Saul J. Berman
Global Lead Strategy Partner, IBM Media and Entertainment Practice
Global Strategy & Change Services Leader, IBM Global Business Services

Saul J. Berman is the Global Lead Strategy Partner for the Media and Entertainment Practice as well as a Global Strategy & Change Services Leader at IBM Global Business Services (GBS). Prior to joining IBM, Saul was the Global Strategic Change Leader at PwC Consulting. He was also previously with The Boston Consulting Group, and a divisional Vice President with Broadway Department Stores and an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Berman has more than 25 years of consulting experience advising senior management of large corporate and start-up organizations. He has directed engagements addressing issues of strategy, organization, and operations. He has worked extensively on issues of competitive positioning, differentiation, new business plans & strategies, new business models, growth, operational & cost improvement, operations/manufacturing strategy, organizational design and enterprise transformation. His clients have included most of the major media companies as well as internet companies, telecommunication companies, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers and automotive companies in the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia.

Dr. Berman holds a Ph.D. in Management and Information Systems and a MBA in Production Systems and Operations Research from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Paul R. Brody
Partner, IBM Global Business Services
Global Lead, IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice

Paul Brody is a Partner with IBM Global Business Services. He brings a decade of consulting experience to the position as the global leader of the electronics industry strategy practice. Mr. Brody has worked extensively with business strategy, supply chain management and product life cycle management, including planning & scheduling, logistics, and procurement solutions. His experience includes the full range of activities from value assessment/business case development through business process change, software implementation, and joint software development. Paul’s main industry experience includes discrete manufacturing, high tech electronics, semiconductors, and logistics and healthcare.

Andreas Mueller-Schubert
General Manager, Global Solutions
Microsoft TV
Microsoft Corporation

Andreas Mueller-Schubert brings more than 12 years of telecommunications experience to his current role as General Manager of Global Solutions at Microsoft Corporation’s Microsoft TV division. In this position, Mr. Mueller-Schubert is responsible for the deployment of all worldwide customer projects using Microsoft’s TV solutions platform. He is responsible for directing approximately 170 solution experts worldwide and for managing Microsoft TV’s internal and external system integrator partners within their customer deployment sector.

Prior to joining Microsoft TV at the end of 2006, Mr. Mueller-Schubert served in several senior management positions within Siemens’ telecommunications division in Germany and Canada. He is most notably recognized for initiating the Siemens’ telecommunication business in Canada.

Andreas Mueller-Schubert holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering as well as a bachelor of business degree in business administration. He is an active member of VDI Germany, VDE Germany, and the Society of Industry Leaders for Vista Research in New York.

Didier Zwierski
Vice-President, Americas General Manager & Technology and Development Manager
PHILIPS Consumer Electronics - BU Home Networks

Didier Zwierski serves as Senior Vice President of Philips Americas as well as General Manager and Technology and Development Manager of Philips Home Networks. Prior to joining Philips in 2006, Didier was employed with Thomson where he headed up Thomson’s IPTV decoder business from 2004 to 2006 and led the Thomson Digital TV Decoders research and development teams for Europe and the Asia Pacific region from 2001-2004. Early in his career Didier spent time in France and the Netherlands managing research and development teams focused on analog and digital television technologies and cable networks equipment. Didier holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and a doctorate in high-energy nuclear physics.

Peter Klingenburg
CEO
T-Systems Multimedia Solutions

Peter Klingenburg is Chief Executive Officer of T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH and an internet professional for more than a decade. Earlier responsibilities within Deutsche Telekom group include the online sales and customer service activities for T-Com, as well as online games and music download services.

From 2000 to 2002 he was a co-founder and a board member for technology and product development (CTO) at Optimad Media Systems LTD., a provider of IT products and services for the media sector. He also was responsible for Lycos Europe’s product development.

John Barrett
Director of Research
Parks Associates

John Barrett currently analyzes technology-driven products and services for Parks Associates, a digital home research firm and consultancy. He has authored over a dozen industry reports on topics such as broadband adoption, ISP bundling strategies, mobile phone service, digital music, and VoIP telephony. He holds an MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a BS in international affairs from Georgetown University.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: International Research, Mobile Communications, VoIP, Social Media, User-generated Content, Web 2.0

Michael Cai
Director, Broadband & Gaming
Parks Associates

Michael Cai studies developments in broadband services, broadband technologies such as FTTx and broadband wireless, electronic gaming, and other value-added services. He also follows emerging digital home technologies such as networked storage and whole-home entertainment solutions. Michael has written reports on the Chinese telecom market, broadband wireless, broadband services, storage, entertainment middleware, and gaming. Michael has presented his research in numerous industry events including CES, Supercomm, CONNECTIONS™, and E3.
Michael earned his MBA with a 4.0 GPA from Baylor University in May 2002. He also holds an MA in leadership from Landegg International University, Switzerland, and a BA in economics from Shandong University, P. R. China.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Broadband Services, Broadband Wireless Technologies/WiMAX, Bundled Services, Content Delivery Networks, Internet Video, Gaming, Consumers and Mobile Platforms

Tricia Parks
CEO and Founder
Parks Associates

Tricia Parks is the founder and CEO of Parks Associates, a market analyst and research company dedicated to providing meaningful information and counsel to companies offering technology-based products aimed at improving people's lives. She presents worldwide on consumer trends, market requirements, and industry structure, with an eye to meshing visionary and progressive ideas to consumer needs and wants.

Parks Associates began Wiring America, the Habitech Institute, and now hosts Fall Focus, a topical annual executive conference, and, in partnership with CEA, CONNECTIONS™, an international conference and showcase for the digital home. Parks Associates is also the developer of the Relevancy Theory, a forecasting model for sales across a broad range of digital electronic products and services.

Tricia has served on a variety of industry boards including CEA's Home Networking and Information Technology division, the National Research Council's Committee for a Partnership to Assess Technology for Housing (PATH), the AMD Board of Global Consumer Advocacy, and CABA. Tricia Parks has a BA from Sweet Briar College and graduate studies from the University of Texas.

Kurt Scherf
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Parks Associates

Kurt Scherf studies developments in home networks, residential gateways, digital entertainment, technology development in the housing market, and residential and building management and controls. Kurt is the sole author or contributing author/analyst to more than 30 research reports and studies produced by Parks Associates since 1998.

Kurt joined Parks Associates following a career in political research and multi-tenant dwelling management. He earned his BA from The University of Iowa.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Home Networks & Residential Gateways, Home Networking Media (Wi-Fi, UWB, HomePlug, HomePNA, MoCA, etc.), Media Center PCs, Set-top Boxes, Consumer Storage, Media Server Hardware and Software, Consumers and Digital Entertainment, IPTV, Internet Television and Web Video, Digital Home Customer Support Issues

Stuart Sikes
President
Parks Associates

Stuart Sikes is the president of Parks Associates and is responsible for providing Parks Associates’ clients with a business relationship that complements their strategic marketing activities.

Stuart has served technology companies for the past seventeen years, designing technical service, software, and hardware solutions for companies ranging from global semiconductor manufacturers to one of the nation’s largest airlines. In his positions with companies including AT&T, NCR, OpenConnect Systems, and Intelligraphics, Stuart’s roles have included sales, product marketing, marketing communications, and executive management.

Stuart and the Parks Associates’ team have worked closely with the world’s leading semiconductor, software, telecom equipment, and entertainment companies, assisting these companies with their understanding of consumer adoption of new technologies.

Stuart holds an MBA from SMU with a concentration in strategic marketing and a BA in economics from Vanderbilt University.

Jonathan Beavon
Director, Segment Marketing
NDS Limited

Jonathan Beavon is Director, Segment Marketing at NDS, responsible for platform solutions with a particular focus on technology convergence in the entertainment market. Jonathan joined NDS in 1997, prior to joining NDS he worked in the semiconductor industry at Philips, Plessey and Hitachi. Jonathan has held a variety of engineering and international marketing roles and has worked extensively in Japan, Korea, Europe and the US and holds a degree in electronics.

Dr. Fee Steinhoff
Project Field Manager MASF
Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories

Dr. Fee Steinhoff was born in 1974 in Duisburg/Germany. She studied Business Administration (Technical University Berlin), earned a Master of Business & Engineering (Steinbeis University Berlin) and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University Berlin. Her research interests are in the area of innovation marketing, customer orientation, customer integration and radical innovation - topics which she also teaches in executive programs. She co-authored the book “Innovation Marketing” together with Prof. V. Trommsdorff. Since October 2006, Fee Steinhoff is Project Field Manager at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. She is responsible for the customer research activities in a variety of New TV projects. Some of her past projects have involved innovative market research tools like Information Pump, Lead User Workshops, Ethnographic Diary Research and User Clinics.

Kirk Munroe
Director Product Management and Marketing
Radialpoint Inc.

As Director, Product Management and Marketing, Kirk Munroe is responsible for Radialpoint’s Value-Added Services (VAS) management and delivery solution for Internet Service Providers (ISPs).  This solution includes messaging and awareness, business and service intelligence, end-user experience and the VAS subscription-to-activation process.  Radialpoint services the world’s largest telecommunication and cable TV-based ISPs.

Prior to joining Radialpoint, Kirk spent 6 years at Cognos, Canada’s largest software company, where most recently he was director of product management responsible for driving broader user adoption of performance management software through business scorecards and dashboards, search, mobile access and integration with Microsoft Office.

Kirk is a frequent speaker at industry events, including Connections: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase 2007 and the upcoming CTAM Europe conference. He has been quoted in industry press, most recently in PC World in July 2007.

Singu Srinivas
Founder and President
HiWired, Inc.

Singu co-founded HiWired following twelve years of leadership experience in consumer electronics, telecommunications and media, where he witnessed the pain and frustration felt by personal technology users who lacked convenient access to support. Prior to launching HiWired, Singu was a relationship partner leading the Services Strategy practice at IBM Business Consulting Services. While at IBM, Singu advised electronics clients like Philips, Kodak, Cisco and IBM. He also served as the director of strategy development for IBM Global Services, Big Blue’s $48B services arm. In addition, Singu’s background includes four years working with start-up technology and content companies in Europe.

A native New Yorker, Singu has adopted Boston as home, where he spends much of his leisure time restoring his family's 135-year-old, historic house. Singu is a 1996 MBA graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.

Dr. Susan Schwarze
VP Marketing and Board Member, OSGi Alliance
Marketing Director, ProSyst Software

Dr. Susan Schwarze is Marketing Director of ProSyst Software and represents ProSyst Software (prosyst.com) in international consortia. Since 2002 she is spokesperson and VP Marketing of the OSGi Alliance (osgi.org) and serves on the Board of Directors, applying her marketing and business development know-how, international experience and language skills for the benefit of the OSGi Alliance. OSGi technology is deployed in many industries and also enables cross-industry business models. Due to her positions Susan has been able to foster her profound business knowledge of the various markets, including service provisioning, home automation, telematics, health care, and enterprise. Prior to joining ProSyst Software, she has held positions at Information Advantage, Sterling Software and OAR Consulting, working on all aspects of the marketing mix and in business development. Before working in the IT industry, Susan worked for the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, acquired her PhD in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin and gained professional experience and language skills in France, Costa Rica, Belgium, the USA and Germany.

Stephen Reeder
Managing Director
ICTV International

Stephen was appointed Managing Director of ICTV International in July, 2006, and is responsible for commercial operations in EMEA. Stephen has 18 years of commercial and technical experience in the European cable, IPTV and telecommunications marketplace. Prior to joining ICTV, Stephen was EVP Sales & Marketing at ANT plc where he played an instrumental role in the company’s focus on IPTV and its subsequent floatation on the London Stock Exchange. His other experience includes being a global account director for Lucent Technologies, heading up new product development for Concert’s ASP hosting business, and managing the advertising division for BT’s Cable TV Services. Stephen holds a First Class Honors Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of East Anglia, and an MBA from the London Business School.

Philippe Bornstein
Founder and CEO
Netineo

An expert in digital telecommunications for professionals as consumers, Philippe Bornstein brings over 16 years of varied experience that covers industrial design, consulting and entrepreneurialism to Netineo, which he founded in 2007 and is dedicated on interactive live broadcasting on the Internet.

Prior to establishing Netineo, Philippe was vice president of Netsize Group, an international specialist in SMS mobile solutions and mobile Internet.  At Netsize, he was responsible for IT services, relations with mobile operators, marketing, and business development, first for the French business unit, then for the whole Netsize group, and eventually he oversaw all non-European operations, including USA, Mexico, Japan, China and Australia.  Phil was responsible for the establishment of several strategic partnerships and deployed numerous convergent web/mobile projects for large international companies including Google, Kodak, DivX, MTV, Yamaha, Sharp, Tom-online and Lagardere.

In 2000, Philippe created FreeConso, a direct marketing Internet start-up financed by Europatweb, a famous French VC. From 1990 to 1996, he was manager in retail, finance, multimedia and energy fields in major international consultancy firms such as Accenture and Ernst & Young.  Prior to his career as a consultant, and between 1996 and 2000, Philippe worked in industrial furniture design, where he has notably been director of marketing and sales.

Phil graduated from ESSEC, one of Frances’ top business schools, in 1990.

Fredrik Andersson
Co-founder and VP business development
Accedo Broadband

Before Accedo, Fredrik co-founded Xlent Strategy, a successful Nordic Management consulting company, where he also worked more than five years as a senior management consultant.

His main area of expertise is strategies and business development within the converging telecom and broadcasting industry. He has had consulting assignments for various clients within this area, for example Disney Channel, Ericsson, TeliaSonera, Nokia, Canal Digital, Telenor broadcasting.

Fredrik has been working within the telecom and media sector all his professional life. Before Xlent Strategy, he worked for Ericsson Business Networks developing Video-on-Demand solutions and other services for networked homes. Fredrik was also the co-founder and CTO of Cell DTV, a Nordic consulting company within Digital TV.

Fredrik holds an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics/Babson College in Boston

Richard Bullwinkle
Chief Evangelist
Macrovision UK Ltd

Richard Bullwinkle is well known in the digital networking entertainment industry from his previous roles at Digital Networks North America, Inc. (DNNA) and TiVo. As TiVo's chief evangelist and a senior member of TiVo's product marketing team, Bullwinkle helped create and develop the TiVo products, and then played an instrumental role in helping create the well-known publicity around the TiVo products and brand. Bullwinkle joined Mediabolic (subsequently bought by Macrovision) from DNNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of D&M Holdings U.S., Inc. and the parent company of Rio Audio and ReplayTV. As a senior member of Rio Audio's Product Marketing team, he helped create and market some of the most popular MP3 players in the US. Prior to that he was in charge of the user experience, including software and interface design, at ReplayTV. Bullwinkle graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and Music.

Tim Marsden
Chief Technologist, EMEA, CME
HP

As Chief Technologist, EMEA in the Communications Media & Entertainment (CME) Business Unit’s CTO Office, Tim Marsden is lead interface into CME Solutions and HP Labs teams, has oversight and development of the new CME Innovation Program Office (IPO), drives development of roadmaps with Solutions and Labs as well as direct responsibility for building relationships with CTOs in the EMEA region.

Marsden is a leader in Product Management and Development with over 16 years in Finance, IT and Telecoms. He has proven success in delivering innovative, profitable product strategy and driving sustainable business growth through a targeted product management approach.

Prior to joining HP, Marsden was Head of Products for Easynet (BSkyB) and was instrumental in evolving the business from an SME to a pan-European enterprise service provider. He developed the product strategy and aligned the organisation to deliver the significant development required to translate enterprise communication requirements into a market leading IP service portfolio. Marsden was previously Director of Product Management & Development at Via Networks Inc. with responsibility for a pan-European portfolio of voice and data services. He also has held senior product positions at Storm Telecommunications, delivering optical and IP networking services to wholesale and enterprise markets and a start-up ISP Aduronet.

Marsden resides in London, UK with his wife and 2 sons.

Robert Rodenbucher
Director Business Development
AwoX

Robert Rodenbucher aged 47, is appointed Director of Business Development at AwoX, the European leader in middleware technologies for the aggregation of digital entertainment contents on a home network.

Starting in the early 80’s as lab engineer at Wandel & Goldtermann France then at Thomson Simulators, he pursued, for more than 6 years, its career in robotics as team leader for the digital control command at Renault Automation. After he abandoned the technical world and moved into marketing functions being TV-Europe Product Manager and Business Manager for Eastern Europe & Russia, then World Wide Manager for Components for Optical Recording at Thomson.

Robert Rodenbucher is a graduate engineer in electronics from ISEP (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris) and followed a course of marketing for high-tech products at ESCL (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon).

Paolo Pastorino
Chief Technology Officer
Home Gateway Initiative

Paolo Pastorino holds a degree in Physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino, ITALY, and a Master in Telecommunications and Information Technology from COREP/SSGRR, Italy. He is currently on leave from Telecom Italia to cover the challenging role of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Business Officer of the Home Gateway Initiative.

For his current activity he relies on his experience ranging from the design of optoelectronic devices to the design of broadband access network architectures and advanced residential/SOHO broadband networking and service solutions.

He managed several national and international projects in the broadband home networking domain and he is author of papers about the broadband home and speaker to several international conferences.

Dr. Paul Entwistle
CTO
Pace Micro Technologies

With over 10 years’ payTV experience at Pace Micro Technology and a responsibility for intellectual property, Paul remains passionately involved in the evolution of the personal video recorder (PVR) and the technologies that will enable it.

From designing set-top-boxes for mass production through to advanced technology pioneering PVR in the late 90s and on to the connected home and triple-play, working with both networking and VoIP technologies. Paul is a technologist that believes simplicity is mandatory.

He has a growing portfolio of granted patents and a doctorate in parallel processing from the University of Wales.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Grallert
Managing Director
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI

Hans-Joachim Grallert received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Communications Engineering from the Rheinisch-Westfälisch-Technische-Hochschule Aachen, Germany, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. For his doctorate thesis he received the 1977 award of the German Information Technology Society. Prof. Grallert joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications.- Heinrich-Hertz-Institut – for the first time in 2004 as a consultant. In April 2005 he became managing director of the institute. Since 2005 he is Full Professor for Telecommunications at the Technische Universität Berlin at the Institute for Communications Systems. Before working for the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute Prof. Grallert was Managing Director of Marconi Communications Ondata GmbH and Vice President of Marconi Optical Networks, Backnang, Germany (2001-2003). From 1981 to 2001 he was with Siemens AG, Munich, eventually as Member of the Board and Senior Vice President of Siemens Information and Communication Optical Networks.

Until now he is member of several committees concerning optical communication technologies e.g. Chairman of European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2000), in Munich, and of ECOC2007, in Berlin. He is chairman of the advisory board for “FiberComm Fair”, Munich, and member of Information Technical Society (ITG) in the committees for “Optical Transmission Systems” and in the committee for “Informations- und Systemtheorie”.

Stephen Farmer
EMEA Market Manager, Video Solutions
Motorola Home & Networks Mobility

Stephen Farmer leads Motorola’s video business within the Home & Networks Mobility Division in EMEA. Tasked with driving the IPTV set top box business and ensuring success for Motorola’s catalogue of video products, Stephen is responsible for the development of key strategies and customer initiatives in the region.

Stephen joined Motorola in January 2007 bringing a wealth of video and technology experience. He previously held a role managing the IPTV business at Scientific Atlanta, part of Cisco, where he was heavily involved with wins for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft products with customers such as T-Online, Swisscom and T-Com Croatia.

His background includes four years at Pace Microtechnology where he was responsible for the development of the IPTV business in Europe; he maintained a significant involvement in the early trials of IPTV with Telefonica and Belgacom. He also spent five years working in a telco environment at BT.

Stephen has a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from Aston University and an MBA from Bradford Management Centre.

Paul Gray
Marketing Intelligence Manager for DTV
NXP Semiconductors

Paul Gray has been in the TV component industry for 18 years. He joined NXP (formerly Philips) Semiconductors in 2002 as a product manager and latterly for Market Intelligence in TV systems. He has previously worked in CRT manufacturing, technical support and sales in the UK and South East Asia.

Dr. Ofer Weintraub
Chief Technology Officer
Orca Interactive

Dr. Ofer Weintraub is Chief Technology Officer of Orca Interactive. With extensive expertise in managing research and development and in software consulting in the telecommunications and hi-tech industries, Dr.Weintraub joined Orca in November 2005 to take on the role of CTO. His responsibilities include driving technological innovation to continuously leverage Orca Interactive’s position as an IPTV market pioneer and overseeing new product development to revolutionize the industry as a whole by introducing the IPTV services of the future. Dr. Weintraub was previously a telecom and cellular consultant with The Standard Insider, where he focused on mobile data services and IP infrastructure (IMS) and prior to that held the position of CTO and research group manager at Emblaze Systems. He holds a doctorate in chemical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the chemical physics departments at Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Randolph Nikutta
Senior Consultant
Detecon International GmbH
member of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom Group

Randolph Nikutta started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary, defining and leading several larger business oriented R&D projects (value added services & service delivery platforms) for several business units of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Since 2002 Dr. Nikutta is working for Detecon International GmbH which is a consultancy subsidiary of T-Systems International belonging to Deutsche Telekom Group. Among other numerous projects he has supported the fixed network business unit (T-Com) in the development of its product and service innovation strategy and portfolio.

Since April 2005 Dr. Nikutta has been assigned to Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and is responsible there for the project field “New Media” dealing with TV related topics like interactive IPTV, targeted IPTV advertisement, P2P TV, smart EPG, interactive mobile TV, Free Viewpoint TV, semantic enabled search for entertainment domains etc.

Blake McEldowney
Design Director
Smart Design

Blake is a Design Director based in Smart Design’s European office in Barcelona and has over 10 years of experience developing electronic
consumer products for the home, in addition to various user interfaces and packaging systems. He has a degree in Industrial Design from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to joining Smart Design, Blake worked at Fisher and Paykel, an innovative New Zealand appliance manufacturer, developing award-winning Cooking and Dishwashing systems that are being sold globally. Blake has won several IDSA and other awards for his work. Clients include: HP, OXO International, ESPN, XM Satellite Radio, simplehuman and Microsoft.

Blake’s experience is focused on packaging innovative technologies that support people’s lifestyles. His understanding of the home environment, socio-cultural trends and his ability to uncover user needs, produces solutions that provide a compelling and satisfying user experience.

Smart Design has a 25-year history of turning insight and innovation into successful consumer products, interactive experiences and brands. Smart Design is one of the most awarded design companies; in the last 8 years Smart has received 24 awards from IDEA/Business Week. Smart’s multi-disciplinary approach brings together experts in product, graphic and interaction design, engineering, strategy and design research to ensure that our solutions connect with people. Smart Design’s consistent results are delivered by an international staff of 90 creative people, working in teams across offices in New York, San Francisco and Barcelona. For more information see www.smartdesignworldwide.com.

Kevin Meagher
CEO
Intamac Systems Limited

Kevin was formerly a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force where he worked on combat aircraft such as the Harrier and Tornado. With the advent of the Internet, Kevin quickly recognised the potential of the Internet and began to look at how ISP based server platforms could be used to network systems and appliances in the mass market. So, in the middle of what was a very successful career, he left the safety of the large corporate environment to form Intamac.

The company has enjoyed strong growth and they are now global leaders in the Home Monitoring market with platforms and products deployed to support customers on 3 Continents. They have used their platform to support a range of innovative new home monitoring services in support of partners’ triple play strategies and this has helped to secure contracts with Cisco, British Telecom, Bell Canada, KPN, IAG and others. The company has received several industry awards for innovation and has been recognised as a European Top 100 Private Technology Company in the Red Herring Awards. Kevin was also named as a finalist in the Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) awards 2007.

Intamac remains focused on becoming the global leader in web based monitoring and their solutions are helping partners to increase ARPU, grow market share, and retain customers. The Company is now working to develop new products and services that exploit opportunities with mobile operators, telecare and home automation.

Martin Dräger
CEO
Dialog Solutions GmbHMartin Dräger heads the Dialog Solutions GmbH (DSG) advertising. The natural born strategist has set his focus on new paradigms for brand communication.

Concepts and creation are skills he got to know by heart in his studies as a design engineer in Hamburg. These studies involved international work for ACI-Carron Detroit, Michigan, US and p.a.d. of Amerika North Carolina. He completed his studies as a certified engineer in 1999.

Back in Germany he combined this conceptional skills with project-management experience while working for reknowned agencies as Kabel New Media in Germany. Successfully implementing large-scale internet projects for clients as BMW both, refined and broadened his understanding of brand communication.

The idea to fuse new media technology with innovative business concepts for communication soon became more detailed. Together with Frank Algermissen, he turned his vision into a viable business strategy and creative ideas into compelling brand concepts for viral marketing. 2002 Martin Dräger and his partner founded their own brand by establishing the agency Dialog Solutions GmbH in Hamburg.

Marc Vogeleisen
Director of Marketing & Business Development
Thomson Premises Systems

Marc Vogeleisen is Director of Marketing & Business Development for the Thomson Premises Systems (TPS) of Thomson. In this role, he is responsible for strategic planning activities, the identification of new business opportunities, operational marketing and lead management for the digital STB, broadband modem & gateway, and residential telephony side of the business. Prior to joining Thomson, Marc was with Philips from 1991 to 1997 where he held various positions, the last of which was as Director of New Business Development for the Philips Consumer Communication activity covering GSM, GPRS and DECT technology offerings. Marc’s 13 year’s experience in the telecoms industry is theoretically underpinned by a Masters degree in Marketing Management from the ESSEC, Paris (1994) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (1991).

Bernd Matejek
Head of Product Management IPTV – OEM at the Service Core and Applications Business Unit
Nokia Siemens Networks

Bernd Matejek is responsible for the partner-related business of Nokia Siemens Networks' IPTV solution portfolio. He is involved in all partnering activities and responsible for the definition of the partner ecosystem. In his most recent position he was responsible for strategy and planning at Siemens Communications’ Fixed Networks unit.

After completing his studies Bernd became a project engineer in the control and automation industry, where he gathered his first management experience. Bernd began his career at Siemens in the development of OA&M platforms and interfaces for TDM and softswitch-based systems. He has more than ten years of experience in the telecommunications industry.

Bernd was born in 1967 in Augsburg, Germany. He holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München).

Nick Hunn
Chief Technology Officer
EZURiO Ltd

Nick Hunn is Chief Technology Officer of EZURiO Ltd, a company dedicated to short range wireless technology. Over the past 15 years, Nick has been responsible for designing communications products that enable mobile communications, from one of the first Ethernet PCMCIA cards, through a gamut of GSM data solutions to today’s wireless products and platforms.

Prior to his involvement in the PC industry, Nick developed a diverse range of products, ranging from robot vision systems to laser gyroscopes and semiconductor processing equipment. He was also responsible for a world leading range of sperm and embryo freezers which was awarded the Queen’s Award for Technology.

Nick is a frequent contributor to explaining technology trends, both in print and at conferences. Over the years he has appeared in print on cryobiology, plasma chemistry, surface mount manufacturing and communications. He speaks regularly throughout Europe on the future of mobile communications. At EZURiO he is concentrating on turning short range wireless standards into products that are understandable, usable and cost effective. In particular he is concentrating on Wibree as the enabling technology for a new generation of personal healthcare devices. He sits on a number of working groups within the Bluetooth SIG and is also an executive director of the Mobile Data Association, promoting all forms of wireless data communication. Nick can be contacted at nick.hunn@ezurio.com.

Tahar Cherif
Manager, R&D Group and European IPTV
Sharp

Tahar Cherif is engaged in innovative 3G Mobile and Network Aquos LCD TV applications development for Sharp labs. He manages Sharp Corporate R&D Group European IPTV projects with service operators, content providers, technology vendors and start-ups. Part of his mission attributes is to coordinate Sharp labs inputs at designated standardization foras. Tahar has graduated from Supelec-Paris and has obtained a MScEng from Dentsudai-Tokyo.

Jason Tirado
Director of International Sales
Crestron Electronics, Inc.

Mr. Tirado started his career in the audio-visual systems integration industry in June, 1994. Jason was hired at the Alexander Marketing Group as a manufacturer’s representative from IBM and had sales responsibility for the states of California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.

In 1996, Steve Alexander named him a Vice President of Alexander Marketing Group. In 1998, Jason purchased Alexander Marketing Group along with his business partner, Linda Pennington. During his tenure at Alexander Marketing Group the firm won Representative of the Year for 5 different manufacturers.

In 2002, Mr. Tirado joined AMX as the Director of Residential Sales for the United States. He served as a representative to the CEDIA Manufacturer’s Council during his tenure with AMX as well as being named the President’s Award Winner in 2004.

Jason was a guest speaker at the Shanghai World Expo Planning Meeting. He also served as a guest panelist at the Integrated Systems Europe 2007 show, for the discussion on Architecture and System Integration.

Mr. Tirado is currently the Director of International Sales at Crestron Electronics Inc. He joined Creston as a Director in the summer of 2006.

Nora Maene
Multimedia Solution Marketing Director
Alcatel-Lucent

Nora Maene is active in multimedia solution marketing for Alcatel-Lucent. Her focus is on IPTV, end-to-end triple play services (video, high-speed Internet and communications services), and on multi screen video services.

Nora started her career at IMEC Belgium in 1987, and joined Alcatel in 1989. Prior to her current role, Nora was director of operational marketing for EMEA and Latin-America. Nora held a variety of strategic marketing positions within the company.

Nora received a Masters Degree in Micro-Electronic Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL 1987) and holds an Alcatel-INSEAD marketing telecommunications postgraduate (2000).

Erich Kamperschroer
Chairman
The DECT Forum

Erich Kamperschroer is the Chairman of the DECT Forum, the worldwide acting industry association of the global cordless devices industry. With more than 670 Mio devices sold and growing by more than 100 Mio devices per year, DECT, DECT 6.0* and their successor CAT-iq* are worldwide adopted technologies with high relevance for cordless voice and home networking. CAT-iq drives the convergence of telephony (voice) and broadband networks (data). CAT-iq provides new application categories and product devices over the next years.

Erich holds a degree in Communications Engineering and has more than 15 years experience in telecommunication. As an innovation manager at several positions he always has been an inventor and a visionary who today holds more than 20 patents.

• 1992 – he developed the first DECT phone worldwide.
• 1998 – he initiated as one of the first managers worldwide the research in Bluetooth and
became responsible for Bluetooth applications in 1999.
• 2001 – he invented the first Cordless VoIP phone adapter, which became the first Skype
phone in 2002.
• 2003 – he started negotiation with the FCC on frequencies for DECT in USA. 2004 the
FCC adopted DECT for the USA and released the frequencies.
• Since 2005 – Erich is driving forward CAT-iq in his role as mentor and respected personality of the wireless communication industry. He sees CAT-iq as the most important global communication and home networking technology of the future.

Erich is renowned as visionary speaker in the telecommunications and home networking field and has held presentations at many events all over the world – for example at the Wireless Connectivity in Singapore, at the ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong, or at the CES in Las Vegas.

Klaus Böhm
Senior Manager
Deloitte Consulting

Klaus Böhm, Senior Manager, leads the Media Practice of Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte is one of Germany's leading audit and consulting firms offering a full range of services combining audit, tax, consulting and corporate finance. 3,400 people in 18 offices have been serving companies and institutions of all kind – for 100 years. Deloitte is represented by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu network in nearly 140 countries world-wide with 135,000 people.
Klaus is a highly experienced manager in the media industry. He has worked for over ten years with different blue chip companies like RTL Group, Bertelsmann, QVC and NBC Europe. Klaus gained his expertise in the areas of program, technology, strategy and operations.
Before joining Deloitte Consulting, Klaus managed a company of RTL. He prepared and implemented the broadcaster’s presence on new digital platforms like mobile entertainment, broadband, satellite and cable.

Victor Dominguez
Director of Sales & Business Development and a co-founder
DS2

Victor Dominguez Richards is Director of Sales and Business Development and a co-funder of DS2, the leading technology innovator and global provider of high-speed silicon solutions in the Powerline communications market. Prior to founding DS2, Victor held several research and lecturing positions at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the area of Microelectronics Systems design for high performance communications. As Director of Business Development, he is responsible for promoting DS2 technologies into new markets worldwide, focusing especially on the IPTV and Consumer markets. Victor currently holds the chairmanship of the Powerline Committee in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

Jeremy Hendy
VP Marketing
Aspex Semiconductor Limited

Jeremy Hendy is Vice-President of Marketing and Applications at Aspex, a UK fabless semiconductor company developing High Definition video transcoding chips.

He has spent 20 years in the semiconductor and design services industries, including positions with TI, Cadence, Symbionics and Tality, and is now reponsible for driving Aspex's future roadmap of low cost consumer devices for video encoding and transcoding within the home. Mr Hendy holds a first-class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool, UK.

Eric Plesner
Director of Business Development
io-homecontrol

io-homecontrol® is a secured wireless communication protocol enabling interaction among products from different manufacturers covering various applications such as Windows, Blinds, Shutters, Gates, Doors, Indoor Climate, Surveillance, Locks and will expand from the present areas into lighting and other relevant applications over the coming years .

A major benefit for professionals and end-users is that io-homecontrol® requires no additional infrastructure or installation costs.

The io-homecontrol technology is developed by market leading companies within the building components industry. Present members of the io-homecontrol® association are HONEYWELL, HÖRMANN, SOMFY, VELUX and ASSA ABLOY.

Other market leading companies will join and participate in the ongoing development and the association will open up for other companies that want to have access to the technology.

io-homecontrol® labelled products inter-operate with each other, improving comfort, security and energy savings.

io-homecontrol® trademark is registered in more than 40 countries and io-homecontrol® based product sales are counted in millions per year. New products complementing the range of products are launched by the members and certified by the association.

Eric Plesner is in charge of business development for the io-homecontrol association.

Lew Brown
Executive Vice President of Marketing
Zensys, Inc.

Lew Brown is the Executive Vice President of Marketing for Zensys, Inc., a leading provider of wireless networking technology for control and status reading applications. Lew joined the company in August 2006 and brings extensive knowledge with over 30 years of experience with the Consumer Electronics industry, mainly focusing on the retail, manufacturing, and distribution sectors.

In his new role, Lew will be responsible for the day-to-day management of marketing activities with the ultimate goal of establishing Z-Wave as the standard in wireless home control. Lew will also be responsible for channel marketing, marketing communications, product management and overall product strategy.

Prior to joining Zensys, Lew recently was the Director of Strategic Business Development at Monster Cable, a renowned CE accessory manufacturer. He also previously held the position of CEO at Mobilworks, a venture backed chain of high-end mobile electronics stores.

Ofer Vilenski
Co-Founder, President and CEO
Jungo Ltd.

Ofer Vilenski co-founded Jungo Software Technologies and through sales of the company's first product line, WinDriver, a tool for driver development, brought the company to profitability within its first year. Today, Jungo is the leading provider of home networking software, driving residential gateways, VoIP gateways, storage devices, and other digital home products. Under Mr. Vilenski's leadership Jungo was acquired by NDS on December 2006. Prior to Jungo, Mr. Vilenski worked for Check Point Software Technologies, a global leader in Internet security solutions, and served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. Mr. Vilenski graduated Cum Laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Haifa.

Dr. Alexander Tettenborn, LL.M.
Head of Unit - Broadcasting and Media Economy,
Rundfunk - und Medienwirtschaft Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi)

Born March 25th, 1956 in Berlin, Germany
Schools in Berlin, Ingelheim/Rhein
Graduation from High School in 1976
Military Service 1976- 77

1977 – 80 Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
1980/81 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (USA), Political Science, Fulbright Scholar
1981- 84 Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany, Law studies, 1st State Examination
1985 – 1988 Legal clerkship ( incl. legal traineeship in Los Angeles, USA, Evans & Harter)
1988 2nd State Examination of Law, Mainz, Germany
1988-89 Post graduate studies at University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA), LL.M.
1989- 90 Attorney-at-law, law firm Boden, Oppenhoff (now Linklaters), Cologne, Germany

• Since 1991: Civil servant, government lawyer

• 1991 – 1998 Federal Ministry of Education and Science (Liquidation of former GDR- Units, Eastern European Division, Multimedia-Team – Internet laws)

• 1998 Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Internet/E-Commerce Division

• 2002 Head of Unit Special issues of Telecommunication and Postal affairs

• 2005 Head of Unit Media economy

• 2007 Head of Unit Controlling, Staff appointment scheme

Milan Erbes
Home Networking TG, ETSI
Vise Chair, TISPAN WG5

Technical Marketing, DS2

Milan has 29 years of extensive experience in the field of IT and multimedia Communications networking and 20 years of extensive negotiation with commercial contracts with equipment vendors and operators. Milan has been working for number of international groups like Digital Equipment Corporation, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems and now DS2 in a Technical Marketing, Strategy and Business Development role, with the additional responsibility for standards development in Europe.

He has been involved in Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), ETSI, CENELEC, Euro-DOCSIS, EuroCableLabs and EuroPacketCable Forum. At European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), in 2002 he was one of the initiators for the creation and was a Chairman of the NGN@Home WG that is now split between ATTM where he is a TG Home Networking Chairman and TISPAN WG5 where he is a Vise Chair. He was involved in a Cenelec-SmartHouse project as a Home Residential Gateway Development Leader.

David Keeley
Chief Technology Officer
Motorola, Home & Networks Mobility, EMEA

David Keeley currently holds the position of chief technology officer for Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility (H&NM) business.

Motorola H&NM is a leading supplier of systems delivering data, voice and IPTV solutions for network operators.

He joined Motorola through the acquisition of General Instruments in 1989, and is responsible for the company’s strategic technical developments and product applications within the European, Middle East and African region.

Keeley’s career in broadband communications spans 34 years, prior to joining Motorola he held managerial positions at British Telecommunications, developing advanced broadband networks.

Keeley was elected President of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers in 1995, and is a member of several technical standards committees including CENELEC, IEEE and the British Standards Institute and he was elected to the board of AEPOC in 1999. (The European anti-piracy organisation).

As one of the Industries leading authorities of the technology and it’s development he is a regular speaker at European seminars and contributor to many technical publications.

Keith Day
VP of Marketing
Ubiquisys Ltd.

Keith has 20 years’ marketing leadership experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, spanning software, hardware, managed services and outsourcing. Before joining Ubiquisys, Keith was Director of Product Marketing for UK telecoms software pioneer Cramer Systems, where he was responsible for business positioning and communications worldwide. In 2006 Cramer was acquired by Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) in one of biggest ever deals involving a European software business. Previously, Keith was EMEA Marketing Director at Unisys (NYSE: UIS) and European Regional Marketing Director at BMC Software (NYSE: BMC).

Fernando Gil de Bernabé
Managing Director, WW Strategy, Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems

Mr. Gil de Bernabé is the Managing Director for the Worldwide Strategy Practice in the Internet Business Solutions Group. He assembles and leads teams who provide trusted and solid advice on the strategic issues shaping the business of our customers and Cisco.

Fernando joined Cisco in late 1999 as Group Manager to build the IBSG SP practice in EMEA. He was promoted to Director in 2001 and to Managing Director in October 2003. In August 2005 he took full responsibility for IBSG SP operations in European Markets and contributed to the formation of the Emerging Markets team. In July 2007 he was appointed to his current role to build the Strategy Practice. He is also an active member of the senior executive team that defines Cisco’s strategy in the SP business. He has led Cisco’s worldwide initiatives “What Drives CapEx” in 2007, “SP2015: Scenarios of the Future” in 2006, and “Connected Home: Consumer Broadband” in 2005.

Prior to Cisco, Mr. Gil de Bernabé was an Associate Director in the Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media, and Electronics Practice of Arthur D. Little in Silicon Valley. Before that, he worked for two software startups in Barcelona, Spain.

Mr. Gil de Bernabé holds an M.B.A. and a Management of Technology certificate (MOT) from the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering at U.C. Berkeley (California, USA). He previously graduated (BEE, MS) from the School of Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Catalan and has five years of German studies. Fernando fenced competitively while in school and today is an avid sailor.

Cord Stukenberg
Director, Service Provider Solutions
F-Secure Corporation

Cord Stukenberg heads the provider business of F-Secure in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, creating security offerings for end-customers and deploying the security subscriber bases in co-operation with partners from Internet Service Provider and Cable TV Provider industries. His expertise covers security issues of home network and provider markets in fixnet and mobile environments from a general view on operations, support, sales and marketing. He has developed partnerships with several leading providers in the region.

Before joining F-Secure he had built a ten years consulting career with a focus on strategy and marketing in telecommunications and media industries. He has worked internationally in portfolio management, business development and implementation, privatization of incumbents and has analyzed the development of the provider markets from the beginning of triple-play and related services.

Cord holds a MSC in engineering from RWTH Aachen. He is married and has four children.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Sahin Albayrak
Chief Executive Director, DAI-Lab
Head of Chair Agent Technology, Technical University of Berlin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sahin Albayrak is the chair of the professorship on Agent Technologies in Business Applications and Telecommunication (AOT). He is the founder and head of the DAI-Labor, currently employing about 100 researchers and support staff. He is member of "The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" (IEEE), "Association for Computing Machinery” (ACM), "Gesellschaft für Informatik" (German Computer Science Society, GI), and "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AAAI).

Prof. Albayrak is one of the founding members of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and currently member of the steering board. He was the initiator of many reputable research projects, e.g.: E@MC2, Sun-Trec, in which he has been supervising research networks at national and international levels. He is also a member of various industrial and political advisory committees, e.g.: Impulskreis "Vernetzte Welten".

Oded Vardi
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Superna Ltd.

Oded is responsible for Superna's business development and has managed the Company’s regular operations since its inception in 2003. In this role, Oded brought Superna from a garage stage operation to an award-winning products provider.

Prior to co-founding SUPERNA, Oded was an angel investor is several early stage companies including Airlink Communications (acquired by Sierra Wireless, Nasdaq:SWIR), AtlasCT, RUSure, SundaySky and more. In addition, he spent several years as a consultant for investment and high-tech companies such as Elron (NASDAQ:ELRN), TargetMatch.com (traded at TASE) and others. Until 1998 Oded worked as an analyst for the Giza Group, first in investment banking, then later in their venture capital operations. Oded holds a BA degree in Business Management and Psychology from Tel-Aviv University.

Mark Herterich
Executive Vice President Sales
ESP AS

Since the merger between ESP AS and Extrada Ltd. in January 2007, Mark Herterich is Executive Vice Presiden Sales for ESP AS. ESP is based in Oslo, Norway, and provides Games-on-Demand services in Scandinavia and Germany. A secondary business field is intelligent video surveillance for airports. Prior to the merger Mark was Chief Marketing Officer of Extrada Ltd., a software company providing a platform for the delivery of digital services. Mr. Herterich joined Extrada in early 2002 from a position as Senior Consultant at Eutelis Consult GmbH, a consultancy active in telecommunications and media across Europe, where he was active in the Smart Home and Home Networking area. Until year 2000, Mark served as the senior project manager for Smart Home value-added services at Deutsche Telekom AG. Before that, he was project manager for various Internet-based value-added services at Deutsche Telekom, including one of the first Unified Messaging services. Mark Herterich received a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin.

Andreas Lakeberg
Director of Sales
DivX, Inc.

About DivX, Inc.
DivX, Inc. is a digital media company that enables consumers to enjoy a high-quality video experience across any kind of device. DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that span the “three screens” comprising today’s consumer media environment—the PC, the television and mobile devices. Over 100 million DivX Certified devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers. DivX also offers content providers and publishers a complete solution for the distribution of secure, high-quality digital video content. Driven by a globally recognized brand and a passionate community of hundreds of millions of consumers, DivX is simplifying the video experience to enable the digital home