The Digital Hollywood Experience

Watch Videos From Digital Hollywood

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

9 - 10 AM

Track I - DH13 - Digital Hollywood

Location: LVCC, North Hall, Room N262

Ultimate TV: The OTT - Multiscreen Experience

Over-the-top-TV, 4K TV plus DVR set-top, broadband connection plus HDMI inputs is the ultimate TV experience. Consumers can demand a personalized entertainment and social experience from their TV. With all video, all the time, the bar has been permanently raised.

Ian Greenblatt, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Cloud Solutions Multiscreen Infrastructure Software, ARRIS

Rich Cusick, General Manager, Video, Gracenote

Dave Cornella, Senior Vice President, Business Development for OTT and Telco, Deluxe Digital Distribution

Thomas K. Arnold, publisher and editorial director, Home Media Magazine

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, Waywire Networks

Robin Wilson, VP Business Development, NAGRA

Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator

Ian Greenblatt is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for ARRIS. Ian’s role is centered on defining, messaging, and delivering multiscreen solutions and products to new channels in the marketplace. This includes driving best-of-breed partnerships and corporate development opportunities. He also serves the company as subject matter expert around the business of television and content distribution, as well as metadata and the Second Screen.  Prior to joining ARRIS through the acquisition of Motorola Mobility's Home business, he was co-founder and General Counsel of Broadbus Technologies, the pioneer of solid-state memory based computer systems for delivering

both movies and television on-demand. Broadbus is considered to be one of the most successful start-ups in the New England region since the tech bubble of '99, evidenced by its acquisition by Motorola in September 2006.  Prior to Broadbus, he held positions with Fox, Warner Bros., Kirkland & Ellis and The Entertainment & Intellectual Property Group (an entertainment law firm in Chicago).  Ian is a frequent guest lecturer; he has lectured at MIT Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and Northwestern University, and industry events such as CES, TVConnect and Digital Hollywood. An avowed techie, he was an Alpha and Beta Tester for Sling.com, Joost, Hulu, Boxee, and many Motorola devices and services. He holds a BSC from Northwestern University, a JD from DePaul University College of Law, and sits on the board of directors of USC's Marshall School of Business Institute of Communication Technology Management. for ARRIS. Ians role is centered around defining, messaging, and delivering multiscreen solutions and products to new channels in the marketplace. This includes driving best-of-breed partnerships and corporate development opportunities. He also serves the company as subject matter expert around the business of television and content distribution, as well as metadata and the Second Screen.  Prior to joining ARRIS through the acquisition of Motorola Mobility's Home business, he was co-founder and General Counsel of Broadbus Technologies, the pioneer of solid-state memory based computer systems for delivering both movies and television on-demand. Broadbus is considered to be one of the most successful start-ups in the New England region since the tech bubble of '99, evidenced by its acquisition by Motorola in September 2006.  Prior to Broadbus, he held positions with Fox, Warner Bros., Kirkland & Ellis and The Entertainment & Intellectual Property Group (an entertainment law firm in Chicago).  Ian is a frequent guest lecturer; he has lectured at MIT Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology and Northwestern University, and industry events such as CES, TVConnect and Digital Hollywood. An avowed techie, he was an Alpha and Beta Tester for Sling.com, Joost, Hulu, Boxee, and many Motorola devices and services. He holds a BSC from Northwestern University, a JD from DePaul University College of Law, and sits on the board of directors of USC's Marshall School of Business Institute of Communication Technology Management.

Rich Cusick, General Manager, Video, Gracenote: As General Manager for Gracenote Video and Tribune Media Services (TMS), Rich Cusick is responsible for building all aspects of the video and EPG business. He has a strong background in digital media, serving most recently as vice president of entertainment and women’s lifestyles at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, Rich was founder and general manager of Swirl by DailyCandy and SVP and general manager for digital media at Gemstar-TV Guide.

Dave Cornella is Senior Vice President of Business Development at Deluxe Digital Distribution (D3), a business division of Deluxe Entertainment, where he leads all sales and market development efforts for the OTT and telco industries.  Dave has extensive experience delivering premium digital video solutions for retailers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and leading industry partners.  Prior to Deluxe, Dave was Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sonic Solutions (acquired by Rovi), where he led technology licensing for the company’s digital distribution platform and storefronts.  Dave has also held senior level sales and business development positions at Roxio, Indigita, and Western Digital.  Dave holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Robin Wilson, VP of Business Development, NAGRA:  As VP of Business Development at NAGRA, Robin Wilson’s responsibilities include ensuring that the company’s current and future solutions are developed and applied whenever new opportunities or markets arise. Robin has over 25 years of international broadcast technology experience in companies that include BBC, NBC, RCA, DiviCom, Grass Valley and Modulus Video where he has held various marketing, engineering, management and founding positions.  Robin has participated in and presented at many industry organizations including SMPTE, EBU, IBC, ATIS, IEEE and NATAS. He graduated with a BSc. degree in Applied Physics (EE) from Dundee University, Scotland, and holds a watermarking patent.

Thomas K. Arnold, publisher and editorial director, Home Media Magazine: Thomas K. Arnold is considered one of the leading home entertainment journalists in the country. He is publisher and editorial director of Home Media Magazine, the home entertainment industry’s weekly trade publication. He also contributes home entertainment analysis news features and weekly home entertainment sales and rental updates to Variety. He has talked about home entertainment issues on CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight,” “Entertainment Tonight,” Starz, The Hollywood Reporter and the G4 network’s “Attack of the Show,” where he has been a frequent guest. Arnold also was the executive producer of The  Home Entertainment Summit, a key annual gathering of studio executives and other industry leaders, and has given speeches and presentations at a variety of other events, including Home Media Expo and the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy.

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, Waywire Networks:  Digital overload may be an overwhelming avalanche for you, but Steven Rosenbaum actually sees it as an extraordinary opportunity. He says brands and media companies can jump into the breech, and make the content maelstrom manageable in today’s increasingly transparent and connected world.  Rosenbaum is a pioneer at the forefront of the rapidly changing media landscape, an expert in helping companies and consumers navigate, simplify and filter the Web’s “firehose” of content to create digital identities that tell their stories. He is CEO of Waywire Enterprise, the leading provider of cloud-based video curation solutions to the online publishing, brands, and ad networks. Waywire has deals with hundreds of content providers, including providers like Conde Nast, Yahoo, AOL, Discovery, BBC and MSNBC, and enables more than a 90,000 sites – including New York magazine, Mediaite and AARP.com – to find, upload and aggregate compelling, relevant and contextual videos from across the web, strengthening brand positioning and visibility.  His first book, Curation Nation (McGraw Hill, 2011), explores the changing worlds of publishing, consumer content and brand-centric curation through the experiences of and insights from more than 60 thought leaders and companies. An engaging speaker, whose credits include a rousing TEDx talk, Rosenbaum is also a talented and provocative writer, contributing regularly to Forbes, Huffington Post, Fast Company and Columbia Journalism Review among other high-profile platforms.     Widely regarded as the father of user-generated video, Rosenbaum created MTV UNfiltered, the groundbreaking, pre-web television series that handed cameras to young storytellers. He is also renowned in film. An Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, his “7 Days in September” gathered more than 500 hours of video around 9/11 – taking viewers on an emotional journey through the eyes of 28 filmmakers and citizen storytellers. Other film work includes long-form documentary projects for National Geographic, HBO, CNN, MSNBC, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel.  An entrepreneur at heart, Rosenbaum currently serves as New York City’s first-ever “Entrepreneur At Large,” providing guidance and expertise to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses while also helping develop new and innovative ideas for the future.

Rick Doherty, co-founder and Director, The Envisioneering Group: a two-decade old Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains a guest columnist. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high performance tooling and consumer electronics industry sectors along with dozens of international patents. During Doherty's 32 year career he has been Director of the Urban Vehicle Design Group at Pratt Institute, an engineer for Data General Corp., Chief Engineer of Lourdes Industries, Inc., founder and President of Optronic Labs and since 1983, co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group. There, he directs laboratory testing of technologies, products and services, oversees publication of the Envisioneering Newsletter, market research reports and provides senior executive counsel on market development and intellectual property protection, portfolio management and licensing opportunities. Doherty's prime focus is on researching and articulating the impact of advanced digital technologies, services, products, industry initiatives and standards efforts on consumers, industry and society. Doherty is a 31 year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is active with its Biomedical Engineering, Solid State Circuits Society , Consumer Electronics Society, Broadcast Engineering, Magnetic Technology Society, Technology & Social Policy and other I.E.E.E. societies. This is his eleventh year as a planning director for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Doherty is also a member of the Society for Information Display, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and many other technology & professional business industry associations. In addition, Doherty has been a co-chair of, and presently sits on several cross industry standards associations and technical working groups, spanning consumer digital electronics, communications, digital media and computing architecture definition groups. He is called upon by the industry to organize and chair panels at trade conferences and technical symposia more than a dozen times each year. Amongst his many industry awards, Doherty has been cited by the International Television Association for his many years of technology coverage of digital video design and engineering trends, and is the writer most cited by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for detailed features on the evolution of America's Digital TV system. Doherty also assisted Dr. Richard Feynman, NASA and Congressional researchers in the Shuttle Challenger accident investigation at the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and many NASA contractor sites. In 2003, Doherty was nominated to and accepted a multi-year position on the Presidential Medal of Technology Award Selection Committee, reporting to the White House and Department of Commerce. Acting as an independent resource on the impact of digital and internet technologies on the consumer, society and business, Doherty is quoted frequently for his opinions on new technologies by CNN, CNBC, Fox News and by numerous American and international industry trade and daily business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Doherty is married and resides in Seaford, NY with his wife and two daughters.