PR Marketing Home » Events » invisible Event : Digital Living Room 2009, Santa Clara

invisible Event : Digital Living Room 2009, Santa Clara

Sponsored Links

Digital Living Room is one of the oldest conferences about the future of home entertainment. This year conference will focuses on the future – the technologies that are most likely to transform consumer experience in 2010. Set at the end of 2009, the summit will examine which of the products unveiled at CES in January are likely to catch fire and which will fail. At the same time, it will assess a historically challenging 2009 for its successes and missteps.

Small and selective, Digital Living Room is focused both on identifying the technologies of the future and putting together in one room the entrepreneurs, investors, technology companies and professionals who will lead the next round of technology innovation.

Event Snapshot :

How the battle for marketshare between cable operators, satellite providers and telcos will shape up in 2010.
Most promising technologies for the connected living room.
The arrival of 3D television.
Wireless innovation in 2010.
Evolution of the VOD market.
Social television.
New paradigms – and audiences – for games
Cloud computing and the living room

Agenda :

8:45: Welcoming remarks.

9:00: The Competitive Landscape:
An examination of how cable, satellite and telco providers are faring in the pitched battle for consumers.

Ben Bajarin, Director of Consumer Technology, Creative Strategies

10:00: Keynote
Susan Panico, Senior Director, PlayStation Network

10:30: 3D’s Televised Future:
3D television sets will be on display at this year’s CES, and models without glasses may be just a few years away. Jeffrey Katzenberg, for one, has said that 3D TV is inevitable.

Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder, RealD
John Rubey, President, AEG Live
Patrick Griffis, Senior Director, Technology Policy, Dolby Laboratories Inc.
David Broberg, Vice President of Consumer Video Technology, CableLabs

11:30: Social TV:
The connected living room makes seamless the interaction consumers are already having about their favorite programming over the Internet and on mobile devices. How long until Facebook Television?

Blake Whitman, Community Director, Vimeo
Itzik Cohen, founder and CEO, ClipSync
Emil Rensing, Chief Digital Officer, EpixHD
Bill Binenstock, Vice President and Manager, CBS.com
Moderator: Michael Stroud, Founder, iHollywood Forum

12:30 PM: Lunch

1:30- 2:00: Keynote
William O. Leszinske, Jr., GM, Digital Home Group, Intel

2:00: Cloud in the Living Room
The ability to access any content, any time is fundamentally changing the dynamics of television watching and the economics of broadcasting and cable. As DVRs and subscription VOD become standard, are ad-supported television networks at a fundamental disadvantage? Can cable and satellite companies keep their iron group on the consumer’s wallet when a la carte offerings are available over the Internet?

Pat Dunbar, Director, Advertising TV, Video & Music Business Group, Microsoft Corporation
Mitch Berman, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, ZillionTV
Tushar Saxena, Director of Home Networking Technologies, Verizon Communications
David Bryant, Senior Director of Java Marketing, Sun Microsystems
Moderator: Jimmy Schaeffler, Chairman & CSO, The Carmel Group

3:00: The Beatles Factor:
Beatles Rock Band and Wii are emblematic of a spate of new technologies that will attract older consumers and change the technologies and services available in the living room.

4:00: The Connected Living Room:
The long-heralded integration between TVs, the broadband Internet, DVD players, game consoles, telephony, portable devices and wireless data is beginning to happen. What type of content will pull in consumers and what are the roadblocks to mass adoption?