New Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Digital Entertainment: The UltraViolet Approach
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Cost: $40 on-line registration fee; $50 at-the-door; $10 for students with full-time student ID and free for Caltech students (must show ID at door). Caltech students can now register online. On-line Registration closes at 5:00PM on Thursday, January 13, 2011. There are no refunds for no-shows.
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Event Preview
Consuming films has been more difficult for online than physical mediums. With the digital rights management in place, the ability to buy a movie once to be viewed on multiple devices has been limited. However, the situation is about to change with the advent of UltraVioletTM. Currently in testing and set to launch in 2011, this new coalition promises new features to consumers in the form of “buy once play anywhere” and new opportunities for entrepreneurs.
This event will focus on two aspects: an UltraViolet ecosystem overview and entrepreneurial area. Panelists from some key members of the 60 participating entertainment and technology companies will provide perspectives of platform that will do for digital what the DVD did for physical media. In addition, the will discuss the enabling features of UltraViolet that will allow startups to create both consumer services, such as content discovery, recommendations and user interfaces, and business services such as encoding content and metadata.
Keynote Speaker
Mitch Singer
President
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
Chief Technology Officer
Sony Pictures Entertainment
www.sonypictures.com
Producers
Phil Bangayan
Manager, Global Consumer Segment Strategy
The Walt Disney Company
www.disney.com
Phil Bangayan is currently Manager, Global Marketing Strategy in The Walt Disney Company. In his Disney career, he has held several marketing and finance roles in both the Anaheim and Glendale offices. Prior to Disney, he held engineering roles at Rockwell Scientific (purchased by Teledyne Scientific & Imaging) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In addition to serving on the Executive Committee at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Phil is also on a Board Member for the MIT Club of Southern California and chairs scholarship committees for the UCLA Alumni Association. Phil holds an MBA degree from MIT and MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
Krishnan Rajagopalan
Vice President, Digital Media Technologies
Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
www.mpaa.org
Krishnan Rajagopalan is the Vice President of Digital Media Technologies at the MPAA Office of Technology. Krishnan’s primary focus is on emerging technologies and worldwide initiatives that are related to the Internet and PC platforms, and he supports the MPAA member companies on a wide range of technical activities, including external technology development (providing feedback and direction to vendors of new technologies), inter-industry consensus building, content protection license and specifications negotiations, and standards development.
Krishnan’s broad interests are in the areas of digital convergence, the connected home, and emerging technologies that enable better consumer experiences while respecting content owner rights. His prior stints include Sony Corporation of America and Sony Pictures, where he was involved in various content delivery initiatives such as Sony Connect, as well as a few start-ups at the intersection of media and technology.
Krishnan holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Duke University and a Master’s in Mathematics from B.I.T.S Pilani (India). He is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lynn Foster
Chief Executive Officer
BPT Pharmaceuticals
www.bptpharma.com
Lynn Foster is the Founder and CEO of BPT Pharmaceuticals, an early stage company focused on Multiple Sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases. He previously served as Emerging Technologies Director at Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., one of the largest law firms in the United States. In that position he provided consulting services to clients on Technology Transfer, Patent Licensing and raising capital from Federal Research Grants, Venture Capital, and Strategic Investors.
Lynn has the unique background of more than 15 years of experience with Technology Transfer and the federal grant process as a government manager at both the Federal and State and as an entrepreneur. Lynn previously managed the State of California CalTIP seed grant program that matched federal research and development grants with commercialization funding.
Lynn’s primary technical focus is Nanotechnology. He is the Editor and Co-Author of the best selling textbook, “Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation & Opportunity” (Prentice Hall, 2005). He wrote the first Trade Study on Nanotechnology in 2000 and organized many of the early knowledge conferences and Trade Missions in the field. He has been quoted on technology and finance topics in numerous national and industry publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes and National Public Radio.
Lynn serves on the Executive Committee of the Caltech Enterprise Forum, the Advisory Board of Finaventures, a Venture Capital fund focused on early and mid-stage technology ventures, and the Advisory Board of the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization. He had 21 years of active and reserve service with the US Army including service in the first Gulf War and Bosnia. He holds an MBA and a B.S. in Production and Operations Management.
Date
Saturday morning, January 15, 2011
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Location
Baxter Lecture Hall
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Directions/Maps: Directions to the Forum
Cost
$40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door).
Registrations are taken on-line until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 13, 2011. There are no refunds for no-shows.
