Amena Ali
Chief Marketing Officer
Arxan Technologies, Inc.
Amena Ali joined Arxan as Chief Marketing Officer in January 2007. Ms. Ali has over 16 years management experience in software and telecommunications companies ranging in size from $25 million to $30 billion. She has developed and implemented marketing strategy, execution and corporate communications through an IPO, a secondary offering, 3 acquisitions of private companies, and 4 mergers of public companies. Ms. Ali comes to Arxan from Softek Storage Solutions, a leader in data migration and replication software, where she was SVP, Marketing. Her prior experience includes senior marketing positions at EMC Corporation, Legato Systems (acquired by EMC in 2003), and OTG Software (acquired by Legato in 2002).

Shawn Ambwani
VP of Licensing
Intertrust Technologies
Shawn Ambwani is a vice president at Intertrust Technologies, Inc., in charge of licensing and business development. Previously, he was executive vice president at Nextreaming where he managed their platform division. He also co-founded Envivio, which was spun off from France Telecom in 1999 to develop MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets. At France Telecom, he conceived and led international teams in the development of Internet services in France and in the US. He has a Math degree from UCLA and JD/MBA from Boston University. He is a member of the California Bar.

Pankaj Asundi
Vice President Media and Content
Ericsson Inc.
Pankaj Asundi, who joined Ericsson in 2000, has over 20 years of systems and technology experience within the telecommunications industry. He is currently responsible for developing and managing new business and multimedia solutions as they relate to content and media companies. Prior to this role, Pankaj was part of Ericsson’s Strategy and Network group and was responsible for developing Ericsson’s North America and Global multimedia strategy. Other roles at Ericsson include the CTO for Ericsson’s North America Enterprise business and Strategic Marketing towards Ericsson key customers.

Jud Cary
Vice President, and Deputy General Counsel
CableLabs
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cary worked as an engineer in the R&D labs of U S WEST (now Qwest) in the knowledge-based systems group. Lawyer jokes and geek jokes are equally applicable to Mr. Cary. After law school (Santa Clara University, cum laude), he worked as a patent attorney for the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Fenwick & West. Mr. Cary returned to Colorado and followed the legal chain of title from U S WEST, to MediaOne, to AT&T Broadband, now Comcast! After a short stint at a “.bomb” company, Mr. Cary returned to the cable industry at CableLabs. His main focus is with the CableLabs OpenCable™ Project (a.k.a. tru2way) for the development of advanced digital cable video devices (including PCs, Digital Televisions, and set-top boxes), content protection and content distribution technologies, and the laws and regulations governing cable operators in these areas. He also provides general advice on cable industry technology strategy, IPR licensing, standards setting, antitrust, and defensive patent infringement coordination.

Sanjay Desai
Vice President, Product Marketing
Brightcove
Sanjay serves as Vice President of Product Marketing at Brightcove. In this role, he leads the product team responsible for Brightcove’s core service and spearheads product marketing across the organization. Before joining Brightcove, Sanjay spent several years leading product management/marketing for Tellme Networks’ consumer business in Mountain View, California. Prior to Tellme, Sanjay served as VP, Strategic Planning at The Walt Disney Company, focused on ABC’s broadcast and production businesses. Earlier in his career, Sanjay gained experience within Goldman Sachs’ technology, media and telecom M&A group and as a strategy consultant for KPMG. He holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Bruce David Eisen
President
Digital Advisors
Bruce David Eisen is the president of Digital Advisors, a leading Internet distribution consultancy group whose recent clients include 20th Century Fox, Blockbuster, Technicolor and ClipBlast. Prior to Digital Advisors Eisen was one of the founders and, most recently, president of CinemaNow, a leading Internet VOD distributor. Eisen was responsible for day-to-day operations of the company and for all business development and legal activities. In that capacity he negotiated CinemaNow’s agreements with the major Hollywood studios and over 200 other content licensors. Prior to joining CinemaNow, Eisen served as senior vice president of the Production/ Business Affairs Department for Trimark Pictures.

Thierry Fautier
Director of Telco Solutions
Harmonic Inc.
Thierry Fautier is Director of Telco Solutions at Harmonic Inc., 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.

Len Feldman
Director, IPTV Analysis
Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG)
Len Feldman, Director of IPTV Analysis for Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG) in San Jose, California, writes the company’s biannual IPTV Market Leader Reports and IPTV Global Forecasts, as well as Market/Technology reports such as Internet Video for IPTV Service Providers, all part of MRG’s IPTV Tracking Service. His previous positions include Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Netscape, where he launched JavaScript, and Director of Product Marketing at Toshiba America. Len holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Management from Robert Morris University. He’s a member of ACM/SIGGRAPH, AES and SMPTE.

Josh Gagliardi
Chief Technology Officer
Highwinds
Josh Gagliardi oversees all aspects of software development, including direct management of the development staff, for the Highwinds suite of NNTP and other carrier-class Internet protocol servers. He is responsible for maintaining and extending the technological advantages of the company's products and leveraging those advantages for entry into new markets. Mr. Gagliardi managed all aspects of software development and quality assurance during the creation of Highwinds' Cyclone and Typhoon products as well as the Twister discussion server. Prior to joining Highwinds, Mr. Gagliardi worked as a software engineer with Language Engineering Corporation, and with BBN Systems and Technologies, where he helped develop content aggregation and filtering technology for an early news aggregator. Mr. Gagliardi received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Greenberg
Senior Vice President and General Manager
TV Guide Online
Paul Greenberg joined Gemstar-TV Guide in March 2006 as general manager, TVGuide Online. In this position Mr. Greenberg is responsible for the leadership, strategic development, and day-to-day management of all TV Guide Web sites (the largest being TVGuide.com), including editorial, production, marketing and product development.
During his time in this role, the company made several important acquisitions, product upgrades and showed steady growth across its collection of Web sites. Mr. Greenberg was also instrumental in the redesign of TVGuide.com in September 2006 that introduced several new key features to the site, including an improved broadband player, entertainment search, and extensive community functionalities such as blogs, discussion groups and forums. Since then, TV Guide Online has grown to more than 6.2 million unique users per month (as measured by Nielsen), growth of more than 100 percent during Mr. Greenberg’s tenure.

Mark Samuel
General Manager, Home Business
NXP Semiconductors
Mark Samuel is general manager of the Home business unit in the Americas for NXP Semiconductors (previously Philips). In this role, Mark is responsible for driving the development and business success for the home business in the Americas. He leads the development and marketing of digital TV, IP-STB, PCTV and media processing. Mark started his career at NXP in 1996. Prior to joining NXP, Mark was a design project manager for Sony. He holds a degree in Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering from Swansea, UK.

Randall Hounsell
VP, Search and Discovery
Comcast Cable Communications Management
Randall Hounsell is Vice President of Search and Discovery at Comcast, where he oversees all product development within Comcast to support the search and discovery of video content. Randall also oversees StreamSage, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast, which develops next generation technologies to support the discovery of video and entertainment content. Randall is focused on building the product concepts and the technology platforms that provide Comcast’s 30+ million subscribers a seamless and differentiated experience for discovering video content across the platforms – TV, PC, and Mobile. Previously at Comcast, Randall directed the product and business development for Search and Marketplace on Comcast.net, where he grew Comcast.net from virtually zero to be the 6th largest US provider of web search. Randall has an extensive background in strategic planning, business development, and product development. Prior to Comcast Randall worked in Strategic Planning for Circuit City, leading many of their key market and product development initiatives.

Ben Huang
Director of Product Management
Microsoft TV
Microsoft Corporation
Ben Huang is a Director of Product Management at Microsoft TV, the company’s division delivering broadcast-quality video and new, integrated TV services over broadband networks. In this capacity, he oversees product strategy for the division’s efforts in the connected entertainment space and various aspects of the consumer experience. Mr. Huang joined Microsoft in 2003, where he led various initiatives related to new business opportunities, emerging markets, pricing, and corporate transactions, among other areas. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Huang worked in various strategic, financial, and marketing leadership roles spanning multiple industries. He holds MBA and JD degrees from the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Law School, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA. He is also a licensed attorney with the State Bar of California.

Alex Kanakaris
Founder and Chairman
Wi-Fi TV Inc.
Alex Kanakaris has revolutionized the world of television and movie delivery over the Internet. Mr. Kanakaris is the author of "Signs of Intelligent Life on the Internet"and the creator of Wi-Fi TV.com which features over 450 live TV stations on many topics, Spanish language stations, Live Chat, the Wi-FiTVPhone, online parties for up to 25 participants, Personal Wi-Fi TV Channels, and a high level of interactivity.

Derek Kuhn
Senior Director for Strategy, North America
Alcatel-Lucent
Derek Kuhn brings nearly 20 years of experience to his current roles as Senior Director of Strategy for Alcatel-Lucent in North America. In this role, Mr. Kuhn is responsible for business and technology strategy across all lines of Alcatel-Lucent products and services in the US and Canada markets. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Director of Alcatel Strategic Solutions, which encompassed the company’s IP Video, IPTV and broadband entertainment strategy, strategic partner development activities, and media and analyst relations. He was also Alcatel’s primary liaison with the film, television, and gaming content community.

Matt Kaplan
Vice President of Creative and Client Services
PermissionTV
With 15-plus years of interactive product design and development experience, Matt Kaplan, VP Creative and Client Services of PermissionTV, manages the design, creation and delivery of unique viewer experiences. As co-founder of the AdValue Network, a B2B advertising exchange, Matt developed an Internet media buying and selling service used by major ad agencies and broadcasters. Previously as VP Client Services for Comet Learning, Matt managed relationships and delivered e-learning solutions, and as VP of AGENCY.COM, Matt pioneered the design and implementation of Internet community and knowledge sharing tools and practices.

Fearghal Kelly
Vice President, Media Solutions
ioko
Fearghal Kelly joined ioko in 2005 to set up and run their Media Practice. Kelly has 14 years experience in the media sector, focusing predominantly on large web platforms, video, advertising and television. Before joining ioko, he was deputy head of technology at BBC Broadcast (Red Bee Media) for four and a half years, where he started their product development arm. He was technical architect and manager of the development of the first BBC iPlayer, launched in 2004. Prior to this, he was head of interactive technology at Teletext for three years, setting up their development division to deploy television and web portals in the UK.

Michael King
President and CEO
Abacast
As President and CEO of Abacast Inc., Michael is responsible for day-to-day management, guiding the company’s technology development and corporate vision. Using Abacast’s highly efficient, patented live P2P streaming technology as the cornerstone of a full service streaming media product offering, he has lead Abacast to become a rapidly growing, cash flow positive, profitable company, and a leader in the Hybrid CDN industry. Prior to Abacast, Michael worked for a diverse group of companies from commodity goods sales to niche ultra-high technology firms and has held numerous technology and management positions. He has a Master’s Degree in Science from the University of Oregon where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His professional interests include building small high-tech companies by adding general business discipline, efficient well designed processes and the use of technology. Michael likes the challenge of trying to combine the best practices of old business and the technologies of new business.

Rick LeVine
Senior Manager, Digital Rights Management Lead
Accenture
Rick LeVine is an Experienced Senior Manager in Accenture's Global Architecture and Core Technologies organization. He is a thought leader in the Digital Rights Management space, and has significant business strategy, technical and management experience. His technical expertise includes Digital Rights Management, Enterprise Content Management, Unix, Windows and Enterprise Network infrastructure architecture, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, and Identity and Access Management technologies.
Mr. Levine has held V.P. of Engineering and C.T.O. positions in the software industry, and has led technology and business partnerships between Fortune 200 Technology firms. He has nearly two decades deep technology, product creation and delivery, architecture, and management experience. He has earned a Masters in Computer Science, and a recent MIT Sloan Master of Science in the Management of Technology degree, which included both the content of the prestigious MIT Sloan MBA, and the rigor of a published MIT Masters Thesis focused on Software Product Platforms. Rick is also the author of several published Digital Rights Management and Security Patents.

Ian Locke
VP of Strategic Alliances
Envivio Inc
Ian Locke, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Envivio, is responsible for creating and supporting new business opportunities with Internet TV, Mobile TV and IPTV video services for network operators and service providers. Ian’s product design and market creation expertise guide the company’s production of video convergence solutions for telcos, enterprises, and broadcasters, making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. Prior to Envivio, Ian was the Director of Market Development for Minerva Networks where he developed the iTVManager IPTV middleware and the Impression DVD authoring software

Sandy Malcolm
Executive Producer
CNN.com video – CNN.com
Sandy Malcolm is executive producer of CNN.com video. In that role, Malcolm oversees all of CNN.com’s video content on the Web site and for CNN Mobile.
Named to her current role in September 2003, Malcolm played an instrumental role in the development and relaunch of CNN.com, the latest evolution in online news that resulted in an intuitive, integrated Web site that puts users within a click of the global, national and local news and information they find most relevant to them. In addition to her duties with CNN.com, Malcolm handles CNN content provided to Comcast and Time Warner Cable for cable on-demand usage.

Peggy Miles
President
InterVox Communications
Long considered one of the most influential people in streaming and digital media, Peggy Miles is an author, consultant, expert and speaker as well as founder of Intervox, a Washington, D.C.-based broadcast business development and research and consulting services company founded in 1995. Her knowledge-base and expertise on digital media is culled from her background in broadcasting, video production, advertising, and management, a background that has allowed her to work with companies and key executives around the world to start-up, implement, or advance their digital media efforts based on solid business principals. Peggy is the author of multiple books, including the best-selling Internet Age Broadcaster 1 and 2. She is also the founder of the International Webcasting Association, has been Executive Editor of Digital Media Magazine, and sits on numerous industry boards and associations. Among other career highlights, she produced the first live webcasts for CBS for the All Stars Game in 1996, and she has testified before Congress and the Copyright Office on digital rights and digital media subjects.

Patrick Monaghan
Senior Analyst, Consumer Research
Yankee Group
Patrick Monaghan is a senior analyst in Yankee Group's Consumer Research group with an expertise in bundling strategies, IP telephony and IPTV. Monaghan’s research focuses on the U.S. market and the current challenges facing telcos, wireless carriers and cable MSOs. His research focuses on the competitive landscape, product positioning and technology and market segmentation strategies. Monaghan also has a deep background in end-user research, quantitative modeling, channel strategy and market forecasting. Before joining Yankee Group, Monaghan held research and project management positions at Savatar and Accenture.

Jim Mollica
Director, Advanced Television
Disney Parks & Resorts’ New Media Group
Jim Mollica serves as Director pf Advanced Television for Disney Parks where his responsibilities included bringing the experience of visiting Disney resort and theme park destinations to viewers’ television sets via branded original programming, and compelling them to seamlessly and instantaneously book vacations with the click of a remote control. Distributed primarily on advanced cable and satellite television platforms, viewers have the ability to interact directly with Disney, request additional information, and book vacations via their set-top box.

Glenn Morten
CTO & EVP of Engineering
Widevine Technologies
Glenn Morten brings to Widevine more than twenty-one years of experience in product development leadership roles. At Widevine, Glenn has led content protection and digital forensics innovations from initial product release through multiple generations. Prior to joining Widevine he was Vice President of Development for CyberSafe Corporation where he developed e-security. Morten holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from West Virginia University and a Master of Science in systems management from the University of Southern California. Morten holds 5 issued patents for next generation DRM and Session Based Watermarking and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).

Tim Napoleon
Akamai Technologies, Inc
Tim Napoleon has an accomplished record as a marketing and business professional in the online and media & entertainment industries. Tim is presently the Chief Strategist, Media and Entertainment, for Akamai Technologies, providing services to digitally deliver music, movies & video, games, sports and news for businesses such as Apple iTunes, Major League Baseball, XM Satellite, MTV, CNET, and Newscorp. Prior to Akamai, Tim worked closely with Adobe to launch the Flash Video Streaming service at a content delivery startup; launched Pacific Life’s online web portal which supported several billion dollars in transactions; and provided consulting services to a number of high tech and media & entertainment businesses.

Simon Nelson
Controller
Portfolio & Multiplatform, BBC Vision
Simon Nelson oversees the strategy and commissioning for BBC Vision's multiplatform services and content. He works with channel controllers, genre commissioners, production studio heads and Future Media and Technology teams to maximise cross-platform opportunities on the internet, mobile devices, broadcast platforms and other emerging technologies. Simon is also charged with developing a multiplatform approach to scheduling and windowing of content, in order to get maximum value from creative programme ideas and to exploit the opportunities of on demand. He spent the last 10 years developing and implementing BBC Radio's digital and online strategy, leading the interactive unit which developed the BBC Radio Player and made the BBC the first broadcaster in the UK to experiment with podcasting.

Sheau Ng
Vice President, Consumer and Broadcast Technology,
Standard, and Policy,
NBC Universal
Sheau has been with the digital revolution from the start, contributing to MPEG, ATSC, DVD, and various technical standards activities. His career spans from compression research to product development in consumer electronics, semiconductors, and content/media industries. He was an contributing member of the Grand Alliance team, working at Sarnoff in late 80s. In early 90s, Sheau was part of Toshiba's DVD team, where he helped build the world's first DVD encoder. While at Toshiba, he also chaired the DAVIC 1.0 Technical Committee. Later, he was the architect of Philips first consumer HDTV on the ATSC market. At Philips, and later on at ATI, he was responsible for the software architecture of their DTV system-on-chip solutions. Sheau is now a vice president at NBC Universal, with responsibility in the areas of consumer and broadcast technology, standards, and policy. He chairs the Content Protection Task Group in the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA). He is an active member at the CEA IPTV OCC, and many other industry groups. He is focusing his attention on making digital entertainment a worldwide reality. Sheau holds graduate degrees from M.I.T., and had done post-graduate work at Princeton University. He also attended the executive MBA program at INSEAD. He currently holds over 30 patents worldwide. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children.

Emily O'Halloran
Senior Executive, Digital Advertising Lead
Accenture
Emily O'Halloran is a partner in Accenture's Media & Entertainment practice and leads the firm's Digital Advertising strategic platform, which is part of Accenture's Communications & High Tech global market unit. She has 12 years’ experience on projects including defining and implementing digital advertising strategies, implementing portal and digital content management systems, expanding e-commerce sales channels, delivering large-scale systems and incorporating end-to-end processes. Ms. O'Halloran also helps to develop leading practices for online advertising, e-commerce and portal solution development and management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin.

Ken Pyle
Managing Editor
The Viodi View
Ken Pyle is co-founder of Viodi, LLC and Managing Editor of the Viodi View, a publication focused on independent telcos’ efforts to offer video to their customers. He has edited and produced numerous multimedia projects for NTCA, US Telecom and Viodi. Pyle is the producer of Viodi’s Local Content Workshop, the Video Production Crash Course at NAB, as well as ViodiTV. He has been intimately involved in Viodi’s consulting projects and has created processes for clients to use for their PPV and VOD operations, as well authored reports on the independent telco market.

Dmitry Shapiro
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Veoh Networks, Inc.
Dmitry Shapiro founded Veoh Networks in late 2004 and now serves as the company’s Chief Innovation Officer. Dmitry started Veoh a very short to-do list: First, democratize. Open the business of television—once strictly a members-only deal—to a virtual community of broadcasters. Second, connect those broadcasters with new, global audiences, hungry for a limitless world of compelling programming to fill every niche interest, and desire. Before he imagined Veoh, Dmitry built Akonix Systems, one of the leading P2P network security companies with over 1.5 million deployed enterprise licenses in companies such as Viacom, Disney, Newscorp, and Cingular. Before that, Dmitry led the technology groups at CollegeClub, a 4 million member online college community and Fujitsu Telecommunications.

Paul Shen
CEO
TVU Networks
Paul Shen, CEO of TVU Networks, is a renowned expert in the digital video area and a successful serial entrepreneur. Paul was the founder and CEO at Imedia Corporation, a leader in digital video communication, and developer of the first statistical re-multiplexer, CherryPicker, which played a central role in digital television distribution in cable and satellite TV services. Imedia Corp. was acquired by Terayon in 1999. Previously, Paul defined the hardware architecture for General Instrument's first all-digital television system and the first digital high definition television (HDTV) system. He served as a General Instrument representative to the MPEG Committee, where he chaired the MPEG4 Syntax Group and led the effort to define a new object-oriented descriptive language. Paul holds 10 patents. Paul has a B.S. from the New York Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree from M.I.T., under well-known professor William Schreiber.

Clyde D Smith
SVP Global Broadcast Technology and Standards
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc
Clyde D. Smith is Senior Vice President of Global Broadcast Technology and Standards for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. In this role, he oversees strategic technology planning, processes and standards for broadcast and production technology operations for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s Domestic and International News and Entertainment Groups . Smith has held a key roles in creating the technologies that have resulted in Turner being awarded an Emmy for Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Automated, Server-Based Closed Captioning Systems, a 2003 Laureate and the 2005 21st Century Achievement Award in Media, Arts and Entertainment, by The Computer World Honors program.

Buddy Snow
Sr. Director, On Demand Video
Motorola
Mr. Snow manages Motorola's On Demand Video business, which includes the Video On Demand and Switched Digital Video product lines. Buddy's experience includes nearly 20 years of engineering, marketing, and executive management for consumer, broadband, and digital video products. Buddy has spent the last 11 years developing and selling products into the worldwide cable television and IPTV markets. His previous experience includes senior management positions with Terayon, Harmonic, DIVA Systems Corp., and General Instruments.

Steve Tranter
Vice President, Interactive and Broadband
NDS
Steve Tranter, Director of Interactive Delivery for NDS Americas, is based out of NDS' Southern California office, where he heads the interactive delivery group for NDS. Steve's background is in systems design and integration for a variety of industries, including digital broadcasting, scientific instruments, image production and database technologies. During his 11 years with NDS, Steve has been involved in the design and implementation of some of the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast systems. For the last 6 years Steve has worked with major platform and content providers to deploy some of the most successful and innovative interactive applications being used around the world today.

Troy
Platforms Executive, Multiplatform & Portfolio
BBC
Troy's specialization in creating new digital entertainment and information services on the web, VOD, interactive TV and DVRs spans a decade. Providing delivery-focused leadership aimed at delighting audiences, optimising brand performance and complementing established business models. Most recenly, he has been providing editorial direction for BBC iPlayer - the BBC's new, easy-to-use internet catch-up service, which allows UK licence-fee payers the opportunity to download or stream their favourite BBC TV programmes. He has also played a pivotal role in shaping the audience-facing offer across the BBC's sydication relationships with TV VOD platforms in the U.K., as well as emerging services such as pushVOD.

Lance Ware
Chief Technology Officer
Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services
Lance Ware serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Technicolor’s Electronic Distribution Services group and has over a decade of digital media space experience. As CTO, Ware is responsible for Technicolor’s digital supply chain platform that supports content ingest, hosting, security, delivery, and fulfillment. Prior to joining Technicolor, Ware was the co-founder and CEO of SyncCast, a leading digital media fulfillment company specializing in encoding and transcoding, digital rights management, delivery and distribution, as well as content management services. The technologies and services developed under Ware’s tutelage power solutions for such distinguished companies as Microsoft, Billboard, Warner Music Group, The Motion Picture Association of America, Lionsgate Entertainment, NBC Universal, EMI Music Group, DirecTV and many others. Ware holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mitch Weinraub
Executive Director - Products and Services
Comcast Media Center
Mitch Weinraub is Executive Director, Products and Services for the Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable. The Denver-based CMC’s products and services encompass production and postproduction facilities, a national VOD platform, web streaming, store and forward delivery and video over IP, including IP multicasting via satellite and delivering video to PCs and portable media devices. Weinraub has over 19 years of experience designing facilities, systems and processes for the purpose of managing technology. In addition to launching the CMC’s national VOD platform, his team developed the mosaic packages used for a national video-rich navigation service and has piloted eTV applications.

Danny Wilson
President & CEO
Pixelmetrix Corporation
Danny Wilson is the founder of Pixelmetrix Corporation, a Singapore-based company that specializes in the design and production of management and telemetry systems for digital broadcasters. Pixelmetrix award-winning products are deployed globally at numerous terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV operators. A frequent speaker at IPTV and television conferences in Europe, Asia and North America, he currently serves as Editor for the Performance Monitoring/Quality of Service workgroup of the ITU-T/IPTV-FG.

Kevin S. Wirick
Vice President, Marketing IP Video Solutions
Home & Networks Mobility
Motorola, Inc.
Kevin Wirick is Vice President, Marketing for the IP Video Solutions group within Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business. Kevin joined the former General Instrument Corporation in 1996 and contributed to the development of the first digital cable system deployments with the Headend In The Sky (HITS) system. He has lead the introduction of several new video technologies including the first commercial High Definition satellite video network systems, interactive digital video cable networks, and direct broadcast satellite networks. As Vice President for Marketing, Kevin is responsible for developing and executing the product strategy to serve content providers and service providers deploying IPTV over DSL. Prior to General Instrument, Kevin was with TRW in Redondo Beach, Ca where he developed satellite communications systems and Wide Area Network switching equipment.

David Wolf
Senior Executive, Digital Transformation Lead
Accenture
David Wolf is a Senior Executive in Accenture’s Media & Entertainment industry group where he is responsible for Accenture’s global Digital Media practice. He has over 17 years experience leading and delivering large innovative technology programs. With David’s deep entertainment industry expertise, he has been on the forefront of technology changes, including Digital Content Services and eCommerce.
For the past 10 years David has been instrumental in helping define and build Accenture’s digital content services practice, including authoring points of view, developing capabilities, establishing and managing relationships with emerging technology companies and delivering strategic engagements.

Rex Wong
CEO
DaveTV
Bio coming soon...

Evan Young
Director of Broadband Services
TiVo
Evan Young is Director of Broadband Services at TiVo Inc., where he is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of broadband applications, content, and services.  He has extensive experience in broadcast, broadband, and consumer services, and has edited books on digital video recording and digital home audio recording and production.  Evan has an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard University.  While at Stanford, Evan was the founder of “The Future of Entertainment”, an annual business and technology conference about media convergence.

Doug Yule
Director of Research and Development
AccuWeather
Doug has recently embarked on a new role as Director of Research and Development with the goal of providing true product differentiation through market- leading innovations in key areas such as Radar development, web-based services, and user-centric convergent experiences. Doug served as AccuWeather’s Director of Wireless services for over five years. During his tenure, he lead the development of global wireless services, developed relationships with key carriers, integrators, OEMs, and manufacturers, and lead the way in exploring convergent services.
Prior to joining AccuWeather, Doug founded and led a U.K.-focused weather web site. Doug is a trained meteorologist and has served as a private weather service in Scotland. Doug has a B.S. in Geography, Dundee University, in Dundee, Scotland and a certificate in Management, SMEAL College of Business, Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA.