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Tuesday April 15, 2008

7:30 Light Breakfast and Registration

8:00 Introduction – Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

8:15 Session A:  Storage in Content Capture and Creation

This session explores the changing role of storage for content capture for professional applications including cameras and field editing equipment. It will also include discussions of digital storage in animation and special effects.

Moderator: Kevin Shively, Exec. Vice President, TVWorldwide
---- Wayne Desmond, Sony Electronics
---- Mike Mihalik, LaCie
---- Paul Turner, Omneon
---- Stu Lipoff, IP Action Partners

9:45 Morning Break

10:00 Keynote Speaker Chris Hinton, Sr. Director of Technology, CNN

10:45 Session B:  Storage for Professional Content Editing and Post Production
Session Sponsored by Aberdeen

Direct attached storage has been the mainstay of professional non-linear editing.
Although direct attached storage is still heavily used network storage technologies are beginning to reach performance levels that can support many editing applications. This session explores direct attached, networked storage as well as grid and other advanced storage architectures to support non-linear editing and post production.

Moderator: Philip Hodgetts, President, Intelligent Assistance
---- Rob Caldeira, Focus Enhancements
---- Anand Bisen, DataDirect
---- Mark Raudonis, Bunim Murray
---- Don Grabski and Neil Bannister, SGI
---- James McKenna, Facilis Technology

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Session C:   Content Delivery and Archiving Digital Storage

This session explores the evolving requirements of traditional and non-traditional content delivery markets.  This includes video on demand, cable and satellite distribution and network distribution. It also explores digital storage opportunities in video and content downloading and social networking.  Digital storage for content archiving will also be discussed.

Moderator: Guy Finley, President, LSA
---- Jay Elliot, ViaCLIX
---- Mickey Charles, SGL
---- Matthew Beck, Atrato
---- Ingo Fuchs, Quantum
---- Josh Peterson, HP

2:45 Afternoon Break

3:00 Session D:  New Roles and Models for Physical Distribution

This session looks at new physical media distribution models including flash, hard disk drives and higher capacity optical discs as well as new kiosk models for getting content for static home and mobile devices. What are the requirements and opportunities and how can these new modes tie into working business models.

Moderator: Ray Lucchesi, President, Silverton Consulting
---- Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer Electronics
---- Tim Rausch, Seagate Technology
---- Michael Abraham, Micron Technologies
---- Art Rancis, InPhase
---- Robert Yacenda, IBM

4:30 Session E:  Entertainment and Media Users Session

This session includes notable end users of digital storage from the entertainment and media industry discussing their uses and issues with digital storage in this industry.

Moderator: Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective
---- Michael Koetter, CNN
---- Lance Ware, Technicolor
---- Kurt Grubaugh, Microsoft Studios
---- Adam Ealovega, Stargate Films
---- Jim Casabella, ABC

5:45 Conference Ends