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
Bill Mandel
Vice President Broadband Technology, Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, a division of NBC Universal
Bill Mandel is Vice President, Broadband Technology, Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, a division of NBC Universal. His group provides technical diligence for various electronic film licensing and retail businesses including Home Video, VOD, Pay TV, mobile and Internet services. Part of their function is to evaluate and specify technical requirements for image quality, copy protection, content watermarking/filtering, electronic supply chain and security. In his role he is fortunate to be exposed to a variety of new technologies and the opportunities they create for further enjoyment of filmed entertainment in the home and around.
Bill enjoys a broad systems engineering and computer science background spanning over 20 years. He joined the studio in 1996, and has been serving as Vice President since November 2001. Prior to Universal, he served as a software developer at Xontech (’93-’96) and earlier as a radar performance analyst at Hughes Aircraft Missile Systems on the AMRAAM program (’87-’93). He holds a MSEE degree from USC and a BSEE from Penn State.
His current interests include mobile broadband video, richer connected interactive experiences around our titles both on disc and electronically, flash memory video standards, 3D technologies, impact of micropayments and virtual currencies in gaming to broader use in creating more compelling buying and usage scenarios for electronic media. Looking toward having media even more accessible, connected and immersive.
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