Digital Economics

Donald Jasko to Moderate Digital Hollywood Panel at the Consumer Electronics Show, "The Telco-Entertainment Partnership: From TV to Broadband Services"

Santa Monica, CA January 2, 2004

Donald A. Jasko, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Economics, will moderate a panel on January 10, 2004 at the Digital Hollywood Conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The panel will review the continuing development of telephone company infrastructure from dial tones to long distance, wireless and broadband networks. The panel will examine the work currently being done by the "telco's" to deliver entertainment and information content to their customers over their broadband networks. The panelists are also expected to discuss the issues that must be addressed in order to assure their success in partnering with content creators, and in pairing content with broadband applications that are responsive to their customers' needs. Furthermore, they are expected to review the business models that will support the delivery of content over telephone company infrastructure.

Appearing on the panel will be:

Jay Fausch, Senior Director-Strategic Marketing, Alcatel Broadband
Darcy Lorincz, Vice President & General Manager-Global Rich Media Services, SAVVIS Communications
Phil Corman, Director-Partner Business Development, Microsoft TV Group
Josette Bonte, Managing Director-Broadband Services, RHK
Don Teague, Vice President-Sales & Marketing, PaymentOne
Jonathan Hurd, Vice President, ADVENTIS

The panel will commence at Noon on January 10. The Digital Hollywood Conference at the Consumer Electronics Show will be held in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Fabrice Beer-Gabel, Senior Director of Market Development, Big Band Networks
Sayeed Choudhury, Director of Market Development, Wind River Systems
Joe Fabiano, Chief Technology Officer, Pathfire
Dr. John Hartung, Vice President of Engineering, EGT
Jean Macher, Multiline Product Line Manager, Thales Broadcast & Multimedia
Roger Shanafelt, Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Myrio

The panel will commence at 9:30 AM on September 29. The Digital Hollywood Fall Conference will be held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.

Digital Hollywood debuted in 1990 and has been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending events each year. Subjects addressed at recent Digital Hollywood conferences include digital rights, digital cinema, subscription services, mobile content and services, set-top boxes and home servers, and high definition and interactive television. For additional information, go to www.digitalhollywood.com.

Digital Economics is a copyright licensing consultancy that enables the licensing of creative content for programming and advertising over broadcast and digital media. For additional information, go to www.digitaleconomics.com.