“Breaking Bad,” Amazon, Content Bridge, and Disney Receive Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Digital Entertainment ENCINO, CA (October 8, 2014) … The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) today presented “Breaking Bad,” Amazon, Content Bridge, and Disney with “Digi” Awards for outstanding achievement in digital entertainment content, retailing, leadership, and innovation. The awards were presented at EMA’s Digital Media Pipeline, held today at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. More>>>
Celebrating its 6th year, this one-day business-to-business conference brings together digital retailers, content producers, content aggregators, service providers and digital technology companies.
Keynote: Mitch Singer, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)
A Conversation With Mitch Singer on The Future of Digital Entertainment” moderated by Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic.
Mitch Singer, current president of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the cross-industry consortium behind UltraViolet and former chief digital strategy officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment will discuss how disruption in the TV and movie business models in the future will be “very, very interesting.” Singer will take real time questions via an interactive application available to all attendees using mobile devices.
Digital Media Pipeline '14 Schedule
8:30 am - Welcome/Opening - Mark Fisher, EMA President & CEO
8:40 am - Global Perspectives: This session focuses the growing digital entertainment market outside the U.S. Participants investigate global consumer behavior and spending, retail trends, launching into new markets, and how this is impacting the U.S. home entertainment industry.connected world.
Moderator: Thomas K. Arnold, Home Media Magazine
Panelists:
- Kim Bayley, Entertainment Retailers Association (UK)
- Duncan Wain, ZOO Digital
- Tracy Wright, Netflix
9:10 am - Digital Supply Chain: Metadata and Mezzanine Files
Speakers:
- Sean Bersell, EMA
- Connie Lee, Netflix
- Jennifer Lane Burnell, EMA
9:20 am - Making Digital a Premium Experience - Best practices and opportunities for the consumer experience of digitally accessing home video (movies and TV) including the functionality of web interfaces, the ease of search and discovery, added-value content and functionality, and picture/sound quality.
Moderator: Craig Seidel, MovieLabs
Panelists:
- Rich Berger, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Russ Crupnick, MusicWatch
- Paul Davidson, The Orchard
- Erik St. Anthony Pence, Inception
10:00 am - Break
10:30 am - The Future of Digital Entertainment - A conversation with Mitch Singer, President of DECE/Ultra Violet, moderated by Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
10:50 am - Music Licensing for Visual Content
Speaker:
- Jason Peterson, Content Bridge/EMA Digital Steering Council
11:00 am - Digital Supply Chain: DEG Perspective and Media Manifest
Speakers:
- Larry Wilk, DEG
- Craig Seidel, MovieLabs
11:10 am - The Mobile Market - Nielsen’s SVP, Client Insigts Dounia Turrill shares where and what people are watching on their tablets and smartphones and how this market is growing and changing.
11:20 am - The Consumer’s Point-of-View - A panel of digital entertainment consumers discuss their viewing habits, how and where they discover content and what drives their purchasing decisions.
Presenter: Kevin Westcott, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Moderator: Russ Crupnick, MusicWatch
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - Creative Opportunities & Challenges in Digital Entertainment Marketing and Branding: Insights into the changes and advances on the horizon are explored by Paul Matthaeus, Founder & Chairman of Digital Kitchen.
1:20 pm - The Next Generation(s) - What innovations are on the long and short term horizon for technology and media? How will the declining cost of storage and increasing processing and communication speeds effect the supply chain and the consumer? And how will viewing change over the next 50 years as consumers face 3D, 4K, 8K, virtual reality, and more.
Moderator: Bill Mandel, NBC Universal
Panelists:
- Ted Cohen, TAG Strategic
- Phil Lelyveld, USC Entertainment Technology Center
- Ron Martin, Panasonic
- Mike Murphy, Intel Corporation
- Daniel Summer, DVLabs
2:00 pm - Digital Supply Chain: Avails Metadata, Image Files and Closed Captioning
Speakers:
- Mark Fleming, Google/YouTube
- Sean Bersell, EMA
2:10 pm - The Vast Expansion of Original Content - A presentation on the state of the digital industry will lead into a discussion on the growth of programming developed exclusively for the digital channel.
Presenter: Chris Roberts, SVP On-Demand Products, Rentrak
Moderator: Steve Apple, EMA
Panelists:
- Derek Dressler, Vimeo
- Reed Lucas, Bent Pixels
- Dana Shayegan, Collective Digital Studio
2:55 pm - Wrap Up & Awards
3:00 pm - Networking Reception
Call for Speakers: go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DMP2014
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Steve Apple at sapple@entmerch.org
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