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Day 1 - Tuesday January 4, 2011

7:30 to 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 to 8:15 AM Introduction: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

8:15 to 9:45 AM A1: Digital Storage Bridges the Gap of Professional and Consumer Content Creation and Production
This session addresses digital storage and the requirements for capturing, editing and archiving content. The industry is being transformed by file-based workflows, as major studios and theatres embrace digital cinema and high resolution 3D content and as ever larger content libraries are created and maintained.

Moderator: Larry Jordan, Video Production Buzz

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9:45 to 10:00 AM Morning Break

10:00 to 10:30 AM Keynote Speech: Robert Tercek, Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts,
Goodbye to Gutenberg: Welcome to the Real-Time,Two-Way Tsunami

10:30 to 12:00 AM B1: Finding, Protecting and Using Content
This session explores the latest developments in content indexing and searching, including automated metadata generation. It also examines the role digital storage will play in providing greater privacy protection. We’ll also look at new products and specifications that will make content more secure as well as easier to find and use.

Moderator: Robert Thibadeau, Wave Systems

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12:00 to 1:30 PM Lunch and Exhibits, Luncheon Sponsored by Isilon

1:30 to 2:00 PM Keynote Speech 2 Jeff Lowe, COO, Building 4 Media, Bigger and More Expensive Does Not
Mean Better When It Comes to Video Storage Systems

2:00 to 2:45 PM C1: Analyst Perspectives: Tomorrow’s Entertainment Storage—Opportunities and Challenges
Learn what VCs are investing in as tomorrow’s opportunities. What do leading analysts think are the hot new technologies and drivers for growth in professional entertainment and consumer storage markets.

Moderator: Dennis Waid, Peripheral Research

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2:45 to 3:00 PM Afternoon Break and Networking

3:00 to 4:30 PM D1: Drivers and Enablers of Mobile Device Storage sponsored by Intel
Find out about exciting new storage architectures for mobile computer and computer-like devices including thin client Android computers with cloud access, SSD-based computers, hybrid and dual storage computers offering the advantages of flash memory and hard disk drives.

Moderator: Melissa Perenson, PC World

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Doug Dumitru, EasyCo
Eden Kim, Calypso

4:30 to 6:00 PM E1: Tomorrow’s Storage for Home, Office and Entertainment
Find out about the latest in storage technologies such as hard disk drives, solid state drives, flash memory and brand new storage technologies. Learn about the fast new interfaces and standards that will be used to create effective, green and speedy storage devices and networks.

Moderator: Andy Higginbotham, Price G2

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6:00 to 8:00 PM Reception Sponsored by Oracle, Drinks sponsored by nVelo

Day 2 - Wednesday January 5, 2011

7:30 to 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Sponsored by Cadence

8:00 to 9:30 AM A2: A Field of Dreams: More Stuff in CE Devices
Digital storage is crucial to product design from MP3 players to computers. Hear how leading designers of consumer products and storage developers are working together to meet this critical need in the future. Find out the latest in storage technology. What are options to protect and recover your content?

Moderator: Guy Finley, Media & Entertainment Services Alliance

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Robert Griswold, Western Digital

9:30 to 10:00 AM Keynote Speech 3 - Brian David Johnson, Futurist and Director
Future Casting, Interactions and Experience Research, Intel

10:00 to 10:15 AM Morning Break

10:15 to 11:45 AM B2: Improving the Infrastructure for High Resolution Content Applications
High resolution content on consumer electronic devices requires more writing and reading, continuous connectivity, greater levels of power and power management, more sophisticated operating systems and other software and new display technologies. Find out about the technologies for making better CE devices and find out about amazing products that will change our world and boost digital storage demand.

Moderator: Jim Porter, DiskTrend

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Jeff Hastings, BrightSign

11:45 to 12:45 AM C2: Opportunities and Challenges for Consumer and Enterprise Cloud Storage
Distributing content as well as on-line back-up and disaster recovery are driving demand for remote storage. This session exposes the storage requirements and trends for on-line content delivery and remote storage. Learn about new business opportunities and how they’ll impact the growth and use of storage in this growing market.

Moderator: Mike Alvarado, Product and Business Development Company

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12:45 to 2:00 PM Lunch and Exhibits, Luncheon Sponsored by Samsung

2:00 to 2:30 PM Keynote Speech 4 Dean Klein, Micron, Flash Memory:
Storing Digital Data & Boosting Computing Performance

2:30 to 4:00 PM D2: Content Delivery Where Ever and When Ever
Find out about the latest trends in physical content distribution including optical and solid state approaches. Learn about how digital signage depends upon storage. Hear about technologies that promise to provide comprehensive and reliable network access to commercial and personal content. Can physical distribution compete against or live with content downloading?

Moderator: Marty Shindler, The Shindler Perspective

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4:00 to 4:15 PM Afternoon Break

4:15 to 5:45 PM E2: Saving, Sharing and Protecting Family Content
As home storage requirements increase we need new ways to organize, backup, share and manage our personal and commercial content. Find out about the technology and business models enabling direct attached and networked storage for consumers. This is one of the biggest growth areas in consumer storage-find out why.

Moderator: Liz Conner, IDC

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5:45 PM Conference Ends