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
Van Ling
DVD/Blu-ray producer, visual effects supervisor, consultant and digital artist
Van Ling is a freelance DVD/Blu-ray producer, visual effects supervisor, consultant and digital artist whose film credits include "The Abyss", "Terminator 2", "Twister", "Doctor Dolittle" and "Titanic". A veteran of ground-breaking feature productions with James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment, Ling has brought the same envelope-pushing spirit to the home entertainment arena, producing in-depth special features on titles from "Field of Dreams" to "Titanic" and often creating innovative menu systems, including those for "The Abyss Special Edition", "Independence Day", "Terminator 2" and all six of the "Star Wars" films. His work on many of these titles have helped define and inspire the DVD artform, garnering multiple awards and nominations from various home theatre and industry trade organizations, and is widely respected by both DVD professionals and consumers; three of the DVDs he produced for the "Terminator" franchise have been inducted into the DVD Exclusive Academy of Artistic Achievement.
When not pushing boundaries in disc features and content, Ling continues to create visual effects for feature films and television; in addition to working on projects ranging from HBO's "John Adams" miniseries to "Magnificent Desolation" in 3D IMAX, he has designed and produced several of the THX trailers seen in theatres around the world.
An active member of both the DVD Association and the Visual Effects Society, Ling is currently serving his first term on the DVDA Board of Directors and his third term on the VES Board of Directors, and is currently developing titles and new technology uses for the next generation high definition formats, in addition to creating graphics, animation and visual effects in his home studio.
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