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Devendra Mishra
Conference Chairman
Akin Ceylan, Executive Vice President of Operations, Lionsgate
Aodan Coburn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Rick Eiberg, Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Technology Officer, Image Entertainment, Inc.
Tom Emrey, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Tony Korkunis, Senior Vice President, Retail Operations and Category Management, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
John P. Quinn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Supply Chain Management, Warner Home Video
Bill Segil, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment
Americo Silva, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operation, Paramount Home Entertainment
Amy Jo Smith, Executive Director, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group
Speaker Bios
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-- Bob Chapek, Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment and President of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group |
"The home video supply chain is at a strategic point in its development. As we continue to perfect our processes for the delivery of physical media products like DVD, we are also now developing systems for the digital distribution of our content via the Internet. How we manage our core DVD business while nurturing an emerging distribution channel is a topic of vital discussion among the studios and their customers."Here is the ESCA 2007 Program at a Glance:
• Supply Chain Execution in the Product Life Cycle of DVD
• Managing Suppliers for Distribution of DVD
• CIO Roundtable: Leveraging IT: Enhanced Execution in the Supply Chain
• Orchestrating Data Synchronization in the Supply Chain
• Merchandising Panel: Managing the Last 100 Feet
• The RFID Value Proposition for Home Entertainment Supply Chain
• Digital Media Platform (DMP) for Ubiquitous Delivery of Video
• Research Panel: The Brave New World of Digital
• Leveraging the Physical Supply Chain for Digital Delivery
• Digital Global Infrastructure for Entertainment Content
• Conversions for Multi-Format and Multi-Channel Delivery of Digital Content
See Who Attended Last Year's Entertainment Supply Chain Academy
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Jeffrey Maas, Wal-Mart Stores |
Myron Burke, Wal-Mart Stores |
Dick Cantwell, Procter & Gamble |
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Tim Bridges, Capgemini Americas |
Jordan Colletta, UPS |
Alasdair Ogilvie, 2 entertain Ltd |
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Jerry McGlynn, Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment |
Greg Jacobsen, CapGemini |
Cheryl D. Wiebe, Teradata |
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David Cortese, Sony |
Terry Denson, Verizon Communications |
Willem de Zoete, Hewlett-Packard |
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Rob Seidel, Deluxe Digital Studios |
Todd Collart , Deluxe Digital Studios |
Guy Yehiav,Oracle |
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Mohan Balachandran, i2 Technologies |
Jim Taylor, Sonic Solutions |
Mark Landry, CapGemini |
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Mark Vrieling, ScreenPlay Inc. |
Curt Marvis, CinemaNow |
Judith McCourt, Home Media Magazine |
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Tom Moran, Savvis |
Ray Young, WebConcepts |
Dr. Sanjay Sarma, EPCGlobal |
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Ali Joone, Digital Playground |
S. Bhattacharya, Infosys |
Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision |
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Kori Belzer, SPAR Group, Inc. |
Peter Staddon, 20th Century Fox |
Steve Nickerson, Warner Home Video |
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Alison Casey, Understanding Solutions |
Thomas K. Arnold, Home Media Magazine |
Khaled Haram, Handelman Company |
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Aaron Knoll, TitleMatch |
Jim Bottoms, Understanding Solutions |
Mike Mulry, Primera Technology, Inc. |
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Erin Crawford, Nielsen Home Entertainment |
Aniket Maindarkar, Infosys BPO Limited |
Phil Therrien, Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
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Corey Ferengul, Macrovision |
Christopher T. Furst, NBC Universal |
Debbie Newman, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP |
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Joe Fuller, Convex Group and Flexplay Technologies |
Jonathan Bender, Concord Music |
Jason Forbes, Capgemini |
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Mark Fisher, Entertainment Merchants Association |
John Seaner, EPCglobal US |
Frank LoVerme, Kestrel Wireless |
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David Cuyler, Cuyler and Associates |
Ken Agena, Warner Home Entertainment |
Dan Miron, Warner Home Video |
The following leading executives are working to provide the most relevant content and presentations for this year's sessions. Thanks to their input, the ESCA 2007 will address the most pressing issues for today's entertainment operations executive.
| Akin Ceylan, Executive Vice President of Operations, Lionsgate Entertainment |
| Aodan Coburn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Rick Eiberg, Senior Vice President of Operations, Image Entertainment |
| Tom Emrey, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
| Tony Korkunis, Vice President of Operations, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| John Quinn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Supply Chain Management, Warner Home Video |
| Bill Segil, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Americo Silva, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Paramount Home Entertainment |
| Amy Jo Smith, Executive Director, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group |
Over 225 leaders from the Hollywood home video, game and music community joined together June 20-21, 2006 in LA to maximize efficiencies in the manufacture and distribution of entertainment media. Here are some early news reports from the event:
WebConcepts Takes Entertainment Leadership to New Categories Software company, WebConcepts, Inc. has been serving retailers and their movie studio suppliers since the late 1990s with their state-of-the-art vendor-managed inventory (VMI) solution.
Join us in refining today's physical media supply chain...and defining the digital supply chain of tomorrow...
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SECOND ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLY CHAIN ACADEMY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 27-28, 2007 IN LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES — The Second Annual Entertainment Supply Chain Academy has been scheduled for June 27-28, 2007 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The two-day conference program is designed to assist operations executives at leading content companies in streamlining their supply chains for physical media as well as providing them with practical knowledge about building the infrastructure for their emerging digital delivery systems.
Last year's inaugural event drew over 225 executives from all leading home entertainment companies. Once again, ESCA will be co-located with the DEG: Digital Entertainment Group's Annual Membership Meeting. The program is being developed by Conference Chairman Devendra Mishra and is produced by Martin Porter & Associates in cooperation with DEG and Pepperdine University.
