SCTE’s Conference on Emerging Technologies 2006

Keynote Speakers:

• Jim Carroll: International Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert
• Gary Traver: Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Comcast Media Center

• 2 – 8 p.m. Registration Open
• 6 – 8 p.m. Welcome Reception – Sponsored by CommScope

• 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Registration Open
• 8 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 – 9 a.m. Opening Remarks – John Clark, President/CEO, SCTE

Young Engineer of the Year Award Presentation Sponsored by Scientific Atlanta, Multichannel News and SCTE

Program Overview
Kenneth A. Wright, CTO, C-COR

• 9 – 9:45 a.m. Jim Carroll International Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert
  Keynote sponsored by BelAir Networks
• 9:45 – 10 a.m. Break – Sponsored by Nortel
• 10 a.m. – Noon Session A: Cable Telecommunications 2010

Moderator: Anthony G. Werner, Senior Vice President and CTO, Liberty Global, Inc.

Unlimited Bandwidth vs. Unlimited Storage — Joseph R. Matarese, CTO, C-COR Solutions Business Unit

Edge Innovations for On-Demand Services— Ran Oz, EVP & CTO, BigBand Networks

Enhanced Television-Developing a Feature Rich and Extensible Application Platform for National and Cross-MSO Deployment— Matthew B. Emans, Vice President, Product Management, Navic Networks, Inc.

Video-Rich Navigation: Hyperlinks to the Future — David Higgins, Vice President, Engineering and Information Technology, Comcast Media Center

VoIP & SIP Directory Services Across MSOs – Eugene Lew, Vice President, Advanced Services, NeuStar, Inc.

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

• Noon – 2 p.m. Emerging Technologies Awards Luncheon
  Sponsored by C-COR, Cisco Systems, CommScope, CED Magazine, Multichannel News and SCTE
• 2 – 5 p.m. Session B: Cable Network and Software Architectures 2010

Moderator: Christopher J. Bowick, Senior Vice President, Engineering/CTO, Cox Communications, Inc.

The Switched and Stored Cable Media Network of 2010 — John Carlucci, Chief Network Architect, Time Warner Cable

The Converged World of 2010 – A Case for Video Delivery Over DOCSIS® — Harsh Parandekar, Software Development Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cable’s Fountain of Youth: Turning Back Time with All-Digital — Adam S. Tom, President and CEO, RGB Networks

• 3 – 3:15 p.m. Break – Sponsored by Nortel

Cable's Wideband Network of 2010 — WeiMin Zhang Ph. D., CTO, BroadLogic Network Technologies

An Open Architecture for Switched Digital Networks — Lorenzo Bombelli, Director Network Architecture, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

Gigabit Ethernet and Analog/QAM Traffic Compatibility in HFC Networks — Shamim Akhtar, Senior Manager Engineering and Operations, Comcast

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

• 6 – 8 p.m. ET Reception – Sponsored by Fujitsu

• 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration Open
• 8 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. Session C: Competitive Platforms

Moderator: Kenneth A. Wright, Chief Technology Officer, C-COR and ET Program Chair

The Future of Video-Taming the IPTV and Internet TV Menace— Kshitij Kumar, Director, Business Development, C-COR

IPTV: The Real Competitive Threat for Cable? — Nimrod Ben-Natan, Vice President Solutions, Harmonic Inc.

Competition Enabled by TISPAN NGN — Luis Blanco, Business Development Manager, Ericsson Inc.

• 9:40 – 10:00 a.m. Break – Sponsored by Nortel

Cascading Simulcast Waves to Implement Advanced Technologies — Basil Badawiyeh, Manager, Advanced Video and Development, Adelphia Communications

PacketCable™ 2.0 Architecture — Eric Rosenfeld, Director, PacketCable™Architecture, CableLabs®

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

• 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Keynote Luncheon – Gary Traver, SVP and COO of Comcast Media Center
  Sponsored by Scientific-Atlanta
• 1 – 3:30 p.m. Session D: Wireless Cable

Moderator: Matt Stump, Technology Editor, Multichannel News

The Wireless Cable World in 2010! — Cortland Wolfe, Director Product Development, Nortel

802.11n – The New Foundation for Wireless Video, Voice & Data — Mike Rude, Director Technical Marketing, Metalink

HFC 2010: Adding Mobility into Tomorrow’s Networks With Mesh WiFi Technologies — Bob Scott, Director Wireless Networking, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

• 2 – 2:15 p.m. Break – Sponsored by Nortel

Implementing Seamless Mobility between HFC and Wireless Infrastructure — Jay Strater, Senior Systems Engineer, Motorola Corporation

Rules to Live By: Policy and QoS for Next-Generation Networks — Bruce Perlmutter, IMS and Wireless Product Manager, Camiant

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A