Digital Media Wire Announces Agenda & Speakers for Future of Television West, Los Angeles, March 24-25

Los Angeles, CA (Billboard Publicity Wire) March 11, 2009 -- Digital Media Wire is pleased to announce the agenda and speakers for the upcoming Future of Television West (www.televisionconference.com/west) to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on Tuesday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 25, 2009.

The two-day event is the industry's only comprehensive television conference focused on the evolution and future of the television and digital media industries. The conference agenda, which includes senior participants from major studios and networks, social networks, online distributors, mobile companies, online content distributors and association heads, includes compelling panels on the following topics:

•    Digital Media Trends Impacting the Television Industry

•    The Outlook for the Television Industry & Digital Media

•    THE LAST BROADCAST: Transforming Television for a Connected World

•    THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING: What's Next?

•    THE FUTURE OF ONLINE VIDEO: Where's the Money?

•    GET A (VIRTUAL) LIFE! Challenges & Opportunities for Television Brands to Monetize Virtual Worlds, Games & Online Communities

•    STARS OF THE WEB: Online Video Innovator Showcase

•    ONLINE VIDEO: Global Opportunities and Challenges

•    MOBILE TV AND VIDEO: Opportunities & Challenges Facing the Television Industry

The event also includes delegate roundtables addressing:

•    Consumer 3D Experience: From the Theater to the Handheld

•    Producing Video for the Web

•    The Business of Online Video

•    SAG Talks

•    Digital TV Transition

•    The Future of Advertising

The event features keynotes from Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company; Blair Westlake, Corporate Vice President, Media & Entertainment Group for Microsoft Corporation; Tim Kring, Creator, Executive Producer and Writer of Heroes and John Edwards, President and CEO of Move Networks.

Attendees are over 300 decision-makers from cable, broadcasters, studios, networks, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, advertising, law firms, investment and venture capital firms.

Confirmed speakers include:

Kraig Baker, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Alex Barkaloff, Exec. Producer, Digital Media, Lionsgate

Christopher Barry, SVP, Digital Media & Business Strategy, Sundance Channel

Jonathan Barzilay, SVP, Programming & Advertising, MediaFLO USA

Mike Bennett, Founder & CEO, Oil Productions (creator, Routs, Channel 4, UK)

Eric Berger, SVP, Mobile Entertainment & Digital Networks, Sony Pictures Television

Mitch Berman, CEO & Founder, Zillion TV

Vin Bhat, Managing Partner, Saavn

Bill Bradford, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Fox Digital Media, Fox Entertainment Group

Derek Broes, SVP, Worldwide Bus. Dev., Paramount Pictures

Sean Carey, Sr. Executive Vice President, Sony Pictures Television

Tim Connolly, VP, Mobile Distribution, Disney/ABC/ESPN Media Networks

Felicia Day, Creator / Professional Actress, The Guild

Allen DeBevoise, Chairman & CEO, Machinima.com

Marc DeBevoise, SVP, Business Development & Strategy, Starz Media LLC

Colin Dixon, Sr. Analyst & IPTV Practice Manager, The Diffusion Group

John Edwards, President & CEO, Move Networks

Dominic Field, Partner & Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group

John Fitzpatrick, Business Development, blip.tv

Seth Geiger, President, SmithGeiger

Dick Glover, CEO, Funny or Die Networks

Sibyl Goldman, VP, Moves, TV, omg!, and Shine, Yahoo!

Greg Goodfried, Co-Founder, Pres. & COO / Co-Creator & Exec. Prod., EQAL / Lonelygirl15 & KateModern

Dani Grindlinger, Dir., Advertising Sales Operations & Strategic Initiatives, TiVo

Jonathan Handel, Attorney, TroyGould

Liz Heller, CEO & Founder, Buzztones

Ben Huang, Director, Product Management, Microsoft TV

Teemu Huuhtanen, President, N.A., Sulake Inc.

Alice Kim, SVP Digital Dist. & Partner Relations, MTV Networks

Jason Kirk, VP, Video & Entertainment, MySpace.com

Tim Kring, Creator, Exec. Producer & Writer, Heroes

John Lawson, EVP, Policy & Strategic Initiatives, ION Media Networks

Ariella Lehrer, President & CEO, Legacy Interactive

Phil Lelyveld, Entertainment Tech & Bus. Dev. Consultant, reelword.com

Lydia Loizides, VP, Product Management, Canoe Ventures LLC

Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3

Steve Mitgang, CEO, Veoh Networks

Edward Montes, EVP, Managing Director N.A., Media Contacts, Havas Digital

Clive Ng, Founder & Exec. Chairman, China Cablecom Holdings, Ltd.

Tricia Parks, Founder & CEO, Parks Associates

Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company

Keith Richman, CEO, Break.com

Ken Rutkowski, Host & President, KenRadio Broadcasting

Bill Sanders, President, Pervasive Media

Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix

Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire

Anthony Soohoo, SVP & GM, Entertainment & Lifestyle Division, CBS Interactive/TV.com

Daniel Tibbets, EVP, GoTV Networks

Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors

Andrew Wallenstein, Deputy Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

David Wertheimer, Exec. Director, The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC

Blair Westlake, Corporate VP, Media & Entertainment Group, Microsoft

Brett Wilson, CEO, TubeMogul

Phil Wiser, Co-Founder, Chairman & President, Sezmi

David Wolf, Partner & Sr. Exec. Digital Transformation, Accenture Media & Entertainment

Mark Wurtzel, West Coast Sales Manager, Google TV Ads

Kevin Yen, Head of Strategic Partnership Development, YouTube

Event sponsors and media partners Macrovision, Move Networks, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Parks Associates, CEA, MoCA, Content Agenda, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, webcastr, EMF, Frank N. Magid Associates, New York - Tokyo, Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at USC, Billboard Publicity Wire and NVPR.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.televisionconference.com/west.

Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include Future of Television East, Digital Music Forum East & West, LA Games Conference, NY Games Conference and Digital Media Conference East and West.

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Contact:

Ellen Gildersleeve

Digital Media Wire, Inc.

ellen (at) digitalmediawire (dot) com

310-855-0033

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