Keynote Speaker

Eric Rodli
Executive Vice President & General Manager of Entertainment
Macrovision

Blair Westlake
Corporate Vice President, Media & Entertainment Group
Microsoft Corporation


Featured Speakers

Tom Adams
President
Adams Media Research


Chris Armstrong
Founder & CEO
PortoMedia


Richard Atkinson
VP Global Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations
The Walt Disney Studios

Anthony Bay
Executive Chairman/Co-Founder
Mod Systems

Jonathan Bender
Senior VP of Operations and Digital Media,
Concord Music Group

Jim Bottoms
Co-Managing Director
Understanding and Solutions


Benn Carr
VP of New Technology
The Walt Disney Studios


Todd Collart
Senior Vice President New Technology
Deluxe Digital Studios

Stephen Condon
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Broadband Content Services
VeriSign


Sven Davison
Vice President Content Development & Production
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Don Eklund
EVP Advanced Technologies
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Jeff Fochtman
Sr. Marketing Manager Worldwide Consumer Electronics
Seagate Technology


Joseph A. Grasso
Manager, Graphics & Marketing Services, Americas Consumer Brands
Imation Corp.

Dave Hoffman
Vice President
Nielsen Home Entertainment

Stephan Hotz
Head of Product Management Optical Disc
Singulus Technologies

Toshio Koike
Senior Corporate Advisor
Marubeni Techno-Systems America

Van Ling
DVD/Blu-ray producer, visual effects supervisor, consultant and digital artist

Bill Mandel
Vice President, Broadband Technology
Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, a division of NBC Universal

Bob Michaels
Vice President, Worldwide DVD
Technicolor Creative Services

Michael Mitchell
Executive Vice President and General Manager
Sony DADC

Spencer John Mott
Director of International Security and Risk Management
Electronic Arts (EA)

Tim Napoleon
Chief Strategist, Media and Entertainment
Akamai Technologies


Todd Rosenbaum
Founder and CEO
Polar Frog Digital


Dr. Leonhard Schwab
Co-founder, CTO and Managing Director
dr.schwab Inspection Technology

Marianne Sernevi
Executive Vice President Optical Media
AudioDev AB

James Steynor
CEO DaTARIUS Group
DaTARIUS Technologies Ltd.

Kurt Webster
Director Architecture: Digital Content Group
SanDisk


Jim Bottoms

Co-Managing Director, Understanding and Solutions

Jim Bottoms photo
Jim is a co-founder of Understanding & Solutions, which was established in 1987. He has close to thirty years' consulting experience in the consumer media, home and office electronics, data storage and music and video entertainment sectors. Jim maintains a strong set of personal consulting and advisory relationships with a number of blue chip companies in the entertainment domain, including many of the key Hollywood studios and the world's leading optical disc manufacturers.

His current private client advisory work includes a strong focus on the development of entertainment content across a variety of delivery platforms, including both packaged media and electronic delivery. He is considered to be an international expert on the music, video and entertainment markets and is a regular speaker at industry conferences worldwide.

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