Broadband Unlimited Agenda

10:00 to 10:10 a.m.

Welcome Address

John Abel

Partner, Team Lightbulb

10:10 to 11:00 a.m.

A Perspective on Google's Voice Ambitions

Dozens of product announcements and acquisitions signal Google's interest in voice services.  Making Google Voice available to Gmail's 200+ million users illustrates a growing ambition.  Google Voice already captures the strategic high ground between traditional carriers and their customers.  This session provides a perspective on Google's voice ambitions and the Internet enabled forces promising to transform the telecom industry.

 Daniel Berninger

President, goCipher

11:05 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Connected TV in a Content-Everywhere World – What Do We Do With All The Brain Power Inside Our TV?

As Connected TV is becoming a household name the underlying view regarding content remains largely unchanged. It’s the delivery that is changing.  But there are glimpses of a new technology that tries to bind different elements together to create unique content for a highly personalized viewing experience. This session explores the provocative questions:  Is this a 90s Smart TV redux? What will change in IP-based consumer devices? How may content, including delivery and discovery, adapt to this changing landscape?

Greg DePriest

Vice President - Technology Policy, NBC Universal

Brian David Johnson

Futurist and Director, Future Casting, Interactions and Experience Research, Intel

Jay (Jungwan) Ko,

Vice President - Standards and Technology Enabling Team DMC R&D Center, Digital Media and Communication Business, Samsung Electronics

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Ken Lowe,

P.Eng, C.Eng, MIET, Vice President & Co-Founder, Vizio

Alex Terpstra,

Chief Executive Officer, Civolution

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Moderator: Sheau Ng

VP Consumer and Broadcast Technology,

Media Works, NBC Universal

12:15 to 12:25 p.m.  Break

12:25 to 1:10 p.m.

Will OTT Kill Cable, Satellite and Telco Broadband Video

The proliferation of broadband-enabled consumer electronic devices allows any entity, whether retailer, CE manufacturer or someone in their bedroom, to become an OTT video provider.   Does this development threaten or enhance the investments in video infrastructure made by service providers?  This session addresses this question, as well the impacts of on service providers regarding the innovative OTT video technologies and approaches found at 2011 CES.

Brian Jaquet

Director - Corporate Communications, Roku, Inc.

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Michael S. Kazmier

CTO, Avail-TVN

Peter Redford

CEO, iLook Corp.

Rob Riordan

Executive Vice President, Cellcom

Brian Sathianathan

Director - Product Management, Smith Micro

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Scott Voegele

Executive Director - Product Marketing, Westell

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Moderator: Ken Pyle

Managing Editor, The Viodi View

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1:15 to 2:25 p.m.

The Impact of Internet Video on Traditional Broadband Distribution Systems

This session explores the growth of Internet video from the standpoint of broadband video content experts and service providers, including:  How is Internet video affecting broadband video operations from cable and other broadband providers?; What is the impact of various initiatives of “TV Everywhere?”; How will Internet video change future content strategies?; What will be the impact on sports, movies and the Hollywood content community?; Which strategy will win: the walled garden of content or the open Internet content approach? 

Terry Denson

VP - Content Strategy and Acquisition, Verizon

Dan York

President - Content, AT&T

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Moderator: Walter McCormick

President & CEO, USTelecom

2:25 to 2:35 p.m.  Break

2:35 to 3:15 p.m.

Wireless Broadband: The Bright Mobile Future

With tremendous investment and innovation in the wireless space, mobile broadband is quickly becoming the key on-ramp to the Internet for millions of Americans. From mHealth to eLearning, smart grids to e-commerce, this session explores how and where mobile broadband innovators are unveiling a range of bleeding edge new consumer tools, applications and services to harness the power of mobile.

Mark Frankel

VP-Product Management, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

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Jeremy Korst

VP - Product Management, T-Mobile USA

Jonathan Spalter

Chairman, Mobile Future

3:20 to 4:05 p.m.

Next-Gen Video Services: Personalization and Flexibility

Consumer desire for personalization and flexibility continues to drive television operators to deliver interactivity and other enhancements to their multichannel video lineups and home entertainment options. This session focuses on key aspects of next-generation video services, including interactive services, on-demand content, the evolution of the program guide, and multiscreen content availability.

Eric Bruno

SVP - Consumer Product Management & Development, Verizon

Steve McKay

CEO, Entone, Inc.

Marty Roberts

VP - Sales and Marketing, the Platform

Moderator: Brett Sappington

Senior Research Analyst, Parks Associates

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4:10 to 5 p.m.

Launch Experiences and Learning in the Introduction of a Cloud Based, Real Time Service Offering for Real Time Gaming

This presentation discusses some of the original assumptions, learning and experiences that have been made as the OnLive service moved from beta to commercial availability.  OnLive, one of the first cloud based real time gaming services, has been available since June of this year.  In addition to the various technological challenges that such a service presents, the issues involving service provisioning, partner and network providers, customer implementation and service are also unique to the nature of the high availability real time nature of the service offering.

Tom Paquin

CTO, OnLive

Charlie Jablonski

Vice President Operations, OnLive

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