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March
15th, 2006
5:30PM-8:30PM
Mountain
View, California
The
new media wave is here. Digital media has entered the
mainstream, becoming a significant force of consumer buying.
Content companies are seriously moving into this space,
offering downloadable TV shows, classic movies, new video
releases on demand, music, and even exclusive programming
for mobile devices.
Yet
this new tsunami of media has so many complex aspects:
Digital rights, copy protection, consumer technology,
video formats, licensing, and more. It's hard to know
who the key players are, what cutting edge technologies
are viable, and which strategies will be successful.
The Silicom Ventures Consumer Media Symposium
is
designed to educate, stimulate, inform and entertain Silicom
Ventures investors that are angel (high tech executives)
and VC investors on the myriad of issues surrounding the
consumer media market.
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PROGRAM |
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| 5:30PM-6:30PM
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Poster
Session, Dinner Buffet and
Networking |
| 6:30PM-6:45PM |
Opening
words and overview of the
industry |
| 6:45PM-7:30PM |
Panel
Discussion |
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Topic:
"Silicom Valley, leading
the Consumer Media Explosion" |
| 7:30PM-8:30PM |
Poster
Session and Networking |
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| Moderator:
Adam Lashinsky, Senior
writer, Fortune
magazine |
Adam
Lashinsky
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Adam
Lashinsky is a business journalist
with unusually broad experience
in both broadcast and print media.
Currently a senior writer at Fortune
magazine covering high tech and
finance, Lashinsky's specialty is
getting the inside dope on the technology
scene that most interests the money
crowd. He's an insider to Silicon
Valley with solid credentials, an
independent, knowledgeable and well-connected
voice on what's really going on
in high-tech. He brings an edgy,
clear-headed "New York"
perspective on the creative, lively
and sometimes make-believe landscape
of the Valley. Lashinsky previously
has worked in Washington D.C., Chicago
and Tokyo, where he was a Henry
Luce Scholar, reporting for the
Nikkei Weekly, the English-language
version of Japan's main economic
daily, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
He began reporting on Silicon Valley
in 1997.
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| Panelist:
Eli Harari, Founder and
CEO, SanDisk
Corporation |
Eli
Harari
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Eli
Harari is the founder of SanDisk
Corp., and has been President and
Chief Executive Officer since June
1988. Dr. Harari founded Wafer Scale
Integration, a privately held semiconductor
company in 1983 and was its President
and Chief Executive Officer from
1983 to 1986 and Chairman and Chief
Technical Officer from 1986 to 1988.
From 1973 to 1983, Dr. Harari held
various management positions with
Honeywell Inc., Intel Corp., and
Hughes Aircraft Microelectronics.
Dr. Harari has been a Director of
Sandisk Corp., since June 1988.
He has been a Director of Tower
Semiconductor Ltd. since January
2001 and serves on the Finance,
Stock Option and Compensation Committees.
Dr. Harari holds M.A. and Ph.D.
in Solid State Sciences from Princeton
University and a B.S. (Honors) degree
in Physics from Manchester University.
He has more than 70 patents issued
in the field of nonvolatile memories
and storage systems.
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| Panelist:
Richard Atkinson, Vice
President, Anti-Piracy Strategy & Operations,
Walt Disney
Studios |
Richard
Atkinson
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Richard
is responsible for orchestrating
Disney Studio’s global battle
against content theft – be
it piracy of movies, music, television,
or other products of the Studio.
Prior to this role, Richard spent
5 years as a "Disney Imagineer"
at Walt Disney Imagineering–
with the responsibility of creatively
infusing emerging technologies into
Disney’s world-renown theme
parks all over the world. Prior
to Disney, Richard was the Chief
Communications Technologist for
Northrop Grumman Corporation –
where he spent 15 years as a communications
technology strategist and briefer
of highly complex and classified
concepts (such as the area of "stealth
aircraft") to the top levels
of US and other governments. |
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| Panelist:
Dan Sheeran Senior Vice
President, Music and Video RealNetworks,
Inc. |
Dan
Sheeran
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Dan
Sheeran joined RealNetworks in 2001
and is the senior executive responsible
for the Music and Video consumer
services for the company. Sheeran
came to RealNetworks from nCUBE
where he most recently served as
Senior Vice President of Worldwide
Sales and Marketing. Prior to working
at nCUBE, Sheeran was Senior Vice
President of Product Management
at SkyConnect, a digital video systems
vendor to the cable and telecommunications
industries. Sheeran holds a B.S.
from the School of Foreign Service
cum laude at Georgetown University,
and a M.B.A. from Northwestern University. |
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| Panelist:
Russell Siegelman, Partner
at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers
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Russell
Siegelman
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Russell
invests in consumer and energy related
technologies and markets, including
software, electronic commerce, Web
services, semiconductors, consumer
systems, media and telecommunications.
He is currently on the board of:
Digital Chocolate, Friendster, Lilliputian
Systems, Mobilygen, Quorum Systems
and RazorGator. Russell also leads
KPCB's investment in WildBlue Communications.
Russell joined KPCB after seven
years at Microsoft. At Microsoft
he helped launch LAN Manager. For
the first half of 1993, Russell
worked directly for Bill Gates during
which time he researched the online
market and recommended an entry
strategy for that market. This led
to the formation the Microsoft Network
(MSN). Before Microsoft, Russell
was a software engineer who wrote
artificial intelligence applications
for the financial services industry.
He earned his SB from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Physics
in 1984 and a MBA from Harvard University
where he was a Baker Scholar in
1989.
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| Panelist:
Jonathan Sasse, President/CEO,
iriver America
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Jonathan Sasse |
Jonathan
Sasse has spent the past decade
working with portable music devices
in the consumer electronics industry.
With strong experience in retail
sales channels as well as product,
technical and brand marketing,
Mr. Sasse is responsible for the
strategic direction of iriver
America. Mr. Sasse was with Diamond
Multimedia, Rio and subsequently
SONICblue, before joining iriver
America. During his time with
Rio, Rio-branded portable MP3
players enjoyed a #1 market share
in the category. After joining
iriver America (2003), Mr. Sasse
has successfully launched iriver
award winning portable digital
devices that have enjoyed tremendous
market success and continue to
impress consumers with their functionality
and sleek design. |
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| Panelist:
Jan Jannink, PhD, Founder/CTO
& President Imeem
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Jan
Jannink
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After
earning a PhD in Computer Science
and working as part of the Database
Group at Stanford University,
Jan worked to invent the database
architecture
and the meem data model that power
the imeem system. Wanting to bring
deep technology to direct communications
systems, Jan continually works
on
algorithm design, data management
and software development. Jan
holds a B.S. in Mathematics and
Japanese from Georgetown University,
and
both a Master's and PhD in Computer
Science from Stanford. Jan worked
at IBM Research, Toshiba R&D,
and served as Director of Digital
Rights Management and Client Software
Development at Napster, Inc. before
founding imeem in 2003. Committed
to communication and problem-solving,
Jan is proficient in five languages
and actively collects and solves
Rubik's cubes. He is also a competing
springboard diver.
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| Speaker:
Thomas Meredith, Founder/CEO,
P2P Cash |
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Thomas
Meredith |
Mr.
Meredith has significant Internet,
financial services and voice technology
experience. Starting his computer
career at Digital Equipment Corp,
he become an early employee at
the first computer clone manufacturer,
Franklin Computers. He later founded
VoxLink, the leading innovator
of voice and electronic mail integration.
Mr. Meredith founded one of the
first gaming companies on the
Internet, Internet Gaming. The
gaming industry was responsible
for processing the first significant
volume of credit cards on the
Internet. Mr. Meredith has spent
the last three years working with
online media companies to encourage
the use of the 250 million strong
Peer to Peer networks as a content
distribution channel; not as a
fulltime employment system for
lawyers. He holds a Masters in
Business Administration Degree
from Harvard Business School and
Bachelor of Science Degree from
Stanford University. |
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