Sponsors
Bronze Sponsor
Vignette Corporation
1301 South MoPac Expressway
Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746
512.741.4300
For many enterprise organizations, the Web is the first and most important point of contact with customers and prospects. Vignette helps these organizations improve customer interactions by delivering highly personalized, participatory online experiences. Our Next-Generation Web solutions help Global 1000 organizations win and retain customers and grow revenue by delivering custom content anytime, anywhere, to any Internet-enabled device. Government agencies worldwide look to Vignette to increase efficiency and more effectively connect and interact with their constituents. Our Imaging and Workflow solutions enable organizations to digitize physical documents and manage and deliver that content to multiple online channels.
For more than ten years, we have played an integral role in the evolution of the Internet. Once a passive, search and consume platform, the Web is now a vibrant, collaborative and contribution-rich medium. Our early content management and delivery tools laid the groundwork for some of the Web's most popular sites. Today, our award-winning solutions power some of the world's most powerful online brands and enable organizations to have more meaningful interactions with their customers.
Vignette is headquartered in Austin, Texas with operations worldwide..
Vector Data
1037 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 450-9709
Vector Data is a provider of content distribution systems for the delivery and caching of digital assets. We specialize in solutions for internet video & audio delivery, IPTV, VOD, mobile TV, web hosting, and more. Vector Data designs and builds highly scalable, redundant infrastructures. The building blocks of these turnkey systems include servers, storage, and networking equipment. We also provide professional services including consulting, architecture, installation and maintenance.
Anystream
21335 Signal Hill Plaza
Sterling, Virginia 20164
888.ANYSTREAM
1.703.450.7030
Anystream first targeted the world's largest content producers, designing ultra-reliable, scalable software that automated the laborious process of encoding and transcoding media for demanding broadcast and production environments. Anystream's Agility software has become the trusted standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media giants as BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, FoxSports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and hundreds more. Anystream was recently recognized as the industry's largest software-based encoder by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Together, Anystream’s media automation solutions schedule, manage, transform, deliver and track media assets. Content providers now have the ability to measure and analyze the impact of their assets and investments to profitably support new business models.
ChoiceStream
210 Broadway
Fourth Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)498-780
As the leading provider of personalization for the Web, mobile operators and TV, ChoiceStream is consumer marketing at its best. ChoiceStream delivers a unique, one-to-one experience to millions of consumers every day. Relied on by the world's largest sites and services, including AOL, AT&T, DirecTV and Yahoo!, ChoiceStream helps companies increase ARPU, boost loyalty, and drive acquisition and profitability by automatically delivering the most relevant content and products to each consumer. For marketers looking for results in today's competitive environment, ChoiceStream is the first choice for connecting and communicating with consumers.
NDS
1 Heathrow Boulevard
286 Bath Road
West Drayton
Middlesex UB7 0DQ
UK
+44 (0)20 8476 8000
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.
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
508.435.1000
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage. We are a trusted provider of information infrastructure, helping organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what's right and on putting our customers' best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. We say what we mean and do what we say. We are EMC, where information lives.
Digisoft.tv Limited
357 S. McCaslin Blvd.
Suite 200,
Louisville,
CO 80027
303 926 4920
Founded in 2000, Digisoft.tv (DigiSoft) is a leading global provider of carrier class Interactive TV and IPTV software Solutions. Leveraging our years of experience in the Broadcast market, Digisoft delivers solutions from head-end to STB that allow operators to; develop, test, manage and deploy next generation interactive television services. Digisoft’s scalable solutions reduce the CAPEX required to launch differentiating IPTV services and increase ARPU.
Digisoft has spent over 40 man-years developing the worlds most advanced IPTV Service Delivery Solution, and the Company’s flagship product, . Digihost is the engine that enables Operators to rapidly deploy new interactive services, such as; Video on Demand (VOD), Time Shifted TV, Networked Personal Video Recorder (NPVR), E-Learning, and a library of pre-developed on demand Service Applications. Digihost also consists of a flexible Interactive Programming Guide.
Supporting Sponsor
BASSETT Executive Search Solutions
Manhattan Beach, CA
310.984.6810
BASSETT Executive Search Solutions is a retained executive search firm serving emerging growth companies in new media, entertainment, technology and consumer industries. Our search experience includes: Chief Executive Management, Senior Level Marketing, Sales, Operations, Human Resources, Technical, Financial and Professional Services leaders. “CONVERGENCE” EXPERTS… When start-up companies create brand new industries/markets by merging two or more disciplines; we help them bring in unique talent with multi-industry/disciplinary experience who will best serve the business goals.
EMERGING-GROWTH CONSULTANTS… Often clients aren’t sure exactly which position to create/hire first, so we help them identify unique profiles and career paths, recommend multi-industry target companies, and develop strategic hiring plans that will ensure the talent pool fits the company’s growth stage and business objectives.
Media Partners
ABI Research
501 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10018
516-624-2500
ABI Research was founded in 1990 to assist manufacturers of wireless semiconductor components in understanding and entering new markets. As tech-driven emerging markets proliferated during the 90's, ABI Research expanded its analytical coverage to a broader base of manufacturers and service companies participating in the technology market revolution. ABI Research is committed to reinvestment in research infrastructure, enhancing knowledge sharing and speeding the flow of information between our research teams and the industries we cover.
Business Wire
44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415.986.4422
888.381.9473
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.
MPEG Industry Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
510.492.4028
The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users." The activities of MPEGIF generally start where MPEG stops. This includes issues that MPEG cannot deal with, e.g. because of ISO rules, such as clearance of patents.
Multimedia over Coax Alliance
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.
Parks Associates
5310 Harvest Hill Road
Suite 235, Lock Box 162
Dallas, Texas 75230
972.490.1113
Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home. The company's expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems.
Rogers & Cowan
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-854-8124
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. SCSI Cables LC Duplex Fiber Optic cables LC Loopbacks

Amy Friedlander-
Hoffman
Senior VP, Programming
AT&T Operations

Sheau Ng
VP, Consumer and Broadcast Technology,
NBC Universal
CEO
Digisoft.tv Limited
Director of Media Services, Microsoft TV
Microsoft Corporation
Director, Segment Marketing
NDS
President
Scripps Networks Interactive
Product Manager, Video Syndication
YouTube
CEO & Founder
Swarmcast
Director FiOS TV Video
Verizon Communications
IP Practice Manager
The Diffusion Group
Partner Manager, Global TME Digital Media
EMC Corporation
President and Principal Analyst
X Media Research
General Manager of Advanced Media
Charter Media
Director, Business Innovation & Development
Surewest Communications
President of Entertainment
Dave Networks
Senior Producer for Original Content
TV Guide Online
VP, Distribution, New Technologies
Lifetime Television
Managing Director, Telecommunications and Media,
Compete
Co-Founder, President, CEO
Eyespot
Managing Director
The Kerton Group
Senior Product Marketing Manager
AMD, Inc.
Principal Analyst & Co Founder
TelecomView
Director of Product Marketing
AOL Video
Global Director, New Media Markets
AP Digital
CEO and Founder
ShortBrain TV
CTO
Vignette Corporation
Vice President
FOX Interactive Media
VP, Footage & Multimedia
Getty Image
Chief Network Architect
Principal, Detecon Inc.
President
Viodi, LLC
Co-Founder. Chief Strategy & Development Officer
Comcast
President, Emerging Networks
Multimedia Intelligence
Chief Technology Officer
TVN Entertainment Corp.
Co-President and Head of Programming
NO GOOD TV (NGTV)
President
Faith TV
EVP Sales & Marketing
Choice Stream
Director of Broadband Services
TiVo
VP of Products
Anystream


