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Platinum Sponsors
Accenture
www.accenture.com
Accenture helps entertainment, broadcast, publishing, printing and portal companies adapt to the realities of the digital evolution and capitalize on new opportunities to improve business performance. Its dedicated professionals provide media and entertainment companies with a distinctive combination of business and technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing capabilities. Accenture has worked with 19 of the 20 largest media and entertainment companies in the world. With approximately 170,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Gold Sponsors
Motorola
6450 Sequence Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
858.404.1500
www.motorola.com/ipvideo
Flexible service delivery solutions for operators. The Motorola Wireline portfolio enables network operators to offer their customers compelling entertainment and communications services no matter how they're connected. By leveraging a single access network that integrates broadband fiber, copper, and wireless technologies, operators can focus on developing new and exciting IPTV service offering, while ensuring that their users enjoy personalized experiences and consistent connectivity. Motorola offers a full portfolio of IPTV solutions over fiber and copper technologies, enabling Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) and Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) solutions for both residential and business applications.
Silver Sponsors
Envivio
400 Oyster Point Boulevard
Suite 325
South San Francisco, CA 94080
650.243.2700
www.envivio.com
Envivio is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos, enterprises, and broadcasters. Envivio solutions support the "3 screens" of video - TV's, PC's and mobile phones - and make IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD.
Ioko
www.ioko.com
Kontiki ioko provides a complete corporate communications solution for delivering business videos to employees, partners & customers. Solution users include Adobe, Autodesk, Ernst & Young, Nextel, Palm, VeriSign as well as consumer broadcasters AOL & the BBC
Bronze Sponsors
Pixelmetrix
www.pixelmetrix.com
Pixelmetrix Corporation is the global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television and IPTV networks. The company provides equipment and network intelligence systems to television broadcasters for the management and monitoring of quality of service and quality of experience. Headquartered in Singapore, Pixelmetrix has offices in the United States and Europe.
Pixelmetrix suite of quality assurance solutions are featured as the DVStation, DVStation-Remote, DVStation-Pod, DVStation-IP3, DVStation-Mini, DVStor, DVStorIP, DVStorIP-Gen, DVShift, DPI Auditor, EndGame, Electronic Couch Potato, ECP Consolidator, Video Validator, VISUALmpeg and more.
For more information, visit www.pixelmetrix.com or email to info@pixelmetrix.com.
Accuweather, Inc.
385 Science Park Road
State College, PA 16803
www.accuweather.com
AccuWeather, established in 1962, is the World's Weather Authority. We provide local forecasts for everywhere in the United States and over two million locations worldwide. We also provide our products and services to more than 175,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions. Our headquarters in State College, PA, is home to the greatest number of forecast meteorologists in one location anywhere in the world.
NDS
1 Heathrow Boulevard
286 Bath Road
West Drayton
Middlesex UB7 0DQ
UK
+44 (0)20 8476 8000
www.nds.com
NDS enables broadcasters, network TV operators and content providers to profit from the deployment of digital TV technologies including innovative solutions for digital video recorders, interactivity, secure broadband, home networks, and content on the go. Around the world, NDS VideoGuard® conditional access systems secure service revenues of approximately $32 billion, and are in use in over 72 million digital boxes. Headquartered in the UK, with offices worldwide, NDS employs over 3,400 people and continues to make a major commitment to R&D, with over 2,900 employees dedicated to pioneering development work at centers in Israel, France, Denmark, Korea, China, India, and the UK.
NDS ('NNDS') is traded on the NASDAQ and Euronext Brussels stock exchanges. Its largest shareholder is News Corporation, the global media and entertainment company.
Arxan
6903 Rockledge Drive, Suite #910
Bethesda, MD 20817
301.968-4290
www.arxan.com
Arxan protects Intellectual Property (IP) from software piracy, tampering, reverse engineering and any manner of theft. We protect software , and fortify License Management and DRM applications. Our patented technology includes but goes beyond obfuscation and encryption to actively defend, detect, and react to attacks. Arxan makes privacy and tampering virtually impossible, so developers of DRM enabled applications can meet target robustness requirements and safeguard copyrights and revenues. For the past 5 years, Arxan's IP fortification technology has been protecting America's critical military information. The company's products are based on advanced technology developed at CERIAS, an NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance at Purdue University.
Ericsson
North American Headquarters
6300 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
972.583.0000
www.ericsson.com
Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in the world and supports all major standards for wireless communication. We drive the telecoms industry and are shaping the future of mobile and broadband internet communications through continuous technology leadership. Ericsson has been providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries and is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. Ericsson IPX is a non-branded, white-label service that comprises mobile billing and connectivity via SMS, MMS or GPRS/UMTS. The premium service, IPX Payment, is available to more than 650 million mobile subscribers in 20 countries, and new markets are being added continuously. With the non-premium service, IPX Messaging, content providers can deliver and receive SMS messages from mobile subscribers worldwide.
Abacast
www.abacast.com
Abacast Inc. is a hybrid CDN technology and services provider developing customized solutions to drive rich media streaming initiatives. Our revenue generating features like Ad Injection, Subscription Systems and Synchronized Ads help business models become profitable. Abacast provides more efficient delivery options with standard unicast, P2P, or hybrid combinations and our understandable analytics, like our Performance Reporting Tool, allow you to monitor your objectives with accurate, real-time data that is designed for business and media people alike. Since 2000, Abacast has a proven record of being able to create technologies and services that are making the business of streaming better.
Highwinds
807 W. Morse Boulevard
Suite 101
Winter Park, FL 32789
407.215.2400
www.highwinds.com
Highwinds has been a leader in the development of content replication and delivery software and services since 2002. This experience has led to a number of technology innovations in network management, distributed file system technology and advanced routing methods. To help solve the problem of slow content delivery, the Highwinds CDN enables you to deploy content, file downloads and streaming media over our vast worldwide private network of interconnected servers and high-speed fiber-optic network connections. Your customers will be able to quickly and reliably access content - even high-impact, high-bandwidth video and multimedia content that has historically been difficult to deliver reliably over the public Internet.
Wi-Fi TV Inc.
3434 Via Lido #300
Newport Beach, CA 92663
949.675.5011
www.wi-fitv.com
In February 2008, Wi-Fi TV Inc. launched a completely new web site which
shall serve as the central and main focus of the Company's business
operations from this point forward. The home page of the site is
accessible at the URL www.Wi-FiTV.com. The purpose of Wi-Fi TV T is to
deliver live TV Stations and other video based content, along with
multiple interactive features, on a global scale by means of the
Internet. Anyone with a Internet enabled device (which includes
Internet-enabled laptop computers, desktop computers, PDAs, cellular
phones and TVs), and a DSL, cable, T1, or other form of fast wireless
(wi-fi or maxi-fi) or wired Internet connection, located in most parts
of the world, can access the Wi-Fi TV web site.
NXP Semiconductors
Groenewoudseweg 1
5621 BA, Eindhoven
the Netherlands
www.nxp.com
NXP is a newly independent semiconductor company (founded by Philips) with a fifty-year history of providing engineers and designers with semiconductors and software that deliver better sensory experiences for mobile communications, consumer electronics, security applications, contactless payment and connectivity, and in-car entertainment and networking.
Building on its heritage in consumer research, significant R&D investment and world-class industry partners, NXP's "vibrant media technologies" allow consumers to enjoy better sensory experiences - brilliant images, crisp clear sound and easy sharing of information in homes, cars and mobile devices.
Contributing Sponsor
TVU networks
www.tvunetworks.com
TVU Networks, www.tvunetworks.com, delivers a live global Internet TV service. To date, 12 million viewers from 200 countries have downloaded the service to watch the over 300 live Internet TV channels. TVU combines patent-pending Internet technology with a global network of content providers to bring viewers programs that they won't find on their local cable and satellite TV system. For TV broadcasters, both professional and amateur, TVU Networks offers a cost-effective turnkey solution to reach a global viewer base with an unlimited channel capacity and very low broadcasting costs. TVU's solution includes effective monetization capabilities for content owners, including geo-filtering, subscription services and personalized in-stream ad insertion tools. The TVU service is currently shipping bundled into all HP Pavillion consumer laptops.
Media Partners
Business Wire
44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415.986.4422
888.381.9473
www.businesswire.com
Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals. In fact, Business Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around the globe.
Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
www.mocalliance.org
Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCAT), www.mocalliance.org , an open industry initiative promoting delivery of video and entertainment over coax, ensuring interoperability with member products and coexistence with other delivery mediums, under a RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing environment. Co-founders Cisco/Linksys, Comcast, Cox, Echostar, Entropic Communications, Motorola, Panasonic, Toshiba, RadioShack and Verizon are on the board of directors. MoCA has completed numerous certification waves, independent field tests validating more than 110 Mpbs net throughput, and has more than 43 members to date.
Rogers & Cowan
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-854-8124
www.rogersandcowan.com
Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty practice, has been meeting the public relations needs of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer technologies and lifestyles, and related programming, hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides public relations and strategic marketing counsel services to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums and Mobile Entertainment Forums.

WiFi Alliance
www.wifialliance.com
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). With the aim of enhancing the user experience for wireless portable, mobile, and home entertainment devices, the Wi-Fi Alliance's testing and certification programs help ensure the interoperability of WLAN products based on the IEEE 802.11 specification. Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification program in March 2000, more than 4,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets.
Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Alliance, WMM, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo, the Wi-Fi logo, and the Wi-Fi ZONE logo are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance; Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Multimedia, and the Wi-Fi Alliance logo are trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.


















