CableFax's "100 Most Influential People (2004)," Cable and Telecommunications Marketing Association's TAMI Award (2003), and Advertising Age's "Top 100 Marketers (1991)."

Joseph Ambeault

Verizon

Director, Interactive Services, Verizon Video PLM

Joseph’s primary focus is the advancement of Verizon’s television and platforms, including on-demand, interactive television, digital adve rtising delivery, video games and interactive program guides. He had addressed audiences at conferences hosted by CES, NATAS, Digital Hollywood, NCTA, SCTE, CCMI and the Korean Cable Television Association on topics ranging from time-shifted television to video-on-demand deployment and revenue assurance. Mr. Ambeault also has several articles and commentaries published in television and adve rtising trade publications throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Verizon, he was a director of Broadband Systems for SeaChange International. Mr. Ambeault received a BA in philosophy and computer science from Brandeis University.

Guy Cherry

C-COR Global Strategies

Principal Architect, Video Systems
Guy obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. His early work focused on a number of object-oriented programming languages such as Smalltalk and various flavors of lisp. This led to work on C++, specifically in the area of embedded systems. In 1990 Dr. Cherry began working with digital video in the Computer Research Labs at Tektronix Incorporated and developed some of the first video networking and storage systems using ATM and motion-JPEG. He served on the ISO MPEG Committee from 1993 to 1996 and currently contributes to the SCTE DVS committees. Dr. Cherry joined C-COR in 2000 and is currently a C-COR Principal Architect for Video Systems.

Steve Betz

Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment

Director, Product Line Management
Steve is responsible for managing the Siemens iDK Program with its many partners who supply a critical element of the Home Entertainment Solution - the set top boxes. He has over ten years of experience in management positions within consumer electronics and the IPTV industry. Prior to Myrio, Mr. Betz was the Senior Product Manager behind Thomson's IP set top boxes in the Americas and Europe. There, he was responsible for the introduction and business development of five generations of IPTV decoders, some with integrated gateway and home networking capabilities, advanced codecs and several middleware environments. Mr. Betz is committed to policies that attract the best STB makers in the industry to innovate, compete and add value to Siemens overall offerings.

Patrick Bradley

Ripe Digital Entertainment

President
Patrick co-founded Ripe Digital Entertainment in 2003 and is a member of the Board of Directors. He was instrumental in developing the company's distribution partnership with the nation's largest cable company, Comcast Corporation, other major MSOs as well as broadband and mobile partners. Working as a leader in executive media sales for RDE, Mr. Bradley has developed relationships with top brands, leading media agencies and other important partner companies in the advertising and media industries. He was also a co-founder of interactive services company Zentropy (now a part of IPG's McCann / MRM), a true web start-up that achieved substantial annual growth (from $5 million to $100 million in revenues in just over four years). Mr. Bradley was instrumental in positioning the company for sale in 1999 to IPG. An active member of the National Television Academy, he has spoken at numerous interactive and media industry conferences and panels. Mr. Bradley also serves as an executive director for The Facing Forward Foundation benefiting underprivileged children with severe facial deformities.

Taras Bugir

Harris Corporation

Chief Strategy Officer, Software Systems
Taras has extensive experience developing forward-looking business models and strategies for media and entertainment companies. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has worked at length on projects involving network communications, Internet technologies, back-office systems, digital content management and media management. Mr. Bugir's diverse background includes owning and managing a software development company, magazine publishing business, strategic consulting firm and jointly owning a market research company. He has also served as a CIO for a major global agency network. Mr. Bugir has worked with media buying groups, ad agencies and broadcasters in more than 24 countries on five continents. He holds a B.E. and a M.E. in computer engineering.

Chris Carvalho

LucasFilm

Director, Business Development
Chris works closely with all of the company's divisions and the Marketing and Licensing departments identifying both outside and internally developed technology opportunities, developing new business leveraging the Lucasfilm intellectual property, crafting and refining strategic plans, and on more tactical, near term issues. He is also heavily involved with THX -- helping set and execute strategy and goals. Mr. Carvalho leads the company's business analysis of new technology and digital media - wireless, internet, digital cinema, video on demand, visual effects and animation software, among others. He has identified all the major business partnerships associated with Lucas Online, including ones with Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Variety, and Atom Entertainment. For the Online division, Mr. Carvalho has been the driving force behind creating new features that deliver additional content and revenue, including the first movie property ever to have an internet subscription service (Hyperspace). He also forged the first company deals in the mobile and video download space.

Stephen Condon

Entriq

Vice President, Marketing
Stephen brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to Entriq from the advertising and technology industries. His primary role as Vice President, Marketing, is to clearly position the company in the pay media marketplace. Mr. Condon's responsibilities include strategic marketing, marketing communications as well as developing the company's advertising, public relations and trade show strategy. He commenced his career in advertising working for J. Walter Thompson and Chiat/Day on leading brands such as Kraft Foods and NutraSweet. His advertising career introduced him to the high technology entertainment business when he worked on the hugely successful launch of DIRECTV at the advertising agency, Campbell-Ewald. Mr. Condon later joined DIRECTV, as Senior Director of Marketing and was responsible for program marketing and subscriber acquisition promotions. In 1998 he moved from delivering video over satellite to delivering video on the Internet and joined INTERVU as Vice President of Marketing where he lead strategic marketing efforts and marketing communications up until the Akamai acquisition.

Mark Ellison

NRTC

Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel
Mark is responsible for working closely with NRTC's senior leadership team, providing legal and strategic business advice and counsel on NRTC business ventures, opportunities and related matters. In his role as General Counsel, Mr. Ellison heads NRTC's legal department and manages the organization's relationships with outside counsel. Additionally, he heads NRTC's industry relations and government affairs group. Prior to joining NRTC in June 2005, Mr. Ellison provided services to NRTC on a consulting basis through the firm of Hardy & Ellison, P.C., where he had been a partner for more than 12 years, representing clients in satellite, cable and Internet services. Mr. Ellison brings nearly 25 years of experience in media-related law and business to NRTC, serving in executive legal roles with such notable organizations as Primestar Satellite, the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association, Turner Broadcasting, and U.S. Telecom.

Thierry Fautier

Harmonic

Director, Telco Solutions, Convergent Systems
Thierry is responsible for IPTV market development. Before joining Harmonic, he was Vice President of Marketing for Vsofts and held various positions at Philips. Mr. Fautier was one of the primary drivers at Philips in the creation of MPEG technology and in the development of MPEG-2 STB system on a chip solutions. An experienced speaker, he has presented at several industry conferences throughout the world.

Robin Flynn

JupiterKagan Research

Analyst

Robin specializes in the valuation and analysis of radio and television properties in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to acting as consultant and appraiser to the broadcast and other media, she also contributes analytical commentary as Senior Analyst for numerous newsletters published by Kagan, including Broadcast Investor: Deals & Finance, Kagan Media Money, and Digital Television. Mr. Flynn has served in a consulting capacity for various litigations involving the media, and provided valuation testimony and trial exhibits. In addition, she regularly serves as moderator at Kagan conferences and speaks at other industry events. Her industry expertise has made Ms. Flynn a frequently quoted analyst in numerous trade publications as well as such national press as Forbes and The New York Times and regional newspapers including The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times.

David Foote

Hitachi Telecom

Chief Technology Officer

David is currently responsible for strategic product and technology planning for optical access, transport, and cellular systems. He has been instrumental in establishing Hitachi’s network systems business with major North American telecommunications carriers like Sprint, Time Warner, Rocester Tel/Global Crossing, and Norlight. Mr. Foote has been a contributor and committee chairman in leading standards organizations such as the IETF, OIF, ATIS (ANSI T1), IEEE 802, and the ATM Forum. Before joining Hitachi, he served as a decorated communications engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force responsible for network design and implementation of various secure telecom and packet data networks including ARPAnet/MILnet. Mr. Foote received a B.S.E.E. from Georgia Tech and a Master’s degree in Management from Webster University/Air Force Institute of Technology.

Ed Forman

ICTV

Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer
Ed rejoined ICTV in 2006 with the goal of combining the choice and control of the Internet with the responsiveness and video quality of television. He returned to the company after co-founding and serving as Chiefv Executive Officer of Switched Media, a developer of solutions for mass customization of live video streams that merged with ICTV. In his previous stint with ICTV, from 2001-04, Mr. Forman served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and in an executive consulting capacity and was instrumental in launching the company's HeadendWare product. Previously, he had been President and Chief Executive Officer of RealContax, Inc. and Vice President of Marketing and New Ventures for enCommerce, Inc., an Entrust acquisition.

Joe Franzetta

TANDBERG Television

Senior Vice President, Programmer Sales
Joe oversees the company's sales and business development efforts with broadcast and cable networks in the Americas. He is also responsible for TANDBERG Television's global content business. In this capacity, Mr. Franzetta works with content owners around the world to add interactivity to their programming. Mr. Franzetta joined TANDBERG Television through the company's acquisition of interactive television provider GoldPocket Interactive. As Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, he was instrumental in building GoldPocket's market-leading content business, partnering with several of the world's largest media companies to deliver more than 20,000 hours of interactive television programming. Before joining GoldPocket, Mr. Franzetta spent three years as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy at Mixed Signals Technologies, Inc., a leading iTV technology and services company. At Mixed Signals, he managed all business development and strategy efforts, including key customer relationships and technical partnerships.

Mary Frost

GlobeCast America

Chief Executive Officer
Mary joined GlobeCast in 2003 as Chief Commercial Officer and is based in Washington D.C. and New York. She was appointed to Chief Executive Officer in June of 2006. Ms. Frost oversees GlobeCast's strategy and operations in North and Latin America, which includes managing a domestic fiber, satellite and teleport infrastructure as well as commanding a broad product line that comprises WorldTV consumer DTH platform, corporate broadcast networks, full-time IPTV and cable channel delivery, digital signage, playout and origination; and 24/7 news, sports and event contribution. She has over 23 years of experience as an executive officer in media, entertainment and communications. In 2002, Ms. Frost received the North American Broadcasters Association's International Achievement Award honoring individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and commitment to the goals of the North American broadcasting community.

Dean Kashlan

Latens

General Manager and Vice President, Americas
Dean has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry. Based in Atlanta, he is part of the management team at Latens Systems and responsible for operations in the Americas. Prior to joining Latens, Mr. Kashlan held key positions with major telecommunications industry suppliers including Cisco, Lucent and Entone Technologies, where he was a member of the management team and leader of the company's sales and partnership efforts in the Americas and EMEA. Mr. Kashlan holds an MBA from the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a minor in Computer Engineering.

Peter Meister

WhiteBlox

Vice President, New York office

Benoit Mercier

Alcatel

Associate Vice President, Marketing

Benoit is responsible for strategic analysis of the wireline carrier market, including go-to-market plans and budgets and positioning for key markets with an emphasis on Alcatel's end-to-end IPTV solution. He has held various positions within the company, focusing on optical and access products, most recently serving as a systems engineer associate vice president. Prior to joining Alcatel more than 16 years ago, Mr. Mercier was a systems engineer at Nortel Networks, working on optical products and emerging SONET standards.

Tom Quinn

Gyration

Founder

Susan Miller

ATIS

President and Chief Executive Officer
Susan is President and Chief Executive Officer of ATIS, the leading developer of technical and operational standards for the communications industry. Issues addressed by ATIS committees include network interoperability, security, improved speed and data transmission, electronic data interchange, wireless and wireline communications, IPTV, and VoIP, among others.

John Morrow

Scientific Atlanta

Vice President, Strategy Development and Execution,

Transmission Network Systems
John is responsible for leading the development of strategies for profitable growth in Digital Media Networks and Transport and Access Networks-the two business units within Scientific Atlanta's Transmission Network Systems. Products within these two business units range from advanced video compression encoders and multiplexers, to optical and RF electronics. Additionally, he is responsible for tracking strategy execution and competitive benchmarking. Mr. Morrow joined Scientific Atlanta as Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing in 1994, and has held positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, business development, and general management. Prior to joining Scientific Atlanta, he worked in strategy consulting as a Manager for Corporate Decisions, Inc. (CDI) in Boston. Mr. Morrow also worked for five years in the U.S. Navy where he completed studies in nuclear engineering and served as a fast-attack submarine officer on board USS Chicago (SSN-721). Mr. Morrow earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He is a member of CTAM and SCTE.

Kenneth Papagan

Rentrak Corporation

Executive Vice President, Business Development and

Strategic Planning
Kenneth is responsible for incubating, implementing and driving operations of all new business initiatives and setting the strategic direction of Rentrak Corporation, a leader in business intelligence tracking and reporting services for the media and entertainment sectors. For 29 years, he has served as a consistent and unwavering evangelist for new media including the enhanced TV services industry since its birth at QUBE, a Warner Cable (now Time/Warner) interactive service in 1977, where he began his career. Since then, Mr. Papagan has helped launch 9 Television Networks including Nickelodeon, MTV, and The JCPenney Shopping Channel. For the past 9 years he has been primarily focused on Digital Media across all platforms globally leading to his present position at Rentrak. Among his accomplishments at Rentrak are the launch of OnDemand Essentials which is currently aggregating VOD viewer usage data for more than 50% of the VOD enabled cable universe, including Comcast, Cablevision and others.

David Penny

Motorola Connected Home Solutions

Director, Business Development, On-Demand Video Solutions
David brings to Motorola 20 years of high-tech sales, marketing and business development experience, and most recently served as Vice President of Business Development with VOD leader Broadbus Technologies. Before joining Broadbus he was Vice President, Enhanced Communications at Brooktrout Technology, where he focused on sales of infrastructure products to service providers building VoIP networks. Prior to Brooktrout, Mr. Penny co-founded SnowShore Networks and served as its VP of marketing and business development. He was instrumental in establishing the SnowShore brand and the IP Media Server category, as well as cultivating major wins including ATT, Cox, MCI, Comcast, China Netcom, Fusion, and NTT. Prior to starting SnowShore, Mr. Penny served as Vice President and General Manager of one of NMS Communications' operating divisions. In this role he held worldwide P&L responsibility, and was responsible for the development, marketing, and delivery of technical engineering services and OEM products.

Ken Pyle

Viodi View

Managing Editor
Ken produced the Video Solutions for Independence interactive CD-ROM, edited and produced interactive CD-ROMs for organizations such as NTCA and is the co-producer of the IP Video Conference series in conjunction with USTA and is producer of Viodi's Local Content Workshop. Additionally, he has been intimately involved with all of Viodi's clients. Mr. Pyle created Digital Rights Management Reports that were approved by studios for several clients. He created processes for clients to use for their PPV and VOD operations. Mr. Pyle has long standing relationships with service vendors such as Technicolor and Microspace, as well as many telecommunication manufacturers. Prior to Viodi, LLC, he was Director of Technical Sales for Demand Video, a Video On Demand application service provider which targeted cable television overbuilders. Mr. Pyle's independent telco experience dates to 1991 with product, project and sales management roles at Raynet and E/O Networks. His experience in the cable industry dates to 1979 with manufacturing, engineering and field service roles at companies such as Catel and C-Cor.

Nuutti Rautiainen

Icareus

Sales and Marketing Director, Americas

Nuutti has worked with Icareus Ltd. from the 2004 and currently directs the company’s Sales and Marketing operations in North and South America. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics. Before joining Icareus, Mr. Rautiainen was conducting market research and consulting in the Forrester’s European Telecoms and Networks team in Amsterdam and in the Finland Trade Centre in Mexico.

Lynn Rowe

One World Technologies, Inc.

Chief Executive Officer

With thirty years in the broadcast and telecommunications industry, Lynn currently owns and operates One World Technologies, Inc. of Boca Raton, FL. One World Technologies, Inc. is a full service consulting and integration firm specializing in the planning, design, implementation and management of broadcast, cable, satellite, DTH, multimedia and interactive networks, applications, systems, new ventures and special events. Mr. Rowe has been responsible for a variety of industry milestones and projects

Mark Samuel

NXP Semiconductors

General Manager, BCT Telco and Operator, BU Home
Mark has responsibility for the development, marketing and business success of IP STB, satellite pay STB system solutions as well as wireless audio products. He began his career at Philips Semiconductors in 1996, as a marketing manager in the sales organization for TV products based in London U.K. In 1997 Mr. Samuel moved to Nijmegen, The Netherlands as the international product marketing manager for Philips' ultimate one chip (UOC) analog TV solution. In 1999 he moved to the U.S. to lead the marketing team for HDTV and STB businesses in Silicon Valley. Following a year leading the DTV business development group in Singapore, Mr. Samuel returned to Silicon Valley to the strategy office in 2004 before assuming his current position. Prior to joining Philips, he was a design project manager for Sony Europe. Mr. Samuel holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from WGIHE in Swansea, U.K.

Philip W. Schuman

HighView

Media Founder
Philip was Co-President, Universal Studios Television Distribution where he was responsible for the successful management of the global theatrical and television product distribution organization for Universal Studios, Inc. Mr. Schuman started at Universal as Vice President of Business Affairs in 1995. Previously, he was Senior Transactions Counsel, at a division of General Electric. Mr. Schuman began his career obtaining extensive relevant experience specializing in mergers and acquisitions and securities at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in American History from State University of New York at Buffalo, and J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

Brent Simon

Verizon

Product Manager, On Demand Applications
Brent contributes to the development of Verizon's television platforms and software. He is focused on the company's advancements for on-demand applications and video games. The emergence of on-demand services and interactive games require the participation of a broad range of key participants including television and film studios, ad agencies, broadcasters and technology partners. Mr. Simon shares the experience of Verizon's research and development and deployment work with these audiences through his efforts for a number of industry organizations. His operations, business-oriented articles, white papers and commentaries have been published in television trade publications. Previously, Mr. Simon was Product Manager for SeaChange International's interactive television system. He started his career as a systems consultant for the Bank of Tokyo, one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Molly Wood

CNET.com

Executive Editor
Molly is author of The Buzz Report, a technology news and opinion column. She is also the host of the video podcast of the same name. Ms. Wood co-hosts CNET's Buzz Out Loud podcast with Tom Merritt and producer Veronica Belmont. She also co-hosts the Gadgettes podcast with Kelly Morrison. Ms. Wood has also worked for the Associated Press, MacHome Journal magazine, and O'Reilly Media. She was born on May 23, 1975 and hails from Bismarck, North Dakota. Ms. Wood has a BA in journalism that she received at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana.

Dan York

AT&T Operations Inc.

Senior Vice President, Programming
Dan leads video content strategy and acquisition for AT&T Project Lightspeed. Project Lightspeed is the initiative to expand the fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver AT&T U-verseSM TV, voice and high-speed Internet access services. AT&T companies expect to reach approximately 18 million households by the end of 2008 as part of initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node and fiber-to-the-premises technologies. Mr. York was recently Senior Vice President of Programming and Development at iN Demand Networks for several years. He oversaw all programming, content acquisition, program planning, scheduling and distribution to other platforms. This included over seventy linear channels of high def, pay-per-view, out-of-market professional and college sports packages, and more VOD content than any other entity. Mr. York was the first to program titles in high definition VOD, and has overseen many of the biggest events in TV history.