Digital Media Convergence is Focus of TRENdS '05 Summit, Forum and Showcase
With nearly everyone in the media and communications business jumping into one facet or another of the digital media revolution, the need for dialogue among executives dealing with digital media strategies, solutions and convergence issues has become imperative. Executives representing many major companies and aspiring enterprises in television, movies, the Internet and wireless communications will be converging at the Four Seasons, Las Vegas, Monday and Tuesday, September 12 -13, to attend the second annual TRENdS '05 -- billed as a “world-class confluence” of digital content ownership and delivery executives seeking partnerships and monetized deployments. Learn more about TRENdS '05 panels, sessions and showcase at kaganevents.com
(PRWEB) May 10, 2005 -- Executives from Comcast, Disney, Google, Motorola,
News Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Verizon and many other leading
companies from across digital trend lines are set to attend TRENdS '05, the
leading digital media and broadband executive conference and showcase to be held
September 12 - 13 at the Four Seasons, Las Vegas.
The three-part TRENdS
'05 event features the Digital Media Summit for senior level executives
exploring strategies and synergies, the Digital Management Forum for management
executives looking for solutions and deployments and the Digital Trends
Showcase, a kiosk-based demonstration pavilion.
TRENdS '05 will examine
the business issues faced today by executives responsible for digital music and
sports, digital television, streaming media, on-demand entertainment, digital
software and devices, digital rights, video/audio/data bundling, and a variety
of interactive media and advertising, as well as the task of making sure the
technology works in harmony across a variety of platforms. Attendees will find
absorbing and relevant sessions relating to technology, law, finance and
business development, including revenue models, benchmarks, merger and
acquisition options, peer-to-peer comparisons and
profit-maximization.
The event is composed of three parts carefully
designed for the specific needs of strategic as well as solutions-driven
programming, content development, broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet and
wireless communications executives:
1. Digital Media Summit (2-days of
strategic panels)
Theme: Emerging Opportunities for Content Convergence and
Digital Partnerships
Kagan's Digital Media Summit assembles top
executives and experts from various sectors of digital media to address key
topics shaping today's digital media marketplace. Content providers and
distribution executives share their vision for the future of digital media.
Technologists reveal what's possible and when and financiers discuss the
business models and players worth betting on for digital media profitability.
Kagan's seasoned analyst team will lead substantive discussions, assessments of
the economics, business intelligence, and regulatory and technical challenges.
Audience: Senior level executives exploring strategies and synergies.
The Digital Media Summit is the ideal venue for content owners, service
operators, media attorneys, regulators, technologists, financial analysts,
venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to interact and build the relationships
crucial to long-term success in this dynamic and volatile arena.
2.
Digital Management Forum (solution sessions held Sept. 12)
Theme: Solutions
And Deployments From Broadband Content to Digital Delivery
Kagan's
Digital Management Forum is a 1-day immersion experience that brings together
executives seeking solutions and deployment information, as well as partners in
the digital supply chain. Highly regarded experts in each part of the digital
arena will moderate panels, Q&A sessions and interviews. The Forum will
feature hot topics of immediate concern to decision-making managers dealing with
the challenge of a digital-based business area, including digital watermarking,
digital copyrights, as well as sessions on content, subscriber management,
advertising, digital infrastructure, software and devices.
Audience:
Management executives seeking solutions and deployments. The Digital Management
Forum is the ideal venue for executives concerned with digital solutions and
deployments working for or with companies that are content owners, service
operators, technologists and facilitators. It is also designed to inform and
provide contacts for content producers, carriers, developers, technologists,
service and solution providers and investors.
3. Digital Trends Showcase
(2-days of kiosks and exhibits)
Featuring companies with the latest digital
products and services addressing:
Content - Games, Music, Movies, Sports,
News, Ringtones, etc.
Software - Security, Operability, Compression,
etc.
Infrastructure - Bandwidth, On-Demand, ITV, IP, Cell phones,
etc.
Devices - HDTV, DVRs, handheld devices, home networking, media
centers.
Learn more about TRENdS '05 topics and sessions at
kaganevents.com
Revisit for keynote and speaker additions.
For media
relations issues and press passes please ask for:
Harvey Kraft
Director of
Marketing
or
Meredith Dowdall
Events Coordinator
Event
Location:
Four Seasons Hotel
3960 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV
89119
Registration information:
To register please
call
1-800-307-2529
Full 2-day TRENdS
Package includes:
•
Kagan Digital Summit
• Digital Management Forum
• Digital Trends
Showcase
Smart Planner rate: $1,295
Expires July 29, 2005
(Regular
rate: $1,595)
1-day TRENdS Solutions
(Monday Only) Package includes:
• Digital Management Forum
• Digital Trends Showcase
Smart Planner
rate: $345
Expires July 29, 2005
(Regular rate: $495)
TRENdS '05
is produced by Kagan Events, a service of Kagan Research, LLC.
About
Kagan Research, LLC.
For over thirty-five years media and communications
operators, content programmers and developers and investment advisors have
relied on Kagan Research for expert intelligence, independent analysis and
leadership in media business research from tech to finance. Kagan's consulting
and publishing services offer exclusive financial data and analysis, relevant
market advisories and accurate 5- to 10-year projections for cable, satellite,
wireless, Internet, home video, movie and other entertainment sectors, as well
as insightful perspectives on emerging media technologies, digital
communications and advertising.
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