FALL FOCUS 2005 :: Making Media Meaningful

executive conference

NOVEMBER 9-11, 2005 :: FAIRMONT SAN JOSE

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	Entropic Communications Entropic Communications is a privately held semiconductor company based in San Diego, Calif., enabling home networking for digital entertainment. Entropic's products allow consumers to easily share digital entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing coax infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content such as movies, music, and images are stored and networked by the average user. Its c.LINK-270 chipset can be embedded in various consumer electronics devices such as STBs, DVRs, and TVs so they can seamlessly share video and multimedia at up to 270Mbps over the coaxial cable already installed in the average home. For more information: www.entropic.com.

	Metalink Ltd. Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK) develops high performance silicon solutions revolutionizing the broadband experience by facilitating the convergence of telecommunication, networking and entertainment. Metalink’s WLAN and DSL technologies are designed to enable true broadband connectivity in every home through cost-effective, very high-speed delivery of advanced applications. Metalink's home broadband products aim to revolutionize the broadband experience by implementing WLANPlus™, a high-throughput wireless LAN technology, 5-10 times faster than currently available wireless LAN technologies. Featuring MIMO technology adopted by the 802.11n standardization, WLANPlus™ enables room-to-room networking of multiple high-definition video streams. For further information please visit www.Metalinkbb.com.

	Navic Networks Navic Networks is the leading interactive television technology and service provider to the cable and direct broadcast satellite television industry. Navic's technology powers interactive applications on nearly 27 million digital set-top boxes in North America. Navic Networks is a privately held corporation headquartered in Needham, Mass. For more information, please visit www.navic.tv.

	Nortel Serving both service provider and enterprise customers in more than 150 countries, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. www.nortel.com Contact Information

	Ruckus Wireless Formed in June 2004 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Ruckus Wireless is a next-generation wireless company specializing in multimedia 802.11 wireless systems for home networks. It designs, develops and markets products and technologies that enable the home media network ecosystem. Its products allow for the simultaneous transmission of voice, video and data communications over standards-based Wi-Fi networks. www.ruckuswireless.com Contact Information

SILVER

	imeem imeem is a technology leader delivering the next generation platform for social media. As a consumer-focused company, imeem allows users to easily communicate with friends and family and find new people and groups over the internet. With imeem's free download users can share digital media, IM, and publish and subscribe to blogs and podcasts. www.imeem.com

	Kontiki, Inc. Kontiki, Inc. is a privately held software company whose customers include AOL, BBC, Ernst&Young, and Palm. Its award winning software, The Kontiki Delivery Management System (DMS), is a suite of software products that enables content providers and enterprises to publish, protect, deliver, and track digital rich media content. Visit: www.kontiki.com Contact Information

	NDS NDS is the leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. NDS enables broadcasters, network operators, and content providers to profit from the deployment of digital TV technologies including personal TV solutions, middleware, interactive infrastructure and applications as well as secure broadband solutions. Around the world NDS VideoGuard® conditional access systems secure service revenues of more than $30 billion, and are used by more than 54 million subscribers. www.nds.com

	Nero Inc. Nero Digital™, co-developed by Nero and Ateme, is a complete audio/video codec solution based on industry standards MPEG-4 Video (MPEG-4 SP/ASP and AVC/H.264) and MPEG-4 Audio (LC AAC und HE AAC) compression technologies, allowing the flexibility to play MPEG-4 compliant content, yet offering advanced interactive features in unprecedented audio and video quality. With Nero Digital™, users can fit more high quality audio and video content to any given screen size, ranging from cell phones to HDTV on CDs, DVDs, flash memory and hard drives. www.nero.com Contact Information

	Streamload Streamload is a leading provider of online digital media services. It launched its online media center, Streamload MediaMax™, in October 2005. Streamload MediaMax™ encompasses five online services which help consumers easily manage their entire media collection in one central location. Users can easily store, organize, access and share their videos, photos, music, and more in a private and secure environment. www.streamload.com Contact Information

Reception

	Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry through technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA represents more than 1,500 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of audio, video, mobile electronics, wireless and landline communications, information technology, home networking, multimedia and accessory products, as well as related services that are sold through consumer channels. Combined, CEA's members account for more than $90 billion in annual sales. CEA's resources are available online at www.CE.org, the definitive source for information about the consumer electronics industry. Contact Information

	Motorola, Inc. - Connected Home Solutions Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information: www.motorola.com. Contact Information

BREAK

	BigBand Networks, Inc. BigBand Networks, Inc. provides platforms uniquely capable of communicating and processing video, voice and data for best delivery throughout networks. As a result, network operators can cost-effectively expand revenue-generating offerings of rich content and advanced, interactive services such as digital television, HDTV, transport of high quality video, local advertising, VOD, iTV, broadband Internet and VoIP. The company's customers include seven of the top ten North American cable operators. www.bigbandnet.com

	EZTakes, Inc. EZTakes provides movie downloads that consumers can easily burn to discs that play on standard DVD players. EZTakes is the first movie download store that bridges the gap between the Internet and the TV for the millions of consumers that don't want to watch feature-length movies on PC monitors. www.eztakes.com Contact Information

	Terayon Communication Systems Terayon provides innovative digital video networking solutions to the telecommunications, cable, satellite and broadcasting industries. Comcast, EchoStar, Verizon, FOX and other leading service providers worldwide are using Terayon’s digital video systems to deliver increasingly targeted services – such as local advertising insertion – and to brand their local network affiliates programming. www.terayon.com Contact Information

BREAKFAST

	Umbria Umbria is a marketing intelligence company that analyzes and distills the opinions and perceptions of the online community – from more than 16 million blogs, message boards, opinion sites and other public forums – into actionable market insights about companies, products, people and issues. Through a combination of technology and services, we provide cost-effective, tailored analysis for our customers, and help them integrate this information into their business to make more informed business decisions. www.umbriacom.com

	Universal Electronics Inc. & SimpleDevices Universal Electronics and its subsidiary SimpleDevices develop software, firmware and turnkey solutions enabling consumers to wirelessly connect, control and interact with consumer electronics and digital media in an increasingly complex and connected home environment. Primary markets include consumer electronics OEMs, computing, and cable/satellite MSOs. www.uei.com Contact Information

Platinum Supporting Organization

Wi-Fi Alliance
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 200 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). With the aim of enhancing the user experience for mobile wireless devices, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s testing and certification programs ensure the interoperability of WLAN products based on the IEEE 802.11 specification. Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification program in March 2000, more than 2,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets. www.wi-fi.org

Supporting Organizations

	iHollywood Forum iHollywood Forum is based in Los Angeles and produces ongoing educational seminars and business development opportunities for entertainment and music industry executives, content creators, technology developers, manufacturers, investors and entrepreneurs. MobileTech Forum holds forums and executives summits addressing mobile and wireless content, commerce, technology and applications. Contact us for information on upcoming events and view the agenda at www.ihollywoodforum.com. Our summits include: Digital Media Summit, Impact 2004: Branded Entertainment, Marketing and Advertising; iWireless World; Mobile Entertainment Summit; Digital Games Summit. www.ihollywoodforum.com

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	Possibility Productions Possibility Productions - Business-2-Business Conference Marketplace - We track nearly 1,000 Business-2-Business Technology-Related Conferences around the world to help our Members find the right conferences…to get in front of the right people…at the right price. www.possibilityproductions.com

	2006 Storage Visions Conference™ January 6 & 7, 2006 in Las Vegas: Find out how digital entertainment content will be created, protected, stored, and distributed from the executives, analysts, and professionals at the forefront of digital technology. See how current and coming trends can benefit your company’s bottom line. www.storagevisions.com

	UHAPI Forum UHAPI Forum is a non-profit trade organization launched by leading companies in the consumer electronics (CE) industry to promote the Universal Home API (UHAPI) specification, an open standard solution that will facilitate faster development of applications for CE devices. The UHAPI Forum provides the industry with support for implementing the UHAPI specification, leading to reduced time-to-market and development costs and increased interoperability of CE products, systems and software. The aim of the UHAPI Forum is to standardize a set of open APIs for a variety of appliances such as analog and digital televisions, set-top boxes, DVD players and recorders, printers, personal video recorders, home servers and other consumer audio and video devices. The adoption of the UHAPI will help reduce the cost and complexity of porting application software to new processors and architectures, thereby accelerating application development overall.

	The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) network is a non-profit worldwide organization based in the UK. Manned mostly by volunteers, aims to report and inform its audiences on all aspects of Wi-Fi and wireless technology. With its round the clock Wi-Fi Newswire© service, discussion forums, reviews and other resources, the Wi-Fi-TF operates on impartiality and non-profitability. The Wi-Fi-TF network owns and operates a string of Wireless and Wi-Fi Technology sites. www.wi-fitechnology.com