Agenda

8:00 AM Introduction and Market Analysis – Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

View Tom's Special Report "Summary Survey of Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment"

8:15 AM Session A: Electronic Content Delivery and Digital Storage
Moderator: Phil Hodgetts, Intelligent Assistance, Inc.
This session explores the evolving requirements of traditional and non-traditional content electronic 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.

Speakers
Richard Villars, IDC
Geoff Tudor, Nirvanix
Stephane Jauroyou, SeaChange International
Mike Maxey, Parascale
Kumar Abhijeet, Cleversafe

Q&A Panel
Jay Elliot, Nuvel
Mark Goros, Caringo

9:45 AM Morning Break

10:00 AM Keynote Speaker Shinobu Fujihara. SNIA and IBM Japan

10:30 AM Session B: Storage for Professional Content Editing and Post Production
Moderator: Rob Kobrin, Integrated Media Technology
This session explores direct attached, networked storage as well as grid and other advanced storage architectures that support non-linear editing, post production and content capture and creation.

Speakers:
Mark Raudonis, Bunim-Murray Productions
Ingo Fuchs, DataDirect Networks
Rob Caldeira, Focus Enhancements
Phil Ritti, Cache-A
Shai Harmelin, Isilon Systems / David Salak, Midwest Media Group

Q&A Panel
Josef Rabinovitz, JMR Electronics

12:00 Lunch

1:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Randall Dark, CEO & President, Randall Dark Productions

1:30 PM Session C: Digital Storage for Archiving and Preservation
Moderator: Dave Doering, TechVoice
This session explores the expanding options for digital storage for content preservation and archiving. Long term retention of content is a big driver of storage growth in the media and entertainment industry and includes remote storage as well as on-site options with various physical storage media.

Speakers
Dean Neumann, Bycast
Tom Inglefield, Sun
Howard Twine, SGL
Douglas Korte, IBM
Patrick Thomas, Quantum

Q&A Panel
Jason Danielson, Omneon Video Networks
Sven Nielsen, Sony

3:00 PM Afternoon Break

3:15 PM Session D: Case Study: Digital Storage in the Visual Effects Society Awards
Moderator: Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective
In 2008, the Visual Effects Society created a complete awards submission digital ingest, presentation and evaluation workflow for its annual Awards program featuring submissions from visual effects practitioners from around the world. This included online submissions from anywhere in the world, electronic transfer for nominations, as well transcoding the content into 5 different resolutions of Windows media and 5 different Quicktime resolutions to support remote viewing and voting on 25 categories of awards. Nearly 300 entries were submitted and 96 entries overall were nominated.
The storage system used supported secure access. This workflow greatly enhanced the entire process from submissions, to vetting and on to the nominations and to the final Online View and Vote where members could view the nominees in HD as well as at lower bit rates. This panel will discuss the methodologies used to set up the entire process, including storage requirements, through to the secure viewing and voting system and the final tabulations until the envelopes were opened onstage at the Awards.

Speakers
Dave Scammell, Sohonet
Lance Ware, Technicolor
Scott Hardin, 1:1 Ratio
Jeff Okun, Visual Effects Society

4:15 PM Session E: Content for the Consumer
Moderator: Guy Finley, Media and Entertainment Services Alliance
This session explores the requirements that consumers have for digital content now and in the future. Future demand requires content availability from many sources: physical content distribution, electronics distribution through the web, traditional electronic content distribution. Find out about the future use of content by the ultimate end users.
C. Jason Mancebo, NetApp
Tony Jasionowski, Panasonic
Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer
Bob Salem, Marvell
Kurt Grubaugh, Microsoft

Q&A Panel
Tom Moran, Savvis

5:45 PM End of Day

 

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