8:30 am - Welcome – Review of the day’s agenda and opening remarks
- Bruce Eisen, Conference Chair - Founder & President/Digital Advisors
- Mark Fisher, President & CEO/Entertainment Merchants Association
- Mitch Mallon, EMA Digital Steering Committee Chair - SVP, Digital Sales/RLJ Entertainment
8:40 am - Tracking the Digital Consumer – The variety of digital options for viewing content allows consumers to own an electronic copy, view it in a one-time transaction, or have a subscription to view as much content as they like. Rentrak’s Chris Roberts, SVP Sales, OnDemand Products, shares their findings on how titles are performing in each of these segments.
8:50 am - The Digital Retail Landscape – Retailers of digital entertainment will talk about how they reach consumers and market their sites, the differences between the EST, VOD and SVOD models, and their views on digital retailing over the next few years.
- Bruce Eisen, President & Founder/Digital Advisors – Moderator
- Christopher Allen, GM, Digital Video/Best Buy/CinemaNow
- Thomas Ashley, CEO/FlixFling
9:25 am - A World View of Digital Entertainment – Futuresource Consulting’s Head of Global Content, Alison Casey, discusses how electronic sell-through, video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand, cloud gaming, and UltraViolet are doing in other countries and where the U.S. stands in the global market.
9:35 am - Studios and Game Publisher Perspectives on Digital Entertainment – A panel of studio and game publisher executives will discuss the co-existence of physical and digital formats, marketing their content, the growth of UltraViolet, and how they see the adoption of digital content growing over the next three years.
- Thomas K. Arnold, Publisher & Editorial Director/Home Media Magazine –Moderator
- Chris Early, VP, Digital Publishing/Ubisoft
- Derek Grey, VP, Digital Distribution/Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
- Mitch Mallon, SVP, Digital Sales/RLJ Entertainment
- Dave Miller, VP, Marketing/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Mara Winokur, SVP, Digital/Starz Media
10:10 am - BREAK
10:30 am - Keynote: Morgan Spurlock – Oscar®-nominated director, producer and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will talk with TAG Strategic’s Ted Cohen about his views on industry topics such as the importance of social media in marketing his films, digital distribution, and the new opportunities digital entertainment provides to filmmakers.
10:50 am - Development of Original Content for the Web – This panel of online entertainment pioneers will examine the challenges and opportunities of creating original content exclusively for the web. From development through production and release, learn about the freedoms and restrictions of the online frontier, and what the future looks like.
- Shira Lazar, Host & Executive Producer/What’s Trending – Moderator
- John Heinsen, Multi-Platform Producer & Digital Media Executive/Bunnygraph Entertainment
- Marc Hustvedt, Head of Entertainment/Chill.com
- Brian Lerner, Creative Producer/Disney Interactive
- Paul Snow, Manager, YouTube Content Partnership/YouTube
11:35 am - Spotlight Presentation: Dune HD – Mark Donnigan, General Manager. Whether speaking about OTT, IPTV, broadcast or cable, Donnigan will draw from his experience working with digital retailing and distribution. He will share his vision of tomorrow’s wired home ecosystem including all the devices and apps that will connect today’s digital content to the increasing number of connected households.
11:45 am - Digital EMA Supply Chain Activities Update – EMA's Sean Bersell and Jennifer Lane will review the status of projects on avails, closed captions, image files, metadata, and mezzanine files.
11:50 am - Digital Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions – Getting online entertainment from the content producer to the user’s screen is a complex task. The supply chain for online entertainment shares some similarities with the physical goods supply chain and also presents some challenges that are different from those in the physical supply chain. This session will feature experts from retail and content producers addressing digital supply chain issues and solutions.
- Doug Reinart, Chief Operating Officer/ContentBridge – Moderator
- Chris Fetner, Director, Content Partner Operations/Netflix
- Erick Opeka, SVP, Digital Distribution/Cinedigm
- Nima Ourmazdi, Director, Digital Platform Initiatives/Giant Interactive
- Larry Wilk, Digital Ambassador/Digital Entertainment Group
12:35 pm - LUNCH
1:30 pm - Keynote – Danny Bilson: “Building Connected IP in the Digital World” – With the proliferation of devices that can deliver both linear and interactive content, the opportunity to grow truly connected entertainment brands has arrived. Bilson will discuss how today's audience consumes content across media and how to leverage and grow an IP in this new eco-system.
1:50 pm - Devices Motivating Content Consumption – Yoshio Osaki, SVP of IDG, discusses how consumers are using their ever-growing number of devices to access content and how their growth will impact consumption of entertainment product in the future.
2:00 pm - Emerging Technologies – This session will spotlight some of the newest devices that consumers will be using to access over-the-top entertainment media. Explore the features of each and the opportunities that they provide for digital retailers, distributors, and content providers.
- Ted Cohen, Managing Partner/TAG Strategic – Moderator
- Doug Craig, VP, Programming/Roku
- Ajay Dugar, Director, Business Development & Content Services/DTS
2:35 pm - The Art of Discovery - How Consumers Search For and Find Content – Russ Crupnick, SVP for the NPD Group, talks about the similarities and differences in the discovery process between music, video game, and movie and TV lovers and identifies the key messages that are important to each group.
2:45 pm - Putting Big Data to Work in Digital Media – A panel of experts in digital media discuss what they are doing with data. They will reveal what works and why. Learn about leveraging your data, the pitfalls to avoid on data collection, and privacy considerations, and explore examples of data-driven projects that have delivered solid ROI.
- Jon Bock, VP, Product and Marketing/Snowflake Computing – Moderator
- Allen Cook, SVP, Marketing and Culture/Technicolor
- John Corpus, Founder & CEO/Milyoni
- David Morel, Chief Strategy Officer/Unicorn Media
- Erik St. Anthony Pence, President/Inception Media Services
- Gregory Short, CEO/EEDAR
- Barry Smith, SVP, Business Development, Alliances & Strategy/West10 Entertainment
3:20 pm - 6th Annual Digi Awards
3:30 pm - One-on-One Networking
As of 9.19.13 - Subject to change