Ron Tarasoff

Paul Turner

Tracey Doyle

Jim Bottoms

Ross Rubin

Jim Handy

Robert Thibadeau

Walt Hubis

Richard Bullwinkle

Jim Burger

Clyde Smith

Harry Blount

John Iasiuolo

Gianfranco Scherini

Conrad Maxwell

 

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Day 1 (Tuesday January 6, 2009):

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM Introduction by Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

8:15 AM A1: Storage and Content Creation, Editing and Distribution
This session makes clear the evolving requirements for digital storage capacity and awesome technologies needed to capture and edit new content, to preserve historical content and for multiple content distribution models, including head-end DVR, gaming, satellite and cable, digital cinema, IPTV, kiosks, N-PVR, video downloading and social networking.

9:45 AM Morning Break

10:05 AM Keynote Speaker

10:35 AM B1: Smart and Secure Storage
Intelligent storage devices will be a major driver of the entertainment and consumer electronics industry. This session explores emerging business opportunities, shows you the latest developments in content indexing and searching, and examines the role digital storage will play in digital content and privacy protection. We’ll also look at new products and specifications that will make content more secure and usable.

12:05 PM Lunch and Exhibits

1:30 PM Keynote Speaker 2

2:00 PM C1: Investments in Entertainment and Consumer Storage
What’s the current financial state of and outlook for storage companies working in the entertainment and personal storage? Learn what VCs are investing in now. What are the hot new technologies and drivers for growth in entertainment and consumer storage markets?

3:00 PM Afternoon Break and Technology Demonstrations and Media Center/Server Challenge

4:00 PM D1: “I’m Your Future, Hear me Roar!”
What does the next generation want in digital storage and consumer electronics? Consumers in their late teens and early 20's discuss how they use devices and what role digital storage will play in the products that appeal to them. Catch the future here, live!   Don’t miss the future, catch it here!

4:45 PM E1:  Sales and Technology Trends in Consumer Storage Markets
Hear noted analysts, VARs, resellers, and retailers talk about digital storage and consumer electronics trends that drive the use and development of digital storage. Find out what sells and doesn’t sell in the retail and value added environment in this insightful session.

5:45 PM Conference Reception

8:00 PM Conference Ends for Day

Day 2 (Wednesday January 7, 2009):

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM A2: Storing Stuff in CE Devices
Digital storage is crucial to product design. Hear how leading designers of consumer products and storage developers are working together to meet this critical need in the future. Find out what’s next—PAN storage, greater application integration, life logs? What are options to protect and recover your content?

9:30 AM Keynote Speaker 3

10:00 AM Morning Break

10:20 AM B2: Enabling Technologies for Rich Content Consumer Electronics
High resolution content on consumer electronic devices requires more writing and reading, continuous connectivity and new display technologies. Find out about these developing ways to make better CE devices and how we can provide the power required to make them possible. Learn how to design killer applications and how they will work.

11:50 AM C2: Social Networking and Remote Storage – Where’s the Content Residing?
Sharing content among users is big; very big. This session will discuss the trends for sharing requirements for digital storage capacity and performance. It also looks at the growing remote storage business. Learn about new business opportunities and how they’ll impact the growth and use of storage in this growing market.

12:50 PM Lunch and Exhibits

2:10 PM D2: Personal Home Storage: Saving and Sharing Family Content
As home storage requirements increase we need new ways to organize, backup, share and manage our personal and commercial content. Will digital storage be directly attached or networked? What will drive the use of network storage in the home? When and how will all home and personal storage be networked?

3:40 PM Afternoon Break

4:00 PM E2: Optical Storage: Higher Definition is Survival!   
Find out about the spread of blue laser technology, and hear about several new technologies that promise to extend existing optical storage capacities enormously. How is holographic optical recording doing? Can optical content distribution compete against or live with content downloading and new distribution technologies?

5:30 PM Conference Ends