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What's Next? panel—watch clip

Past Program—2007 Silicon Valley

IC2007 Program
Silicon Valley, California
June 13-15, 2007
Hosts: Google, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!

Convergence: What's Next?

Who's Searching?
Search is the world's fastest growing and most competitive new media platform. But where is the growth coming from and what devices will be driving it? Large- and small-group conversations with industry leaders looking at how search will evolve in the next five years and who stands to gain the most.

Moderator: Safa Rashtchy, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray
Conversation Catalysts:Suranga Chandratillake, Cofounder and CEO of Blinkx ; Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com; Jaewoong Lee, CEO, Daum/Lycos; Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, Google; Munjal Shah, CEO and Cofounder, Like.com; Timothy Tuttle, Cofounder, Truveo / SVP, AOL Video; and Eckart Walther, VP, Product Management, Yahoo! Search

Whose Space?
Social networking and participatory media are firmly entrenched in our culture as a communications platform. How many players can compete on this field without saturating the marketplace and who will be left standing? What are the challenges for advertisers in targeting consumers and can the same community principles of social networking be applied to marketers and retailers? A panel discussion with the biggest networkers in the field.

Moderator: Sir Martin Sorrell, Group CEO, WPP
Panelists: Josh Berman, Cofounder and COO, MySpace.com; Burkhardt Bonello, Founder and Co-CEO, sMeet - Reality
Communications; Bradley Horowitz, VP, Yahoo! Product Strategy Group, Yahoo!; Daniel Scheinman, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Media Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Paul Yanover, EVP and Managing Director, Disney Online, Walt Disney Internet Group

Where's the Money?
Both traditional and new media companies are eagerly embracing new platforms for video distribution. How will these new platforms reshape the media landscape? Large- and small-group conversations focusing on the development of financial models to monetize these new distribution outlets.

Moderator: Chrystia Freeland, US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Catalysts: Brandon Burgess, President and CEO, ION Networks; William W. Chuang, Partner and Chair, Transactional
Intellectual Property Practice, O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Wade Davis, SVP, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Viacom; Sue Decker, EVP, Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, Yahoo! David Eun, Vice President, Content Partnerships, Google; Ken Lowe, President and CEO, The E.W. Scripps Company; and Mary Meeker, Analyst, Morgan Stanley

A Look at the Global Media Marketplace
Moderator: Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Hearst Corporation
Panelists: Adam Bird, Senior Partner and Leader, Global Media and Entertainment Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton; Eduardo Grinbaum, SVP of Internet and Interactive Media, La Nacion; Prannoy Roy, President, New Delhi Television Limited; Kerry Stokes, AO, Executive Chairman, Seven Network Ltd.; and Bruno Wu, Chairman, Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited

Whose Rights?
The development of a vibrant, secure, commercially viable broadband Internet space is at a critical juncture. How can content creators, Internet Service Providers, and the information technology industry find common ground on copyright protection? What are the next steps needed to achieve a robust and safe marketplace?

Moderator: Gordon Crawford, SVP, Capital Research and Management
Panelists: Michael Callahan, SVP, General Counsel and Secretary, Yahoo!; Paul Cappuccio, EVP and General Counsel, Time Warner; Rick Cotton, EVP and General Counsel, NBC Universal; Mike Dillon, SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Sun Legal Department Sun Microsystems Inc.; Roger Faxon, Chairman and CEO, EMI Music Publishing; Mike Fricklas, EVP, General Counsel, and Secretary, Viacom; Dean Garfield, EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Strategic Policy and Planning, Motion Picture Association of America; and Talal Shamoon, CEO, InterTrust Technologies

What's Next?
What is the next killer app and where will it come from? This discussion, simulcast in Second Life, explored the innovative culture of Silicon Valley and how new technologies are nurtured and developed into new business ecosystems.

Panelists: Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; Bradley Horowitz, VP, Yahoo! Product Strategy Group, Yahoo!; Daniel Scheinman, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Media Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Ginsu Yoon, Vice President, Business Affairs, Linden Lab
Moderator: Greg Papadopoulos, CTO & EVP of Research and Development, Sun Microsystems

Where's it going?
How will the integration of technology, media, and society shape our culture over the next twenty years? Is anyone being left behind? Can technology bridge the gap between the first and third worlds? Leading futurists will deliver thoughts on these issues.

Panelists: Al Hammond, VP for Innovation and Special Projects, World Resources Institute; Paul Saffo; and Jonathan Schwartz, President & CEO, Sun Microsystems
Moderator: David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, FORTUNE

Interviews

Conducted by Pat Mitchell, President & CEO, The Paley Center for Media with:

Eric Schmidt, Google
Terry Semel, Yahoo!
Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems
Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
Chad Hurley, YouTube
Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive

Events