Agenda - See a companion event: iHollywood Forum's "Who Gets to Be a Millionaire?"

8:00 AM Introduction – Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

8:15 AM Session A: Content capture: Many Cameras, many Effects, many Storage Devices:
Moderator: Pallab Chatterjee, SiliconMap

Find out about the revolution in storage technology for stereoscopic and very high definition content capture and field editing. We will also have discussions of digital storage for animation and special effects generation.

 David Trumbo, Media Technology Market Partners
 Jeff Ravencraft, Intel
 Steve Lampen, Belden
 Joe Wojdacz, After Camera Services
 Alex Grossman, Active Storage

9:45 AM Morning Break

10:00 AM Keynote Speaker Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
Content Lives where Storage Thrives: Media and Entertainment Create New Demand and Requirements for Digital Storage

10:30 AM Session B: Size Doesn't Matter If You Ain't Got the Speed -- Storage for Video Editing
Moderator: Larry Jordan, Digital Production Buzz

Video production and post-production don't just use storage, they inhale it. The voracious appetite that video requires means more than terabytes, as many enterprise vendors have discovered to their surprise. Different video formats have different video requirements. Storage is a four-way balancing act between capacity, transfer rates, cost, and a relatively inexperienced user with no IT background. This session displays the challenges this presents the storage industry, with reports from end-users, and storage developers. Find out what is required now and what is projected for the future.

 Larry Jordan, Digital Production Buzz
 Steve Kanter, Freelance Editor
 Rob Caldeira, Hitachi GST
 Mark Fuccio, Data Robotics
 Dean Neumann, NetApp
 Bill Moren, Avid

12:00 PM Lunch (exhibits open), Sponsored by  

1:00 PM Keynote Speaker Robert Blatt, Senior V P, Product and Service Department, Ascent Media
Digital Storage in Content Archiving and Asset Management: How Digital Asset Management Can Impact the Next Generation of Media Production
1:30 PM Session C: Delivering the goods: Storage for Content Delivery, sponsored by
Moderator: Guy Finley, Media & Entertainment Services Alliance
More formats, more channels and bigger pipes are changing the storage hierarchy in content delivery. Flash memory is showing up in edge delivery systems and larger higher performing storage libraries are needed for video on demand, cable and satellite distribution and various methods of internet and mobile phone distribution. What is the future of physical content delivery?

 Bert Hesselink, WD Branded Products
 Elliot Broadwin, SanDisk
 David Sallak, Isilon
 Michelle Munson, Aspera
 Glen Grube, Moduslink

3:00 PM Afternoon Break, sponsored by 

3:15 PM Session D: Keeping the good stuff to last: Content Archiving and Asset Management:
Moderator: Joe Wojdacz, Disruptive Innovationist

Will our valuable content libraries survive with the every changing formats and storage devices? Will we be able to find our content when and where we need it? Find out about valuable developments in content archiving and automated metadata generation and asset management that will make sure that our content libraries are resilient, strong and useful.

 Tom Goldberg, Cache-A
 Nathan Adams, Media Distributors
 Chris Duffy, Quantum
 Richard Hennessy, IBM
 Jess Hartman, ProMAX Systems

Q&A Panel:
Sean McKee, IVC/Point 360

4:45 PM Session E: So that’s what you mean--Entertainment and Media Users Talk About How they Use Digital Storage:
Moderator: Marty Shindler, CEO, Oculus3D Corporation

Listen to notable end users of digital storage from the entertainment and media industry discussing their uses and issues with digital storage devices, systems and applications.

 Paul Chapman, Fotokem
 Katie Fellion, Light Iron Digital
 Jason Goodman, 21st Century 3D
 Sean Vilbert, Paramount
 Tony Lopez, Legend Films

5:45 PM End of Day (exhibits close)

Attend the iHollywood Forum Companion Event Starting at 6pm!

"Who Gets to Be a Millionaire?" Studio Profits on Trial
August 3: 6pm-9pm Dinner and Panel

Register: http://august3-storage.eventbrite.com

Two legal verdicts this month dealt big blows to the way studios measure profit. The producer of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" was awarded $269 million by a jury that found Disney had denied UK-based Celador its fair share of profit. Separately, a jury ruled that Rysher Entertainment owed "Nash Bridges" star Don Johnson $23.2 million in damages and a share of future profits from the show.

At stake is the studios' well-oiled accounting formula, which sometimes registers a loss even when a movie or TV show is a hit. Some members of the creative community believe media giants are guilty of self-dealing and accounting sleight of hand. Studios argue that they are fairly portraying profits, once all costs for production, marketing and distribution are included.

Join iHollywood Forum for a stimulating evening examining economic and financial issues:

• What these recent decisions mean for studios, financiers, and creative talent, including directors, producers, actors and writers.
• How Hollywood's accounting system works and how it will likely change
• How you can position yourself for the best deals going forward
• Implications for deals governing theatrical distribution, television, litigation, motion picture profit participation, guild agreements and private equity investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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