Confirmed speakers include:

Avner Ronen
CEO & Co-Founder
boxee

Named one of Rolling Stone's "Agents of Change" for 2009, prior to boxee Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers.  Read more

Bill DeMuth
Senior VP & CTO
SureWest Communications

Bill DeMuth began his career at SureWest in 1976 and thereafter held various positions
with increasing responsibility. Read More

Bethany Gorfine
President & CEO
Federal Hill Communications

Brian Mahony
Managing Director
Trender Research

Brian Mahony is CEO of Trender Research and Principal Analyst covering Internet television, communications, and consumer robotics. Brian has over 17 years experience in the technology industry leading marketing, product management... Read More

Buno Pati
CEO
Sezmi

Buno Pati is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Sezmi. Dr. Pati is an experienced and successful entrepreneur who has an established track record of building numerous early-stage companies into successful businesses. Read more

Dan York
SVP, Content
AT&T

Dan York, executive vice president, Content, heads the content strategy and
acquisition for all AT&T platforms: television, broadband and wireless.  

In his role, York and his team set the content strategy for each platform and negotiate
all linear and on-demand programming deals, including national networks, sports, music,
movies, international, interactive services and broadcast television. Read more

Daniel O’Callaghan
Chairman
IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF), ATIS & Principal Member of Technical Staff
Verizon

Daniel (Dan) O'Callaghan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff for Verizon Communications. Dan has been doing digital video since before it was cool. In 1989 Dan was the Vice president of Technology for SkyPix Corporation, an early direct to home satellite service that pioneered digital video compression. Read more

Dean G. Scheu, Jr.
Chief Marketing Officer
beeTV

Dean G. Scheu, Jr. is Chief Marketing Officer of beeTV.  Scheu is responsible for all the International sales & marketing activities for bee.tv’s products and services. beeTV is a leader in the Personal Video Content search space. bee.tv’s main product line is the... Read More

Dom Stasi
TVN Entertainment

As the Chief Technology Officer of TVN Entertainment, Dom Stasi leads an engineering and operations team that is responsible for managing over 3,000 hours of content each month and keeping the company's products and services at the forefront of the on-demand industry. Read more

Franz Kurath
Executive Director, Broadband Content
AT&T Operations Inc.

Franz Kurath leads broadband content programming efforts for AT&T’s Converged Services. Previously, Mr. Kurath was responsible for business development for AT&T’s U-verse IPTV service, focusing on interactive advertising, audience measurement, on-demand content and applications. Read more

Jean Michel Planche
President
Witbe 

Jean Michel Planche has over 20 years of Internet experience in technology development, products and business. In 1989, he created his first company, Apysoft, dedicated to software development in an open system. Read more

Jeff Weber
Vice President
Video Products
AT&T 

Jeffrey G. Weber, Vice President, U-verse & Video Products is responsible for the new data and video product lines under Project Lightspeed.  Project Lightspeed is the initiative to expand its fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver AT&T U-verseSM TV, voice and high-speed Internet access services.  Read more



Jeffrey Litvack
GM, Mobile and Emerging Products
The Associated Press

Jeff is responsible for identifying and assessing new market and product opportunities for the AP worldwide. Under Jeff’s leadership, the AP introduced the award-winning AP Mobile news network... Read More

John Krzywicki
Partner
Analysis Mason

Jonathan Hurd
Director
Altman Villandrie

Jonathan Hurd has more than 20 years of consulting and industry experience in communications, media and related technology sectors. His primary areas of expertise include business and marketing strategy, new business creation and launch...Read More


Joseph W. Weber
Senior Director of Technology
TiVo Inc.

Joseph Weber is Senior Director of Technology at TiVo, Inc. reporting to CTO and founder Jim Barton, and participating in the strategic development of new technologies and products for TiVo. His focus is on creating solutions of the... Read More

Joseph Ambeaul
Director Product Development and Management Video Services
Verizon

As product line strategist and business manager, Joseph’s primary focus is the advancement of Verizon’s video entertainment services – including on-demand, interactive television, digital advertising delivery, video games and interactive program guides – across the company’s subscription television, online and wireless network platforms.  Read more

Lisa Pickelsimer
Executive Director, Video Product Development
Cox Communications

Lisa Pickelsimer serves as Executive Director of Video Product Development for
Cox Communications. Read more

Madeleine Forrer
VP Video Services
National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative

Madeleine Forrer, NRTC's vice president of Video Services, develops the strategic business direction for the Video Services business, including its Internet protocol television (IPTV) opportunity.  Read more

Mark Sue
Managing Director
RBC Capital Markets

Mark brings over 12 years of industry experience to RBC Capital Market's equity research team and adds considerable insight into the communications technology and data networking sectors. Read More

Mark Peden
Senior Director
Technolgy Strategy
CLEAR

Mike Galli
Analyst
MRG

Mike Galli, Analyst, has over 20 years experience in the video industry. He has worked in engineering, marketing and sales positions at The Grass Valley Group, VXtreme (acquired by Microsoft), DIVA, Minerva and Kasenna (acquired by Espial). Mike has a BSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Robin Mersh
President
Broadband Forum

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 and is the senior full time executive. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years, starting in sales and sales management for Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999. Read more

Ronald Dibelka
Project Manager, Access and Technical Planning
NECA

Ron currently is Project Manager NECA’s Technology Group, responsible for wireless, Ethernet, IP, and related packet technologies, services, costs and prices. Ron often represents NECA at State Telecommunications and Industry Forums discussing... Read more

N.L. Goodman
Executive Vice President
Finally! TV

Nora Goodman is Executive Vice-President of Finally! TV. Her responsibilities include content development, deployment and strategy, and global relationships. Finally! TV is the premiere, 4th screen, mobile content production studio, delivering content and services to operators, networks, and application developers worldwide.

Peter Bryant
EVP Business Development
Avail Media

Pete currently serves as EVP, Business Development for Avail Media, where he leads the development of all of the company's strategic partnerships and strategic planning. Read more

Richard N. Yelen
VP & Managing Director
NeuLion & KyLinTV
Richard N. Yelen, Vice President, Managing Director of NeuLion and KyLinTV is responsible for the companies’ international programming and distribution platform efforts.   Read more

Shahid Khan
Senior Partner
IBB Consulting Group

Shahid Khan is Digital Media expert and an acclaimed thought leader in converging Media and Telecommunications industries, with expertise in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities based on advanced and emerging platforms across cable, broadband and wireless. Read more

Shane Walker
Research Analyst, Connected Home Group
IMS Research

Shane Walker is an Analyst with IMS Research’s Connected Home group. Shane has experience researching the worldwide markets for digital TV and his areas of expertise include IPTV and interactive TV service. Read more

Solomon Saul
Executive Director
Digiquest

Upon completion of 5 years of military service, Solomon was involved in the development of Miniature Remotely Piloted Vehicles (M.R.P.Vs) that are still used today by militaries around the world and are often referred to as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (U.A.Vs). Read more

Stephen Fleece
Director, Value Chains Collaboration
TM Forum

Stephen leads the TM Forum's Value Chains Collaboration programs, including Digital Media and Customer Experience projects.  These collaboration efforts are driving emerging management specifications... Read more

Steve Hawley
Principal Consultant
TV Strategies

Steven Hawley is an independent industry analyst, researcher and consultant, serving the telecommunications and digital media industries. His consulting practice, Advanced Media Strategies LLC (AMS), provides strategic, business and technology subject matter expertise in the area of Internet Protocol Television. Read More

Steve Sklar
Director - Video Product Management
Qwest Communications

Steve Sklar has worked in the video and communications industry since 1988, and
currently is the director of product partnerships at Qwest Communications.Read more

Read the interview with Steve Sklar on IPTVnews.com

Steven Goldstein
Director
Samsung Electronics

As Director, Business Development, for Samsung Electronics, Stephen Goldstein covers cable business development and strategy in North America.  Steve works closely with Samsung HQ in Seoul, Korea to synthesize the evolving technology and service trends of the cable industry to help Samsung deploy products from Set-tops to gateways.  Read more

Terry Denson,
VP, Content Strategy and Acquisition
Verizon

As vice president of Programming and Marketing Verizon FiOS TV, Terry Denson oversees the creation and implementation of video product packaging, pricing and marketing strategies; video content acquisitions, in addition to customer acquisition, retention and education. Read more

Thomas Lemaire
Senior Director Business Development
Orange (France Telecom)

Mr. Lemaire brings more than 10 years’ experience to his role as senior director, business development for Orange in North America, where his activities center on the detection and evaluation of business models and strategic partnerships in the content and online advertising space for the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s largest and most innovative telecommunications firms. Read more

Yoav Schreiber
Senior Analyst, Digital Media Infrastructure
Current Analysis

As Senior Analyst for Digital Media Infrastructure, Yoav Schreiber is responsible for tracking and analyzing the evolving technological and competitive developments in IP-based digital media delivery, such as IPTV and advanced cable video, as well as in the overall broadband telephony and cable access markets, including DSL, FTTx/PON, and DOCSIS platforms. Read more

Yun Chao Ho
Chairman
Open IPTV Forum

Mr. Yun Chao Hu is the Open IPTV Forum Steering Group Chairman since April 2007. He was very actively involved in the initiation of this forum which targets the development of the next generation IPTV providing end-users a completely new experience for their entertainment and communication services. Read More