Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

and the

Marconi Society

in collaboration with the

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

 

IPTV.2: The Second Generation of TV Over the Broadband Internet

 

May 23, 2005

Columbia University, 142 Uris Hall

Preliminary Program

 

9:30 AM         IPTV.1: From the Original to a New Model

 

                        Moderator: Bob Atkinson, Executive Director, CITI

 

·         Stages of Television and Their Economics – Eli Noam, Director of CITI & Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School [Presentation]

 

·         Companies in Transition - Ford Cavallari, SVP, Broadband & Media Practice,  Adventis [Presentation]

 

·         IPTV Architectures - Gene Miller, Principal Consultant, DVI Engineering Inc. [Presentation]

 

·         Is IPTV.1 a Waste of Internet Broadband? -  Andrew Odlyzko, Professor, University of Minnesota [Presentation]

 

·         The State of Second-Generation Internet TV - Gali Einav, Manager of Digital Technology Research, NBC Universal [Presentation]

 

10:45             Coffee Break

 

11:00              IPTV.2: The Next Generation of Internet TV

 

Moderator: Darcy Gerbarg, Executive Director, Marconi Society

 

·         How the Internet Changes Video Production: Narrative, Structure, Budget, and Distribution - Jennie Bourne, Editor of the FutureofTV.net Newsletter

 

·         Next Gen Gaming – Sam Huxley, Chief Strategic Officer, Bounce Interactive Gaming [Presentation]

 

·         Today’s Technology and Tomorrow’s Promise – Ben Mendelson, Founder & President, Interactive Television Alliance [Presentation]

 

·        The Audience as Content Creators - Steve Rosenbaum, Managing Partner, Magnify Media [Presentation]

 

12:15 PM       Lunch: Hepburn Lounge, Uris Hall

 

1:30 PM         Business Models for Network Distributors    

 

Moderator: Jonathan Knee, Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

 

·         New Directions -  David Burstein, Publisher, DSL Prime [Presentation]

 

·         Content Distribution Technology - Gabe Zichermann, VP Strategy and Communications, Trymedia Systems [Presentation]

 

·         The “Telco TV” Model - Terry Denson, VP Programming and Marketing, Verizon

 

·         Pinpointing On-Demand Content – Phil Thompson, EVP, Product Management, mPhase Technologies

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2:45 PM         Business Models for Content Providers

 

Moderator: Shelly Palmer, President and CEO, Palmer Advanced Media

 

·         More than Enhanced TV: Leveraging Content - Robert Zitter, CTO, HBO

 

·         Commercial and Marketing Implications - Mitchell Reichgut, Founder and Principal, Jun Group [Presentation]

 

·         Independent Analysis - Scott Sleek, Managing Editor and Analyst, Communications and Media Analysis Group, Pike & Fischer

 

·         Entertainment and Technology Convergence - Andrew Moss, Senior Director of Technical Policy, Microsoft

 

·         Advertising Model – Jonathan Heller, CFO/COO, Visible World [Presentation]

 

3:30 PM         Impacts of IPTV.2

 

Moderator:  Charles M. Firestone, Executive Director, Communications and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

 

·         Consumer Behavior and Internet TV - John Carey, Fordham University [Presentation]

 

·         Educational Uses of IPTV - Prashant Chopra, Chief Architect, CampusEAI

 

·         Politics over IPTV - Ari Wallach, Founder, re:think media

 

4:45                Adjourn Daytime Session: Program moves to Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 44 West 44th Street, for the program organized by the Telecommunications Committee of the ABCNY

 

6:00                IPTV and Entertainment Over Broadband:

Will the Rules of the Road Get Us to Where We Want Us to Go?

 

Moderator: Howard B. Homonoff, President, Homonoff Media Group LLC and Associate Professor of Media Law, Drexel University Joint Television Management/MBA program

 

·         Barbara Esbin, Associate Bureau Chief, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

 

·         Jane Mago, General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters

 

·         Randal S. Milch, SVP and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon

 

·         Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, EVP & General Counsel, Time Warner Cable (pending confirmation)

 

·         Tim Lay, Spiegel and McDiarmid

 

·         Dorothy Attwood, SVP, Regulatory Planning & Policy, SBC