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On Camera
Ann Shaub, director, connected Home & CPE, Verizon
February 2012
- Verizon services supporting “borderless lifestyle”
- Unifying multiple apps on a simple-to-use interface
- Addressing CSR and tech support issues
Graham Oakes, CEO, Media Science International and Ezee Studios, & chairman, Digital Watermarking Alliance
February 2012
- New applications for watermarking
- Pros & cons of watermarking vs. fingerprinting
- Watermarking role in content monetization
Kevin Smith, group VP, Spotlight Integrated Media Services, Comcast Spotlight
February 2012
- Integrated media services agenda
- Building new value models
- Pace of advertiser engagement
Tom Lattie, VP, Product Management, Production, Playout & Multiscreen, Harmonic, Inc.
February 2012
- New video processing strategies
- Tradeoffs software vs. hardware systems
- Flexible approaches to optimizing both
Sam Blackman, chairman & CEO, Elemental Technologies
February 2012
- Evolution of transcoding
- Adaptive rate role in premium services
- Converging managed and unmanaged networks
Tom Sauer, Vice President, Video Business Development, AT&T
January 2012
- New U-verse initiatives
- Consumer responses
- Future directions
Julien Signès, President & CEO, Envivio
January 2012
- Viability of software-based encoding
- New multiscreen advertising platform
- Data centers as cable headends
Kshitij Kumar, SVP, New Ventures, Concurrent
January 2012
- Processing innovations for TV Everywhere
- Pace of evolution to multiscreen services
- Making live TV work in multiscreen servic
Louisa Shipnuck, chief marketing strategist, Verizon Digital Media Services
December 2011
- Wholesale strategies
- Advanced analytics
- New services
Alex Garcia-Tobar, CEO, SyncTV
November 2011
- Tech requirements for multiscreen publishing
- New multiscreen OTT strategies
- U.S. networks’ experimentation abroad
Kevin Shields, director, product management, Digimarc
October 2011
- Digimarc’s Media-Sync JV with Nielsen
- The pervasive watermarking foundation in TV
- Demo of applications
Timothy Dodd, VP & GM, Neustar Media
October 2011
- UltraViolet launch status
- Getting consumers engaged with UV
- New initiatives tied to Neustar platform
Chris Cinnamon, Partner, Cinnamon Mueller
September 2011
- Legal nuances of retransmission consent
- Risks to cable ops
- New quirk in cable copyright law
Jay Fausch, Executive Director, Marketing & Product Development, Alcatel-Lucent Alex Glass, VP, Global Operations, the Platform
July 2011
- Strategy behind A-L/thePlatform Deal
- Parameters of combined solutions
- Market needs and opportunities
Scott Puopolo, VP, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco
July 2011
- Looking 20 years out
- Multi-purpose screens
- User immersion
Mitch Bowling, SVP, new business, Comcast
July 2011
- Comcast’s new connected-home service
- Personal help-desk service
- Innovations in the pipeline
Ian Blaine, CEO, thePlatform
July 2011
- Trends in streamlining IP migration
- thePlatform’s role in Comcast’s Xfinity
- Prospects for cross-platform advertising
Ken Morse, Cisco, The Cable Show 2011
June 2011
- Progress on Videoscape technology
- Early implementations
- Remaining challenges
Matt Milne, EVP, consumer electronics sales, Rovi
June 2011
- Innovations in electronic sell-through
- Navigation and protection solutions
- How RoxioNow fits with UltraViolet
Luke McDonough, co-founder & CEO, Real Gravity
June 2011
- Challenges to syndicating Web content
- Low-cost, highly scalable solutions
- The emergence of independent TV outlets
Jaspal Bhasin, COO, itaas
June 2011
- EBIF footprint
- Early drivers in advertising
- New ideas in ITV
Pierre Routhier, VP, 3D product strategy & business development, Technicolor
May 2011
- 3DTV quality issues
- Pace of content development
- Production advances
Jake Winett, global industry manager, media & entertainment, Microsoft Communications Sector
May 2011
- Changing attitudes about cloud-based operations
- The role of the Microsoft cloud initiative
- Applications now moving to the cloud
Alex Terpstra, CEO, Civolution
May 2011
- Prospects for home premier service
- Advances in watermarking
- Automatic content recognition
Jan Steenkamp, VP, Americas, Irdeto
May 2011
- Emerging security needs in premium content
- Prospects for OTT
- Hollywood strategies
Brick Eksten, president, Digital Rapids
May 2011
- Cloud-based streaming support
- Interoperability issues in Web video production
- Progress in 3DTV
John Burke, SVP & GM, converged experiences, Motorola Mobility
May 2011
- Cable’s IP migration path
- Accommodating variations in strategies
- Multi-room DVR & the hybrid approach
Suranga Chandratillake, founder & CEO, blinkx
March 2011
- Advances in video search
- Connected TV search strategies
- Aggregator enhancements
Wilfred Martis, GM, consumer electronics products, Digital Home Group, Intel
March 2011
- Penetration of Atom processors
- Connected TV strategies
- Emerging display capabilities
Eric Bruno, VP, product development, Verizon Telecom
January 2011
- Flex View rollout
- Prospects for national reach
- Tablet strategy
Laura Martin, managing director, senior analyst, Needham & Co., LLC
January 2011
- Prospects for subscription TV
- Google TV
- Service provider competition
Jim Turner, SVP product management, Canoe Ventures
January 2011
- EBIF Rollouts
- Progress on addressable advertising
- New Initiatives
Bob Benya, President and CEO, iN Demand
October 2010
- Prospects for early-window movie releases
- Impact of OTT on VOD
- Streamlining VOD distribution
John Astorino, AVP Product Management, Sandvine
October 2010
- Global usage trends in broadband
- Impact of video streaming
- SP options to improve usage patterns
Mark Dzuban, CEO, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
October 2010
- IP in cable
- Exploiting Network Intelligence
- Preparing personnel for new tech
Kelly Day, COO Digital Media and Discovery, Discovery Communications
June 2010
- Content development
- Advanced advertising
- Mobile strategies
David Gwozdz, CEO, Mojiva
June 2010
- Mobile advertising
- Dynamics of support platforms
- Role of video
Simon Tidman, VP sales & marketing, HDLogix
June 2010
- 3DTV in Sports
- Live 3DTV production strategies
- Technical issues in 3DTV
Rick Dean, Chairman, 3D @ Home Consortium, SVP, THX
June 2010
- Quality Parameters for 3DTV
- The need for 3D metadata
- Role of 2D-to-3D conversion
Terry Denson, VP programming & marketing, Verizon FiOS TV
June 2010
- TV Everywhere
- Fixed/mobile video convergence
- OTT Expansion
Dan Schinasi, Sr Marketing Manager, HDTV Product Planning, Visual Display Group, Samsung
June 2010
- Samsung's 3D TV set strategy
- Keys to quality experience
- Competitive environment
Technology Showcase

Aria Demo with EchoStar Technologies’ product manager Alistair Chatwin
February 2012

Rovi demonstrates its new TotalGuide G2 navigation system
February 2012

Jeff Vinson, Audible Magic, shows the firm’s fingerprinting-based automatic content recognition technology.
January 2012

Andy Schwabecher of 8x8 discusses hosted conferencing and cloud storage solutions.
September 2011

Amdocs regional sales director David Cardell demonstrates a connected-home platform
August 2011

Jim Elayan, VP, Marketing, Itaas, demonstrates a wide range of advanced applications
July 2011

James Field, director of technology for new initiatives, NDS
July 2011

Zodiac Interactive CEO Brandon Brown demonstrates AMS.
July 2011

Nagra takes a new approach to navigation with Gravity, a user interface that replaces the grid with a video-centric, panel-based overlay design supporting fast browsing across all TV content from all sources.
July 2011

Ericsson introduces Media Delivery Management System built from the ground up to provide dynamic routing, database architecture and other features critical to multi-screen content operations.
July 2011

Amberfin’s Media Factory file-based workflow management system automates ingestion, transcoding, QC and other key functions.
June2011

ZiXi shows how its platform dramatically alters the quality of over-the-top video
May 2011

Verimatrix shows its StreamMark technology
May 2011

Cisco Systems Videoscape platform for end-to-end multi-device video distribution
January 2011

NDS Converged Gateway
October 2010

thePlatform mpx Video Management
October 2010

SeaChange Adrenalin Back Office
October 2010

OpenTV Interactive TV System
May 2010

ARRIS Media Gateway
October 2010

Concurrent Cloud-Based IP Video Management
October 2010

Envivio Multi-Screen Transcoding
April 2010

Ericsson Whole Home Media Navigation
May 2010

Harmonic Encoding, Distribution Management & CDN Systems
April 2010
January 2012 Print Issue

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