Speakers Announced for Digital Hollywood Spring, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel


February 27, 2004 /Wi-Fi Technology News/-
Digital Hollywood announced their speaker selection for Digital Hollywood Spring, (March 29-31, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel). During the past year, the combination of hundreds of speakers and thousands of industry executives in attendance, this events is now one the best combining entertainment and technology.

Partial List of Confirmed Speakers:

Russ Pillar, President and Chief Executive Officer, Viacom Digital Media Group
Gary Adelson, Managing Director, Media, Sports & Entertainment Group, Houlihan Lokey Howard Zukin
Michael Arrieta, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Sony Pictures Digital Networks
Michael Kassan, Media and Entertainment Consultant
H. Mitchell Kanner, Partner, Integrated Entertainment Partners
Jeff DeJoseph, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategic Officer, Doremus
Julian Levin, Executive Vice President, Digital Exhibition and non-Theatrical Sales, Fox Entertainment
Robert Friedman, former President, New Line TV, co-Chair New Line Cinema; current President, Classic Media, Golden Books & Harvey Entertainment
Mary Coller, Sr. Vice President, SoapCity.com, Sony Pictures Digital Networks
Jeff Binder, CEO, Broadbus Technologies
Howard Gefen, Director, Mobile Operator Solutions, Windows Mobile Division, Microsoft Corporation
Steve Sprigg, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm
Jason Hirschhorn, Senior Vice President, Digital Music and Media, MTV Networks
Frederic V. Bien, SVP Advanced Media Technology, Turner Broadcasting System
Ralph Simon, Mobile Entertainment Forum, U.S. Chair Americas
Larry Namer, President & CEO, Reality Central
Tim Hanlon, Vice President/Director of Emerging Contacts, Starcom MediaVest Group
Rich Sutton, Senior Vice President, Sales, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution
Alex Ben Block, Editor, Television Week
Ken Hertz, Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP
Jameel Spencer, Chief Marketing Officer, Bad Boy Entertainment
Marc Juris, President, Fuse TV
Elizabeth Sherman, Vice President, New Media, Endemol USA (Fear Factor, Big Brother)
James Glasscock, Director, Advanced Media Technology, Turner Broadcasting System
Reggie Bradford, president & CEO, N2 Broadband
Jim Bankoff, EVP, Programming, Properties, and Production, AOL
Todd Herman, Streaming Media Evangelist, MSN Video, Microsoft Corp.
Ross Levinsohn, Senior Vice President & General Manager - Fox Sports Interactive Media
Bruce Lyon, Industry Group Marketing Manager, Global Media & Entertainment Markets Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Ira Rubenstein, Senior Vice President, Sony Pictures Digital
Joe Lynam, CEO, PaymentOne
Don Maggi, President, intertainment
Neville Wheeler, Senior Manager, Cisco Systems
Nancy Goguen, Director of Strategic Marketing, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Scott R. Campbell, Vice Consul, British Trade International, British Consulate-General
Brian Queen, Digital Media Solutions Manager, IBM Corp.
Tony Barra, Chief Strategy Officer, Internet Home Alliance, President, Filament Consulting
Adrian Sexton, Executive Director, Business Development, Lions Gate Entertainment
Keith Hindle, VP Integrated Marketing and Interactivity, FremantleMedia North America (American Idol)
Sarah Nettinga, Director, Film, Television and Music Entertainment, NASCAR
Mark Scarpa, Producer/Director
Greg DePrez, VP, Subscription VOD, Starz Encore Group LLC
Tom Barreca, Senior Vice President, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
Charles Segars, Senior Vice President, Programming, Production and Network Strategy, FINE LIVING Network
Thomas N. Heymann, Senior Vice President/General Manager, The Biography Channel
Ed Zobrist, Group Vice President, Marketing, Vivendi Universal Games
Jason Hall, SVP, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Mark Friedler, CEO, Gigex, Inc
Dave Pahl, General Manager, Digital Still / Video Camera Product Group
Patrick Lo, CEO, NETGEAR
Dave Arland, Director of Media and Trade Relations, RCA, Thomson Consumer Products
Fred Swan, Director of Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business Unit, Logitech
Fred Davis, Chairman, Prosumer Media
Benjamin Feinman, Apple Computer
Mike Katz, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Robert Tercek, Executive VP Programming - Chief Strategy Officer, (M)FORMA
Chris Kitze, CEO, Yaga Media
Bruce Eisen, Executive Vice President, CinemaNow
Phil Corman, Director, Partner, Business Development, MSTV, Microsoft Corp.
Craig Dalton, Director, Business Development, Proteus
Chung Liu, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of Engineering, ACCESS Systems America
Dale (Ty) Roberts, Chief Technology Officer, Gracenote
Carles Guillot, Business Development Director, MobileWay
Jerrold Brandt, Head, Media and Entertainment Research Unit, Synovate
Shawn Conahan, President, Conahan Consulting
Rio Caaeff, Vice President, Wireless Services, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
Jason Devitt, Chief Executive Officer & President, Vindigo Studios
Fabrice Grinda, founder & CEO, Zingy
Douglas Scott, co-founder & Partner, MATTER
Joyce Schwarz, Author & founder, JCOM
Gina Centoni, Vice President of Developer Marketing for Openwave Systems, Inc.
Josette Bonte, Managing Director, Broadband Services, RHK
David Frerichs, VP & US General Manager, Coding Technologies, Inc.
Evan Harrison, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Music, America Online
Ellie Hirschhorn, General Manager and Executive Vice President, MusicNet
Chris Schairbaum, World Wide Business Manager, Portable Audio/Infotainment, Texas Instruments
Christina Tancredi, SVP Marketing, Advertising & Sponsorship Sales, Music Choice
Janet Snowdon, IBM Corp.
Lisa Crane, Managing Partner, Media Venture Advisors
David B. Davies, Director, Strategic Marketing for Subscriber Networks, Scientific-Atlanta
Joe Jensen, General Manager, Consumer Electronics Group, Intel Corporation
Stephen DiFranco, Vice President of Corporate and Brand Marketing, Maxtor Corporation
William Chien, Director of Product Marketing for Pinnacle Systems Business and Consumer Division
Alison Moore, Director of Sales & Marketing, HBO
Edward Stansfield, CEO, Studio 4
Will Griffin, President and COO, Simmons Lathan Media Group
Bev Doughty, Senior Vice President Marketing, TVN Entertainment Corporation
Howie Singer, PhD, VP Technology, Warner Music Group
Bob Ohlweiler, SVP Business Development, MUSICMATCH
Srivats Sampath, former President & CEO, McAfee, CEO, Mercora
Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 - Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music
Alan Schulman, Chief Creative Officer, Advanced Media Solutions, Brand New World
Brad Oleshansky, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, Game Show Network
Kevin Townsend, founder, Science + Fiction
Julie Shumaker, Director of Advertising Sales, Electronic Arts
Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC
Scott Randall, President, BrandGames
Josh Rose, Senior Vice President, Director of iDeutsch, Deutsch, Inc.
Roxanne Gryder, Intel Research and Development, Technology Manager, Corporate Technology Group (CTG)
Michael Collette, Chief Executive Officer, Ucentric
Anthony Wood, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Roku
Jeremy Toeman, Associate Vice President of Products Management, Mediabolic
Erik Scheelke, co-Founder, President & CTO and Board Member, DigitalDeck
Ben Mendelson, founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance
Rick Dean, Director Technical Business Development, THX
Greg Berkin, President/CEO/Founder, Think Digital, Inc.
Neil McGinness, Vice President, National Lampoon
Aaron Markham, Manager of Internet Anti-Piracy, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, Universal Studios
John Godwin, Chief Technology Officer, Movielink
Russell P. Reeder, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, RightsLine
IAN C. BALLON, chairman of the Internet and E-Commerce Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Dan Hart, CEO, Echo (consortium owned by Best Buy, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, Virgin Entertainment Group, Wherehouse Entertainment, and Trans World Entertainment)
Dan Hart, General Manager, Yahoo! Games
Scott Kauffman, CEO, MusicNow
Don Teague, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, PaymentOne
Bradley M. Mindich, CEO, People2People Group & EVP, Phoenix Media/Communications Group
Andrew Rosenman, Director, Account Management, 141XM North America, div., WPP Group
Chris Colborn, VP of Interaction Design, R/GA
Paul Zullo, CEO, Muze
Susan S. Bratton, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, mailblocks, inc.
Bruce Davis, Chairman & CEO, Digimarc Corp.
Rajan Samtani, Director, Sales & Marketing, ContentGuard
Rist Brouwer, founder, DMDsecure
Christopher Levy, CEO & President, BuyDRM.com
David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac
Gunjan Bhow, Director of Platform Product Strategy, Microsoft TV Group, Microsoft Corporation
Richard D. Titus, Managing Partner, Schematic
Ed Huguez, CEO, MidStream Technologies
Joseph Ambeault, Director of Broadband Systems, SeaChange International
Mark Schaszberger, Chairman and CEO, IMAKE Software & Services, Inc.
Allison Dollar, founder & co-President, Interactive Television Alliance
David O. Higley, Head of US Digital Media Technologies, UBS Warburg LLC
Sun Jen Yung, Director, Media Investment Banking, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Allen Sussman, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Bob Davis, Partner, Highland Capital Partners, former CEO TerraLycos
Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
Donald Karl, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc.
John Manulis, CEO, Visionbox Media
Thomas Jones, Senior Vice President, Shopping Services and Advice, CNET Networks Inc
Craig Calder, VP, Creative Services, New York Times
Jeff Kapner, Regional Director, Marketing and Strategy, Adelphia California Region
Jody Stark, Media & Entertainment Industry Leader, Blast Radius
Ron Frankel, CEO, Synacor
Donald A. Jasko, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Economics
Bill Allman, Sr. Vice President, Interactive Media, Discovery Networks
Jeffrey Pollack, Managing Director, Broadcasting & New Media, NASCAR Digital Entertainment
John P. Roberts, Senior Vice President Interactive & Online Entertainment, Game Show Network
William Corbin, Vice President, Interactive Production, A&E Television Networks
John Gilles, Director of Interactive Television, TechTV
Scott Fedewa, Executive Producer & COO, BillO'Reilly.com
Marcia Zellers, Director, Enhanced Television, American Film Institute
Walt Ordway, Chief Technology Officer, DCI
Doug Darrow, Business Manager for DLP Cinema?
Frank Stirling, Executive Director, Boeing Digital Cinema
Steve Schklair, President & CEO, Cobalt Entertainment Technology
Steve Bergman, Vice President, Digital Cinema, Deluxe
Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba America Information Systems
Jack P. Guedj, Vice President Video Products Marketing, Cirrus Logic
Sandip H. Mandera, Digital Home Evangelist/Staff Technical Marketing Engineer Software & Solutions, Intel Corporation
John LeMoncheck, Vice President of Consumer Electronics Products, Silicon Image
Henry Wiechman, Worldwide Manager, Streaming Media, Texas Instruments
Michelle Abraham, Sr. Analyst, In-Stat/MDR
Brian Seth Hurst, President, Opportunity Management Company
Geoff Barrall, Founder and CTO, BlueArc
David Rice, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Limelight Network
Tom Inglefield, StorageTek
Steve Bradbury, CyberStuff
Ryan Petty, Vice President, Engineering and Operations, Myrio
Dr. Ji Zhang, co-founder, chairman and CTO, Exavio, Inc.
John O'Donnell, co-founder and CTO, Equator Technologies
David Price, Vice President, Business Development, Harmonic Inc,
Mark J. Kapczynski, President, MESoft Partners, LLC
Gunjan Bhow, Director of Platform Product Strategy, Microsoft TV Group, Microsoft Corporation
David McElhatten, Creative Director, Vidiom Systems Corporation
Bow Rodgers, CEO, MyDTV
Dalen Harrison, President, CEO and Director, Ensequence
Scott Newnam, CEO, Goldpocket
Bow Rodgers, Chief Executive Officer, MyDTV
Bill Niemeyer, founder, Centrimedia
Tim Napoleon, Director of Business Development, VitalStream, Inc.
Robert Flynn, CEO, Zetools
Donald Leka, CEO, Trans Media Exchange
Shoba Purushothaman, President and Chief Executive Officer, The NewsMarket, Inc.
Darcy Lorincz, Vice President & General Manager, Global Rich Media Services, SAVVIS Communication
Milind Gadekar, VP Marketing, P-Cube
Katherine Parker, former, Business Development Manager for Entertainment & Media Industry, Sun Microsystems
Mads Lillelund, President, Magno Networks
Tom Flanagan, Director, Worldwide Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng, BCD Chair, Director Marketing and Business Development, Broadband Media & Entertainment, Alcatel
Emil Regard, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Hughes Network Systems
Seth Kenvin, Vice President Corporate Development, BigBand Networks
Tom Sauer, Director, Business Development, SkyStream Networks
John North, Director, The Skyler Management Group
Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks
Albhy Galuten, former, Sr. Vice President, Advanced Technology, Universal Music Group
Travis Kalanick, founder, Chairman, Red Swoosh, Inc.
Charles Nesson, Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Scott Cohen, Co-Founder & President, Red Tie Media
Jack Perry, President & CEO, Decisionmark
Tom Hagopian, SVP and General Manager, Advertising and Programming, OpenTV
Jonathan Symonds, VP, Business Development, ICTV
Bill Schick, Vice President, Media & Entertainment Group, EDS
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media Corp.
Jacqueline Corbelli, Co-Chief Executive Officers, BrightLine Partners
Peter H. Kang, Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Perry Solomon, President & CEO, Peppercoin
Tom Trinneer, VP, Products, Qpass
Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Containers
Gabe Zichermann, VP of Strategy and Communications, Trymedia Systems
Les Ottolenghi, Founding Partner, INTENT MediaWorks
Derek Broes, EVP, Altnet
Luke Rippy, CEO, Seamless P2P
Martin C. Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)
Matthew S. Bromberg, Vice President and General Manager of AOL Games, America Online, Inc.
Ken Goldstein, Vice President & Managing Director, Disney Online
Jason Bell, Executive Vice President, Turbine Entertainment Software
Keith McCurdy, Interactive and Online Industry Veteran and Consultant
Joshua Hong, co-founder and CEO, K2 Network
Kim Pallister, Technical Marketing Manager and Processor Evangelist, Software and Solutions Group, Intel Corp.
Dick Jones, Director of Programming, Verizon
Jay Fausch, Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing, Alcatel Broadband Networking Division - Broadband Access
Leif Street, Director of Marketing, Wood County Telephone
Ken Pyle, Viodi, LLC
James Lamberti, Vice President of Entertainment and Media Solutions, comScore Networks, Inc.
Karim Sanjabi, EVP, Creative & Technology, Carat Interactive
Chris Roberts, Sr. VP Sales & Marketing, Rentrak


Registration is now open for Digital Hollywood Spring, see http://www.digitalhollywood.com/DHSpring2004.html. Digital Hollywood represents the "Transformation of the Entertainment Industry".

About Digital Hollywood

Digital Hollywood is the premier entertainment and technology conference in the United States. In the past decade, over 40,000 industry executives have attended Digital Hollywood.

All the top executives in each of the hot industry sectors, from DTV, HDTV, SVOD, VOD, Wireless, DVD, Games, Broadband, On-Demand TV, DRM, ITV, Set-Top, Search, Home Networking, Marketing and Advertising will be there.



Contact:
Victor Harwood
President
http://www.digitalhollywood.com
Digital Hollywood
421 Hudson St., #320
New York, NY 10014
212-352-9720