Storage Visions Conference: The 2007 Storage Visions Conference Is Coming to Las Vegas January 2007...your source for cutting-edge content data storage information.

2007 Conference Theme:

Digital Storage Democratizes Content

Digital Storage Lets Everyone Enjoy

Digital Storage Lets Everyone Create

Digital Storage Is Our modern Legacy

Get Current and 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.

Join CEOs, industry leaders, manufacturers, and end users at Storage Visions 2007, where Digital Storage converges with Content Creation and Delivery. The Storage Visions^TM 2007 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

“Storage Visions is a valuable source of information on current status and future trends in magnetic and optical storage, and on applications that harness (and will harness) storage capabilities. I make it a point to attend each year while I'm in Las Vegas for CES."
Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor: Mass Storage, Multimedia, PC's and Peripherals, Electronic Design News (EDN)

“We are a startup company in stealth mode that received a jump start from the Storage Visions Conference in 2004. There were several presenters addressing various storage markets, one of which caught our eye and our full attention. Subsequent to the Storage Vision Conference, we built a company around this primary market and recently landed an OEM agreement with one of the leading server vendors. Prior to the Storage Visions Conference in 2004 we simply had a good idea – after the conference we had a market focus and were on a mission! Thank you Storage Visions for the opportunities you create each year.” Name Withheld by Request

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.

A CONFERENCE ADDRESSING THE CONTENT VALUE CHAIN, ESPECIALLY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AND THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT ENABLE IT

STORAGE FOR CONTENT CREATION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

In many regards data storage now serves the role once held by the printing press. It makes vast amounts of information, entertainment and communication available to the bulk of mankind. Like the books of old the networked data storage world is the repository of our modern civilization. This two-day conference will focus on storage and technology that services the creation of human content, its distribution, and reception in our modern networked world. Our intention is to bring together people, organizations, and companies that are a part of this data content food chain. Topics and products to be addressed are:

Content creation and distribution requirements and products
Content protection, DRM, and archiving
Set-top boxes and personal video recorders
Home media centers
Home network storage
Portable storage systems
Mobile device market and requirements
Storage system products and components
Storage system roadmaps for various markets
Data storage and multimedia market and technology analysis
Commercial Entertainment Storage Systems
Video Game Systems

The conference also provides a unique environment for networking with a diverse and important group of corporate officers, analysts, and professionals that will be shaping the future of human content and the distribution of contemporary civilization. In general attendees are extremely positive about the conference and one attendee told us that he and some other attendees from a couple of years ago started a company after listening to some talks at the Storage Visions Conference.

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2007 Conference Sessions and Topics:

View a Special Message from your chairman, Tom Coughlin

Day 1 (Saturday January 6, 2007):

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM Welcome Address: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates

8:10 AM A1: Storage and Content Creation, Editing and Distribution - Sponsored by Omneon

What are the technologies and requirements for the capture and editing of new content as well as preserving historical content? What are the digital storage requirements for various content distribution models such as head-end DVR vs. home DVR, satellite and cable distribution, digital cinema, IP-TV and video downloading?

• Moderator: Dave Doering, TechVoice
• Bill Moren, Avid Technology
• Jim Wendt , Sherwood
• Andrei Khurshudov, Seagate Technology
• Paul Turner, Omneon
• Bob Wilson, Modulus Video

Panel: Tom Inglefield, Sun; Steve Iverson, Streamload

9:35 AM B1: Storage and Content Value Chain Analysts

Noted analysts of consumer electronic and entertainment creation trends join with storage analysts to explore how content creators and distributors are embracing new technologies and what digital storage requirements for various applications will be. On the consumer side will consumers will use flash, HDDs or optical storage and what are the growth and killer applications now and in the future?

• Moderator: Jim Porter, DiskTrend
• Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates
• Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
• Ross Rubin, NPD

Panel: Krishna Chander, iSuppli; John Rydning, IDC; John Kim, TrendFOCUS

10:35 AM Morning Break

11:00 AM C1: Storage Intelligence and Content Security sponsored by Seagate

How will storage devices and systems implement content security, data erasure and DRM. Will we get lost in our content or will we find effective ways to index, organize, manage and find content?

• Moderator: John Lentz, Best Magazine
• Dr. Robert Thibadeau, Seagate Technology and Trusted Computer Group
• Pat Thomas , Quantum
• Robert Brown, Blackball
• Wayne Desmond, Sony
• David Kreft, National Security Agency

Panel: Peter Berghammer, Copernio: Future Formats; Molly Rector, Spectra Logic

12:30 PM Lunch and Exhibits

1:10 Special Storage Industry Announcement

1:15 PM Keynote Speaker: Jerry Pierce, Senior Vice President, Technology, Universal Studios

2:00 PM D1: Financial Analyst and Venture Capitalist Perspectives on Entertainment Storage

What is the current financial state and outlook for storage companies working in the entertainment and personal storage space? What are VCs investing in now? What are the hot new technologies and drivers for growth in entertainment and consumer storage?

• Moderator: Harry Blount, Sr. Vice President, Lehman Bros.
• John Rotchford, Strategic Advisory Services International
• Andrew Williamson, Alexander Dunham Capital
• John Mascarenas, Intel Capital
• Barbara Grant, American River Ventures

3:00 PM Afternoon Break and Technology Demonstrations

3:15 to 3:30 PM Seagate Booth Demonstration

3:30 to 3:45 PM HP Booth Demonstration

4:00 PM E1: Who’s Watching Optical Storage?

How are the competing blue laser DVD technologies doing in the market and when will a winner be decided? What are future applications for optical storage and what are it’s major competitors—such as downloading content? Is holographic storage real and if so how will it grow into more widespread use?

• Moderator: Wolfgang Schlichting, IDC
• Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer Electronics
• Mike Koclanes, Plasmon
• Liz Murphy, InPhase
• Kilroy Hughes, Microsoft
• Paul Castellana, Toshiba Storage Device Division

5:30 PM Reception

8:00 PM Conference Ends for Day

Day 2 (Sunday January 7, 2006):

7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM A2: Integration of Storage in CE Devices

How is digital storage being used in consumer electronics? How is it designed into CE products? What the requirements for future CE products and how will CE change storage devices? Can applications be integrated into the electronics of storage devices and should they?

• Moderator: Melissa Perenson, PC World
• Stephen DiFranco, AMD
• Scott Wright, Toshiba Storage Device Division
• Mike McKean, STMicroelectronics
• Nik Bahram, Agere Systems
• Kenji Taima, Sanyo Electronics

Panel: Bert Haskell, Staktek; Ken Whitaker, Datalight

9:30 AM B2: Digital Storage for the Content Value Chain:
What sort of Business is this?
An Executive Roundtable - Sponsored by Fujifilm

This high level executive panel will feature industry leaders discussing the current status and new areas for growth in digital storage for creation, distribution and reception of entertainment and personal content. The panel will explore major trends in the industry, the competitive outlook between various storage formats, dangers lurking ahead for the industry and the business needs of companies using digital storage in their products as well as the companies providing these storage products.

• Moderator: Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal
• Rich Gadomski, Fujifilm
• Maureen Weber, HP
• Jerry Pierce, Universal Studios
• David Schleifer, Avid Technology
• Andy Marken, Marken Communications
• Bob Wilson, Modulus Video
• John Best , Hitachi GST

10:30 AM Morning Break Sponsored by Fujifilm

10:45 AM C2: Choosing a Mobile CE Storage Product

There is fierce competition between flash and HDD for mobile consumer applications focusing on the price and the match of technology to the requirements of the applications. What is the future and extendability of flash memory and HDDs and are there competing technologies such as other solid state storage options or optical/holographic storage that could displace the major contenders?

• Moderator: Gerry Purdy, Frost & Sullivan
• John Osterhout, Hitachi GST
• Steve Weinger, Samsung Semiconductor
• Alon Biran, SanDisk
• James Cooke, Micron

Panel: Charles Ng, Kilopass Technology ; Jay Elliot, Migo

11:45AM D2: Flash and HDD's, Where's the Cache?

• Moderators: Jim Handy, Objective Analysis; Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates
• Amos Marom, SanDisk
• Steve Weinger, Samsung Semiconductor
• James Borden, Microsoft
• Debasis Baral, Samsung Storage
• Joe Unsworth, Gartner
• Marc Noblitt, Seagate

12:30 PM Lunch and Exhibits

1:15 PM Keynote Speaker: Maureen Weber, General Manager, Personal Storage Business, HP

2:00 PM E2: Digital Content in the Age of Global Archives

• Moderator: Marty Shindler, The Shindler Perspective
• Dave Gardy, TVWorldwide.com
• Gary Price, M4 Interactive
• John Pickens, Cisco
• Lance Ware, SyncCast
• Bill Wohnoutka, Level 3

3:00 PM Afternoon Break

3:30 PM F2: Home Network Storage and Home Direct Attached Storage sponsored by HP

As home storage requirements increase we will need new ways to organize, backup and manage our personal and commercial content. What sort of networking will be used and will digital storage be direct attached or networked? What will drive the use of network storage in the home and when will all home and personal storage be networked?

• Moderator: Ken Morse, Scientific Atlanta/Cisco
• Conrad Maxwell, Silicon Image
• Allen Buckner, Hewlett-Packard
• Brad Dietrich , Mediabolic
• Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Marvell

Panel: Geoff Barrall, Trusted Data; Paul Tien, Infrant; Ryan Malone, Zetera

5:30 PM Conference Ends

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