The 2006 Storage Visions^TM Conference
                January 6 & 7, 2006
     The Las Vegas Convention Center

Make the Connection! Hear the latest on digital content technology from industry leaders. Meet the folks that matter in the entertainment value chain and find out how current and coming trends can benefit your company from the experts at Turner Broadcast, Seachange, Microsoft, Scientific Atlanta, Seagate, Maxtor, GS Magic, Samsung Semiconductor, M-Systems, Agere Systems, Marvell, STMicroelectronics, HP, Atmel, Sonic Solutions, Silicon Image, Toshiba, and many others.

Join CEOs, industry leaders, manufacturers, and end users at Storage Visions 2006, where Digital Storage converges with Content Creation and Delivery. The Storage Visions^TM 2006 Conference and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) are partnering to promote digital storage and the entertainment content value chain.

Find out how digital content will be created, protected, and stored from the executives, analysts, and professionals at the forefront of digital technology.

What industry leaders are saying...

“Across the show floor, attendees can see the increasing array of consumer electronics products that incorporate digital storage. Storage Visions 2006 will help our attendees and the consumer electronics industry at large better understand and take advantage of this trend and the overall content value chain”
        Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

"Storage Visions is the only conference that brings together consumer electronics companies, storage technology and system suppliers, content creation companies, system integrators and VARs, and market analysts to explore and create tomorrow's visions of the role of digital storage in entertainment."
        Pat O’Malley, Seagate Senior Vice President of Consumer Electronics Business Development

“The organizers bring together the biggest names in the data storage business, with speakers who have the knowledge and insights to make the show as informative as it is thought-provoking… Storage Visions was the first to understand the new paradigm based on the co-existence of solid-state, embedded disk drives and hard disk drives. Seeing the market through Storage Visions’ specialized eyes and making contacts with the right people in the industry has enabled us to sharpen our own business strategies.”
        Zack Weisfeld, Associate Vice President of Marketing at M-Systems

“The Storage Visions Conference is the industry aggregate bringing users, hardware vendors, content creators, distribution partners, and others together to discuss the rapidly growing consumer electronics storage market… Today’s opportunities are endless, from backing up data to centralizing network content to streaming rich entertainment throughout the home.“
        Mike Williams, vice president and general manager of Maxtor's Branded Products Group

“Data storage for the digital content value chain will be a major factor in the growth of digital storage devices. We estimate that by 2008 the industry as a whole could be shipping 544 million hard disk drives a year with 34% of that number going into consumer electronics (up from 13.6% of total drive shipments in 2004). The average storage for a wired home in 2007 will be greater than 500 GB (gigabytes) and for homes with backup and a home entertainment network or media center that number will be greater than 1 TB (terabytes). Storage for content creation, editing, archiving, and distribution is expected to jump from 1.7 EB (exabytes, 1018 bytes) in 2004 to 15.4 EB in 2008.”
        Tom Coughlin, President Coughlin Associates and Organizer of the Storage Visions Conferences

If you are a user, manufacturer or reseller of digital content solutions, learn how you can speak, exhibit, or sponsor at Storage Visions 2006. Call Storage Visions at 408-871-8808 or sign up on this web site.

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AGENDA FOR 2006 STORAGE VISIONS CONFERENCE:

      How will entertainment storage help your bottom line?

11:00 Conference Registration and Snacks

12:15 Introduction

12:30 PM Keynote Speaker

Ron Tarasoff , Turner Broadcasting(file is > 10MB!)

1:15 PM Session A

Storage and Content Creation, Editing and Distribution

Moderator: Peter Fasciano, Metcapita

Robert Covington, Rhysome, Inc.

Tab Butler, Seachange

Mark Ostlund, Quantum(file is >6MB)

Tom Inglefield, Sun

Alan Baratz, Neopath Networks

Q & A Panel: Mark Gray, Kasenna; Bob Brown, Blackball; Zack Weisfeld, M-Systems

3:15 PM Break

3:35 PM Session B

Storage and CE Analyst Session

Moderator: Dennis Waid, Peripheral Research

Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

Lane Mason, Denali Software

Dale Gilliam, The Diffusion Group

Q & A Panel: Jim Handy, Semico; John Rydning, IDC; Mark Geenan, TRENDFocus

4:45 PM Session C

Financial Analyst and VC Session

Moderator: David Takata, Engage Capital

Harry Blount, Lehman Brothers

Len Rand, Granite Ventures

Peter Fasciano, Metcapita

5:45 PM- Reception in Exhibit Hall until 8:45 PM

Day 2 (Saturday January 7, 2006):

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast Sponsored by Seagate

8:00 AM Keynote Speaker

Rob Pait , Seagate Technology

8:45 AM Session D

Integration of Storage in CE Devices

Moderator: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

Fadi Afa Al-Refaee, Agere Systems

Catharine Van Ingen, Microsoft

Andrei Khurshudov, Samsung Information Systems America

John Osterhout, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Gianfranco Scherini, STMicroelectronics

Q & A Panel: Jim Cooke, Micron; Eric Herzog, Maxtor; Joel Hagberg , Fujitsu Computer Products of America

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM Session E

Mobile CE Storage Products

Moderator: Jim Porter, Disk/Trend

Zack Weisfeld, M-Systems

Don Barnetson, Samsung Semiconductor

Nelson Chan, SanDisk

Maciek Brzeski, Toshiba

Q & A Panel: Mark Pastor, Seagate; Kate Purmal, U3; Martin Lynch, Cornice

12:15 PM Lunch and Keynote Presentation Sponsored by Maxtor

Moderator: Mike Alexenko, Maxtor

Daniel Putterman, Mediabolics

Brad Hunt, Motion Picture Trade Association

Jeff Joseph, Consumer Electronics Association

Chris Croteau, Intel

Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

1:30 PM Session F

Home Network Storage

Moderator: Ron Dennison, Research Development Consultants

Alex Chervet, Silicon Image(file is >7MB)

Andy Mills, Netcell

Ken Morse, Scientific Atlanta

Q & A Panel: Geoff Barrall, Trusted Data; Steve Iverson, Streamload; Max Bathaee, Atmel

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Session G (Sponsored by Atmel)

Optical Storage

Moderator: Dick Zech, Advent Group

Mehdi Bathaee, Atmel

Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer Electronics, USA and Blu-ray Disc Association(file is > 9MB!)

Jim Taylor, Sonic Solutions

Terry Loseke , OPTWARE Corporation

Kevin Curtis, InPhase

Q & A Panel: Dan Rogers, Imation

5:30 PM End of Conference

Conference Location
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