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
Bob Michaels
Vice President Worldwide DVD, Technicolor Creative Services
Bob Michaels is Vice President of Worldwide DVD for Technicolor, responsible for all production operations for compression and authoring of standard definition and high definition Blu-ray Disc products. His role includes overseeing all operational aspects for multimedia production and element processing for optical disc production. Bob also assists in setting strategies for development and creation of operational toolsets for multimedia development with an emphasis in the DVD formats.
Prior to joining Technicolor, Bob was the President of 5.1 Production Services, where he pioneered many multimedia firsts such as the DVD-Audio disc and Dual Disc formats for the music industry. In addition, he helped orchestrate DVD-Rom development with companies such as Activision, Electronic Arts and other leading software publishers in the mid 90’s. Bob recently received a Grammy Nomination in 2007 for his work in the Surround Music field.






























